iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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To quote Liz Truss 'That. Is. A. Disgrace!', especially now that UK/EU relations are back in vogue. Like many others, I want to pay a huge tribute to the Duracell Bunny's Duracell Bunny, @anandmenon.bsky.social - and to all those (far too many to name) who (just about !) managed to keep up with him.

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Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) @rgs.org · 19h

Are you a researcher, student or teacher looking for funding to support a fieldwork project? 📣 Applications for our 2027 grants are now open! Explore the funding opportunities available and how to apply: www.rgs.org/about-us/our-work/lates…

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 19h

NEW BOOK: my first children's book is out this week. It's an encyclopedia of Europe for 8-12s.

Cover of book called Extraordinary Europe with the title in shiny letters and a map of Europe in the background.

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

📜 Flax to Folio: The Global Diffusion of Early Paper and the History of Textiles Join us for the 2026 Sandars Lectures in Bibliography delivered by Professor Marina Rustow. 17 & 18 November 2026 5-6pm In-person at Robinson College & online 🎟️ Book your free tickets: loom.ly/Du7jSUs

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 08/10/2026

Closing next Friday (16th): 'History and Archives in Practice' 2027. Calls for panels invited for our annual meeting of historians and archivists, with @ihr.bsky.social and TNA. HAP27 focuses on connecting past and future with sessions on advocacy & applied history bit.ly/3RGHbWy #Skystorians

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'History and Archives in Practice' (HAP), 2027. Call for participation now open - Royal Historical Society

History and Archives in Practice (HAP) is an annual partnership event, co-hosted by the Royal Historical Society, The National Archives, and the Institute of Historical Research. Now in its fifth year...

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I’m thrilled that the first Element in my new series for @universitypress.cambridge.org (co-edited with Tabitha Stanmore) is PUBLISHED! And free to read for the first few weeks. It’s by top folklorist (and now @folkloresociety.bsky.social President) Jeremy Harte! www.cambridge.org/core/element... 📚🥳

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Sewers are one of the most transformational interventions to human health in history, yet they are rarely understood or recognised for their impact. So we are holding an event about them next Tuesday. In person in London or watch online! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/searc...

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The secret life of sewers

From the Big Stink to the fatberg, London's history has always flowed through what (and how) we flush away. Sewers are one of the most transformational, yet least recognised interventions in the histo...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 08/10/2026

Applications to join the Society's Fellowship and Membership are welcome at any time. Our next closing date is 14 December with further details here: bit.ly/3VojFPL Our four categories of Fellowship and Membership cater for the history's professional and personal practice, in its many forms 2/2

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Closing date for next applications:
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The Royal Historical Society represents the interests of historical researchers in universities, libraries, archives, museums, heritage and broadcasting, as well as those engaged in public, community and family history research.

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Manderley Press @manderleypress.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

POV: you find a forgotten classic and now you get to bring it back to life - Book: Woman Alive by Susan Ertz - Art work by @tomgauld.bsky.social - Introduction by Graham Norton We turn our favourite bookcovers into limited edition signed art prints - exclusively at manderleypress.com

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Pitt Rivers Museum @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Oxford Mexican Society invite you to celebrate Día de los Muertos after dark at Pitt Rivers! Enjoy short talks & music, try pan de muerto, hot chocolate & tequila, & explore the Latin American collections. Come as you are or show off your best La Catrina/El Catrin costume! tinyurl.com/yspjdp86

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Registration link is now available for the 1st seminar of the 2026-27 season of the IHR's London Group of Historical Geographers. Join us to explore historical geographies of skill in the past. Free, hybrid in-person/online and open to the public. #Skystorians

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Lines in pleasant places: the skill of butchery and the geography of the carcass

London Group of Historical Geographers

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UCL Institute of Archaeology @uclarchaeology.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We are hiring: Lecturer (Teaching) in European Prehistory Fixed-term | Full time | Hybrid Know someone who might be a good fit? Tag them in comments! 🔗Find out more: tinyurl.com/EuroPreHist 📷 Charlotte Frearson #Jobs #Careers #Hiring #Archaeology #UCL

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Raphael Samuel History Centre @rshc.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

How do we write histories of small towns in the post-1945 period? Photographing the Calder Valley: or social history at the “mouth of hell”. Matthew Hilton with Aditya Chakrabortty 19 November 2026, 6pm, Queen Mary University, London E1 PhotographingCalderValley.eventbrite.co.uk @qmcbs.bsky.social

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Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

PSA: if you come across a weird historical smell thing, let me know - it's the right thing to do.

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David Cooper @drdavidcooper.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A new book for the new academic year: my monograph, ‘Reading Place Writing: Geography, Form, Immersion, 2010-2020’ has been published by @livunipress.bsky.social as part of the @englishassociation.bsky.social ‘English at the Interface’ series www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

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Reading Place Writing | Home

David Cooper is Senior Lecturer in English at Manchester Metropolitan University where he is the founding co-director of the Centre for Place Writing.

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Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

History inspires game development. This Thursday, John Beiner and I will share how the Prize Papers Project and the German Maritime Museum are helping Capstan Games bring maritime history to life in the game "Ahoy". Join our international workshop online! Link below. #earlymodern #maritimehistory

John Beiner and me standing in front of the main entrance of The National Archives, UK / First slide of our presentation, with a screenshot from the game in the background.

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Dr Hannah J. Elizabeth @sexhistorian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

There's still plenty of time to apply for this fantastic funded #PhD studentship on the history of unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948! Interested? Know someone great who should apply? Get in touch! #AcademicSky www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR502/p...

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PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 at University of Strathclyde

Explore a PhD Studentship: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948 on jobs.ac.uk. Discover more PhD opportunities and apply today!

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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 · 05/10/2026

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 · 05/10/2026

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 · 05/10/2026

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 · 05/10/2026

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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