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Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If you're in London this evening, join us in the magnificent Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey, where I'll be speaking to Kavita Puri about travellers and exiles, Venetians waxing ecstatic about English food, and the making of England. #tlw

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Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Really looking forward to this.

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ooo there's a webpage up for my little book Listening to #EarlyModern Travel Writing, and I see that expected publication is 6 October! Exciting! 🗃️ www.cambridge.org/core/element...

The title page of Purchas His Pilgrimes, which is lavishly described and discussed in my forthcoming Element 'Listening to Early Modern Travel Writing' - so you'll have to read all about it there!

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Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Edinburgh friends -- looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow (21 August) when @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social and I talk about #thislittleworld www.edbookfest.co.uk/events/nandi...

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Nandini Das: This Little World | Edinburgh International Book Festival

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Dr Chris Smith @spyhistorian.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

5000 jobs set to be lost in UKHE in this year alone. 10,000s already lost since Covid-19, the sector on its knees. Yet the UKHE story dominating the Guardian's reporting is the psychodrama at Cambridge. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Dons call for Cambridge leaders to take blame for Jason Arday appointment

Exclusive: Academics call for inquiry, saying university must be held accountable for ‘grotesque racism unleashed’

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Are you interested in developing genuinely interdisciplinary piece of research? Applications for the International Interdisciplinary Research Projects, focused on the theme of ‘Mobilities’ are now open. Apply now: bit.ly/4y9wiwJ

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Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

I'm so delighted to have this exceptional volume in the series! Thank you for entrusting us with it, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social

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Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

You can get the researcher away from research, but can't get the research away from the researcher. 🧵

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Huge few days for us at @britishacademy.bsky.social as we’ve brought issues of the humanities into the public eye with different stories in the Times, Guardian and FT. Well done to all my colleagues for the hard work that makes this happen

Opinion UK society
We need humanities more than ever in the age of AI
Subjects like literature, languages and history are vital to a thoughtful and prosperous society
HETAN SHAH
+ Add to myFT
Many humanities subjects have been suffering from low uptake and financial struggles, yet prioritising Al-prompt engineering over literature may turn out to be a mistake © Getty Images
Hetan Shah
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Opinion
The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres
Editorial
Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed

Hetan Shah, its chief executive, said:
"Recent economic, geopolitical and societal shifts mean that linguistic skills are now firmly in the nation's strategic interest. The UK is on the brink of a language skills crisis, including in languages that are strategically vital for diplomacy, defence and national security as we need to know what our potential adversaries are thinking.
"Our research shows that both student and staff numbers in languages and area studies are contracting at an alarming rate, which should be a serious concern to the government. Once the expertise in a particular language has gone, it's not easy to rebuild. Decisions being taken by individual universities rather than overseen in a strategic way puts the nation at risk of accidentally losing vital language skills to make our way in an increasingly volatile world."

"Universities will be central to achieving the regional growth aspirations of our new prime minister, but they are suffering a major financial emergency," Shah said.
"The result is greater inequalities, fewer opportunities for students and the gradual erosion of the world-leading research our economy, democracy and global standing rely on.
«The alarm bells are ringing, and policymakers should treat these findings as a wake-up call before more lasting damage is done."

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Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

This is on Monday 20 July. If you are in London, do join us.

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Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I've spent a delightful day speaking about #thislittleworld at Norwich History Festival, so I'm late to say how delighted and honoured I am that this happened: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/prof.... It's a real privilege.

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Professor Nandini Das FBA

Early modern literature and cultural history; sixteenth and seventeenth century travel writing; cross-cultural encounters, mobility, race, and identity; scholarly editing.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

So a key question now is whether the new @andyburnham.bsky.social led administration will take the higher education funding crisis seriously as a threat to his aspirations around regional growth and skills…

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Advance notice of the British Academy reports published to be tomorrow (Wednesday) and their findings. It does not make happy reading if you value UK higher education and research.

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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Society for Renaissance Studies: Two scholarships of £4,000 each, to contribute to the costs of postgraduate study. rensoc.org.uk/apply/schola...

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Andrew McRae @mcraeandrew.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

From today’s Times letters page. #DefendExeterUni

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Rachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

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The Japan Society @thejapansociety.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Join us on Monday 20 July for a fascinating lecture with Nandini Das, who will examine the uneasy meeting between John Saris, Captain of the first English vessel to reach Japan, The Clove, and William Adams, the 'English Samurai' 🇬🇧🇯🇵 Find out more and book 👉 loom.ly/KiL0wAY

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Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Very touched by Peter Marshall's review of This Little World in the latest @historytoday.com, his recognition of its 'bittersweet ironies' and what studying the past can tell us about belonging.

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Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

It's publication day! This Little World begins with a sixteenth-century refugee writing from Norwich to his wife abroad. It ends in the aftermath of civil war and revolution, asking what belonging and identity might mean in a world shaped by migration, empire and violence. (1/4)

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Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

One more day before I talk about This Little World at the V&A with the brilliant @alexvont.bsky.social A fitting place to talk about immigrant painters at the Tudor court, cabinets of curiosities in Kensington, and the global origins of what later came to be imagined as 'English' culture.

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Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

One of the figures at the centre of This Little World is Levina Teerlinc, a painter from Bruges who spent decades at the Tudor court, quietly surviving Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I and Elizabeth I — which, when one considers the survival rates of Tudor courtiers, sounds like a superpower. (1/4)

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Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

UK-based friends, is anyone here based in or near Norwich who may be willing to snap a quick photo of a memorial stone for me? Please DM me if you can!

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Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I don’t come on here very often anymore, but just wanted to say this: I spent the morning doing something that reminded me why I love this work — thinking through the generous, thoughtful comments on two chapters of the next book from two deeply kind and incredibly smart readers.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 15/07/2025

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

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Prof Jim McManus, OCDS, D.Sc,FFPH,FBPsS, @jimmcmanusph.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Dr Joanne Paul has a way with words in reminding us why history is important for today. A great read.

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Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I'm late to this, but glad I saw this today. Very much looking forward to reading it.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

1/3 This Times article exemplifies the way that right wing populist propaganda has established scapegoat lore. It gets repeated enough until it becomes evidence-free common sense. Yes the university funding model doesn’t work & there are systemic problems. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

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University crisis demands a complete reboot

Dependence on foreign students papers over not just funding problems but a tarnished system that has lost its way

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Tanya Kirk @tanyakirk.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

We are hiring at St John's! We have an opening for an Early Career Librarian post, 3 year fixed term, salary £27,786, and as part of the role the College will pay the successful candidate's fees and give them day release to undertake a Masters' degree in Librarianship. www.joh.cam.ac.uk/vacancies

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Work at St John's | St John's College, University of Cambridge

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Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Anyone here planning to submit an article to Renaissance Studies ( @srsrensoc.bsky.social ) any time soon? Please get in touch if so! (Wiley have just switched the journal to their new submission system, and I need an author's perspective)

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Super important analysis. Tl:dr — frontline academics and PS staff that directly support the work of frontline academics are universities’ productive units. Cut those and the university dies. In a crisis good businesses don’t cut their productive units. And yet here we are.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Fantastic conference with a superb keynote!

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

I was interviewed by @mivanberk.bsky.social for @anandwrites.bsky.social's newsletter, The Ink. The interview and an excerpt from HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, out from @ucpress.bsky.social on Feb 4 was published today. 🧵 1/2 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury the.ink/p/are-you-a-...

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Monsters are us

Historian Surekha Davies examines how and why humanity makes monsters, and lays out the case for embracing your inner Muppet

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Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Listen to this if only to enjoy @willdalrymple.bsky.social channeling his method acting to read extracts from Roe's journal.

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Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

This was one of the highlights of the year for me -- deeply delighted and honoured that #CourtingIndia received such an imaginative, timely creative response from Arko Datto.

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Apollo @apollo-magazine.com · 23/12/2024

‘Like the plants collected and grafted by the emperors in their gardens, Mughal art flourished and blossomed on fertile ground in 17th-century India’ – Nandini Das on the art of the Mughal Empire

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Mughal art, fit for kings | Apollo Magazine

At its peak, the Mughal empire brought together scholars and artists of different languages and faiths to forge an entirely new artistic tradition, writes Nandini Das

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Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Brush up your Shakespeare! Read along with our monthly webinar or just drop in to hear the conversation: english.web.ox.ac.uk/english-facu... Please repost!

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English Faculty / Oxford World's Classics Shakespeare Webinar Series with Professor Emma Smith

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Nandini Das @rentravailer.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

I adore this cover! And can't wait to read the book.

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

In case you missed Radio 4's Free Thinking on Friday, I went down a turkey trail for my 5-min 'postcard' (I'm at 46:00). Contains: turkeys in early modern England, an Indigenous re-scripting of puritan narratives, & a Wampanoag artist's stunning turkey feather mantle. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Arts & Ideas - Gifts and Gratitude - BBC Sounds

Following Thanksgiving, and as Christmas approaches, Shahidha Bari on giving and receiving

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Welcome to the Migration Museum, now on Bluesky. If you'd like to be part of their plans to create a permanent museum of migration stories (in the City of London, with regional pop-up hubs), do give them a follow. Or visit their 'All Our Stories' exhibition (& Migrant Makers' Market) in Lewisham.

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Sam Bailey @gazelessstare.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Sharing details of the new annual OUP ECR First Book Prize, which opens for submissions in January 2025, awarding up to ten applicants with the opportunity to publish their original and innovative work fully open access. More details and information on how to apply: academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

A pink and blue banner with an image of a book and the text 'Early Career Researcher First Book Prize'.

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

*VERY EXCITING VACANCY* Join our team behind the superb Renaissance Studies as editor -- guided expertly by Wiley. Ability to combust into flames and shrug it off not a requirement. #EarlyModern excitement is Deadline: 31 Jan 2025 All info: rensoc.org.uk/vacancy-edit...

Renaissance Studies is one of the leading journals in the field of Renaissance studies, with an interdisciplinary emphasis, and a worldwide readership. Established in 1987, Renaissance Studies is published in partnership by the Society for Renaissance Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Wiley).

The Council of the Society for Renaissance Studies (SRS) seeks to appoint an Editor for Renaissance Studies to succeed Professor Kevin Killeen, who retires as Editor in December 2025.

It is hoped that the new editor(s) will be able to take over responsibility from 1 January 2026 and serve for a 5-year term until 19 December 2031. Interviews will be held online in February/March 2025.

The Editor is responsible for the editorial content of the journal, for obtaining peer reviews of articles submitted, and for the supply of edited copy to Wiley. The Editor works with, and leads, a team consisting of an Associate Editor (whose main responsibility rests with the Special Issues of the journal), Book

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