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Cora the Whippet @corathewhippet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We all need something to smile at. 😊 So let’s get a chain of pet photos going! 📸 Me first…

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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Toad sat and did nothing. Frog sat with him.

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João Moreira da Silva @joaomoreiradasilva.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Cambridge Oceanic and Maritime History Workshop is now inviting submissions to deliver papers during Michaelmas Term (October to December 2026) - MPhil and PhD students from all universities are welcome to apply! @camhistory.bsky.social #MaritimeHistory

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Dr. Michelle I. Turner @chaco-arch.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

“It is known that decommissioned ships were reused as building timber in the Middle Ages,” Ulisch explained. “Nevertheless, the find in Constance is something very special: Here, not just individual fragments, but an almost completely intact ship’s hull was used.”

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Article and thread on history of London, mapping and digital humanities #dighum 🗃️ Locating London's History and Layers of London were both indispensable for my Metropolitan Science project and histories of the scientific instrument trade

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

*Many hands of every sort* I've got a 10-page feature in the latest @historytoday.com on the emergence of mass petitioning in late Tudor & early Stuart England. Tons of people adding their 'hands' to complaints and requests for the first time! #EarlyModern 🗃️ www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

Opening page of an article entitled 'Many hands of every sort'

First page of text of an article which begins: "On 11 December 1640 a crowd of more than 1,000 people arrived at Parliament to present a complaint, later to be known as the Root and Branch petition. It asked that the ‘government’ of the Church of England, ‘with all its Dependencies, Roots and Branches, may be abolished’. Calling on Parliament to dissolve the entire Church hierarchy was a radical act, but the petition was particularly unprecedented as it was signed by about 15,000 named individuals. It did not come from the City of London or any other official body, but from thousands of people ‘in and about’ the metropolis, each adding their own mark of support to the great ‘roll of names’."

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

autumn is fast approaching which means it's time for pannage: the ancient commoner's right of taking your pigs to the forest to feast on fallen acorns, chestnuts, and beechmast

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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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Frog and Toad Bot @frogandtoadbot.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

They swam all afternoon. Frog swam fast and made big splashes. Toad swam slowly and made smaller splashes.

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Our friend the Pine Toad lives on the Central Mexican Plateau in the many different habitat types available on the plateau, including the pine forests that give them their name! (photo by Arturo Castro Castro)

A light brown toad with medium brown splotches, covered in lots of small spiky bumps! Some of the spiky bumps are reddish orange in color! They have prominent parotoid glands that are somewhat smaller than their golden eyes!

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Curious about food and history at Cardiff? In this post for our History blog, @historyeats.bsky.social, Helena Lopes, and I write about food "as a way of accessing cross-cultural encounters and cross-cultural identities." blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/history-at-c... #clearing

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History is delicious at Cardiff!

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It's real, and due out in March! 'Imaginative Pasts', which has been a joy to edit with Tracey Loughran, aims to reckon - and play - with the role of the imagination in historical research and writing. #skystorians #earlymodern manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526187154/

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daviddoddington.bsky.social @daviddoddington.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

There is 0.4 teaching job in History at Cardiff, specialism US history 18/19th century. I have all sorts of feelings about these posts, but I will just say that colleagues want to provide support, and the students are wonderful. cardiffuniweb.eploy.net/vacancies/26...

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Teacher in History in John Percival Building | Internal & External Website

View details and apply for this Teacher in History vacancy in John Percival Building. Teacher in History School of History, Archaeology and Religion An exciting opportunity ...

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

New open-access book for #MedievalSky on Jewish craftspeople in the European Middle Ages, with chapters on weavers, book binders, metal workers, and more: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #HistSTM @dgb-mem.bsky.social

Book cover image for "Jewish Craftspeople in the Middle Ages: Objects, Sources and Materials," edited by Andreas Lehnertz, Maria Stürzebecher, Simha Goldin, and Joseph Isaac Lifshitz.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 15/07/2026

‘A 2024 survey by the IMO indicated that only 1 per cent of the nearly two million seafarers plying the waves are women, and most of them work on cruise ships or passenger ferries.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on female sailors, past and present: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Laleh Khalili · Canton Kitty: Seafaring

Seafaring is a bundle of contradictions. It is highly skilled labour, yet mostly invisible. Lower ratings of seafarers...

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Dr Angela Muir @drangelamuir.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I'm very pleased to say my new book, 'Rogues, Rakes and Robbers: a True Crime History of Georgian Britain' is available to pre-order through @calonbooks.bsky.social I hope people enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it! #georgianhistory #historyofcrime #history www.uwp.co.uk/book/rogues-...

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Rogues, Rakes and Robbers | UWP

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Alun Richards @alunrichards.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

@manchesterup.bsky.social is all set up for @socialhistsoc.bsky.social! Drop by and take a look at some recent titles. Plus, if you recommend our new imperialism and colonialism collection to your librarian you can take a book away for free.

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 01/07/2026

We are dismayed to learn about further proposed HE cuts, this time at the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Exeter. In solidarity, please join us by signing and sharing the two urgent petitions below. 🚨🖊️ 1/3

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

A depressingly long list of universities who are implementing cuts and redundancies, as well as the petitions and actions against them (via @onslies.bsky.social) qmucu.org/qmul-transfo.... This is a national emergency that should be responded to with national policy.

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UK HE shrinking

a live page of all the redundancies and restructures happening across UK Higher Education. Page is updated regularly.

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Stephen Johnston @stephenaj.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

At the time of his death in 2023, Jim Bennett had begun a study of Elizabethan navigation. Only its introduction was approaching completion; the edited draft has now been published in the online journal of the @hakluytsociety.bsky.social. Direct download from www.hakluyt.com/downloadable...

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 26/06/2026

📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!

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Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop, 2026

History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.

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Lucas Haasis @lhaasis.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

What can we learn from historical logbooks? Far more than routes and wind directions. Looking forward to our roundtable at the conference “Navigating Histories” at the German Maritime Museum to explore logbooks as sources for climate, mobility & global history #earlymodern #history #maritimehistory

Four Portraits of roundtable participants in front of blue background, with logos of German Maritime Museum and Leibniz – title and date of the event: Navigating Logbooks: Tracing Histories, Data, and Meaning at Sea 1600-1900. Portraits of speakers Rohland, Kaiser, Karstens, Haasis.

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Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

⭐⭐ It's publication day for 'I Felt All This': Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South' published by @universitypress.cambridge.org! You can now buy it here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/i... ⭐⭐

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🔥🔥🔥SRS Annual Lecture 2026🔥🔥🔥 "Historical fiction/Ficsean stairiúil: telling stories of early modern Ireland" ∞Marie-Louise Coolahan∞ ∞Deirdre Serjeantson∞ ∞Liam MacCóil∞ 8 Oct 2026, 18.30-19.30, NLI, Dublin All welcome! rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #EarlyModernEvents #Skystorians #SRSlyGood

SRS Annual Lecture 2026

Historical fiction/Ficsean stairiúil: telling stories of early modern Ireland

Date: 8 October 2026, 6.30pm-7.30pm

Location: Joly Theatre, National Library of Ireland, Kildare St, Dublin 2.

Price: Free

Visit website → https://www.tickettailor.com/events/societyforrenaissancestudies/2275494

Image: detail of Dublin from Braun and Hogenberg, 1618, National gallery of Ireland, creative commons licence.

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Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

CFP: Mid-career workshop for early modern British historians at USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Instutute Jan 2027. Applications due 31 July 2026.

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Sarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

IT'S PUBLICATION DAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!! Download 'The King's Dinner: family, nation, and identity on the British table, 1760-1820' here FOR FREE and read all about George III's eating habits over breakfast! uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin... #skystorians #openaccess #18thC #foodhistory 🗃️

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The King’s Dinner

The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on the vast kitchen ledgers of two royal households made newly available to research through digiti...

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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

New from @manchesterup.bsky.social - Irish Townspeople The early modern urban experience, c.1400-c.1640 by Colm Lennon manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526193421/

A front cover visual featuring a religious-themed early modern painting contained in a picture block, above the author's name and below the title, subtitle and series affiliation.

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Dr. Will Green @drwillgreen.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

2 weeks from today I'll be celebrating my book's publication day with @tracelarkhall.bsky.social 😄

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James_AL_Downs @magiclantern.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Today is the feast day of St Brendan the Navigator (ca.484-577), so here's a woodcut by Robert Gibbings (1889-1958), depicting a scene from the saint's life, used to illustrate Helen Waddell's 'Beasts and Saints' (1934).

Woodcut image showing a small wooden boat on the surface of the sea, with a monk and other crew in the boat, and beneath the water a large selection of fish, rays and other sea creatures

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History Today @historytoday.com · 14/05/2026

European mariners in the Atlantic in the 16th century used a reliable navigational aid: seabirds. 🔓 This new History Matters is free for 7 days www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...

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Following 16th-Century Seabirds

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BSHS @bshsnews.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

📚 The shortlist for the 2026 BSHS Pickstone Prize is out! Awarded biennially, the prize recognises outstanding scholarly books in HistSTEM. This year’s shortlist highlights topics including climate, race, extinction, capitalism, medicine, and animal experimentation. 🔗 bshs.org.uk/pickstone-pr...

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Thank you for this review of Metropolitan Science, @astoeger.bsky.social! It is lovely to have our book on London 1600-1800 discussed alongside works on Naples 1500-1800 and Lisbon 1840-1940 #histSTM #earlymodern cc @jasminekt.bsky.social

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Available now!

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Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge & Practice, c.1600-1800, by me, @jasminekt.bsky.social and Noah Moxham, is available as a paperback from Thursday! A relative snip at £26 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM

Two paperback copies of Metropolitan Science with a detail of a 17thC map of London on the cover.

Shows the top copy of Metropolitan Science being opened, revealing a plan of the Tower of London from 1597.

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Matthew Davies @mpdavies.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

My second podcast on medieval London now available from @lrb.co.uk. 'London Revisited: Plague, Rebellion and Guilds' www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

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Podcast: Rosemary Hill and Matthew Davies · London Revisited: Plague, Rebellion and Guilds

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Toad Facts @toadfacts.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Our friend the Yunnan Firebelly Toad is also known as the Large-webbed Bell Toad! They live high in the mountains of Yunnan, China! They have a bright orange belly that they will show off when threatened, warning predators that they are not good to eat! (photo by jincan)

A very, very warty brown toad with an orange patch of skin visible under their chin, and a bright green patch behind their head! Did I mention they are very warty? So warty!

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Vignette study of a ship in a storm – mesmerising watercolour sketch on paper (Tate collection) from around 1826 by J.M.W. Turner, who was born on this day – 23 April – in London in 1775 🗃️

an image in watercolour of a sailing ship in the centre of a white page

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Cambridge University Press @universitypress.cambridge.org · 10/04/2026

From refusing to doff hats in court to resisting hat-snatching highway robbers, England’s relationship with hats goes far deeper than fashion. Read more about early modern England's hat wars in new research published in 'The Historical Journal'. 🎩 🔗 cup.org/47R0fGt

A historical illustration of a group of individuals wearing hats, gathered around a table, with the text: "Hat Wars. New research reveals early modern England's relationship with hats."

An illustration depicts three individuals robbing a person on horseback. One individual is aiming a gun, another person is on the ground, and the person on the horse appears startled. The scene is set in a rural environment with trees. A text box reads: "Upon being robbed by three thieves, William Seabrook 'begg’d of them not to take away his Hat and make him go home bare-headed; then they threw down his Hat in the Road and left it".

A historical illustration depicting the trial of Charles I before the High Court of Justice in 1649. The scene shows Charles I wearing a hat, standing before a group of seated judges and officials in an ornate courtroom setting. The setting includes an audience and distinct period attire.

An illustrated scene depicts a historical courtroom setting with individuals wearing 17th-century attire. One person stands, gesturing, while another sits at a table with documents. A caption below explains radical Leveller John Lilburne, jailed in 1646, being ordered to appear at the House of Lords, and his defiant response.

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Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin @jasminekt.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Enjoyed seeing Made in Ancient Egypt exhib at the Fitz - especially a maker’s signature on a tomb from 3500 years ago. Wow!

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Another bump for this; expressions of interest due in by 24 March.

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic arrived at the houses of Pretzel and Paz Purrmann this week, and their humans (Jessica Roney, and me) were pretty jazzed @pennpress.bsky.social

Photo of Jessica Roney in a blue sweater holding a copy of our book. Pretzel, the cat, is in background right, with his white-gloved paw extended in an elegant pose.

Photo of Rachel Herrmann in a blue shell holding a copy of our book. Paz Purrmann stands at left, looking at Rachel/the book/his bag of food. Paz is white with seal pointing and his fluffy gray tail is elevated with interest

Table of contents featuring Rachel Herrmann and Jessica Choppin Roney, Edward Gray, Christian Koot, Alex Zukas, John Morton, and Paul Musselwhite

Second page of the table of contents featuring Kim Gruenwald, Karen Rann, Charles Prior, Chad McCutchen and Jennifer Monroe McCutchen, Rachel Herrmann, Harvey Amani Whitfield and Sarah Chute, and Samuel Truett

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

oh! Come to Mile End! And here from these brilliant women!!! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

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Emily Cock @emilyncock.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Publication day! 🥳 Some thoughts on the pros & cons of 'retrospective diagnosis' for enriching disability archives. Portraiture and Disability: Cripping Retrospective Diagnosis: Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies: Vol 20, No 1 liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

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Portraiture and Disability: Cripping Retrospective Diagnosis: Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies: Vol 20, No 1

Within disability studies and medical humanities, “retrospective diagnosis” has become a controversial practice associated with medical perspectives that fail to appreciate the complexities of the source material, thereby foreclosing further engagement ...

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Beth Wilson @bethrwilson.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

'I Felt All This' has a cover, and CUP have done such a wonderful job! Keep an eye out - it's being published in June.

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