Mareile Pfannebecker presenting in front of a slide with a quote from "An oration made by Hermannus Kirchnerus in the Praise of Travel," translated in Thomas Coryat's Coryat's Crudities (1611): "[Those] who having travelled from their owne house, naked in a manner, destitute of all better discipline and nurture, and voyde of humanity, have returned home singularly furnished and affirmed with all kinds of qualities of the minde, and all such worthy gifts as can be incident in a man."

A great paper from @mareilep.bsky.social at #RenSoc25 on "The humanist exception: Renaissance cosmopolitanism and ars apodemica in England". Thought-provoking reflections on the role of academic travel in humanist education.

#EarlyModern #16thC #17thC #skystorians @srsrensoc.bsky.social

So cool that people are still discovering this #Sinners syllabus, published by the African American Intellectual History Society, and composed by Jemar Tisby & Keisha N. Blain. Enjoy!

What a lovely thing to say, thank you so much!

About | Global Library The Global Library Project (1500–1700) reconstructs the journeys made by Anglo-Scots visitors to libraries across North America, Europe, and the Middle East during the early-modern period. By reconstr...

My personal fav panel from yesterday was John-Mark Philo's project on Global Libraries, check it out if you like books, travel, knowledge exchange, and putting the past in dialogue with the present (in this case forced migrants' lack of/access to libraries) #RenSoc25 www.globallibrary.net/about

This was great btw

left to right: William Ross Jones, Jules Skotnes-Brown, Laura Flannigan, Lucy Noakes (President of the Royal Historical Society), and Michaela Kalcher, 2 July 2025

The Society is very pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 Early Career Article and First Book Prizes bit.ly/3GqSCfk

This year's recipients are Laura Flannigan, William Ross Jones, Michaela Kalcher, and Jules Skotnes-Brown for work published in 2024.

Our congratulations to all #Skystorians

I am looking for someone to copy something for me from New York Public Library (2 documents), does anyone know how to go about this sort of thing? Any NY based graduate students or early career academics who could help out?

Visualising the Destruction of Convents and Monasteries in the German Peasants' War The the first-ever attempt to quantify and map the full destruction of religious houses during the German Peasants' War (1525-26).

Now live! We've created the most comprehensive map to-date of religious institutions in the German Peasants' War (1524-26), identifying many more affected institutions than existing source lists.

Find our map, case studies, and much more on our website:
germanpeasantswar.web.ox.ac.uk

#skystorians

The disappearance of public adult education in the UK over the past twenty years - whether local authority or government - is a national disgrace.

Title page of Brodie Waddell and Jason Peacey (Editors), The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain

Access stats showing 4,239 views/downloads since May 2024.

Our #OpenAccess collection on the #PowerOfPetitioning in early modern Britain has only been out for a year and amazingly it's been downloaded over 4,000 times from @uclpress.bsky.social. So pleased to see all the interest in petitioning! Get your free copy here:
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-pow...

Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.

Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) search results for keyword search using the term, ‘lascar’

Today is the Day of the Seafarer.

Discover the crucial role played by Asian sailors in driving colonial trade by exploring the term 'lascar' in the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH).

You can also explore the topic of 'Seamen and boatmen' in BBIH and find more than 1000 references.

A person stands supporting the bottom of a huge flag being hoisted. The flag is a rainbow with eight stripes of pink, red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, indigo and violet.

On this day in 1978, the rainbow flag first flew as a symbol of pride. It was raised at San Francisco Gay Freedom Day.

I am looking for what happened to a manuscript from the 'Manuscripts op the Right Honourable the Earl of Portsmouth, Hurstbourne Park, Hampshire'. The manuscript I am after is NOT Newton related. If anyone has easy access to the 1936 Sothesby's catalogue or can help in any way, please reply!

To mark the end of #WomensHistoryMonth, I wrote this post on @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📜 📚

The Society is v. much looking forward to attending the 2025 Historical Association conference, and with it chance to hear how historians in HE can work with teachers to promote new research, and encourage as many A-Level historians as possible to continue with their subject to a university degree.

These are real people that we study. They loved and they hated and they feared and they hoped. They lived and they died. And you spend time with them, and sometimes you mourn them.

If you don’t like Mantel’s portrayal of Thomas Cromwell it is in your power to write (or, still more easily and plausibly, recommend) a better one. If you kill an archive there is not another one waiting to take its place, and you lose the material basis for better representations into the bargain.

I don’t mean to say that historical fiction can’t be criticized in terms of its presentation of history. But I think it’s a serious problem that far more public ink goes to critiquing novelists’ source work or directors’ casting decisions than the gutting of libraries, archives and history programs.

Academic Recruitment April 2026 for the Post of Full-Time Academic Faculty The Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies (GSAPS) at WASEDA University is conducting a search for the following full-time academic faculty...

Please repost! My department -- Waseda University's Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies -- is planning to offer a tenured position to begin in 2026. We're a friendly place and we offer one of the best research environments in Japan. Application information here! Thanks for reposting, folks!

We're joining the @royalhistsoc.bsky.social in this #Skystorians X-ile and won't be posting on twitter anymore from Friday. Follow us here for updates about our seminar and other #EarlyModern goings-on in London.

The lid of painted wooden casket depicting a courting couple. Possibly dating to the 15th century, the casket may have been used as an engagement present. Now part of the collections at Tullie House Museum in Carlisle. 📷 My own. #Woodensday #Medieval #Carlisle

As someone with an above-average love for both rare books and tiny things, today has now turned into a great day.

Final visit on this Bookscapes whistle-stop tour of Essex is to the Knightbridge Library bequeathed in 1679 to what is now Chelmsford Cathedral.

Trump says there are ‘two sexes.’ Experts and science say it’s not binary. The president’s executive order signaled an intention to narrowly define the sexes, but experts say he is oversimplifying the intricate nature of human biology.

A non-binary gender spectrum has been affirmed by well-established science for decades. You don't get to executive-order it away just because you think it's icky. Science doesn't care about your tantrums.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Pleased to see that the @srsrensoc.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships 25/26 have been announced www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...

Very happy to share my experience/knowledge with anyone thinking of applying! Drop me a message :)

Images: Podcast recording group picture; below: Screenshot Prize Papers Materiality Shots. Prize Papers Project (Oldenburg/London), ref. HCA 32/140. The National Archives, UK. Photographer: Maria Cardamone.

The Prize Papers will change the way we see the past. The research possibilities are almost unlimited. Join us for the conclusion of the three-part series “Secrets of the Prize Papers” with insights from @lhaasis.bsky.social and @mouseemperor.bsky.social – pod.link/1460242815
#earlymodern #history 🗃️

While we're gearing up for our biennial conference around the topic of Interconnections, why not already start the conversations via our starter pack of #RenSoc25 participants: go.bsky.app/DVyFCxt

#EarlyModern #Skystorians

I misread this as 'sauté a magpie in public', so now I'm just imagining public cooking sessions ...

The Codex Osuna: A Landmark Nahua Lawsuit in Early Colonial Mexico City March 6, 12:00 pm PST Presented by Sofia Yazpik, The Codex Osuna, or the Pintura del gobernador, alcaldes y regidores de México (Painting of the Municipal Governor, Judges, and Councilors of Mexico), is a pictorial and Nahuatl-language text produced by Nahuas for a legal dispute in Mexico City during the sixteenth century. This type of pintura, or pictorial writing, functioned as legitimate evidence that Indigenous peoples could present to viceregal authorities in a legal dispute. Completed in 1565, the Indigenous municipal governor, judges, and councilors from Mexico City utilized these pinturas to accuse the Spanish viceroy and judges of the Real Audiencia of exploiting the Indigenous population by physically abusing them and not paying them for their labor. This codex demonstrates how Indigenous litigants strategically used the Spanish legal system to defend their rights against corruption and exploitation. The Codex Osuna is a valuable resource for deepening our understanding of how the Spanish legal system functioned in New Spain and how Indigenous litigants strategically presented their cases to defend their rights and property within this colonial institution, particularly during the politically tumultuous period of the 1560s. By focusing on pictorial writing in particular, Yazpik’s research project seeks to demonstrate the Codex Osuna’s historical significance in the early colonial period by examining how Indigenous peoples utilized their own creative forms of expression within the Spanish legal system. Sofía Yazpik is a third-year Ph.D. student in History at UCLA. Her research focuses on Mesoamerican codices, presently examining an early colonial legal pictorial and alphabetic-writing manuscript from central Mexico. She is interested in Indigenous productions of knowledge, the relationship between pictorial and alphabetic writing systems, and early modern collecting practices.

Online talk: The Codex Osuna: A Landmark Nahua Lawsuit in Early Colonial Mexico City

6 March, 12:00 pm PST, Zoom

all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/works-...

#EarlyModern #SkyStorians