Congratulations to the volume editors, contributors and series editors on the publication of -
Cultural Perceptions of Health, Illness and the Body in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Edited by Anni Hella, Anu Korhonen
Blurb and table of contents: www.routledge.com/Cultural-Per...
All about Adolf Ludvig Couschi Badin: "The image of him is everywhere but no one seems to hear or read his own voice.” (Salad Hilowle)
What do the #earlymodern chess-playing automaton, the "Mechanical Turk" from 1770, and today’s AI have in common? There’s still more of a human touch to AI than you might think or expect.
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/ki-menschlic...
It's no secret!
Arno Strohmeyer's new article about Habsburg-Ottoman espionage practices is now available online.
Read it in public or private on FirstView!
#History #AcademicSky #Ottoman #Habsburg #Austria #Diplomacy #EarlyModern #Skystorians
tinyurl.com/H-O-secrecy
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
#CfP 📢 "Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies", eds. Mary Katherine Newman and Rana Banna
Seeking chapter proposals on how language and the senses shaped evidence in the #earlymodern world (c.1492–1700).
⏰ Deadline for abstracts: 12 April 2026
🔗 www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
#HistoryOfKnowledge
![Photograph of two female records clerks at the London Hospital, both wearing work coats; one on a ladder is retrieving or returning an x-ray from the shelf in a wallet which reads "x-ray wallet"; the other appears to be checking files against a paper list. c1970s [RLHLH/P/2/41/6]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpxxiqvlbi3oovm5uue5sbnh/bafkreidfdtewdznowuk6h6yrh2t3dhzisurhhexxiedapn7gn4kn2cu3si)
Photograph of two female records clerks at the London Hospital, both wearing work coats; one on a ladder is retrieving or returning an x-ray from the shelf in a wallet which reads "x-ray wallet"; the other appears to be checking files against a paper list. c1970s [RLHLH/P/2/41/6]
If you're new to our service you should know that we are more than just St Bartholomew’s. We hold over 145 collections, including over 35 hospitals as well as NHS authorities, medical & nursing schools, charities, and much more
You can find a list of collections we hold here - tinyurl.com/d9ds6nhv
Mark Watkins of the Chronicle of Higher Ed says faculty should spend 90 mins a week to teach ourselves about AI & unis are now sending out emails w his recommendation. I write here about the gift of having someone admit that automation intensifies labor
sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2026/...
An open medicine chest full of glass bottles. In front of the chest are more bottles, a medical textbook, a feeding cup, and a glass mortar and pestle.
The Church of England might seem an unusual source for info about female medical practitioners in the years 1500-1800. But it is where this story of a brief period of opportunity is set. . . Read the full blog👉 history.rcp.ac.uk/blog/archbis...
#WomensHistoryMonth @rcphysicians.bsky.social #histmed
I enjoyed visiting the exhibition at the KHM in Vienna. The teasers about her rediscovery intrigued me. I am delighted to be able to read more about it and this #earlymodern artist. www.khm.at/en/artists/m...
Hear ye, hear ye!
My book is in production!
www.routledge.com/Unconventual...
Dear everyone,
As per the post from the Bodleian librarian below, AI bots and scrapers are putting just about every website under great pressure, British History Online included.
A lot of excellent tech staff are working hard to keep everything working, but outages and siruptions are inevitable.
Delighted my collaboration with Industrial Museums Scotland @shacklington.bsky.social ‘Sniffers in Residence: Using Smell to Engage Intergenerational Audiences with Industrial Heritage' is one of the projects to be funded under this scheme! Look out for industrial smelly things from April onwards!
My article in the renewed Huntington Library Quarterly, with focus expanded to the global early modern, edited by @brettrushforth.bsky.social . An honor to be included in this wonderful issue! #earlymodern
20 February 1583: Ambassador Mendoza writes home about a picture sent from Flanders featuring the Netherlands depicted as a cow an early version of this 1630s painting. It features Philip II trying to control the cow, his spurs drawing blood; William of Orange milking it, a sign ... 1/
#earlymodern
Ein paar Plätze sind noch frei und noch nehme ich Anmeldungen entgegen: turns.hypotheses.org/2356
Dank der Gemälde von Sascha Schneider gilt mein erster Post hierzu noch nicht mal als jugendfrei. Man lernt nie aus 🤷. Zu sehen übrigens: Gefühl der Abhängigkeit (li), Lichtsieg (re), beide ca. 1920.
Und wer es ganz genau wissen mag, hier gleich das ganze Programm zur Ansicht turns.hypotheses.org/files/2026/0..., mit dabei: Hannah Elmer, @juliaheinemann.bsky.social, @isabelleschuerch.bsky.social und digital zugeschaltet Miriam Weiss 🥳 (2/2)
Liebe #skystorians: 🤫 so unter uns, noch 5mal schlafen, dann ist es schon so weit: meine Experimentierwerkstatt zu #Bias in der #Geschichte an der @univie.ac.at, organisiert am @ihb-oeaw.bsky.social und gefördert vom @fwf-at.bsky.social . Noch nehme ich Anmeldungen entgegen 🤗 (1/2)
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
🥳🥳🥳
IHR programme for the Europe & the World Seminar 12 January: Yahya Nurgat: The Politics of Sacred Space in the Early Modern Islamicate World: The Shrines of Karbala and Najaf 16 February: Frederica Gigante on "Enslaved Networks: Muslim Lives and the Movement of Knowledge and Things in the Early Modern Mediterranean" 9 March: Sheilagh Ogilvie: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid 23 March: Pablo Gómez: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality
AMENDED PROGRAMME! But with good news: we'd love to welcome you to *four* sessions this term, not three!
Join us @ihr.bsky.social on Mondays at 17:30, or on zoom (sign up for the link here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
