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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Funded PhD Opportunity!

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Alberto J. Campillo Pardo @albertocampillo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I'm delighted to prresent "Privilege and Power Printing Privileges and the Regulation of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe" from the @be4copy.bsky.social project and edited by Marius Buning, @andreaottone.bsky.social and me. #Printingprivileges #Bookhistory #OpenAccess www.scup.com/doi/book/10....

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Privilege and Power | Books

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ali and I have been working on this essay cluster on antiquarianism and literary history-- with wonderful contributions from @bkadams.bsky.social, David Landreth, @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social, and Jane Raisch-- for a really REALLY long time, and it is finally out! read.dukeupress.edu/modern-langu...

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Criticism, Antiquarianism, and Literary History

If a literary historian knows one piece of antiquarian writing from early modern England, it is likely Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, Thomas Browne’s fascinating and fascinated 1658 catalog of ancient fu...

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Nicholas Scott Baker @renhistorian.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

There is a boardgame (nearing production) about the Italian Wars developed around some of Machiavelli's ideas and language about rulership (eg. sentiment runs from Hated to Feared). Just pre-ordered my copy. This is not a drill! www.gmtgames.com/p-1229-foxes...

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Foxes and Lions: Renaissance City-States in the Age of Machiavelli

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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Talk, coming up 24 Sep 2026 - Moveable Type and the Early Modern Imaginary Image reproduction and the Early Modern mental universe Lecturer: Stephanie Leitch Sponsor: American Academy in Berlin www.americanacademy.de/program/move...

This printed image is a German colored woodcut, artist unknown, from c. 1505. It depicts in the foreground dark skilled people - men, women and children - standing on land wearing skirts and feathered headdresses, and in the background a body of water on which ships are visible.

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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh @gianamar97.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Looking forward to speaking about mantises, tricksters, and misunderstandings across the 18th-century Cape of Good Hope's colonial frontier at the Global Intellectual History Seminar at All Souls @ox.ac.uk (I should note that the flyer has promoted me to a higher position)

flyer for the Global Intellectual History Seminar at Oxford. There are 7 events, and a QR code on the bottom left for further information and registration. On the bottom right there is the coat of arms of All Souls College, University of Oxford

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Bore Sul (Sunday morning), 1950, painting by John Elwyn, Welsh artist, 1916-97 (National Museum Cardiff).

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Apparently George of Trebizond accused Poggio Bracciolini of sending assassins to kill him in 1453. Poggio wrote back saying 'I never thought about you'. Ouch! #skystorians #Medievalsky #EarlyModern

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

THEY GOT TO 2000 SUPPORTERS! Now in need of 3000 more in just under a year. LETS GO! #earlymodern #bookhistory #skystorians

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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

📢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: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-Posi... Apply by 15 Oct 2026

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PhD Position Women in the Early Modern Language Sector

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/09/2026

One of the rarest things in the profession - an intellectual history job at a US university that is not attached to a right wing civic center!

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

New in the Proceedings of the British Academy, 'The Networked Court: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Late Medieval European Court Cultures' explores the role of innovative, network-based research methodologies in humanities research as applied to late medieval court studies bit.ly/3ULr4bo

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EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#CfA 📢 *Founders’ Prize*, Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social Supporting early-career scholars publishing their first book in early modern studies (1450–1750). ⏰ 15 September 2026 🔗 sixteenthcentury.org/prize/founde... #EarlyCareer #EarlyModern #FirstBook #BookPublication

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Reformation and Participation

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Peter Whitewood @pwhitewood.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Why is the answer to employers wanting more work ready graduates always that universities should provide more workplace training, rather than employers providing more training in the workplace?

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Joshua Rushton @joshuarushton8.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@nicolemaceira.bsky.social and I are delighted to share the final programme for our online colloquium “Environmental Approaches to the Reformation World” - 30th September* (forgive my date error on previous now deleted post 🤦🏼‍♂️) Register Below: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/environmen...

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Environmental Approaches to the Reformation World, 1500-1800

Online colloquium

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 08/09/2026

Two extraordinary charts from today’s PISA test results: 1) School test scores continue to collapse internationally, underscoring how this is no longer a Covid effect but sustained decline. Those falls in reading and maths are equivalent to about two years of lost schooling.

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Even crazier when more and more scientific evidence suggests the clean air zones are helping to limit damage to children’s lungs from car pollution. Cleverly’s position basically equates to poisoning kids 👇🏼 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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London’s clean air zone benefits child health

Children’s lung function growth has accelerated since the introduction of London’s ultra-low-emission zone, which addresses a critical evidence gap and supports wider adoption of this approach.

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

A great looking conference for #EarlyModern peeps!

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Lavinia Gambini @lavinia-gambini.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🚨CFA PhD: #EarlyModern Grad students, come and join our amazing History Department at Bern!!! What a wonderful opportunity to pursue your own project in early modern history! 👇

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

There are innumerable issues with Pinker (e.g. his association with Epstein), but I want to highlight how all the experts on history of violence wrote a special issue in Historical Reflections specifically because Pinker was perpetuating numerous falsehoods www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What you're saying when you say "DEI" when universities say "EDI" (as happens here) and vice versa. And why it actually matters. The great majority of UK (esp. British) universities use "EDI" while US universities use "DEI". Is that "just" semantic, or does it matter? A thread. 🧵1/8

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How Jason Arday’s appointment became a reckoning for Cambridge

Resignation of Black professor forces university to examine its approach to diversity, equality and inclusion

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Excited for people to learn about the social history of knowledge any day now

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The library at St Gall was just as amazing as promised with awesome mss and bindings on display. The church is an absolute wedding cake monstrosity. I feel like I need to scrub my eyeballs after seeing all that bling #skystorians #MedievalSky #reformazing

Abbey library of St Gall with wooden bookcases and elaborate painted ceiling

Abbey church of St Gall with painted ceiling

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ERC PARISH @erc-parish.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We're recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for our ERC #ERCCoG project PARISH to study #earlymodern parish communities, confraternities and poor relief in the Archdiocese of Vienna & the Viennese Officialate of Passau. Please share with your colleagues! www.abtk.hu/images/allas...

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Seriously, please watch this. And make your non-academic friends and family and neighbours watch it. Only 45 minutes, free, and SO revealing about the people making money off squandering what is a public good.

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Finally went on a little pilgrimage to Basel to see all the Erasmus sites, including his tomb and the beautifully carved cabinet commissioned after his death to preserve his collection of coins and plate. I found his little knife kind of charming for some reason! #EarlyModern #skystorians

Tomb of Erasmus of Rotterdam in Basel Cathedral

Side panel of wooden chest with medallion portrait of Erasmus

Museum cabinet displaying Erasmus’s small knife and a box with gilt lettering

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John Heathershaw @jheathershaw.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I never thought that I would have to write this piece about my university. But after weeks of demonstrating privately to senior managers that their case is based on a false prospectus, that their data are inaccurate and their claims misleading, there was little choice. substack.com/@lucasamin/n...

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Inside Britain's university crisis

As teaching staff face job loss, their bosses have netted pay rises and bought advice from a “vampiric” management consultancy, writes Prof. John Heathershaw of the University of Exeter

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

not sure how anyone can stay on an app thats fighting in court for the right to generate non consensual nudes of people, including children

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Simon Davies @simonfd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

I suspected this is what has been happening with our backlist recently, seems I was right. We’ve sold an unusually high number of very old titles in the past few months, including old journal back issues with poor metadata www.news.com.au/technology/o...

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AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books

If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Taking place in Basel in March 2027. #earlymodern #reformazing

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Adam Tranter @adamtranter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Cities dismantled their tram networks to become “motor cities of the future”. The result? You could travel further within 30 mins via public transport in 1957 than you can in 2026. Cities are seeking billions to rebuild networks. Incredible piece of work this.

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Mark Empey @memps2.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Earlier this week I was informed that “The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing” is now published. It's a phenomenal effort by the editors but selling at a phenomenal price too. I've published some stuff in it so if any one doesn't have access happy to share my work #earlymodern

Feature-length article on early modern female book ownership (c. 1500-1700)

Biographical entry on seventeenth-century French novelist Madame de La Fayette

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Daniel Woolf 🇨🇦 @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Congratulations to Herman Paul (Leiden) on the publication of his Cambridge Element, "History of the Humanities", no. 36 in the series Historical Theory and Practice! Free to download till July 27. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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History of the Humanities

Cambridge Core - Global History - History of the Humanities

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Philippe Auclair @philippeauclair.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

We at @josimarfootball.bsky.social are delighted to welcome @davidgoldblatt.bsky.social as a new contributor, with this exceptional essay about the 2026 World Cup, "the moment when the process of reclaiming and reforming the governance of football begins". Must-read.

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Dystopia - josimarfootball.com

Every World Cup is meant to have a legacy, this one could be the moment when the process of reclaiming and reforming the governance of football begins.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 13/07/2026

We have the following 3 calls for research funding for RHS Fellows & Members: bit.ly/4wwSMGu > 'Open Research Grants', for mid & later career historians > 'Early Career Fellowship Grants', for postdocs > Martin Lynn Scholarship', for PhD research in African history Closing 4 September #Skystorians

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Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: September 2026 deadlines - RHS

The Society invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians at a range of career stages — with closing dates of 4 September 2026. Early Career Fellowship Grants, 2026-27* off...

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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

📘From our latest issue! Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social on 'Discovering ‘Immigration Control’ in England, c. 1540 – c. 1640' #Migration #History #EarlyModern #England #Immigration 📜 16thc 17thc 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Migration history is a growing field – yet the legal status of migrants in early modern England has not yet been investigated in detail. Reconstructing the legal system that governed migrants in early modern England does not just add significant depth and nuance to histories of migration and migrants, but also provides fresh insight into the status of English subjects. Furthermore, it enables historians to trace longer histories of the exclusion of migrants from rights in England and Britain. This article reconstructs the common law governance of migrants between c. 1540 and c. 1640, showing how common law principles and practices excluded migrants from the rights-bearing status of English subjects. Rather than being governed by the law, migrants were substantively governed under prerogative, a form of governance repeatedly resisted by English subjects. Although some migrants could access (unstable) liberties granted under prerogative, for the most part migrants were also subject to discriminatory local byelaws and licences and commissions granted by the crown for their exploitation. The repeated ‘molestation’ of migrants by informers for working contrary to statute, and petitions against this harassment from migrants suggest this early modern system of immigration control was relatively well understood by both subjects and migrants.

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Jessica Goethals @jessgoethals.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

An #earlymodern reminder about our RSA 2027 Sack of Rome cfp. Submissions by July 15!

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sibyllacumae.bsky.social @sibyllacumae.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Yesterday I was reading Scholderer’s essays and learned about this 1473 Parma ed of the Achilleid, existing in only 2 copies, which has a colophon which states that the printer finished the book “faster than asparagus cooks” and I’m o b s e s s e d

Colophon of early printed book with text: “citius quam asparagi coquantur”

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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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Michael Brown @jingajik.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The Friends of the Turnbull Library offers an annual research grant of up to $20,000 available to scholars whose research involves use of the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library. The closing date for 2027 applications is Friday 2 October 2026. turnbullfriends.org.nz/research-gra...

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Indeed we do! docs.google.com/document/d/e... I would add a line about the stupidity of cutting even further in the Strategic Priorities Grant, but may need to stop seething about that first. Do contact your MPs, many of them are too reliant on deeply stupid briefings from the DfE.

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UKHE MP template

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