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What a line-up @anneapplebaum.bsky.social Yuval Noah Harari, @misswalsingham.bsky.social @soniapurnell.bsky.social @questingvole.bsky.social 🥂 Excited that my book #Spycraft @yalebooks.bsky.social , co-written with Nadine Akkerman, is included in SUCH good company by @economist.com !

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Great time last night at the opening of the new @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social exhibition, 'Oracles, Omens & Answers', curated by @magdalenoxford.bsky.social's very own Michelle Aroney with David Zeitlyn. If you're in Oxford between now and 27 April, make sure to check it out!

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Discover Jane E. A. Dawson's free featured article in issue 103.3 '‘Richt honorabill’ ladies: Noble Power and Aristocratic Women in Sixteenth-Century Scotland' Read the article (and explore the new issue) here: www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

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1: So many of us fled twitter because it has become a cesspit of misinformation; no wonder we love peer reviewed information here, but cool to see that that’s more than a guy-feeling. 2: Let’s get those share-to-bluesky buttons up on websites of journals, organisations, and presses.

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If you're a #skystorian who works on digitised archival material - and pretty much all of us do - you should read this new article on #EarlyModern wills by Harry Smith @bhamhistory.bsky.social and Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social, #OpenAccess in the TRHS 🗃️: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Any readers who want to do a spot of research either in the evening or on Saturday can now do so once again. From the 23rd September we are resuming our regular opening times (Mon-Fri 9am-8.30pm; common room closing at 8pm & Saturday from 9.30am-5.15 pm) buff.ly/3CTyEo9

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Wolfson Prize 2024 shortlist: www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk

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So exciting to see the Top 100 Ballads go live! What an amazing new resource. 🗃️ Find out what was at the top of the #EarlyModern charts on the website. There are also recordings, images and essays to explore 100ballads.org

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A reminder that 2 PhD studentships are available on our Leverhulme Trust project The Material Culture of Wills 🗃️ (1) Global commodities in #EarlyModern wills www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... (2) Gender & the material culture of wills www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

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Absolutely amazing work by @historybeagle.bsky.social and Cathy McClive (OA) in a special issue in honor of the great Colin Jones. So many important issues in hist of med, gender history, urban history and labor history just for starters. academic.oup.com/fh/advance-a...

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We are expanding the circle of our international partners to include one of the most renowned research and database projects in the world. We are happy to announce that the Prize Papers and Slave Voyages databases will be linked in future. Read more: idw-online.de/de/news82594... #earlymodern 🗃️

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Would you like to help shape our Centre for the History of People, Place & Community? Are you an #ECR researcher, practitioner or professional working in a relevant area? We’re looking for 2 or 3 ECRs to join our Advisory Board. Apply by 23/11. blog.history.ac.uk/2023/10/invi...

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Very much enjoyed the ‘Treasures of Gold and Silver Wire’ at the London Guildhall.

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Coming to the Weston next Friday: Writer, artist and award-winning opera singer Peter Brathwaite will discuss research into centuries of family history in the UK and Barbados, and his stunning photographic project. Book your free place! #WeAreOurHistory visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/waoh-convers...

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I'm giving 3 different talks on the new book in the next week, so now seems like a good time to remind people not to pay full price for it!

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Hello Bluesky. We are the Prize Papers Project, dedicated to the study & digitization of the Prize Papers collection, a vast trove of documents & artifacts stored at The National Archives, UK: www.prizepapers.de Watch this space for updates, exciting finds & upcoming events #earlymodern #skystorians

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The submission portal for the 53rd Annual Conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, to be held in Oxford on 3-5 Jan 2024, is open with an extended deadline. Please submit your proposal by Monday 30 October 2023! 😃 www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

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Happy 100th birthday to our journal, Historical Research! www.history.ac.uk/publications...

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New Legal History Miscellany Post: TNA's The Legal Records Jamboree! legalhistorymiscellany.com/2023/10/12/l...

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From copyright cases to coroners' records, with pirates and prizes along the way, in Part 2 of a four part blog series, legal records specialists from The National Archives (Kew) present proofs displayed at the 'Legal Records Jamboree.' legalhistorymiscellany.com/2023/10/14/l...

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From trials medieval to modern, in part three of a four-part series, legal records specialists at The National Archives (Kew) explore evidence of verdicts from the 'Legal Records Jamboree'. legalhistorymiscellany.com/2023/10/16/l...

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Curtain is gone, but the little sewing holes tell the tale ... diglib.hab.de/mss/11-2-aug...

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It's that time of year again! We're collecting monographs, journal articles, and book chapters published in 2023 by historians working off the tenure track. Lists will be published the week after US Thanksgiving. Use the form to submit your work--or that of a friend! 🗃️

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Finally made it over 120k free downloads of The East India Company at Home. Free to download in whole from UCL Press at www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 ; individual chapters from JSTOR (no subscription needed): . Also in paperback. Of interest for material culture & East India Company historians.

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Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online emco.swansea.ac.uk/home/ 🗃#c18th

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#Earlymodern books were more than just reading material. Yesterday I visited the Maurits Sabbe Library at KU Leuven again where Lieve Watteeuw showed me this unique hollowed out book printed in the Officina Plantiniana in 1589 with relics inside! I'm in awe 🤩

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The history of the #LowCountries is THRIVING! Come join us in our conversations of the present and future of the the field on Friday evenings at the Institute for Historical Research or on Zoom www.history.ac.uk/seminars/low... 🗃️ #earlymodern skystorians

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Starting your studies, research or teaching in the histories of Britain or Ireland? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History. It contains 640,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today Learn how to use #BBIH www.history.ac.uk/publications...

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