My last couple posts have gotten way more traction than usual, so I guess now's the time to say my first book is coming out with OUP in April (ebook) and May (hardback)! You can pre-order (or ask your library to pre-order) here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

"British female track and field athletes are being asked to cover the cost of their own £185 sex tests if they want to compete internationally" A tax on women courtesy of the Gender Critical. You know feminism /s 🙄 archive.is/2026.03.05-1...

#ICYMI! 👇

Registration open for Radical Statistics annual conference "Using Data to Promote Progressive Change", London, 14.03.26 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2026-radic... Programme here www.radstats.org.uk/conference I'm doing a workshop on ECR wellbeing - with a critical use of underpinning data Please come!

Please share: due to withdrawal I have a space on my castles panel for #LeedsIMC. If you’ve an idea needs airing on time and temporalities in castles, give me a shout/submit via link! imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2026/pre... @imc-leeds.bsky.social @castlestudies.bsky.social Original CfP below ⬇️

Did I mention this is a continuing post?

Link to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee report on 'AI, copyright and the creative industries': publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...

I spoke at the Ceræ conference last year! Lovely group of people to present to (Am I about to talk myself into putting in an abstract, even though it would involve writing something from scratch? Very possible)

CALL FOR PAPERS: Share your research at the Centre for Port and Maritime History's 30th Anniversary Conference, Liverpool, 10-11 September 2026. CPMH includes @ljmuofficial.bsky.social , @liverpooluni.bsky.social & Liverpool's Maritime Museum. Submit abstract to [email protected] by 15 May.

My colleagues Annie Tindley and @drhick.bsky.social have funding 📣 for a Collaborative Doctoral Award with Museums Northern Ireland for a PhD on "Reawakening the Living Landscape: Integrating Heritage and Sustainability at the Ulster Folk Museum" - www.ncl.ac.uk/hca/study/hi... Deadline 20 April.

We are hiring postdoc researchers to join our #WrittenWorlds project at Birkbeck, with Sue Wiseman, @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social, @richardjansell.bsky.social and I. 0.5FTE, 13 months, focus on women's or provincial non-elite writing #EarlyModern 🗃️ cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Though note - actually MONDAY 16th March for your diaries.

JOB Assistant Professor of Political Theory University of Cambridge @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...

💯🎯 As someone else put it recently, using genAI in many contexts is like taking a forklift to move weights around at the gym. The weights don’t need to be moved, & literature doesn’t need to be written or read for its own sake: the effort is the whole point.

I had so much fun recording this episode! But also it’s never a bad day to remind the world that Samuel Huntington and the people who use his theories do indeed suck.

Job: The University of Birmingham is seeking to appoint someone to a 21-month post associated with a research project called "French-Language Print Publications in England to 1685" www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQN896/r...

If you're in York on Sunday 21 March about would like to hear a talk about the trouble 18th-century writers had trying to describe York as they found it, rather than as a relic of what it once was, then I have the perfect talk for you... #18C #YorkLitFest #18thC @yorkstjohn.bsky.social

Editorial Opportunity at Royal Studies Journal for Layout Editor responsible for creating page proofs—plenty of time to shadow current editor before taking over next cycle. Voluntary role but great for CV, deadline for EoI is 15 March, DM questions or email [email protected]

Now available from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/sons-of... Here I've tried to give an account in English of the Ming ruling house as a family enterprise (and not forgetting imperial aunties)

Nobody Does Crime Better than #AgathaChristie. Check out our latest episode on TV/film adaptations of this not so "cosy" #mystery writer! @umdhistory.bsky.social @umd-arhu.bsky.social @ulsteruni.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Our second seminar of the semester is coming up! The Politics of the ‘Essential Work’ under Charles I's Personal Rule, 1629-1641 Speaker: Koji Yamamoto, University of Tokyo 📅 Wednesday 4 March 🕛 5:00-7:00pm 📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15 & Zoom 🌐 www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...

👀 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.

New curated collection of @sfhs.bsky.social French Historical Studies, by Avner Ben-Amos, on articles showing the influence of Pierre Nora on French history, commissioned by @jenniferheuer.bsky.social & Christine Haynes. 🗃️ All in open access! read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

97% of respondents to the government consultation rejected this www.lbc.co.uk/article/gove...

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

Just putting it out there, while I still have the privilege of a Fellowship for next 6 months, that if early modern ECRs need me to read cover letters, funding apps, article drafts, book proposals, etc, I am happy to take some of these on (with the proviso that I will reach capacity at some point!)

BAVS Rosemary Mitchell Prize now open for submissions!

'This collection is a highly valuable contribution...It strikes an excellent balance between diving into detail and tracing developments in broader strokes...It is written in lively, accessible prose, with little in the way of jargon'. Slavic Review 📘 https://bit.ly/49ZbMp8

If you are interested in queenship, gender studies, or the history of death and grief, please join us on 4 March for an online only talk at 4 pm GMT. Please register at forms.office.com/e/pF2WeLQX3d #medievalsky #earlymodern #historyofemotions #historyofdeath #queenship #kingship

📝 Fancy writing for our blog? Here are some ideas we would LOVE for you to write about this month! Email us at [email protected] if you're interested. We'd love to hear from writers at ANY stage of their careers!!

It never ceases to amaze me that ppl seem to keep viewing accommodations for a disabled student/colleague/worker/member of the public as “wasting a lot of resources on one/very few ppl” as opposed to “a chance to examine all our environment and working practices to find ways that make them better

One of the best things I read about how to write a thoughtful review is here:

I'm now recruiting for a crucial post in my team - Curator: Parliamentary Art Collection. A rare chance to work with a wonderful collection in a unique setting. Please do share, and feel free to get in touch with any questions

Deadline Day! If you have a good idea, please share it with me! @drchrislouttit.bsky.social bookshoplit.com/cfp-booksell...

you know I would say her matching pink phone case really makes this, gives Goodwin a huge "sad loser man at the end of Legally Blonde" vibe

As @samfr.bsky.social pointed out the other day there is now relatively little room for Labour to manouver on policy given the time left. The only big policy leaver is really immigration. Which is why they should very, very publically boot the Immigration Bill into the sun - and apologise for it

There's always more room at the top, even as those doing the actual work of universities are squeezed and squeezed. At the OU, those on £100k+ salaries have more than doubled in 5 or 6 years.

9,600 redundancies at just 24 universities. Imagine what the picture is for the sector as a whole. This is the other half of the student loan scandal picture, which has been national news lately. Nothing at all from the government on a key sector effectively in freefall…

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...

On this #MSWL day I’m looking for serious nonfiction on the American Civil War era by writers doing meaningful research and translating their findings for a broad public - military history, social and political history, major figure biography. For @uncpress.bsky.social Civil War America series.

I did the CREMS MA 👇 and it was great. Also fabulous @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social is not only the director of CREMS but also a graduate of this MA program herself so a great advertisement for it and absolutely the person to talk to if you want to know more.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️ sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...

Doubtless exacerbated by terrible physical health atm - PEM wiping out my ability to do anything useful, pain keeping me awake and making it worse - but feeling defeated by things atm. By life and by academia. Failing my family, failing at motherhood, and failing at work...

We are advertising 4 jobs at York for historians (1 year medieval, 2 years modern Britain and public history, 3 years modern China, and open ended modern Middle Eastern) features.york.ac.uk/history-jobs/

CALL FOR PAPERS: Crossing Intellectual Boundaries in English Legal History (Oxford: Christ Church, 10-11 SEP 2026) [DEADLINE 26 MAR 2026] 📣 esclh.blogspot.com/2026/02/call...

Call for Contributors! Writing the Industrial Revolution brings together short illustrated essays on industrial change and its cultural consequences in Britain, circa 1770–1830. We'd love to hear from other researchers who'd like to contribute an essay. Please see ⤵️ www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6341

Heading to #RenSA26 this week? @rsaorg.bsky.social Stop by table 210 to meet Senior Commissioning Editor @mlhouston.bsky.social and browse #Renaissance and #EarlyModern #Literature and #History books. Don't miss our #RenaissanceStudies reading list! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/01...