The Hamilton School for Classical & Civic Education at the U. of Florida has hired various historians of political thought in recent years (some from Cambridge!) & is now on the hunt for more faculty members.
Ads here explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53... & here explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.
#OTD 1752, Britain went to bed like usual. But when they awoke, it was ‘eleven days later’ on Thursday 14 September. Find out why...👇 @georgianlords.bsky.social
We’re hiring again @ufhamilton!
3 open-field humanities/social sciences
4 jobs in PPEL
(All open rank)
Do apply! 😎🐊
explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...
Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.
Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting
An illustration of a man riding a horse while blowing a horn, with a yellow sun above. The illustration is laid over faded text on a blue backdrop.
You can now access a beta version of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC).
A bibliography of about 500,000 records, the ESTC aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced before 1801 in the English-speaking world.
Explore the catalogue: datb.cerl.org/estc/
Beyond thrilled and honoured to see my book on the shortlist for this year's @royalhistsoc.org First Book Prize!!! Thanks to the prize panel for this recognition, and congrats to the other shortlisted authors
It’s publication day for Thomas More: A Life and Death in Tudor England with Michael Joseph @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social!
Pop by your local bookshop or order now - uk.bookshop.org/a/12264/9781...
There's still time to sign up for next week's graduate conference! See below for details ⬇️
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford...
📢 New Blog
Or Rosenboim (@orrosenboim.bsky.social) explores 'Planetary Orders and Global Divisions in the Political Thought of Barbara Ward'
intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/plan...
This year's Quentin Skinner Lecture will be delivered by Dr Max Skjönsberg.
Date: 6 June 2025
Time: 11:00 – 18:30
Location: Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP
To register, please visit the following website:
onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/conferences-...
It's officially out! As of Friday, my book is available to purchase and exists in the world. What a long and wonderful ride this has been and I'm thankful for all the support I've received along the way!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
A close reading of Caravaggio's "Calling of St. Matthew" #earlymodern #arthistory
Join us for the colloquium celebrating the 40th anniversary of Sylvana Tomaselli’s article ‘The Enlightenment Debate on Women’.
Date: 28 April (Monday)
Venue: Palmerston Room (Fisher Building), St John's College.
See our website for further details:
www.polthought.cam.ac.uk/future-event...
A detail of a fresco showing a man who sits before a hearth and a woman who prepares roast meat on a spit
Federico Zuccaro, Scenes from the Life of the Artist's Family, detail, 1579, Casa del Sarto-Zuccari, Florence #arthistory #earlymodern #renaissance
𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘴: 𝘈 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 by Edward Wilson-Lee finds in Giovanni Pico della Mirandola a case for the Rennaissance as a triumph not of individuality but of universal experience.
✍️ Eloise Davies reviews the recent book
www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...
Thrilled that the @lrb.co.uk published Alexander Bevilacqua's wonderful review of my book on The Discovery of #Ottoman Greece
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
#earlymodern #skystorians
A poster with details for the book launch of The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe (Cambridge, 2024). For more information, see: https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series/early-modern-scholarship-and-religion
I’ll be launching my book The Limits of Erudition in Cambridge on 2 May 2025 with Simon Ditchfield. All very much welcome, whether in person or online! For further details see the poster attached and register for Zoom here: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...
#earlymodern
Listen Now 📻🎤
'Biblical Typology' on In Our Time with the wonderful @mirierubin.bsky.social and Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe @peterhousecam.bsky.social, and me @darwincollegecam.bsky.social @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social
Plus an Easter thread!
tinyurl.com/2zchj3vy
Great to see these translations out and now online - not least as I was lucky enough to take an intellectually formative class on embryonic versions of these back as a 1st year undergrad.
