This looks like a very interesting conference, being organised by @tomasantoniovalle.bsky.social at @uni-hamburg.de. 21 to 23 May 2026. Abstracts due 1 December 2025. #EarlyModern #skystorians #16thC #17thC

I am once again asking the British punditry class to look at the coffee supply chain to see why it’s gone up in price!

Happening tomorrow! Join me and Simon Devereaux. We’ll be chatting about my new book on London prisons and more generally about the history of imprisonment.

Almost two years ago, we opened our exhibition (Un)chained Knowledge, subtitled “Fake news, censorship and information around 1500 and today”. The digital version of this exhibition is still available online. Why are we putting this exhibition back in the spotlight now?

The IHR Tudor and Stuart seminar has joined Bluesky! Please follow and RT! Our programme for the year is starting NEXT WEEK on Monday 29 September with Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social speaking on 'Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper'. Online and in-person, 5.30pm Book here:

Das "Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte" erscheint in Band 27 (2025) in diesen Tagen: www.steiner-verlag.de/Jahrbuch-fue... Zum Inhaltsverzeichnis: medien.davlink.de/978351514024... Die Rezensionen sind, wie jedes Jahr, open access. #skystorians

Have a good weekend

A lesser traveller might have thought twice about buying an A3-sized, replica seventeenth-century house midway through their research trip to the Low Countries - but not me!

✨What Do We Know About How Printers and Bookworkers Learned Greek in the Sixteenth Century ? Han Lamers and I are delighted to host Martine Furno (IHRIM / ENS de Lyon) at the second online seminar of the Early Modern Hellenism Colloquia 📆Online on 25 September at 15.00 CET (via zoom)

"Job insecurity shreds productivity, both through the time and effort required to apply for jobs and the impact of such insecurity on mental wellbeing." Nail head hit.

Looks like the death knell for academia .edu. Another corner of the internet that is dead. Is it worth creating an account somewhere else? Where do people gather these days? #skystorians #academicsky

Great lineup in this seminar series hosted at LUCK: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/09/16/a... #skystorians #earlymodern #mediahistory #bookhistory

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

📢Book event📢 📗To Detain or Punish 📅Sep 24 Free and open to the public. RSVP below! Join NACBS to celebrate @kiranmehta.bsky.social recent publication To Detain or Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750-1840. www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

read Joan Wallach Scott's reflection on her family, her childhood, and our present moment -- equal parts moving and sad, defiant and beautiful, thoughtful and angry, realistic yet in search of concrete reasons to build hope www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

#rarebooks & #bookhistory folks: in case this new Princeton exhibition on global book-making has gone under your radar, you should check it out now!

Made a little pilgrimage to the Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp today which was wonderful. The new ‘Women’s Business’ exhibition is fab as well #BookHistory #skystorians #EarlyModern #museums

Please circulate - we are hiring in Early Modern European history!

Constantly amazed at the efforts of scholars in 20thC to edit the materials on which so much Renaissance history still relies. Here's Henry de Vocht's account of rushing the famous Cranevelt letters through the streets of Leuven during WW1 #skystorians #EarlyModern

The picture label just said ‘Reviewer 2 delivers feedback’ #AcademicSky #Skystoriana

Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD

📣Only two weeks left to apply for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣 In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks. Deadline: 15 September 2025 More info 👇 https://tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn

Many thanks to our friends @hyperallergic.com for spreading the word about @ransomcenter.bsky.social's 2026-27 #fellowships! Learn more by visiting the Center's website: www.hrc.utexas.edu/fellowships/ #Humanities #Photography #Literature #ArtHistory #RareBooks #Theatre #FilmHistory 🗃️📜📚

Hey historians of all stripes: the Forum on Early-modern Empires & Global Interactions (FEEGI) is hosting its 2026 conference at Rutgers U. on April 10-11. This time we're teaming up with PEAES & The Library Company..its gonna be great. Check out the CFP! #earlymodern #earlyAmerica #historians

Went to the new V&A and it was just a load of old ikea furniture (Jk it was fun, they even had a Donatello on display)

Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906... ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️

#earlymodern folks - Zoltán Biederman's Hakluyt Society Annual Lecture is available for streaming. 🗃

📣Applications still open for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣 In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks. Deadline: 15 September 2025 More info 👇 https://tinyurl.com/ykudv9tn

Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2026 - submissions now welcome, closing date 31 March 2026 www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...

🚨 To Detain or To Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750–1840 🚨 📅 Wednesday 3 September @ 5:30pm 📣 @kiranmehta.bsky.social discusses the diverse penal landscape of 18th century London. An incredible book using many TLA documents! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/to-detain-...

For all of the educators trying to deal with AI, I did a deep dive in early June and these are the four articles I decided to assign to my students. 1. This is the longest of the bunch, but so wonderfully comprehensive. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/1...

One of my RAs landed a permanent job in Madrid (which is awesome!) so I'm now advertising for a new one! It's to work on my INTRECCI project on global histories of capitalism. Please share with anyone interested and happy to answer questions. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Letter of the day (in the Times)

Penguin’s website suddenly overwhelmed by sign ups from petrarch@gmail

We are delighted to announce the first batch of the new Early European Print collection, now freely available to explore online here: www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/... Read more about collection and some of its highlights in our latest blog post: ow.ly/g1MH50WxSmH

Free stuff! First batch of items from the Rylands' Early European Print collection is now fully digitised and freely available to explore online via Manchester Digital Collections #EarlyModern #incunabula #TheRylands #HistoryOfTheBook www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/...

Peter Burke being astute as ever on the disproportionate impact of exiles, emigres and expatriates in the history of knowledge. If only a govt minister or two would pay any notice... #skystorians

We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

I’ll be speaking about my book online with Simon Devereaux on 24 Sept (not the 25th as it says in some places - completely my fault for confusing the lovely @thenacbs.bsky.social organisers!). RSVP! #skystorians www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

A reminder to book in to hear me talk about London’s prisons (1750-1850) on 3 September at @thelondonarchives.bsky.social (Link below) www.thelondonarchives.org/whats-on/to-... #skystorians #prisonhistory #archives

Latest three years of Thames Water bills: from £11/m in 2023/4 to £53/m in 2025/6. Remind me, what were the execs’ bonuses this year? And how is our water quality doing?

But what should the Latin motto be? ‘Hoc est ultra’? Incidentally Warwick has a great Latin motto: Mens agitat molem. It feels like ‘Mind moves matter’ would have been a better rebrand. But then I haven’t been profiled in Vogue about why universities need rebranding…

One of the most prominent scholars of historical memory in the field of Jewish Studies, who teaches at Columbia, fears she will no longer be able to teach Hannah Arendt with the new federal government control over the university: apnews.com/article/colu...

‼️Next year, the REBPAF Final Conference will be held in Dublin.‼️ We invite submissions of papers & posters; the deadline is 15 Dec 2025. We look forward to your contributions and to welcoming you to Ireland!📚 #REBPAF #MSCA #REBPAFConference #CfP #BookHistory [See images for details & how to apply.]

Without federal funding, public media — and the truth-telling, community-connecting role it plays — is at risk. Local stations may vanish. Millions could lose trusted news and vital information. If you are ready to join the fight for journalism, donate now: n.pr/458sOhq

Three stunning and shaming paragraphs, by Rachel Wolf of Public First, in @theobserveruk.bsky.social

Bye forever, WeTransfer.