Italy 1200-1700 Seminar

Next Thursday, 19 February 2026, 5:30pm London (12:30pm NYC/6:30pm Brussels), Kate Travers (Warwick) will speak about ‘The Face in the Tower: Reading Petrarch in the Early Fifteenth Century’. Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR London. To register: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/ita...

@neiltarrant.bsky.social

Venice and the Radical Reformation: An Italian Republic in European Context

Free on Zoom! Suitner on "Venice and the Radical Reformation: An Italian Republic in European Context" www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... 22 Jan 2026, 5.30 UK Time

Gift idea: Surprise Alarm Clock

@joshuarushton8.bsky.social

Human and Environmental Entanglements in Early Modern Italian Shrine Culture

On Thursday, 11 Dec, 5:30pm London time (12:30pm New York/6:30 Brussels), Joshua Rushton (Manchester) will speak about ‘Human and Environmental Entanglements in Early Modern Italian Shrine Culture’. Online-via Zoom ONLY.
All welcome - Please share. To register, see www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

I was pleased to name my "Books of the Year" for History Today magazine: www.historytoday.com/archive/revi... @historytoday.com

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Books of the Year 2025: Part 1

I was pleased to name my "Books of the Year" for readers of History Today magazine: www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

Caravaggio's Cupid - painted in 1602, censored on public transport in 2025

Modest goal of the day - "skimmed that tastes like semi-skimmed"

An Early Modern Strategy of Tension? Conspiring with the Ottomans in Mid-Sixteenth Century Italy

On Thursday, 27 Nov 2025, 5:30pm London time, Antonio Pattori (Oxford) will speak about ‘An Early Modern Strategy of Tension? Conspiring with the Ottomans in Mid-Sixteenth Century Italy’. Via Zoom & IHR London
All welcome - Please share invitation
To register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

An Early Modern Strategy of Tension? Conspiring with the Ottomans in Mid-Sixteenth Century Italy

On Thursday, 27 Nov 2025, 5:30pm London time, Antonio Pattori (Oxford) will speak about ‘An Early Modern Strategy of Tension? Conspiring with the Ottomans in Mid-Sixteenth Century Italy’. Via Zoom & IHR London
All welcome - Please share invitation
To register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

NEXT MONTH: The Baptistery in Florence and its Bronze Doors at the British Museum in London (study session), Wednesday, 3 Dec 2025, 11.00-13.00 London, UK, time. Send DM for details and to register! #florencebaptistery #britishmuseum

Italy 1200-1700 Seminar

On Thursday, 30 Oct 2025, 5:30pm London time (1:30pm New York/6:30pm Brussels), Alex Lee (NYU London) will speak about ‘Disability and Community: Healing Miracles and the Bianchi of 1399’.
Free! Online-via Zoom & IHR Senate House, London
To register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

I'm pleased to see Daniel Woolf's generous review of "A Renaissance Reclaimed": "the volume is uniformly excellent" @kingsartshums.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social my.bsky.social #skystorians

Disable Google AI Overviews on Search on Chrome and Edge To disable Google AI Overviews results in search, on Chrome and Edge create a custom search engine using "{google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s" code.

See here: pureinfotech.com/disable-ai-o... However, one of the steps didn't work and I had to modify it. In Step 11, for the Edge browser, I had to add "https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s" rather than the recommended "{google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s" in the URL setting. Works now.

Historische Zeitschrift Volume 321, Issue 2 - Volume 321, issue 2 of the journal Historische Zeitschrift was published in 2025.

In the latest issue Historische Zeitschrift, there is only 1 single review on early modern history. And that one's on Goethe. What happened to German historical "science"? www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/...

Disable Google AI Overviews on Search on Chrome and Edge To disable Google AI Overviews results in search, on Chrome and Edge create a custom search engine using "{google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s" code.

See here: pureinfotech.com/disable-ai-o... However, one of the steps didn't work and I had to modify it. In Step 11, for the Edge browser, I had to add "https://www.google.com/search?udm=14&q=%s" rather than the recommended "{google:baseURL}/search?udm=14&q=%s" in the URL setting. Works now.

Managed to switch off the AI answer box on my Google search -- happy days!

I'm pleased to see Daniel Woolf's generous review of "A Renaissance Reclaimed": "the volume is uniformly excellent" @kingsartshums.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social my.bsky.social #skystorians

Truth, trust and tricksters in the age of AI - Index on Censorship Join us for a panel discussion and launch of Index’s latest magazine issue on Wednesday 1 October at City St George’s, University of London.

Many thoughtful articles on Artificial Intelligence in the autumn issue of the @indexoncensorship.org Magazine - including a piece by King's very own @drkatedevlin.bsky.social www.indexoncensorship.org/events/truth...

Italy 1200-1700 Seminar

The IHR Italy 1200-1700 (London and online) seminar programme has been published: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

AI tool labels more than 1000 journals for ‘questionable,’ possibly shady practices New algorithm could help scientists avoid publishing in shady titles

AI tool labels more than 1000 journals for ‘questionable,’ possibly shady practices

#AcademicPublishing #Science #AcademicJournals #WCRI2026 #WCRI

www.science.org/content/arti....

For those interested in news in Early Modern Europe, this has just landed on my desk from Penguin #skystorians #16thC #EarlyModern

Society for the Study of the Past A new history of the world...

The new Society for the Study of the Past now has socials! 🥳🍉

You can find us on Insta or here on Bluesky: @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social

Or check out the website here: societyforthestudyofthepast.com

Congrats Reza and Sara!

Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS

Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!

Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025

Reminder: submit to the Historical Materialism London Conference!

From 6-9th of November - with a Postgrad pre day on the 5th.

We're running a stream with Notes from Below on Workers and Capital!

Get in touch for more info and submit here: www.historicalmaterialism.org/event/twenty...