Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiMark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Imagine that. Choosing the compassionate option rather than blustering racism and bigotry. 1228
Dr Lena Liapi @lenaliapi.bsky.social · 15/10/2025Bluesky hive mind: I am looking for a robust theoretical discussion of civil wars in history, would anyone have any suggestions? I have read some, but I would like to dig deeper! #history 110
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiJohn Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 22/09/2025I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...cambridge.orgHistorical Journal Call for Special IssuesWelcome to Cambridge Core 07673
Dr Lena Liapi @lenaliapi.bsky.social · 18/09/2025This has got absolutely ridiculous. I have just deleted my account 072
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiBethany Keats @bethanykeats.bsky.social · 16/09/2025"Women have been describing their experiences of male abuse for centuries – we just haven’t always been ready to listen to them." @drnaomibaker.bsky.social reminds us that if you think domestic and family violence is a new thing, you're not paying attention. theconversation.com/the-17th-cen...theconversation.comThe 17th-century woman who wrote about surviving domestic abuseIn the 17th century, Anne Wentworth spoke out against her abusive husband and the religious institution that protected him. 02516
Dr Lena Liapi @lenaliapi.bsky.social · 30/06/2025This is a thought-provoking piece about what historians should do in the face of AI-generated history 062
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiTim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 09/06/2025Very much looking forward to John Coffey speaking about the diaries of William Wilberforce this Wed. at the earlier time of 3pm - in Northampton. Do join us online or in person (some travel funds are available). www.history.ac.uk/events/diari... @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.socialhistory.ac.ukThe Diaries and Journals of William Wilberforce: An Editor’s Report 0105
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiLiesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 19/05/2025With plans for the coming academic year being firmed up: non-UK-based #EarlyModern #SkyStorians: let us know when & where you're passing through this little island. Would be lovely to grab a coffee or to get you to present your work where feasible.liesbethcorens.wordpress.comVisitors To The UKAn attempt to capture and disseminate information about earlymodernists visiting the UK. 94525
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiHelmer Helmers @helmer.bsky.social · 20/05/2025My project on early modern public diplomacy has entered its final year, and our archival work is at an end. Time to start sharing! Here's a first batch: the 1000+ letter catalogue of one our favorite publishing diplomats, Pieter Cornelisz Brederode. emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/...emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.ukThe Correspondence of Pieter Cornelisz Brederode – EMLOHelmer Helmers and Romee van Dommele 2208
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiEmily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Happy Friday! you can now register for our @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on Early Modern War Narratives! June 6th in person and online! Keynote by Andrew Hopper and Ismini Pells, funded by KCL, CEMS, & @srsrensoc.bsky.social. Register here (and pls repost!) — www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...tickettailor.comSelect tickets – CEMS KCL Colloquium: Early Modern War Narratives – King's College LondonThis year, KCL's Centre for Early Modern Studies' Annual Colloquium will be on Early Modern War Narratives. Join us for a day o... 12322
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiMargot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025It's an apt week to remember the South Sea Bubble of 1720. And for anyone thinking of teaching comparative financial crises next year, a reminder of the fab resources and datasets on the Bubble compiled by the Yale School of Management: som.yale.edu/centers/inte... 211858
Dr Lena Liapi @lenaliapi.bsky.social · 04/04/2025#skystorians I am looking for work on early modern Swedish witchcraft for a student of mine, does anyone have any good suggestions? 354
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiStefan C. Aykut @stefanaykut.bsky.social · 29/03/2025🇹🇷📢 İstanbul today. This is what hope looks like. The current historical conjuncture may have emboldened authoritarian leaders worldwide, but it is also one of massive social mobilizations *for* democracy, in Turkey, Serbia, Georgia, Israel, in US townhalls... The authoritarian wave can be stopped. 16672209
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiAnne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social · 24/03/202528 MARCH: John Gallagher on “The notaries of the Royal Exchange: migration and translation between London and the Low Countries?” IHR Low Countries seminar 5:30 pm GMT (UK clocks not yet changed), online & in person at IHR Wolfson Rm 2. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/events/notar...history.ac.ukThe notaries of the Royal Exchange: migration and translation between London and the Low Countries 01818
Dr Lena Liapi @lenaliapi.bsky.social · 01/03/2025This is what Greeks did yesterday - our biggest ever (I feel) demonstration. Many media outlets focus on the few violent clashes, but this was a massive protest in many parts of Greece 010
Dr Lena Liapi @lenaliapi.bsky.social · 24/02/2025I am really pleased to hear it, what a great resource for historians! 030
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiJohn McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 23/02/202524 Feb 1664: John Twyn, printer of anti-#Stuart pamphlets is executed #otd (eebo) 041
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiRachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · 18/02/2025I've just cleared a few to-do list items and been alerted that the first pre-ordered copies of Postal Intelligence have arrived (!) so now seems like as good a time as any to share some exciting and troubling tidbits from my ten years with Europe's postal technocrats 1/? #earlymodern 🗃️ 1419664
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiMarie Jaros @mariejaros.bsky.social · 23/01/2025This is ‘Miss Clara’. This #rhinoceros came to Europe from India in 1741, where she was shown in many places and became very famous. I saw the bronze figure (c. 1770) in the museum today and then followed some of Clara’s tracks. 1/9 🦏 #Birmingham, The #Barber Institute, attr. to P.A. v. Verschaffelt 1157
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiDavid Brady @antiprofessor.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Post brings this chunky number from the Printing Historical Society, containing many scholarly essays about the history of colour lithography 142
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiCentre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 23/01/2025📚🎉📚 Huge congratulations to CECS member Dr Alison O’Byrne on the publication day of her book, The Art of Walking in London: Representing the Eighteenth-Century City, 1700-1830 from @cambridgeup.bsky.social ‘Elegantly written, well-researched, and highly engaging’ and with a gorgeous cover. #18thC 110826
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiCatherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 19/01/2025If you fancy some Renaissance listening this Sunday, you're in luck. I have a new podcast up: talking to @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social about Cesare Borgia for Not Just the Tudors.podfollow.comNot Just the Tudors<p>Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks about everything from the Aztecs to witches, Velázquez to Shakespeare, Mughal India to the Mayflower. Not, in other words, just the Tudors, but most definite... 0216
Dr Lena Liapi @lenaliapi.bsky.social · 14/01/2025I am really excited for this, especially since Heidi Mehrkens is an excellent former colleague who always manages to make any subject she deals with interesting! Mind you, this topic probably does not need any help to be interesting :) 131
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiTom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Available in Open Access here: boydellandbrewer.com/978183765021...boydellandbrewer.comPrivilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France - Boydell and BrewerThis book closely analyses the rise and fall of Louis XIV's marine insurance institutions in Paris, which were central to the French monarchy's efforts to st... 0103
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiSasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel... 2211198
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiHelen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social · 10/01/2025So this is very exciting! We have 16 places on our AHRC-funded Print Matters Summer School. There is no course fee, and applicants get 4 nights B&B accommodation and a travel bursary of up to £100. The Summer School is open to all disciplines and career stages. www.thinicepress.org/events/print...thinicepress.orgPrint Matters summer school: Thin Ice Press — Thin Ice PressWhat does it mean to think about matter and materiality through the medium of letterpress printing? We invite scholars of matter, materiality and/or material culture (broadly conceived) in any ... 3186156
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiTed McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 07/12/2024www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...haaretz.comMassive database of evidence, compiled by a historian, details Israel's war crimes in Gaza*** 24321
Dr Lena Liapi @lenaliapi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024If you fancy buying my book, Roguery in Print: Crime and Culture in early modern London, it is right now on sale through Boydell and Brewer! Code BB060 boydellandbrewer.com/978178327440...boydellandbrewer.comRoguery in Print - Boydell and BrewerThe first comprehensive analysis of an extensive body of rogue pamphlets published in early modern London.Early modern England was fascinated by the figure o... 070
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiBrodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 21/11/2024'an arrest was doubly a performance: the magistrate needed to perform his own legitimacy to those present & if the arrest was successful, it performed a vision of the state for those present' New post by @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social on @historywo.bsky.social: www.historyworkshop.org.uk/practice-his... 34716
Dr Lena Liapi @lenaliapi.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Ooh I hadn't seen that! Seriously considering applying 010
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiJoey Crozier @joeycrozier.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Hello #skystorians 👋 good to see so many here! I’ll leave the annual Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern c.1500 - 1850 #CfP here for folks who are interested. Come and join us in Aberystwyth, 12 - 13 June 2025. Co-organised with @heathernicholas.bsky.social @rharman.bsky.social 23218
Dr Lena Liapi @lenaliapi.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Very engaging analysis of paper worlds in an early modern school :) 131
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiKathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 16/11/2024This is actually full of good reporting on casualization of UKHE at even the most prestigious institutions. And the fact that the Observer pressed Christ Church directly on ad wording, and then reported on the college's sidestepping is nothing short of astonishing.theguardian.comOxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staffLeading university accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms 16302141
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiDr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 12/11/2024To produce 25,000 transcriptions of English wills 1540-1790 we are combining Handwritten Text Recognition software with the power of the crowd. If you'd like to participate you can transcribe wills any time on our Zooniverse site! #EarlyModern 🗃️ www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs... 616772
Dr Lena Liapi @lenaliapi.bsky.social · 10/11/2024Amazing list of podcasts for the early modern period! 070
Reposted by Dr Lena LiapiBrodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 27/09/2024If you're a #skystorian who works on digitised archival material - and pretty much all of us do - you should read this new article on #EarlyModern wills by Harry Smith @bhamhistory.bsky.social and Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social, #OpenAccess in the TRHS 🗃️: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 912863