‘Feminine rhyme is used pointedly, stays sweet or is avoided. Can a collective story be told? Perhaps – but only if there was a real difference between female and male poets’ use of feminine rhyme.’
Katie Ebner-Landy on early modern women’s writing.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Review of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
by Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb and Taylor Aucoin. Cambridge University Press, 2025, 362 pp. 978 1 316 51994 3.
SUCH an important book. #Skystorians
Announcement text: "The Institute of History at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) is recruiting 2 postdoctoral researchers for the ERC Consolidator Grant Project ‘WILDHIST – Wild Rubber in the Industrial Age: A Global History of Production’, led by Dr. David Pretel. Postdoc 1. The history of rubber production in the Amazon rainforest. Postdoc 2. The history of rubber production in the Congo Basin. For details, see the project description and objectives below. Application deadline: 24 April 2026. Starting date: 1 September 2026 (flexible). Requirements: • PhD in history, history of science, economic history or associated fields (Latin American studies, African studies, science and technology studies, anthropology, digital humanities), and a strong interest in the project. • Good command of written and spoken English and, depending on research specialisation, Portuguese, Spanish and/or French. • Be based in Madrid for the duration of the project. • Expected to publish articles, book chapters, and/or a book manuscript / edited volume. • Ability to collaborate within a team and to work independently. Benefits: • A three-year contract (full-time). • A gross salary of 43,827 EUR. • A fully equipped workspace at the Institute of History. • Funding for research-related purposes, participation in international conferences, and organisation of events. • Mentorship in applying for tenure-track and tenure positions at CSIC."
Project description text: "The Project WILDHIST aims to offer a comprehensive, multi-sited and multi-scale global history of wild rubber production during the industrial age. It investigates the hypothesis that wild rubber industries in the tropical rainforests of Africa and Latin America were key sites in the broader dynamics of industrialisation and scientific research from the early 19th century to the Second World War, forming an integral part of the era’s expanding global networks of knowledge exchange. The project moves beyond plantations to focus on wild production and smallholders’ cultivation in rainforests, emphasizing production processes rather than consumption or trade, and placing much stronger emphasis on the study of exploration, extraction, processing, transportation, experimentation, and manufacturing than has been typical of historical research on rainforest commodities. WILDHIST combines an analysis of contrasting non-plantation histories of rubber production in the Amazon, Congo Basin and so-called Maya Forest with broader histories of transnational interaction. The project rethinks and rewrites the global history of wild rubber by systematically and critically exploring a rich array of written, visual and oral sources located throughout the world. Its trans-local, interdisciplinary, comparative, digital and visual methodology will provide a comprehensive historical account of how rubber was transformed into commodities and then final goods for local, regional or global markets. Beyond academia, WILDHIST contributes to discussions about bioprospecting, sustainability and labour in rainforests. To address the challenge of writing more inclusive histories of science, technology, and industrialisation, the project also considers collective memory as represented in museums, material culture, and industrial heritage.
Two 3-year postdoctoral research positions available at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid to study the history of wild rubber production in the Amazon rainforest and Congo basin; apply by April 24th, 2026: #HistSTM
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L'EHESS et Sorbonne Nouvelle vous signalent un appel à communications sur la Colombie, ouvert aux doctorant·es et aux masterant·es, en français ou en espagnol,
dans le cadre de journées d'études qui se tiendront
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📢 Fully-funded PhD scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century
Based at the University of Sydney (supervised by me) and the University of Glasgow (supervised by Matthew Sangster), with time at both institutions.
Applications due 21 April
More details: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
Excellent opportunity!
What does wild beauty really look like? Our intern, Vittorio Anah, dives into the thriving, biodiversity-rich grounds of Lady Margaret Hall, a powerful case for rethinking how we manage green spaces. Nature recovery is possible, & it’s already happening. @ecioxford.bsky.social
When Trump dies and people celebrate that fact, show this to anyone who complains.
I hate book banning, but letting AI choose what books humans read is fucking ridiculous.
Mouse or rat? (As Umberto Eco would no doubt have asked)
This is absolutely brilliant. Instigated by Gordon Brown, delivered today. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
everyone needs to go support this lego printing press on lego ideas it’s incredibly cute 🥹
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
Paid opportunity for PhD students and ECRs! The Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (@montaguletters.bsky.social) 2026 Summer Internship Programme is open for applications.
Deadline: 1st April 2026
More details on the blog: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6359
🚨 Announcement 🚨 Engagement Award 2026. The HPGRG is offering £150 to support projects that seek to widen audience engagement within the history and philosophy of geography. Deadline: 30th July 2026. For more information 👉 tinyurl.com/8xakv9vw
Trafic de fossiles: un expert suisse accusé (Fossil trafficking: a Swiss expert is accused). Photo shows the Rolling Stones.
Meanwhile in Switzerland, an expert is accused of smuggling fossils (pictured).
📣 BSHS Small Grants – deadline 31 March
Looking for a little support for archival visits, research trips, or research assistance?
BSHS offers small grants (£50–£500) to help move research projects forward.
Especially aimed at early-career researchers.
Find out more: bshs.org.uk/grants/#rese...
#EarlyModern #Religion
(Long!) #Reformazing
Poste de lecteur·rice en anglais juridique à l'Université de Tours, 2026-2027
Le département Droit-Langues de l’Université de Tours recrute, pour la rentrée universitaire 2026, un·e...
saesfrance.org/poste-de-lecteur%c2%b7ri...
John-Erik : you need one of these. (I've got one, and yes, students loved it). PS : you need to build it first.....
www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/...
Farewell Country Joe MacDonald.
He mercilessly excoriated Nixon and Vietnam.
We need another like him now.
Give me an ‘F’…
youtube.com/watch?v=ft0v...
Are you studying, researching or teaching the histories of gender? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net
WORKSHOP: A Friendly Introduction to Palaeography!
🔎 Explore 14th century medical + culinary recipes
🔎 Based exclusively on records in our Archives
🔎 Learn about Middle English
🔎 No practical experience required
15 April | 2pm-4:30pm
Book your tickets: www.exeter-cathedral.org.uk/whats-on/eve...
Many thanks to Dr Daniel Starza Smith for a brilliantly engaging workshop today on letterlocking. We all hugely enjoyed learning how to fold, tuck and adhere our own letters.
Thank you Prof. Julia Crick and @drdavidrundle.bsky.social for organising and @leverhulme.ac.uk for making this possible!
Just a reminder... Tomorrow, 5 March, 5.30 pm ✨ Sue Wiseman, Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social ,
and Michael Powell Davies @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social speaking on "Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England" Sign-up in person & online: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The main function of punctuation is to resolve ambiguities. There is no ambiguity here, as far as I can see.
Men studying a dragon
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE
My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Thread: imagine you're a historian surveying 16th century copies of the world's most famous ancient astronomy book, and you see one where somebody with handwriting VERY similar to GALILEO (!?) has transcribed... a psalm.
"Galileo, a prayer? That's something that doesn't work," Ivan Malara thought.
The UK Green Party stormed to victory in Thursday's by-election in the Labour stronghold of Gorton and Denton, bagging over 40 percent of the vote.
The result deals a serious blow for PM Keir Starmer.
Read the full story: www.politico.eu/article/uk-g...
Hi #HistSTM #MaterialCulture #VisualCulture #ECR ,
Please submit you unpublished articles for the 2026 Nuncius Prize.
We would love to see your article published.
I think there's a clue in the term 'Parliamentary' monarchy. They've been changing the rules of succession since 1701