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Elizabeth St.John 📚💙📜Author and Historian @elizabethstjohn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Had a completely distracting day playing with the image zoom feature in The Lydiard Archives curating our new collection "St.John Jewellery: Pearls to Paste". It's been perfect. #EarlyModern #History #Skystorians #17thC #Jewellery www.thelydiardarchives.org.uk/collection/s...

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Dr Dan Spencer @gunpowderdan.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Can anybody recommend any books or articles on early modern cavalry or dragoons? I'm especially interested in horses and training #earlymodern #militaryhistory

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

We found some other #EarlyModern centres that have joined these blue skies recently: @cemskcl.bsky.social @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social and @cesrtours.bsky.social, for instance. Any we missed still? go.bsky.app/LLzFj3b

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Savannah Jensen @savannahjensen.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Mid 2010 Hipsters nerding out about buying records Me in the mid 2020s nerding out about finding somewhere that sells CDs. Not sure I'm near as cool. 😂

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Han O'Flanagan (they/he) @smaugish.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Ghosts of Advent Day 11- A Wicked Voice by Vernon Lee A composer becomes haunted by the 'ghost' of a dead singer, his obsession growing with every passing day... There might not be a real 'ghost' in this short story, but it's haunting all the same!

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I do miss being able to do polls so that I can ask everyone which Victorian novel most demands a muppet adaptation, and then a follow up poll about which character would be the token human 🤔

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Savannah Jensen @savannahjensen.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I'm working on a project and need some help. Who are famous English majors? Bonus points if they are young enough that first year students would recognize the names. The lists I'm finding online are a little bit dated

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@Galleybeggars @galleybeggars.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

A crazily niche question and possibly a big ask, but does anyone know a social historian we might be able to talk to about 1910s-20s (manual worker) wages, costs of living, and the practical implementation of the 1911 National Insurance Act??

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Savannah Jensen @savannahjensen.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Lately I've noticed people asking if patterns of writing are a symptom of AI. (Example 3 pronged thesis.) But those patterns were present before AI, and the AI likely trained on those patterns to reproduce them. It's a little circular. 1/3

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

It's out! 'Migrant Voices in Multilingual London, 1560-1600', open access in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. Read to find out how insults and information moved between the city's languages, and to think about how linguistic diversity shaped urban life. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Early modern London was multilingual, and early modern urban life was shaped by linguistic diversity. This article draws on the multilingual archives of Elizabethan London's ‘stranger churches’ – Protestant congregations which catered to the needs of French-, Dutch- and Italian-speaking migrants (among others) – to explore how linguistic diversity shaped social relations. These sources offer insights into the everyday multilingualism of the early modern city. They demonstrate London's migrant communities’ intense interest in what people said and why, and show how different languages and their speakers interacted on the streets and in the spaces of later sixteenth-century London. By charting how linguistic diversity was part of the lives of ordinary Londoners in this period, including close examination of incidents of multilingual insult, slander, and conflict, this article argues that the civic and religious authorities relied on the stranger churches’ abilities to carry out surveillan

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Here it is. The back says "You would not let me support you - it’s your own fault - not mine.”

Black and white photo of two fluffy white kitten in an ornate porcelain soup tureen on a table. Text at the bottom of the image reads “HOT STUFF”.

Back of postcard with cursive pencil writing that says “You would not let me support you - it’s your own fault - not mine.”

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Jenn Wong @jennwong.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The "Early Modern" Feed, managed since Bluesky's infancy by @janmachielsen.bsky.social I include #EarlyModern in my WIP posts as a courtesy for those who wish to follow the art but not the artist bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Dr Caitlin Burge @caitlinburge.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Early modern music people - a (probably) dumb question, but dabbling in a heretofore unfamiliar field: are there recommendations for EM manuscript music EEBO-esque databases? Have been using RISM and think I have found something interesting but want to be sure I'm not missing anything obvious! 🎵🎶🎵

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Harriet Soper @hattiesoper.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

this amazing new Cambridge Element by Caroline Batten is available open access for the next four weeks! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Health and the Body in Early Medieval England

Cambridge Core - European History 450-1000 - Health and the Body in Early Medieval England

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

galleries, libraries, archives, museums: send us your best hogs

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Adanedhel🌹 @danielwaweru.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

vol III: go.bsky.app/K2gp9GK

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

And then there were three! Though this party is a bit empty. Any #earlymodern -ist want to come and hang out with this lovely bunch? go.bsky.app/K2gp9GK

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

GOOD NEWS for the discipline: there are *many* #earlymodern historians. Bad news: we couldn't all squeeze into one pack. So here's the second, do follow all the wonderful researchers in this one as well: go.bsky.app/NQqDFr1 #skystorians

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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I would really like to go to the Folger. Do any #earlymodern #vastearlyamerica friends/mutuals have a fellowship app they would be willing to share with me? Tips also welcome.

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Daphné Budasz @daphnebdz.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Trying to build a starter kit for Black Europe and Afropean scholars and activists - but many ppl I can think of are not (yet) on blusky. I need HELP 🖤 @eraldo.bsky.social @tnflorvil.bsky.social @afropean.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social @camillahawth.bsky.social @jeannetteoho.bsky.social

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Eduardo Fernández @apocalypsisnova.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A couple years ago I put together a little list of yearly fellowships and applications, mostly for early modernists. It includes deadlines, salaries, and requirements. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Fellowships and Grants

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

With the twitter exodus: welcome, and here are some #earlymodern historians posting about early modern stuff (though I should update it now it’s more than 50 in those things) go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF

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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

#earlymodern folks: what's the best recent work on Mary Ward?

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Tamsin Lewis @passamezzo.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

A starter pack for early modernists... Very incomplete go.bsky.app/CNhYz12 #earlymodern #earlymodernists #earlymodernsky

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ANZAMEMS @anzamems.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

CFP: Ghosts in Britain and Ireland, c.1500-1950 #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

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Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Excited to share that the "Network Analysis and the Early Modern Archive" special issue of Huntington Library Quarterly has just dropped on Project Muse! Big congrats are in order to @ruthahnert.bsky.social, @yryan.bsky.social, Philip Beeley, Esther van Raamsdonk et al 👏 #earlymodern #16thc #17thc

Cover of the Huntington Library Quarterly showing a network visualization overlaying the seventeenth-century engraving by Abraham Bosse, The prosecutor’s study.

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Savannah Jensen @savannahjensen.bsky.social · 06/08/2024

Visited the University of Tampa's Special Collections library and got to see this lovely book

Bible page with footnotes surrounding the main text

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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 29/07/2024

#earlymodern folks: I'm out of touch w/current work on Catholic Reformation (is it even called that anymore?)--i.e. reform movements that pre-date Trent, and in some cases, even Protestantism. Esp. interested in women's participation. I know the older material, but is there anything new? must-reads?

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 25/07/2024

The Folger Shakespeare Library (not just Shakespeare!) has developed Books In Progress Fellowships for early career scholars who don't have institutional support for book manuscript review. Terrific! I'd have loved something like this. #earlymodern www.folger.edu/research/the...

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Books in Progress Fellowship | Folger Shakespeare Library

Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explor...

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Serena Jones (ACCOUNT INACTIVE) @serenaj1642.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

Anyone aware of a good history of the Irish Rebellion of 1641? So far I can't find one, and trying to decipher the mangled names and places mentioned in the English newsbooks is like wading through treacle. Very frustrating. #17thC #earlymodern #Ireland #history #histbookchat

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Yun Xie @yunxie.bsky.social · 23/07/2024

I’m absolutely over the moon to announce that my 1st peer-reviewed article is published! And get this—it happened before I even started my PhD! “Colonialism, Academic, Typography: Unveiling 19th-Century Chinese Printing in the Netherlands (1830–1860).” brill.com/view/journal...

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Julianna Bratt @bjulianna.bsky.social · 20/07/2024

Inheritance suit between a couple. Deponent claims he knew the couple was previously happy together & heard only one complaint from the husband: "shee loved not that which he loved, that is to saye, his dogges." Something must have changed...or she really hated those dogs. #earlymodern #manuscripts

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

Did you finish or examine a book history dissertation in 2022 or 2023 at any level (undergrad, masters, doctoral)? Please submit the citation info to the form below! The next SHARP bibliography will be the 2022-2023 Dissertation Bibliography! (Plz reskeet!) #BookHistory forms.gle/XbTJNUTSy7Tp...

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SHARP Thesis/Dissertation Bibliography Submission Form

Use this form to submit citation information about book history theses and dissertations completed between 2022 and 2023 Guidelines Dissertations and theses about book history (interpreted broadly, if...

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Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

It's #WorldEmojiDay. Did you know that Alice Thornton used a ❤️ #emoji in her 17th-century books of her life? Read our blog post about it. thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2... #EarlyModern 📜 🗃️

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Alice Thornton’s Heart: An Early Modern Emoji

Blog article - 13 February 2023

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Jesse Locker @jessemlocker.bsky.social · 17/07/2024

Please consider sharing or submitting a paper to my panel at CAA in New York in February: “Artists and their Objects: The Material World of the Early Modern Artist.” Submission portal opens July 22. It’s a project I’m excited about! #earlymodern #17thc caa.confex.com/caa/2025/web...

Michael Sweerts, In the Studio, 1652, oil on canvas, Detroit Institute of Arts,

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 13/07/2024

Can't wait to read this - if you are in the same boat bridge the gap with the stella blog posts available at the excellent MEMOs #EarlyModern 🗃️ memorients.com

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients | MEMOs

A hub for exploring medieval and early modern encounters between England and the Islamic Worlds.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 15/07/2024

📢EXCELLENT RESOURCE KLAXON📢 warwick.ac.uk/cwad V. Hitchman & teams' #EarlyModern parish data inc. 🗃️ 1) Spreadsheet listing ALL parishes in England and Wales, with maps showing them 2) individual spreadsheets for all counties, showing survival/finding info for churchwarden accounts

Part of a spreadsheet listing details of parishes in Devon, on the right part of a map of Devon divided into parishes

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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 01/07/2024

Finally, we've been collating reading & links to assist anyone using #EarlyModern wills in their own research. We are keen to expand this list of resources, so if you have suggestions please do let us know (here or via our website contact page). 📇 sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

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Resources

On this page we are collating resources and references relevant to anyone working with sixteenth-, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century wills. Our focus is on England, but the research section includes...

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Cristina León Alfar, PhD 🐈🎭📚🌻💃🏻🐈‍⬛ @cristinalalfar.bsky.social · 19/06/2024

Just a reminder to authors working on #EarlyModern English drama that I edit a book series, "Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Histories and Theories. I would love to read your proposal! #Drama #16thC #17thC 🗃️ wmich.edu/medievalpubl...

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Late Tudor and Stuart Drama: Readings in Feminist Theories and Histories

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Rachel Lense is Professionally Curious @rachellense.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 11/06/2024

Medieval and Renaissance Studies books are 50% off today (June 11th) at @cornellupress.bsky.social, with the code 09YARDMED: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/subjects/med... 😃 📚 #medievalsky #earlymodern

Screenshot of the Cornell University Press sale announcement, with same information as in the skeet.

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Greg Rupik @gregoryrupik.bsky.social · 06/06/2024

Teaching introductory history and/or philosophy of science and looking for free, accessible resources? I co-authored an #openaccess textbook! Check it out, use it, and share it! #hps ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/introhps/

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Introduction to History and Philosophy of Science – Simple Book PublishingShare on Twitter

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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

Lots of interesting archive finds for the team this week - we've been to look at some original seventeenth-century wills, held by our project partners The National Archives. We're looking forward to discussing some of these findings at our in-person workshops in a couple of weeks! #EarlyModern

A bundle of seventeenth-century original wills, held by The National Archives, Kew, UK.

A bundle of seventeenth-century original wills, next to one example that has been unfolded. Both held by The National Archives, Kew, UK.

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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

📢ICYMI 📢Our third 'Will of the Month' post is now live: Read all about a fashionable lady who had many valuable possessions - including wedding rings, family portraits, boxes of chinaware, and 'Cloath of Gold' shoes... #EarlyModern sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

A white and blue china bowl and saucer that may have been similar to the pieces found in Helen’s ‘Box with China’. Bowl and Saucer, 1662-1722 (made). © Victoria and Albert Museum

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