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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It's real, and due out in March! 'Imaginative Pasts', which has been a joy to edit with Tracey Loughran, aims to reckon - and play - with the role of the imagination in historical research and writing. #skystorians #earlymodern manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526187154/

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Tom Roberts @tchrob.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

A fun little find in the archive today. An invitation to the reception of Alexander II, the Emperor of *all the Russias*, at the Guildhall in May, 1874.

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Some very REQciting news. My Court of Requests pleadings (REQ 2/16-424) project is now complete. Over 28,000 items dating from c.1547-c.1625 (Edw VI to Jas I) now searchable online. Happy researching everyone 🙂 discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C...

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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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Dr Richard Asquith @richardasquith.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

If you’re interested in medieval parish churches, their #art, #architecture, and #history, this year’s Harlaxton #Medieval Symposium may be for you! 📆 Residential booking deadline is 19th June. More info here: harlaxtonmedievalsymposium.org/harlaxton-me... #MedievalSky #Skystorians

A photograph of Childrey church, set in a graveyard and against a blue sky.

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Lovely peeps, exciting news! The inestimable @clairejowitt.bsky.social is giving a talk at Founders' Hall on 21st July: this is a great opportunity to visit my livery company hall and experience our warm hospitality. Cost is £70 for which you'll get a superb 3 course dinner and *all* the wine!

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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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Guildhall Library @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

How to make committee minutes look stylish - some vivid marbling details of the John Bankes Charity Committee Minutes 1962-1980 of the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers. The combed marbling is achieved by dragging a comb through oil-based paints floating on water, onto which the paper was laid.

Detail showing the marbled paper, lettered pages and the marbled effect on the fore edge of 'John Bankes Charity Committee Minutes 1962-1980'

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

I'm in the new issue of @historytoday.com with a review of Penny Roberts's latest, an honest to god archival detective story which reconstructs sixteenth-century Huguenot networks from a bag of letters seized at the port of Dieppe. www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

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‘Huguenot Networks’ by Penny Roberts review

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Two weeks to go until this glittery object is out in the world @faberbooks.bsky.social! www.faber.co.uk/product/9780... If you want a sneak peek at some of what's inside, I've written a thread on 2 topics in the book: Arctic sealskin & South American silver 👇

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A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England

A Golden World by Lauren Working is a glittering new history of how the Americas transformed early modern England. History books from Faber.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Very excited for the 2027 Society for Renaissance Studies conference, to be held in the city many are calling the Leeds of the south.

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Writing about civic pageantry will never stop being a pleasure. Wranging PowerPoint slides, in contrast, 🤯

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Hannah K. Smyth 🍉 @smythh.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

📣 Please share! The UCL Department of Information Studies is pleased to invite applications for the 2026 Widening Participation in Archives & Records Management Summer School from 6–9 July. www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

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Widening Participation in Archives and Records Management Summer School

Date: 6-9 July 2026 Time: 10am - 4pm Location: UCL Bloomsbury Campus

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Mulling the editorial direction of Renaissance Studies, and thinking it might be time to open the journal up to articles by humanities scholars who have a very shaky grasp of how science works but fancy having a go

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Meryl Faiers @merylf.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

My latest blogpost for the Kingswomen introduces Rebecca Edwards: she married star actor William Knell at 14, was widowed at 15, then married Shakespeare’s colleague, John Heminges. www.kingswomen.org/post/rebecca... #earlymodern #womenshistory

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Rebecca Heminges (1571-1619)

by Meryl Faiers, 20 April 2026Evidence of the lives of non-elite women is often fragmentary and frequently found in administrative records. The first stage of thinking about the experiences of someone...

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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Really pleased to share my (open access!) article on immigration control in early modern England, feat. rights-bearing subjects, rightsless migrants, and experiments in immigration control

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Dr Miranda Fay Thomas (they/she) @drmirandafay.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Here’s the print reveal of my Spanish Tragedy linocut, where I’m genuinely surprised it worked. VERY satisfying! The carving is very fiddly and takes a long time, and while you’re in progress you think it’ll look terrible. Just another necessary lesson in trusting the process.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Please do spread the word about the @srsrensoc.bsky.social Scholars of Colour MA Scholarship Awards -- two pots of £4,000 each, and an optional mentoring opportunity. I've very much enjoyed being a mentor to a fantastic scholar through this scheme!

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 23/03/2026

On our Close Readings subscription podcast: Rosemary Hill and Matthew Davies, professor of urban history at Birkbeck, trace the story of London through the multiple invasions that took it from a field of ruins to a busy medieval capital. Listen to an extract: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...

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London Revisited: The Medieval Capital

Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 23 March · 1h 29m

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

5 Mar 1600: Reniaulme de Ascanius #London bookseller of Venetian origin buried St Ann Blackfriars #otd Leading importer of foreign books to #London who was permitted to bring in Catholic books for use by the learned. #Booktrade (Bashereyre, St Ann's yard, 2008)

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Does anyone happen to have access to Brill's Italian Reformation Online resource? They've digitised this manuscript (the libro di memorie of Vincenzo Burlamachi) and I'd love to see it! primarysources.brillonline.com/browse/itali...

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The Italian Reformation Online — Brill

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Tom Roberts @tchrob.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Has anyone come across this woodcut before? It may have belonged to Abel Jeffes at some point but not entirely sure. EBBA isn't working for me so any help would be much appreciated!

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Tom Roberts @tchrob.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Has anyone come across this woodcut before? It may have belonged to Abel Jeffes at some point but not entirely sure. EBBA isn't working for me so any help would be much appreciated!

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

I was writing the other day about a document that mentions the Antwerp-born Londoner Lodewijk Theeuws, but I hadn't realised that a claviorgan he built in 1579 still exists at the V&A, and that it's the earliest surviving keyboard instrument made in Britain. collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O60635/...

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The Theewes Claviorgan | Theewes, Lodewyk | V&A Explore The Collections

Claviorgan, 1579, English, Lodewyk Theewes

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Come and work with me! The National Archives are looking for an Early Modern Parliamentary Records Specialist. More details available via the link. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

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Dr Jacob H. Deacon ⚔️ @deaconjh.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

'Masters of Defence: Fencers and Fencing in England, c. 1400-1600' Next Friday evening, at 7pm UK time, I’ll be talking about my research for the German Federation for Historical Fencing. You can join the talk here: (uni-trier.zoom-x.de/j/6650319538...) Meeting-ID: 665 0319 5383 Password: 4w2v9GN6

A seventeenth-century illustration of two unarmoured fencers fighting with two-handed swords.

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Tom Roberts @tchrob.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Perhaps a silly question but does anyone know how landlords advertised rental properties in sixteenth-century London?

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Spitalfields Life @thegentleauthor.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

LAST CHANGE TO SAVE LIVERPOOL ST STATION FROM THE MONSTER BLOCK! Note the height of Grade II*-listed Great Eastern Hotel in front and observe that this pile is more than twice the height and it will block out all daylight from the concourse. shorturl.at/sByFe

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foldedsunset.bsky.social @foldedsunset.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

“This is the hardest job I’ve ever done. My hands go numb, and I can’t feel them. Over time you get used to the pain.” I said, “That’s what ballet dancers say about their feet.” He said,”Really? So, their feet are our hands.” @thegentleauthor.bsky.social spitalfieldslife.com/2025/06/05/t...

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Prof Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Heading to the UK for the Visiting Fellowship in a little over three weeks, and thanks to Tudor House and Southampton City Council for hosting my first advertised speaking commitment (with Sarah Siddons Fan Club!) while there: southamptonmuseumsandgallery.co.uk/events/barga...

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Talk with Professor Laurie Johnson - Bargate: A Shakespearean Provincial Playhouse - Ticketing

Although Southampton’s Bargate is not a typical Shakespearean playhouse venue, it was an effective performance venue for mayoral command performances and community playing throughout that era. Leading...

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David Bartle @gabcox.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

I came across this will record for a member where he proposes to use the Haberdashers Company barge in his funeral arrangements.

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Tom Roberts @tchrob.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

This came out a few weeks back. Let me know if you don't have access but would like to have a read. Thomas Nashe’s Harlequin: French Political Satire and the Commedia dell’Arte in Early Modern England | Renaissance Drama: Vol 52, No 2 www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Thomas Nashe’s Harlequin: French Political Satire and the Commedia dell’Arte in Early Modern England | Renaissance Drama: Vol 52, No 2

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Thomas Nashe’s Harlequin: French Political Satire and the Commedia dell’Arte in Early Modern England | Renaissance Drama: Vol 52, No 2

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