Always so much fun to have you @wkordyzon.bsky.social!

Wojciech Kordyzon@wkordyzon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It’s always so much fun to present at @universalstc.bsky.social !

Really looking forward to talking all things @universalstc.bsky.social at this tommorow!

CEMS KCL@cemskcl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And, last but not least, our Annual Colloquium will take place on Thursday. This year's theme is 'Periodizing Early/Modernity' and features several panels and a roundtable. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...

It’s a pleasure to appear alongside such a great group of scholars in ‘The People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England’, overseen by the brilliant @elementaladam.bsky.social, Rachel Stenner and Kaley Kramer. You can read it for free over the next two weeks here: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Big book history questions in the excellent finale of #RaceAcrossTheWorld

388 years ago TODAY, a chair was thrown at the Bishop of Edinburgh as he read from a book during a service. Riots followed shortly afterwards. In our latest blog, MLitt student William Lewis explores the book at the heart of the storm: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/a-war-o...

The latest issue of our Library Quarterly, dedicated to our work on France, is out now! You can read it and subscribe here: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/ustc-li...

We are advertising for a fixed-term Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in the history of twentieth-century French imperialism and decolonisation. The deadline for applications is 4 July 2025. You can find out more here: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

I had a lot of fun last week, discussing the private side of British politics @uio.no, at a brilliant symposium organised by the wonderful @aaronackerley.bsky.social!

Our very own Alex Woolf is on In Our Time on Radio 4 this morning, talking about the Battle of Clontarf. You can listen to it on BBC Sounds here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Battle of Clontarf

Brian Boru's celebrated defeat of Hiberno-Norse forces and allies outside Dublin in 1014.

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We are delighted to unveil the provisional programme for our upcoming conference on Newspapers and Periodicals, organised by @zbrookman.bsky.social, @apettegree.bsky.social and Arthur der Weduwen, which will take place on 17 June and from 19-21 June 2025. #USTC25

Thursday is publication day for 'Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England', by Hannah Jeans bit.ly/4c7Oufy Hannah's is the next (and 22nd) title in the RHS New Historical Perspectives book series for early career historians, with @ihr.bsky.social & @uolpress.bsky.social

Really looking forward to speaking to the IHR's Low Countries seminar this evening in Bloomsbury. Join us!

Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · last yr.

THIS FRIDAY! Excited to welcome @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social to the #LowCountries seminar with a talk on "The notaries of the Royal Exchange: migration and translation between London and the Low Countries" 28 March, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom: www.history.ac.uk/events/notar... #EarlyModern

A double dose of @basilbowdler.bsky.social, what's not to love?

St Andrews School of History@standrewshist.bsky.social · last yr.

We’ve got talks on medieval witchcraft, the Duke of Marlborough, Qajar Iran and much, much more this week! Featuring our very own @basilbowdler.bsky.social!

🎺HEAR YE, HEAR YE: We are happy announce our latest post, 'The Fabric of Everyday Life: Sumptuary Laws in Early Modern France', written by @cmfgillain.bsky.social, a postdoctoral researcher on the Communicating the Law in Europe, 1500-1750 project! Read all about it: ustc.ac.uk/news/the-fab...

We are advertising for Associate Lecturer (Education Focused) in Latin and in the History of the British Isles, c. 1100-1500! Deadline for applications is 21 April 2025: www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... #medievalsky #skystorians

Question for typography people: when did ‘R’ develop a curled tail (i.e. in ‘NATURE’ here) rather than its normal straight tail (‘MIRACLES’)? I know it’s a Grandjean signature (c.1700) but see it quite a bit in English books in the 1680s. Where does it come from? France?

Having an absolute blast undertaking my Maddock Research Fellowship @marshslibrary.bsky.social! If any of you have any Dublin recommendations, let me know!

Learn more about the relationship between Polish print and the Latin language in the early modern period in our latest blog ‘We are Poles, so, of course, we print in Latin’ by COMLAWEU PhD student in @standrewshist.bsky.social, Paweł Pietrowcew! www.ustc.ac.uk/news/we-are-...

CfP! With Natasja Peeters, Jasper van der Steen, and Ton van Strien, I am organising the one-day Seventeenth-Century Society's conference on Family, Kinship, and Dynasty in the Early Modern Low Countries on 5 September 2025. zeventiendeeeuw.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

One of the best dressed early modernists out there, @aberjack.bsky.social

Institute for Military History (IMH)@mhafhs.bsky.social · last yr.

Dear Friends, International Military History Seminar Dr Jack Abernethy ( @standrewshist.bsky.social ) will present on “The Dutch Republic’s Baltic Connections during the Eighty Years’ War 1568-1648”. Date: 5 March 2025 Time: 15:00 CET IRL & Zoom 🗃️ #EarlyModern @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social

As Spring approaches, it's the perfect time to plan this year's garden.🌳🌹🪴🌷 In our latest blog post, Book History MLitt student, William Lewis, offers Scottish garden inspiration in ‘A Scottish Country Garden: Horticultural Handbooks in a 1700 Edinburgh Book Auction’ ustc.ac.uk/news/a-scott...

The latest issue of USTC Library Quarterly is here! We’ve got an update on our matching from @apettegree.bsky.social, and a fascinating article on female printers from @ewatson.bsky.social. You can read it here: www.ustc.ac.uk/news/ustc-li... #BookHistory #RareBooks #HerBook

Good to be back!

It’s out! Today is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades, from the conference of the same name in June 2021. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and read drafts of this behemoth's xxii + 492 pages. We are so proud of it and hope you enjoy. brill.com/edcollbook/t...

Gender and the Book Trades

"Gender and the Book Trades" published on 01 Jan 2025 by Brill.

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My article on 'The Popular Politics of Local Petitioning' has now been published in the latest issue of @jbritishstudies.bsky.social! #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... I've also added it to the #PowerOfPetitioning bibliography: petitioning.history.ac.uk/2019/05/13/p...

The name's Cool. Benjamin Cool. (1700) @universalstc.bsky.social 3136834.

Look at this *delight* of a #LowCountries programme for @ihr.bsky.social! 🤩 So many faves! @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social Jazmine Contreras & Nicolaas Barr, Heleen Wyffels @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social and Danny Noorlander Fridays 5:30 www.history.ac.uk/seminars/low...

Happy New Year! It’s a bitterly cold day in St Andrews, although it clearly has some way to go to match this photograph of the Old Course, taken sixty-five years ago in January 1960. Image Courtesy of the University of St Andrews Library, ID GMC-11-26-3

Interested in a career in history and librarianship? We have a fantastic opportunity to come and work as a Trainee Library Assistant in the IHR Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social . 2 posts available starting in September 2025 for 1 year. Apply by 31st January 2025.

Graduate Trainee Library Assistant - Institute of Historical Research:London Senate House

The University of London

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Check out our new special issue edited by Marius Buning and Marlise Rijks on printing privileges in early modern Low Countries emlc-journal.org/issue/view/1...