New open-access book for #MedievalSky on Jewish craftspeople in the European Middle Ages, with chapters on weavers, book binders, metal workers, and more: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi... #HistSTM @dgb-mem.bsky.social

‘A 2024 survey by the IMO indicated that only 1 per cent of the nearly two million seafarers plying the waves are women, and most of them work on cruise ships or passenger ferries.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on female sailors, past and present: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Laleh Khalili · Canton Kitty: Seafaring

Seafaring is a bundle of contradictions. It is highly skilled labour, yet mostly invisible. Lower ratings of seafarers...

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Judy Z Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social reviews 'The Market for Skill: Apprenticeship and Economic Growth in Early Modern England', by Patrick Wallis @patrickwallis.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @princetonupress.bsky.social

The Market for Skill: Apprenticeship and Economic Growth in Early Modern England, by Patrick Wallis

This book will be recognised for a generation or more as the definitive study of pre-industrial apprenticeship in England. It sets out to do so at the cent

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I'm very pleased to say my new book, 'Rogues, Rakes and Robbers: a True Crime History of Georgian Britain' is available to pre-order through @calonbooks.bsky.social I hope people enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it! #georgianhistory #historyofcrime #history www.uwp.co.uk/book/rogues-...

Rogues, Rakes and Robbers | UWP

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@manchesterup.bsky.social is all set up for @socialhistsoc.bsky.social! Drop by and take a look at some recent titles. Plus, if you recommend our new imperialism and colonialism collection to your librarian you can take a book away for free.

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

A depressingly long list of universities who are implementing cuts and redundancies, as well as the petitions and actions against them (via @onslies.bsky.social) qmucu.org/qmul-transfo.... This is a national emergency that should be responded to with national policy.

UK HE shrinking

a live page of all the redundancies and restructures happening across UK Higher Education. Page is updated regularly.

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At the time of his death in 2023, Jim Bennett had begun a study of Elizabethan navigation. Only its introduction was approaching completion; the edited draft has now been published in the online journal of the @hakluytsociety.bsky.social. Direct download from www.hakluyt.com/downloadable...

📣 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.

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What can we learn from historical logbooks? Far more than routes and wind directions. Looking forward to our roundtable at the conference “Navigating Histories” at the German Maritime Museum to explore logbooks as sources for climate, mobility & global history #earlymodern #history #maritimehistory

⭐⭐ It's publication day for 'I Felt All This': Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South' published by @universitypress.cambridge.org! You can now buy it here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/i... ⭐⭐

🔥🔥🔥SRS Annual Lecture 2026🔥🔥🔥 "Historical fiction/Ficsean stairiúil: telling stories of early modern Ireland" ∞Marie-Louise Coolahan∞ ∞Deirdre Serjeantson∞ ∞Liam MacCóil∞ 8 Oct 2026, 18.30-19.30, NLI, Dublin All welcome! rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #EarlyModernEvents #Skystorians #SRSlyGood

CFP: Mid-career workshop for early modern British historians at USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Instutute Jan 2027. Applications due 31 July 2026.

IT'S PUBLICATION DAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!! Download 'The King's Dinner: family, nation, and identity on the British table, 1760-1820' here FOR FREE and read all about George III's eating habits over breakfast! uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin... #skystorians #openaccess #18thC #foodhistory 🗃️

The King’s Dinner

The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on the vast kitchen ledgers of two royal households made newly available to research through digiti...

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New from @manchesterup.bsky.social - Irish Townspeople The early modern urban experience, c.1400-c.1640 by Colm Lennon manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526193421/

2 weeks from today I'll be celebrating my book's publication day with @tracelarkhall.bsky.social 😄

Today is the feast day of St Brendan the Navigator (ca.484-577), so here's a woodcut by Robert Gibbings (1889-1958), depicting a scene from the saint's life, used to illustrate Helen Waddell's 'Beasts and Saints' (1934).

European mariners in the Atlantic in the 16th century used a reliable navigational aid: seabirds. 🔓 This new History Matters is free for 7 days www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...

Following 16th-Century Seabirds

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📚 The shortlist for the 2026 BSHS Pickstone Prize is out! Awarded biennially, the prize recognises outstanding scholarly books in HistSTEM. This year’s shortlist highlights topics including climate, race, extinction, capitalism, medicine, and animal experimentation. 🔗 bshs.org.uk/pickstone-pr...

Thank you for this review of Metropolitan Science, @astoeger.bsky.social! It is lovely to have our book on London 1600-1800 discussed alongside works on Naples 1500-1800 and Lisbon 1840-1940 #histSTM #earlymodern cc @jasminekt.bsky.social

Alexander Stoeger@astoeger.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My essay review on three new and intriguing edited volumes on history of science and knowledge and urban spaces was just published by BJHS @bshsnews.bsky.social Check it out 🔓 and have a look at the books, too - it was a pleassure to read them! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Available now!

Rebekah Higgitt@rhiggitt.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge & Practice, c.1600-1800, by me, @jasminekt.bsky.social and Noah Moxham, is available as a paperback from Thursday! A relative snip at £26 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM

Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge & Practice, c.1600-1800, by me, @jasminekt.bsky.social and Noah Moxham, is available as a paperback from Thursday! A relative snip at £26 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli... #earlymodern #histSTM

My second podcast on medieval London now available from @lrb.co.uk. 'London Revisited: Plague, Rebellion and Guilds' www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

Podcast: Rosemary Hill and Matthew Davies · London Revisited: Plague, Rebellion and Guilds

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Our friend the Yunnan Firebelly Toad is also known as the Large-webbed Bell Toad! They live high in the mountains of Yunnan, China! They have a bright orange belly that they will show off when threatened, warning predators that they are not good to eat! (photo by jincan)

Vignette study of a ship in a storm – mesmerising watercolour sketch on paper (Tate collection) from around 1826 by J.M.W. Turner, who was born on this day – 23 April – in London in 1775 🗃️

From refusing to doff hats in court to resisting hat-snatching highway robbers, England’s relationship with hats goes far deeper than fashion. Read more about early modern England's hat wars in new research published in 'The Historical Journal'. 🎩 🔗 https://cup.org/47R0fGt

Great piece by the brilliant Bernard Capp on headwear and ‘hatiquette’ in early modern England theconversation.com/hands-off-my...

Enjoyed seeing Made in Ancient Egypt exhib at the Fitz - especially a maker’s signature on a tomb from 3500 years ago. Wow!

Another bump for this; expressions of interest due in by 24 March.

The London Journal@thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 7mo ago

We are looking for a new Joint Book Reviews Editor to join our editorial board. They would cover the period from 1800, working alongside Kirstin Barnard, who covers the medieval/early modern period. You can check out the full Call for Expressions of Interest here; and please do also share widely.

Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic arrived at the houses of Pretzel and Paz Purrmann this week, and their humans (Jessica Roney, and me) were pretty jazzed @pennpress.bsky.social