📢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 bit.ly/47Y3hYI
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
Here’s another 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 guilds and associations supporting early modern language professionals bit.ly/49rsLA3
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
Should also have tagged organiser @mlcoolahan.bsky.social!
Ah thanks! That makes sense - happened to me with Dublin Review of Books
Tomorrow!
Join the @stemma.bsky.social team! We've just advertised a two-year postdoc on WP2, "Networking Early Modern Poems." Apply by 30 September; details at link below. #earlymodern #dh #postdoc #jobfairy
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Best thing I've ever read about AI and the academy - every line a banger
Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906...
ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️
The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) has recently been updated with 4500+ new references. Discover further details about this update in our latest On History blog blog.history.ac.uk/2025/07/bibl... @brepols.net
A tree-lined canal with colourful flowers in the foreground and a bridge in the distance.
The FEATHERS conference in Leiden last week was absolutely fantastic, full of excellent papers and truly interdisciplinary conversation. Thank you to the FEATHERS team for organising, and for giving me the opportunity to participate!
Italian route network is done! 8 influential itinerary books from the #16thcentury through the #18thcentury ready for Maps-style route planning. We're on track for sharing the shapefiles in coming weeks as we continue to develop the tool. Watch this space! #earlymodern #digitalhistory 🗃️
Check out the latest VOICES blog!
Our Research Fellow, Diego Rincon Yanez, explores how Natural Language Processing and AI helps us learn about the lives of women in early modern Ireland:
@tlrhub.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social
@adaptcentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @tcddublin.bsky.social
Here’s a description of @matthewsteggle.bsky.social ‘s work that can be read by an interested public. The rest of us will await the grainier details in the journal Shakespeare.
Book cover: The Sweet Taste of Empire: Sugar, Mastery and Pleasure in the Anglo Caribbean - Kim F. Hall
In *Sweet Taste of Empire,* (forthcoming August 2025), you can read my re-visiting of the Black boy mentioned by Pepys who was “dried in an oven, and lies there
entire in a box” who has been troubling me since graduate school. Another colonial “souvenir” 😢
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
PhD Studentship at Exeter: 'Remembering William Shakespeare'!
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
The studentship is part of the new Leverhulme Research Project 'Shakespearean Graves: Literature and the Anglophone Way of Death' (launching in September).
Please spread the word!
Congratulations Una! How long will you be there?
A flyer with discount code AAFLYG6 for Early Modern Women's Wrtiing and the Future of Literary History by Michelle M. Dowd and Lara Dodds
My new book, co-authored with Michelle Dowd, is now out from Oxford University Press in the UK. US publication to follow shortly. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Rachel Ruysch, b. 3 June 1665 - d. 12 Oct 1750. Still Life with Bouquet of Flowers, 1698
(Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main)
a colorful Dutch still life of flowers on a black background
Renowned during the Dutch Golden Age for her original style but under-acknowledged for centuries in the canon of Western art history, Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750) finally gets her flowers in the first major U.S. exhibition of her work.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/rach...
🚨FT Permanent Job 🚨
My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️
I won't pretend that Amazon's launch of a .ie site is not a threat to many small (and medium sized) businesses here.
It is.
But if I could ask Irish people to do one thing - don't assume that whatever you're buying will always be cheaper there. A monopoly is in no one's interest. #speirgorm
Happy International Women’s Day! For #IWD, why not pay a visit to the digital version of last summer’s ‘Her Booke’: Early Modern Women and their Books, celebrating the role of women in England’s devotional, intellectual & bibliographical cultures. www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/exhibitions/...
Cherries in a Silver Compote by Fede Galizia, c. 1578– c. 1630
She was born in Milan and died there, possibly of plague.
(Private Collection, via Web Gallery of Art) #InternationalWomensDay
Title page of Claudius Hollyband, The French Schoole Maister (London, 1634)
Ownership inscription by Hellen Marshall.
Inscription: "Nell Marshal avec mon main"
A page busy with inscriptions! Some names, a prayer, pen trials, a big old stain.
Also from today's jaunt into the Princeton Special Collections. Will somebody *please* come and do a PhD with me on ownership & usage of early modern language-learning books? Obviously very open to generous funding for such a project (and collaborating with libraries & special collections!)
Women’s Prize Logo
Welcome to the Longlist! womensprize.com/prizes/women...
These are difficult times so let's remember the impact humanities research has in the world. In 2022 @englishassociation.bsky.social, @univeng.bsky.social & @ies-sas.bsky.social met with colleagues to find out about their work. See 🧵Here is no. 1 on policy: englishassociation.ac.uk/speaking-for...
18th century cottage in England, whitewashed, roses round the door
The Hosking Houses Trust
supports women writers, artists and creative practitioners, usually over the age of 40 to develop their work through short-term residencies at Church Cottage nr Stratford-upon-Avon.
Details in link.
Please share :)
hoskinghouses.org.uk
😍 Archival materialities!
"How do born-digital records transform our understanding of the materiality of the archive? How do digital techniques provide new insights into the materiality of older archives?"
Looking forward to seeing this--what a great ToC.
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