Professor James Daybell
@jamesdaybell.bsky.social
Prof EM Hist; Letters; Gloves; https://genderingthemuseum.co.uk; Swedish Res Council project on Hist of Separation; Histories of the Unexpected Pod: https://historiesoftheunexpected.com/about-us/; agent: https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/james-daybell
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One phone call, and the rest is history @plymuni.bsky.social
History graduate Peter Nash outlines his last-minute journey to uni to help reassure prospective students. Read peter's story here: www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/one-pho...
History graduate Peter Nash outlines his last-minute journey to uni to help reassure prospective students. Read peter's story here: www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/one-pho...
One phone call, and the rest is history
History graduate Peter Nash outlines his last-minute journey to uni to help reassure prospective students
www.plymouth.ac.uk
August 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM
One phone call, and the rest is history @plymuni.bsky.social
History graduate Peter Nash outlines his last-minute journey to uni to help reassure prospective students. Read peter's story here: www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/one-pho...
History graduate Peter Nash outlines his last-minute journey to uni to help reassure prospective students. Read peter's story here: www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/one-pho...
CONFERENCE ALERT! Excited to be part of this @movedapart.bsky.social Early Modern Global Separation conference at Lund University, 20-21 August movedapart.org/events/
Events
Upcoming events The schedule for the Early Modern Global Separation Conference can be found here! Below the images, there is a possibility to download the schedule.We are looking forward to discuss…
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July 3, 2025 at 6:48 AM
CONFERENCE ALERT! Excited to be part of this @movedapart.bsky.social Early Modern Global Separation conference at Lund University, 20-21 August movedapart.org/events/
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And it's out! Open access and free to download. Thank you @wellcometrust.bsky.social and @manchesterup.bsky.social. Excited to see it out in the world (and sure that despite all the proof reading, I will find typos) @hsmurphy.bsky.social @historyelaine.bsky.social @medievalbadger.bsky.social
1 decade of Open Access, now 300 titles 🔓
Introducing 'Renaissance skin' by @evelynwelch.bsky.social - freely available to all students and institutions.
A magnificent feat for research in Renaissance art & #histmed
Read it here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
#Renaissance #OpenAccess
Introducing 'Renaissance skin' by @evelynwelch.bsky.social - freely available to all students and institutions.
A magnificent feat for research in Renaissance art & #histmed
Read it here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
#Renaissance #OpenAccess
July 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
And it's out! Open access and free to download. Thank you @wellcometrust.bsky.social and @manchesterup.bsky.social. Excited to see it out in the world (and sure that despite all the proof reading, I will find typos) @hsmurphy.bsky.social @historyelaine.bsky.social @medievalbadger.bsky.social
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We’ve launched a new collection of openly accessible videos, Interviews with Historians, in which prominent 20th century historians reflect on their lives and professional practices. Access the collection here:
www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...
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June 26, 2025 at 12:53 PM
We’ve launched a new collection of openly accessible videos, Interviews with Historians, in which prominent 20th century historians reflect on their lives and professional practices. Access the collection here:
www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...
www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...
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Lecturer in Renaissance Art History
Birkbeck, University of London - School of Historical Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM388/l...
Birkbeck, University of London - School of Historical Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM388/l...
Lecturer in Renaissance Art History at Birkbeck, University of London
Apply for the Lecturer in Renaissance Art History role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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June 18, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Lecturer in Renaissance Art History
Birkbeck, University of London - School of Historical Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM388/l...
Birkbeck, University of London - School of Historical Studies #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM388/l...
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We are advertising for a Public Engagement Fellow for our AHRC funded project: 'The Victorian hand: Emotion, Embodiment, and identity, past and present'. 1/2
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Job Title: Public Engagement Fellow. College/Service: Academic. Contract: Fixed Term. Salary: £39,644 -£48,394 per annum. Apply by: 24/06/2025, 23:55
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June 13, 2025 at 10:38 AM
We are advertising for a Public Engagement Fellow for our AHRC funded project: 'The Victorian hand: Emotion, Embodiment, and identity, past and present'. 1/2
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Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-century Barbados and Britain. A 2-day workshop 25-26 June in London at KCL. Be there. www.mmor.co.uk/events/carib...
2-day Workshop: Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-Century Barbados and Britain — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720
Organisers: Dr Michael Bennett (University of Sheffield), Dr Misha Ewen (University of Sussex), and Dr Hannah Murphy (MMoR & CEMS, KCL) Barbados is central to the global history of slavery. The ...
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June 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-century Barbados and Britain. A 2-day workshop 25-26 June in London at KCL. Be there. www.mmor.co.uk/events/carib...
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🚢 Set sail with the first-ever Bowlines Maritime Literary Festival – 6 & 7 June at Exeter Custom House!
Dive into tales of the sea, naval fiction & history.
🎟 Limited tickets left!
🔗 www.exetercustomhouse.co.uk/event/bow-lines
#BowlinesFestival #Exeter
Dive into tales of the sea, naval fiction & history.
🎟 Limited tickets left!
🔗 www.exetercustomhouse.co.uk/event/bow-lines
#BowlinesFestival #Exeter
June 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
🚢 Set sail with the first-ever Bowlines Maritime Literary Festival – 6 & 7 June at Exeter Custom House!
Dive into tales of the sea, naval fiction & history.
🎟 Limited tickets left!
🔗 www.exetercustomhouse.co.uk/event/bow-lines
#BowlinesFestival #Exeter
Dive into tales of the sea, naval fiction & history.
🎟 Limited tickets left!
🔗 www.exetercustomhouse.co.uk/event/bow-lines
#BowlinesFestival #Exeter
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If you've been alerted to our project by the recent job advert for a Public Engagement Fellow, why not find out a little bit about the background to the project by reading the first blog post on our new website?
www.thevictorianhand.uk/gallery/proj...
www.thevictorianhand.uk/gallery/proj...
Welcome to the project! — The Victorian Hand
www.thevictorianhand.uk
June 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
If you've been alerted to our project by the recent job advert for a Public Engagement Fellow, why not find out a little bit about the background to the project by reading the first blog post on our new website?
www.thevictorianhand.uk/gallery/proj...
www.thevictorianhand.uk/gallery/proj...
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Just to give a plug for this talk I'm giving, in Hereford Cathedral, on 27 June!
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In the company of Good Mrs Shakspaire - 27/06/2025 19:00:00
A talk by Dr Matthew Steggle Thursday 27 June
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June 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Just to give a plug for this talk I'm giving, in Hereford Cathedral, on 27 June!
www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/in-the...
www.herefordcathedral.org/Event/in-the...
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Thrilled to say that this is now fully Open Access!
Hopefully now available to any and all interested #earlymodern #skystorians
Hopefully now available to any and all interested #earlymodern #skystorians
New article!
'Seeing Women in the Early English and Dutch East India Companies' is now available as an Advance Article with Historical Research.
It's been years of work, but I'm proud of this one. I hope #earlymodern #skystorians enjoy it!
Some context below:
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'Seeing Women in the Early English and Dutch East India Companies' is now available as an Advance Article with Historical Research.
It's been years of work, but I'm proud of this one. I hope #earlymodern #skystorians enjoy it!
Some context below:
academic.oup.com/histres/adva...
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June 5, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Thrilled to say that this is now fully Open Access!
Hopefully now available to any and all interested #earlymodern #skystorians
Hopefully now available to any and all interested #earlymodern #skystorians
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Our last speaker at #KQ14 in Session 3.2 Courtiers as Employees? Working condition in early modern courts I was Nikki Clark, “Continuity & Change: Ladies-in-waiting at the Tudor Court, c. 1509-1547”, discussing employment conditions, pay, perks & perils for female courtiers w/high queenly turnover
June 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Our last speaker at #KQ14 in Session 3.2 Courtiers as Employees? Working condition in early modern courts I was Nikki Clark, “Continuity & Change: Ladies-in-waiting at the Tudor Court, c. 1509-1547”, discussing employment conditions, pay, perks & perils for female courtiers w/high queenly turnover
June 4, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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📢Job Alert!📢 Our AHRC-funded Victorian Hand project is looking for a 3-year, full-time Public Engagment Fellow, based at the London College of Fashion, to join our team & help deliver our programme of activities. This amazing opportunity closes on 24 June so please spread the word far & wide!
Job Alert! We're hiring a 3-year F/T Public Engagment Fellow based @lcflondon.bsky.social to lead our exciting programme of activities. We're looking for collegial & creative people with expertise in History, Galleries, Archives, Libraries, or Museums. Spread the word! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI861/p...
Public Engagement Fellow (The Victorian Hand Project) at University of the Arts London, London College of Fashion
Don't miss your chance to apply for professional services job openings, including the Public Engagement Fellow (The Victorian Hand Project) role, listed on jobs.ac.uk. Start your search now!
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June 4, 2025 at 9:06 AM
📢Job Alert!📢 Our AHRC-funded Victorian Hand project is looking for a 3-year, full-time Public Engagment Fellow, based at the London College of Fashion, to join our team & help deliver our programme of activities. This amazing opportunity closes on 24 June so please spread the word far & wide!
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📢FAO UEA Students
We are pleased to offer a new studentship in Maritime History for a student to study MA Early Modern History, MA Cultural Heritage & Museum Studies or MA Modern History in @ueahistory.bsky.social in 2025
Value = £10k - if of interest, get in touch!
www.uea.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
We are pleased to offer a new studentship in Maritime History for a student to study MA Early Modern History, MA Cultural Heritage & Museum Studies or MA Modern History in @ueahistory.bsky.social in 2025
Value = £10k - if of interest, get in touch!
www.uea.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
June 2, 2025 at 5:58 AM
📢FAO UEA Students
We are pleased to offer a new studentship in Maritime History for a student to study MA Early Modern History, MA Cultural Heritage & Museum Studies or MA Modern History in @ueahistory.bsky.social in 2025
Value = £10k - if of interest, get in touch!
www.uea.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
We are pleased to offer a new studentship in Maritime History for a student to study MA Early Modern History, MA Cultural Heritage & Museum Studies or MA Modern History in @ueahistory.bsky.social in 2025
Value = £10k - if of interest, get in touch!
www.uea.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
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Open access special issue of Early Modern Low Countries, on early modern women emlc-journal.org/issue/view/1...
Vol. 9 No. 1 (2025)
| Early Modern Low Countries
Early Modern Low Countries
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June 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Open access special issue of Early Modern Low Countries, on early modern women emlc-journal.org/issue/view/1...
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📣 Call for Papers: WHS Conference 2025!
🗓️ 13 Sept | 📍 Glasgow | 🧾 Deadline: 1 July
Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland—our first in-person conference since 2019!
🔗 Info + submission form: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
Please share widely!
🗓️ 13 Sept | 📍 Glasgow | 🧾 Deadline: 1 July
Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland—our first in-person conference since 2019!
🔗 Info + submission form: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
Please share widely!
WHS Conference 2025 – Women's History Scotland
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May 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
📣 Call for Papers: WHS Conference 2025!
🗓️ 13 Sept | 📍 Glasgow | 🧾 Deadline: 1 July
Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland—our first in-person conference since 2019!
🔗 Info + submission form: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
Please share widely!
🗓️ 13 Sept | 📍 Glasgow | 🧾 Deadline: 1 July
Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland—our first in-person conference since 2019!
🔗 Info + submission form: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...
Please share widely!
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🌏 Annales English Edition
'A Life Lived Across #Continents: The Global Microhistory of an #Armenian Agent of the Compagnie des Indes Orientales, 1666–1688'
by Sebouh Aslanian
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
'A Life Lived Across #Continents: The Global Microhistory of an #Armenian Agent of the Compagnie des Indes Orientales, 1666–1688'
by Sebouh Aslanian
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
May 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
🌏 Annales English Edition
'A Life Lived Across #Continents: The Global Microhistory of an #Armenian Agent of the Compagnie des Indes Orientales, 1666–1688'
by Sebouh Aslanian
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
'A Life Lived Across #Continents: The Global Microhistory of an #Armenian Agent of the Compagnie des Indes Orientales, 1666–1688'
by Sebouh Aslanian
👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...
Delighted to receive this gift in the post today from Daniel Starza Smith. Thank you and can’t wait to read it. What an utterly sumptuous book. Looks fabulous @letterlocking.bsky.social team!!
May 30, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Delighted to receive this gift in the post today from Daniel Starza Smith. Thank you and can’t wait to read it. What an utterly sumptuous book. Looks fabulous @letterlocking.bsky.social team!!
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Do read about our project and check out the first blog post.
📢Project update 📢
We now have a website!
www.thevictorianhand.uk
We'll be updating things as the project develops, but for the moment you can take a look around and read our first blog post in which Joanne and I talk about the origins of the project. More content to follow very soon!
We now have a website!
www.thevictorianhand.uk
We'll be updating things as the project develops, but for the moment you can take a look around and read our first blog post in which Joanne and I talk about the origins of the project. More content to follow very soon!
The Victorian Hand
www.thevictorianhand.uk
May 30, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Do read about our project and check out the first blog post.
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The shortlist for the Society's 2025 First Book Prize for early career historians is now available bit.ly/4kkm4lW
Eight titles have been selected, following an open call for submissions of books published in 2024. Two winners of the 2025 prize will be announced in July.
#Skystorians
Eight titles have been selected, following an open call for submissions of books published in 2024. Two winners of the 2025 prize will be announced in July.
#Skystorians
May 29, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The shortlist for the Society's 2025 First Book Prize for early career historians is now available bit.ly/4kkm4lW
Eight titles have been selected, following an open call for submissions of books published in 2024. Two winners of the 2025 prize will be announced in July.
#Skystorians
Eight titles have been selected, following an open call for submissions of books published in 2024. Two winners of the 2025 prize will be announced in July.
#Skystorians
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Call for papers - Digital Book History and Renaissance Studies Now! seeking "proposals that consider the past and future of digital book history in Renaissance studies across disciplines through detailed, material case-studies" www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
Renaissance Society of America
365 Fifth AvenueRoom 5405New York, NY 10016 • USA
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May 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Call for papers - Digital Book History and Renaissance Studies Now! seeking "proposals that consider the past and future of digital book history in Renaissance studies across disciplines through detailed, material case-studies" www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
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April Issue of *Technology and Culture* Available Online - This issue seems particularly pitched towards thinking about #MaterialCulture
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April issue of Technology and Culture Available Online | H-Net
The latest issue of Technology and Culture is available online, featuring reviews of books in 6 languages!Volume 66, Number 2, April 2025On the Cover: Images as Portable Objects in the Historian’s Too...
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May 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
April Issue of *Technology and Culture* Available Online - This issue seems particularly pitched towards thinking about #MaterialCulture
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You can now access a beta version of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC).
A bibliography of about 500,000 records, the ESTC aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced before 1801 in the English-speaking world.
Explore the catalogue: datb.cerl.org/estc/
A bibliography of about 500,000 records, the ESTC aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced before 1801 in the English-speaking world.
Explore the catalogue: datb.cerl.org/estc/
May 29, 2025 at 7:32 AM
You can now access a beta version of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC).
A bibliography of about 500,000 records, the ESTC aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced before 1801 in the English-speaking world.
Explore the catalogue: datb.cerl.org/estc/
A bibliography of about 500,000 records, the ESTC aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced before 1801 in the English-speaking world.
Explore the catalogue: datb.cerl.org/estc/