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#History #SkyStorians New CFP! Workshop on Oaths and Oath-taking in Historical Perspective: Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire, 1600-present. Now taking place in London in September 2025. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/oat...

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Exciting news from Durham U, with new doctoral fellowships and early career development posts in early modern studies:

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A new post from @sarabutler.bsky.social on the @legalmiscellany.bsky.social blog, with interesting observations about linguistic legacies in English law: legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/02/20/w...

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A new post from @sarabutler.bsky.social: Weird and Wonderful: The Mixed Cultural Heritage of England's Common Law legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/02/20/w...

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Join us at Durham History! It's a friendly department in a lovely part of the world, with a wonderful bunch of early modernists across the university. I'm happy to discuss informally and feel free to get in touch with any questions if you're interested in applying.

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Assistant Professor in Early Modern History (2425_HIS_01)- Durham University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLW082/a... #skystorians 🗃️

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Bonjour de Bluesky! Hello from Bluesky!

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New digital resource: Rediscover the lost Court of King's Bench #skystorians 🗃️ #c18th kingsbench.engagedhumanities.org/?fbclid=IwY2...

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This is sad news #medievalsky #skystorians. Bob Moore's 'The Formation of a Persecuting Society' grabbed my imagination as an undergrad historian and is one of the reasons I became a medievalist. May he rest in peace.

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There's still time to get your abstracts in for the CREMS Magic and Witchcraft conference! Please share widely in this low-algorithm world 💌

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If you're looking for news from fellow historians, try our Starter Pack of #History societies and networks go.bsky.app/68FsvjY. With 100+ organisations working for history, it offers information on events, funding and campaigning for our discipline and profession: UK, Europe & RoW #skystorians

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The Fennell Career Development Fellow in the History of the Americas The University of Edinburgh - College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - School of History, Classics and Archaeology - History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ757/t...

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Chichele Professorship of Medieval History University of Oxford - Faculty of History in association with All Souls College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLQ362/c...

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An interesting piece with contributions by a colleague @dalhousieu.bsky.social on simple nudges toward healthier, more climate-friendly plant-based eating at campus events: www.cbc.ca/news/science... #GreenerByDefault

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Albert Einstein said, “In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.” As Canadians, we can wean ourselves off American energy, food, goods and services. We can electrify everything with heat pumps, trains, electric cars and e-bikes. We can put our wood to work.

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Nearly three years ago, Alice Whitehead and I hosted a conference on the history of parents. As baby PhD students at the time, we were honoured to be asked by @timriswick.bsky.social to edit a special issue of The History of the Family on the conference theme. The finished product is available now:

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FRIDAY! #SkyStorians (Including of the #EarlyModern persuasion)

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The Call for Papers for NACBS 2025 is now open! Join us in Montreal! www.nacbs.org/call-for-pap...

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Are you an early modernist & working on the History of Ideas? There is an exciting 3-month new fellowship for an ECR who wants to do research in Amsterdam in 2026: thijssen-schoute.nl/fellowship/ It comes with a stipend of €2000 per month & a workplace at @huygensknaw.bsky.social Deadline: May 15th.

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LegalHistoryMiscellany.com, a collaborative academic blog run with @sarabutler.bsky.social and @drkdwatson.bsky.social (and hosting guest posts from others), now has a handle here: @legalmiscellany.bsky.social. Give us a follow! #skystorians

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so delighted to see this wonderful volume. Thanks so much to the editors and contributors!

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These NACBS fellowships are amazing, and the Folger collection can't be equaled. A fantastic opportunity to make great advances in your research!

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New term, new programme! At the #EarlyModern Europe & the World seminar @ihr.bsky.social we've got gems in store! Trade! Plague! TREASURE TROVES! With @anastruillou.bsky.social, @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social & Allison Stielau All welcome, in person or via zoom! www.history.ac.uk/seminars/eur...

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Sin fíor: we're hoping to help more people get reading bardic poetry, Counter Reformation prose, annals, letters, srl in the original. There's a lot of amazing Early Modern Irish material available, quite a bit untranslated. See you there?!

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For those unfamiliar with our shared blog, Legal History Miscellany, legalhistorymiscellany.com here is the first post of 2025!

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My new post to the blog, on the history of coronation pardons: legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/01/06/c...

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Today's news about Elon Musk was the last straw and I have just closed my Twitter account; look forward to getting back to normal posts here on Bluesky. If anybody recognises / remembers me, please get in touch!

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A new post to the blog from Cassie Watson on the court records from the Palatinate of Chester: legalhistorymiscellany.com/2024/12/23/l...

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Looking for history podcasts, blogs, lectures online? Here are some recommendations (in no particular order)🧵 Dr Eleanor Janega - @goingmedieval.bsky.social - has a podcast called Going Medieval going-medieval.com & has published outstanding books on the period. Here's her website eleanorjanega.com

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ICYMI, and now with a hashtag: #skystorians, check out the new guest post, in which Richard W. Ireland dissects overlooked elements of Hogarth's 'Reward of Cruelty' legalhistorymiscellany.com/2024/12/06/h...

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📣CFP announcement: The Politics of the English Grain Trade are hosting a conference in 2025 on 'The Comparative History of the Grain Trade, c.1500-1800'. #earlymodern #c18th For more details see politicsoftheenglishgraintrade.co.uk/2024/11/04/p...

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A new guest post on the blog: Richard W. Ireland spots new elements of Hogarth's 'Reward of Cruelty' in this fascinating essay. legalhistorymiscellany.com/2024/12/06/h...

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Could you all share? We're advertising a 2 yr postdoc position for someone who works in #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEarlyAmericas to help coordinate the @jcblibrary.bsky.social projects and programs around 2026. Fuller info here: apply.interfolio.com/159279 and v happy to answer questions!

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Allow me to tout @jbritishstudies.bsky.social to new followers: now Open Access (yes, really!) and doing great new things under newish editors Nadja Durbach and Tammy Proctor. Not just a venue for historians based in NA, btw. Check it out: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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10% off the IHR #London #SummerSchool 2025: #Rebels! Speakers Claire Langhamer, Philip Murphy, Matthew Worley, Juanita Cox, Catherine Clarke, People of 1381 Project + more. Visits: Bloomsbury, Bishopsgate Institute, Goldsmiths Hall, special collections...

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New post from @sarabutler.bsky.social: legalhistorymiscellany.com/2024/11/27/p...

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Adding some #histSTM #histsci tags for Williams’ connections to Royal Society, Newton, & Halley’s comet!

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I bet there are a lot of former PIMS Postdocs on #medievalbluesky! There aren't many better places in North America to do research into the Middle Ages.

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📢The call for papers for our 2025 conference is now ✨LIVE✨ We are the biggest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK and will be at the @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social from 7-9 July 2025! Call is open until 17 January 2025🌟🗃️ Please share widely! socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...

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#nacbs2024 Prof. Mary Fissell's plenary on the history of abortion was THE BEST. I can't wait to buy her book. www.sealpress.com/titles/mary-...

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What an epitaph! "Natalie Zemon Davis was a historian committed to the world, attentive to everyone, generous, inexhaustible and enthusiastic." From a recollection of NZD by Roger Chartier. Looking forward to many more on Friday: nzdconference.history.princeton.edu #skystorians

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And do re-post, if you can ... we are trying to improve our publicity following 'the great X-odus'. Thanks!

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Really grateful to everyone @ihr.bsky.social Tudor-Stuart Seminar last night for really thought-provoking qus about migration law and policy in EM England. I hope to work it up into an article soon, but if anyone's interested I covered this ground a bit here: theconversation.com/this-16th-ce...

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Calling all women's studies scholars: please spread the word about the bursary from the Women's Studies Group 1558-1837. £750 available to fund research in the field. #funding #ECR #PhD #AcademicWriting Applications open until 15 December. See website for details. womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/

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This looks like an interesting event with some great speakers: kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/confe...

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