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Early modern & early America colleagues: Can you recommend reading on prisons & incarceration? I am looking for 1 short reading for undergrads in my fall course on witch trials, as well as more reading for myself. (For myself can be in English, French, Italian.) thank you! #earlymodern #skystorians

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

Ok #historians, give me your recommended readings on looking at the 1990s and 2000s through a historical lens and the consciousness of context/temporality Essentially looking stuff that examines how we can historically think of the 1990s-2000s as not the present (I think)

Visiting @unifr.bsky.social for the #ModifiedBodies conference and looking forward to learning new things about malleable early modern corporeality. I'll be bringing some face history to the table.

📢 Applications are now LIVE for the IHR Fellowship! Join our vibrant community of scholars. 🏛️✨ 🗓️ Deadline: 30th June 2026 🔗 Apply here: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

Today: the annual History department staff/student netball tournament! Fundraising for: @mssocietyuk.bsky.social. Any donations appreciated! The last time I ran: last year's netball tournament. Forecast: much hobbling until... Friday? gofund.me/cc62c7214

when ur on a walk and there's a dog

This is the most specific job I have ever seen sharing it on the off chance one of you know someone who: - Is UK based - Looking for flexible, part time work - Has an academic/research background - Wants to build a research grants program - Loves hedgehogs 🦔🦔🦔

A quick Friday morning plea for help from Bluesky historians: can anyone recommend books/articles/other pieces that actively *define* the concept of a wartime home front. I am looking for any definitions/discussions of definitions, rather than just recommendations of works covering home fronts. TY 🗃️

I don't think people fully understand yet just how fragile university-hosted digital resources are after external funding ends (especially if the lead academic retires or moves or is made redundant).

Honestly this is one of the most radical proposals I've ever seen (having been told stuff like this at anoother UoB is impossible) - it is INCREDIBLE for equality and access. Guaranteed fixed days of the week for on-campus & one-night-a-week accom contract - part time job? carer? they go to uni too!

Last week of term. I am not going to miss my back-to-back two-hour seminars on Wednesday mornings.

Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge & Practice, c.1600-1800, by me, @jasminekt.bsky.social and Noah Moxham, is available as a paperback from Thursday! A relative snip at £26 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM

2 weeks left to apply for the BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship @ljmuofficial.bsky.social! Please share widely with ECRs and don’t hesitate to reach out with questions. We look forward to hearing from you! Deadline: Monday 11 May 2026

Freelance work is coming in for the summer with people's research fund pots needing using up; so do contact me via www.joanneedge.co.uk sooner rather than later for your archive/transcription/editing needs! #MedievalSky #EarlyModern

🎉 New resource added to our site! 🎉 For planning purposes, here's a list of heritage months, historic dates, and cultural observances (mostly US) to help you think ahead about what public scholarship you want to pitch at its most timeliest!

My chapter 'The end of the typing pool: New technologies, old stereotypes, and emotional reactions to workplace change in British print media' is out this week and open access. www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7...

If you or your students research any aspect of British, Irish or British colonial/imperial history (Roman empire to today) and need a tool that will never hallucinate sources, check out the BBIH. It develops research skills rather than repressing them. Instit. & indiv. subscriptions available.

Last day to apply!

Just a few more days to apply to this year’s Take Your Research Public course - an introduction to public writing, social media, podcasting and more for academics new to this work. Guests include @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social and @estelleprnq.bsky.social. Free, online, over four Tuesdays in June.

This Sunday, 19:15, on BBC Radio 4: Andy Mycock leads a troop of us with 'unfortunate' (BBC term) surnames in 'Named, Unashamed'. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This Thursday evening! Still a few places available www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/patchwork-...

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

Finder’s fee: seasonal fruit. Early modern provenance mark on the flyleaf in a 16th-century illuminated manuscript: ‘This book belongs to Catrina Leoners. Whoever finds it should return it to her for an apple or a pear…’ #rarebooks #earlymodern #bookhistory 💙📚📜

The temptation to use this wildly ahistorically when talking to students about intersections of oral, manuscript, and print culture.

🔊Aberystwyth & mid Wales folk - this Saturday afternoon in the National Library of Wales 🛩️

Attention #earlyModern #bookHistory and #earlyMusic types! You have to the end of the week to register for the @dormeme16.bsky.social conference Marking Music: The Use of Music Books in Early Modern Europe, at KCL. Registration and the brilliant programme are at www.tickettailor.com/events/aheve...

#CfP 📢 "Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies", eds. Mary Katherine Newman and Rana Banna Seeking chapter proposals on how language and the senses shaped evidence in the #earlymodern world (c.1492–1700). ⏰ Deadline for abstracts: 12 April 2026 🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of... #HistoryOfKnowledge

Fun fact: my wife & I were *supposed* to meet there after a Prof who knew we would be overlapping introduced us by email. But she changed her dates, so instead of meeting in a bucolic Hampshire idyll, it was the 1960s drab of a Cardiff Uni building. BUT! There was still a (fake) sheep in the office🐑

Many moons ago I had the pleasure of an early career fellowship at @chawtonhouse.bsky.social, and now you can too! If you're a PhD student or ECA working on women's writing in the long 18thC, act quickly. chawtonhouse.org/the-library/...

10 grants available (up to €300) for travel and expenses to join us in Trento, Italy, 16-18 September, for postgrads and ECRs working on a topic related to 'Circulating Faith: Christian Missions in a Global Perspective (1500–2000)' deadline 30 April isig.fbk.eu/it/news/deta... #earlymodern 🗃️

I've tried to make myself feel in control by writing down all of my work deadlines until September and... Nope, much worse.

Antarctica: actually rather large.

Woop woop! Happy ALCS day to me 🥳🍾 If you haven't signed up yet but have written/edited published creative or academic work, get on it! One off joining fee of £36 - but I have recouped that many times over in last few years. Thanks @alcs.co.uk ☺️

Happy ALCS day to all who celebrate! We are on holiday this week so it's perfect timing for a little treat money 🥳

Great to see that the video of Imogen Peck's recent talk @long18thsem.bsky.social on 'Family Archives in England, 1650-1838' is now available online. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Today is publication day for ‘Fairies: A History’ - so I’ve written a special free post over on ‘All Old Strange Things’ to celebrate 📚🧚 open.substack.com/pub/drfranci...

Chuffed to have been selected as a judge for Cardiff University's Three Minute Thesis competion this year! It's a great exercise in succinctly framing your research for a wider audience. But I would say that, because I won a giant novelty cheque in 2012 www.facebook.com/uniofadelaid...

By popular demand, here is the full, glorious message from Aberystwyth University Library, on their blog: wordpress.aber.ac.uk/librarian/?p... Hat tip to @walkyouhome.bsky.social for prompting me to realise it was a blog post, and thus available to you all ❤️

A Frenchman in London gets brought into Bridewell having been "taken in women’s apparel", but they let him go after his mistress and neighbours swear "that he did it upon a merriment to fetch oysters and without any other cause".

Starting now! With a very full Zoom Room

Hey guys, new chapter for your edited collection on the history of the book just dropped.

With #InternationalWomensDay this Sunday, we're delighted to bring you another guest blog post from the wonderful @emmashepley.bsky.social! Emma shines a light on the lives of working women at St Bartholomew's Hospital in the 18th C #WomensHistoryMonth www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/archives-blo...

What day is it today? It's * Bandcamp Friday AND * nearly International Women's Day so to celebrate #GirlsGotPolyphony it's time to go to our Bandcamp page and grab lots of #nuntastic music It's also time for a big, HUGE announcement! Sneak a peak at our Linktree for a clue linktr.ee/musicasecreta

👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.

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Friday Feb 27 5:30 pm London time: Feike Dietz will speak on “Blindness, Writing and Knowing: Visually Impaired Female Authors in the Netherlands (1770-1840)” to the IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person at IHR Wolfson Rm 2 and online. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Thirteen years since I submitted my PhD. It... feels like longer? Anyway my clutching attitude to letting things go to review hasn't changed much. I should work on that.

Hello, fellow historians, especially those in the north of the UK! Booking is open for the second of our events on Second Projects, organised by me and Tracey Loughran and supported by History UK - details of speakers and registration link below! ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...