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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

A great paper from @mareilep.bsky.social at #RenSoc25 on "The humanist exception: Renaissance cosmopolitanism and ars apodemica in England". Thought-provoking reflections on the role of academic travel in humanist education. #EarlyModern #16thC #17thC #skystorians @srsrensoc.bsky.social

Mareile Pfannebecker presenting in front of a slide with a quote from "An oration made by Hermannus Kirchnerus in the Praise of Travel," translated in Thomas Coryat's Coryat's Crudities (1611): "[Those] who having travelled from their owne house, naked in a manner, destitute of all better discipline and nurture, and voyde of humanity, have returned home singularly furnished and affirmed with all kinds of qualities of the minde, and all such worthy gifts as can be incident in a man."

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

So cool that people are still discovering this #Sinners syllabus, published by the African American Intellectual History Society, and composed by Jemar Tisby & Keisha N. Blain. Enjoy!

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Lizzy Williamson @lizzywilliamson.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

My personal fav panel from yesterday was John-Mark Philo's project on Global Libraries, check it out if you like books, travel, knowledge exchange, and putting the past in dialogue with the present (in this case forced migrants' lack of/access to libraries) #RenSoc25 www.globallibrary.net/about

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About | Global Library

The Global Library Project (1500–1700) reconstructs the journeys made by Anglo-Scots visitors to libraries across North America, Europe, and the Middle East during the early-modern period. By reconstr...

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Richard James Foster @richardjamesfoster.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 03/07/2025

The Society is very pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 Early Career Article and First Book Prizes bit.ly/3GqSCfk This year's recipients are Laura Flannigan, William Ross Jones, Michaela Kalcher, and Jules Skotnes-Brown for work published in 2024. Our congratulations to all #Skystorians

left to right: William Ross Jones, Jules Skotnes-Brown, Laura Flannigan, Lucy Noakes (President of the Royal Historical Society), and Michaela Kalcher, 2 July 2025

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Nailya Shamgunova @nailyas.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I am looking for someone to copy something for me from New York Public Library (2 documents), does anyone know how to go about this sort of thing? Any NY based graduate students or early career academics who could help out?

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Now live! We've created the most comprehensive map to-date of religious institutions in the German Peasants' War (1524-26), identifying many more affected institutions than existing source lists. Find our map, case studies, and much more on our website: germanpeasantswar.web.ox.ac.uk #skystorians

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Visualising the Destruction of Convents and Monasteries in the German Peasants' War

The the first-ever attempt to quantify and map the full destruction of religious houses during the German Peasants' War (1525-26).

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 25/06/2025

The disappearance of public adult education in the UK over the past twenty years - whether local authority or government - is a national disgrace.

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Our #OpenAccess collection on the #PowerOfPetitioning in early modern Britain has only been out for a year and amazingly it's been downloaded over 4,000 times from @uclpress.bsky.social. So pleased to see all the interest in petitioning! Get your free copy here: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-pow...

Title page of Brodie Waddell and Jason Peacey (Editors), The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain

Access stats showing 4,239 views/downloads since May 2024.

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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Today is the Day of the Seafarer. Discover the crucial role played by Asian sailors in driving colonial trade by exploring the term 'lascar' in the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). You can also explore the topic of 'Seamen and boatmen' in BBIH and find more than 1000 references.

Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) search results for keyword search using the term, ‘lascar’

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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

On this day in 1978, the rainbow flag first flew as a symbol of pride. It was raised at San Francisco Gay Freedom Day.

A person stands supporting the bottom of a huge flag being hoisted. The flag is a rainbow with eight stripes of pink, red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, indigo and violet.

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Nailya Shamgunova @nailyas.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I am looking for what happened to a manuscript from the 'Manuscripts op the Right Honourable the Earl of Portsmouth, Hurstbourne Park, Hampshire'. The manuscript I am after is NOT Newton related. If anyone has easy access to the 1936 Sothesby's catalogue or can help in any way, please reply!

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Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

To mark the end of #WomensHistoryMonth, I wrote this post on @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📜 📚

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 20/02/2025

The Society is v. much looking forward to attending the 2025 Historical Association conference, and with it chance to hear how historians in HE can work with teachers to promote new research, and encourage as many A-Level historians as possible to continue with their subject to a university degree.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

These are real people that we study. They loved and they hated and they feared and they hoped. They lived and they died. And you spend time with them, and sometimes you mourn them.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

If you don’t like Mantel’s portrayal of Thomas Cromwell it is in your power to write (or, still more easily and plausibly, recommend) a better one. If you kill an archive there is not another one waiting to take its place, and you lose the material basis for better representations into the bargain.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

I don’t mean to say that historical fiction can’t be criticized in terms of its presentation of history. But I think it’s a serious problem that far more public ink goes to critiquing novelists’ source work or directors’ casting decisions than the gutting of libraries, archives and history programs.

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David Leheny @davidleheny.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

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Academic Recruitment April 2026 for the Post of Full-Time Academic Faculty

The Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies (GSAPS) at WASEDA University is conducting a search for the following full-time academic faculty...

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

We're joining the @royalhistsoc.bsky.social in this #Skystorians X-ile and won't be posting on twitter anymore from Friday. Follow us here for updates about our seminar and other #EarlyModern goings-on in London.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

The lid of painted wooden casket depicting a courting couple. Possibly dating to the 15th century, the casket may have been used as an engagement present. Now part of the collections at Tullie House Museum in Carlisle. 📷 My own. #Woodensday #Medieval #Carlisle

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CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group @ciliprarebooks.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

As someone with an above-average love for both rare books and tiny things, today has now turned into a great day.

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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Final visit on this Bookscapes whistle-stop tour of Essex is to the Knightbridge Library bequeathed in 1679 to what is now Chelmsford Cathedral.

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Shelby Balik @shelbymbalik.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

A non-binary gender spectrum has been affirmed by well-established science for decades. You don't get to executive-order it away just because you think it's icky. Science doesn't care about your tantrums. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Trump says there are ‘two sexes.’ Experts and science say it’s not binary.

The president’s executive order signaled an intention to narrowly define the sexes, but experts say he is oversimplifying the intricate nature of human biology.

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Pleased to see that the @srsrensoc.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships 25/26 have been announced www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz... Very happy to share my experience/knowledge with anyone thinking of applying! Drop me a message :)

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Postdoctoral Fellowships – Society for Renaissance Studies

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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The Prize Papers will change the way we see the past. The research possibilities are almost unlimited. Join us for the conclusion of the three-part series “Secrets of the Prize Papers” with insights from @lhaasis.bsky.social and @mouseemperor.bsky.social – pod.link/1460242815 #earlymodern #history 🗃️

Images: Podcast recording group picture; below: Screenshot Prize Papers Materiality Shots. Prize Papers Project (Oldenburg/London), ref. HCA 32/140. The National Archives, UK. Photographer: Maria Cardamone.

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

While we're gearing up for our biennial conference around the topic of Interconnections, why not already start the conversations via our starter pack of #RenSoc25 participants: go.bsky.app/DVyFCxt #EarlyModern #Skystorians

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Online talk: The Codex Osuna: A Landmark Nahua Lawsuit in Early Colonial Mexico City 6 March, 12:00 pm PST, Zoom all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/works-... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

The Codex Osuna: A Landmark Nahua Lawsuit in Early Colonial Mexico City
March 6,
12:00 pm PST

Presented by Sofia Yazpik,

The Codex Osuna, or the Pintura del gobernador, alcaldes y regidores de México (Painting of the Municipal Governor, Judges, and Councilors of Mexico), is a pictorial and Nahuatl-language text produced by Nahuas for a legal dispute in Mexico City during the sixteenth century. This type of pintura, or pictorial writing, functioned as legitimate evidence that Indigenous peoples could present to viceregal authorities in a legal dispute. Completed in 1565, the Indigenous municipal governor, judges, and councilors from Mexico City utilized these pinturas to accuse the Spanish viceroy and judges of the Real Audiencia of exploiting the Indigenous population by physically abusing them and not paying them for their labor. This codex demonstrates how Indigenous litigants strategically used the Spanish legal system to defend their rights against corruption and exploitation.

The Codex Osuna is a valuable resource for deepening our understanding of how the Spanish legal system functioned in New Spain and how Indigenous litigants strategically presented their cases to defend their rights and property within this colonial institution, particularly during the politically tumultuous period of the 1560s. By focusing on pictorial writing in particular, Yazpik’s research project seeks to demonstrate the Codex Osuna’s historical significance in the early colonial period by examining how Indigenous peoples utilized their own creative forms of expression within the Spanish legal system.

Sofía Yazpik is a third-year Ph.D. student in History at UCLA. Her research focuses on Mesoamerican codices, presently examining an early colonial legal pictorial and alphabetic-writing manuscript from central Mexico. She is interested in Indigenous productions of knowledge, the relationship between pictorial and alphabetic writing systems, and early modern collecting practices.

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Naomi Wells @naswells.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Please share this important survey on how graduates perceive the value of doctoral degrees in languages, aimed at those who have moved into different areas of research or work: forms.office.com/pages/respon... @ilcs.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social @ucfl-eca.bsky.social

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Universal Short Title Catalogue @universalstc.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The latest issue of USTC Library Quarterly is here! We’ve got an update on our matching from @apettegree.bsky.social, and a fascinating article on female printers from @ewatson.bsky.social. You can read it here: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/ustc-li... #BookHistory #RareBooks #HerBook

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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Hello, new people :) I'm a historian of slavery and freedom in colonial Mexico with a focus on women's history. I teach classes on sin in Spanish America, the Inquisition, gender, slavery and autobiography, and other early modern topics. I post jobs, events, and history opportunities. My book:

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Nailya Shamgunova @nailyas.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Event claxon for the launch of our flagship #outreach events! Our launch event for the Library Access programme, in collaboration with Norfolk Library and Information Service, will take place on Wednesday 12th February, in the Heritage Meeting Room, Norwich Millennium Library, 2—4pm. #globallibrary

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Are you studying or researching the histories of sexuality? The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) contains a wealth of resources in this area. You can also explore our LGBTQIA+ history reading list

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Online reading lists from BBIH

A listing of recent publications (2010-2020) in the field of Black British History, taken from the 'Bibliography of British and Irish History' in October 2020.

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Nailya Shamgunova @nailyas.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I left Twitter many years ago due to the general toxicity, but losing academic Twitter was both sad and painful. It is such a joy to rediscover the wonderful #earlymodern academic community here on BlueSky. Looking for early modern, queer, book, library and migration history accounts to follow!

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