This is what climate failure looks like. Nature, homes and livelihoods are being destroyed. The Government must act now.
Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg
@evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social
Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel. Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. Member of council of The Hakluyt Society. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
No one should face exclusion or discrimination because of who they are. The Green Party stands in solidarity with the trans community and will keep fighting for equality that includes everyone.
The latest HLQ is here, with articles in art history, literature, disability studies, and the blue humanities. There are pastors, captives, painters, healers, actors, sailors, poets, liars, polar bears, and parrots. It's big-tent #earlymodern studies, and it's #nuntastic. muse.jhu.edu/issue/57325
Today I discovered that a letter attributed to a man was actually written by Ann Bathurst, the 17th-century visionary woman I’m researching. 🤩 Archival work might be slow and painstaking but it’s totally thrilling to be going in search of lost voices from the past and finding them! 📚
Our prisons are overcrowded because the system is broken. The answer isn't endless emergency releases. It's investing in prevention, rehabilitation and giving people the support they need to rebuild their lives.
I'm so delighted to have this exceptional volume in the series! Thank you for entrusting us with it, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social
Emilie K. M. Murphy@emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 6d agoproofs! 😍
Dr Gul Sen@guel-sen.bsky.social · 4d agoCatholicism and Elizabethan Seafarers: Catholic Identities between England and Spain by Andrii Pastushenko (Published: May 2026). A study of 16th-century English mariners and the shifts in religious culture aboard English ships. #maritimehistory www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
A fascinating episode in the history of European colonization of South America. #earlymodern
Isaac Samuel@rhaplord.bsky.social · last wk.In the 1600s, some 21,000 runaway slaves in Brazil founded an independent kingdom in the interior that lasted nearly a century (1612-1694) It had a capital of 5,000, its own king, provincial chiefs, judges, priests, and an army that raided Dutch and Portuguese plantations
'Early career opportunities have rapidly declined in the fields of arts and humanities amid UK job cuts, with teaching-only roles increasingly the only positions available for those just starting out, an analysis by the British Academy has found.' 1/3
Humanities hardest hit as early career opportunities disappear
Analysis of staff data finds skew to teaching-only roles in entry-level positions, with scale of cuts not reflected at more senior levels
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Putting final touches to the *big ass grant app* which has been my main #earlymodern project this summer (when my fellow Finns have been relaxing on their summer cottages...). Soon they will come back from their holidays all bright-eyed and bushy tailed whereas I am ready to collapse....🫠
28 July 1689 #OTD Alice Thornton wrote to her cousin Thomas Osborne (Lord Danby) thanking him for helping her only son, Robert, find a position on a naval ship which was heading to Spain: ‘He assured me he found all persons in the ship very devout at prayers and sermon’. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📜
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗨𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗵𝘆𝘀𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘆𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱, 𝟭𝟰𝟬𝟬-𝟭𝟴𝟬𝟬 Edited by Janet Dickinson and Diana Lucía Gómez-Chacón More Info: bit.ly/4wdtOfn #History #WomensStudies #earlymodern #EarlyModernHistory
My fellow historians, which single academic article of yours do you think 'teaches best', i.e. for both staff and students it's doing work that leads to a strong class discussion + students remember it? I am interested in how people see their own work. I'll go first. Hit reply and link your pick!
This looks a smashing opportunity #earlymodern @achconference.bsky.social
Hannah Murphy@hsmurphy.bsky.social · 2w agoPlease share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️
"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown." ~ William Penn My first American edition (seventh overall) of No Cross, No Crown that William Penn first wrote during his imprisonment in the Tower of London in 1668. Published in Boston by Rogers and Fowle in 1747. 📚💙
Lots of #earlymodern pain today in my feed - love to see it.
Taylor Aucoin@aucointaylor.bsky.social · 2w agoArchdeacon of Colchester's Court 1594 🧑⚖️ Dorothy Richmond of Great Holland (Essex) presented 'for thrusting of a pin in Edye Alefounders' buttocks in Divine Service which caused disquietness in the church.' 🧷🍑 #truecrime #tudor #earlymodern
My short essay about two 17th century Powhatan women in London and Bermuda is finally out! commonplace.online/article/the-...
The Other Elizabeth and Mary: Anglo-Powhatan Marriages and the Virginia Company of London - Commonplace
By employing marriage as a technology of imperialism, the Virginia Company hoped to turn its struggling overseas colonies into stable, productive English communities.
commonplace.online
Hullo #earlymodern istas. If you happen to use my work (books and articles, anything) in your teaching, now would be a good time to tell me which ones, and in which courses (and unis).
What really happened during Jamestown’s Starving Time? In this episode, I help explore one of the most infamous crises in early American history. #academicsky #materialculture #history #earlymodern shows.acast.com/not-just-the...
Jamestown: From Colony to Cannibalism | Not Just the Tudors
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We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church of England - to rewild its land. Join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/he...
Help save nature by rewilding the Church’s massive landholdings!
We need to rewild 30% of the planet to restore nature & protect our wildlife, but Britain is falling behind. So I've signed this new petition calling on one of our biggest landowners - the Church ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
In eighteenth-century Europe pineapples were everywhere. They featured in paintings, adorned buildings, appeared on ceramics and silverware, and crowned dining tables. Was pineapple mania simply about rarity and sweetness? Not quite.
THIS INCLUDES OUR VERY OWN AND VERY MARVELOUS @rentravailer.bsky.social!!!! Congratulations, Nandini FBA! And thanks for all your work in making #earlymodern scholarship abuzz!
The British Academy@britishacademy.bsky.social · 3w agoThe British Academy has elected 92 new Fellows in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences. Congratulations to all those elected today. Read the full announcement: https://bit.ly/4f64C4x
My first book is finally out! Here's a blog post about it: cambridgeblog.org/2026/07/fren...
Frenzy in Early Modern England: Madness, Brain Disease and the Soul
In the last decade of his life, my paternal grandfather suffered from undiagnosed vascular dementia. During those years, we saw sudden changes in his speech, mood, personality and behaviour, ranging f...
cambridgeblog.org
After a hiatus, EMDigIt is back with BIG news! 📯 The Core Italian Itinerary dataset is now publicly available as feature layers published on ArcGIS Online. More than 3,700 georeferenced way-points and 6,000 route segments taken from 8 Italian-language itineraries published from 1562-1720.
Join me and Chris for a zoom talk about Beyond the Ocean: Thursday at 6:45pm eastern. We each picked one thing and one person from the book to illustrate some of its main themes. #earlymodern #atlanticworld #skystorians smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/pr...
The Atlantic Empire: A History of French Colonialism
Between 1400 and 1800, the people of Europe, Africa, and the Americas grew more connected by overseas trade and colonization. According to historians Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth, accounts o...
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#earlymodern 🗃️ This is phenomenal project and a solid opportunity for someone who has just finished their PhD. NB v tight deadline - apps by 28 July
Lily Freeman-Jones@freemanjones.bsky.social · 3w ago***job klaxon!*** Postdoctoral Research Associate on ERC-funded project TextDiveGlobal at QMUL 12 month post from 1 September 2026 Apply by 28 July: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSG130/p...