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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 19h

GET YOUR HANDS ON OUR COMPLETELY OPEN ACCESS VOLUME AT THE LINK BELOW! And if you want to know what connects being too cold in church, camomile and butter poultices, extreme grief, dogs, pigeons, melons and more, my chapter has something for you!

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 17h

Booking for Meleisa's lecture (in person) remains available and we look forward to welcoming you at 6pm on Weds 7 October: bit.ly/3TFLZMH. Our thanks to Meleisa and all at the Department of Humanities, @unistrathclyde.bsky.social, who have made this day visit possible #Skystorians

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Visualizing Difference: Amelia Newsham and the Art of Race-Making

RHS Lecture with Dr Meleisa Ono-George at the University of Strathclyde

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 13h

If anyone happens to be around in Warwick on Thursday evening for the history festival (or indeed for any other reason...) and wants to meet up, let me know

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 11h

This #MapMonday is focused on Kells, Co. Meath! Irish Historic Towns Atlas no. 4 Kells by Anngret Simms with Katharine Simms was published by the RIA in 1990 Check @ihtaria.bsky.social to explore highlights from the IHTA, a research programme based at the RIA www.ria.ie/irish-histor...

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David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social · 22h

Letter printed in The Times today

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This was published yesterday (no OA yet though, SIGH). So glad and proud to see it out after so much time and hard work, and a particular thanks to @laurenkassell.bsky.social for her exceptionally helpful comments on an early draft of my chapter. #EarlyModern www.routledge.com/Alice-Thornt...

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Alice Thornton’s Books: Reassessing the Life Writings of a Seventeenth-Century Woman

This book is the first dedicated study of Alice Thornton (1626–1707) and her life writings, offering unprecedented insights into how one early modern woman revised and reshaped her life story over 40 ...

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

LOOK WHAT I GOT MY HANDS ON @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social! AND, now available Open Access completely free to read and download online! #EarlyModern. Also a lovely arvo catching up with the lovely @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social on Portobello beach! www.routledge.com/Alice-Thornt...

Me in my dirty dogwalking togs on Portobello sea front holding a copy of Alice Thornton's Books: Reassessing the Life Writings of a Seventeenth-Century Woman ed Cordelia Beattie, Suzanne Trill and me

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Dr Andrew Sneddon @drandrewsneddon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My week book ‘Magic and disability in the early modern world’ out with Cambridge is free to download until 15 oct 2026 www.cambridge.org/core/element... It’s free , help yersel

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Magic and Disability in the Early Modern World

Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Magic and Disability in the Early Modern World

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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Tenure track position for a social/cultural anthropologist here in Leuven, apply before 1 December: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 02/10/2026

Congratulations to @mauricejcasey.com and John Waddell MRIA for winning the 2026 Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction, in the first joint-awarding of the prestigious prize. Read more about the Michel Déon Prize ceremony on the RIA website: www.ria.ie/2026/10/02/m...

Group of smiling adults posing together at an evening event, with two people holding books.

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

#JobFairy alert for #histSTM and modern british historians - 60 month post-doc at Newcastle Uni on the Wellcome Trust funded "The Night Shift 1850-present: Reimagining Sleep, Work and Wellbeing for Healthcare Professionals in English and Scottish Hospitals" 🗃️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTD047/r...

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Research Assistant/Associate (Modern British History) at Newcastle University

Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Assistant/Associate (Modern British History). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Job.

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Richard Bell @richardbell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

My new book, Imprisonment in Early Modern England: Politics, Debt and the Origins of a Carceral Society, is (sort of) out now! Currently available online for anyone with institutional access: www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

Book cover of Richard Thomas Bell, Imprisonment in Early Modern England: Politics, Debt and the Origins of a Carceral Society

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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Last call for this. It is tonight. Despite its jaunty aspect, I promise to be absolutely diabolically MISERABLE for a full 45 minutes.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Think I asked this a while back but it anyone has any reading on auctioning the goods of the dead in 16th- and 17th-century London, and/or the role of bellmen and criers around deaths and auctions, I'd be very grateful for recommendations!

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Religious Archives Group @religiousarcgrp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Our 2026 conference is at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social on Wednesday 11 November 2026. Our theme is 'Unearthing the unexpected in religious archives.' Our speakers will cover subjects ranging from poltergeists to royal love letters! Tickets are available from Ticketlab: ticketlab.app/event/39602-...

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Draft programme for the Religious Archives Group conference 2026

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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Bill Angus and Lisa Hopkins eds. Reading the Coastline in Shakespeare's Britain - @edinburghup.bsky.social, October 2026 edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-reading...

cover of book - green background, with white text and inset map from 16th century showing some of the North Sea and the English coastline

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David Gould @drdavidgould.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My book on historic rabbit warrens in England is published on 13th Nov by Liverpool Uni Press and I'm pleased to have received my advance copies. The perfect Xmas gift for any rabbit warren-obsessed nerd, of which there are no doubt many such people. #landscapearchaeology #rabbits #medievalsky

Me in a dapper shirt pointing at the cover of my soon to be published book.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 30/09/2026

I've also got one copy each of the *German* and *Spanish* language editions to send out under the same conditions. #Maths #History #Books #Teachers

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Tommaths (he/him) @teakayb.mathsy.space · 30/09/2026

Would you be able to put a FREE Japanese language edition of The Mathematicians' Library to good use? I'll send it out to the first person who gives me a good reason why they should have it, and I'll even cover postage (anywhere the UK). 1/n

A Japanese edition of The Mathematicians’ Library lies on a deep magenta patterned carpet. The blue book cover features large white Japanese lettering, the English title The Mathematicians’ Library, and colourful overlapping translucent mathematical shapes forming a vivid abstract design. The author’s name, Thomas K. Briggs, and the publisher’s name appear in Japanese.

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Alice Reid @amrcampop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Interested in a PhD in historical demography/population studies at @camunicampop.bsky.social, @camunigeography.bsky.social, Cambridge University? We have 3 suggested topics (see thread): contact me to discuss, or to suggest your own idea. Apply by early December for funded places.

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

'To Mr Hobson w[hi]ch he gave to Welsh Musicke' - anyone know what Welsh music might be? @passamezzo.bsky.social?

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It's rare to be able to put an identifiable image of a place in early modern London next to a textual reference to that place: the Nag's Head on Cheapside, 1613 and 1638

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Documents on Irish Foreign Policy @difp-ria.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If on Dawson St tomorrow afternoon Nora Moroney of DIFP will be talking about Ireland's 1975 EEC presidency in @ria.ie as part of Dublin Festival of History #DFOH Booking link 👉https://www.ria.ie/events/ireland-and-europe-the-first-eec-presidency-1975/

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National Museum of Ireland @nmireland.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Applications for the 2027 Transition Year Work Experience Programme are now open. Apply now and explore how history, learning, collections, conservation and community engagement come together at the National Museum of Ireland. www.museum.ie/en-IE/About/...

Collage of Transition Year students taking part in activities at the National Museum of Ireland, including object handling, collections research, exhibition learning and behind-the-scenes digitisation work.

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Clare Downham @downham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Funded PhD opportunities with a short deadline. Join our early medieval cluster at Liverpool with 7 PhDs currently working with the Institute of Irish Studies on all aspects of Irish, British and Icelandic topics and connections www.nationalgallery.org.uk/research/col... #museums #medievalsky

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Collaborative PhDs | Research | National Gallery, London

As part of collaborative consortia, the Gallery hosts a cohort of PhD students funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Dr Nazlin Bhimani @nazlinbhimani.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Some good news – a new library! Shakespeare’s Globe has opened a new public library and archive holding more than 6,000 books, original texts, recordings of productions and other treasures from the theatre’s history. www.thebookseller.com/news/shakesp... #Shakespeare #TheatreHistory #Renaissance

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Shakespeare library and archive containing 6,000 books opens under the Globe theatre

The theatre has opened its newly renovated research and collection centre, which features London’s only publicly accessible dedicated Shakespeare library and archive

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 24/09/2026

New from History UK: a valuable and interesting survey of UK history students use of and attitudes towards GenAI in HE teaching - their preliminary report is published today: bit.ly/4hatsRR The report is by Dr Sarah Jones and Dr Simon Peplow @simpep.bsky.social #skystorians

Opening page of History UK's statement on their survey and report on AI and History Students in UK universities. Full text:

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become impossible to ignore in higher education. For historians, working in a discipline which depends on interpretation, evidence, and critical thinking, the development of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has raised particularly significant questions. In 2026, we launched a survey to gather the perspectives of people who are often overlooked in considerations of the impact of AI and appropriate responses – history students themselves.

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The John Rylands Library @thejohnrylands.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Interested in learning more about the Medieval world and books like this one? Join us tomorrow, 26 September, as part of the 2026 Medieval Faire. You can find more information here: ow.ly/y4Zg50ZR5r4 📸: Psalterium Benedictinum cum canticis et hymnis, Peter Schoeffer, 1490, Ref. JRL19080004

Page of printed text. Most of the letters are printed in black, but some initial letters are red. A large letter "D" has additional decoration in grey around it. There are 3 lines of musical notation at the top of the page.

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

✒️ "Written & Edited by his Wife" Join us for a research talk by Dr Grace Exley who will explore how women’s hands have shaped our impression of some of the most famous scientists of the nineteenth century. 21 Oct, 5-6.30pm Cambridge University Library Book your FREE ticket loom.ly/KpzUmgM

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David Turner @railwayhistorian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is @ukri.org effectively abandoning what it means to be part of academia. There, humans read things, critique things, and provide feedback, even if it is not the feedback we want. It is symptomatic of the developing horror that is the UK research funding landscape. It's horrendous.

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I'll be in Manorhamilton, Leitrim, on Tuesday the 13th of October to discuss An Irish Atlantic Rainforest following a special film screening. If you're up in that direction, do come along! climateactionweek.ie/events/speci...

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Special Screening: An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, part of Leitrim Climate Week - Climate Action Week

Join Special Screening: An Irish Atlantic Rainforest, part of Leitrim Climate Week during Climate Action Week. Discover inspiring talks, workshops, and activities to support climate action.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

History / Irish Studies job at Boston College, applications for a senior scholar to serve as the inaugural Jane B. and Thomas E. Hachey Professor invited The appointment will be a tenured position at the rank of full Professor of History #irishhistoryjob apply.interfolio.com/194167

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My old boss has asked me to give his new book a social media bump, because he has wisely chosen never to set up his own account! So I’m happy to announce that ‘Britain’s Slave Traders: A Hidden History’ is available today in all good bookshops! www.penguin.co.uk/books/460026...

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 24/09/2026

We are a very old building. We have lots of keys. We have lots of keys that don’t open anything. Join us for a one off installment of, “Keys of the Merchant Adventurers’ Hall that are pretty but completely useless”. 🔑 🧵

We are looking at two pewter plates with an assortment of large brass and iron keys in various shapes and sizes.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Irish Studies at Boston College @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We're now accepting applications for the Hachey Professorship of Irish & Irish-American History! This is a tenured position in the History Department and the Irish Studies Program. Apply here apply.interfolio.com/194167 by November 13.

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That was excellent! Come back at 5pm!

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Josephine Quinn @josephinequinn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Apparently I'm giving an inaugural lecture - all very welcome! Thurs October 8th, 5pm, drinks to follow.

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Prof Ben Pohl @benpohl.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Term card of the @bristolcms.bsky.social seminar series 2026/27 just dropped, incl. the first in our brand-new series of distinguished CMS Global Lectures. Spread the word and join us and our stellar line-up of speakers in person or online. Every medievalist welcome! #medievalsky #skystorians

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Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

<Whispers> This site works in England too... Fantastic for "what was under my house before they built it?", "so the road is called Mill Close..." and other local history nerderies.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

THIS FRIDAY: You can come to my @royalhistsoc.org public lecture on rights of way and the struggle for land access in England and Wales... It's at London's Senate House at 6pm. Still a few tickets left! And an online version. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rhs-lectur...

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RHS Lecture: 'In All Our Footsteps?' with Professor Glen O'Hara IN PERSON

'In All Our Footsteps? Rights of Way and the Battle for the Land after the 1949 National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act' at the IHR

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

PIRATES! And brilliant Simon! To join, #SkyStorian, this is going to be a marvelous book and joyful occasion to celebrate! (one of ours, @qmulsse.bsky.social)

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Here's the proper social media card from Waterstones. Join me and the brilliant @willtullett.bsky.social on Monday 12 October at Gower Street! We'll be in conversation over our new #books and surprising ways into #history - through smell and time machine poems... www.waterstones.com/events/new-w...

https://www.waterstones.com/events/new-ways-into-history-from-smells-to-sonnets-with-will-tullett-and-catherine-clarke/london-gower-street

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 21/09/2026

The Society is pleased to launch a new programme to support research bit.ly/4iFNuF0 The RHS / Social History Archive Partnership offers free access to resources in @socialhistarchive.bsky.social, published by DC Thomson. Applications for 6-month access to Archive content invited #Skystorians 1/2

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Society launches new programme for researchers, in partnership with The Social History Archive - RHS

The Society is pleased to launch a new programme for researchers, in partnership with The Social History Archive, published by DC Thomson. The Social History Archive is a comprehensive online archive ...

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Gang, who’s coming? Three of us are proposing a panel on mobility & paperwork (VERY excited!) and we’re curious who we can suggest as possible chairs. #histarchives #yayarchives #movinghistory #earlymodern

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