In our next lecture, John Guy and Julia Fox will discuss their latest collaboration ‘Hunting the Falcon: Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn and the Marriage That Shook Europe’ (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023), a critically acclaimed re-examination of the Boleyn courtship and marriage. All welcome.
A photo of a parish register with the following text over the top: 'An Introduction to Parish Registers 10:30am, Saturday 2nd of May, Buckinghamshire Archives'
We've got plenty of parish registers in our collection, but how can you use them in your research?
Come along to this free talk and learn how to get started in using this fantastic resource!
Spaces are limited, so make sure you email us to secure your spot at archives@buckinghamshire.gov.uk
@boydellandbrewer.bsky.social are having a 60% sale on selected hardbacks from today until 5 May, which includes my monograph Catholics during the English Revolution, 1642-1660: Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty for £35.77. Bargain! boydellandbrewer.com/book/catholi...
If you or your students research any aspect of British, Irish or British colonial/imperial history (Roman empire to today) and need a tool that will never hallucinate sources, check out the BBIH. It develops research skills rather than repressing them. Instit. & indiv. subscriptions available.
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The 16th Century Society (SCS): A Society for Early Modern Studies
SCS invites proposals for individual presentations, panels, roundtables & workshops for its annual conf at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Oct 29-31, 2026.
For more info, visit: sixteenthcentury.org/conference/2....
This is unfortunately still relevant so please do share with anyone who is looking for a tutor/lecturer in early modern history or freelance researcher.
Jane Seymour queen of England for only 17 months. In her lifetime, however, she was a significant political figure, while her legacy and memorialization extended beyond her early death following childbirth
Out in July 😊 @routledgebooks.bsky.social #livesofroyalwomen #janeseymour #queenjaneseymour
📢New article in JBS!
📗"Arguing with Catholic Women: Devotion, Polemic, and Female Agency in the Theological Crisis of the 1620s," by Kathryn Marshalek
Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Lively @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social talk with Bowen and Imhof about @brepols.net The Burgeoning #European #Print Trade: The Distribution of Prints via the Platin-Moretus Press of #Antwerp. #Skystorians #EarlyModern #Belgium #LowCountries
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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 🗃️
Please share with any of your students and post-docs folks!
I don't yet have a uni email (working on it), but from today I'm a research fellow at Swansea University working on the medieval and early modern fiefs of Jersey.
Please send me Jersey tourist recommendations and any lost court records or copies you may have in your attics.
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
Three Postdoctoral Researchers in Early Modern History Deadline: 8 May 2026 Visit website → Three postdoctoral research positions (35 months each) are available within the project 'Travellers’ interactions in early modern Italy' (TRAVEL), funded by a Consolidator Grant from the Fondo Italiano per la Scienza (FIS-2023-02909), based at the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento (PI: Sandra Toffolo). This three-year project focuses on interpersonal encounters involving travellers in the Italian peninsula (1400-1600). It aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the practical aspects of interactions involving a wide range of people on the move and, in doing so, to address more general issues concerning early modern mobility. The members of the research team will each focus on a specific geographical area, examining different aspects of encounters involving travellers: legislation, the use of urban space, communication, and material culture. For more information, see https://jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Jobs_FBK_is_looking_for_three_Postdoctoral_Researchers_in_the_field_of_Early_Modern_History_245158441.htm. Deadline: 8 May 2026
Three postdoctoral research positions (35 months each) are available on the project 'Travellers’ interactions in early modern Italy' (TRAVEL), working with @toffolosandra.bsky.social at the Italian-German Historical Institute in Trento. Apply by 8 May 2026 #Skystorians #EarlyModern
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Remembering my dear friend Emma on what would have been her birthday yesterday. Nine years now since you left us. Never forgotten.
Six copies of "Renaissance Studies" set out in the shape of a fan.
The latest issue of our #SRSlyGood "Renaissance Studies" is OUT! It's an extra special issue on 'Early Modern English Textual Cultures Between Manuscript and Print', guest edited by the distinguished duo, Mari-Liisa Varila and Sara Norja.
rensoc.org.uk/renaissance-...
Please do spread the word about the @srsrensoc.bsky.social Scholars of Colour MA Scholarship Awards -- two pots of £4,000 each, and an optional mentoring opportunity. I've very much enjoyed being a mentor to a fantastic scholar through this scheme!
📢CFP Deadline Extended!
Submissions for the NACBS 2026 call for papers are now due by April 27!
You can read the full CFP here: www.nacbs.org/call-for-pap...
@pennpress.bsky.social Founders Day 'flash sale' today and tomorrow mailchi.mp/pennpress/fo... @csschmitt.bsky.social @drmishaewen.bsky.social @thehistoriann.bsky.social @drjessecromwell.bsky.social @profjennyshaw.bsky.social @chloeireton.bsky.social @acweimer.bsky.social #earlymodern
Last chance to see!
Our current exhibit on 17th century fashion and clothing 'Stitching the Nation' comes to an end on 12 April, so make sure you don't miss it! More details at: cromwellmuseum.org/events/stitc...
24 March - happy (English and Irish) accession day to King James VI & I.
#history #Stuarts #otd #Tudors
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In these difficult times, I am absolutely grateful to receive news about my ALCS distribution. It genuinely means a lot to know that people do read and value the work written by myself but also by others who are in a similar situation to myself.
🎉 2025 Leah Leneman Essay Prize Winner 🎉
We are delighted to announce @historyfinn.bsky.social as the winner of the 2025 Leah Leneman Essay Prize for “In her Tyme”: Temporal-Literacy, Work and Scottish Noblewomen (1630–1710)
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Congratulations, Finn! 👏
📣 Applications open! Women’s History Scotland Research Bursary
Up to £500 is available for Masters students, doctoral researchers, ECRs, and independent historians researching women’s and gender history
🗓 Deadline 31 May 2026
Details on how to apply 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
Delighted to announce that a 'state of the field' article on royal & court studies which @jspan.bsky.social & I have co-authored has just been published open access! Wonderful to work w/Jonathan to develop this keynote for K&Q into a publication for History! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Do you have published a book or essay that we should include in our “Some Current Publications” section? Please let us know!
Screenshot of abstract: This article examines surviving manuscript petitions to reveal the material culture of political organisation. Conceptually, the article frames the material culture of petitions and the practices associated with petitioning as a technology that enabled political activity. As studies of the USA have shown, the signatory list served as a mechanism for political recruitment and organisation. Offering a granular study of material petitions demonstrates the importance of the sequencing and spatial patterning of signatory lists to understanding the organisational qualities of petitions. Signatory lists were often headed by local notables, a strategy designed to encourage potential signers to subscribe. A more random distribution of names and addresses indicated that the organisers had left the petition to ‘lie’ at strategically selected sites, while the structuring of names by street implied the use of door-to-door canvassing, which became increasingly common. Finally, the article considers the importance of the material form of petitions to their reception and presentation to authority, particularly the materialisation of the claim to represent a given social or geographic community. Examining materiality and practice therefore provides new perspectives at a time when there is an appetite to move beyond the linguistic approaches associated with the ‘new political history’.
Ooh, I've been waiting for someone to publish an article on this!
@henryjmiller.bsky.social on 'Petitions and the Material Culture of Political Organisation', including petitioning as a 'technology' and the physicality of gathering subscriptions. #OpenAccess: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
'Unforgettable: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750 opened this month at the the Ghent Museum of Fine Arts (MSK), after an earlier run in Washington DC. The exhibition seeks to restore women to one of the most feted periods of art history'.
We are excited to announce the publication of ‘Digitising Death: Benchmarking Genealogical Data and Recovering Women’s Histories in Early Modern Ireland’. This article examines how benchmarking digital methods can advance historical research by recovering women’s lives from fragmented archives.
