🔔 job opportunity at @cam.ac.uk in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400 in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

The document pictured is headed 'Alice Thornton wife of William Thornton of east Newton Esqr aged twenty nyne yeares or thereabouts'. Reader, she was 30.

I hope it is now obvious why pillars of democracy like universities, the law, public broadcasting should be funded so that they are beyond the reach of financial coercion by hostile agents.

This week we also announced plans for a new Applied History Fellowship for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social and publisher DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education. Launch event: 2.30pm, 19 Nov, online #Skystorians

Kirklington Hall, where Alice Wandesford Thornton was born in 1626, has a ghost 👻 associated with it known as the Grey Lady. It is also said that if the enormous old trunk, which once contained all the Wandesford family papers, was moved from the Hall then disaster will follow. Spooky! #Halloween 🗃️

👻All Hallow's Eve will soon be upon us! 👻 But what are the spirits associated with this night, and what should you do if one appears before you? Read my post on #EarlyModern ghost beliefs to find out 🎃 🗃️ manyheadedmonster.com/2016/10/24/d...

To mark #Halloween & publication of 'The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England', (now available in print & free online), this blogpost revisits the magiconomy. 🧙🎃 Highlights include a magical service paid for with bacon and pigeons. 🥓🪶 #history ludicrushistories.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...

ICYMI #OpenAccess book #MedievalSky

The university is threatening cuts on a massive scale with little to no justification. Truly surreal moment in HE.

I've read quite a few married women's wills but never one made during childbirth. Great find! #EarlyModern 🗃️

🎉 #DigiHums #WomensHistory #EarlyModern

📢 Calling WHS members! Our next online social is on Wednesday 29th October, 7pm. We are delighted that our guest speaker this month is the historian and tour guide, Ruth Boreham. To find out more about Ruth 🔗 ruthboreham.com Members can sign up to the social here 🔗 buytickets.at/womenshistor...

Yorkshire gentlewoman Alice Thornton (1626-1707) mentions a 'first sleep' in her Book 1, pp. 83 and 134. #EarlyModern 🗃️ @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social

A reminder that we're collecting books, chapters, and journal articles by non-TT historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything with a 2025 pub date is eligible and you can submit for your friends/colleagues! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

Thornton herself does not write much in her four surviving manuscripts about events beyond 1669 but there is material about her life up until 1682 in a manuscript written by her great-great-grandson, another Thomas Comber, now at the Beinecke Library, Yale. #EarlyModern 📜 📚 🗃️

As a kid/teen I LOVED The Fast Show, so I was delighted when @charliehigson.bsky.social invited me on his fantastic history podcast. Episode "The Far Right History Hijack" is out now! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Professor Lucy Delap will give the first Women’s History Seminar at Murray Edwards College, one of the two women-only colleges of @cam.ac.uk. 🔎 Title: Disabled women, the labour state and enterprise in 20th-century Britain ⏲️ Tues 28 Oct, 5–6.30pm 🏢 Vivien Stewart Room Register for free tickets ⬇️

We want to know your thoughts on... 🔹What we do 🔹How well we do it & 🔹What our stakeholders think about us Let us know in our 2025 stakeholder survey!: www.ukri.org/news/ukri-se... Closes 31 December⏰

Funding available for 2 PhDs on the Inventing Futures project at Durham Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. One focuses on early modern gendered violence, the other on utopia. It's a fantastic project with a fabulous team behind it! Come and join! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD428/f...

🎓 Calling all MA students in women's history! Our MA Dissertation Prize 2025 is now open for submissions. Celebrate outstanding scholarship & share your work with the wider community. Deadline: 16 January 2026 womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-ma-disse... #WomensHistory #MAHistory #GenderHist

Book launch October 23rd! Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...

In our latest blog, Dr Naomi Baker writes about Rose Thurgood’s conversion narrative from 1636-7, which gives us a rare insight into religious women’s lives and beliefs in the decades before the English Civil War. Blog: https://ow.ly/Pt7i50Xcva4 Dr Baker's latest book: https://ow.ly/ltyT50Xcvnm

New post today on #FindTheMidwife. Midwives under pressure with @sallypezaro.bsky.social and myself! What happened when midwives were pushed by town fathers to interrogate their clients? How did they balance their obligations? www.findthemidwife.com/midwives-und...

A couple of new articles in JMH! Nicholas Amor on labor litigation after the Black Death #medievalsky 🗃️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

So true - but the humanities provides so much more than preparation for the economy: it is a training for the whole of life, not just the job. Every well-functioning civil society needs a critically attuned citizenry.

My buddy’s book is out now! www.arc-humanities.org/978180270096... Fantastic read for my medievalist friends and fellow @guildmedmak.bsky.social mates! E-book available open access!!

This looks great 👇👇, and also there is an open-access version of the 400-page exhibition catalog online, for those of us sadly unable to travel and see the objects displayed in person: books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de//arthistoric... #medievalsky

On Indigenous Peoples' Day I'm re-sharing the episode of @thisguysucked.com on which I spoke with host @ceaubin.bsky.social about why, even in his own day, people thought Christopher Columbus sucked. 💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #renaissance #maps #geography #cartography #empire 1/2

How very remiss of me, later than usual- today's #ECWtravelogue post looks at Lothian and the ⚔️ Dunbar #Warsof3Kingdoms #BritishCivilWars #EnglishCivilWar www.keepyourpowderdry.co.uk/2025/10/hous...

Edinburgh on Friday 👇

Firth of Forth today. #TimelineCleanse

Daphne Lightfoot had been a servant for the Wandesford and then Thornton families for many years. The context of the letter is that she had taken one of Thornton's first manuscript books to Lady Wyvill, at a time when rumours were spreading about Thornton, her daughter and Thomas Comber. 📚 📜

THIS is a fabulous website The #Chester Consistory Court Archive of cause papers from the oldest complete ecclesiastical courtroom in #England Find out more about this amazing free database 👉 www.chestercausepapers.org.uk To search 👉 www.chestercausepapers.org.uk/directory #Cheshire

New story 📖 Read about sheela-na-gigs carvings by Emma Cieslik 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/sheela-na-gigs-how-carvings-of-women-showing-genitalia-bring-consolation-and-protection 'Sheela-na-gig' by unknown artist 📷 Kendal Museum

CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns 🗓️ 22 May 2026 📍 European University Institute, Florence 👩‍🏫 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni 🎤 Keynote: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick) Submit abstracts (≤300 words) by 20 Dec 2025 👉 socialhistory.org.uk/shs_event/ge...

Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cuts-eq...

Delighted that latest article from forthcoming Special Issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social is now available, co-edited by @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste & me! Elisabetta Iob explores purdah & resistance in 1950s Pakistan 🌟 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Another post on 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' - a reminder that work in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was very much a family affair... manyheadedmonster.com/2025/10/09/t...

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne. Do apply and spread the word! www.unilu.ch/en/universit... www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉 Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e... news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

“We want our international students to continue to feel welcomed for the positive social and cultural and economic contributions they make in Wales, and we're very keen to ensure that that continues so there will not be a levy in Wales.” (Welsh education secretary Lynne Neagle)

Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland. scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...

The Thorntons helped Christopher and Anne Danby out in the 1660s. Alice was still pursuing this 'debt' in her last will and testament, written in 1705! #EarlyModern 📜 🗃️

We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived! Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com

There are very few industries in which Britain can genuinely still claim to be a world leader - two of them are the creative sector and higher education. You'd never know it from listening to the Tories, lol.

We ❤️ books! Join us for some upcoming book launches: Tue 7 Oct, 17:30 -"Love and Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance: Typologies of violence and desire" by @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social from @manchesterup.bsky.social Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... (in person and online)

Out now! Our latest book, "Women Who Dared", is released today from Edinburgh University Press. You can purchase direct from @edinburghup.bsky.social via their website or at all good bookshops: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-w...