And our FIVE YEAR teaching and research position in Early Modern Europe and the World is now live..... Please do circulate and/or think about applying. I truly love our department! @kingshistory.bsky.social

VACANCY: we invite applications for a new job at the Society: Events and Academic Engagement Officer (0.6 FTE) bit.ly/3V8q5PC The post-holder will join our professional Office to help us support history and historians. £36,433 pro rata. Closing date: Sunday 5 October #Skystorians

Delighted to share our first call for contributions! We are seeking proposals to lead meetings in any format which will promote conversation and debate among junior Lister scholars. Deadline 15th October. See below & please help spread the word!

Postgraduates, studying for a Masters' or PhD in history or cognate discipline, are also warmly welcome in the Society bit.ly/45adrEh PGR membership includes access to student research support, professional training, publications, online resources and our Directory of historians #Skystorians

📢 We’re thrilled to announce that we have up to 4 student bursary awards for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York for 2025-26. Deadline to apply is 31 July. Please share widely! www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... #18thcentury #18thC

Next week’s @cecs-york.bsky.social seminar looks fantastic! 🖋️ @kharveyhistory.bsky.social #earlymodern #eighteenthcentury #skystorians

Registration for the conference is now open 🥳 There are a number of ticket options and registration will remain open until 1 June. The full programme is available on our website (subject to slight changes) We can't wait to see everyone in July!! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/understand...

This year’s Magic and Witchcraft Conference (23-25 June) is not to be missed!! Join us online or in person! 🦇 #earlymodern #skystorians #witchcraft

Happy Friday! you can now register for our @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on Early Modern War Narratives! June 6th in person and online! Keynote by Andrew Hopper and Ismini Pells, funded by KCL, CEMS, & @srsrensoc.bsky.social. Register here (and pls repost!) — www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage- 1 yr research post working on ‘Knotted Histories: Early Modern Global Carpets, Global Exchange and the Public Country House’ - University of Oxford - Faculty of English #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC287/p...

A new post, on the end of the infamous Court of Star Chamber and its afterlife: legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/04/22/t...

Join us tomorrow 23 April for our next research seminar! Michał E. Nowakowski will present a paper titled 'Words That Burn: Catholic–Reformed Polemics and Their Impact in Early Modern Vilnius (1574–1647)'. 📍 12pm-2pm, The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building (in person only).

📢NEW WILL OF THE MONTH📢 Why was gentleman James Liddell so very particular about how he wanted his body to be laid to rest? ⚰️📜🪦💍🥄👛👕 #EarlyModern 🗃️ @leverhulme.ac.uk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

We can hardly wait for the opening on 2 May of Austen and Turner: Country House Encounter. Read more about the exhibition at Harewood House, co-curated by the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies: www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve... #Austen #Turner

Don’t miss tonight’s research seminar! Join us online or in-person to welcome Bettina Varwig who will present a paper titled ‘Dis-ease, Pain and Redemption in Early Modern Musicking’. 📍6pm The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building More info and registration 👉🏼 www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...

Our next seminar is tonight! Join us (online or in person) to welcome Prof Amanda Wunder (Lehman College & CUNY Graduate Center) who will present a paper titled ‘Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez: A Tailor at the Court of Philip IV’ 📍 5pm, B/S/104 More info: www.york.ac.uk/history-of-a...

Our next seminar is this Thursday (6 March) at 12.15pm! Please join us (online or in person) to welcome @alexbamji.bsky.social who will present a paper titled ‘Ephemeral print and lay religious experience in early modern Venice’. 📍The Treehouse, Berrick Saul More info: www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...

Just enjoyed a really excellent paper from @claireturner.bsky.social at @crems-york.bsky.social seminar exploring some of the material they’re finding in their work on the sensory history of early modern cancer and identity. Now attempting to measure how long 9 thumbs is…

Our next research seminar is on 20 Feb, join us (in person or online) to welcome @claireturner.bsky.social who will present a paper titled ‘Gender, Identity and the Senses in Early Modern Cancer Cases’. 📍 12.15pm, The Treehouse, BSB #earlymodern

Our first seminar of the semester is today (6pm)! Join us (in person or online) to welcome Eva Johanna Holmberg (Uni of Helsinki) who presents a paper titled ‘The Torments and Travails of Jamestown: Early 17th century settler colonial body in pain’. 📍 The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building

On Wed 12 March, we co-host a hybrid lecture by José Lingna Nafafé (Bristol) presenting his recent book, winner of the African Studies Association UK’s Best Book Award: Lourenço da Silva Mendonça and the Black Atlantic Abolitionist Movement in the 17th Century. www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/hist...

save the date: I'm giving a paper on my new research project, 'Gender, Identity, and the Senses in Early Modern Cancer Cases', at @crems-york.bsky.social on Feb 20 at 12:15pm!

We've joined Bluesky! 🎉 We are the HRC, part of the Arts and Humanities Faculty at University of York. Our aim is to support research projects; nurture productive and creative partnerships; and train + empower postgraduate researchers. Do say 'hello' below and tell us a bit about your work 😊

NEW OPPORTUNITY AT THE JCB! The John Carter Brown Library invites applications for a 2 year postdoctoral position helping to coordinate the library’s programs and events to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the independence of the United States. Visit apply.interfolio.com/159279 for details.

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH for sharing this terrific postdoc @jcblibrary.bsky.social! I'm testing your generosity here but would love to also share that we have TWO additional senior research fellowships for BROWN2026. Details at apply.interfolio.com/159128 and see number 2 below for terms... 1/

Now we’re all settling into this app: the starter packs of #EarlyModern historians for an easy follow — and check the update as some new ones have moved over. 1: go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF 2: go.bsky.app/NQqDFr1 There’s still space in that second one so do wave if you’re around and want in! #SkyStorians

My book is having more launches than Musk's rockets but I'm genuinely looking forward to this double act next Thursday. Come for the usual dose of Basque witches, stay for Thibaut's discussion of Louis Gaufridi, a witch-priest who seduced women with his magical breath. 😅 #earlymodern

TONIGHT!!! You've still got a couple of hours to make sure you've got a good wifi connection for this brilliant conversation! #earlymodern #skystorians

Congratulations to Lisa Smith and Cathy McClive, whose article on women and medical entrepreneurialism in French History has won the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender article prize for 2024… and its #OA so you can read it now! doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... 🗃️ @emwjournal.bsky.social

Excited to start exploring early modern wills 📜over at our brand new Zooniverse site, but not sure where to start? You can find out more over on our blog: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... #skystorians #EarlyModern #CitizenScience 🧵1/

A handy early-modern starter pack for new Bluesky arrivals!

Our first research seminar of the academic year is this Thursday (3 Oct). Join us (online or in person) to welcome Katrin Ettenhuber and Lorna Hutson who will present ‘The Poetics of Premodern Probability’. 📍The Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building 5.15pm More info: www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...

If you're a #skystorian who works on digitised archival material - and pretty much all of us do - you should read this new article on #EarlyModern wills by Harry Smith @bhamhistory.bsky.social and Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social, #OpenAccess in the TRHS 🗃️: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

What role can criminal justice play in maintaining state authority and social cohesion during periods of crisis? This article presents the quantitative data underpinning my book *A Widow's Vengeance after the Wars of Religion* – www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

🚨 The Making & Knowing Project🦎 released an open-access "Research & Teaching Companion" for instructors & students seeking to use hands-on activities in their teaching, incl. syllabi, lesson plans, student projects, & more: shorturl.at/8AJYP #earlymodern #histsci #arthistory #medievalsky #hisSTM 🗃️

Who’s joining us on 26th September 2024, 16.30-18.30 BST for our online festival, celebrating some brilliant work in our field? It comprises two #SRSlyGood sessions. First, our excellent outgoing postdocs, Anna Parker & Natasha Bailey discuss their research 🥳 www.rensoc.org.uk/event/srs-on...

Day of the #Midwife: after Thornton had just given birth to her 3rd child in 1655, her oldest child took very ill and the midwife helped save her: 'her maid, Jane Flower ... immediately took her up and, with Jane Rimer, the midwife, made help to recover her life' (Bk1). #IDM2024 🗃️ #EarlyModern

UPDATE: Unfortunately, due to technical gremlins, this seminar will not take place today. We will be rescheduling, and will post again soon with the new date.

Join us tomorrow (2 May), in person or online, for our next research seminar! @sarakbarker.bsky.social will present a paper titled ‘Naming the problem: Proper nouns, translation and multilingualism in early modern print’. 📍The Treehouse (HRC York) 5.15pm More info 👇🏼 www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...

Conference May 3&4 at USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute on Craft and Crafting in the Early Modern World. For more info/to register: dornsife.usc.edu/emsi/craft-a...

Join us this Thurs 18 April for our annual Patrides Lecture. Professor Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social will present a lecture titled "Ruderal Poetics: Epic, Empire, and the Tenacity of Weeds" 📍6pm, Treehouse, Berrick Saul Building. The lecture will be followed by a wine reception. All welcome!

📢ICYMI📢 We have a NEW BLOG POST out - it's the second post in our 'Will of the Month' series. Find out all about a Lincolnshire farmer and his cows, his sheep, his horses, his beds and even his second-best beds... sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

Our next research seminar is this Thursday! David Veevers (Bangor Uni) will present a paper titled ‘Anti-Colonialism as the Analytical Lens of the Early Modern British Empire’. Join us online or in person! 📍BS/104, Berrick Saul Building, 11 April, 5.15pm. #earlymodern #academicseminar

5 full-time, permanent entry level (Lecturer, eg Assistant Prof.) academic posts at UCL History Department: 1) African, 2) Environmental, 3) Modern East Asian, 4) Modern European, & 5) Social & Economic History. Deadlines are 5 April 2024; apply for more than one if the job descriptions fit.

The #CfP for #SCSC2024 is now live! #twitterstorians #earlymodern #Toronto www.sixteenthcentury.org/conference

New Event | MEMOs: t.co/73XmxKnjoO

A reminder that registration for Sound Faith: Religion and the Acoustic World, 1400-1800 is open now! Thurs 13- Fri 14 June at the University of York (with a graduate workshop on 'Audiation' on the afternoon of Wed 12 June with Lucia Martinez Valdivia). #earlymodern 🗃️ www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...

My book Female Servants in Early Modern England is out now! And it’s open access! Order here (for 30% off enter code AAFLYG6) or download for free 👇 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

It's the time of year again where we turn our minds to the SRS Postdoctoral Fellowships: £15k stipend. ELIGIBILITY SMALL PRINT Fellows are allowed to hold employment alongside their fellowship provided it does not take up more than the equivalent of 3 working days a wk over course of academic yr.

I don't work on the history of #earlymodern medicine, but this recently published collection looks amazing (not to mention super useful)! #histsci #histSTM 🗃️: tinyurl.com/tefn3s4w