My book has a cover!!! 🎉 🎉 🎉 Coming to a university library near you from March 2026... Read more about it here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Come along to the @ihr.bsky.social on Thursday to hear @nailyas.bsky.social talk about her 'Global Libraries' project!

NEW PUBLICATION Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...

🔊 JOBS ALERT! Two vacancies at the #InternationalSlaveryMuseum in #Liverpool! Join the wonderful team of curators reimagining this unique museum! Curatorial fellow: liverpoolmuseums.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/... Project facilitator: liverpoolmuseums.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

Een ‘zondvloedland,’ zo karakteriseerde ik het beeld van de Lage Landen in 17de- en 18de-eeuwse geleerde natuurgeschiedenissen. Het denken over het verleden van de Aarde bewoog tussen Bijbelse zondvloed en de volgende dijkdoorbraak, tussen schriftgeleerden en turfstekers. 1/

if you would like to read about early modern hammocks, it's publication day for the article the brilliant @marcynorton.bsky.social and I wrote about them! (open access) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

NEW EXHIBITION: Global Nuremberg, 1300-1600, Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nuremberg shorturl.at/4sX2X see the open access catalogue w/ my chapter on Nuremberg & the Ottomans: shorturl.at/zt1M5 @bemccollective.bsky.social y.social @uomhistdept.bsky.social dept.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social

Now on bsky, my recent #CurrentAnthropology journal article on Amazonian biocreativity & 17th-c featherworking in colonial Dutch Brazil 👉 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... @wennergrenorg.bsky.social @sapiens.org @chicagojournals.bsky.social @uomhistdept.bsky.social @survivalinternational.org

📢CFP: Annual Olivette Otele Prize 2025/26! Our annual prize for Black UK-based history PhD students is now open for submissions! 📆Key dates: - Abstracts due on 28th November - Notifications on 19th December - 8000 word essay due on 27th Feb (1/3)

If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person! I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!

I collaborated with cell biologist, Prof. Paul Martin to explore the relationship between early modern and modern wound healing through the lens of the Wound Man. Our article is available open access: www.jprasurg.com/article/S174... (first and likely last time I'll publish in a surgical journal!)

Just your periodic reminder that there is an early modern pub night once a month for PhDs and ECRs and anyone else who'd like to join in London. If you'd like to be added to the mailing list please DM me.

Birth! Death!! Domestic Religion!!! Come along (or join online) to hear @emilymayvine.bsky.social's talk at the @ihr.bsky.social next Thursday.

Book launch October 23rd! Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...

Call for Applications: Postgraduate Research Student Conference 2026 📣 Applications are open for the GHIL Postgraduate Research Student Conference, taking place 26–27 February 2026! 📅 1/3

One week to go until Lyndal Roper's talk at @ihr.bsky.social! Register for the hybrid event here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... And check out our other talks by @emilymayvine.bsky.social and @nailyas.bsky.social here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

An amazing opportunity for a PhD and a 4-year postdoc on this important project with the brilliant and lovely @smschober.bsky.social - hair, race, trade and multispecies history! #EarlyModern 🗃️

It’s real!! I just got my first copy of Ghosts Behind Glass and it is beautiful. You all really need to order your copies. You will not regret it. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Oak gall wasps are my current obsession - galls are a key ingredient in European writing inks before industrialisation. Countless ideas on paper start with the relationship between an oak tree and a wasp. Marcello Malpighi observed galls to understand and illustrate their growth in the 1670s

Call for applications! 📣 The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝 1/3

And our FIVE YEAR teaching and research position in Early Modern Europe and the World is now live..... Please do circulate and/or think about applying. I truly love our department! @kingshistory.bsky.social

First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate! #EarlyModern 🗃️

Honoured to have won the @eseh.bsky.social St Andrews Prize for my article 'Making Beds in Early Modern England'! You can read more about the prize below and check out the article here: academic.oup.com/histres/arti... #ESEH2025 @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social

Read the second of two blog posts in which Ifeoma Akobi from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University, reflects on the connections between past and present approaches to sleep care sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

Read the first of two blog posts in which Ifeoma Akobi from the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University, reflects on the connections between past and present approaches to sleep care: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

A highlight of #ESEH2025: the Polar Bear Swim! Was so great to meet so many other swimmers - by FAR the biggest conference swim to date!

Delighted that the print copies of my first book 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London', just published with @universitypress.cambridge.org, have arrived! 📚📚📚

Are you an early-career historian interested in radical, public and digital history? We are currently looking for two part-time, paid Editorial Fellows to join History Workshop. Deadline is at midnight on 15th August. See below for more details! www.historyworkshop....

🚨 📚 New book coming this August. Available for pre-order now! This just went straight to the top of my to-read list: "Bernard Palissy and the Arts of the Earth" — François Quiviger #EarlyModern #HistSci #ArtHistory 🗃️ shorturl.at/SkTK8

#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar @ihrscb.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for 2025/26. Stipend of £300/yr and a chance to get involved in a great seminar!

Objects of Poverty edited by @joeharleyhistory.bsky.social & Vicky Holmes, is out in just over a month. It includes a chapter by me about cobbled together whistles. The cover features one of my whistles plus a bonkers barometer. Pre-order your copy! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/objects-o...

I’m so excited to share that I will be working as a Postdoctoral Researcher on the @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de project ‘Mining frontiers in the Kingdom of Hungary (16th-18th century)’ at the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (PI @tinasmussen.bsky.social). I can’t wait to join the team and get started!

A bunch of historians and friends refreshing themselves after reenacting the procession from Southwark to Wandsworth for the mock election of the Mayor of Garratt. Thanks to @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social & @annacusack.bsky.social for the dose of walking (and drinking) history!

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.

What a life enriching opportunity to work with the Multispecies Mutualisms project team. Please consider applying or sharing the word!

Bit later than some, but happy to have finally finished my marking and have had a little holiday up in Scotland. If anyone knows of any teaching opportunities next academic year. Or if anyone needs a freelancer to do some archival work, please get in touch.

We are delighted to share the programme for our 'Art Lovers in the World' Conference, taking place at the University of Cambridge, 28th-29th Jul 2025, funded by the DAAD Hub, the Trevelyan Fund and the GHS. Tickets are available at artloversconference.eventbrite.co.uk. We look forward to seeing you!

📣Tomorrow! Join us for "Brining, Pickling, and Smoking". @preservare.bsky.social PhD candidates @thijselfrink.bsky.social and Tijmen Moesker introduce their case studies & share preliminary findings. 🕟 15:30 AMS | 9:30 NY | 🌐 Online 🔗 buff.ly/VlbeNIz @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social @nybg.bsky.social

This bagpipe playing bear is just irresistible (Monogrammist CG, German, c. 1534, Rijksmuseum)

Here is the latest fantastic interview in @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social's series 'New Directions in the History of the Body'. Here, Professor Karen Harvey, @kharveyhistory.bsky.social, discusses her portfolio of work on the body's material history sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

I was delighted to be interviewed for this wonderful series on the history of the body. It was a great opportunity to think about how we do this sort of history. Thanks @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social!

After a brief hiatus, 'New Directions in the History of the Body' is back! For this interview, I spoke to Karen Harvey @kharveyhistory.bsky.social about embodiment and the material turn, collaborative working practices, social bodies and much more: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

We have two very exciting keynote papers for the upcoming and (now sold out!!) @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social conference 'Bodies & Environments in the Early Modern World' Firstly, Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute) - 'What was "environment" in the early modern period?' 1/2

Congratulations to Joshua Rushton, whose article 'The Emotional Dimension of Shrine Formation in Early Modern Catholicism' is now out in Cultural and Social History. Read more about this fascinating work here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

Really excited to share this amazing news and very much looking forward to starting the project @uclhistory.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social. Read more about it on the @bemccollective.bsky.social blog and watch this space!!

Registration is now open for @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social's conference 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World', 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Check out our AMAZING programme and register for free here: shorturl.at/SFrEK. Limited spaces available!

Registration is now open for @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social's conference 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World', 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Check out our AMAZING programme and register for free here: shorturl.at/SFrEK. Limited spaces available!

We're so excited to have some films about our work with Ordsall Hall in Salford to share with you. This first one explains how we worked with their team to transform our academic research about early modern sleep into practical activities for their visitors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4wv...

We’ve extended the deadline to submit an abstract for our colloquium on early modern war narratives! Please share widely and send us your abstracts! #earlymodern #history

#earlymodern Dublin people; this looks like a really great talk tomorrow UCD Humanities Institute at 4pm