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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector bit.ly/47Y3hYI Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
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PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Here’s another fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on guilds and associations supporting early modern language professionals bit.ly/49rsLA3 Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
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PhD position, project LangPro: 'Societies and Guilds in the Language Industry'
PhD position, project LangPro: 'Societies and Guilds in the Language Industry'
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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Should also have tagged organiser @mlcoolahan.bsky.social!
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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Tomorrow!
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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Join the @stemma.bsky.social team! We've just advertised a two-year postdoc on WP2, "Networking Early Modern Poems." Apply by 30 September; details at link below. #earlymodern #dh #postdoc #jobfairy www.universityofgalway.ie/human-resour...
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2025
Best thing I've ever read about AI and the academy - every line a banger
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) has recently been updated with 4500+ new references. Discover further details about this update in our latest On History blog blog.history.ac.uk/2025/07/bibl... @brepols.net
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Bibliography of British and Irish History June 2025 update  - On History
The future of BBIH  The IHR are delighted to confirm that it has now signed a new five year agreement with Brepols that secures the future of the Bibliography. Both the IHR and Brepols are very…
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Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
The FEATHERS conference in Leiden last week was absolutely fantastic, full of excellent papers and truly interdisciplinary conversation. Thank you to the FEATHERS team for organising, and for giving me the opportunity to participate!
A tree-lined canal with colourful flowers in the foreground and a bridge in the distance.
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Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt) @emdigit.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Italian route network is done! 8 influential itinerary books from the #16thcentury through the #18thcentury ready for Maps-style route planning. We're on track for sharing the shapefiles in coming weeks as we continue to develop the tool. Watch this space! #earlymodern #digitalhistory 🗃️
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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Check out the latest VOICES blog! Our Research Fellow, Diego Rincon Yanez, explores how Natural Language Processing and AI helps us learn about the lives of women in early modern Ireland: @tlrhub.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @adaptcentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @tcddublin.bsky.social
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Blog 5: Giving Voice to the Past: How AI Helps Us Listen - VOICES
NLP on VOICES project
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Andy (he/him) @eprenprof.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Here’s a description of @matthewsteggle.bsky.social ‘s work that can be read by an interested public. The rest of us will await the grainier details in the journal Shakespeare.
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ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
In *Sweet Taste of Empire,* (forthcoming August 2025), you can read my re-visiting of the Black boy mentioned by Pepys who was “dried in an oven, and lies there entire in a box” who has been troubling me since graduate school. Another colonial “souvenir” 😢 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Book cover: The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean - Kim F. Hall
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Jonathan Healey @jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
New job at Oxford - do please share widely! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS153/a...
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Associate Professor in History, 1000-1500 at University of Oxford
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Associate Professor in History, 1000-1500 on jobs.ac.uk!
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Philip Schwyzer @philipschwyzer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
PhD Studentship at Exeter: 'Remembering William Shakespeare'! www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... The studentship is part of the new Leverhulme Research Project 'Shakespearean Graves: Literature and the Anglophone Way of Death' (launching in September). Please spread the word!
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Award details | Funding and scholarships for students | University of Exeter
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Lara Dodds @laradodds.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
My new book, co-authored with Michelle Dowd, is now out from Oxford University Press in the UK. US publication to follow shortly. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
A flyer with discount code AAFLYG6 for Early Modern Women's Wrtiing and the Future of Literary History by Michelle M. Dowd and Lara Dodds
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Rachel Ruysch, b. 3 June 1665 - d. 12 Oct 1750. Still Life with Bouquet of Flowers, 1698 (Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main)
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Colossal @thisiscolossal.com · 12/03/2025
Renowned during the Dutch Golden Age for her original style but under-acknowledged for centuries in the canon of Western art history, Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750) finally gets her flowers in the first major U.S. exhibition of her work. www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/rach...
a colorful Dutch still life of flowers on a black background
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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🚨FT Permanent Job 🚨 My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️
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TheBookshop.ie @thebookshopie.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
I won't pretend that Amazon's launch of a .ie site is not a threat to many small (and medium sized) businesses here. It is. But if I could ask Irish people to do one thing - don't assume that whatever you're buying will always be cheaper there. A monopoly is in no one's interest. #speirgorm
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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy International Women’s Day! For #IWD, why not pay a visit to the digital version of last summer’s ‘Her Booke’: Early Modern Women and their Books, celebrating the role of women in England’s devotional, intellectual & bibliographical cultures. www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/exhibitions/...
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‘Her Booke’ : early modern women and their books at Lambeth Palace Library – Lambeth Palace Library
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Cherries in a Silver Compote by Fede Galizia, c. 1578– c. 1630 She was born in Milan and died there, possibly of plague. (Private Collection, via Web Gallery of Art) #InternationalWomensDay
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Also from today's jaunt into the Princeton Special Collections. Will somebody *please* come and do a PhD with me on ownership & usage of early modern language-learning books? Obviously very open to generous funding for such a project (and collaborating with libraries & special collections!)
Title page of Claudius Hollyband, The French Schoole Maister (London, 1634)Ownership inscription by Hellen Marshall. Inscription: "Nell Marshal avec mon main"A page busy with inscriptions! Some names, a prayer, pen trials, a big old stain.
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 04/03/2025
Welcome to the Longlist! womensprize.com/prizes/women...
Women’s Prize Logo
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Jenny Richards @jennyrichards.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
These are difficult times so let's remember the impact humanities research has in the world. In 2022 @englishassociation.bsky.social, @univeng.bsky.social & @ies-sas.bsky.social met with colleagues to find out about their work. See 🧵Here is no. 1 on policy: englishassociation.ac.uk/speaking-for...
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Speaking for English: Policy | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
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Kit de Waal @kitdewaal.com · 09/02/2025
The Hosking Houses Trust supports women writers, artists and creative practitioners, usually over the age of 40 to develop their work through short-term residencies at Church Cottage nr Stratford-upon-Avon. Details in link. Please share :) hoskinghouses.org.uk
18th century cottage in England, whitewashed, roses round the door
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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
😍 Archival materialities! "How do born-digital records transform our understanding of the materiality of the archive? How do digital techniques provide new insights into the materiality of older archives?" Looking forward to seeing this--what a great ToC. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Do you work on #earlymodern English women and religion (c.1500-1800)? Would you like to join a community of scholars asking questions, sharing research, and disseminating news of upcoming events related to the field? Please subscribe to our new mailing list: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/EMEW-R 🗃️
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JISCMail - EMEW-R List at WWW.JISCMAIL.AC.UK
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Mark Empey @memps2.bsky.social · 28/05/2024
Wow. Really interesting non Anglophone #HerBook example @martinevanelk.bsky.social @mlcoolahan.bsky.social
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Susan Amussen @sdamussen.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
We're looking for a post-doc to work with the Slave Voyages project and routes to enslavement. Work with my awesome colleague Sabrina Smith: aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF01679
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · 06/02/2024
HAKLUYT SOCIETY ESSAY PRIZE (2024) FOR PGRs & ECRs Entries - 6k-8k - invited by 1/3/24; prize = £1000. For further details & how to enter pls see: www.hakluyt.com/downloadable... Pls share!⚓⚓⚓
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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 08/02/2024
The Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice and the JCB invite applications for a postdoctoral fellowship on any area/theme of historical scholarship around racial slavery, and/ or Indigenous dispossession and slavery. Details at apply.interfolio.com/138036
The image contains design elements, the name of the fellowship, and the deadline (February 15, 2024).
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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · 07/02/2024
Today, a fascinating blog post by Joe Black about an algebra book owned by an early modern woman--a first for our blog! EM Women read so much more widely than we tend to think buff.ly/3OA1n7U #HerBook #EarlyModern #C17 #C18
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Johannes Alexander, Synopsis of Algebra (1709)
“Mathematics” has yet to appear on this site as a subject tag. Admittedly, works of mathematics are uncommon presences in early modern libraries: at the time of writing, only 244 of 18,500 records...
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Dr Kathleen Neal @kbneal.bsky.social · 17/01/2024
Friends, there is a 5-year position in Italian Renaissance history going at Monash, in my department! Please share widely >> medievalsky skystorians earlymodern careers.pageuppeople.com/mob/513/cw/e...
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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer - Italian History
Contribute expertise in Italian Renaissance history and broader European/transnational contexts to our dynamic academic environment!
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Mark Empey @memps2.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
The ONLY feed you need #skystorians
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Chris Warren @chriswarren.info · 16/11/2023
When our Print & Probability collaborator UCSD grad student Nikolai Vogler heard that ESTC was down due to the BL cyberattack, he jumped into action. Here’s the site he built to help #earlymodern scholars access the essential metadata needed for teaching and research 📚 📜 estc.printprobability.org
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Erin A. McCarthy @erinannmcc.bsky.social · 09/11/2023
Please join us if you are in or near Limerick on December 4th!
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Leanne Calvert @leannecalvert.bsky.social · 04/11/2023
Next WHAI will be in Belfast 🥰 I am there! Great theme this year too!
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School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck @bbkhistorical.bsky.social · 17/10/2023
Birkbeck is hiring up to four postdoc researchers to work on #WrittenWorlds in 17th-century England, led by Sue Wiseman (PI) and @Brodie_Waddell (CI), focusing on non-elite writers. £42K pro rata; 0.5FTE for 25 months, starting mid-Nov. Apply by 22 Oct: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
Vermeer - Woman writing a letter with her maid
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Jessica Goethals @jessgoethals.bsky.social · 18/10/2023
Thrilled to announce the publication of my book: Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court (UTP). Who was Costa? Why, a professional singer, a courtesan, the lover of a notorious bandit and… the most widely published female writer in #17thC Italy! #EarlyModern utorontopress.com/978148754730...
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University of Toronto Press - Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court
The Roman singer, courtesan, and writer Margherita Costa won prominence and fame across the courts of Italy and France during the mid-seventeenth century. Sh...
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
That's a week to go...
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Marie-Louise Coolahan @mlcoolahan.bsky.social · 16/10/2023
Sarah Covington on Cromwell in Ireland, tomorrow (online): www.eventbrite.ie/e/prof-sarah...
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Prof. Sarah Covington (Limerick History Research Seminar)
Professor Sarah Covington (City University of New York), ‘Oliver Cromwell's Mad Proconsul: Daniel Axtell in Kilkenny’
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Marie-Louise Coolahan @mlcoolahan.bsky.social · 12/10/2023
The view from my office this morning when I received this invite. Hello bluesky and hello frost!
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