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Tiny Crystals Reveal Historical Background of the Batavia Mutiny

Few episodes occupy a darker place in maritime history than the wreck of the Batavia. Wrecked off the mid-west coast of Western Australia in June 16...

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Forgot to mention, but it will be published Open Access, so you can download it for free!

Ramona Negrón@ramonanegron.bsky.social · yesterday

Excited to see my forthcoming book (PhD dissertation) on @routledgebooks.bsky.social: Silver, Spices, and the Slave Trade. The Coymans Family and Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas (1580-1700). It will be published in December 2026. www.routledge.com/Silver-Spice...

Funding for UK researchers to attend a research collaboration symposium on the broad theme of ‘Humans and Nature: More resilient towards the future’.

The British Academy@britishacademy.bsky.social · yesterday

Are you an early career researcher in the humanities and social sciences? Join the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium to network with fellow researchers in an in-person symposium in Bonn, Germany. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4yL3Stm

Excited to see my forthcoming book (PhD dissertation) on @routledgebooks.bsky.social: Silver, Spices, and the Slave Trade. The Coymans Family and Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas (1580-1700). It will be published in December 2026. www.routledge.com/Silver-Spice...

Silver, Spices, and the Slave Trade: The Coymans Family and Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas (1580-1700)

Silver, Spices, and the Slave Trade: The Coymans Family and Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas (1580-1700) explains how Amsterdam entrepreneurs, specifically the Coymans family, built prof...

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Disappointed a couple of people by explaining the Viking Congress is an academic conference, no, we do not sing rowing songs wearing horned helmets while guzzling heroic amounts of mead. The Proceedings of the Viking Congress is a volume of research papers, not a saga of our antics #medievalsky

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Proceedings of the Nineteenth Viking Congress

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Very short notice (deadline 18 August) but we're advertising a 0.5fte lectureship in public history for next year. Covers my 3rd year undergraduate course on public history of Rome (ancient to modern) plus some MA public history teaching.

JOB KLAXON! We're looking to hire a lecturer or senior lecturer in philosophy. This is a permanent, full-time teaching-and-research position. The deadline for applications is 26 August. Further details below. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSG697/l...

Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Loughborough University

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

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*JOB KLAXON* Scroll down this link to find a great opportunity: a full-time book and paper conservator post at Nottingham Archives! isw.changeworknow.co.uk/inspire_cult...

Joe's article also features in selection of recent 'Transactions' articles which consider 'The Historian's Craft and Practice: new writing on history teaching and historical research' bit.ly/4bPGJvW All 15 articles are published Open Access and free to read #Skystorians 2/2

The Historian's Craft and Practice: new writing on history teaching and historical research - RHS

The Society's academic journal, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, publishes a wide range of content from historians of all disciplinary backgrounds and career stages, worldwide. This inclu...

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I will be advertising a funded PhD studentship shortly, for a project on adding psychological theory (social identity) to modelling of epidemics ( @leverhulme.ac.uk funded, with Marijn Stok). The studentship will start in January 2027. Get in touch now for informal enquiries.

This argument is music to my ears.

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 5d ago

"Details, in their singularity and idiosyncrasy, point to the capaciousness of human experience." New today in the Society's journal 'Transactions': Joe Moran 'On Detail in Historical Writing': bit.ly/44UMi8C Now available OA @joemoransblog.bsky.social @massobsarchive.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2

I'm still looking for a reviewer for this book for The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (@jich.bsky.social). If interested, let me know! #historians www.bwb.co.nz/books/garris...

Garrison World - BWB Bridget Williams Books

Garrison World explores the lives of soldiers, sailors and their families stationed in Aotearoa New Zealand and across the British empire in the nineteenth century. Spanning the decades from 1840 to 1...

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If the topics of the current exhibition and their wider historical context are of interest, you can download the East India Company at home book in full for free from @uclpress.bsky.social or as individual chapters (no subscription needed) from JSTOR. Very much enabled by @leverhulme.ac.uk . 3/4

The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857

The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a ...

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Don’t hire AI to draw your maps, folks. If you do, everyone in Brazil will laugh at you. Hire an actual mapmaker. Maybe one who knows a lot about eels. Just sayin

Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 6d ago

"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."

So it's farewell to the History subject area at the University of Hertfordshire, not the first nor the last to go. One of the best departments in the country, just extinguished like a snap of the fingers. Think of the waste. (1/2)

📢Táimid ag earcú / We are hiring! Fáiltítear roimh iarratais ar phost an Eagarthóra Bainistíochta le Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge (FNG), atá lonnaithe in Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann. Dáta deiridh: 15:00 ar an 31 Lúnasa 2026 Chun tuilleadh eolais a fháil tabhair cuairt ar: www.ria.ie/about/career...

Which should include the excellent Irish Studies in International Affairs, Ireland’s own and only IR journal, edited by the inestimable Dr Mervyn O’Driscoll for the @ria.ie Standing Committee for International Affairs.

Royal Irish Academy@ria.ie · 3d ago

All research papers published in the Academy’s journals during 2026 will be freely available online, with no APCs charged. This development was made possible by @projectmuse.bsky.social’s Subscribe to Open initiative and ongoing support from @irelibrary.bsky.social, the Irish Research eLibrary.

All research papers published in the Academy’s journals during 2026 will be freely available online, with no APCs charged. This development was made possible by @projectmuse.bsky.social’s Subscribe to Open initiative and ongoing support from @irelibrary.bsky.social, the Irish Research eLibrary.

Clacton bin day leaflet, make sure the local Facebook and tiktok groups have a copy

The E of E. coli fame. I did not know this story - fascinating! #IDSky #Microsky

c0nc0rdance@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 4d ago

The headlines are still covering the cyclosporiasis outbreak from lettuce, but let's talk about a different summer, long ago. The headlines in Bavaria would have called it "summer diarrhea" & it was killing babies. Enter our hero, Professor Theodor Escherich of the Julius Hospital, Würzburg.

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Deeply concerning. Exeter University one of many in the UK firing many faculty, especially in the humanities. It’s not only the impact on the faculty and students in often-popular programs. We are dismantling knowledge structures that took dozens— even hundreds of years to build.

Owen Davies@odavies9.bsky.social · 4d ago

So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.

So a whole lot of my talented Humanities colleagues are now unemployed as of today. A lot of understandable concern over Exeter. But for over two decades my Hums colleagues were in the top quartile for their research contribution to society. History top 10. Now gone with only a national whisper.

A longer post in this weekly series - a tribute to Carlo Ginzburg, and his approach of the historian as a detective, with a particular focus on his important essay 'Clues'. "The Historian as Detective – Carlo Ginzburg and the Search for ‘Clues’" progressivegeographies.com/2026/08/02/t...

The Historian as Detective – Carlo Ginzburg and the Search for ‘Clues’

A few years ago, after one of the presentations I’d given on reconstructing Émile Benveniste’s movements during the Second World War through various archives, one audience member said to another: “…

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This evening! 🥂 Join us at Fronteer Gallery at 4pm for the opening of our 'Hedgerow' and 'Fronteer x Well Dressed : Customs and Curiosities' exhibitions! Come along and immerse yourself in some fabulous art while meeting some of the artists involved.

Call for Participants for IHR Women's History Seminar Lightning Talks to be held Friday, 20th of November 2026.

He's not pulling his punches. Good to see the arguments in the public domain. With a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says

LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance

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A notice from The Heraldry Society concerning William Cowley the UK's last commercial parchment and vellum maker.

Some very REQciting news. My Court of Requests pleadings (REQ 2/16-424) project is now complete. Over 28,000 items dating from c.1547-c.1625 (Edw VI to Jas I) now searchable online. Happy researching everyone 🙂 discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C...

After 10 years at the helm of Irish Studies at QUB, with various ups and downs over the last decade, I’m handing over to our new leadership team from Monday. Many thanks to Peter and @siobhraaiken.bsky.social for stepping up to take forward Irish Studies in Belfast! www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

New Irish Studies Leadership

After 10 years as Director of the Institute of Irish Studies, Prof Peter Gray is handing over to a new leadership team from the start of August 2026.

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