In person early modern metals event in London next month with me, @laurenworking.bsky.social, and Lubaaba Al-Azami. Please repost and share widely! And register here -- forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
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
I'm pleased to announce I'm a founding co-editor of the new @manchesterup.bsky.social book series, Radical Histories.
Do let me know if you have a proposal for a book that fits our inclusive remit on radical histories.
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/radic...
Ouverture au public, dès demain, d'une grande exposition organisée à l'occasion des 400 ans de la naissance de la marquise de Sevigné au @museecarnavalet.bsky.social !
Really pleased to share my (open access!) article on immigration control in early modern England, feat. rights-bearing subjects, rightsless migrants, and experiments in immigration control
assumed this was a sophisticated april fools at first
Happy to see there is a whole book out in May on Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Albemarle, which looks like it takes a fresh approach to her illnesses and finally addresses those awful marriages
www.blackwaterpress.com/product/an-a...
Claxon 📣 for English lit. graduates: here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden led by the fabulous Dr Lotte Fikkers, and co-supervised by yours truly, on literary representations of wardship in early modern English drama.
bit.ly/4bEeH7a
Apply by 31 May 2026; starting date 1 Jan. 2027
CfP for our Annual Colloquium! This year's theme is 'Periodising the Early/Modern'.
We're looking for abstracts from PGRs/ECRs.
Deadline: 7th April
Full details below.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...
Greatly looking forward to reading this new article from @fgottmann.bsky.social, Floris van Swet and Rémi Dewière! 🗃️
When I was living in Kazan, my host struggled to understand what I ate as a vegetarian and once gave me a sandwich filled with a slab of butter and a huge heap of dill. (I’ve barely been able to smell dill, let alone taste it, since.)
"Polwhele is notable among her predecessors and contemporaries not only because she privileges homoeroticism and homosociality, but also due to her subversive use of cross-dressing."
Jordan Ivie's “Sexual Subversion and Homoerotic Sanction in Elizabeth Polwhele’s The Faithfull Virgins" link below
David van der Linden - Remembering the Wars of Religion
Conflict and Coexistence in Early Modern France
À paraître en juin aux Oxford UP
Hear ye, hear ye!
My book is in production!
www.routledge.com/Unconventual...
All sorts were being thrown on stage by gig-goers at the front (memory fuzzy but things like a bra, sunglasses) and they were picked up and shown to us. One of those things was the flag which was shown like all the others and then taken off stage. You’d think the UK govt had better things to do.
Mo Chara is free! The case has been dismissed on a technicality but every one of us who went to that Kentish Town gig knows he didn’t “display a flag in support of Hezbollah”.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
That last bit hits hard. I spent last summer (heavily pregnant) undoing terrible copyedits for my book that I'm sure were done by AI. They tell us AI will save us time, make things more efficient, and yet...
Montage showing pressed plant specimens from an 18th-century bound herbarium.
Lovely to be able to share this 18th-century bound herbarium for a workshop on botany and the book, funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and Trinity College, Cambridge. We’ve also digitised the volumes, so everyone can take a look!
cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-...
We are delighted to announce the winner of the WHN Book Prize. The judges chose Female Servants in Early Modern England by @charmianmansell.bsky.social
The highly readable & engaging book, interrogates long-standing assumptions about the domesticity & constraints of women’s lives in service.
It's 500 years since the first text printed in Yiddish, and one of our amazing grad students is hosting a symposium this October to mark the date: please forward the CFP to Yiddishists, book historians, typography nerds, and anyone you think might be up for this! medieval.ox.ac.uk/500-years-of...
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
Explore our job opportunities focused on the Medieval and Early Modern periods (thread 🧵):
1. Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History, University of Warwick
memorients.com/news/assista...
The Heretic of Cacheu by Toby Green - an incredible microhistory of Crispina Peres and her travails with the inquisition www.penguin.co.uk/books/453870...
Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany, edited by Peter Hess, is out now with Berghahn books, and I've just learned that the introduction (which I wrote) is free to read on the website! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HessMa...
🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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Ugly to see ECRs pitted against established scholars. No doubt what IS imperilling disciplines is years of under-investment in universities, the huge waste of time and resources that goes into the REF, and the government's xenophobic attitude towards international students and scholars.
Promotional graphic for “European Transcribe” transcribathon featuring illustrated portraits of women and text encouraging participation to uncover and share lesser-known women’s stories.
It’s #WomensHistoryMonth and to celebrate we’re offering you the chance to take part in a special Transcribathon with @factsandfiles.bsky.social.
Transcribe and enrich letters, diaries and documents written by women. There are prizes for participants who transcribe the most! ➡️ bit.ly/4tZyxAL
Next Thursday (March 5th) @ihrscb.bsky.social we are hosting the Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in #EarlyModern England. Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Deadline tomorrow! Send in your expressions of interest.
