A great paper from @mareilep.bsky.social at #RenSoc25 on "The humanist exception: Renaissance cosmopolitanism and ars apodemica in England". Thought-provoking reflections on the role of academic travel in humanist education. #EarlyModern #16thC #17thC #skystorians @srsrensoc.bsky.social

So cool that people are still discovering this #Sinners syllabus, published by the African American Intellectual History Society, and composed by Jemar Tisby & Keisha N. Blain. Enjoy!

My personal fav panel from yesterday was John-Mark Philo's project on Global Libraries, check it out if you like books, travel, knowledge exchange, and putting the past in dialogue with the present (in this case forced migrants' lack of/access to libraries) #RenSoc25 www.globallibrary.net/about

This was great btw

The Society is very pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 Early Career Article and First Book Prizes bit.ly/3GqSCfk This year's recipients are Laura Flannigan, William Ross Jones, Michaela Kalcher, and Jules Skotnes-Brown for work published in 2024. Our congratulations to all #Skystorians

I am looking for someone to copy something for me from New York Public Library (2 documents), does anyone know how to go about this sort of thing? Any NY based graduate students or early career academics who could help out?

Now live! We've created the most comprehensive map to-date of religious institutions in the German Peasants' War (1524-26), identifying many more affected institutions than existing source lists. Find our map, case studies, and much more on our website: germanpeasantswar.web.ox.ac.uk #skystorians

The disappearance of public adult education in the UK over the past twenty years - whether local authority or government - is a national disgrace.

Our #OpenAccess collection on the #PowerOfPetitioning in early modern Britain has only been out for a year and amazingly it's been downloaded over 4,000 times from @uclpress.bsky.social. So pleased to see all the interest in petitioning! Get your free copy here: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-pow...

Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.

Today is the Day of the Seafarer. Discover the crucial role played by Asian sailors in driving colonial trade by exploring the term 'lascar' in the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). You can also explore the topic of 'Seamen and boatmen' in BBIH and find more than 1000 references.

On this day in 1978, the rainbow flag first flew as a symbol of pride. It was raised at San Francisco Gay Freedom Day.

I am looking for what happened to a manuscript from the 'Manuscripts op the Right Honourable the Earl of Portsmouth, Hurstbourne Park, Hampshire'. The manuscript I am after is NOT Newton related. If anyone has easy access to the 1936 Sothesby's catalogue or can help in any way, please reply!

To mark the end of #WomensHistoryMonth, I wrote this post on @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📜 📚

The Society is v. much looking forward to attending the 2025 Historical Association conference, and with it chance to hear how historians in HE can work with teachers to promote new research, and encourage as many A-Level historians as possible to continue with their subject to a university degree.

These are real people that we study. They loved and they hated and they feared and they hoped. They lived and they died. And you spend time with them, and sometimes you mourn them.

If you don’t like Mantel’s portrayal of Thomas Cromwell it is in your power to write (or, still more easily and plausibly, recommend) a better one. If you kill an archive there is not another one waiting to take its place, and you lose the material basis for better representations into the bargain.

I don’t mean to say that historical fiction can’t be criticized in terms of its presentation of history. But I think it’s a serious problem that far more public ink goes to critiquing novelists’ source work or directors’ casting decisions than the gutting of libraries, archives and history programs.

Please repost! My department -- Waseda University's Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies -- is planning to offer a tenured position to begin in 2026. We're a friendly place and we offer one of the best research environments in Japan. Application information here! Thanks for reposting, folks!

We're joining the @royalhistsoc.bsky.social in this #Skystorians X-ile and won't be posting on twitter anymore from Friday. Follow us here for updates about our seminar and other #EarlyModern goings-on in London.

The lid of painted wooden casket depicting a courting couple. Possibly dating to the 15th century, the casket may have been used as an engagement present. Now part of the collections at Tullie House Museum in Carlisle. 📷 My own. #Woodensday #Medieval #Carlisle

As someone with an above-average love for both rare books and tiny things, today has now turned into a great day.

Final visit on this Bookscapes whistle-stop tour of Essex is to the Knightbridge Library bequeathed in 1679 to what is now Chelmsford Cathedral.

A non-binary gender spectrum has been affirmed by well-established science for decades. You don't get to executive-order it away just because you think it's icky. Science doesn't care about your tantrums. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Pleased to see that the @srsrensoc.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships 25/26 have been announced www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz... Very happy to share my experience/knowledge with anyone thinking of applying! Drop me a message :)

The Prize Papers will change the way we see the past. The research possibilities are almost unlimited. Join us for the conclusion of the three-part series “Secrets of the Prize Papers” with insights from @lhaasis.bsky.social and @mouseemperor.bsky.social – pod.link/1460242815 #earlymodern #history 🗃️

While we're gearing up for our biennial conference around the topic of Interconnections, why not already start the conversations via our starter pack of #RenSoc25 participants: go.bsky.app/DVyFCxt #EarlyModern #Skystorians

Online talk: The Codex Osuna: A Landmark Nahua Lawsuit in Early Colonial Mexico City 6 March, 12:00 pm PST, Zoom all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/works-... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Please share this important survey on how graduates perceive the value of doctoral degrees in languages, aimed at those who have moved into different areas of research or work: forms.office.com/pages/respon... @ilcs.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social @ucfl-eca.bsky.social

Librarians. Now Alabama will be jailing librarians for shelving books. www.alreporter.com/2024/07/10/b...

The latest issue of USTC Library Quarterly is here! We’ve got an update on our matching from @apettegree.bsky.social, and a fascinating article on female printers from @ewatson.bsky.social. You can read it here: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/ustc-li... #BookHistory #RareBooks #HerBook

Cfp - Protecting Bodies at Work: Technical Devices, Materialities of Health, and Political Imaginaries - Conference at the University of Geneva Switzerland Sept 2025. Apply by Mar 15 #MaterialCulture networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Hello, new people :) I'm a historian of slavery and freedom in colonial Mexico with a focus on women's history. I teach classes on sin in Spanish America, the Inquisition, gender, slavery and autobiography, and other early modern topics. I post jobs, events, and history opportunities. My book:

Event claxon for the launch of our flagship #outreach events! Our launch event for the Library Access programme, in collaboration with Norfolk Library and Information Service, will take place on Wednesday 12th February, in the Heritage Meeting Room, Norwich Millennium Library, 2—4pm. #globallibrary

#bookhistory #classicalreception

NEW on the blog to start the week - I've finally written up my list of books that PhD students might want to read about writing so I have all the suggestions in one handy place. #AcademicSky

Are you studying or researching the histories of sexuality? The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) contains a wealth of resources in this area. You can also explore our LGBTQIA+ history reading list

I left Twitter many years ago due to the general toxicity, but losing academic Twitter was both sad and painful. It is such a joy to rediscover the wonderful #earlymodern academic community here on BlueSky. Looking for early modern, queer, book, library and migration history accounts to follow!