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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

✏️ Mark your diaries! Next month @cemskcl.bsky.social, Kerry Apps, Hannah Dawson, Catharine MacLeod, & ME will be talking about Restoration women, their libertinism, their consumerism, & their contact with the expanding world. Book here & spread the word 🌍 kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/world...

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Worldly Women at the Court of Charles II: Exile, Excess, and the Expanding World — CEMS KCL Blog

Join CEMS for a conversion on women and the Restoration, featuring Dr. Annalisa Nicholson, Dr. Kerry Apps, Dr. Hannah Dawson, and Catherine MacLeod.

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Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

How utterly Swedish by one of the main Swedish media outlets to ask Swedes what they would serve for "fika", if they were part of the ongoing meetings between parties on forming a cabinet following the elections.

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Nov 12th - PhD Lighting Talks at @ihrscb.bsky.social! A chance to introduce your PhD project in 3-5 minutes on any aspect of society, culture or belief, 1500-1800. Organised by @teaphaine.bsky.social and @annajpravdica.bsky.social. Email abstract to tmt29@cam.ac.uk by Oct 12th. #EarlyModern 🗃️

If you would like to attend the seminar, do keep an eye out on our webpage (very soon to be updated with our events for this term) or you can always follow us on Bluesky @ihrscb.bsky.social. We tend to meet on Thursdays during term time at 5.30 pm — all are welcome!

PhD Lightning Talks
Deadline: 12 October, Event: 12 November

The Society, Culture, and Belief Seminar is inviting applications for lightning talks from PhD students on their research. We ask that these talks be 3-5 minutes. This is a fantastic opportunity to talk through your research with a broader audience of fellow students and more seasoned academics, as well as test out some ideas in a comfortable and welcoming environment. The talks will be followed by a brief Q&A session.The event will take place on Thursday, 12 November, 2026, from 5.30 pm onwards. For those presenting in person, we typically continue the conversation after the seminar over drinks or dinner. We’re open to applications from students working on any geographical region between 1500-1800.If you would like to participate, please email: tmt29@cam.ac.uk by 12 October 2026 with a 300-word thesis summary and a brief bio.

Society, Culture & Belief, 1500 – 1800

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

An absolutely fantastic #Roman barge, "De Meern 1", lenght 25m. It was wrecked in a winding tributary of the Rhine around the year 190 AD, possibly due to navigational error. Much of the barge's interior and the captain's personal belongings were preserved in...🧵1/2 📷 me 🏺 #Archaeology

A photo of a well-preserved wooden barge displayed inside a building. The barge is long and narrow, with wooden benches running along its length. It appears weathered. There are some people watching the barge, giving a sense of scale to the barge.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Cherry seller in a shop, 1660s. Really beautiful painting by Godfried Schalcken of Dordrecht, Leiden etc.. Today is his day.

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Royal Studies @royalstudies.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Our evening reception, celebrating the start to a brilliant conference and the winner of the @royal_studies_journal Biennial Book Prize for 2026 @emmaoberat @historickyustav_avcr @akademievedcr #KQ15 #conference #royalstudies #kingship #queenship

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Dr Miranda Kaufmann @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

#Heiresses- which tells the stories of nine British female enslavers- is out in paperback today! Get yours here: linktr.ee/drmirandakau...

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Royal Studies @royalstudies.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Today's the day! Kings and Queens 15 starts today in Prague and online💜 See above for today's programme and for my details go to our website via our linktree 🔗 Make sure to follow along and share your experience with our conference hashtag #KQ15 #Royalstudies #conference

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Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Every librarian should have one.

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Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Session accepted! Cap sur Lyon et l'ESSHC 2027!

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Satin pin cushion, English, 1652 - the design in pins (Victoria & Albert Museum, London) There's something immensely soothing about this object.

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neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Article in the most recent edition of The Medal on coronation medals of Charles III (of Hungary) & VI (Holy Roman Emperor) asserting short-lived ambitions to reunite the Austrian & Spanish Habsburg lines. Those pesky Bourbons! #c18 #c18th #18thc

First page of Daniel Haas Kianička, 'Allegorical Depictions and Inscriptions on the Bratislava Coronation Medals of Charles III from 1712', The Medal 88 (spring 2026), 18-27.

Illustration of a silver medal with Charles's titles surmounted by a crown on the obverse; reverse, a globe encircled by clouds and the legend CONSTANTIA ET FORTITUDINE ('Through perseverance and courage')

Illustration of a silver medal with a bust of Charles in full-bottomed wig and armour, laureate, looking right, with his titles around the edge, oberse; reverse, a pomegranate symbolising fertility and also Charles's claim to the throne of Granada and the other Spanish dominions of the Habsburg dynasty and the legend REGNANDO RECREAT SISTITQVE CRVOREM ('Refresh and revive the royal blood', with some of the letters enlarged to make a chronograph of the year in 1712 in Roman numerals; in the exergue, CORONATIO IN REGEM HUNGARIÆ 1712 ('Coronation in the Kingdon of Hungary 1712')

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IMEMS Durham @imems.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

👏 Huge congratulations to IMEMS member Dr Jacob Lollar, who has just had three publications appear, all in the same weekend! They include his third book, on the Syriac reception of the 'Acts of Thekla' and the cult of St Thekla, published by Mohr Siebeck.

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De Gruyter Brill Medieval & Early Modern Studies @dgb-mem.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Interested in our new series in Premodern Health Humanities? 📚 Join today's round table (#441) with the series editors and Robert Forke from De Gruyter Brill! 🗓️ Monday, 6 July, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM GMT+1 🏠 Maurice Keyworth Building 1.09 @imc-leeds.bsky.social #medievalsky

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Johannes Westberg @dr-jwestberg.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Have you ever wondered about what English language terms should we use when we discuss the history of European education? What should be do with terms such as "compulsory schooling", "school child" "state" and "nation"? In that case, this book is for your, see doi.org/10.1007/978-...

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Martin Andersson @martinhist.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Vi letar ny doktorand i agrarhistoria till ett projekt om hur människor i det förindustriella Sverige fick tillgång till mat – Känner du någon som vill du forska om bröd, öl och gröt i fyra år!? www.slu.se/om-slu/jobba...

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Doktorand i agrarhistoria | slu.se

Vetenskap och utbildning för hållbart liv.

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Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Things That Matter: Materials & Culture in/for the Digital Age, Uppsala 2026.

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Dr Helen Williams @drwilliams.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Our Finding Aid of 18th-century women in the Stationers' Company is LIVE! Here I reflect on some of the pitfalls facing the scholar of female apprentices. Let me know if it's useful! www.amdigital.co.uk/insights/blo...

A detail from the gutter margins of a manuscript apprentice register, featuring entries of apprentices turned over in an eighteenth-century secretary hand.

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Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Things That Matter: Materials & Culture in/for the Digital Age, Uppsala 2026. #enlight #matariki

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Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

En gång i tiden läste jag, som var helt inkörd på läroböcker, en bok som fick mig att se vad historia kunde vara. Det var en jordbävning. Det var Carlo Ginzburg. Jag har läst den så många gånger. I helgen läser jag den igen, som en hyllning till författaren och till allt han gav mig.

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Laura Cleaver @laurajcleaver.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

If you are feeling that you are missing out on the London International Palaeography School, it is not too late to book for Birmingham…

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Sheina Lew-Levy @sheinalew.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

@durhampsych.bsky.social current has 5 (FIVE!!) PhD studentships being advertised! 3 to work with me on children as agents of cultural evolution 2 to work with @drboothroyd.bsky.social on examining school-based body image interventions. Please share and apply! www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

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Fees and Funding - Durham University

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Anton Jansson @antnlj.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

En doktorandplats i idé- och lärdomshistoria utlyst vid min institution. Deadline för ansökan 26/8, tillträde 1/2 nästa år. Sprid vidare! web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...

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En doktorandplats inom idé- och lärdomshistoria

Institutionen för litteratur, idéhistoria och religion är en av humanistiska fakultetens sex institutioner och har

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I fucking love Van Eyck. They have a replica of the Ghent Altar piece in its original side chapel so you can see how much they'd painted it for exactly that spot. Adored pointing out the way the light falls to visitors when I was a tour guide there. I didn't catch the reflection in the 3 mm gem 🤯

the angels from the Ghent altar piece with a close up of one of the gems. with the text overlaid 'the gem on this singing angel is barely 3mm wide. Inside it, Van Eyck painted the real chapel window exactly as it reflected from where the painting once hung'

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Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Another fabulous master's workshop! 13 theses by second-year students, and 17 thesis proposals by first-year students.

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Patrick Svensson @agrarsvennis.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

På onsdag den 27 maj kl. 13 gästas högre seminariet i agrarhistoria av Kirsi Laine från Åbo. Hon kommer presentera sin forskning om torpare i sydvästra Finland 1760-1920. Mycket välkomna! (Zoom-länk I bilden).

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Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

The beautiful thing with history is that the more you learn, the more difficult the questions become.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

A please @labouruk.bsky.social, stop saying that it's up to us to stop Reform. YOU could stop a Reform government in 2029, by introducing the proportional representation so many in the country have been clamouring for. The only way Farage can win is through our crazy first-past-the-post system.

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Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Still going strong! Presenting "Gustav's Hand" with @johansjoberg70.bsky.social at the annual conference of Svenska Arkivförbundet.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

18thc trunks for paper. Just two of many in my files. One of these I'd been waiting decades to see. It's in the VMHC exhibit Un/bound and belongs to the Madden family. An 18th c ancestor of this free black family kept her freedom papers +more. Wasn't discovered in an attic until the 20thc.

Maden family ragged 18th c trunk in the Virginia Museum of History and Culture exhibit.

A military trunk from the 18th c also very ragged leather coming off the wooden structure. With nails.

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Mikael Alm @mikaelalm.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

May (Gustav) the fourth (Adolf) be with you.

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Juliet Turner @juliet-turner.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

We have a wild hedgehog who lives in our garden and is friends with our cat (this isn’t their first meeting, they know each other well)

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Henning Hansen @henninghansen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

The latest issue of pre-Tinder studies

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Johannes Westberg @dr-jwestberg.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I en tid när utbildning ofta reduceras till ekonomi eller neurovetenskap, blir det allt viktigare att vi kan föra en diskussion om utbildningens och bildningens mål och mening. Stort tack till redaktör @jennymarianilsson.bsky.social !

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Petter Hellström @nphellstrom.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Pleased to see @mirandabryant.bsky.social's report from the new Badin exhibition at the National Museum in Stockholm, curated by my friend and colleague Åsa Bharathi Larsson of Södertörn University. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Portrait of Badin, unsigned replica of a lost pastel portrait by Gustav Lundberg (1695-1786), dating from 1776.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

German/Netherlandish School, 16th century Portrait of a Man in Red c. 1530-50 (Royal Collection Trust, HM CIII)

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Nättidningen Svensk Historia @svenskhistoria.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Vacker utstyrsel till hästar med dekorerade beslag, sporrar och bett – den arkeologiska undersökningen från Sylta i Västmanland bjöd på spektakulära vikingatida fynd som nu visas i utställningen "Älskade hästar" på Historiska museet. svenskhistoria.se/aktuell-arke... #svhist

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Aktuell arkeologi – Älskade hästar - Nättidningen Svensk Historia

Historiska museet 2 april 2026 – 4 april 2027…

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Try walking in my shoes: the #earlymodern edition. How BIG actually were these boots? The two lads in the image are about to dance - as you will see in the next post.

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Transkribus @transkribus.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Tickets for #TUC2026 are officially available! Join us from 21-23 September at the University of Passau to discuss the future of specialised AI in historical research. Get your Early Bird ticket here: tuc.transkribus.org/tickets

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Transkribus User Conference 2026

Join us at the Transkribus User Conference 2026 - Connect, Learn, and Explore the Future of Unlocking Written Heritage with AI

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