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Dr Imogen Knox (she/her)

@imogenknox.bsky.social

Historian of suicide, emotion & gender Teaching Fellow in Medieval and Early Modern History, Warwick https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/people/teaching_staff/knox/

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · yesterday

Commonplacing, lameness, disability, printing, massacres, the Tower, the church, landscape and more! #EarlyModern lightning talks for @ihrscb.bsky.social on Nov 12th at the @ihr.bsky.social, with @joesaunders1.bsky.social, @maybeitwasutah.bsky.social and more. Registration link to follow soon.

Dr Imogen Knox (she/her)@imogenknox.bsky.social · 2w ago

It was wonderful to launch my book with @emeccwarwick.bsky.social yesterday. Thank you to @naomipullin.bsky.social for organising, Alanna Skuse for coming to discuss my work, and everyone who attended and asked such stimulating questions

Dr Imogen Knox (she/her)@imogenknox.bsky.social · 2w ago

No better place to celebrate the launch of my first monograph than @emeccwarwick.bsky.social, a forum which has been so supportive and stimulating for my research and development as a scholar

Naomi Pullin@naomipullin.bsky.social · 3w ago

Announcing our programme for the Early Modern and C18 Centre @emeccwarwick.bsky.social First event on 15 October 1-2pm is a book launch for the amazing @imogenknox.bsky.social celebrating Suicide and the Supernatural in Early Modern Britain and America. More here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social · 4w ago

Calling #Historians 📢 We're looking for academics & PGs to be authors for our winter blogpost series (Jan, Feb, Mar 2027)! If you would like to write for our blog on any topic of #churchhistory, please send a 100-word abstract to eccleshistsoc@gmail.com by 30 October. We hope to hear from you!

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · last mo.

New from History UK: a valuable and interesting survey of UK history students use of and attitudes towards GenAI in HE teaching - their preliminary report is published today: bit.ly/4hatsRR The report is by Dr Sarah Jones and Dr Simon Peplow @simpep.bsky.social #skystorians

Opening page of History UK's statement on their survey and report on AI and History Students in UK universities. Full text:

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become impossible to ignore in higher education. For historians, working in a discipline which depends on interpretation, evidence, and critical thinking, the development of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has raised particularly significant questions. In 2026, we launched a survey to gather the perspectives of people who are often overlooked in considerations of the impact of AI and appropriate responses – history students themselves.

Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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 🗃️

If you would like to attend the seminar, do keep an eye out on our webpage (very soon to be updated with our events for this term) or you can always follow us on Bluesky @ihrscb.bsky.social. We tend to meet on Thursdays during term time at 5.30 pm — all are welcome!

PhD Lightning Talks
Deadline: 12 October, Event: 12 November

The Society, Culture, and Belief Seminar is inviting applications for lightning talks from PhD students on their research. We ask that these talks be 3-5 minutes. This is a fantastic opportunity to talk through your research with a broader audience of fellow students and more seasoned academics, as well as test out some ideas in a comfortable and welcoming environment. The talks will be followed by a brief Q&A session.The event will take place on Thursday, 12 November, 2026, from 5.30 pm onwards. For those presenting in person, we typically continue the conversation after the seminar over drinks or dinner. We’re open to applications from students working on any geographical region between 1500-1800.If you would like to participate, please email: tmt29@cam.ac.uk by 12 October 2026 with a 300-word thesis summary and a brief bio.

Society, Culture & Belief, 1500 – 1800

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 2mo ago

Very pleased @royalhistsoc.org will be there at this annual introduction to @ihr.bsky.social and the many supports and community it offers to those beginning a PhD in #History #Skystorians

Institute of Historical Research@ihr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Are you starting a PhD this academic year in history &/or a history-related discipline? If so, join us on 7 Oct for this fantastic Workshop for New Research Students. Learn more about the range of resources we offer to help you in your research journey. @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social shorturl.at/ymJpr

will pooltergeistey @willpooley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If magic never really “declined”, what actually happened to it? Really pleased to see this new forum in ‘Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft’ that extends my claims about doubts to suggest other terms, such as “counter-probabilistic wishing” and “wonder”. williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/09/03/w... 🗃️

Who doubts doubt?

Magic never went away. There is now a widespread – though far from universal – sense among historians that what Max Weber called ‘the disenchantment of the world’ and Keith Thomas…

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Nicola Parsons @nicolaparsons.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📣 GALE-ANZSECS FELLOWSHIP 2026-27 📣 ANZSECS is excited to announce three non-residential Digital Humanities fellowships for postgrads and ECRs to support research or teaching projects that rely on Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) and use digital humanities methodologies.

History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 3mo ago

Final call! We are hiring a new Editorial Fellow who specialises in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe 🌍 👉 this 2-year fellowship runs from October 2026 - September 2028 👉 this role is paid and part-time (3 hours per week) 👉 the application deadline is tomorrow, Friday 7 August

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop, 2026

History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.

historyworkshop.org.uk

Josh Coulthard @joshcoulthard.bsky.social · 3mo ago

One week left to send in your abstracts!

Josh Coulthard@joshcoulthard.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Excited to open the call for papers for this strand and roundtable on the history of emotions for next year’s International Medieval Congress in Leeds @imc-leeds.bsky.social sponsored by @northwestmedieval.bsky.social #medievalsky #skystorians #imc2027

2027 marks the 25th anniversary of Barbara Rosenwein’s seminal article, ‘Worrying about Emotions in History’ (2002), in which she first put forward the concept of ‘emotional communities’. This framework has revolutionised our understanding of medieval emotions and, crucially, redefined the methodological possibilities available to researchers looking at past societies and structures. As we celebrate this milestone, this strand invites contributions from scholars at any career stage to address the question: What comes next?

In particular, we seek to explore the role of ‘non-productive’ emotions in historical research. Emotions and affects such as anxiety, discomfort, nostalgia, paranoia, melancholy, apathy, shame, and guilt have often been overlooked in medieval historiography because they frequently lack the dramatic traces left by more expressive emotions like anger, love, and joy. Yet, these states remain some of the most profound aspects of the human emotional experience, frequently underpinning the internal dynamics of governance, negotiation, and community cohesion.

Papers may address themes such as:
The methodological challenges of mapping ‘quiet’ or elusive affective states within medieval archives.
Case studies focusing on the role of apathy, anxiety, or paranoia during periods of transition, conflict, or institutional change.
How non-productive emotions shape relationships of power, diplomacy, authority, and dissent.
The interactions of materiality and material culture with non-productive emotions.
Temporalities and shifting landscapes of non-productive emotional histories.

Call for Roundtable Participants
In addition to research papers, we are organising a roundtable on this theme. To be considered for the roundtable, please send a short response (maximum 200 words) to the organisers addressing the question: ‘What can the study of non-productive emotions add to our histories?’

Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Even with full time work and the full maintenance loan I think parts of England are now out of bounds for the residential student life as it's been imagined for decades. That door is shut. No-one seems to care: they're all too busy talking nonsense about rubbish. wonkhe.com/blogs/a-fres...

A fresh cost of living crisis is coming for students. You'd never know

With OfS's proposed fairness condition under consultation, Jim Dickinson audits what universities tell applicants about costs – and finds silence, archaeology or arithmetic that doesn't add up

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Helena C. Aeberli @helenaaeberli.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Oh, and my first academic article is now out with @genderandhistory.bsky.social! It’s on the gendered depiction of the eating disorder pica in 17th century medicine and theatre. No idea how to promote these things so any advice welcome.

Gender & History Journal@genderandhistory.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New #OpenAccess article by @helenaaeberli.bsky.social on pica, a lesser-known eating disorder, and its gendered associations with pregnant women and pubescent girls in early modern England. #EarlyModern #Skystorians #GenderHistory #HistMed onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/CYRU3R...

University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the sharks, for today is their special day! To celebrate Shark Awareness Day, here are three illustrations of sharks from the book 'Animated Nature Vol. 2' (1821) by Georges-Louis Leclerc. 📷 Reserve 590 BUF #SharkAwarenessDay #SharkDay #RareBooks

Nicole Maceira Cumming @nicolemaceira.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 @joshuarushton8.bsky.social and I are holding an online colloquium 'Environmental Approaches to the Reformation World' on 30 Sept 2026 🌳 🌊 ⛪ 🐄 Deadline for submissions 1 September.

call for papers text with woodcut image of 1607 flood

EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 4mo ago

#CfP 📢 Workshop: "Growing Up in the Early Modern World: Children, Institutions and Belonging", Macquarie University 📆27 November 2026 | 🌏Sydney ⏰ Deadline: 15 July 2026 🔗 anzamems.org/cfp-growing-... #EarlyModern #ChildhoodStudies #SocialHistory #EarlyModernHistory

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

The bonfire of the humanities

150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 4mo ago

We are dismayed to learn about further proposed HE cuts, this time at the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Exeter. In solidarity, please join us by signing and sharing the two urgent petitions below. 🚨🖊️ 1/3

Exeter UCU @exeterucu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Hey Bluesky crowd! You also should be signing our petition opposing the announced redundancies at the University of Exeter. 📢 We're 17k and growing! Redundancies ARE NOT necessary and we must #DefendExeterUni 🩷 c.org/RFqMvrKb6z

Sign the Petition

Stop Redundancies at the University of Exeter

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Scarlett Stevens @scarlettstevens.bsky.social · 4mo ago

CALL FOR PAPERS 📣 Experiencing Relief in Early Modern Britain: 1500-1800 We welcome papers from ECRs, PGRs, and established scholars. For more info (e.g., how to submit a paper) please see our website: earlymodernreliefconference2027.wordpress.com #earlymodern #earlymodernists #AcademicSky

History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 4mo ago

📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop, 2026

History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.

historyworkshop.org.uk

Dr Imogen Knox (she/her)@imogenknox.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Heartbreaking and infuriating to see this proposed at the institution which I attended as an UG a decade ago (and chose for its stellar research reputation) and recently returned to on a temporary contract.

Ben Phillips@benphillips1989.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

Times Higher Education (THE)@timeshighered.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The University of Exeter has become the latest Russell Group university to announce major job cuts, insisting it “must” take action to reduce financial pressures. Juliette Rowsell reports #highered #jobcuts https://ow.ly/K8bq50ZfYlY

Smell Studies Journal @smellstudies.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Call for Papers for the Smell Studies Journal

CFP: Smell Studies Journal
General Editors: Will Tullett, University of York and Manon Raffard, University of Manchester.
Editorial board: Andrew Kettler, Chanelle Dupuis, Jayanthan Sriram, Ally Louks, Hsuan Hsu, Sandra Barré.

Smell Studies Journal will be the first international peer-reviewed journal devoted to the field of interdisciplinary Smell Studies.

The journal will initially have one issue per year. The journal welcomes contributions from across the humanities and humanistic social sciences, including but not limited to history, cultural history, literary studies, art history, aesthetics, cultural studies, environmental humanities, heritage studies, and curatorial and museum studies. While the journal does not exclude work from the natural or cognitive sciences, submissions from those fields are expected to engage substantively with humanistic frameworks and critical theory.

We are currently planning the first few issues of the journal. These will appear in a prospectus to a leading academic press who have solicited a proposal for consideration with the view to publishing the first issue in early 2028.

We are accepting abstracts for research articles, and ideas for reviews, opinion pieces, creative work, and interviews. Specifically, for research articles please submit a title, 250-word abstract, and either a short biography or a link to where such a biography can be found online. For all other work, or to gauge interest in a research article prior to sending an abstract please e-mail smellstudiesjournal@gmail.com (mailto:smellstudiesjournal@gmail.com).

Initial submissions of abstracts and initial inquiries for the first few issues are requested by the deadline of 1st of August 2026. Completed submissions for the first issue would be requested for January 1 of 2027, with reviews and editing in Spring and Summer of 2027.

Jane Hamlett @janehamlett.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Call for contributions - Decluttering: Past and Present Perspectives - please do get in touch if you would like to join us for our workshop at Royal Holloway in November …

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 5mo ago

How do we enhance the engagement of history students in their degree programmes? A new article - 'Rethinking Engagement: Insights from UK History Departments' - bit.ly/4viEKru, by Sarah Jones and Simon Peplow offers discipline-specific proposals. Latest Open Access article in 'Transactions' 1/2

Front page of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society article: 'Rethinking Engagement: Insights from UK History Departments', by Sarah Jones and Simon Peplow.

Full abstract: 'This comment examines the shifting landscape of student engagement in UK history departments, drawing on research conducted at the universities of Bristol and Warwick. Moving beyond narrow definitions of engagement as attendance, the study explores the complex interplay of workload pressures, relationships and community, and the cultures and environments of learning that shape students’ everyday experiences. Student testimony highlights how financial precarity, mental‑health challenges and competing demands on their time profoundly influence how (and indeed if) they engage. At the same time, factors – ranging from staff/student interactions to seminar atmosphere and assessment design – are powerful determinants of whether students feel able and motivated to participate fully. While acknowledging the broader socio‑economic forces that constrain both staff and students, the comment proposes a set of principled, discipline‑specific approaches centred on reflection, communication, adaptability and compassion. It argues that, although no single solution can resolve the problem of engagement, history departments can meaningfully support students by cultivating inclusive, responsive and relational learning environments.'

Prof Dave O'Brien @drdaveobrien.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This morning the Department for Culture, Media and Sport have published a refreshed and updated list of Areas of Research Interest. These are an important way for researchers to engage with policy, so please do read them! www.gov.uk/government/p...

DCMS Areas of Research Interest

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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 6mo ago

📣 2026/7 MA in Eighteenth Century Studies bursaries 📣 We're delighted to announce that we will be awarding four MA bursaries for the 2026/7 MA in Eighteenth Century Studies cohort. Full details can be found on the CECS website: 🔗 www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... Spread the news!

CECS MA bursaries

The Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies is delighted to be offering bursaries for 2026/7 offer holders.

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We're pleased to be supporting the "Death and Bereavement in Early Modern Britain, 1520-1689" Conference @standrewshist.bsky.social on 26 - 27 June 2026 For programme and registration details please see below: pastandpresent.org.uk/programme-an...

Programme and Registriation for the "Death and Bereavement in Early Modern Britain, 1520-1689" Conference - Past and Present

received from Abraham Sullivan (University of St. Andrews) Death and Bereavement in Early Modern Britain, 1520-1689 A two-day conference on the theme ‘Death and Bereavement in Early Modern Britain, 15...

pastandpresent.org.uk

Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 7mo ago

I'm delighted to finally share details of a workshop series I'm hosting with @thackraymuseum.bsky.social! 'Researchers in Museums' is open to a wide range of early career researchers and offers the opportunity to go 'behind the scenes' in a fantastic medical museum. Please share widely!

Researchers in Museums: Collections and Archives Workshop Series. Thackray Museum of Medicine, Leeds. 13 May; 18 June; 9 July; 1-4pm. I am delighted to be working with Thackray Museum of Medicine to host three workshops for ‘Researchers in Museums’. These interactive workshops offer early career researchers an opportunity to learn about the potential of museum collections to enrich their research. Each workshop will include:

‘Cancer in the Collections’: a unique insight into how one researcher, Dr Claire Turner (Durham University) uses Thackray’s extensive collections and archives to support her own research.
Stores Tour: an exclusive guided tour of Thackray’s stores by its Collections Team, with the opportunity to learn more about the history of the museum and the objects, books, and archival materials it holds.
Research Room Time: a chance to look in greater depth at books, objects and archival materials drawn from the museum’s collections.
Personal Research: option to request and view an object related to your own research.

Each session can accommodate up to 8 attendees, each of whom will receive a £20 bursary towards travel to the workshop.

To be eligible to attend, you must be:
An early career researcher (MA, PhD, or within two years of finishing the PhD)
Working broadly within the field of medical humanities

Expressions of interest should include a short summary of your research, how you meet the workshop criteria, and your preferred workshop date (max 250 words). All EOIs should be submitted to claire.o.turner@durham.ac.uk by 5pm on Friday 17 April.