First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate! #EarlyModern 🗃️

I know senior scholars have too much on their plates already, but I hope they will give this blogpost (and the ones to follow) a read. The "Early Career state of mind" is very real, and the anonymous ECRs here capture so many of the challenges that it raises

“Cataclysmically bad” This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised. 1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/ 🗃️

✨Excitingly my monograph now has a cover!✨ It’s out in November @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social, which means there will finally be a whole book on Hortense Mancini’s salon, the eager few will be relieved to know. It comes with an academic price tag £££ but will be Open Access. Library orders welcome 🙏

🚨 Les #Annales recrutent un éditeur/une éditrice bilingue anglais-français 🚨 L'offre d'emploi est à retrouver ici 👉 recrutement.ehess.fr/offre-emploi... Poste à pourvoir à partir du 1er novembre 2025 ⚠️ Candidatures à envoyer avant le 8 octobre 2025

"Rethinking rebellion in early Capetian Burgundy (1002–1016)" doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... Just out, by @ralphtorta.bsky.social

Seeing a lot of critical responses from medievalists about this BBC 1066 thing. As an early modernist, just to say that I'm happy to confirm that medieval people were indeed covered in dirt all the time and did all sound like they were in the Wurzels.

🚨 JOB ALERT🚨 We are looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern). This Grade 8 open-ended position has an application deadline of 28/09/2025. Click below to learn more and apply. Please share widely! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ050/a...

I wrote a blogpost for the French History Network reflecting on my postdoctoral work and the long, windy path that brought me here. In short, the archives sometimes push us in an unexpected direction, and that's okay! Postdocs are the perfect time to gather lots of material and think ambitiously 🗃️

Paris has removed the paving from its city hall square and transformed it into an urban forest. Stunning! 🤩

My new book 📕 The Story of Tudor Art 🌹 comes out on 25th September. It’s the first book ever (!!) to look at art from across the whole sixteenth century in England and I can’t wait to share it with you.

More people who work in universities should read up about their finances, however, public posts about university finances should always take the extra 2 paragraphs to give more detail. That's a bit lacking here. 🧵

Couldn't make the lecture so really enjoyed this by Lyndal Roper: about the Peasants' War, but also about popular history writing and why it needs to be more creative and less constrained by chronological narrative www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWPM...

Just received my copy of The Historian @histassoc.bsky.social. Thanks to @tombhamilton.bsky.social and Ros Crone for a fab issue on crime and punishment 💕

This was really interesting to work on alongside Elisa Jones, Sophie Nicholls, John O'Brien, @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social, and Paul-Alexis Mellet too – an important book with wide implications, and lots to explore in the discussion

H-France Forum is pleased to announce its newest issue (20:4) on Paul-Alexis Mellet, Les Remontrances: discours de paix et de justice en temps de guerre. Une autre histoire des guerres de religion (France, v.1557-v. 1603) Geneva: Droz, 2022. ISBN: 978-2-600-06336-4 (pb) h-france.net/hfrance-foru...

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-...

"Slaves in Paris: A Digital Mapping Project" - a partnership between Miranda Spieler and Colonial Networks slavesinparis.org. Created with the support of our Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant. Officially launched today in Paris at #GCFHSResist

My new minigraph on gender, joint leadership, and the historiographical invention of a war can now be freely downloaded here! library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

‼️New Article‼️ Pleased to share that my first research article has been published with Religion & Urbanity Online @degruyterbrill.bsky.social @unierfurt.bsky.social. Many thanks to the Religion & Urbanity group, Susanne Rau, @tombhamilton.bsky.social, and so many others! doi.org/10.1515/urbr...

Fascinating new article on late medieval lordship by Margreet Brandsma, 'Shifting power relations in seigneuries of the southern Low Countries (Hainaut, twelfth–fifteenth century)': doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... @brandsmargreet.bsky.social @frenchhistory.bsky.social

Excited to see this published @frenchhistory.bsky.social! ‘Only illusions are amusing …’: nature, artifice and femininity in eighteenth-century France through the lens of Louis de Carmontelle' by @zarakesterton.bsky.social 🌼🌺🌸🎨 academic.oup.com/fh/article/d...

« Construire des bases de données» Revue Histoire et Mesure | XXXIX-2 | 2024 journals.openedition.org/histoiremesu... #SHS #DH #history #databases #histoire

Winner of the RHS Early Career Article Prize (2025): Michaela Kalcher for 'The Self in the Shadow of the Guillotine: Revolution, Terror and Trauma in a Parisian Diary‘, published in History Workshop Journal (2024). bit.ly/4ljXySE 1/2 #Skystorians

Winner of the RHS First Book Prize (2025): 'Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547', by Laura Flannigan (Cambridge University Press, 2024) bit.ly/4nwi4kj 1/2 #Skystorians

It’s now live! I’ve been working on this Peasants’ War project with some fabulous colleagues from @ox.ac.uk and @royalholloway.bsky.social over the past year+ and we’re delighted to share the fruits of our research.

Looking forward to this FISIER online roundtable next week – 'Surviving the Sixteenth Century' with Emma Claussen (Cambridge), Jérémie Foa (Aix-Marseille), Jenny Oliver (Harvard), 11 July 10am-1pm (NY) 3-6pm (UK) 4-7pm (FR) fisieronline.wordpress.com @anakroniks.bsky.social @imems.bsky.social

Proofs are out the door (baby notwithstanding 😅) and on their way to you Open Access next month!

We're recruiting for the role of Professor in Pre-Modern Heritage Collections, deadline 7 July, as part of the Heritage 360 funded project, with full details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNK253/p...

A rare opportunity for a permanent lectureship in German in our fabulous School! Please circulate to your networks. @ucfl-eca.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social

OMG, the @ihr.bsky.social has uploaded a bunch of old interviews with historians on their youtube channel and I'm now deeply invested. Summer treat for #SkyStorians! Look at this interview with E.P. Thompson by an embryonic Penelope Corfield!

My new article 'The Politics of Colonial Lists' just published in Comparative Studies in Society and History @csshjournal.bsky.social And it is open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Enjoyed putting together this H-France Forum on Paul-Alexis Mellet's *Les Remontrances: discours de paix et de justice en temps de guerre. Une autre histoire des guerres de religion* – reviews and response available here: h-france.net/hfrance-foru... @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social

We're excited that Amanda Vickery is coming to Durham this Thursday 26 June to talk about 'Making and Visualising British Beauty: Provincial Women and Miss Great Britain, 1945–1970' All welcome! Takes place at 15.30-17.00 in Elvet Riverside ER140

Congratulations Sian it's a massive achievement and enjoy celebrating!!

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Eligible authors – do submit your books for consideration! You only need to submit a PDF copy, which makes the prize very accessible. The SSFH's ongoing commitment to supporting junior scholars is so, so welcome, especially with the challenges French history is facing in Anglo-American academia

If you published your first book in French history in 2024, you might like to submit it for the Society for the Study of French History Book Prize, deadline 31 July 2025 and more details here: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/ssfh-book-pr... @frenchhistory.bsky.social

If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university. womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...

Looking forward to this discussion with Emma Claussen, Jérémie Foa (@anakroniks.bsky.social), and Jenny Oliver hosted by FISIER! Online to bring everyone together across the waters. More detail listed here for now: modernum.hypotheses.org/tag/xvie-sie...

The next session of FISIER's online international seminar, 'Surviving the 16th Century' (co-organised by IMEMS member @tombhamilton.bsky.social) will be held on 11 July. Register here by 7 July: zoom.us/meeting/regi... Read more about the seminar series: fisieronline.wordpress.com/renov-renew/

Thrilled to see this published (free!) in Past&Present - though it unfortunately feels more relevant than ever... @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social And feeling fortunate to have been able to do this with two of the most talented historians Malika Zehni & Lamin Manneh ❤️ academic.oup.com/past/advance...

Christian Liddy is part of this wide-ranging feature on 'Lordship in the Later Middle Ages: A Round Table Discussion' @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social academic.oup.com/past/article...

Lots of fascinating articles in the RHS @royalhistsoc.org ECR article prize shortlist, and this one by Michaela Kalcher really stuck with me when I read it: 'Self in the Shadow of the Guillotine: Revolution, Terror and Trauma in a Parisian Diary' doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...

The shortlist for the Society's 2025 First Book Prize for early career historians is now available bit.ly/4kkm4lW Eight titles have been selected, following an open call for submissions of books published in 2024. Two winners of the 2025 prize will be announced in July. #Skystorians

Congratulations to Cathy McClive and @historybeagle.bsky.social for their honorable mention in the 2025 Koren Prize for this #OA piece in French History! doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/the-william-... 🗃️

Cathy McClive (rouge1767.bksy.social) and I are absolutely delighted with this good news, and to be included in the list with such excellent scholars as Deirdre Lyons (also honorable mention) and Charles Begué Fawell (winner). #EarlyModern #Skystorians

New article by Samuel Weber, 'Unmanning the author: Jean-Joseph Languet de Gergy and anti-fandom in eighteenth-century France' – ribbons, anti-clericalism, dirty jokes, and a new take on pre-Revolutionary libel culture... academic.oup.com/fh/article/d... @frenchhistory.bsky.social

Delighted to see this wonderful collection, to which @tombhamilton.bsky.social & I (among others) contributed, out in the world via @classiquesgarnier.bsky.social classiques-garnier.com/plaidoyers-j...

Lecturer in Early Modern History (Fixed Term, Teaching & Scholarship) The University of Manchester - Humanities - History - School of Arts, Languages and Cultures #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC878/l...