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Annalisa Nicholson

@apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social
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Early modernist and Research Fellow in French at KCL Writes on salons, exiles, libertinism, queer women, Huguenots ~ she/her www.kcl.ac.uk/people/annalisa-nicho…

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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dr @clodaghmurphy.bsky.social research is still making headlines! Her research was part of our @erc.europa.eu Consolidator project #FEATHERS 🪶 on mediated authorship in handwritten texts - it’s wonderful to see the questions we're exploring being picked up. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-...
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Who Wrote Elizabeth I's Most Scathing Letters? New Research Suggests the Tudor Queen's Male Secretaries Revised Her Correspondence to Emphasize Her Temper
An analysis of more than 500 missives found that Elizabeth's advisers crafted and even intensified the expression of emotion in her messages to such figures as Mary, Queen of Scots, and James VI of Sc...
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Thiago Krause @thiagokrause.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Call for proposals for a workshop, my people! Slavery and transimperial trade next March at William & Mary. Please spread it far and wide: I want to read your many great proposals!
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2027 Workshop Call for Proposals - Atlantic Exchanges Workshop
Atlantic Exchanges 2027 Slavery and the Commercial Machinery of Empires The Atlantic Exchanges Workshop invites proposals for its second edition, […]
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Suzanne Karr Schmidt @drkarrschmidt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5
Cover art for Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric!
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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪
A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.
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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It was somewhat delayed, but we've now got a booking link for Rosamund Oates's talk on deafness on Thursday! Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Silent Histories: Deafness in Early Modern England
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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I'm on strike for the next five weeks with @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social because management continues to threaten mass compulsory redundancies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Edinburgh University lecturers begin five-week strike over cuts
Members of the University and Colleges Union are walking out in part of a long-running dispute over job and course cuts.
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A programme! A veritable programme! Would you look at these cool talks for our Autumn line-up, with dream team @bobpi.bsky.social, @ninondubourg.bsky.social, and @ewatson.bsky.social Join us at the @ihr.bsky.social (or on zoom) on Fridays at 17:30 www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #LowCountries
Autumn term programme for the Low Countries seminar at the Institute f Historical research on Fridays at 17:30

23 Oct	Bob Pierik (Brussels), ‘Water, Space and Environmental Inequality in Early Modern Amsterdam’ 
 
20 Nov	Ninon Dubourgh (Cologne), ‘Between Old Age, Illness, and Disability: Everyday Care in the Hospitals of Late Medieval Liège’ 
 
18 Dec	Elise Watson (Edinburgh), ‘”For women by women”: Gendered Networks in Operation in the Dutch Book Trade’
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Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️‍🌈 @benwt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Call for papers! “Reading Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Religion and Politics: Marginalia and Manuscripts” @rorymaclellan.bsky.social and I are putting together a panel for next year’s SRS conference in London. Deadline for 200 word abstracts is tomorrow Please get in touch and repost!
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If anyone has reading they'd recommend on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Mombasa, I'm all ears!
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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wow, fantastic postdoc here - also pays v well, which is fair since you will need MANY skills www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSY956/p... If you've got excellent language, palaeography skills & specialist knowledge of medieval/early modern commerce, this is a job for you!!
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Merchants of the Staple) at University of York
Recruiting now: Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Merchants of the Staple) on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (Dr. Apps formerly the teacher Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I'll be speaking about Elizabeth Maitland, (falsely) rumoured mistress of many, poisoner, and a guilty wraith at the heart of a Victorian ghost story, who in life was a politically astute collector of global and colonial objects.
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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
📢This Thursday! The first #EarlyModern Hellenism colloquium for this semester hosted by me and @hlamers.bsky.social ✨Anastasia Stylianou (warburginstitute.bsky.social) will discuss ‘Uncovering the Hidden Histories of England’s ‘Invisible’ Greeks, c.1450-1715' 📆 24 Sept, 15:00-16.00 CET Link below 👇
Image of the Greek Patriarch of Constantinople Kyrillos Loukaris (1572-1638)
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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
✏️ Mark your diaries! Next month @cemskcl.bsky.social, Kerry Apps, Hannah Dawson, Catharine MacLeod, & ME will be talking about Restoration women, their libertinism, their consumerism, & their contact with the expanding world. Book here & spread the word 🌍 kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/world...
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Worldly Women at the Court of Charles II: Exile, Excess, and the Expanding World — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS for a conversion on women and the Restoration, featuring Dr. Annalisa Nicholson, Dr. Kerry Apps, Dr. Hannah Dawson, and Catherine MacLeod.
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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
✏️ Mark your diaries! Next month @cemskcl.bsky.social, Kerry Apps, Hannah Dawson, Catharine MacLeod, & ME will be talking about Restoration women, their libertinism, their consumerism, & their contact with the expanding world. Book here & spread the word 🌍 kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/world...
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Worldly Women at the Court of Charles II: Exile, Excess, and the Expanding World — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS for a conversion on women and the Restoration, featuring Dr. Annalisa Nicholson, Dr. Kerry Apps, Dr. Hannah Dawson, and Catherine MacLeod.
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ditto 30,000 roles in universities in the past three years.
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Jan Blonski @janblo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Już za tydzień konferencja 📢 Global Connections: Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern World (c. 1500–1800) 📅 28–30 IX 2026 📍 Wydział Nauk o Kulturze i Sztuce UW, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28 Poniedziałek 17:00: wykład otwarty prof. Tomasza Grusieckiego „The Last Aurochs" Zapraszam! :)
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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🎓 28-30 September, Warsaw - Conference "Global Connections: Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern World ca. 1500-1800" 👉 loom.ly/68-mKyU Co-organised by Giancarlo Casale with Alumn* Igor Chabrowski, Klaudia Kuchno, @janblo.bsky.social and @natalia-woszczyk.bsky.social
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Global Connections: Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern World
The conference is organised under the EUI Widening Europe Programme in collaboration with Warsaw Centre for Global History (Faculty of History, University of Warsaw), the Faculty of Culture and Arts (...
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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🕐🕑🕒🕓🕔🕕🕖🕗🕘🕙🕚🕛 Time is ticking! Abstracts are due THIS FRIDAY, 25 September. Get scribbling those 200 words about your exciting research, #earlymodern #skystorians 🕐🕑🕒🕓🕔🕕🕖🕗🕘🕙🕚🕛
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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
DEADLINE COMING UP! Don’t forget to send your abstracts in by this Friday 25 September! It’s going to be a brilliant gathering, you don’t want to be suffering all the FOMO in July! #earlymodern #skystorians
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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
UK-based postdoctoral – or equivalent – researchers in the humanities and social sciences can still apply for the British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants. The deadline is 4 Nov for institutional applicants and 28 Oct for independent scholars. Find out more: bit.ly/4iwQQtI
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants, deadline of 4 November 2026. Independent scholars deadline 28 October 2026
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Think of the combined CENTURIES of expertise lost here, the creativity, the knowledge, the depth and breadth of cultural learning and understanding, the generations of minds enriched and enlightened, the sheer weight of history that led to the establishment of these programmes. Purged. Destroyed.
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The 2027 Attending to Early Modern Women conference is seeking proposals! Submission deadline is 30 September. #earlymodern #skystorians. www.ssemwg.org/attending-to...
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Attending to EMW 2027 CFP — Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender
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Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hi Friends! Please think about the Stuart Drama Conference in Liverpool. CFP due in October!
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Jérémie Foa @anakroniks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
UN NOUVEAU PODCAST : LE MIROIR DES GUERRES DE RELIGION Et si les tourments du 16e siècle nous aidaient à comprendre ceux du 21e... et inversement ? 📅 Nouvel épisode chaque mercredi. En attendant : la bande annonce : regardsprotestants.com/podcast/cult...
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Le Miroir des Guerres de Religion - Bande-annonce – Regards protestants
Et si les problèmes vécus par les gens du 16e siècle pouvaient nous aider à mieux comprendre ceux du 21e siècle...et inversement ?
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Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We're thrilled to announce the 2026 #WolfsonHistoryPrize shortlist, showcasing six exceptional books that explore how societies navigate periods of seismic change. Congratulations to all the authors! 👏📚 bit.ly/4yCLe5T
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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#CfP 📢 “Imagining Difference in Early Modern London”, Elm Bank, Coventry University 📆 22-23 March 2027 |🌍 London ⏰ 1 October 2026 🔗 www.rsa.org/news/733815 #EarlyModern #LondonHistory #MigrationHistory #SocialHistory
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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
An entire patchwork carpet of Cyclamen hederifolium at Anglesey Abbey a few days ago, looking for all the world like spring. Today’s botanical dopamine for your brain 🌿:
A carpet of Cyclamen hederifolium at Anglesey Abbey near Cambridge
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Drafting the Past @draftingthepast.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Confession: we're aiming for 1,000 subscribers before our first book reviews go live in 4 weeks! If you're not already subscribed, what are you waiting for? If you are, please share! Together, we're creating a home for nonfiction history books and the people who love them. www.draftingthepast.com
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Drafting the Past
Reviews, craft essays, news and more for readers and writers of history.
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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
For the last nine months it's been my pleasure & privilege to be the editor of Renaissance Studies, and I think we're well overdue a romp through some fantastic articles we've published this year. See below for some of the finest new research in the interdisciplinary study of the Renaissance! 👇
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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-Posi... Apply by 15 Oct 2026
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PhD Position Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
PhD Position Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.
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Alex Wragge-Morley @wraggem.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
To be honest, the main thing I take from this conversation is that lots of people don't know what is going on in the economy, or the relative weights of different sectors in it. Creative industries contribute more than 5% of the whole UK economy. Education brings in £32 billion of revenue per year.
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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It's just weird isn't it when the British Museum is running a sold-out exhibition, when The Odyssey reports $1billion at the box office, when the V&A has just opened the most innovative and accessible museum model in Europe....and this is what our minister for research comes out with.
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
We are delighted to be hosting another series of the 'Race and the #earlymodern' seminar with @folger.edu. This term we will be hosting three WIP sessions with Dr. Mira Zoubeida 'Assaf, Aman Williams, and Rebecca Adusei, respectively. Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/upcoming-sem...
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Upcoming Seminars — CEMS KCL Blog
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Women Writers Network @womenwritersnet.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Here's a chance for non-fiction writers on a low income to apply for a grant to attend Penny Wincer's Book Proposal Group Program: www.pennywincerwrites.com/grantplaces?...
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Christ's College Cambridge @christscollegecam.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Sign up for a one day conference to explore the unruly elements of early modern masque bringing together scholars and practitioners of early modern literature, dance, history, fashion and music www.christs.cam.ac.uk/event/disrup... @cam-english-fac.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social
Line drawing of satyrs
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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
*Many hands of every sort* I've got a 10-page feature in the latest @historytoday.com on the emergence of mass petitioning in late Tudor & early Stuart England. Tons of people adding their 'hands' to complaints and requests for the first time! #EarlyModern 🗃️ www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
Opening page of an article entitled 'Many hands of every sort'First page of text of an article which begins: "On 11 December 1640 a crowd of more than 1,000 people arrived at Parliament to present a complaint, later to be known as the Root and Branch petition. It asked that the ‘government’ of the Church of England, ‘with all its Dependencies, Roots and Branches, may be abolished’. Calling on Parliament to dissolve the entire Church hierarchy was a radical act, but the petition was particularly unprecedented as it was signed by about 15,000 named individuals. It did not come from the City of London or any other official body, but from thousands of people ‘in and about’ the metropolis, each adding their own mark of support to the great ‘roll of names’."
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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
How your email finds me this week 📚. (We were warned that children are often ill when they start nursery but we didn’t realise it might happen after just one day…)
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Sara Gwyn Beam @saragwynbeam.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Pleased to share the publication of my challenge to claims that Reformation Genevan authorities were skeptical of witchcraft! #hextag #earlymodern #16thC Check out: "Aggressive Prosecution of Witches in Reformation Geneva," Sixteenth Century Journal 57, 3 (2026): 639-655
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RILCH at LJMU @rilch-ljmu.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
#CfP: “Stuart Drama” conference, 6-9 July 2027, @ljmuofficial.bsky.social. Abstracts by 2 October 2026 #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents stuartdrama.com
Text: “Stuart Drama”, surrounded by a host of seventeenth-century playwrights.
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The latest issue of French History is now online with five new research articles – from newspapers to seaweed and scouting... –, a review article on the history of sexuality in modern France, and a bundle of book reviews 💾🧐🇫🇷📸🖥️🌿👋 @frenchhistory.bsky.social
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The Bibliographical Society @bibsoc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Our friends at Christ Church, Oxford have asked us to share this: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-and-...
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Women and Their Books in Early Modern England and Scotland
A study afternoon exploring women as book producers and owners in Early Modern England and Scotland.
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Chloe Fairbanks @fairbanc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for 'Imagining Difference in Early Modern London', a conference exploring how EM Londoners experienced and negotiated forms of difference.
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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Call for papers - Women’s Professional Networks in the Early Modern Book Trade University of Edinburgh 6-7 May 2027 Deadline: 20 December This conference also launches a new collaborative database sourcing biographical information about women in the early modern book trade. #earlymodern
Front page of a call for papers, with a b&w engraving of women sitting at a table, and a man apparently just walking into the room. In the bottom half of the page is the title of the conference with the dates.A full page of text about the conference - description, possible topics to explore, etc. At the bottom the text reads "Proposals for papers of maximum 20 minutes, including title, an abstract of up to 300 words, and a biography of up to 150 words should be sent to Dr Elise Watson, elise.watson@ed.ac.uk, by 20 December 2026. While all papers will be delivered in person, the conference will be available to attend online."
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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
If you haven't already, can you please take a minute to sign this demand for a public inquiry into the role of the media in Prof. Arday's death? Thanks so much. Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project share.google/yglZz4Gw42RJ...
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Delighted to announce that the Handbook is coming out in paperback!
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