Please do apply and/or encourage students! The prize is open to any registered graduate student or anyone who's been awarded a graduate degree in the last 3 years and it can be on any 'aspect of the history of travel, exploration and cultural encounter or their effects', so the world's your oyster 🌏

Hakluyt Society@hakluytsociety.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hakluyt Society Essay Prize Competition 2027 now open - first prize £1500, second prize £500. See www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci... for more details. Closing date 1 March 2027.

Extended deadline! 🚨📢The PRS Review invites contributions for a special issue on Pre‑Raphaelite Networks: the artistic, social, transnational, and digital connections that shaped the movement and continue to inspire creators today.

📢 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.

This Thursday at the British Library!

British Association for American Studies@officialbaas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Next week in the Summer Scholars series at Eccles Institute... 'Bringing Edward S. Curtis and "The North American Indian" into focus' & 'Tractable Conversations: Indigenous Language Lists in Early Modern Texts' Thu 20 Aug | 1pm | British Library Foyle Room | Free baas.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

a really useful tell on UK pundits having melted their brains on X is their obsession with DEI when the UK terminology is EDI.

As the EHRC Code of Practice comes into force, we’ve compiled a new Oxford toilet guide highlighting unisex/gender-neutral provision. 38 facilities across the city for when you need to go. Read it here: oxfordclarion.uk/oxford-publi...

Oxford public toilets: Where to go when you need to go

We are all the Clarion – and, sometimes, we all need the loo. And especially if you're pregnant, have an unreliable postnatal pelvic floor, are looking after children, or just need to spend a penny wi...

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To *really* show commitment to drama, they should just go ahead and rename the Oscars.

Very excited to be one of the Eccles Institute Visiting Fellows this year! I’ll be looking through the BL’s collections to find more examples of early modern Indigenous language lists for a monograph-in-progress (any leads welcome!) www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

Announcement of the 2026–27 Eccles Institute Visiting Fellows

We are delighted to announce a fantastic cohort of academic, creative and independent researchers exploring a hugely diverse range of topics.

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A very fun day yesterday on Knotted Histories, taking samples from the carpet in the King's room at Knole and uncovering the hidden parrots underneath @researchnt.bsky.social

A very fun day yesterday on Knotted Histories, taking samples from the carpet in the King's room at Knole and uncovering the hidden parrots underneath @researchnt.bsky.social

✨Speech/less in the Early Modern World✨ Research Workshop, 23-24 April 2026 Emmanuel College, Cambridge Places limited. Please register as an attendee by 12 April: forms.gle/k9Xnz4gVFhe2Syez9 Thank you event sponsors! @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @socialhistsoc.bsky.social

Scholars of #mobility, #travel, #exploration, #colonialism. Do remind your PhD students and ECRs about the @hakluytsociety.bsky.social annual essay prize! 🗃️We are accepting entries until 1 March. More details here: www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...

Amnesty International have put together a handy guide if you're against these hostile environment changes but don't quite know what to say! media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...

The UK government has launched a consultation on 'earned' settlement with the aim of making immigration more difficult and, if you wish, you can tell them what you think of those plans before 11.59pm on Thursday (12 February). www.gov.uk/govern.../co...

This made me genuinely laugh out loud.

Professor G@professorg.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Oh my god…

📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for ‘Clio Reframed’, a conference at Oxford on 18-19 June 2026 exploring early modern women as writers of history. @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordcems.bsky.social Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

The thing about both the WI and the Guides is that transphobia is best countered by like, meeting trans people and talking to them. It is far easier to stoke hatred when you have shut down avenues for normal daily interactions.

Due to the funding we have received from the National Research Foundation of South Africa, we are delighted to be able to offer a limited number of fee waivers for online attendance on a first-come, first-served basis! This means that you can attend all our conference events ONLINE for FREE!

Currently being passive aggressively sassed by Outlook while it refuses to work

We're proud to be a partner on this project, which is bringing the stories of carpets to life - they're much more than just somewhere to put your feet 👣

Emily Stevenson@emilylsteve.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The website for Knotted Histories is now up at tinyurl.com/2tszcc2f 🧶✨🧵The project is run between @engfac.bsky.social, @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social and @researchnt.bsky.social, and will be looking at the creation of early modern carpets as well as their role in global networks.

The website for Knotted Histories is now up at tinyurl.com/2tszcc2f 🧶✨🧵The project is run between @engfac.bsky.social, @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social and @researchnt.bsky.social, and will be looking at the creation of early modern carpets as well as their role in global networks.

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

📣Call for Papers 📣 I am delighted to announce that 'Speech/less in the Early Modern World' will be held 23 April 2026 at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. Please share far and wide and do consider submitting a proposal! 🙊 Link to PDF version: bit.ly/4lZz80R

AI proving once again that there's still undiscovered knowledge for us to mine.

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Interested in travel writing? Want to learn more about editing historical travel writing? Come to the FREE Hakluyt Society editorial workshop!! 4 July, 9:30-18:00, Royal Asiatic Society, London FREE but must register: #travelwriting #travel #skystorians 🗃️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...

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Lauren Working@laurenworking.bsky.social · last yr.

It's in print! My & @emilylsteve.bsky.social's chapter on how the Middle Temple's chambers, libraries, hall, and chapel became spaces of global exchange. Part of a wonderful new volume on Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court, ed. @jackiewatson05.bsky.social & @emmakrhatigan.bsky.social.

The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening. That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk. Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

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Brepols@brepols.net · last yr.

𝗪𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗢𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 (𝗰. 𝟭𝟱𝟱𝟬–𝟭𝟲𝟲𝟬) Edited by Chloë Houston, Sophie Lemercier-Goddard & Ladan Niayesh More info: bit.ly/4iEZKlu #Linguistics #Literature #Writing #Travels #EarlyModern #England

So basically just sort of banning people who enjoy a sport for fun really?

Sky News@news.sky.com · last yr.

FA will ban transgender women from women's football from next season