New Open Access article by Richard Huzzey and Katrina Navickas, 'From Repertoires to Recipes: Rethinking Political Organisation in the Long 19th Century' 🧐💾👇💻🙋
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@richardhuzzey.bsky.social @katrinanavickas.bsky.social @parlhistjournal.bsky.social
Publication of my short #PenguinMonarchs book on Henry VII on #WorldBookDay is wonderful. Enjoy the early #Tudor conspiracies, tragedies & @jodyhewgill.bsky.social‘s amazing cover painting. Thanks to the team @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social
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!
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Join us on Tuesday 10th. February from 17:30 GMT to hear @elenarossi.bsky.social speak about families in the middle ages as their children left for university and international travel.
We will be at the IHR in London. You may meet us there or online.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Assistant Professor- Tenure Track Position- Department of History – University of Prince Edward Island
Closing date for applications is March 13th, 2026.
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#envhist #cdnhist #atlanticcanada #publichistory
Publishing this month:
Migrating Borders and Citizenship in Law: Scales, Locales, Themes and Practices by Prof Devyani Prabhat
Part of the Reimagining Law & Justice series published in association with @ials.bsky.social
uolpress.co.uk/book/migrati...
#OpenAccess #LegalStudies #Immigration
Happy publication day to @uobrishistory.bsky.social’s Professor Sumita Mukherjee!
I’ve just had the charity shop find of my life: an Interiors 1900 stained glass shade, £7 😍 This may be a long shot, but does anyone seeing this know what kind of finial(?) I need to cover the hole so I can use it as a table lamp? I think the base I need is a ‘harp base’? Advice greatly appreciated!
Fancy knowing more about the Bayeux Tapestry? At a free public lecture and reception?? Look no further! 👁️ 👁️
Drawing on literary studies, philosophy, social science and neuroscience, @noreenmasud.bsky.social's project at @bristoluni.bsky.social will interrogate the deep structural and aesthetic impact of face blindness on contemporary poets and novelists who identify as face blind.
Opening pages of Pauline Stafford's British Academy memoir of Dame Jinty Nelson with abstract text: Summary. Jinty Nelson was a leading scholar of early medieval European history, with a special focus on Francia in the late 8th and 9th centuries. She was at the forefront of a generation that re-vivified the study of the early middle ages, in her case especially concerned with the working of the Carolingian political system and the re-evaluation of the role of the aristocracy alongside king and church in early medieval politics. She was a pioneer of the study of women’s and gender history, demonstrating not only its intrinsic interest and importance, but also that political history could not be understood without attention to both. She had a deep and humane interest in the people of the past. Her academic career was spent entirely at King’s College, London, where she was an outstanding and much-loved teacher. Her professional contribution and recognition went far beyond that, and were marked by her election in 2000 as the first woman President of the Royal Historical Society. She became a champion of the subject and its teaching, wherever that was practised. In 2006 she was made a Dame of the British Empire for services to History.
Now available, the British Academy memoir of Dame Jinty Nelson (1942-2024), historian and first female President of the Royal Historical Society: bit.ly/4qUa0ua
The memoir is written by Professor Pauline Stafford @pstafford.bsky.social and available via @britishacademy.bsky.social #Skystorians
This is today for people in London. Come here me talk about the politics of immigration officers in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Tickets free and only a few remaining...
I’ll be talking about my recent research on the Bayeux Tapestry in a public lecture here in Bristol on Thursday 30 April. Attendance is FREE and includes a drinks reception 🍷 Everybody welcome! Please join us if you can and help spread the word! #medievalsky #skystorians
Another one for Sheffield-area historians: @royalhistsoc.org is hosting a lecture with Sheffield Hallam’s History Department next week 18 Feb on ‘History and Well-being’ with David Stack. Registration is free, wine reception to follow: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/history-an...
Research Seminar - 23 Feb, 4pm (Hybrid)
Dr Alastair Ayton
Beyond a Borderland: The March of Wales and its Lords in Thirteenth-Century English Politics
Open to all!
Email mapping-the-march@bristol.ac.uk to register (online or in person).
Hello! It's two years since Thomas, my gorgeous son, died. Next month, Alison and I, along with around 30 friends and family, will be doing a memory walk in support of Children's Hospice South West. If you could spare a few quid in sponsorship, that would be 😍
www.justgiving.com/page/thomas-...
'I would set off, with some sense of what I might be looking for, and see what I stumbled across...'
Is going for a walk a valid methodology for a historian? And if so, how much theory do you need to read before you start?
Some thoughts in my latest blog post:
manyheadedmonster.com/2026/02/10/i...
The homepage for the Canadian letters and images project. It shows soldiers posing for a photograph and there is a search bar in the centre. In the about section below, which cannot be seen in this image, it provides this information: The Canadian Letters and Images Project, created in 2000, is an online digital archive of the Canadian war experience, both home front and battlefront, from any conflict in which Canadians have participated. The focus of the project is on the personal materials of participants, such as letters and photographs, which permit us to experience the war through their eyes and their words. These are very often the stories of ordinary Canadians, largely forgotten and overlooked. Our mission is to digitally preserve and continue to make freely accessible this important part of Canada’s heritage for this generation and future generations. The vision of the project is to continue to expand this repository of Canadian archival materials by collaborating with Canadians to preserve and share the individual and collective stories that have shaped our past Accessibility to the past is key to understanding who we are as a nation. We are committed to free access for everyone to the materials of the project.
PLEASE REPOST 🥺🙏
The Canadian Letters & Images Project is an online digital archive of Canadians’ experience during wartime at home & in battle. It contains thousands of personal letters & photos that reveal people’s experience through their own words & eyes.
www.canadianletters.ca/content/abou...
Both of our books are available Open Access if anyone fancies two books to add to their TBR pile!
Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society: uolpress.co.uk/book/forging...
Literary Culture in the Welsh Marches:
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Last week @mappingthemarch.bsky.social held a launch for my new book and a new book by the brilliant @mattlampitt.bsky.social in the atmospheric crypt of The Mount Without. It was so much fun to celebrate with friends, family, and colleagues who have supported us along the way! #medievalsky #newbook
I had great fun bringing together material from @virtualtreasury.bsky.social with the England's immigrants database to look at people immigrating to and between England and Ireland in the middle ages.
A book cover, showing the title 'Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life before Gay Liberation' by Tom Hulme. It is lavender coloured with yellow text, and shows two men sat on a bench, c. 1935.
*drum roll*
Here is the cover for my book, which will be published by @cornellupress.bsky.social on 15 April 2026!
I thought it would be nice to share a bit of info on who these men were and how their lives and interests inspired the design...
NEW *draft text* from our friends and colleagues @vchgloucester.bsky.social.
The parish of Preston near #Cirencester will form part of volume 16 for Gloucestershire.
All comments, additional information and corrections greatly appreciated. #Skystorians #LocalHistory
Detail of the fifteenth-century drawings of the deathbed of Richard Whittington, sometimes (but not always) attributed to the limnour William Abell.
#Historians, #ArtHistorians, and #Manuscript scholars - does anyone have a copy of J.G. Alexander, 'William Abell, Lymnour and fifteenth century English Illuminator’, in Kunstshistoriche Forschungen Otto Pacht Zu Seinem 70 Geburtstag (Salzburg, 1972), that they might be able to share with me? TIA! 📖
The journal and conference #CFP for Volume 13 of Ceræ is now open!
Please share widely and spread the word to anyone who might be interested.
#medievalsky #earlymodernsky
Booking is now open for my @tudorstuartseminar.bsky.social talk on 16 February, examining Elizabethan Law and Litigation in light of the new catalogue descriptions available on The National Archives online catalogue. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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
Bydd yn digwydd yn Archifau Gwent a gallwch gadw lle trwy enquiries@gwentarchives.gov.uk
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Taking place at Gwent Archives, you can book your place at enquiries@gwentarchives.gov.uk
IHR Low Countries programme 30 January David Hopkin: Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion 13 February Jeroen Puttevils: Back to the Future: What can we Learn about Future Thinking from Late Medieval and Early Modern Merchant Correspondences from the Low Countries 27 February Feike Dietz: Blindness, Writing and Knowing: Visually Impaired Female Authors in the Netherlands (1770-1840) 13 March Sam Geens: Reassessing the Little Divergence: Evidence from the Medieval Southern Low Countries 22 May Valika Smeulders: The Rijksmuseum: New Horizons
Come & learn all things #LowCountries @ihr.bsky.social this term! We've got lace! We've got the future! We've got disability history! We've got divergence! We've got museums! Everything happens in the #LowCountries!
Fridays, 17:30, in person & on zoom: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians
Talitha Ilacqua has won the Society for the Study of French History Book Prize for her book *Inventing the Modern Region: Basque Identity and the French Nation-State* (MUP, 2024). Congratulations!!
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/prizes/winne...
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@frenchhistory.bsky.social
