Unfortunately a husting that was planned in Littlehampton got cancelled due to Reform, Con, and LibDem candidates being otherwise engaged. Even if daunting for a novice, I would have been up for it.
So are any other #GreenParty members or candidates from Sussex here on BlueSky? I represent the @chi-arungreenparty.bsky.social myself but would be nice to share others thoughts (and statements).
Photograph of manuscript from the Essex Record Office, Q/SR 113/39.
Delighted to encounter in the archives this unexpected Elizabethan...
Kytte Myller 'a pedlar, whoe is a maker of Passportes and goeth apparelled in a Spanyshe lether Jerkynne with longe cutts and a payre of venesyans of canvas cutt', selling his services at Chelmsford Fair on Mayday 1590. 🗃️
Full disclosure: Greens are all in hock to protecting two vested interests...
Community
Environment
#VoteGreen 💚
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Also do follow @chi-arungreenparty.bsky.social if you live locally and want to join us!
Have changed my profile picture temporarily as I am standing as a Green Party candidate for the West Sussex County Council (in the Littlehampton East division). Do get in touch if you are considering voting Green on May 7th, want to know more about how to help, and get engaged in local campaigning.
Opinion | For AI purposes, academic knowledge has been priced at zero since the first crawler hit the first journal archive. AI benefitted hugely from that underinvestment; it’s now doubling down on it. https://chroni.cl/486NDv3
Hyi helvetti nyt taas…
For all of those people who keep saying singular they is a modern thing: I'm looking at a manuscript (mostly ritual magic) from the early 1600s with this line: "Whosoever shall carye thes names of god about them, neede not to feare the perell of water, fyre or inchauntment, evel ende or enemie".
One vote for William Prynne from here....
This is so cool and I can’t wait to see it on display at the National Portrait Gallery. Really fascinating to see this kind of rare double portrait with male figures.
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Annual @hakluytsociety.bsky.social essay prize read-athon on its way. This time I’m chairing the prize panel for the first time. Delighted with many #earlymodern entries and the quality in general.
🚨And another #History Job Alert: My Department is hiring an Assistant Professor in the History of Iberian Empires.
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Come work with us at Warwick. You'll get both excellent colleagues and great students!
And do not hesitate to spread the word...
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"When Badin died, he left behind diaries, a vast book collection, private letters and an autobiography offering a window into his life in 18th- and 19th-century Stockholm." New Black Europe exhibition at the Swedish National Museum #earlymodern 🗃️
2 Postdocs for historians of minority nationalisms (all periods): abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
CfP Global Histories of Hair
Working on the history of hair? Or just found a hairy case study you would like to explore? We are looking forward to it! Please answer our CfP on „Global Histories of Hair, c. 1500-2026“ and join us in Lucerne this October! #skystorians #earlymodern
Congratulations to four members of our Research Team on the publication of their new books!
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Published today OA in @routledgehistory.bsky.social 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800: Cultures of the Sea' book series:
www.routledge.com/Material-Cul...
Many congratulations to the editors! ⚓⚓⚓
📜 NEW 'Will of the Month' post over at @materialwills.bsky.social 👇
@uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @cemsexeter.bsky.social #history #SkyStorians #EarlyModern
Big news for the wills world:
#EarlyModern 🗃️
oooooo! This will be such an exciting Masterclass to participate in. Run, don't walk, #earlymodern #SkyStorians in Nordic countries, if you're a PhD student yourself or have PhD students who should apply.
Three Postdoctoral Researchers in Early Modern History Deadline: 8 May 2026 Visit website → Three postdoctoral research positions (35 months each) are available within the project 'Travellers’ interactions in early modern Italy' (TRAVEL), funded by a Consolidator Grant from the Fondo Italiano per la Scienza (FIS-2023-02909), based at the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento (PI: Sandra Toffolo). This three-year project focuses on interpersonal encounters involving travellers in the Italian peninsula (1400-1600). It aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the practical aspects of interactions involving a wide range of people on the move and, in doing so, to address more general issues concerning early modern mobility. The members of the research team will each focus on a specific geographical area, examining different aspects of encounters involving travellers: legislation, the use of urban space, communication, and material culture. For more information, see https://jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Jobs_FBK_is_looking_for_three_Postdoctoral_Researchers_in_the_field_of_Early_Modern_History_245158441.htm. Deadline: 8 May 2026
Three postdoctoral research positions (35 months each) are available on the project 'Travellers’ interactions in early modern Italy' (TRAVEL), working with @toffolosandra.bsky.social at the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento. Apply by 8 May 2026 #Skystorians #EarlyModern
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I'm in the process of writing 2 presentations - for the Reformation Studies Colloquium 2026, & the IHR @ihrscb.bsky.social seminar.
At the IHR on May 7th I will introduce the project and give an airing for some of our preliminary findings.
Hybrid, sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
📚 #NewBook by EMoDiR member
Karin Sennefelt, The Word Made Flesh: Lutheran Bodies, 1600–1720 (Routledge, 2026).
A study of how bodily experience shaped Lutheran religious life and belief in the seventeenth century.
🔗 www.routledge.com/The-Word-Mad...
#EarlyModern #Lutheranism #ReligiousHistory
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.
📣Out now on #firstview
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...
Samuel Pepys had significant professional and social connections to transatlantic slavery in the years covered by his diary and afterwards, mediated by his involvement with two English slave-trading companies – the Royal African Company and the Company of Royal Adventurers trading to Africa. He also owned and sold at least two enslaved people in London in the 1670s and 1680s. This article uses previously neglected manuscript evidence to reassess Pepys’s involvement in enslavement and his status as an enslaver. It emphasizes three themes: the relationship between Pepys’s official connections to the African companies and his private ownership of enslaved people; the development of his involvement in slavery within his extensive social and professional networks; and Pepys’s own agency in curating his official and personal archives to shape and limit our knowledge of his slave ownership. In doing so, it considers how the consciously expressed professional and ethical priorities of administrators and slave-owners like Pepys shaped the complex archival traces of slavery in England and erased the experiences and voices of enslaved people.
📣Out now on #firstview
Michael Edwards @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social on 'Samuel Pepys, the African Companies, and the Archives of Slavery, 1660–1689'
#Archives #Letters #Diary #History 17thc 🗃️
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Mrs Bagley, East-India Gentlewoman, selling her Italian Charming Noble Cosmetick of the World...
...and the fam’d Lathering Essence for washing hands and shaving…which also removed ink-spots… at the India Queen.
Post Man, 7 April 1720. #WomensHistoryMonth #earlymodern
MONDAY! Join us for an exciting paper about the Early Atlantic Slave trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality by Pablo Gómez!
23 March, 17:30 (UK) @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom -- register for the link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
#EarlyModern #SkyStorians #SlaveryArchive
