New here. Fledgling historian studying Early Modern British health and culture. Reposting = commonplacing. Obstinate headstrong girl.
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My lab is running a study to investigate how serendipity relates to information seeking in digital collections. We're looking for researchers & practitioners who have used, designed, or stewarded digital collections to participate in our survey (<10 min): forms.gle/zGJDZZ14vx2M...
In the future everyone will be PM for 15 minutes.
Gem of a thread #EarlyModern
Good thread
Casebooks Therapy is back! Here’s our schedule for 2025-2026. As usual, everyone is welcome to bring cases to read from the digital edition casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk or to simply come along and enjoy! Our first session is next month, 29 October. For the zoom link, please dm or email me
If you have a VERY large room, Lambeth Palace Library is selling off its old bookshelves. www.lassco.co.uk/product/the-...
***Job Opportunity*** Assistant/Associate/Full Professor, Long 19th Century and New Realisms, Yale University 44/ networks.h-net.org/jobs/69080/y...
The evil that men do lives after them
Baby Face Willette was born on this day September 11, 1933 in Little Rock, Arkansas. After appearing as a sideman with Lou Donaldson & Grant Green in 1961 the organist made 2 excellent Blue Note albums of his own: "Face to Face" and "Stop And Listen" store.bluenote.com/collections/...
How your email finds me. (Epiphanius, Ειϛ τον φυσιολογον. Antwerp : Plantin, 1588)
You’re doing a great public service with this
If you don't feel like yourself today, choose a disguise to wear into the world: - forlorn tugboat captain - unemployed rock bassist - librarian of darkness - moss witch - slightly sexy shrub - large boulder the size of a small boulder
Our friends at @mmapod.bsky.social are looking for submissions for Season 5 of The Multicultural Middle Ages Podcast! You can read more about the MMA podcast on their website: www.multiculturalmiddleages.com
Enjoying this now, in audiobook form.
I came here hoping to find this article, thank you!
The world is collapsing Around our ears I turned up the radio But I can't hear it Yeah Song: Radio Song Album: Out Of Time
What's a Europeanist historian of medicine like me doing working on plague in Africa? Well, it's simple, really. As the phylogenetic tree for Yersinia pestis grew fuller w/ more modern genomes being sequenced, & then given historical depth by aDNA, the Africa question loomed bigger & bigger. 🧪🗃️
This frontispiece in my book just made me laugh a lot. Is this Buddhist reincarnation, or some other form of afterlife?
Self Esteem & Prejudice
Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs
There will be NO Breasting Boobily on MY Watch... Early modern #Censorship with notes and edits extensively added throughout 1584 Alciato Emblems at #NewberryLibrary (Case W 1025 .01695) @adapalmer.bsky.social 1/?
:)
Venice, but in the winter
Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go Walking On Water?
Sir Cloudesley Shovell
I must to England, you know that?
"The Department of History invites applications for an assistant professor who will make enough leftist remarks to annoy conservative talk radio hosts but whose politics will ultimately support the neoliberal mission of the university." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hon...
Ooh we've opened our call for small research grants. £10k for any humanities or social sciences research. Open to independent scholars. We use partial randomisation to allocate the funding: random allocation between all that meet the quality threshold www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...
Every September I re-read @stephenking.bsky.social’s ‘Salem Lot’. From tomorrow I will be posting my thoughts on this year’s re-read. If you want to read with me and join in, use the hashtag #SalemSeptember
Martha Stewart!
I love a shanty
I think this means Lully had a little snack before he wrote it
What should historians do when our sources do not tell us what we want to know? Submit your research to the American Historical Review's upcoming special issue. Submission deadline: September 16, 2025: oxford.ly/45Isir6 @historians.org
Thank you!
I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh. (If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)
Hard to emphasize what a loss this is. IU had great ‘word of mouth’ rep as a place where talented first gen students who do not come from money could thrive.
Thanks to all who are engaging w/ this. Developments in the sciences that have contributed to our historical understanding of plague can be found here (#OpenAccess): ethos.lps.library.cmu.edu/article/id/31/ 🧪🗃️ #histmed
I am just finishing A Storm of Witchcraft, so this is timely! #17thCentury #witchcraft #Salem
We're taking part in Glasgow Doors Open Day! Come and explore our beautiful building on St Vincent Street and learn about the history of medicine and surgery in Glasgow. We're open 10am-4pm, Saturday 20th September. We'd love to see you 😀 www.doorsopendays.org.uk/regions/glas...
Happy Labor Day, Americans youtu.be/tBPqn7MQ65g
You can now blog using the BlueSky network using @leaflet.pub, and @offprint.app aims to be a drop-in replacement for Substack also using the ATmosphere (BlueSky's network)
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
“She also detailed the strategy of “credentialism,” by which women hoped that if they accrued enough credentials, their gender became irrelevant. (It did not.)” Women academics report their gender became more relevant the higher they go in the academic hierarchy. Misogynist attacks get worse too.
Whoa! Thanks for the tip. For other folks wanting to do this, here are screenshots of what I just did. Start by going to you "Account Settings." Then follow the screenshots below. And yes, when given the option "Are you sure you want to proceed?," you better believe I hit that sucker!
(Call for applications) Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Medieval History (Global), Department of History, Baylor University histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/08/post... #histmed
Using this piece by @reallygoodwizard.bsky.social in my introductory lectures for my design students.
lol you asked for it. Here’s my nostalgia food tour of Calcutta. Let’s start with breakfast in my neighborhood, Kankurgachi in Maniktala. On CIT road, at a roadside stall called Nasta get the club kochuri (a deep fried puffy flatbread made of urad lentils and flour), potato curry and hot jilipi 1/
Indeed.
Entering the embroidery-&-shoe-rose competition (which is hotly contested): Edward Sackville, later 4th Earl of Dorset. As immortalized by William Larkin. It's his day.
"To any citizen of this country who figures himself as responsible — and particularly those of you who deal with the minds and hearts of young people — must be prepared to 'go for broke.'"
Still time to join - just getting started
It can be galling to see one's period misrepresented onscreen but that shouldn't be reason to deny historical truths, like that medieval people shuffled around giving it the whole 'my liege' all the time, unless they had cheekbones in which case they were the king
A few days left to apply! Please recirculate
Prospective employers don’t want me… but you might: Experienced researcher, academic writer, oral history interviewer, public history journalist, seeks freelance and ad-hoc work…
Robert Eggers, you know what to do.
The local library sometimes has “Read To A Dog” events where children practice reading to happy little service dogs.
On the first day of school, just a reminder that it's okay to go use the nicer bathrooms in the business school. You deserve it.
Each year, we publish lists of books, journal articles, and chapters published by historians working off the tenure track. It's never too early to start collecting, so if you or someone you know has something with a 2025 publication date to submit, have at it!
This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.
Zero tolerance. I did this with Facebook years ago and it just gets easier with each shiny new nonsense launched, however it has been bizarre to watch the changes in social networks as psychological carnage escalates.
On which ... what are you favourite online collections of early modern letters, diaries/life-writing, and other 'personal documents'? #EarlyModern 🗃️
when the journal of woodwind music organize academic events they issue a call for pipers
We’re on the same bus this week!
I recently became acquainted with "Osanaetoki Bankokubanashi" 童絵解万国噺, a Japanese illustrated history of America from 1861. The retelling of the revolutionary era is quite something. Here, for instance, is John Adams wielding a sword in mortal combat with a gigantic serpent.
Folger Library offer free online-only subscription which gets you access to JSTOR and a load of other stuff!
The Ronald Blythe Fellowship is John Clare Society's new scheme awarding a PhD student focusing on Clare a £1000 bursary to support their work. Please pass on - &/or contact me or Honorary Secretary of the Society, Karen Lakey, for further information: johnclaresociety.wordpress.com/contact-us/
Do I have any academic friends who work specifically on American slavery who'd like to co-write a piece on this, fast and angrily?
I have zero subject matter knowledge here: But I’ve always wondered how much the Founders differentiated between personal religious commitments and the kind of political religious commitments that fueled the Wars of Religion/English Reformation, etc. Jefferson seemed to care about that distinction.
Amazing opportunity 👇- were I not otherwise engaged, I’d be begging to get in…
Old Gods
Federal court refuses to block Alabama’s “divisive concepts” law, says university faculty classroom speech is government speech with no First Amendment protection. This dangerous development allows lawmakers to dictate what professors say in class. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Are you a researcher who could do with £8k to engage the public about your research working with a gallery, museum, library or archive? We’ll shortly be opening a call so I just wanted to give you a heads up this is coming www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/shap...
If any of your books are in this database of works stolen by Libgen theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/ You can fill out this form to receive updates on the ongoing class action lawsuit www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/ (my agent said yes, do this)
And yet.
Exactly!
It might just be me however it does seem that since #Microsoft added AI to Office, the simple spell check and review functions in Word have degraded to the extent that they are borderline unhelpful.
Policy update: Early Music is always pleased to consider for publication articles of between 4,000 and 6,000 words. Any author interested in submitting a longer article would be welcome to contact the editors in the first instance to discuss any proposed submission. academic.oup.com/em/pages/Gen...
Lucky! My mother had to outdo the other church ladies and send me to the all girls Catholic school where the only males were ancient teachers. :)
Now I want to befriend Mr. Pulgar.
Opening tomorrow: "The UCLA CMRS Center for Early Global Studies is pleased to announce a John W. Baldwin Post-Doctoral Fellowship for a recent Ph.D. whose work focuses on European medieval studies within the global comparative context." recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF10513 #GlobalMiddleAges #MedievalSky
We don't make enough of the fact that the first Christian denomination with which extraterrestrials made contact of the Third Kind (in Papua New Guinea in 1959) was Anglicanism (they even stayed for the duration of Evensong)
Can any of my U.S. military historian pals help please: I'm trying to find a document titled 'American Military Attaché Report on Remounts for the German Army', 6 Dec 1934, ref MID 2672-B-11/1 but having no luck on U.S. National Archives?
👉 Wills project website: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... 👉 Will of the month blog series: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... 👉 Arts and Culture Fellowship: www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/creative-fel...
My wife shared this with me and I’m tellin you… it’s worth the read.
Loyola New Orleans is hiring! Live the Louisiana dream!
All right, I think I've *finally* finished my syllabus revisions. I'd welcome folks' thoughts!
We were talking about this the other day; not just TJ’s but all over. My favorite cheap thrill is good mustard.
Historians, we’re interested in publishing responses to the White House plan to “review” Smithsonian exhibits. DM us if you’d like to write something! 🗃️ #publichistory
If you had no power they wouldn’t work so hard to make you feel powerless.
“If you don’t help me keep the lights on, I can’t talk to you anymore” or something, surely?
#Folklore fundraiser 👇
Opportunity! 👇
There won’t be a single paper or panel. Just looking at each other going, “I KNOW RIGHT!!” for 36 hours.
A long shot, but do any French revolution folks have easy access to the following thrilling looking book (vol 2)? Just looking to liven up my afternoon with a specific c.3pp of it 🤓 📖 Thierry Claeys, Dictionnaire Biographique des Financiers en France au XVIIIe Siecle, Tome 2 #frenchrevolution
#MedievalSky #EarlyModern If you're working on any aspect of the life-cycle (eg birth, marriage, baptism, leaving home, death, childbearing, etc) and want to present at the Life Cycles Seminar at IHR I'd be keen to hear from you! Echo chambers are never good, so it's always worth casting the net.
It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.
Hey, history lover – come battle alongside us this August Bank Holiday Weekend for just £10! Sign up before 15 August and you'll be able to don a redcoat and join us at #Worcester for a three day event of battle, history, and socialising – with your historical kit provided! earlofmanchesters.co.uk
I think this is what has been so disheartening: academia is full of experts happily abandoning their experience and expertise just to get on the AI train like this, sigh. We know better. And we owe our students better.