📣 New internship 📣
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a PhD student or Early Career Researcher to work as a research intern for the Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online (EMCO).
Applications close 1 April 2026. For more details, please see: shorturl.at/pdO1r
#18thcentury #eighteenthcentury
Screenshot of the homepage of Harris's List of Covent Garden Ladies digital archive.
I've put online a #c18th side project on Harris’s List of Covent Garden Ladies that uses data extraction for mapping & network analysis, exploring questions of urban history, genre and print culture, geography, and social worlds across editions:
harrisslist.prisms.digital
#HarrissList #DH #WIP
Do you know somebody who needs to learn Latin from scratch or improve their Latin to PhD standard? CMS Toronto's summer Latin program is now entirely online and a remarkable bargain for the intensity and quality of instruction. Details here: www.medieval.utoronto.ca/latin/summer...
#medievalsky
Friday 13 March 5:30 pm London time Sam Geens (Antwerp) will be speaking to the IHR Low Countries Seminar on “Reassessing the Little Divergence: Evidence from the Medieval Southern Low Countries.” In person at IHR Wolfson Rm 2 and online. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
I teach about Elvis and religion all the time and the students know exactly who he was.
This Friday at noon: come hear Kate Norberg speak on 18th-century Parisian brothels at the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute’s Europe seminar. No need to register. calendar.usc.edu/event/emsi-e...
Except few British people can do a convincing American accent.
Still life minimalism: one single striped tulip in a glass vase, 1625, by Balthasar van der Ast of Middleburg. It's his day today.
Gemini: 'I deeply regret the time and effort you spent searching for references that I fabricated. My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information.'
www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...
📣Interested in pursuing a postgraduate degree in the history of STM? Wishing to apply to our Hans Rausing Scholarship? Then this webinar is for you!
Pursuing a research degree in the history of STM
Thursday 12 March
17.00-18.00 (GMT)
Register via Eventbrite ⬇️
#histsci #histtech #histmed #histstm
CFP for the SCS conference in Chicago in October. Come join the most collegial gathering of early modernists that I know.
#earlymodern 🗃️
sixteenthcentury.org/call-for-pro...
No genocide. No apartheid. Not a rogue state. Otherwise your statement is correct.
BREAKING: Trump has nominated Bradford P. Wilson, of the conservative, anti-LGBTQ+ and Opus Dei-tied Witherspoon Institute and the charter school organization Great Hearts Institute (and formerly Exec Director of Princeton's James Madison Program) to be Archivist of the United States.
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It is reported that this was a failed Iranian missile.
I think you fail to see that there is a distinctive pattern on what people like this condemn and don’t condemn. Ignoring that pattern leads to a failure to understand wider forces.
This atrocity was by this specific regime only a couple of weeks ago. So not irrelevant, I think.
I think a lot are. Like her, they said nothing about the horrors of that regime and acted as if nothing was happening in a week when tens of thousands were slaughtered. Like her, they think if Jews aren’t involved, there is nothing to protest. That is shameful.
What did she have to say about 40,000 murders in two days by the Iranian regime a few weeks back?
I'm now recruiting for a crucial post in my team - Curator: Parliamentary Art Collection. A rare chance to work with a wonderful collection in a unique setting.
Please do share, and feel free to get in touch with any questions
Men studying a dragon
ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE
My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Friday Feb 27 5:30 pm London time: Feike Dietz will speak on “Blindness, Writing and Knowing: Visually Impaired Female Authors in the Netherlands (1770-1840)” to the IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person at IHR Wolfson Rm 2 and online. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
For all the @warburginstitute.bsky.social fans out there, this summer the Renaissance Book returns to London Rare Books School #LRBS 📚📖👇
ies.sas.ac.uk/book-renaiss...
Friday Feb 27 5:30 pm London time: Feike Dietz will speak on “Blindness, Writing and Knowing: Visually Impaired Female Authors in the Netherlands (1770-1840)” to the IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person at IHR Wolfson Rm 2 and online. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
On my way now!
You are at RSA!
Erg blij met dit mooie interview door @nrc.nl over mijn onderzoek naar Galileo.
En voor wie na afloop meer wil lezen over roddels, roem, en reputatie(schade): Galileo's Fame is verkrijgbaar bij de betere boekhandel en natuurlijk via @upittpress.bsky.social
Did it for O-level.
Excited to see Maurits den Hollander’s Court, Credit, and Capital in print with Studies in Legal History at CUP. Court, Credit, and Capital uncovers how Amsterdam’s 17th-century insolvency court transformed insolvency law—from punishment to rehabilitation 1/3
Was he an expert on Europe? He let Rome burn.
Experts on Europe do not have neck beards.
