Dream positions: 3 (!!) PhD placements at the Prize Papers with emphasis on finding students with the following language skills: French, Spanish, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages. (Of course, I emphasize the Dutch language!)
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Our spring 2026 issue is out! Featuring four articles, the annual Conversations on Early Modern Women and Race, three exhibition reviews, and twenty-five book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern
No worries! I also think “canvas cutt” refers to decorative cuts and slashes in the fabric. So very fashionable!
@brodiewaddell.bsky.social Venetian hose/breeches! Semi-fitted hose reaching just below the knee.
The Tudor Tailors have a pattern for them that shows you what they look like
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Title and abstract for Vadas, András. “Plague in Time of War: The Example of the Seventeenth-Century Hungarian-Ottoman Frontier,” The Seventeenth Century 40, no. 2 (2025), 357-382.
I don't ordinarily include post-1500 studies on my 2nd Plague Pandemic bibliography, but I'm making an exception for this study of 17thC outbreaks in the Carpathian Basin b/c it's so innovative in its methodologies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1... #histmed #EpiSky #EarlyModern #OttomanEmpire
I'm delighted to say we have opened our visiting fellowship scheme in the College of Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies @uniofgalway.bsky.social. Deadline for applications is 1 May 2026. All visits must take place in the period May to Sept 2026.
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Early modernists! I'm writing about Frost Fairs and keep seeing claims that Elizabeth I played archery on the frozen Thames, but can't find source besides Holinshed who says in 1587 'diuerse of the court being then at Westminster, shot dailie at pricks set vpon the Thames'. Is there another source?
Me when I come across pettiness in the archive
Launching a new site called Suffolk Wills, which has two aims: to publish transcripts of wills from Suffolk, 1490-1620, and analyse the wills to see how they changed or varied from pre- to post-Reformation. suffolkwills.org
#TudorHistory #16thC #Tudors
10 grants available (up to €300) for travel and expenses to join us in Trento, Italy, 16-18 September, for postgrads and ECRs working on a topic related to 'Circulating Faith: Christian Missions in a Global Perspective (1500–2000)' deadline 30 April isig.fbk.eu/it/news/deta... #earlymodern 🗃️
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
Screenshot of the Introduction to the Chester City Hearth Tax webpage. Link to the page in the text of the post.
1,360 households in the 'Cittie of Chester' in 1664 now transcribed on the Hearth Tax Digital site. Read the intro here: gams.uni-graz.at/o:htx.chstr/...
And read the returns for all the households here, fully #OpenAccess: gams.uni-graz.at/o:htx.chstr
#EarlyModern 🗃️
Congratulations to four members of our Research Team on the publication of their new books!
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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
Presenter 1:Jenny Smith Seeing the future in 1590s English popular print: mirrors in conjuring and mirrors of conscience The future was hard to see in 1590s England, clouded by an imminent succession crisis, religious war, and widespread famine, and subject to the intervention of providence. Speculation and prognostication were outlawed, and ‘conjuring’ including scrying was also condemned on theological grounds, by Puritan preachers and popular playwrights alike. But mirrors retained authority as way to engage with the future in popular texts. News from Europe was reported as a mirror of what might happen at home. Jenny Smith is a PhD student at Monash University, writing a history of the mirror as a metaphor in sixteenth-century England. Presenter 2: Isabelle Moss Witchcraft Belief in Fifteenth-Century Zurich: Intersections Between Learned and Popular Demonologies This paper explores the richness and plurality of fifteenth-century witchcraft belief in the early modern city of Zurich. It examines community accusations of flying wolves, magical milking, bewitching, weather magic, and yet, this paper will argue that it is the sexual activity of witches with their demonic accomplices which proves most concerning for the Council. This exploration is used to consider the ways in which both the Zurich Council and the wider community processed the emerging threat of witchcraft in the city. In doing so, it complicates existing expectations of demonological belief and the role of demonic copulation in early witchcraft prosecutions. Isabelle Moss is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Melbourne. Her research examines witchcraft in early modern Zurich, focused on the ways in which demonic copulation was conceptualised and its implications for trial proceedings.
We are delighted to share the first seminar in the 2026 Early Modern Circle series!
Two wonderful PhD candidates from Melbourne surrounds, Jenny Smith and Isabelle Moss, will present their research 💫
When: April 15, 6.15pm, UniMelb Campus
DM for details or see poster below ⬇️
#earlymodern #emhist
I don’t find them much after 1720 but the fact she’s located at the “Indian queen” makes me think maybe she’s one of the English women who styled herself as an “Indian woman” but it’s so hard to know for sure!! Thanks for sharing 😊
I’ve come across at lot of women in the period before this who were called “Indian women” because they sold East Indies goods. Do you think that’s the case here or is this gentlewomen actually from the East Indies?
Exciting! Looking forward to reading it 😊
Any #EarlyModern folks out there who could recommend printed legal materials from England in the early 1630s, especially linked to forest law? I have a student who wants to work on this area for an undergraduate dissertation, & the go-to series I know for medieval legal sources aren't helping much.
Final days for submissions for our 2026 online conference: Fame and Fortune. There's still time to submit your 150-word abstract before deadline 16 March! #medievalsky #earlymodern ceraejournal.com/conference-i...
🚨 CFP deadline extended - 31st March 🚨Apply for our @bsecs.bsky.social PGR/ECR Conference in Montpellier in September! Theme is Improvement, Degeneration, Stagnation. We can’t wait to see your abstracts! Details below ⬇️ #18c @royalhistsoc.org @ihrlifecycles.bsky.social @long18thsem.bsky.social
Screenshot of the homepage of Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies digital archive.
I've put online a #c18th side project on Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies that uses data extraction for mapping & network analysis, exploring questions of urban history, genre and print culture, geography, and social worlds across editions:
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#HarrissList #DH #WIP
Thank you Jessica! ☺️
If you enjoyed this article and want to learn more about the Queen’s mantua-makers, milliners and tirewomen (now they are REALLY fascinating), I explore their stories in my forthcoming book The Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social 📕
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My article on Queen Anne’s wardrobe has just been published OA.
I provide a qualitative & quantitative overview of her extensive wardrobe accounts (incl makers & suppliers) & show how fashion influenced her representation!
#18thc #17thc #earlymodern
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