Profile avatar
mlcoolahan.bsky.social
Tweets @recirc_
4 posts 355 followers 247 following
Regular Contributor

These are difficult times so let's remember the impact humanities research has in the world. In 2022 @englishassociation.bsky.social, @univeng.bsky.social & @ies-sas.bsky.social met with colleagues to find out about their work. See 🧵Here is no. 1 on policy: englishassociation.ac.uk/speaking-for...

The Hosking Houses Trust supports women writers, artists and creative practitioners, usually over the age of 40 to develop their work through short-term residencies at Church Cottage nr Stratford-upon-Avon. Details in link. Please share :) hoskinghouses.org.uk

😍 Archival materialities! "How do born-digital records transform our understanding of the materiality of the archive? How do digital techniques provide new insights into the materiality of older archives?" Looking forward to seeing this--what a great ToC. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Do you work on #earlymodern English women and religion (c.1500-1800)? Would you like to join a community of scholars asking questions, sharing research, and disseminating news of upcoming events related to the field? Please subscribe to our new mailing list: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/EMEW-R 🗃️

Wow. Really interesting non Anglophone #HerBook example @martinevanelk.bsky.social @mlcoolahan.bsky.social

We're looking for a post-doc to work with the Slave Voyages project and routes to enslavement. Work with my awesome colleague Sabrina Smith: aprecruit.ucmerced.edu/JPF01679

HAKLUYT SOCIETY ESSAY PRIZE (2024) FOR PGRs & ECRs Entries - 6k-8k - invited by 1/3/24; prize = £1000. For further details & how to enter pls see: www.hakluyt.com/downloadable... Pls share!⚓⚓⚓

The Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice and the JCB invite applications for a postdoctoral fellowship on any area/theme of historical scholarship around racial slavery, and/ or Indigenous dispossession and slavery. Details at apply.interfolio.com/138036

Today, a fascinating blog post by Joe Black about an algebra book owned by an early modern woman--a first for our blog! EM Women read so much more widely than we tend to think buff.ly/3OA1n7U #HerBook #EarlyModern #C17 #C18

Friends, there is a 5-year position in Italian Renaissance history going at Monash, in my department! Please share widely >> medievalsky skystorians earlymodern careers.pageuppeople.com/mob/513/cw/e...

The ONLY feed you need #skystorians

When our Print & Probability collaborator UCSD grad student Nikolai Vogler heard that ESTC was down due to the BL cyberattack, he jumped into action. Here’s the site he built to help #earlymodern scholars access the essential metadata needed for teaching and research 📚 📜 estc.printprobability.org

Please join us if you are in or near Limerick on December 4th!

Next WHAI will be in Belfast 🥰 I am there! Great theme this year too!

Birkbeck is hiring up to four postdoc researchers to work on #WrittenWorlds in 17th-century England, led by Sue Wiseman (PI) and @Brodie_Waddell (CI), focusing on non-elite writers. £42K pro rata; 0.5FTE for 25 months, starting mid-Nov. Apply by 22 Oct: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Thrilled to announce the publication of my book: Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court (UTP). Who was Costa? Why, a professional singer, a courtesan, the lover of a notorious bandit and… the most widely published female writer in #17thC Italy! #EarlyModern utorontopress.com/978148754730...

That's a week to go...

Sarah Covington on Cromwell in Ireland, tomorrow (online): www.eventbrite.ie/e/prof-sarah...

The view from my office this morning when I received this invite. Hello bluesky and hello frost!