Just a PSA: the RNLI website has some great Christmas items up... cards, decorations, gifts, etc. 100% of the profits from these items go towards supporting RNLI lifeboat crews and their search and rescue services.

📢**NEW** MANY HEADED MONSTER POST!📢 A little case study where I apply rigorous, critical thinking to a very modern matter 🗃️ #Humanities manyheadedmonster.com/2026/09/22/a...

A plea for critical thinking humans in our world of extremes

Laura Sangha A companion piece to: What is history for? Or: Doing history/thinking historically The train to Totnes this weekend was full of late holiday makers heading for Cornwall. They were grat…

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In case you missed it, episode 2 of Challenging Histories (a @histfest.bsky.social production) is out now! I’m talking to Prof. Heidi Norman about Aboriginal Land Rights. Available wherever you get your podcasts

'Why Does Academic History Matter?' bit.ly/4yB8MYQ With contributions from historians Martha Vandrei, Susan-Mary Grant, Joy Porter and @davidandress.bsky.social Free to read for 7 days @historytoday.com #Skystorians

Why Does Academic History Matter?

The study of history at UK universities appears to be under existential threat. Should anyone care?

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Did some writing for the first time in a long time. I've found it increasingly difficult to write. All my time has been taken up with temp teaching only contracts/other paid work; no one is paying me to research/write, and I can't afford not to work. Writing is always the first thing pushed back.

How to do with books, especially bibles, when you live in a material world? Well, William Hogarth of 18th century fame reminds us of the typical re-using (of bindings). In this case, the leather binding is re-used for a shoe sole. #bookhistory #booksky

Oct 1st, Save the date! Rosamund Oates will be talking about ‘Silent Histories: Deafness in Early Modern England' at @ihrscb.bsky.social in-person @ihr.bsky.social & online. #EarlyModern 🗃️ Booking details will soon be on: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/ihr-seminars/society-culture-belief-1500-1800

Nov 12th - PhD Lighting Talks at @ihrscb.bsky.social! A chance to introduce your PhD project in 3-5 minutes on any aspect of society, culture or belief, 1500-1800. Organised by @teaphaine.bsky.social and @annajpravdica.bsky.social. Email abstract to tmt29@cam.ac.uk by Oct 12th. #EarlyModern 🗃️

📣Applications for SHS funding now open! ⏰Deadline 1 October! 👉Applicants can now apply for either a Small Research Grant or an Event and Activity Grant. Both schemes are limited to SHS members. Read more and apply here: socialhistory.org.uk/funding/

Funding

The Social History Society currently administers three funding schemes. Our Small Research Grants provide up to £1000 to support direct research costs incurred by members of the Society. Our Events…

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More positively I am really pleased that SNIFF: A HISTORY OF SMELLS is out today!! Published by @yalebooks.bsky.social and out in all good bookshops. It's a history of smell across time and space that takes in a panoply of pongs and perfume from paper and ink to stink bombs and whale oil.

Did the metropolitan suburbs have a distinctive 'petitioning culture' due to the their social and administrative growing pains in the 17th century? 🗃️ *New* addition from Aaron Columbus to the #EarlyModern #PowerOfPetitioning annotated bibliography: muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/artic...

Today's the day! 'Rogues, Rakes and Robbers: a True Crime History of Georgian Britain' is officially out in the UK with @calonbooks.bsky.social! Thanks @k8lister.bsky.social for the endorsement! #history #newbook #skystorians #book

*Many hands of every sort* I've got a 10-page feature in the latest @historytoday.com on the emergence of mass petitioning in late Tudor & early Stuart England. Tons of people adding their 'hands' to complaints and requests for the first time! #EarlyModern 🗃️ www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...

Australia's Department of Trade lists our first colonial exports: whaling (1791), coal (1801), & wool (1807). Yet one 'export' predates them: the skulls of First Nations people (1790). Australia's first trade would endure for another 160 years. Read more here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Enlightenment enslavement and the Indigenous dead: trafficking slaves and skulls in the early colonisation of Australia

In 1787, as the First Fleet made its way across the Atlantic to colonise Australia, it traversed an ocean made synonymous with the violently forced mobility of enslavement, then reaching an unprece...

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Early Stuart England saw the emergence of mass petitioning. These expressions of collective grievance would advance popular politics, uncover division, and lay the road to war. 🔒 Brodie Waddell’s article from the September issue is in the archive buff.ly/1MVGA9k

Petitions, Puritans, and the Civil War

Early Stuart England saw the emergence of mass petitioning. These expressions of collective grievance would advance popular politics, uncover division, and lay the road to war.

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Daniel F Gosling@thegozfather.bsky.social · 3w ago

One of the coolest records I've looked at is KB 118/1. An archival treat. It's comes in its own locked box!

Remember remember the 4th November 2026, when I'll be giving an online talk for The National Archives all about the original records relating to the discovery, trial, and punishment of the Gunpowder Plotters. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/eve...

Gunpowder Plot – punishing the plotters

What happened after Guy Fawkes was captured?

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Nearly missed the publication of my fantastic colleague's co-edited book 👇 With new essays by a terrific group of established and emerging scholars - including @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social Law as Literature, Literature as Law c. 1200–1700 - 1st Edition - Cl share.google/G1lGsrazTAcb...

#OTD in 1625, John Fletcher was buried at St Mary Overie’s (now Southwark Cathedral). He had died of the plague in London during the late summer outbreak that killed over 35,000 other Londoners, roughly twenty percent of the city’s population

Domenico Lovascio@domlovascio.bsky.social · 4w ago

My latest article, "The Orphans of Bishop Richard Fletcher", is now published and open access! I dug into Star Chamber & Chancery records to uncover the lives of playwright John Fletcher’s sisters and how they were exploited by a predatory gentleman: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for 'Imagining Difference in Early Modern London', a conference exploring how EM Londoners experienced and negotiated forms of difference.

Two of Miss Piggy's most iconic co-stars gone, this world is trash.

Just out, my episode of #NotJustTheTudors all about the Court of Star Chamber. 45 minutes of murder, witchcraft, and libel. What more could you want. open.spotify.com/episode/4Q5C...

The Star Chamber: Murder, Witch & Libel Trials

Not Just the Tudors · Episode

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Fifty years ago, Carlo Ginzburg published a book about the extraordinary mind of an Italian miller, demonstrating the power of microhistory. A new edition has just been published and I've reviewed it for @historytoday.com: www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

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!

And to mark the move to a new url, a new #EarlyModern blog post! I liked @thegozfather.bsky.social 's newly completed Court of Requests (TNA REQ2) catalogue data so much I made a map of it. inhermindseye.github.io/mindseye/posts…

Book milestone no. ???: coming soon* on Cambridge Core! *feb 2027 www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

Metal and Literary Production in Early Modern England

Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - Metal and Literary Production in Early Modern England

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🚨New Article🚨 For his first post for the History of Parliament, our newest colleague @brogers1721.bsky.social has explored the 1736 Quakers Tithe Bill, and how its failure saw Robert Walpole refer to the bishop of London a 'ringleader of sedition'.

‘A very unequal and a forced maintenance’: The failure of the Quakers Tithe Bill in 1736 - The History of Parliament

In 1736, however, Walpole suffered a rare miscalculation and was unprepared for the almost unanimous opposition that the bishops presented against his

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does anyone know of any work that’s been done on career trajectories of (UK humanities) academics who have been made redundant? eg information about how many go into school teaching, early retirement, independent research? appreciate this is complex, sensitive and much data is too recent

First Nations fashion celebrates weaving, wattle and waterways at from Country to Couture 2026 – in pictures

You can now quickly identify single female plaintiffs in Court of Requests cases by searching REQ 2 for the code "SFP". Over 2,500 hits. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_s...

Daniel F Gosling@thegozfather.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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...