American friends We’re looking for a car for our year in the US at Cornell. If you have any tips on renting, buying, or borrowing a car, if you have a car you’re not using that you could rent to us, even far from Ithaca, please let us know. Any tips are welcome. (feel free to forward this message)

📣 Apply now for the Quentin Skinner Lectureship 2027 The Lectureship will suit an early career scholar who is able to visit Cambridge in Spring 2027, and hold a lecture on a subject in the broad field of intellectual history since 1500 https://bit.ly/3js4P7Z ⏳ 15 June @camhistory.bsky.social

📣 #CallforPapers 📣 Working on how Central and Eastern Europe participated in #EarlyModern global exchanges? Check the #CfP for the conference Global Connections – Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern World (ca. 1500-1800) 👉 loom.ly/68-mKyU ⏰ Submit your proposal by 15 June 2026

Last call for this PhD vacancy in the history of medicine and colonialism! Two positions on the history of midwifery in Belgium and the Belgian Congo at Antwerp University, at UAntwerp and VUB Deadline for both applications: June 1, 2026. UAntwerp: bit.ly/4u39nQx VUB: bit.ly/49SkGDO

Annual CEMS Colloquium - 11th June! This year's theme is 'Periodizing the Early/Modern'. Featuring three panels and a roundtable. Join us on 11th June. Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...

Vandaag is het de feestdag van de patroonheilige der historici, Beda de Eerbiedwaardige. Van harte gefeliciteerd, mede-historici! 🙏

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

📢 Call for papers – Boekhistorisch Forum X Op 16 okt 2026 brengen de Universiteit van Amsterdam, Universiteit Antwerpen en KU Leuven onderzoekers rond boekgeschiedenis samen. 🎤 Dien je abstract (max. 300 w) + bio in vóór 20 juni 2026 via [email protected] 🌍 NL/EN presentaties welkom

📜 Historians of Paris! Huge huge long shot 📜 Is anyone at the Archives Nationales main site at any point in the next few weeks, & willing & able to take a few photographs of documents? Happy to pay for your time, whatever you can spare – pls DM me

Ik negeer even de alles-specialist-filosoof, maar het kernprobleem van De Afspraak is opnieuw bewezen. Een presentator die onvoorbereid is en niet kan modereren en/of een slechte redactie.

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Next week, we'll be launching a new call for applications for the #Nottebohm travel fund for #bookhistory research in Antwerp. Keep your eyes open!

I've got a research fellowship for a year of *actual writing* (if I remember how...). YAY! question: does anyone know of some library fellowships or other non-stipendary visiting thingies for which the deadline hasn't passed months ago? Could really use some time in a different location to think.

On June 11, I 'll be presenting my paper 'Institutional temporalities between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period' @cemskcl.bsky.social annual colloquium 'Periodizing the Early/Modern'. (full program kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...) See you in London!

En nog een vacature voor een promotieplaats bij collega @maartjegelder.bsky.social aan @uvahumanities.bsky.social maar deze gaat over gender en protest in de 16de eeuwse Noordelijke #Nederlanden werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/pr... #medievalsky #twitterstorians #earlymodernsky

Mooie vacature voor een promovendus op het onderwerp protest en gender in de 16de eeuwse Zuidelijke Nederlanden bij mijn collega @maartjevg.bsky.social aan @uvahumanities.bsky.social en Jelle Haemers bij de KULeuven: werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/pr... #twitterstorians #medievalsky #earlymodernsky

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

How do narratives of WWII, the Cold War, empires and revolutions shape current politics? This morning, our faculty and researchers engaged the #EUIdeas participants in a lively quiz-style discussion on how Europe’s past is used to understand the present and imagine possible futures #EUI50

Bluesky nerds! Can you help me get in touch with someone who works on East Indian languages, specifically in the 18th century?

The University of Oxford is advertising a Professorship of Economic History, which will be held in the Department of Economics in association with Nuffield College. Closing date 25 May 2026, interviews 26 June. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru....

OK, fellow early modernists, this I'm teaching the grad seminar on early modern Europe for the first time in 5 years. What monographs in English, preferably in paperbook/ebook formats, can you recommend that work well in seminar instruction? And thanks! #earlymodern 🗃️

Early modern historians! 🗃️ What book(s) would you particularly recommend for understanding early 17thC France, especially in a global context?

History authors: aside from frantically calling everyone you know in broadcasting and podcasting, what's a thing you did to market your book that really worked, or was just a really fun thing to do?

vraagje voor juristen hier: is er een definitie van wat 'sinds mensenheugenis' betekent in de rechtspraak? En in wat voor soort zaken wordt dit nog steeds gebruikt? (geen AI antwoorden graag, ik vraag het aan een mens met expertise)

#earlymodern bluesky'ers! Over the past 2 decades or so, quite some interesting work on global commodities & commodity chains (Cotton, Tea, Coral, ...) has been published. Is anyone aware of good recent (review/historiographical meta-) articles that (critically) take stock of this literature?

#earlymodern bluesky'ers! Over the past 2 decades or so, quite some interesting work on global commodities & commodity chains (Cotton, Tea, Coral, ...) has been published. Is anyone aware of good recent (review/historiographical meta-) articles that (critically) take stock of this literature?

#Skystorians: What are your favorite papers and books that discuss working with historical life writing?

CFP! Conference "Growing Up in the Early Modern World: Children, Institutions and Belonging" 26 November 2026 Macquarie University, Sydney Deadline 15 July #earlymodern

Les @annales.ehess.fr ont l'immense tristesse d'apprendre le décès de Jacques Revel. La revue doit tant à son intelligence et à sa générosité. Secrétaire de rédaction de la revue de 1975 à 1980, il observait et analysait avec une acuité extraordinaire les évolutions de l'historiographie. 1/2

handschriftvraagje: wat staat hier bij de blauwe lijn? "de portée van zo een verzinsel ... ik niet"

Me too! 👯

Maria Leptin, topvrouw van de ERC, waarschuwt voor een geleidelijk, goedbedoeld proces van ‘passive suppression’ van #academischevrijheid Door administratieve beslissingen, financieringsstructuren, veiligheidsvoorschriften en evaluatiecriteria. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...

Super niche #earlymodern query: has anyone ever worked with account books that are records of salaries received by specific individuals? I've a prioress and her steward both making these payments. The individual verifies receipt and then signs. The book is a running tally of these disbursements.

Zou je in 20/30 minuten iets over je (promotie)onderzoek, een nieuw project of een mooie (actuele) casus willen vertellen in een Zomerspecial voor de podcast ‘Middeleeuwen’? Leuk! 📍 Laat dan uiterlijk 31 maart van je horen! Stuur een DM of mail, dan kijken we naar de mogelijkheden.

Trying to work out what precisely is meant by 'schrifterij' when someone in the London Dutch Church describes documents as ‘rustende onder de schrifterij aen der consistorie’. It's not in the Historische Woordenboeken. Grateful for thoughts from early modern Dutch experts (no guesses please!).

#earlymodern historians of #trade & #merchants ! I am trying to take stock of the historiography on long-distance merchant guilds/nations/consulates of the past 10-20 years. 1/*

There is a vacancy in our project 'Pages of Prayer: The Ecosystem of Vernacular Prayer Books in the Late Medieval Low Countries, c. 1380-1550' for a junior or postdoctoral researcher! #medievalsky careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Junior-R...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Contested Seas: War, Commerce, and the Making of the Law of the Sea (c. 1400–1800) ⚓ 📣 @vubcore.bsky.social @vliz.be calenda.org/1363096

📣 #CfA 📣 Are you a #PhD researcher enrolled in a doctoral programme in and holding nationality of one of the countries included in the #EUIWidening Europe Programme? Apply for a funded research visit with us! (autumn term 2026-2027) 👉 loom.ly/7QHy_yo ⏰ Apply by 30 April 2026 📣 #PhDlife

Gang, what connotations resonate in 'religion', 'faith', and 'belief'? To get a bunch of political scholars to care about the role of these in wider society, which term would you use? Does 'religion' get them to think it doesn't concern them? 'Faith' too much commitment? Or a secret fourth term?

Question for #EarlyModern #Skystorians please! 🗃️ What are your favourite online places to search for public domain images? (free to use, out of copyright, cleared by copyright owner for public use etc)? Example: Public Domain Image Archive pdimagearchive.org

#earlymodern historians of #trade & #merchants ! I am trying to take stock of the historiography on long-distance merchant guilds/nations/consulates of the past 10-20 years. 1/*

Please do submit to the second London PPE conference hosted at KCL- it is a great community and will promise to be an exciting conference!

And if you are part of this gathering event as an academic, you are a Feueralarmregenwetterversammlungsakademiker:in

We're hiring! warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Gilles Postel-Vinay et Jean-Laurent Rosenthal - Le Capital d'une capitale 200 ans de richesses et d'inégalités à Paris À paraître en février au Seuil

Tuscan and Genoese aspirations to transoceanic trade in the 17th century Our alumnus Giorgio Tosco has just published a new book exploring how the Republic of Genoa and the Grand Duchy of Tuscany sought to enter global commerce and expansion overseas👉 loom.ly/3co5n3k 📚 #EarlyModernHistory

Anyway, good news! Open-ended lectureship in early medieval history at KCL. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...

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Early Modernists on Bluesky! Can someone provide me with bibliographical indications on fur trade in Central- and Eastern Europe in the sixteenth century?