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Hannah Murphy

@hsmurphy.bsky.social
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Early modern historian interested in medicine, expertise, race-making, writing practices. Director of KCL Centre for Early Modern Studies, PI of Medicine and the Making of Race www.mmor.co.uk Author upittpress.org/books/9780822945604

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Congratulations to our #SRSlyGood Book Prize 2026 shortlist: @jwscolley.bsky.social, Colby Gordon, Chloe Ireton, Jack Hartnell, & Tiffany Jo Werth! 🎊🎊🎊💫💫💫👏👏👏💫💫💫 🥳🥳🥳💫💫💫👏👏👏💫💫💫🎊🎊🎊 #Skystorians #EarlyModern rensoc.org.uk/srs-book-pri...
A Banner of BEAUTIFUL BOOK Covers, detailing all the shortlisted books:

John Colley, Humanism, English Literature and the Translation of Greek, 1430-1560, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025)

Colby Gordon, Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2024)

Jack Hartnell, Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press,2025)

Chloe L. Ireton, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Alantic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025)

Tiffany Jo Werth, The Lithic Imagination from More to Milton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024)
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
#SkyStorians
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King's College London, History Department @kingshistory.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Our colleague Alana Harris's work with Horton Cemetery has been shortlisted for an 'Everyday Histories' award! You can even vote for her project. Have a look! www.findmypast.co.uk/c/everyday-h...
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
So terrifically pleased for my @kingshistory.bsky.social colleague Alana Harris, whose *extraordinary* work with Horton Cemetery has been shortlisted for an 'Everyday Histories' award. Vote for the Horton, (or even for a different project), but do VOTE www.findmypast.co.uk/c/everyday-h...
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Find Your Ancestors & Family History - Genealogy & Ancestry | Findmypast.co.uk
Trace your ancestry and build a family tree by researching extensive birth records, census data, obituaries and more - over 10 billion records - start today!
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Oh man! You couldn’t be in better hands there!!! #earlymodern #histgender #VastEarlyAmerica #Skystorians
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
New work on slavery across the context of Spain and the Netherlands. I've been waiting to read this book since I first came across Ramona's work - counting down the days now! #EarlyModern 🗃️
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
As of 1 August, I'm officially a 'Reader', which is the first time my job description actually describes *me*... I imagine this is how a younger version of my son might feel should be become a fire engine when he grows up.
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Suman Seth is Mortal & Measuring @alltoosuman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So delighted to have a physical copy of this. Thanks so much @hsmurphy.bsky.social !!!!
Front cover of the latest supplementary volume of Past and Present, edited by Hannah Murphy. Titled ‘Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600-1850.’
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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Got my print copy today! Thank you @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social and @hsmurphy.bsky.social Read it in print or online here: academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...
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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This looks a smashing opportunity #earlymodern @achconference.bsky.social
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️
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AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London
The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies
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Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War @slaveryinwar.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Applications Reopened – Two Fully Funded AHRC PhD Studentship Missed the first round? Applications have now reopened for two fully funded AHRC PhD studentships with the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War at King's College London.
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Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Very excited to announce this, nearly ten years after I first conceived of this project. I've picked up a job and even tenure along the way. The brief hiatus in question was occasioned by a very cute and very time-consuming baby boy 👶 #earlymodern #digitalhumanities 🗃️
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Exciting to see @tesswingard.bsky.social on bsky, who does fascinating work on social history of medieval trans experience - of interest to many of us #EarlyModern #HistSTM people. Follow! Add her to starter packs! Whatever else you crazy kids do...
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Lavinia Gambini @lavinia-gambini.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
📣CFP RSA 2027, Philadelphia Two more weeks to apply!!! Scholars of #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture, don't forget to send us your abstracts by Monday, July 20! 👇
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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Whilst writing about trav(ailing) #earlymodern bodies all summer, I forgot to advertise that my latest article is out in the world. It’s about English travellers’ ahum stomach problems in the Levant (on brand, I knew, I think Kirsty Rolfe once called this draft ‘flux capacitor’…).
Picture of my latest article entitled ‘Corrupted stomackes’: Ailing British bodies in the Levant, c. 1600.Picture of an edited collection Cultural Perceptions of Health, Illness and the Body in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Published by Routledge in 2026. Out now.
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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
excellent contribution of @hsmurphy.bsky.social includes career of Barbadian Thomas Rous (86) prodding aging brain to wonder (but no confirmation yet) about relation to Francis Rous and, thus, Warwick group/Providence Island Co @davidveevers.bsky.social @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
A career and project highlight to see our @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social special issue 'Medicine, Race, and Slavery' appear - the result of workshops, conversation and many, many emails over the past four years. So grateful to the inspiring contributors and the editorial team. #EarlyModern #HistSTM 🗃️
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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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Steven Teasdale @steventeasdale.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
GEMENE-ST has encoded thousands of historical contracts and persons related to Mediterranean and Atlantic slavery ca. 1400-1550. It's an ongoing project which will be expanded significantly over the next year. (Full disclosure: I was involved in this!) #medievalsky #earlymodern #digitalhumanities
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Katie Murphy @manymanyplies.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Two-year early modern English job, at Oriel College and the Oxford English Faculty, starting October. Happy to field any questions! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
oh permanent full-time pre-1800 job at Limerick! Deadline 14 August -- start of the job in January 2027. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU993/a... #earlymodern #MedievalSky #Skystorians #Jobfairy
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Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) at University of Limerick
Apply for the Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The latest issue of "Renaissance Studies" is out! Read some perspicacious, exciting and generally magnificent #EarlyModern scholarship assembled into one shiny issue by our erudite editor, @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social 💫 📖 💫 rensoc.org.uk/renaissance-...
A stash of "Renaissance Studies" journals, shaped like a fan.
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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Would anyone be interested in being part of a panel for SRS next year that speaks to 'theories of history' #earlymodern
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Looking ahead to what promises to be a landmark gathering next year. It's the *60th anniversary* of @srsrensoc.bsky.social , the conference is taking place at the @warburginstitute.bsky.social, and the theme is explicitly inviting us to move beyond limits... Cannot wait - spread widely!!!!!
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Steven Van Impe @svanimpe.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Call for papers from my colleagues at the #Rubenshuis: Many (More) Antwerp Hands. Collaborations Across Media, ca. 1500-1750. Submit before 31 July, Conference 22-23 April 2027 in #Antwerp. #ArtHistory hnanews.org/cfp-many-mor...
Cover image of the call for paper. It shows a detailed image of hands of two different persons on a stained glass window from the 17th century.
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Thinking and writing about fragments, record keeping, and the processes of selection and deselection behind archival 'silences'....
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
What a week it's been.... Yesterday fresh scholarship from interdisciplinary experts pushed us to think about 'the' #EarlyModern in terms of race, environment, interregional connections, adaptions, eschatology, stop-start technological change and the 'slash' in the early/modern
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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Some fun reading for the week
Managing pandemics in early modern Germany ed Peter Hess
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
So dramatic! This was such a stimulating and generative event - have been turning over grains, practices, ephemera, voices, silences, and the difficult negotiation between the whispers of interiority and the loudness of structure all weekend...
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
One of a number of *fully-funded* PhD studentships associated with our new Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery and War. I'll be co-supervising with the Centre director, Maeve Ryan: an interdisciplinary collaboration with War Studies. PlHappy to answer questions/offer advice! 🗃️#EarlyModern
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
CfP for our Annual Colloquium! This year's theme is 'Periodising the Early/Modern'. We're looking for abstracts from PGRs/ECRs. Deadline: 7th April Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...
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CfP: Periodizing the Early/Modern - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog
Call for Papers for the Annual CEMS Colloquium. This year’s theme is periodizing the early/modern. The CfP deadline is 7th April. The Colloquium will take place on 11th June.
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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
I completely forgot I made this... a big list of English judicial records, 1500 to 1800, published and often online!
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Holly Fletcher @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
So so pleased to see that my book ‘Body Size in Early Modern Germany’ is now available on Oxford Academic ahead of its print publication later this month: academic.oup.com/book/62409 🎉🎉🎉 To mark its online publication, I thought I’d share a bit more about the book and its contents...
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Body Size in Early Modern Germany
Abstract. This book uncovers the significance of body size—of fatness and thinness—in early modern Germany. It explores how early modern people conceived o
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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Please share! EHR is hosting a free one-day symposium at St John's College, Oxford, on Friday 17 April, 10-6, on the theme 'When there are no sources'. Further details and how to sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-there...
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When there are no sources: an English Historical Review symposium
The EHR is hosting a one-day symposium in St John's College, Oxford, to celebrate the recent publication of the journal's 600th issue.
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John Sabapathy @jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
How to do #history when there are no sources?🤔—in person April symposium @stjohnsox.bsky.social with @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social & @academic.oup.com + John Arnold, @hsmurphy.bsky.social, Jonathan Saha, Miranda Spieler & Tess Wingard across many periods & geographies. Free, but book👇!
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Sprinkling a little #EarlyModern and #HistSTM over this, as I forgot in my earlier excitement....
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
@kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social @kingsenglish.bsky.social @hsmurphy.bsky.social @kingsdllc.bsky.social
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
It's world book day! To celebrate, here are three recent publications by incredible colleagues @kingshistory.bsky.social @kingschostm.bsky.social and @cemskcl.bsky.social running the gamut from #EarlyModern to #HistSTM 🗃️
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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
NEXT MONDAY! Excited we get to welcome @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social to the @ihr.bsky.social to talk about Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid. 9 March, 17:30 (UK), in person & online -- sign up for the zoom link. #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #HistSTM #HistMed
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Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany, edited by Peter Hess, is out now with Berghahn books, and I've just learned that the introduction (which I wrote) is free to read on the website! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HessMa...
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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Delighted to announce our seminar - 'Race and the Early Modern' - now has a full schedule of events. We'll be convening monthly to discuss research on race, racemaking, and racialisation across #earlymodern studies. @kingsartshums.bsky.social @folger.edu kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
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Race and the Early Modern — CEMS KCL Blog
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
At least something is great about 2026. We've already gotten off to a wonderful start with Yahya Nurgat - come join us for our next seminar in two weeks with Federica Gigante and a bonus comment by Franciso Bethencourt.....
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I want to say a bit more about our initiative to hire scholars to 3yr Research Associate positions. None of us know what the twinning of humanities research support and employment will look like in another 5(?) years. But we do know that we need it. As a matter of social and cultural health. 1/
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
It *really* is a lovely department! A permanent job too, so spread the word to your nicest colleagues....
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Apply for this! #EarlyModern 🗃️
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King's CHoSTM @kingschostm.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Applications are open until 17 April to our Hans Rausing Scholarship to enter an MA+PhD or PhD-only to study the history of science and/or technology from October 2026. Contact a prospective supervisor and find out more about the schemes here: tinyurl.com/mw84w7py
Poster advertising the for applications to Hans Rausing Scholarship 2026/2027 at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine at King’s College London. Indicates the call closes by 17 April 2026.
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
An opportunity to get practical and constructive feedback on postdoc applications, workshopped anonymously in this online webinar - deadline for drafts tomorrow! #EarlyModern #ECR 🗃️
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
33 month postdoc (0.8 FTE) on a really interesting project at Essex on #EarlyModern German and English witchcraft... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC497/s...
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Senior Research Officer at University of Essex
An opportunity for an academic position as a Senior Research Officer is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Apply for a fully-funded PhD at King's... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPX390/p...
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PhD Studentship: Knowledge Orders before Modernity at King's College London
jobs.ac.uk now advertising a PhD Studentship: Knowledge Orders before Modernity Visit jobs.ac.uk to apply and to browse more PhD opportunities.
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