If anyone needs an early modernist for lecturing, consultation, copy editing, or freelance work. I have a lot of experience and would appreciate any work sent my way for the next academic year! #EarlyModern Things are looking a little grim!

Other people are diligently informing friends, family, colleagues of each time it rains right? Anyway I think you should know that we had a lovely downpour just now.

Historian looking for freelance work. I’m a very experienced RA, I’m looking for anything really that might help me pay my bills, because in general my profession does not, and no one will let me try doing anything else…

I've just heard that the BA/BSc Geography programme is to close at the University of Exeter’s Centre for Geography and Environmental Science (CGES) in Cornwall. This programme was made up of excellent modules with original and content, taught brilliantly—often with real innovation—by extremely 1/9

Postdoc job alert! Early medieval charters, monastic economics and XML-TEI, starting January 2027. Come join a lovely department @livunihss.bsky.social, brilliant project team with @unituebingen.bsky.social and awesome city! #medievalsky #digitalhumanities www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSO571/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Liverpool

An opportunity for an academic position as a Postdoctoral Research Associate is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

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If I ever leave the academic job market you will know when your feed is full of all the funny* mildly self-deprecating posts I suppress in case a Prospective Employer is reading. * to me

How do you decide which digital tools will help structure your historical research data? How can you organise your notes, tables and/or spreadsheets to help with your analysis? Join @justincolson.bsky.social at his IHR short course Sources to Data to find out more! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Sources to Data: Excel and Alternatives for Historians

IHR Short Course (PAID)

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Hello everyone! Making the move to Bluesky - I'm an early modernist with many interests, clustering around the intersection of literature, intellectual history, rhetoric and religion from 1500 to 1800. I have a few things to update everyone on.

Last week, about a third of the History department were able to gather together on graduation day. Rather than lend our intellectual authority to the official procession and ceremony we invited our students to come and celebrate their achievements with us in a shady courtyard. They came. 1/

Very on-brand moment in which I took my newly sewn up skirt (ft. nasturtium print) for its first outing (to the allotment) and promptly got it covered in courgette juice. (The entirely foreseeable sequence of events in which Nice New Clothes promptly got dirty is the most Anna-esque thing here)

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Katie Birkwood@girlinthe.bsky.social · last mo.

In things I wish I hadn't seen, but now I have and you will too... New research published in the Journal of the Institute of Conservation recommends PPE for handling all red rot because of the risk of heavy metal contamination (lead, arsenic, cadmium). #GLAMS 📚 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘The toolkit offers a structured, high-level guide to help cultural heritage professionals and researchers approach legacy media across its entire lifecycle…It also gives researchers a reference point for engaging critically with legacy media as historical subjects in their own right.’

New toolkit offers practical guide to preserving legacy media

A newly launched toolkit offers practical guidance to cultural heritage professionals and researchers on preserving fragile and outdated media formats.

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For anyone not familiar: the British Academy is the UK's national academy for the humanities & social sciences. Each year the BA elects to its fellowship outstanding UK-based scholars who have achieved distinction in their work. It is the highest accolade a UK HASS scholar can receive.

Professor Whittle is one of four colleagues in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Faculty at the University of Exeter elected to Fellowship of the British Academy this year. 🗃️ ALL FOUR of these outstanding scholars were placed at risk of redundancy last month. Here's their statement:

🥳 Enormous congratulations to my outstanding colleague & friend Prof. Jane Whittle, on her election to the Fellowship of the British Academy. Jane is a world renowned scholar of the history of work & gender in preindustrial Europe. She currently leads The Material Culture of Wills project. 🗃️

Feels a bit weird to post book history when the world (literally) and academia (metaphorically) are on fire, but here are some some nice shiny coated fore-edge tabs from a set of sixteenth-century music part books. British Library K.3.c.2., Heinrich Isaac, Coralis Constantini (Nuremberg, 1550+).

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

Hopefully exciting news for anyone interested in medieval religious communities in general and in Devon in particular. Paging @lsangha.bsky.social, @westgarthdes.bsky.social, @graffitiginger.bsky.social, @balhnews.bsky.social. #Skystorians

Victoria County History@vch-home.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are delighted to share the news that the latest new VCH project is live. We have published only one volume for #Devon to date, and now Professor Nicholas Orme has begun the process of developing text on the county's medieval religious houses. The first drafts are now available. #Skystorians 1/3

Struggling to parse this. Exeter is celebrating its overall global ranking to 136th, comprised (it reports) of 151st (Natural Sciences), 131st (Life Sciences & Medicine) and 76th (Arts & Humanities) while announcing plans to make 25% of Arts & Humanities staff redundant. Does this compute?

University of Exeter@exeter.ac.uk · 2mo ago

We’re delighted to be able to share some exciting news: We’ve climbed 19 places in the QS World University Rankings 2027, and we’re now ranked 136th globally. This achievement reflects the growing strength of our reputation as one of the world’s top universities. news.exeter.ac.uk/staff-news/e...

📣 People are understandably up in the arms about this (it is horrible). But just want to wave a hand out there 👋 as we're going through the same thing in Humanities at Northumbria (1 out of 5 staff need to go by end of July). 1/?

Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

'About 150 academic roles are set to go at the south-west institution, which said it was targeting areas that are “no longer sustainable” or have seen changes in student demand.' History and English are name-checked. 1/3

Many are following this. Those at risk here on Exeter's Cornwall campus include myself and colleagues in Geography, Environmental Science, Marine Science, Renewable Energy, and Environmental Maths, Humanities, and 1/2 the Environment and Sustainability Institute. I really hope this can be resolved.

University of Exeter in talks to cut about 150 members of staff

The university says it is consulting with colleagues over "limited and specific potential changes".

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Exeter Green Party stands in solidarity with the Exeter University and College Union in condemning the University of Exeter’s announcement of sweeping job cuts. These plans will recklessly imperil the University’s vital contributions to the social, cultural, and economic life of the city. 1/4

One hour in to trying to change my train tickets on Trainline (to the exact same journey, just on different dates) without having made ANY progress, and deeply regretting using them for 'convenience'

Great new article by Lizzy Williamson on how the digital provenance of our databases and resources can unlock & contextualize data ethics to inform our use of them academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...

My book now has a cover and it is all starting to feel very real. I just need to finish the proofs... 🗃️ #BookHistory #EarlyModern brill.com/display/titl...

Readers of Erasmus

"Readers of Erasmus" published on 18 Nov 2026 by Brill.

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Trying to design a conference slide showing the movement of bibliographic information in and around the early Bodleian, and feel like I should just insert that meme instead for the same effect.

Charlie Day's Pepe Silvia Conspiracy

Alt: Charlie Day's Pepe Silvia Conspiracy

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A week of CEMS events... including PGR lightning talks, our first article workshop, a book launch, and our annual CEMS Colloquium. Full details in the thread below! Join us if you can! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events

Events — CEMS KCL Blog

'What's On' at CEMS. We run workshops, seminars, conferences, social and networking events, symposia, and more.

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Excited to learn that not one but FOUR of the books gifted to the Totnes town library in the 1620s and 30s, which I thought missing, have recently been unearthed. One was a gift of townswoman Elizabeth Wise, described here (please excuse blurry photo from the olden, pre-decent-phone-camera days)

Fascinated by the placement of signature marks in this 1512 music publication. Surely so unhelpful for the binder, but I love how it pulls them into the text. 'Aus sonderer kunstlicher Art' (Augsburg: Öglin, 1512), Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, altus part, viewer.onb.ac.at/10044E73