Join the Life Cycles seminar this evening for a trip to renaissance Florence! @drgillhistory.bsky.social will be taking us there. Departure time is 17:30 GMT. Details on how to join us are in the link. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Girls on the Margins In Renaissance Florence

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history.ac.uk

💛💜 Today is Intersex Awareness Day. Most of us grew up learning that everyone is born either male or female, but human biology is a little more complicated than that, and that biological sex isn't always as straightforward as the boxes we're asked to tick.

The first session of the new JST #JacobiteStudies Virtual Workshop Series is coming up this Tue, 27 Oct with a preview of @f18cal.bsky.social's forthcoming book via @manchesterup.bsky.social: 'Responding to the Jacobite Threat: Policy, Law and Assimilation, 1688-1807'. jdb1745.net/events/jstwo...

Tomorrow evening, from 17:30 GMT, join us at the IHR or online to hear @drgillhistory.bsky.social present 'Girls on the margins in renaissance Florence', followed by a time for discussion. Register through the link. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Girls on the Margins In Renaissance Florence

Life-Cycles

history.ac.uk

I’m on this @englishheritage.bsky.social podcast with @willwyeth.bsky.social and Amy Matthews. We discuss the comet in the Bayeux Tapestry and all things OMENS and SIGNS. Audio here, video coming! #MedievalSky ☄️ podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

1066: Omens, Halley's Comet & the Fall of Kings | Episode 4

Podcast Episode · The English Heritage Podcast · 26 October · 31min

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The UCU National Day of Action in every University on Friday 20th November is shaping up to be huge. Start the conversations locally and build your plan.

Please come along if you're interested in the particular difficulties faced by Florentine girls who didn't have family to support them in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Tuesday 27 Oct, in person and online.

IHR Life Cycles seminar@ihrlifecycles.bsky.social · 5d ago

Our next speaker is @drgillhistory.bsky.social on 27th October. Join us at the IHR or online to hear 'Girls on the Margins In Renaissance Florence'. If you know someone who might be interested, pass the message on. Everyone is welcome. share.google/8zUoCeghL1dM...

I’ve noticed that the geographic correspondents are all interchangeable these days. They pop up one day as the ‘Paris correspondent’ the next day as the ‘Kyiv correspondent’ and the next day in Jerusalem (or wherever). Expertise isn’t actually valued at BBC News any more.

John O’Donnell@jodami.bsky.social · 5d ago

Maybe the BBC should get someone who actually knows what he is talking about then.

Excited (and nervous) for this next week!

IHR Life Cycles seminar@ihrlifecycles.bsky.social · 5d ago

Our next speaker is @drgillhistory.bsky.social on 27th October. Join us at the IHR or online to hear 'Girls on the Margins In Renaissance Florence'. If you know someone who might be interested, pass the message on. Everyone is welcome. share.google/8zUoCeghL1dM...

I am beyond delighted to see this finally out: sadly was unable to incorporate more recent work such as the amazing Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft issue on witchcraft and feminism and Pippa Carter's work on gender, occupation and witchcraft BUT ANYWAY enjoy #MedievalSky #EarlyModern

The English Historical Review@enghistrev.bsky.social · 6d ago

New Review Article! Jo Edge @hagenilda.bsky.social on 'Magic, Witchcraft and the Occult in Pre-modern England' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Your fortnightly roundup of what Commons and #UCU have been up to. PLEASE fill in the Congress changes survey: we need to make it work better!

UCU Commons@ucucommons.org · 6d ago

Newsletter #29! Feat: - Our Equality conf social - LGBTQ+ ctte trans inclusion webinar - Congress changes survey (FILL IT IN!) - Education: It's Ours toolkits - Social class in HE webinar - Australian HE enquiry - Jo Johnson talks rubbish - DMU subcos #UCU #UKHE ucucommons.org/ucu-commons-...

This week the Society published 'Prostitution, Repentance and Social Welfare in Renaissance Florence. The Monastery of Sant’Elisabetta delle Convertite' by Gillian Jack bit.ly/4zEbv4B @drgillhistory.bsky.social's book is available free Open Access and in print @uolpress.bsky.social #Skystorians 1/2

Latest title in Society’s book series explores prostitution and social welfare in Renaissance Florence - Royal Historical Society

The Society is very pleased to announce publication, today, of the 27th title in its ‘New Historical Perspectives’ book series: Prostitution, Repentance and Social Welfare in Renaissance Florence. The...

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Forthcoming book cover (out in early 2027 with Bloomsbury). It will feature a microhistory of the fascinating trial of Antonio/Vitoria, plus an edition of the original 1556-7 Portuguese trial document and an English translation.

"It's on Sharepoint" might be the least helpful combination of words in the language.

Was literally just about to join but not a chance now. There is no ethical use of AI.

The book is Open Access, so if you'd like to read it you can do so for free.

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 2w ago

New Society publication: 'Prostitution, Repentance and Social Welfare in Renaissance Florence. The Monastery of Sant’Elisabetta delle Convertite', by Gillian Jack bit.ly/4zEbv4B Gillian's monograph, published today @uolpress.bsky.social, is available free Open Access and in print #Skystorians

I wrote a book that's out today! I also wrote a blog post about that book!

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 2w ago

To accompany publication of her new book, Gillian introduces the monastery of Sant’Elisabetta delle Convertite on the Society's blog bit.ly/47QXwfI. Gillian's is the 27th title in the Society’s New Historical Perspectives book series for early career historians bit.ly/3TTBshi #Skystorians

New Society publication: 'Prostitution, Repentance and Social Welfare in Renaissance Florence. The Monastery of Sant’Elisabetta delle Convertite', by Gillian Jack bit.ly/4zEbv4B Gillian's monograph, published today @uolpress.bsky.social, is available free Open Access and in print #Skystorians

Latest title in Society’s book series explores prostitution and social welfare in Renaissance Florence - Royal Historical Society

The Society is very pleased to announce publication, today, of the 27th title in its ‘New Historical Perspectives’ book series: Prostitution, Repentance and Social Welfare in Renaissance Florence. The...

bit.ly

Gill is coming to speak at @ihr.bsky.social on 27 October! Cannot wait!

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · 2w ago

Out this Thursday: latest title in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' book series for early career historians: 'Prostitution, Repentance and Social Welfare in Renaissance Florence', by Gillian Jack bit.ly/4gY9IQ7 Available free Open Access and in print from 15 October. #Skystorians 1/2

Delegate at UCU special higher sector conference? Here’s my take on the issues #UCU #Campustradeunions michaelabberton.medium.com/shesc-and-th...

SHESC and the Secretary of State Dispute: What Are We Actually Asking UCU Members to Risk?

A personal view on why the Higher Education Committee’s decision matters, the legal issues, and why our responsibilities as elected…

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The press can’t help but do criminal was an immigrant - even for tigers.

The Independent@the-independent.com · 2w ago

Tiger who attacked man in Yorkshire enclosure ‘was endangered species who had joined from zoo in Norway last year’

For this Indigenous Peoples Day, your astonishing artifact is the earliest known Indigenous depiction of a European — a wood carving from Nunavut dated to 1350. 🧪🏺

Inuit figurine: A 700-year-old Indigenous carving of a European made a century before Columbus

This Inuit carving was made a century before Columbus set foot in the Americas and likely depicts a Norseman.

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Hope someone at @uolpress.bsky.social has been in touch with ABC, Disney, and Shondaland to let them know that no one will be watching the premier of the new season of Grey's Anatomy on Thursday because that's when my book comes out.

Today: rain, prepping for my London Archives talk on 21 October. Come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/evening-ta...

Evening Talk: Witchcraft, Necromancy, Politics -Eleanor Cobham’s 1441 Trial

Eleanor Cobham faced trial in 1441 for plotting against Henry VI with occult methods. Explore the crime, the people and the places.

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Cracker of a newsletter from us this week! If you don't already, why not subscribe? #UKHE #UCU

UCU Commons@ucucommons.org · 3w ago

Newsletter #28! Feat: - @uonucu.bsky.social rally - Our paper to this week's HEC on the Sullivan Review - Education: It's Ours launch - UCU response to Burnham speech - Oil heir made Sustainability Prof at Newcastle - THE/Orbán links - TurnItI/AI scandal #UCU #UKHE ucucommons.org/ucu-commons-...

Featuring our @uonucu.bsky.social rally from last week ❤️ we stand together

UCU Commons@ucucommons.org · 3w ago

Newsletter #28! Feat: - @uonucu.bsky.social rally - Our paper to this week's HEC on the Sullivan Review - Education: It's Ours launch - UCU response to Burnham speech - Oil heir made Sustainability Prof at Newcastle - THE/Orbán links - TurnItI/AI scandal #UCU #UKHE ucucommons.org/ucu-commons-...

How else are we going to fill senior management?

Charlottes Mum@charliesweb2.bsky.social · 3w ago

Gawd. Why do we elevate people whose ego far exceeds their capabilities.

The contemporary blight of journalistic inclusivity pieces - the "we all love", "we all do this now". No we don't. It's a plague of lazy journalistic "opinion". Reading historic newspapers is my job, & never have newspapers been so poor on actual news as today. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Preppers used to be ridiculed – but we’re all stockpiling now | Zoe Williams

The UK government urging households to prepare for unknown threats with a three-day supply of food and water doesn’t feel like an overreaction, writes Zoe Williams. But is there a bigger plan to go wi...

theguardian.com

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

I will always feel weird doing self promotion, but my latest article has been officially published in "Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Reforme," titled "Jockeying for Printed Reputation: Giovanni Bussi and the Apuleius of 1469." jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/re...