Goodbye to the history department at Lancaster University, where the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social was founded 49 years ago. From tomorrow we are part of a School of Global Affairs. Next year, who knows what will be - please sign our petition against mass redundancies chng.it/PZfTFDjNcr

This is a big and disgusting act of vandalism planned for Lancaster. Please sign and share.

“The University has paid a private consulting company KPMG to produce a report to justify redundancies, which they are refusing to share with the trade unions.” Would love to know how much money uni leaders across UK have spent on consultants rather than talking to staff about workloads & savings.

31 July 2025 Also: Today is the last day of my wonderful Department of English Literature & Creative Writing 60.5 years - over

Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

📣We are delighted to announce that our outgoing Chair, Professor Naomi Tadmor, has been elected Honorary Vice President of the Society. This role is given as a mark of distinction to those who have made an outstanding contribution to the Society. 👇Read here: socialhistory.org.uk/2025/07/24/o...

At a time when life in HE feels tough #shsconf2025 has been truly joyful. I’m leaving with a notebook brimming with notes & new ideas. It’s been lovely to natter to so many history peeps. Thank you to @socialhistsoc.bsky.social & @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social for your hard work! BCLM was perfect!

Huge congrats to the winners of the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social PGR prize this year! 👏👏 @amyloulongmuir.bsky.social #SHSConf2025

Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social reviews 'Habsburg England: Politics and Religion in the Reign of Philip I (1554–1558)', by Gonzalo Velasco Berenguer @gvb1554.bsky.social @degruyterbrill.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Looking for a short but good reading on television history documentaries. Any suggestions?

Christmas door decoration for my office 🎄

Went to Dunham Massey Christmas light walk- lovely start to Christmas. 🙂

My keynote on academic precarity and sixteenth century ballads has now been rehomed on my revamped website. Please watch and share. I still think this is the best thing I have ever written. jennihydeacademicservices.wordpress.com/2024/07/05/n...

The Ukraine issue of The Historian just arrived (@histassoc.bsky.social), guest edited by Markian Prokopovych (@durhamhistory.bsky.social) with Jenni Hyde (@wallyberry.bsky.social); and I had fun interviewing Ulinka Rublack about Albrecht Dürer 🇺🇦🧑‍🎤✍️📖

I spent a large proportion of my weekend editing the captioning on this so that “Luther” doesn’t read “Loser” & other such automated errors… But have a listen/read of @wallyberry.bsky.social, Frieder Mißfder & Una McIlvenna say Clever Things™️ about songs & news! emsoundscapes.co.uk/sounding-the...

Eldest has just released his first EP on YouTube but needs 1000 followers on TikTok tiktok.com/@jimbob478?_... to link to it there. Please repost and follow him

Join EM Soundscapesfor their next online seminar, where @wallyberry.bsky.social, Una McIlvenna & Jan-Friedrich Mißfelder will discuss 'Sounding the News in Early Modern Europe', September 10, 2024, 14.00BST rensoc.org.uk/event/soundi...

My keynote from the 2021 conference on the Experience of Loneliness in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Watch for my thoughts on working as an itinerant academic working on itinerant ballad sellers. Sadly still relevant. Please share widely. earlymodernballads.wordpress.com/2024/07/05/n...

My keynote from the 2021 conference on the Experience of Loneliness in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Watch for my thoughts on working as an itinerant academic working on itinerant ballad sellers. Sadly still relevant. Please share widely. earlymodernballads.wordpress.com/2024/07/05/n...

New page on my website for my freelance work - let me know if you have any work that needs doing - archive trips, palaeography, editing, public speaking and performances a speciality! earlymodernballads.wordpress.com/jenni-hyde-aca…

Hi everyone - I am looking for work to supplement the two days I will have at Lancaster University from August and would appreciate your support. I’m close to Lancashire Archives if anyone needs any work doing there, or I can travel to other archives.

So come August, with one of my Lancaster posts being made redundant, I’ll be looking for work. If you’ve got any research you need doing (palaeography included), I’m available. Let me know. Also on the off chance that anyone needs a soprano soloist, that’s me too.

The premodern world held possibilities and imagined futures: the physical and metaphysical systems that were actively built and contested then continue to inform the world in the present. Read our statement on the value of Renaissance & Premodern Studies: www.rensoc.org.uk/statement-on...

I made it to 10km!!! I did 36 lengths today, taking me to 420 altogether! That’s 10500m 😀 fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/jennis-...

Only 14 lengths to go until I reach 10km!!! If you can spare a little to help me reach my fundraising target I’d greatly appreciate it fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/jennis-...

I’m nearly there! I’ve done 356 lengths so only 44 to go! That means I should finish on Sunday!!! fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/jennis-...

I'm going to be swimming 10km in November to raise money for Cancer Research UK. Please help fund life-saving research by donating to my page. Donate to my page today and help bring forward the day when all cancers are cured. fundraise.cancerresearchuk.org/page/jennis-...

Day 1 of teaching is done. Only 39 more to go until Christmas.

So tomorrow I am taking Thing 2 to Edinburgh to look at the university. In the past on the train I watched films… but now I have no iPad… ☹️

So, in a minor miracle, my new Tudor module is finished last thing on the Friday afternoon before I start teaching on Monday.

Anyone here know where I can find a really good reading on stranger churches in Tudor England and where my students might be able to find sources they could use?

Okay, so I’m still finding 🔵☁️ and 🧵quite difficult…

Is there anyone out there who can point me in the direction of Job Throckmorton’s parliamentary speech against Mary queen of Scots? Is there any more than is in Neale’s Elizabethan parliaments?

#earlymodern #skystorians if you had to set two readings and a source on Tudor parliaments (preferably from the people’s perspective or forming some form of debate), what would you choose?

Hi #earlymodern #skystorians does anyone have access to a copy of Sharpe Selling the Tudor monarchy and can tell me the chapter number(s) on Henry 8 and page ranges to please 🙏

You all probably know that the halos of saints viewed from behind do look like slices of lemon, right? This is how "Paradise" looks according to the book of hours from Duke of Berry, by the way. #bookhistory

@kateai.bsky.social welcome to Bluesky!

We have a small visitor

Feeling somewhat overwhelmed about how much I need to fit into the days when I’m working is not conducive to relaxing on my days off…. There is just too much to do.

Writing the last lecture for my new part II module on Tudor popular politics. Very very slooooowly

Fab afternoon at Blackpool Air Show 🙂

Hello Bluesky! Thanks to @onslies.bsky.social I’ve made it here. Hoping for great things!