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Justin T. Brown-Ramsey @brown-ramsey.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Anyone have a good resource, like an updated mega list of ACTIVE dissertation fellowships and grants? Many lists I’m coming across are a few years old or have not been recently updated to reflect budget cuts and whatnot. Thanks, in advance, for any and all suggestions, folks.

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Molly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Looking forward to this workshop on Nov. 6 in Princeton at the IAS. Livestream option is available! #earlymodern #skystorians #EarlyModernSpain

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Christian Allgore 💀🩸🖤🎃 @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“a trail of books sold under duress …” “that many of these books were acquired in circumstances morally dubious at best, clearly illegal and unethical at worst, can no longer be ignored.” Say #provenance - you hear the loudest ‘Shush!’ in the library… #bookhistory theconversation.com/when-europes...

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When Europe’s monastic libraries were looted, Britain’s richest book collectors went hunting

The forgotten story of how Britain acquired Europe’s rarest books.

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Duygu Yıldırım @duyguyildirim.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

So my book now has a cover, featuring one of my favorite archival images. Forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2027!

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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Environment and History Vol. 32 No. 4 is out now, available to read for subscribers. This special issue, entitled 'Our Burning Landscapes', explores the politics of fire in the modern world. Read here: liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/whpeh/32... #envhist #history

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Simone Gingrich @simonegingrich.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I have a new paper out 👇 I argue that there is a lot of potential for collaboration between environmental history and the sustainability sciences. The #envhist of forests offers some telling examples.

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The White Horse Press @whitehorsepress.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

‘The Contributions of Environmental History in Times of Social-Ecological Crisis: Insights from the Forest’ by Simone Gingrich, #openaccess here: www.doi.org/10.3828/whpg... #envhist

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Joe Clark @jmhclark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Join us next month on Zoom for a celebration of a great new book, "The Inquisition's Gambit" (Penn 2026) by Ana María Silva Campo. Registration link below!

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Joe Clark @jmhclark.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Join us next month on Zoom for a celebration of a great new book, "The Inquisition's Gambit" (Penn 2026) by Ana María Silva Campo. Registration link below!

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CLAH @clahistorians.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

CLAH's Colonial Studies Section is thrilled to announce that it will be hosting a book launch with Ana María Silva Campo for The Inquisition's Gambit: Making Wealth and Race in Cartagena de Indias (@pennpress.bsky.social) on November 19 via Zoom. Register here: uky.zoom.us/meeting/regi....

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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

A journey through Florence's multifaceted global connections Brace for the opening of the exhibition: 🌏 Global Florence. The World of Francesco Carletti, ca. 1573-1636 📆 9 October 2026 - 9 January 2027 📍 Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, Italy

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Joe Clark @jmhclark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I had him last year as an IL replacement and liked what he did when he played. But honestly it was a bet on Andrew Vaughn regression plus Chourio starting on the IL. I figured Bauers would get decent playing time to begin and then I would drop him when Nootbaar (who I drafted on the IL) got healthy.

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Joe Clark @jmhclark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I walked out of my NL-Only 5x5 roto with Nasim Nuñez ($5 because of draft dynamics at the endgame) and Jake Bauers ($1), both of whom came up huge for me. Added Casey Schmitt ($1) via trade on April 4, which was great until the ASB.

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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Coming up Tues, 6 Oct - Towards an Oceanic Art History of the Early Modern Portuguese World Speaker: Elsje van Kessel Host: ARTES, Iberian & Latin American Visual Culture Group To register for the event and to receive a Zoom link, sign up here: artes-uk.org/online-progr... #earlymodern

Digital event poster featuring ships on water in the background, human figures in the foreground; text with event detail in white.

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Institute of the History of Medicine at JHU @histmedjhu.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

We are excited to be hosting the 18th annual JAS-Med conference on 9/25-9/26! With the mission of fostering a collegial intellectual community amongst graduate students and providing an engaging forum for their research, JAS-Med is proudly student-led and organized. jashistofmed.wordpress.com

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Joe Clark @jmhclark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am in an old school roto league that conducts all its business by phone/email. At the trade deadline this year, I was in an extended trade negotiation and for both me and the other manager, Gmail started suggesting (wildly wrong/bad) trades for us. This was an actual AI-generated "suggested reply"

AI-generated suggested reply: "Hey Joe, If we take Lawlar out, I'd still need to think about giving up Pivetta and Xavier for just one of those pitchers and your first rounder. You still think Lawlar starts in AAA?"

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 22/09/2026

Join us online at 1pm on Thursday (24th Sept) for 'Historical Context: The Climate Crisis' bit.ly/3V4lgKf With panellists @dagomardegroot.bsky.social, @sadiahqureshi.bsky.social and @ellydezateux.bsky.social. How does historical expertise help us understand the world today? All welcome #Skystorians

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Historical Context: The Climate Crisis

A panel discussion, hosted by the Royal Historical Society, in which expert historical researchers provide context for current events.

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Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

JOB: TT Assistant Professor, Global Humanities, Simon Fraser University Literary, Rhetorical and Social Worlds of Ancient Greece universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The third round of formal reflection for for Karin and I (along with a lifetime of constantly talking about it)! Please share widely. Please circulate widely to anyone who might be interested. We will be welcoming people who would like to attend and join the dialogue as well as paper givers.

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Call For Proposals: Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds April 15-17, 2027 Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf) Details at: forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...

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Dr Rory MacLellan @rorymaclellan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A spell in a 15th-century grimoire for summoning a demon to find buried treasure. Sloane MS 3849, f. 18r. #medievalsky

Medieval spell to find buried treasure, with diagrams. When you come to a place where you believe there to be treasure hidden, you must draw a quadrangle in the earth as shown in the diagrams. Then burn or boil frankincense, saffron, and a dyed red rose and breath in the fumes, presenting the concoction to each corner of the quadrangle, this will bind the spirit to you when he appears in one of the corners.

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Craig Lambert @medievalmariner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’m recruiting a Research Fellow in Early Modern Spanish Maritime History to join our ERC-funded Uncharted Maritime Worlds project at the University of Southampton. Please share with anyone who might be interested! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSW249/r...

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Research Fellow (Early Modern Spanish Maritime History) 3497426AR at University of Southampton

An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Early Modern Spanish Maritime History) 3497426AR is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openi...

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Douglas Clark @disfordiscourse.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Join us in #Atlanta for 'Oceanic Risk in the Early Modern World' at the next @saaupdates.bsky.social conference. Our seminar examines how seafaring informs early modern conceptions of risk, while also exploring how models of mind were shaped by the hazards associated with oceanic travel. #shax2027

A ship approaching a rock jutting from the sea. Jacques Callot, 'Ship Navigating Near Rocks', 1628 (National Gallery of Art).

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Molly Warsh @mwarsh.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

The program for the April 2026 conference of the Forum on Early-modern Empires and Global Interactions (FEEGI) is live. This year is extra special because we've teamed up with the Program in Early American Economy & Society. Join us! #earlymodern #globalhistory #earlyamerican @csschmitt.bsky.social

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Conferences

View the 2026 Conference Program here . Register for the 2026 conference here .

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

REGISTRATION OPEN! Now more than ever, research is reshaping our view of women’s roles in the early modern book trade. Join us in Antwerp (5–7 Nov 2025) for our conference Women & the Household in the #earlymodern Book Trade. Register here: tinyurl.com/womenbooktrade #rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜

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Conference: Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade | Museum Plantin-Moretus

The aim of this two-day conference is to share knowledge of women’s rich and varied lives and works in the period before the rapid industrialisation of book production which changed the face of home l...

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Stephanie Porras @periodeye.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Extremely excited to announce an article co-authored by myself and Aaron Hyman on the visual and material cultures of Dutch piracy in the early modern Caribbean is now out in Renaissance quarterly @rsaorg.bsky.social , and open access! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Recasting the Silver Fleet, or The Propaganda of Piracy in the Dutch Caribbean | Renaissance Quarterly: Vol 79, No 3

In 1628, the Dutch West India Company captured a Spanish silver fleet off the shore of Cuba. A broadside by Claes Jansz Visscher (1587–1652) celebrated the event, illustrating the battle and providing...

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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Want to hear about some of the amazing rewilding projects happening across Ireland, and what we can learn from overseas, especially Scotland and Costa Rica? My new book 'Setting the Land Free - Visions of a Rewilded Ireland' launches tomorrow (Wednesday) in @waterstones.bsky.social Cork at 6.30.

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Luděk Stavinoha @stavinoha.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My book, Unruly Subjects, is out with @manchesterup.bsky.social 📘✨ For the last decade, I’ve been researching Europe’s border struggles in Greece, in the Aegean archipelago. It's a look at how people - citizens and non-citizens - carve out spaces of hope amidst state violence and abandonment. (1/4)

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Did the metropolitan suburbs have a distinctive 'petitioning culture' due to the their social and administrative growing pains in the 17th century? 🗃️ *New* addition from Aaron Columbus to the #EarlyModern #PowerOfPetitioning annotated bibliography: muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/artic...

Screenshot of the first page of an article by Aaron Columbus called 'Place, Petitioning, and Welfare in Seventeenth-Century Suburban London'.

Abstract: Petitioning was a feature of everyday life in the suburbs of seventeenth-century London, where rapid urban growth, migration, poverty, plague, and overlapping jurisdictions shaped petitioning practices. This article argues that the metropolitan environment influenced how petitioners constructed claims to welfare, justice, and protection, producing a petitioning culture that differed from that in rural and provincial England. Drawing on petitions submitted to parish vestries and quarter sessions, it demonstrates how suburban Londoners mobilised experiences of poverty, disease, settlement, and belonging to negotiate with multiple authorities. By examining petitioning through the lens of place, this article shows how the social and administrative complexities of suburban London fostered petitioning as an everyday political practice through which welfare, authority, and belonging were negotiated.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

El País publishes two letters from Pope Francis in which he accused Opus Dei of engaging in political intrigues like an organized crime syndicate and suggested he was prepared now to ban the organization outright. The organization now exercises extraordinary influence in one country: the US.

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El Opus Dei asegura que no se apropió “clandestinamente” de la virgen del siglo XI que le reclama el obispo de Barbastro

La Obra difunde un comunicado horas después de que EL PAÍS publique dos cartas inéditas del papa Francisco en las que muestra su apoyo al prelado oscense

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Leon Simons @leonsimons.com · 02/09/2026

RIP 1.5

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Seth Rockman @sethrockman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Short-term grants to research at the Rhode Island Historical Society. Don't be shy...

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Fellowships – The Rhode Island Historical Society

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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 01/09/2026

Summer 2026 is provisionally the UK’s warmest summer on record with the season’s mean temperature made around 130 times more likely due to human-induced climate change. Here, we delve into the numbers 🧵

Mean temperature for 2026 in the UK. The map shows widely above average temperature, particularly in the south.

Rainfall amounts in summer 2026 in the UK compared to average. The maps shows widely dry conditions, though the west of Scotland is slightly wetter than average

Sunshine duration in summer 2026 compared to average. The map shows widely sunny conditions in the season, with the south of the country particularly sunny.

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Conference Announcement: The Last Man at 200: Imagining the Future after Environmental Disaster The Keats-Shelley Association of America (@ksaacomm.bsky.social) and the University of Notre Dame invite you to a hybrid conference next month! More on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6578

Cover for The Last Man at 200: Mary Shelley, Postapocalyptic Politics and the Environmental Humanities, edited by Eileen M. Hunt.

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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is a 12th-century list of property that a fabulously wealthy Egyptian Jewish woman is bringing into her marriage (and what she's owed in case of divorce). Items include a gold tiara (80 dinars), a crystal rooster (4 dinars), a Chinese pen set (13 dinars), and 250(!) dinars' worth of books.

A single dark brown paper manuscript leaf that's been folded into quadrants. Approximately 30 lines of Judaeo-Arabic text in black ink is spread between 2 columns. The leaf sits on a blue background next to a yellow label reading T-S J1.29 (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-TS-J-00001-00029/1)

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Jade Jesty @jadejesty.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I am delighted that my article has been published by The Seventeenth Century, @tandfresearch.bsky.social! ⚔️ It explores the reputation of Prince Maurice of the Palatinate, a highly active military commander in the British Civil Wars! #skystorians #earlymodern www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Prince Maurice, Prince Palatine of the Rhine, in the British Civil Wars

This article explores the representations of Prince Maurice, Prince Palatine of the Rhine, in the history of the British Civil Wars. Tracing the development of his fearsome reputation as the wars p...

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Joe Clark @jmhclark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This story is especially funny if you actually know anything about Johns Hopkins, where faculty may not be politically conservative per se., but where the academic culture is extremely conservative.

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Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The program is now available for Environmental Histories of New England, 1600-2026, sponsored by The New England Quarterly and @mhs1791.bsky.social, with support from @bplmaps.bsky.social. We will meet in Boston on Friday, September 18 for papers and a keynote by @joycechaplin.bsky.social.

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Massachusetts Historical Society: NEQ Symposium on Environmental Histories of New England, 1600-2026

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I was one of the manuscript readers of this excellent study, and I'm very glad to see it in print. #earlymodern #reformationinthelowcountries

Blue and red book cover: "War, Revolt, and Saced Space," by Andew Spicer

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Volume 39 issue 2 of Social History of Medicine is now available online. Includes the Special Issue, Ailing Empires: Medicine, Science and Imperialism (Guest editors Sam Goodman and Sarah Arens) plus 4 other original articles (open access) and book reviews. #histmed #histSTM

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Volume 39 Issue 2 | Social History of Medicine | Oxford Academic

The official journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine. Publishes research concerned with all aspects of health, illness, and medical treatment in the past. Articles treat the social h...

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Elise A. Mitchell @bydreamphd.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

There’s this source from Cadwallader Colden, where he’s eavesdropping on enslaved Africans expressing their surprise and disappointment that Europeans don’t know about smallpox inoculation during an epidemic in early 1700s New York. I think about it often.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

A new #reformazing metaphor has just dropped in the fever swamps of the online right. Apparently universities are the latest iteration of the Tudor monasteries, and therefore some metaphorical Henry VIII must dissolve them. Let's parse this a bit. 1/n

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Paul Arblaster @paularblaster.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

News in Antwerp 400 years ago: Gustavus Adolphus's invasion of Prussia, Mansfeld's incursion into Silesia, and (unusually) an editorial comment on media literacy.

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Joe Clark @jmhclark.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I didn't click the link before, but just realized that is what the archive links to. Neat.

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Joe Clark @jmhclark.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

When I was in grad school in the 2010s, he was still writing the sixth volume of Barbarism and Religion. He wrote the entire manuscript, and I assume all of his other work, in longhand in pencil and hired a grad student to type it all up.

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