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Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin

@jasminekt.bsky.social
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Early modern historian - architecture, artisans, embodied knowledge, ships' surgeons. Senior Lecturer in History, Cardiff University.

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Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Our book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England has turned one. They grow up so fast! 🎂 This blogpost marks the publication anniversary with a brisk walk through the labours & fruits of #earlymodern #autumn 🍎🍺🐂👇 drtayloraucoin.com/2025/11/20/t... #history
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The Autumnal Experience of Work in Early Modern England
This post is part of a series marking the print and online Open Access (free) publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, …
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Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Still can’t fully believe it but it’s out in the world: I’ve been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship this round. You can read more about “Past, Present and Futures of Historical Games”👇+more to come soon about what this means for @historygamesnet.bsky.social! www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/31...
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New Future Leaders Fellows announced
Dr Esther Wright and Dr Lucy Riglin have been awarded UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships
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Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin @jasminekt.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Huge congratulations!
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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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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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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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Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin @jasminekt.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
My colliewhips ♥️
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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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Lloyd Bowen @lloydbowen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Short article published today in @historicaljnl.bsky.social on the making of the “Roundhead” stereotype in 1641. It’s OA and can be found here. Enjoy!
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Revisiting the Origins of the ‘Roundhead’ in 1641 | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
Revisiting the Origins of the ‘Roundhead’ in 1641
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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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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
four pigs underneath a blossoming tree
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James Seth @jamesseth.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I’m floored by this incredibly kind review of my first book in Mariner’s Mirror. Thanks @clairejowitt.bsky.social for letting me know!
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Maritime Musicians and Performers on Early Modern English Voyages: The lives of the seafaring middle class
Published in The Mariner's Mirror (Vol. 112, No. 1, 2026)
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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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Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin @jasminekt.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I think she’s planning the next heist!
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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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Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin @jasminekt.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
And pre order on Christmas Day!! Hurrah!
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Angela McShane @angelamcshane.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's nearly real!! boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-bal...
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The Ballad Trade and its Politics in Seventeenth-Century Britain
Investigates the creative and commercial processes that enabled engagement between popular music and politics in seventeenth-century England.
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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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Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin @jasminekt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Quite a critical editorial assistant?
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Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin @jasminekt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
So delightful! Has she got collie in there somewhere? Looks so much like one of my collie cross girls
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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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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Judy Z Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social reviews 'The Market for Skill: Apprenticeship and Economic Growth in Early Modern England', by Patrick Wallis @patrickwallis.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @princetonupress.bsky.social
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The Market for Skill: Apprenticeship and Economic Growth in Early Modern England, by Patrick Wallis
This book will be recognised for a generation or more as the definitive study of pre-industrial apprenticeship in England. It sets out to do so at the cent
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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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Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin @jasminekt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Ooh, nice to see our built environment vol there!
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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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Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin @jasminekt.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
This looks great. I look forward to reading!
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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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Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin @jasminekt.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Congratulations Beth! How brilliant
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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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Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin @jasminekt.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I will be shocked if we ever see out stuff again!
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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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Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin @jasminekt.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
That is terrible practice!
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