COVER REVEAL. Really excited to show off the fantastic cover for my new book Sniff from @yalebooks.bsky.social. Itโs a history of smells across time and space and hits the shelves on the 8th September. Pre-order from Yale, your local bookshop, or the usual suspects! yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Also: everyone should read this book.
For #WomensHistoryMonth we are resharing some of our past posts on Alice Thornton. As it is also #InternationalWomensDay we are sharing Patricia Phillippy's post on Thornton's North American connections. #EarlyModern #Skystorians ๐๏ธ
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...
Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?
They look so cool!
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
currently teaching 19th-c sectarian medicine and struck by the long roots of anti-elitism in the US. Students picked up on it right away: "they sound like instagram influencers!"
I love that thereโs a kids book (All in A Drop) about Leeuwenhoek and early modern science tho it made me think of this image and now curious about said dropโฆ
www.harpercollins.com/products/all...
A window display out of an authorโs fantasy - Iโm here for it and so deeply grateful to the @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social for the support ๐
Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England Who wrote in early modern England? What did they write and why did they write it? How did their writing fit into the wider worlds that they inhabited? In this talk, Sue Wiseman, Brodie Waddell and Michael Powell Davies โ all from Birkbeck University of London โ will address these questions by introducing their ongoing Leverhulme-funded collaborative project on non-elite writers in England from c.1570 to 1730. Our research explores the writing practices of people below the level of the gentry and clergy, considering their biographical contexts, their motivations and their contributions to written culture. In addition to giving a birdโs eye view of the sorts of writers and texts we are studying, each of the three speakers will discuss a couple of specific examples of particular writers, including the notebooks of a midland villager, the spiritual diary a London wigmaker, and the confessions of a condemned widow.
'Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England'
Sue Wiseman, Michael Powell-Davies and I will be introducing our five-year collaborative project at the @ihr.bsky.social on Thursday, March 5th. Hope to see you there!
Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
For Boston area peoples: thereโs a fun-fact-filled talk about the history of STIs at Harvardโs @countwaylibrary.bsky.social on March 31!
libcal.countway.harvard.edu/event/15805705
Amanda Herbert and Kevin Dawson debut a new HLQ article category called Early/Modern Connections: original #earlymodern research in service of the public good. The article and cover feature art by Ebony Iman Dallas. Open access: muse.jhu.edu/article/983132
A person holds the book "Reading Biblical Greek: A Graded Reader for Beginners" by Steffen G. Jenkins, with foreword by Jeremy Duff. The cover features large A and ฮฉ symbols. Books are blurred in the background, sitting on wooden shelves.
A hand holds the book "The Dreaded Pox: Sex and Disease in Early Modern London" by Olivia Weisser. The cover features an illustration of historical figures. Books are visible but blurred on a wooden shelf in the background.
A person holds a book titled "Keeping Hold" by Kate Smith, featuring a cover image of a painting of an individual with a dog. The background has wooden shelves filled with books.
A person holds the book "Broken Cycle: World Politics in the Age of Dissent" by Randall L. Schweller in front of bookshelves. The book cover features an ancient column with a cloudy sky in the background.
From biblical Greek, to the scandalous secret disease of early modern London, we've all sorts of new books for you to get stuck into. ๐๐
There is 'Reading Biblical Greek' by Steffen G. Jenkins, 'The Dreaded Pox' by @oliviaweisser.bsky.social, 'Keeping Hold' by Kate Smith and many more. ๐คฉ
Thank you for mentioning the history too and why the 1600s still matter!
How did people in the seventeenth century understand ending a pregnancy? Find out tomorrow, Thursday 2/19, at Mary Fissellโs talk, โSavin, Sex, and Scandal: Rethinking Abortion in Early Modern Anglo-America.โ 4:00โ5:30 PM in 470 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley. #History #Gender #Medicine
Discover how shame, secrecy and soโcalled โshameโfreeโ cures helped turn the pox into the first modern disease and how Londoners navigated silent shopping, social judgement and new attempts at objective diagnosis.
Read more about Olivia Weisser's new book, 'The Dreaded Pox'๐ https://cup.org/4qJwePw
The AAHM, in conjunction with the AAHN @aahnhistnursing.bsky.social, is pleased to share details about our 2026 Annual Meeting in Buffalo, NY.
Join us for what promises to be a dynamic gathering of scholars!
Learn more about our upcoming meeting here: histmed.org/buffalo-2026...
Chuffed to see this ranking!
One of my fave diaries! If I recall he also mentions location in the house.
Happy VD day! Hot off the press on this lovely Valentineโs Day- THE DREADED POX - a history of having and living with VD (venereal disease) in London hundreds of years ago. www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...
I had a fun conversation with Miranda Melcher for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my new book THE DREADED POX and all the wild ways to treat a clap in the 1700s. newbooksnetwork.com/the-dreaded-...
Front cover image of History Workshop Journal issue 100, with a hand-drawn illustration of a Wollemi pine.
The new issue of History Workshop Journal is out: issue 100, marking 50 years of the journal's existence. It's more necessary than ever.
academic.oup.com/hwj/issue/10...
A beautiful day to vote!
Join us next Thursday (30/10, 5.30 pm) for Dr Emily Vineโs (@emilymayvine.bsky.social) talk on โBirth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern Londonโ! You can sign up to join in-person (IHR Wolfson Room, NB02) or online via Zoom here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Four sheep metatarsals that have been hollowed out to make a spoon
These little tools are apple scoops. They date from the 1800s and are made of sheep bone. They were common in apple-growing districts. The marrow has been hollowed out to allow the user to scrape off pieces of apple if they had few teeth and couldnโt afford dentures.
First review! So happy to see it!
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My favorite prof, mentor, & committee member Martha Howell wrote a new book & I'm psyched it's out:
"Making Merchants. The Cultural Construction of a Merchant Class in Early Modern Germany."
Undoubtedly of interest to many #SkyStorians on the #Medievalsky & #EarlyModern ๐๏ธ feeds.
l1nq.com/6gxOL
Saw this guy today - taking it as a sign of hope
Are you a researcher in the field of history of science, technology and medicine? The #NotesAndRecord essay award is now open for entries until 28 February 2026. Visit our website find out more: buff.ly/dedMm93 #HistSci #HistSTM
Hello UK! I wrote a book about living in London with an STI hundreds of years ago. Waterstones is having a preorder sale for 25% off that includes THE DREADED POX now thru Friday. Use OCTOBER25 at checkout.
Which book cover do you like better?
thanks for the warm welcome ๐
