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Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham.bsky.social

Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social

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Anne Louise Avery@annelouiseavery.bsky.social · last wk.

After tea, in the fade-light, Old Fox walked to the sheep church on the Downs. It was dark, lit by a single oil lamp & deserted but for an elderly hare in the front pew. He was wiping tears away. It's all so hard, he said. I know, said Old Fox & went to sit with him.

The hare in the snow
Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · 2w ago

#SkyStorians do let colleagues who were recently made redundant or who recently finished their PhD and faced this mad vacuum of a job market know!

Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · 2w ago

I love it when institutions step up & face the challenges. And this is @ihr.bsky.social stepping up. Sure, will be directly helping only a few people, but what a solace to know clever people are trying to come up with support in the face of the overwhelming crisis. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

The IHR Trust Career Support Scheme 2026-2027 The IHR Trust is pleased to announce the launch of a new Career Support Scheme for historians. The scheme directly addresses the UK-wide context of cuts, closures and redundancies currently faced by historians. Over 30,000 jobs have been lost within Universities in the past three years, with academic job losses disproportionately affecting Humanities researchers. Redundancies and programme closures have been felt across the four nations and their regions, leading to losses at every level in the academic pipeline. This context leaves many researchers unable to complete projects in which they have invested considerable time and resource, and which will have real value to the history community and wider public. The six month Bridging Fellowships are designed to provide a history home for those who need one. They sit alongside the IHR’s other funded schemes which include Doctoral and Post-doctoral Fellowships and Applied History Fellowships, as well as the non-stipendiary IHR Fellowship. In this first year of the scheme, we will accept applications from those who have lost academic posts within the last three years (dated from the scheme closure date of 31st January 2027) or who have been awarded their PhD within the last three years (dated from the scheme closure date of 31st January 2027). We hope to extend the scheme in later years if funding can be raised to do so. The Fellowships are designed to provide some of the resources needed to complete unfinished projects including time, money, skills, intellectual infrastructure, mentoring and community. They also provide space and support to plan next career steps, whether back into academia or into other history-related sectors. Fellows will be supported by the IHR’s training package and encouraged to avail themselves of its resources, publication opportunities, and the national research seminar programme. They will have access to the IHR Library and its dig…
deveresociety.bsky.social@deveresociety.bsky.social · 4w ago

'The Making of Marlowe: Poet, Playwright, Provocateur' is a brilliant exhibition currently on show, until 22nd November '26, at The Beaney in Canterbury, UK. Featuring original documents relating to Marlowe's enigmatic escapades as well as his interweavings with Shakespeare. Well worth a visit!

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Nadine Akkerman@misswalsingham.bsky.social · 4w ago

Dr @clodaghmurphy.bsky.social research is still making headlines! Her research was part of our @erc.europa.eu Consolidator project #FEATHERS 🪶 on mediated authorship in handwritten texts - it’s wonderful to see the questions we're exploring being picked up. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-...

Who Wrote Elizabeth I's Most Scathing Letters? New Research Suggests the Tudor Queen's Male Secretaries Revised Her Correspondence to Emphasize Her Temper

An analysis of more than 500 missives found that Elizabeth's advisers crafted and even intensified the expression of emotion in her messages to such figures as Mary, Queen of Scots, and James VI of Sc...

smithsonianmag.com

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · 4w ago

Access to culture is a right, not a privilege. Keeping museums free means millions can continue to explore, learn and be inspired, regardless of their background or income. That's good for London, and good for ensuring cost is never a barrier to discovery.

Culture secretary confirms free admission for all at England’s national museums will remain

The announcement by Lisa Nandy, the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, came after recent discussions of introducing admission fees for overseas visitors

theartnewspaper.com

Nadine Akkerman@misswalsingham.bsky.social · 4w ago

These are gorgeous! New goal unlocked: have my research translated into biscuit 🍪🥠 form by @ellamchawk.bsky.social …

Dr Ella Hawkins@ellamchawk.bsky.social · 4w ago

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

A photograph of eight rectangular biscuits (cookies) arranged in two rows on a square white plate. The plate is framed on all sides by a trailing vine pattern in green with pops of red. The biscuits are mostly in shades of ivory, cream, yellow, and grey, with a burst of vivid red and blue in one corner of the arrangement. Moving across the top row of biscuits from left to right, the designs include: neat lines of handwritten names in an early modern parish register; a section of a hand-drawn map from 1561 featuring St Paul’s Cathedral, with street names like ‘Carter Lane’ visible in a tiny spiky font; an extract of text from a funerary monument printed in an early modern book, ending ‘So transitory is our glory’; a section of embroidery from a funeral pall featuring metallic silver armour, crossed gold keys, and two hands holding up a crown. The biscuit designs on the bottom row include: horses prancing past shopfronts on Cheapside in the mid-sixteenth century; a receipt written in early modern secretary hand, which is difficult to read; a portrait of a stern-looking women dressed in a ruff, pearls, and sober dark clothing; swirling calligraphy and dense secretary hand featuring on a will dating from 1638.
Nadine Akkerman@misswalsingham.bsky.social · 4w ago

Dr @clodaghmurphy.bsky.social research is still making headlines! Her research was part of our @erc.europa.eu Consolidator project #FEATHERS 🪶 on mediated authorship in handwritten texts - it’s wonderful to see the questions we're exploring being picked up. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-...

Who Wrote Elizabeth I's Most Scathing Letters? New Research Suggests the Tudor Queen's Male Secretaries Revised Her Correspondence to Emphasize Her Temper

An analysis of more than 500 missives found that Elizabeth's advisers crafted and even intensified the expression of emotion in her messages to such figures as Mary, Queen of Scots, and James VI of Sc...

smithsonianmag.com

g.j.hilton@hltn.bsky.social · last mo.

<whimper> Oh my. What could a project do to be more attractive? This checks absolutely every reasonable box plus a few more you’d have discounted as wild dreaming. Whoever lucks out and lands this will, frankly, be my enemy for life.