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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 17h

We have extended our call for proposals one more day until the end of the day today due to some tech snaffus with the submission link yesterday.

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Ryan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 30/09/2026

Amplifying this bat signal—the Beef & Sheep Lab has skins for us we can use to make inking balls & we need help from folks who know how to work with animal skins

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Top notch doodle at the front of this Exchequer bill book. It looks like a god of winds smoking a pipe to me, but interpretations may vary. TNA IND 1/16837

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Portrait of a Merchant by Jan Gossaert. He's wedged between all the things of his world, but his skeptical gaze crosses effortlessly to ours from 1530.

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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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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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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Working on a small piece of research/writing at the moment which is critical of AI in history/humanities research/writing/teaching. Keen to hear of any experience/knowledge which might feed in and of any place where the output might be welcomed. 🗃️

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In a similar vein to proud Susan is busy and important John Fryer: 'I also give unto my said Daughter Susanna my Silver Baskett That the Jews presented to me when I was Lord Mayor of London' 'Then I give to my Eldest Son ... my Gold Watch and Gold Chain that I wear as an Alderman of London'

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Sophie Duncan @sophieduncan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Regretting that modern editions of Paddington have updated “Bears is sixpence. Sticky bears is ninepence”. “Bears is extra. Sticky bears is twice as much” is very MEH. How is my baby to learn about florins, shillings, etc etc

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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

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Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Time to send us your proposals for Stuart Drama! HT @racheljwillie.bsky.social @bkadams.bsky.social @cazzert.bsky.social

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A Slice of #Watermelon, 1825, by #SarahMiriamPeale (American, 1800-85). Held by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art; source, www.pubhist.com/w11357 #NationalWatermelonDay #artherstory #womenartists

A still life painting of two slices of watermelon on a wooden ledge. One of the slices sits on a white plate with decoration in blue around the rim. The other sits directly on the wooden surface, mostly, with one end disappearing behind the first slice.

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Paul Babinski @paulbabinski.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Paris copy of the 1516 Genoa Psalter (which presents the text in Hebrew, Latin, Arabic, Greek, and Aramaic) from the library of the Couvent des Jacobins de la rue Saint-Honoré. Interestingly, a reader vocalized a portion of the Arabic translation. BnF, RES-A-491

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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This is amazing-- a page of Mi'kmaq hieroglyphs or gomgwejui'gasit, with their meanings in Mi'kmaq and some in English; these were written by a Naskapi-Innu man named Gabriel in the 1790s.

A manuscript page with hieroglyphic symbols, their translation into Mi'kmaq, and their translation into english

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Sunken Ships, Shakespeare, and Whale Watching open.substack.com/pub/shakespe... An evocative post from Callan Davies on all things watery and Shakespearean, from a Swedish warship to whales in Suffolk.

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Sunken Ships, Shakespeare, and Whale Watching

Maritime Shakespeare, Stockholm's extraordinary Vasa Museum, and whales in early modern East Anglia

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17/07/2026

‘In English markets, items misleadingly claiming to be made entirely from desirable North American beaver pelts might turn out to include lower-grade rabbit fur.’ Clare Jackson on an account of American influence on English material culture in the Renaissance. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Clare Jackson · Jaguars over the Seine: Early Modern Americana

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Flesh. Blood. Friends. Enemies. The worst of enemies. The best of friends. In how many daies will there come hither any more English Ships?

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

The Treason records of Anne Boleyn and the Gunpowder Plotters, together at last for Archives Fest 2026 at The National Archives.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

On 11 Sept 1640, the city authorities of Leuven granted the Irish Franciscans living there permission to brew four times a year without having to pay the usual tax. (Still Life with a Glass of Beer and Nuts, Georg Hainz, 1645, National Museum Sweden)

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Christophe Plantin printed a number of school editions, including Virgil’s Aeneid, with wide margins & generous line spacing for students’ notes. This copy is especially remarkable: it belonged to his grandson, the young Balthasar I Moretus. Judging by his aannotations, he was a diligent student!

Detail of two facing pages, on the left handwritten notes, on the right the heavily annotated printed Latin text

Title page of the book, reading ‘Pvbl. Virgilii Maronis Aeneidos Liber VI.’ It contains a woodcut engraving of Plantin’s printer’s mark and his imprint.

The first page of the main text with notes in between the lines and margins facing an interleaved page filled with handwritten notes.

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dixonpuetafem.bsky.social @dixonpuetafem.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

This makes me so sad, weighs in my heart and memory, but it is reversible if we act NOW as the rewilding if the Knepp Estate shows. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years

Guardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Actually, it was a volunteer archivist at The National Archives, Kew called Michael Scurr who found it, not the "UK" that found it. (with a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers). giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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UK finds lost US Declaration of Independence copy after 250 years

Document revealed by National Archives ahead of its anniversary on Saturday

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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The same “Indian woman” also played matchmaker to two aristocrats… one of whom was later assassinated in Pall Mall by a rival lover. 👀 👀 Who needs fiction when reality is more interesting!! You can read more about her in my new book: bsky.app/profile/sara...

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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Four of the boldest Shakespeare adaptations on the US–Mexico border — a narco Macbeth, a post-apocalyptic Henry IV, a queer Hamlet on the turntables, and a Tempest in a hurricane — now free for everyone to read in the third volume of The Bard in the Borderlands. Dig in now: ow.ly/9UWc50ZjlWv

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Tom Scriven @pigsmeat.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Also working-class autodidacts didn't just read alone - they read in groups, set up libraries and reading rooms, and battled for Mechanics' Institutes (many long ago merged into unis) to teach music, history, and politics. They built the public adult education infrastructure that's being destroyed

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Pam Smith LHG @genejean.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Market towns didn’t just serve themselves, they influenced the surrounding villages too. Before railways transformed travel & trade, local economies revolved around these centres. An invaluable perspective when studying the history of any place, including #Rillington. #OnePlaceStudy #LocalHistory

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Paul salzman @pjsalzman.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

#earlymodern Writing about blanks in almanacs and how they are annotated and especially love this tortoise appearance (this is a 1649 Lilly almanac in the Emerson Collection)

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Our 2026 Supplement (#18) "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" Edited by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) Has now been published by @academic.oup.com academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...

Cover of the 18th Past & Present history journal suppment "Medicine, Race and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600-1850" edited by Hannah Murphy. It is in the journal's standard colours of red and grey with text providing key bibliographic information in white. Most of the lower half of the cover is taken up by a historical pen drawing likely from a medical handbook of various surgical and other medical instruments

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Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I’ve just finished as external for English Literature and Creative Writing at Exeter. It’s a superb department with an amazing array of modules and brilliant teaching staff. Any sensible University management team would see it as a jewel in their crown. I’m disgusted by these proposed redundancies.

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

My latest post for the Kings Women follows the archival traces of two women in the 1580s who ran their own businesses and took on apprentices, Anne Collins and Annabell Baye, paid up members of the Grocers Company. www.kingswomen.org/post/the-sis... #earlymodern #womenshistory #londonhistory

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The Sisterhood of Grocers

by Meryl Faiers, 9 June 2026My most recent post (20 April 2026) offered a reconstruction of the life of Rebecca Heminges, the wife of a grocer (and actor - John Heminges). Now I'm looking at two of th...

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Alice Marples @alicemarples.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Fellowships run from September 26 to August 27. Deadline 15 July. Please RT and get in touch with any questions!

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

The best kind of book owner: Edward Lightbourne left not only his lovely signature, but also the year he bought this collection of John Milton's pamphlets, and the cost.

Detail from the inside cover of a 17th century book binding showing 'Edward Lightbourne his book 1647 0-20-4' a library shelfmark and other letters.

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Holly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

**Final call to sign up for my book launch happening tomorrow, in person and online, 6-8pm** Come and celebrate 'Body Size in Early Modern Germany' with me, Lyndal Roper and Felix Jäger!

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Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

📜 New 'Will of the Month' blog over at @materialwills.bsky.social 👇 Read all about Mary Skelton's 'undutifull' son - cut off with only a shilling 🪙 @uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @cemsexeter.bsky.social #history #skystorians #EarlyModern

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I have two spaces left on this month's workshop. Get in touch if you're interested!

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It's not much to look at, but this 1618 Star Chamber decree is pretty noteworthy, because James I was sitting as a judge in the court, in direct judgment over his subjects. STAC 8/196/25

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Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Reminder. There's an early modern pub night for PhDs & ECRs (& others interested at any stage of their careers) held in London every month. To be added to the mailing list, send me a DM. It's an informal welcoming event. We meet at different historic pubs across central London. #earlymodern

Woodcut image from the 17th-century ballad, Londons ordinary: or, Every man in his humour.
On the right, in the image, a man with a prominent moustache stands. He has something on his back and is holding what looks like a ring in his right hand and a hammer in his left. He has a dark cap on and is wearing seventeenth-century clothing with his calves on show. To the left of the image is a table with a candle, a tankard, a cup and a bottle upon it and something, maybe cards, lying flat.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Many congratulations to @emilymayvine.bsky.social whose excellent 'Birth, Death & Domestic Religion in #EarlyModern London' has been shortlisted for the RHS first book prize! 🗃️🥳👏

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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Closing soon! 👇🤩

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Clare Hickman @drhick.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I've also written about the links between open air treatments for patients and the wider leisure movement including hiking in this free Open Access book: www.exeterpress.co.uk/products/ima... 3/3

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Imagining Air

Imagining Air tackles air as a cultural, medical, and environmental phenomenon. Its major aim is to explore air’s visibility and invisibility within the environment through the investigation of such p...

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Lily Freeman-Jones @freemanjones.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

The headline we didn't know we needed

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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

My new blog for the Social History Society on the loss of adult education centres in universities, with particular focus on history and the closure of the Centre for Lifelong Learning at York. 🗃️

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

A very cool (and little known) 1638 Shakespeare mention in the Court of Requests proceedings. The dispute concerns the property next door to Shakespeare's house on Henley St [Shakespeare's Birthplace] so mentions John and William Shakespeare living in the property. TNA REQ 2/487B/147

17th Century writing on parchment, says "William Shakespeare"

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Paul Babinski @paulbabinski.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

“God’s will is my will”: an entry in Arabic, Syriac, and Danish by a traveler from Denmark, Lauge Christensen, in the friendship album of the English Arabist William Bedwell (c. 1563-1632). Leiden, ms BPL 2753

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Lily Freeman-Jones @freemanjones.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Now that everything is officially signed, I'm delighted to say that after six years at Queen Mary, I'll be joining Simon Fraser University as Assistant Professor of Early Modern English Literature (tenure track) this autumn🍁🍂 All tips for Vancouver's best food/drink/things to do welcomed!!

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Graham Moore @mooregraham.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This delightful map of Dartmoor (showing Ashburton to Buckland-in-the-Moor, featuring Ausewell Rocks) was part of an Exchequer case in 1605, for settling the bounds of Ashburton manor: discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3... [MPB 1/7]

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Jan Blonski @janblo.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

CALL FOR PAPERS: Global Connections – Central and Eastern Europe in the Early Modern World (ca. 1500–1800) 🔜 Submission deadline: 15 June 📍 Warsaw | 📅 28–30 Sept Student workshop included :) #EarlyModern #History #BlueSkyStorians More info ⬇️

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Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

There's a new 'Will of the Month' post over on the @materialwills.bsky.social blog! 📜 Read on to find out about the will of Sir Francis Cottington, who left money and jewellery to Catholic institutions in Valladolid 👇 #Skystorians #History @uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

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