Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg
@evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social
Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel at Helsinki (although I live in Sussex, UK). Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
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Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700
Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700
www.cambridge.org
My Element is out out featuring several #earlymodern mobile lives and open access too. Let me know if you use it in your teaching and if you like it. Woohoo! 🎉 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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NEW PUBLICATION
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes
doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes
doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance
Abstract. Collaborations between the humanities and sciences allow for novel insights into the material world of Renaissance recipe cultures, and in partic
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November 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
NEW PUBLICATION
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes
doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes
doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
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20 November 1582: William Harborne is appointed England's first resident ambassador to the Ottoman Empire by Elizabeth I. He's paid, however, by the Turkey Company, established the previous year, to guard the interests of English traders. Harborne has already ... 1/
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
November 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
20 November 1582: William Harborne is appointed England's first resident ambassador to the Ottoman Empire by Elizabeth I. He's paid, however, by the Turkey Company, established the previous year, to guard the interests of English traders. Harborne has already ... 1/
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
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We're very much looking forward to our Monday, December 1 JCB Reads session with Casey Schmitt!
JCB Reads offers former fellows an opportunity to discuss recent book-length publications with our community. All are welcome!
Details at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
JCB Reads offers former fellows an opportunity to discuss recent book-length publications with our community. All are welcome!
Details at jcblibrary.org/events/jcb-r...
November 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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It's the annual opening of our mentoring scheme together with the the Early Modern Scholars of Colour Network!
Applications for mentors and mentees open now. Apply by 30th November 2025.
all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/education-ou... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
Applications for mentors and mentees open now. Apply by 30th November 2025.
all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/education-ou... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
November 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
It's the annual opening of our mentoring scheme together with the the Early Modern Scholars of Colour Network!
Applications for mentors and mentees open now. Apply by 30th November 2025.
all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/education-ou... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
Applications for mentors and mentees open now. Apply by 30th November 2025.
all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/education-ou... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
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Just out of the box! Can't wait to read it! A fantastic dive into early modern drugs #histscie #histmed #earlymodern
November 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Just out of the box! Can't wait to read it! A fantastic dive into early modern drugs #histscie #histmed #earlymodern
ProQuest is driving me absolutely off the wall this evening....it only lets me read 3 pages of an e-book (before I get an 'authorisation' from my librarian). What infantilising nonsense....
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
ProQuest is driving me absolutely off the wall this evening....it only lets me read 3 pages of an e-book (before I get an 'authorisation' from my librarian). What infantilising nonsense....
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240,000 pages of manuscript and printed sources at your fingertips, now with much improved usability! 🗃️📜
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:31 PM
240,000 pages of manuscript and printed sources at your fingertips, now with much improved usability! 🗃️📜
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Right, 'Evelyn's daughter' went on a big American late night show and talked about the Warburg and Renaissance research.
So early modern studies are saved, right? RIGHT? We've got impact now and are cool again?
(It *is* the most incredible place in the world.)
So early modern studies are saved, right? RIGHT? We've got impact now and are cool again?
(It *is* the most incredible place in the world.)
Florence Welch Was Visited by Psychic Cats While Writing Everybody Scream
YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Right, 'Evelyn's daughter' went on a big American late night show and talked about the Warburg and Renaissance research.
So early modern studies are saved, right? RIGHT? We've got impact now and are cool again?
(It *is* the most incredible place in the world.)
So early modern studies are saved, right? RIGHT? We've got impact now and are cool again?
(It *is* the most incredible place in the world.)
Speaking next Tuesday in Cambridge on #earlymodern pain at the early science and medicine seminar series. talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...
talks.cam : Experiencing and alleviating pain in a settler colony: Jamestown, 1607–1610
talks.cam.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Speaking next Tuesday in Cambridge on #earlymodern pain at the early science and medicine seminar series. talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...
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👻All Hallow's Eve will soon be upon us! 👻
But what are the spirits associated with this night, and what should you do if one appears before you?
Read my post on #EarlyModern ghost beliefs to find out 🎃 🗃️
manyheadedmonster.com/2016/10/24/d...
But what are the spirits associated with this night, and what should you do if one appears before you?
Read my post on #EarlyModern ghost beliefs to find out 🎃 🗃️
manyheadedmonster.com/2016/10/24/d...
October 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
👻All Hallow's Eve will soon be upon us! 👻
But what are the spirits associated with this night, and what should you do if one appears before you?
Read my post on #EarlyModern ghost beliefs to find out 🎃 🗃️
manyheadedmonster.com/2016/10/24/d...
But what are the spirits associated with this night, and what should you do if one appears before you?
Read my post on #EarlyModern ghost beliefs to find out 🎃 🗃️
manyheadedmonster.com/2016/10/24/d...
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Hello BlueSky. I haven't been active for a while. I am looking for examples of museums, libraries and archives doing interesting things with generative ai and would welcome suggestions of websites to look at. #earlymodern #archives #libraryscience
October 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Hello BlueSky. I haven't been active for a while. I am looking for examples of museums, libraries and archives doing interesting things with generative ai and would welcome suggestions of websites to look at. #earlymodern #archives #libraryscience
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How was Robert Knox, son of an EIC Captain and captive in Sri Lanka for nineteen years, immediately identified as an outsider aboard ship when it was inspected on his arrival in England in September 1680?
His beard was long and old-fashioned. #earlymodern #skystorians
His beard was long and old-fashioned. #earlymodern #skystorians
October 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
How was Robert Knox, son of an EIC Captain and captive in Sri Lanka for nineteen years, immediately identified as an outsider aboard ship when it was inspected on his arrival in England in September 1680?
His beard was long and old-fashioned. #earlymodern #skystorians
His beard was long and old-fashioned. #earlymodern #skystorians
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Robert Knox - 19 years in captivity in Sri Lanka - returns to England and promptly goes back out in service of the Company to do what?
Engage in the slave trade: April 1684 commissioned to 'purchase' as many as 250 Africans - no males younger than 14, no females under 12. #earlymodern #skystorians
Engage in the slave trade: April 1684 commissioned to 'purchase' as many as 250 Africans - no males younger than 14, no females under 12. #earlymodern #skystorians
October 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Robert Knox - 19 years in captivity in Sri Lanka - returns to England and promptly goes back out in service of the Company to do what?
Engage in the slave trade: April 1684 commissioned to 'purchase' as many as 250 Africans - no males younger than 14, no females under 12. #earlymodern #skystorians
Engage in the slave trade: April 1684 commissioned to 'purchase' as many as 250 Africans - no males younger than 14, no females under 12. #earlymodern #skystorians
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A wonderful opportunity for an #EarlyModern scholar with an interest in knowledge, libraries, collecting or recordkeeping....
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We are advertising for an Assistant Director to join us in Marsh's Library. Full details about this exciting post here: marshlibrary.ie/vacancy-for-...
October 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
A wonderful opportunity for an #EarlyModern scholar with an interest in knowledge, libraries, collecting or recordkeeping....
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Recovering from a wonderful day in London, seeing friends and #earlymodern colleagues by going through Richard Norwood annotations by my fellow editors.
By the way, would a reference to someone selling 'strong waters' be a reference to nitric acid or alcohol (or both?). #Norwooding
By the way, would a reference to someone selling 'strong waters' be a reference to nitric acid or alcohol (or both?). #Norwooding
October 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Recovering from a wonderful day in London, seeing friends and #earlymodern colleagues by going through Richard Norwood annotations by my fellow editors.
By the way, would a reference to someone selling 'strong waters' be a reference to nitric acid or alcohol (or both?). #Norwooding
By the way, would a reference to someone selling 'strong waters' be a reference to nitric acid or alcohol (or both?). #Norwooding
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Self-promotion warning: @manchesterup.bsky.social will issue paper edition of our essay collection on #earlymodern European overseas empires in Jan '26 for pre-order @ GBP 30 @carrington-farmer.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195791/
Manchester University Press - Agents of European overseas empires
Agents of European overseas empires - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Agents of European overseas empires by Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
August 17, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Self-promotion warning: @manchesterup.bsky.social will issue paper edition of our essay collection on #earlymodern European overseas empires in Jan '26 for pre-order @ GBP 30 @carrington-farmer.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195791/
Went to see the Boxgrove Priory church again today. It is so beautiful. #earlymodern #churchychurch
October 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Went to see the Boxgrove Priory church again today. It is so beautiful. #earlymodern #churchychurch
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New on CollectionsCaptured is a wonderfully illustrated set of 17 proof copies of early 17th Century maps, later included in John Speed's 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine'.
All 17 pages can be seen here on CollectionsCaptured: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll...
[Ref. Freinds/JSM]
All 17 pages can be seen here on CollectionsCaptured: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll...
[Ref. Freinds/JSM]
October 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.
Do apply and spread the word!
www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
Do apply and spread the word!
www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne
Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.
www.unilu.ch
October 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.
Do apply and spread the word!
www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
Do apply and spread the word!
www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
Thomas Fuller wrote about the final years of John Smith (d. 1631) in his History of the Worthies of England:
'He led his old age in London, where his having a prince's
mind imprisoned in a poor man's purse rendered him to the
contempt of such who were not ingenuous.'
Oh my...
'He led his old age in London, where his having a prince's
mind imprisoned in a poor man's purse rendered him to the
contempt of such who were not ingenuous.'
Oh my...
October 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Thomas Fuller wrote about the final years of John Smith (d. 1631) in his History of the Worthies of England:
'He led his old age in London, where his having a prince's
mind imprisoned in a poor man's purse rendered him to the
contempt of such who were not ingenuous.'
Oh my...
'He led his old age in London, where his having a prince's
mind imprisoned in a poor man's purse rendered him to the
contempt of such who were not ingenuous.'
Oh my...
Today I am taking a day off from my article draft (on the pains and torments of John Smith) to do some more research on #earlymodern drugs and medicine in Jamestown. Suitably feeling a bit under the weather....
October 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Today I am taking a day off from my article draft (on the pains and torments of John Smith) to do some more research on #earlymodern drugs and medicine in Jamestown. Suitably feeling a bit under the weather....
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Not drawing any parallels here *ahem*, but in March 1672 William Gyfford was so ill that the Dutch chirurgeon (the English one lacked 'the wherewithall') could do nothing for him 'because his distemper proceeds from trouble ... in regard his industry for the Company'. #earlymodern #skystorians
October 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Not drawing any parallels here *ahem*, but in March 1672 William Gyfford was so ill that the Dutch chirurgeon (the English one lacked 'the wherewithall') could do nothing for him 'because his distemper proceeds from trouble ... in regard his industry for the Company'. #earlymodern #skystorians
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Ch 1 of Voices of Thunder tells Rose Thurgood’s story. She lived in Colchester, where she and her children were poor to the point of starvation. As a C17th woman writing from this perspective, her voice in the archive is unique. Her account of her life is in manuscript @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
October 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Ch 1 of Voices of Thunder tells Rose Thurgood’s story. She lived in Colchester, where she and her children were poor to the point of starvation. As a C17th woman writing from this perspective, her voice in the archive is unique. Her account of her life is in manuscript @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
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Excited about this article (goes straight onto the MA reading list) and helpful thread here pulling out its main interventions.
Congrats & thanks @drbernard.bsky.social! #EarlyModern
Congrats & thanks @drbernard.bsky.social! #EarlyModern
🚨 New article! I'm excited to share “The sodomy consultant of Paris, 1688–1737,” published this week in French Historical Studies: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo... . A 🧵:
The Sodomy Consultant of Paris | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
October 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Excited about this article (goes straight onto the MA reading list) and helpful thread here pulling out its main interventions.
Congrats & thanks @drbernard.bsky.social! #EarlyModern
Congrats & thanks @drbernard.bsky.social! #EarlyModern
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Who did what in early modern England?
New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️
Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️
Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Who did what in early modern England?
New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️
Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️
Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...