it was a real pain not being able to get into the Banqueting House while researching a recent article (britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/29/ki...), but how amazing that it's now possible to get this much closer to Rubens' ceiling paintings!
Money for UK-based historians engaged in research and/or public history. #Skystorians
I'm really looking forward to this event on Monday, where I'll be discussing William Bedwell with Prof. Alastair Hamilton and the curators of the Bedwell exhibition, Deborah Hedgecock & Bridget MacKernan. There's still time to sign up if you'd like to come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/william-be...
A half-length 16th-century portrait of a white-skinned woman in a dark colored gown with red velvet sleeves trimmed in white lace, and a white cap on her head. Her hands are in front of her; the left hand holds a pair of gloves - the text on the museum's object page says "presumably leather, decorated with black and golden embroidery" - and the right plays with the end of a chain that encircles her waist. Tucked between her right arm and her body is a small, mostly white lapdog with long ears and a belled collar. In the top right corner in white caps is the text "CATHARINA DE / HEMESSEN PINGEBAT / 1551."
Catharina van Hemessen's 'Portrait of a Woman'
Picture of the month March 2026 from London's National Gallery
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/pi...
#womenartists #artherstory
🚨 LATE SUBMISSION WINDOW OPEN 🚨
We've had a withdrawal from one of these sessions and would be very keen to include another paper - please do not hesitate to reach out if you're interested, and to help us spread the word. Many thanks!!
#skystorians #medieval #medievalsky #premodernrace #imc2026
We're looking for more book chapters! For anyone working with network analysis on any period in history: check it out! Deadline Friday 13th March - send abstracts to interlocked.universe@gmail.com #digitalhumanities #cfp #skystorians
Ugly to see ECRs pitted against established scholars. No doubt what IS imperilling disciplines is years of under-investment in universities, the huge waste of time and resources that goes into the REF, and the government's xenophobic attitude towards international students and scholars.
'For Caravaggio, clothing was not primarily about meaning, not primarily a language. Clothing allowed him to paint the drama of touch – of sensation... What we are drawn to is Caravaggio’s rendering of the intimacy between flesh and world, simultaneously seductive and repellent.'
Less than a week left to apply for this 🗃️
Delighted to be co-leading 'Leather Lightning Talks' with the Leathersellers' Company at 6pm on 18 March 2026 at the Hall. This brand-new event showcases alumni innovation in British tanning and leather, from fish skin cycling vests to Edwardian women shoe-makers. If you'd like to come, message me!
As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️
sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...
Back in the time when the sun was pink
As a cyclist in London I would agree these interactions have got worse. I've had grown men on *motorcycles* ram my bike at traffic lights for (supposedly) getting in their way - while using a cycle lane! I get sworn at almost every day, exclusively by men. The sheer level of their rage is baffling
Comb, late 15th or early 16th century, Northern French (Met Museum)
PGR event! Having sampled the fantastic produce of @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social, I recommend running, not walking, to book your ticket for this...
I love Jonathan Anderson anyway and now he is BRINGING RUFFS back to menswear #earlymodern
The BM catalogue says 'Tortoise, and separate view of a walled, coastal town in the Veneto' for this by Melchior Lorck, mid-16th century.
I'm sticking with giant flying tortoise myself.
Portrait of Paolo Morigia, c. 1592-95.
By Fede Galizia, c. 1578– c. 1630 (Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, #Milan)
She's made a feature of his spectacles, reflecting the room they are sitting in.
Morigia, for his part, is writing a poem about the picture she's painting.
New 'Will of the Month' post 📜
This month's featured testator wanted to be buried 'so near to my late Husbands Grave that our Tomb Stones at the tops may touch each other’. 🪦🪦
Read on to find out more 👇
#skystorians #history #EarlyModern @uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social
Abstract In late medieval London, concerns about the quality and authenticity of consumer goods converged with growing anti-immigrant sentiment. Using three craft guilds—the Goldsmiths, the Pursers, and the Glaziers—as case studies, this article illustrates how Londoners came to directly link the perceived threats posed by foreigners and false craft work by the end of the fifteenth century. Analysing the rhetoric and regulations of these three varied groups of craftsmen, it provides insight into medieval Londoners’ attitudes towards strangers, as well as the construction of artisan identity, arguing that members of these guilds defined themselves both by their artisanal skill and in opposition to outsiders. They were able to unite and concretise these two facets of their identities by accusing foreigners of false work.
New research article: 'Strangers in the Marketplace: False Work and Foreigners in Late Medieval London', by @bethanyldonovan.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Squirrel Appreciation Day
#medievalsky #TimelineCleanse
@britishlibrary.bsky.social Add 42130, f. 33r
Update! Alongside the exhibition @senatehouselib.bsky.social also seeks to appoint a Printer in Residence to produce a contemporary response to the exhibition and to be an important part of the public engagement programme for the project: www.london.ac.uk/senate-house... @ies-sas.bsky.social
Another year, another (Mazarine) #BlueMonday. Hortense Mancini says be gentle with yourself, wear what you please, & have as much champagne as you need to get through January x
Less then two weeks left for this CFP!!
Come and join us in London for an exciting research exchange on movements in late medieval and early modern cities. We are looking forward to getting to know about your work! 🤗🤗
#medievalsky #skystorians #callforpapers #medieval #earlymodern #history
Todays #marginalmusicians are #monkeys in flowers playing the #rebec.
From Heures de Jeanne de France, 1440-1460.
BNF NAL 3244
#earlymusic #marginaliamonday #manuscriptmonday #15thCentury #bookofhours #iconography #bowedstrings #marginalia
📢Job: postdoctoral research officer📢
For 'Witchcraft politics (Hexenpolitik) across the sea. A new entangled history of #EarlyModern England and the Holy Roman Empire', led by Profs Alison Rowlands & Rita Voltmer. 🗃️
- 33 months
- 0.8 FTE
- Deadline 1 Feb
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC497/s...
Barnabe Rich wasn't the first to say that books and cheese are alike in that no specific example suits everyone's tastes: John Heywood included this among a hundred epigrams in 1562:
www.jstor.org/stable/41723...
One for your late Feb diaries...📜
Portrait of a Lady, c. 1614, presumed to be Anne Fettiplace aka Mrs Henry Jones I (National Trust, Chastleton House) Lots of lace, giant ruff, tasteful black & white ribbons, a watch (?), she's got it all going on.
