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Indigenous Languages Decade (2022-2032) Building a global community for the preservation, revitalization and support of indigenous languages worldwide. www.unesco.org/en/decades/i... #indigenous_language

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Indigenous Languages Decade (2022-2032)

Building a global community for the preservation, revitalization and support of indigenous languages worldwide.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Showcase of new PH research on migration and mobility in collaboration with History Lab, online and in person at the IHR, London. Free and open to the public Tuesday 6 October at 5:30-7:30pm. Please book in advance (booking statistics help build the case for UKRI core support).

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History Lab x Migration and Mobility Seminar - PhD Research Showcase

Migration and Mobility Seminar | History Lab

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Given many UK universities' decision to jettison Arts and Humanities (and some Social Science) subjects, it's interesting to see that top-ranking global universities tend to rank highly in these areas. MIT (ranked 2nd globally here) is ranked 1st in both Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences.

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World University Rankings 2027: results announced

Asian universities’ resumed upward trajectory takes them past mainland Europe for the first time, as reputational lustre protects US and UK for now

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The Wreck of The Gloucester: A Seventeenth-Century Warship Through Time, edited by @benjaminredding.bsky.social & moi is now advertised from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-wre... 23 original essays & 150 illustrations Available to preorder in January & out 30 March 2027

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Curious Travellers @curioustravellers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ymunwch â ni, Hydref 15fed yn y Llyfrgell Genedlaethol! Launching the first taste of our new editions of Thomas Pennant's Welsh tours, October 15th in Aberystwyth.

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Described by Darwin as ‘the greatest scientific explorer', Alexander von Humboldt, Prussian naturalist, pioneer of biogeography, ‘father of ecology’ born #OTD 1769. In his portrait (by Stieler 1843), he holds manuscript of his magnum opus ‘Kosmos’ (pub. 1845-1862). Schloss Charlottenhof, Potsdam

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Please do get in touch with ideas for #maritime books - our @degruyterbrill.bsky.social series 'Early Modern Maritime Humanities 1400-1800: Oceans in History and Culture', ed. by me & John Mcaleer is keen to hear from you! Contact me or @erikagaffney.bsky.social here or via brill.com/page/forthco...

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Published today!!! Congratulations!!!👏👏👏 liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/topic/book-s... @englishassociation.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social

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Ben Mechen @benmechen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Some fascinating Collaborative Doctoral Awards on offer here at the BL, including a great history of sexuality/book history/library history project relating to the Rund Collection of 19th/20thC erotic books and ephemera www.bl.uk/services/res...

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Collaborative Doctoral Landscape Awards

Fully-funded and jointly supervised studentships across four developing research areas.

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Josh Smith @smithjj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Excited that my first monograph, The Politics of Reading at the British Subscription Library, has been published by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social. The book examines the political, social and intellectual culture of late 18thC Britain through books and reading habits. brill.com/display/titl...

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The Politics of Reading at the British Subscription Library, 1789-1832

"The Politics of Reading at the British Subscription Library, 1789-1832" published on 08 Sep 2026 by Brill.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

It's (almost) that time of year again: Inaugural Lectures season is nearly upon us. What better way to tip ones toes back in the water that Prof Simon Werrett's 'At Length did Cross an Albatross: Science and Seabirds in the Eighteenth Century'. Free and open to the public, 21 October. #Skystorians

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STS Inaugural Lecture Series: Professor Simon Werrett

“At Length did Cross an Albatross”: Science and Seabirds in the Eighteenth Century

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Curious Travellers @curioustravellers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

'...a pot or urn full of coins was found by a dream last winter near the Gallows' Our blog returns with an entry from Elliot MacMillan, on the local informants who shared detailed knowledge (and dream visions) with travellers in eighteenth-century Wales curioustravellers.ac.uk/locals-who-k...

Illustration of a Cromlech on Ynys Môn / Anglesey from Richard Gough's manuscript tours of Wales

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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Colin Burrow, defining literary criticism, brilliantly, in the LRB: @lrb.co.uk

In the LRB, Colin Burrow writes:

But to return to the point of it all. Literary criticism is primarily about learning to read very complex creations and situations carefully. That requires a willingness to think and rethink, to take a thought and run with it until it either ceases to be viable or (ideally) generates its own internal impetus. It requires accepting that sometimes you get it wrong and that sometimes other people get it wrong. It makes you pull together a whole range of messy human bits and pieces, from autobiography to philology to counting lines and underlining letters and seeing almost invisible patterns, through histories of individuals and of peoples. All of this can go towards understanding the way a poem might cohere or interestingly not cohere. You’ve got to be bold sometimes in pushing a point and sometimes you’ve got to be humble about things you can’t see or haven’t seen. There’s a dash of politics, or more than a dash if you want that, and there could be a dash of religion too, if that’s your thing. But there has to be a great measure of self-awareness, about where you stand or sit or the corners into which you have been pushed by where you come from. Literary criticism is a supremely occasional skill, where you have to be bold enough to operate where there aren’t any clear rules and make up your own, and decide for yourself what you think, and maybe set that beside what other cleverer people have thought. Someone else might come along and see it differently, but if you’ve made them argue with you then you’ve done something worthwhile. If that doesn’t have a point to it, just in itself, then probably living doesn’t have a point to it either, because making ad hoc judgments on the basis of a mosaic of information and misinformation about people and about what you should say on a particular occasion, even a difficult one, is what we all need to do every day. Literary criticism is like the mess of life, an exercise in tact and understanding.

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Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“I am conscious I have deserv’d all I suffer.” What did remorse, hope and survival mean aboard HMS Calcutta in 1803? Join me at the Migration & Mobility Seminar & @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social, Senate House London/online, 6 Oct, on convict letters & Britain’s transportation system #earlymodern #history

Blue waves, dark sky, light from above. No one paints waves like him. Painting: Ivan Aivazovsky, “Among the Waves”, 1898, Feodosia National Art Gallery of I. K. Aivazovsky.

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Lavinia Gambini @lavinia-gambini.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

🚨CFP: SRS, London, 30 June-3 July 2027 #EarlyModern friends, I am once again asking for your abstracts! @jenmcfarland.bsky.social and I are delighted to be organising a panel on 'The Indian Mediterranean' for the 2027 SRS (@srsrensoc.bsky.social) Conference at the @warburginstitute.bsky.social! 👇

Call for Papers for the Biennial Conference of the Society for Renaissance Studies which will be held in London from 30 June to 3 July 2027. Abstracts from researchers of all career stages (including independent scholars and graudate students) are invited for a panel on 'The Indian Mediterranean'. The panel explores both the presence of people from India in the early modern Mediterranean (1400-1700) as well as the use of the descriptor 'Indian' or 'from the Indies' when describing migrant, displaced, and captive people. If you are interested in applying, please send us a 200-word abstract, a provisional title, and a 100-word bio by 10 September 2026. We are hoping to get back to you with a final decision on 15 September 2026. If you'd like to receive an accessible, B&W, Word-verison of this document, please feel free to DM me.

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uopmaritime @uopmaritime.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Book your ticket for an exciting & interdisciplinary conference exploring marginalised maritime histories from 1500-present @ National Maritime Museum, 11-12 November 2026. Organised by the Royal Museums Greenwich & University of Portsmouth's @uopmaritime.bsky.social www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/nat...

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Conference - Maritime Histories from the Margins: People, Places, and Practices, 1500–Present

A two-day interdisciplinary conference exploring marginalised histories in maritime contexts from c.1500 to the present day

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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 25/08/2026

After 25 years and a multimillion-euro restoration, Méréville – an 18th-century garden in the Paris region – has never looked better. Gabriel Wick describes the charms of this ‘Grand Tour in microcosm’.

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The marvellous rebirth of Méréville

One of the greatest landscape gardens in the Paris region has been painstakingly revived – and the results would make an Ancien Régime aristocrat proud, writes Gabriel Wick

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Save the date: The British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar returns on 7 October, with Miles Ogborn (QMUL) speaking on 'Law, Violence and Empire: Understanding the Jamaican Uprising Trials of 1832'. We're in person at the IHR and online on Zoom. Free registration opens soon. #Skystorians

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British History in the Long 18th Century

Supported by Mark Storey and Carey Karmel, in memory of Arthur Burns

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folukeifejola @folukeifejola.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Join us for the launch of the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire Network on 14 Sept 2026 at the University of Bristol (hybrid event). We'll explore how legal education can engage with race, empire, colonialism, and global justice www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launching-...

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Launching the Critical Legal Pedagogies of Race and Empire Network

Join us to kick off a fresh network diving into race, empire, and legal education with some great minds.

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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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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ooo there's a webpage up for my little book Listening to #EarlyModern Travel Writing, and I see that expected publication is 6 October! Exciting! 🗃️ www.cambridge.org/core/element...

The title page of Purchas His Pilgrimes, which is lavishly described and discussed in my forthcoming Element 'Listening to Early Modern Travel Writing' - so you'll have to read all about it there!

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

📣 CFP 'Critical Digital Archives: Travel, Translation, Transformation' Symposium exploring the history & future of digital archives in & from Southwest Asia & North Africa 📍 @ics.bsky.social 🕰️ 21-22 January Bio & 300-word abstract to Barbara Spadaro & @nottinauta.bsky.social by 31 August

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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

New IIPP paper published today as part of our Public Value of Arts and Culture research, ahead of tomorrow's International Seminar on Culture and Climate Change at Somerset House, hosted by the Ministry of Culture of Brazil during London Climate Action Week. www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

#ThePathlessLand is out in early September, but if you want to preorder, there's a 20% discount on bookshop.org until the end of the weekend, discount code PREORDER20: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Absolutely lovely Job! Senior Research Associate to join the School of Literature, Drama & Creative Writing from 1 September 2026 until 30 April 2029, to work on the AHRC-funded project Beyond the Essay: Creative-Critical Teaching www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRJ527/s...

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Senior Research Associate at University of East Anglia

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Senior Research Associate on jobs.ac.uk!

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sakura christmas @prof-christmas.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

#CFP Female Networks of Knowledge: Natural History between Private and Public Spaces (Vienna, November 19-20, 2026), due May 30. Conference explores how women shaped scientific knowledge via networks that crossed the domestic, social, and institutional from early modern to 19th c. #envhist #histstm

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

BARS 2026 Conference Registration now OPEN! We are pleased to announce that registration for the 2026 BARS Conference, Romantic Retrospection, hosted by the University of Birmingham, is now open.

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Carl Thompson @carlethompson.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Could anyone recommend good, recent(ish) scholarship on oral traditions of travel narration? Whether Inuit, African, Aboriginal, 'Indigenous' more broadly - any suggestions very welcome! TIA!

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Call for Papers: Politics, Place and Print Culture: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference The University of Edinburgh, Scotland 28 to 30 June 2027, with an optional trip to Scott’s home, Abbotsford House, on 1 July More information: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6395

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Elaine Murphy @plymprivateer.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The programme is now available for the British Commission for Maritime History New Researchers Conference in April at Southampton. Full details and booking here: www.maritimehistory.org.uk/new-research...

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New Researchers in Maritime History Conference

A conference to support emerging scholars who wish to share their work in a supportive environment and build relations with other maritime historians

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History Today @historytoday.com · 19/03/2026

An army of help accompanied wealthy British sightseers on their #18thcentury sojourns across the Continent. What was it like to travel as a servant on the Grand Tour? 🔒 Richard Ansell’s cover feature is now in the archive www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

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Servants on the Grand Tour

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Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Looking forward to presenting my paper “Bound Together at Sea: Convict Sociability and Life Aboard HMS Calcutta, 1803” at the the GIS Sociabilités Workshop at The National Archives, UK, this week. What forms of sociability did convicts experience during the voyage? #earlymodern #history

Workshop Flyer showing a plan of Catania showing Etna Erupting, 1669, TNA: MPF 1/214/3.

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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

We’re excited to share our seminar line-up for Women in Natural History Museums & Collections. Please join us and help circulate! First out: Wednesday 6 May – 15:00–16:00 (CET) Luisa Kapp (Senckenberg Nature Research) “Everywhere and Nowhere: Women in the Making of Natural History” 🧵#histsci #HPS

Two women in the entomological section, © Senckenberg Archive

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

We are getting excited - proof-reading the MS for The Wreck of the Gloucester: A 17th-Century Warship Through Time! Finally! It should go to @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social for publication next week! @benjaminredding.bsky.social & I are now discussing the cover image ... tempted by this artefact (!?)😉

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Upcoming in-person lecture (and wine reception!) at QMUL (London): 'Slow Reading in an Age of Speed: Wordsworth and the Practice of Criticism' by Jonathan Sachs 2 April, 5:15-7:15pm. More details and book tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/slow-readi...

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Slow Reading in an Age of Speed: Wordsworth and the Practice of Criticism

This talk reflects on the practice of literary criticism in a moment shaped by media acceleration, distraction and shrinking attention span.

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Kasper Braskén @kasperbrasken.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Global historians! The European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH) has a Bluesky account. Please share and follow: @eniugh-comparativ.bsky.social

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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Call for Papers: Women’s Fieldwork and the Making of Nineteenth Century Natural History Collections We seek articles to complete a special issue on women’s field collecting, and contributions to nineteenth century natural history for Nuncius. #Histsci #NaturalHistory #WomensHistory #Fieldwork

Picture of women on a beach John Leech, ‘The mermaids' haunt’. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1854 - 1869. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. Picture Collection, The New York Public Library.

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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

One for the #TravelWriting scholars. Samia Ounoughi and I seem to have been working on this book forever, but it's out at last! It features a great range of contributions. If you have access to an academic library and an interest in travel writing scholarship, please request a copy!

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NHM Library and Archives @nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Arthur Adams's (1820-1878) drawings range from pen and ink scientific sketches to charismatic watercolours of fish species observed during his voyage to the Malay Archipelago. Angling to see more? ⬆️ Use the link in our bio to explore this collection and many others.

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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

📚 New publication! 📚 On the move: mobility and Early Modern translation 👉 buff.ly/9rFFBQ5 Co-edited by our own Giancarlo Casale and Ann Thomson The volume investigates the translators' role as agents of encounter in a world in which ideas, texts and people circulated as never before

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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Work begins today on the 3rd iteration of the @yorkstjohn.bsky.social Critical Editions project, which this year sees students from our English Literature degree and MA in Publishing editing a new full accessible digital edition of the correspondence between Ignatius Sancho & Laurence Sterne #18c

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Constance Bantman @constancebantman.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Genuinely angry with the constant targeting of MFL for cuts - for colleagues and students, first, but also the dangerous shortsightedness of becoming a country where the cultural openness and critical skills which are central to MFL degrees will be lost and regarded as irrelevant. c.org/N2cycpKrpB

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Sign the Petition

Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester!

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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Look what arrived today, or at least the ebook did. This is the first encyclopedia devoted exclusively to medieval women’s writing globally,focusing on the thousand-year period between 500-1500. Entries on about 250 women writers plus longer thematic essays. You’re welcome.

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