The British Library have a searchable interim Archives & Manuscripts Catalogues up & running: searcharchives.bl.uk (posting for all the folks who, like me, had somehow managed to miss this important development)

Looking forward to hearing @mazinggrace.bsky.social talk about gardening and reading at @thegibsonlibrary.bsky.social

I have kindly been invited to talk about gardening and reading at the Gibson Library in Saffron Walden! Come along (for free!) at 19.30 on 10 Dec to hear about #earlymodern plants, print & marginalia (+ Gabriel Harvey’s compulsive underlining of mentions of saffron). gibsonlibrary.org.uk/news.html

I'm thrilled to be teaching a short course on Arabic Studies in Early Modern England with Prof. Alastair Hamilton at @warburginstitute.bsky.social next month. We'll need to meet a minimum number of bookings to run, so if you're interested, sign up asap! warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

🌳 ’Whispers of the Wilderness’ is officially open at Beningbrough Hall! Ft. beautiful new art and sound installations inspired by the sensory experience of walking through a wilderness garden, & my 🪴 potted 🪴 history of wildernesses, told through 9 historic objects from throughout the Trust!

So turns out I’m the voice of Jane Austen (or her narrators at least) at a National Trust exhibition now

Dear ESTC: Thank you for the great error screen!

Thanks to @stephenaj.bsky.social's fabulous article (still available at link below) I have had a look at this equally fabulous interactive astrolabe alexboxer.com/astrolabe/. It's a really useful tool for understanding what the instrument does and a lot of fun to play with! #histsci #astronomy

That’s a wrap on #plantsandpeople! Thanks to all of our wonderful speakers, keynotes, artists, and attendees for two days of fantastic discussion and hands-on experimentation. Over and out from @zarakesterton.bsky.social and @lucyjhavard.bsky.social !

We have two workshops running in tandem this morning at the #plantsandpeople conference - one on botanical images at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and a practical workshop on early modern dye production with Nabil Ali! Thanks to @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social for the use of your greenhouses!

An inspiring and thought-provoking day one of #plantsandpeople @people-plants-2025.bsky.social, thinking about the peripheries of botanical knowledge-making. Thank you @zarakesterton.bsky.social & Lucy Havard for putting all of this together — looking forward to day two! 🌱 📖

WHAT A WEEK! An utter delight to see so many #EarlyModern 'ists chatting, thinking, discussing together in beautiful Bristol. So many conversations started and ideas sparked. If you're looking for people you met, we tried to update the starter pack of #RenSoc25 delegates:

Returning from #RenSoc25 brimming over with early modern goodness, in awe of the incredible research being presented, and buoyed up by the collegiality and community in such abundant evidence, despite everything. A huge thank you to the organisers!

Such a wonderful time talking through our modes of reading satire and/or sincerity this morning! Left with more questions than answers of course. Thanks to my excellent co-panellists and all who came #RenSoc25

A blockbuster day at #RenSoc25, talking all things how-to, utility, local identity & readership alongside lovely & brilliant scholars — thank you @emilyrowe1.bsky.social for organising our roundtable on satire & sincerity, & @walla7437.bsky.social for chairing our panel on microgeographies!

This is your periodic reminder that every month, there is an early modern pub night in London at a (vaguely) historical pub for PhDs and ECRs (and anyone else interested). They are great fun #earlymodern 1/2

The closure of CLL at York is a huge loss, as Joe says — I also had a wonderful experience co-teaching there with @earlymodernemma.bsky.social during my PhD. We were supported so well by Centre staff and learned a lot from the brilliant students who attended. Very sad and frustrating news.

This is tomorrow! Join us at Guildhall Library and Archive to hear Lydia discussing the amazing new research she's doing on identity in Civic Performance!

ESTC klaxon! #BookHistory #EarlyModern

We’re well underway with Birkbeck Arts Week — last call to come along to Gordon Square at 19.30 this evening to read (or listen) to a striking 10th-century #medieval play by a female playwright about the dramatic conversion of a sex worker. Free to all, sign up below! www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Unearthed opens this week at the British Library 🌷 I learned so much from the brilliant curatorial team during my fellowship there in 2023 and with @researchnt.bsky.social in the early days of the exhibition's development, and can't wait to see how it's evolved since then!

We know today may feel especially heavy for our trans and non-binary siblings. If you’re feeling overwhelmed or affected by the UK Supreme Court’s decision, please know you’re not alone. We’re here for you every day from 10am to 10pm. #TransRights #Trans #NonBinary #SupremeCourt #Gender

📣 Applications are open for the @theUL and @cambridgeuni.bsky.social collaborative doctoral studentship: The history and heritage of the discovery of environmental change and the interpretation of place in the East of England 📅: 16 May 2025 Apply here: loom.ly/tXuIqK8 @camglamresearch.bsky.social

What ethical responsibilities do we bear when we write about war? This is one of the questions we’re posing in our June colloquium on early modern war narratives. CFP here and the deadline is 11th April! Please share widely and consider submitting an abstract! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen...

Call for Papers: ‘Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library’ Deadline 16th May 2025 9 –10 September 2025 at UCL, London

PhD Studentship available! @ihr.bsky.social and Historic Royal Palaces AHRC CDP project on the Tower of London and Londoners, late medieval and Tudor. Focus on looking at everyday people supplying the Tower, especially migrants, also global commodities. Full fees + stipend - UK or international

Had a whirlwind of a week at #Shax2025/#RenSa2025 — from participating in my first SAA seminar on the wonderfully generative idea of the ruderal, to listening and learning to so many brilliant papers, to capping it all off with some dubious dance moves… Thanks Boston, you were a blast!

Claire Richie’s paper makes me crave for cheese 🧀 #earlymodern #RenSA2025

A bee-autiful binding for Thomas Hill’s Profitable Arte of Gardening (1593)! Spending a lovely day before #Shax2025 + #RenSA2025 hunting for annotations in the Botany Libraries at Harvard 🐝 🌱

For anyone interested in the early Bodleian Library or early modern book owners, the Shaping Scholarship project at CELL, UCL has made the project data available: ebdo.org.uk/data/ It details every officially recorded donation made c. 1600-1620, plus some extras, which is around 10,000 items.

Led by Dr Katherine Hunt, Grace and Emma created a framework for mini-transcribathons introducing beginners to working digitally with manuscripts 📜 This was a satellite project of the Early Modern Recipes Online Collective. Read more about EMROC in this issue of the Early Modern Studies Journal 👇

Also in 2022, we awarded the @crems-york.bsky.social Teaching Early Modern Recipes & Manuscript Cultures project by @mazinggrace.bsky.social and @earlymodernemma.bsky.social 🏆 They presented a poster about their work at our 'Open Research at York: Two Years On' event, available in our wiki 👇

Another excellent year of #EMROCTranscribes, this year at Birkbeck with a great group who enjoyed Zooming with transcribers @rcphysicians.bsky.social & elsewhere and the thought-provoking talk on the history of #earlymodern abortion from @maryfissell.bsky.social. Thanks as always to EMROC … (1/2)!

How about .... 👻✂️ A 1493 Sewing Scissors Ghost? #ThingsInBooks

Can I tempt you to join #EMROCTranscribes on Friday? How about teaser videos on the #EarlyModern recipe book manuscripts from @rcpmuseum.bsky.social and @wellcomecollection.bsky.social ? emroc.hypotheses.org/4815 #WomensHistoryMonth

The EMROC Transcribathon is coming up Friday, and our recipe manuscripts are waiting in the wings! Here's how to get ready, and how to sign up for transcribing your first recipe page! #EMROCTranscribes emroc.hypotheses.org/transcribath...

Looking forward to joining #EMROCTranscribes to work on some fantastic c17th recipe books this Friday. If you're London-based and would like to transcribe with the LRS in-person at Birkbeck, do sign up! No experience necessary. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... More info: emroc.hypotheses.org

Really enjoyed being a part of this and engaging with Melissa’s wonderful new book on practical texts from manuscript to print! You can read all the contributions below ⬇️

If you're interested in #EarlyModern recipes, medicine, digital humanities etc., please follow my Early Modern Recipes Online colleagues @hnunn.bsky.social @maggiesimon.bsky.social and @historyelaine.bsky.social. We will be skeeting our upcoming #transcribathon and events. emroc.hypotheses.org/4479

Pleased to see that the @srsrensoc.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships 25/26 have been announced www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz... Very happy to share my experience/knowledge with anyone thinking of applying! Drop me a message :)

As one of the key participants in this cheese's 'joyful demise', I can't emphasize enough how delicious (and impressive!) this was. Huge thanks to the amazingly talented Alasdair @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social, and to Anna @annacusack.bsky.social for a heroic four years of pub night hosting

After flowers, the next section of "Sleeping Beauties" focused on insects in fashion. To introduce the topic, they had the oldest item of the exhibit, this 1615-20 British waistcoat. It has embroidered flowers, birds, and insects with taxonomical accuracy, representing an English garden.

17 Nov. 1659 #OTD Alice Thornton’s mother began her final illness: ‘an exceeding great cough, tormenting her body by stitches in her breast and short breathing... the use of bags with fried oats, butter and camomile chopped, laid to her sides, the stitches removed’ (BkRem). #EarlyModern 🗃️

Our book is here! In it, we demonstrate how premodern Bibles constantly acquired new meanings and functions as they moved through time and space, and were touched by the hands of makers, readers, and users. brill.com/edcollbook/t... (Image: Arjan van Dijk)

Today on our blog on early female book ownership: a post by @tarallyons.bsky.social on a lovely bible with names of early modern women, a gift inscription, and a recipe https://buff.ly/3YPkiQ7 #EarlyModern #HerBook

If you thought forms were always perfunctory, then check out the lovely artwork on this late seventeenth-century bill of lading from the @prizepapers.bsky.social #earlymodern #maritimehistory #customs #ports

Looking forward to talking about reading between the lines of early modern prose (in my case, surveying manuals) with all these lovely people at SRS next summer!

Would you look at this dream of a roundtable! LOOK AT IT! And then book your tickets to Bristol even if you hadn't planned on joining #RenSoc25 -- you don't want to miss it!

For the Bluesky #EarlyModern York contingent: it’s the EMROC transcribathon tomorrow (yay!) and Emma Marshall and I are running a York cohort where we’ll be on hand for some extra support in transcribing some early modern cosmetic recipes. Contact me for more info and do share with your students!