One phone call, and the rest is history @plymuni.bsky.social History graduate Peter Nash outlines his last-minute journey to uni to help reassure prospective students. Read peter's story here: www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/one-pho...

CONFERENCE ALERT! Excited to be part of this @movedapart.bsky.social Early Modern Global Separation conference at Lund University, 20-21 August movedapart.org/events/

And it's out! Open access and free to download. Thank you @wellcometrust.bsky.social and @manchesterup.bsky.social. Excited to see it out in the world (and sure that despite all the proof reading, I will find typos) @hsmurphy.bsky.social @historyelaine.bsky.social @medievalbadger.bsky.social

We’ve launched a new collection of openly accessible videos, Interviews with Historians, in which prominent 20th century historians reflect on their lives and professional practices. Access the collection here: www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...

Lecturer in Renaissance Art History Birkbeck, University of London - School of Historical Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM388/l...

We are advertising for a Public Engagement Fellow for our AHRC funded project: 'The Victorian hand: Emotion, Embodiment, and identity, past and present'. 1/2 ual.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-century Barbados and Britain. A 2-day workshop 25-26 June in London at KCL. Be there. www.mmor.co.uk/events/carib...

🚢 Set sail with the first-ever Bowlines Maritime Literary Festival – 6 & 7 June at Exeter Custom House! Dive into tales of the sea, naval fiction & history. 🎟 Limited tickets left! 🔗 www.exetercustomhouse.co.uk/event/bow-lines #BowlinesFestival #Exeter

If you've been alerted to our project by the recent job advert for a Public Engagement Fellow, why not find out a little bit about the background to the project by reading the first blog post on our new website? www.thevictorianhand.uk/gallery/proj...

Just to give a plug for this talk I'm giving, in Hereford Cathedral, on 27 June! www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/in-the...

Thrilled to say that this is now fully Open Access! Hopefully now available to any and all interested #earlymodern #skystorians

Our last speaker at #KQ14 in Session 3.2 Courtiers as Employees? Working condition in early modern courts I was Nikki Clark, “Continuity & Change: Ladies-in-waiting at the Tudor Court, c. 1509-1547”, discussing employment conditions, pay, perks & perils for female courtiers w/high queenly turnover

@adamwithbooks.bsky.social 👇👇📖📖📖

📢Job Alert!📢 Our AHRC-funded Victorian Hand project is looking for a 3-year, full-time Public Engagment Fellow, based at the London College of Fashion, to join our team & help deliver our programme of activities. This amazing opportunity closes on 24 June so please spread the word far & wide!

📢FAO UEA Students We are pleased to offer a new studentship in Maritime History for a student to study MA Early Modern History, MA Cultural Heritage & Museum Studies or MA Modern History in @ueahistory.bsky.social in 2025 Value = £10k - if of interest, get in touch! www.uea.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

Open access special issue of Early Modern Low Countries, on early modern women emlc-journal.org/issue/view/1...

📣 Call for Papers: WHS Conference 2025! 🗓️ 13 Sept | 📍 Glasgow | 🧾 Deadline: 1 July Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland—our first in-person conference since 2019! 🔗 Info + submission form: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and... Please share widely!

🌏 Annales English Edition 'A Life Lived Across #Continents: The Global Microhistory of an #Armenian Agent of the Compagnie des Indes Orientales, 1666–1688' by Sebouh Aslanian 👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

Delighted to receive this gift in the post today from Daniel Starza Smith. Thank you and can’t wait to read it. What an utterly sumptuous book. Looks fabulous @letterlocking.bsky.social team!!

Do read about our project and check out the first blog post.

The shortlist for the Society's 2025 First Book Prize for early career historians is now available bit.ly/4kkm4lW Eight titles have been selected, following an open call for submissions of books published in 2024. Two winners of the 2025 prize will be announced in July. #Skystorians

Call for papers - Digital Book History and Renaissance Studies Now! seeking "proposals that consider the past and future of digital book history in Renaissance studies across disciplines through detailed, material case-studies" www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

April Issue of *Technology and Culture* Available Online - This issue seems particularly pitched towards thinking about #MaterialCulture networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

You can now access a beta version of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC). A bibliography of about 500,000 records, the ESTC aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced before 1801 in the English-speaking world. Explore the catalogue: datb.cerl.org/estc/

How can a Jamaican fashion archive challenge colonial histories of the Carribean, and what resistances does it reveal? Elli Michaela Young responds to the provocation 'Is there really fashion in Jamaica?' www.historyworkshop.org.uk/black-histor...

Registration now open! Hybrid study day: Popular Recreations in Early Modern England, 25 June - register now to attend for free! www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edac...

Very excited to see the piece I wrote with @krheyam.bsky.social on ‘Gendering Material Objects in Heritage Practice’ now out in The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Gender’ which stems from our project www.genderingthemuseum.co.uk

Very excited to see the piece I wrote with @krheyam.bsky.social on ‘Gendering Material Objects in Heritage Practice’ now out in The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and Gender’ which stems from our project www.genderingthemuseum.co.uk

We’ve just launched a free online course on ‘Born-digital research in the humanities’ reshaped.sas.ac.uk. It covers key concepts, ethics, copyright & accessing, collecting and analysing born-digital data. You can browse the course with guest access or create an account. All CC-BY-NC licensed!

🔓𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗰 𝗣𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 Edited by Unn Pedersen, Marianne Moen & Lisbeth Skogstrand More info: bit.ly/3H52o70 #GenderStudies #Nordic #Archaeology #History #Archaeologysky #Historysky

Manuscript for my new book with Sue Broomhall on Gender and the Glove in Early Modern England is finally completed….

Delighted to welcome back the brilliant @lucyhuggins.bsky.social to Plym and huge thanks Lucy for an excellent paper this afternoon on your Merchant Shipping project at Southampton! Really inspiring stuff!

Submit an article to the Society's journal, Transactions. We welcome research articles and commentaries on historical debate / practice. Our journal covers all historical subjects, chronologies & geographies bit.ly/3OujmeL Articles appear Open Access to ensure wide circulation #Skystorians 1/2

Really looking forward to reading this @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social

Call for Papers for our interdisciplinary conference exploring Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic World, 1500-1800, taking place at the University of Birmingham on 12 September 2025. Keynote delivered by Professor Alec Ryrie. Papers welcome from researchers at any career stage.

Conference on Early Modern Global Separation 20-22 August 2025

👇👇👇👇👇Conference on Early Modern Global Separation 20-22 August 2025 held in Lund!

I have pre-ordered a copy Adam!

Yes of course, very happy to send through. Please do email me.

Correcting proofs of my article on letters, emotions and separation for the excellent volume on Letters and Emotions edited by @katieebarclay.bsky.social and @dianagbarnes.bsky.social all DONE!!

Lecturer in History - University of Hull - School of Humanities - Faculty of Arts, Cultures and Education #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNB990/l...

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage- 1 yr research post working on ‘Knotted Histories: Early Modern Global Carpets, Global Exchange and the Public Country House’ - University of Oxford - Faculty of English #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC287/p...

Applications now invited for the Society's two Centenary Fellowships, 2025-26 to support PhD students complete a doctorate in #history. The Fellowships are held in conjunction with @ihr.bsky.social and are for £8500 over 6 months. Applications, by 31 May, are via the IHR bit.ly/4mybVDV #Skystorians

Thank you for having us!

From our back catalogue of seminars connected on the theme of early modern separation: watch Merry Weisner Hanks talk on gender and intersectionality in relation to global history, within the framework of the Moved Apart project. youtu.be/WK4PkWXJRPY?...

My collaborative project on the history of separation in 16th/17th Europe and East Asia with Lisa Hellman, Svante Norrhem and Sue Broomhall has moved with me to BlueSky: @movedapart.bsky.social We are currently without followers. Please do follow for updates.

@paulinakewes.bsky.social lovely to meet you

#BookHistory friends! Work has begun on the LGBTQIA+ Book History bibliography, and the team is looking for you to share your citations! If you know of or have published something on LGBTQIA+ book history, submit it to this Google form! forms.gle/c1pkNBPbbyCF...

About to present with @krheyam.bsky.social on Gendering the Museum at a workshop at the Digital Storytelling Festival @europeana.bsky.social