Job alert - tenure track position in early/late mod British history & empire at Princeton: apply.interfolio.com/190698

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 Friday 7 August 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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Video: Emma Cavell, "Medieval Jewish Women of London and England" #jewishstudies #medievalsky mjsnow.hypotheses.org/21993

Emma Cavell: Medieval Jewish Women of London and England

Watch this video recording of Emma Cavell's talk about "Medieval Jewish Women of London and England". Watch it

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Fellowship in Qur’anic Studies at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

Fellowship in Qur’anic Studies at Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies

An academic position as a Fellowship in Qur’anic Studies is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

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Five collections of UK documentary heritage have been added to the UNESCO Memory of the World National Register: from medieval civic records & the foundation of one of Scotland’s oldest universities to archives of pioneering mental health care, industrial innovation & female anti-slavery campaigning

Five outstanding collections join the UNESCO Memory of the World National Register | UNESCO in the UK

Five remarkable collections of documentary heritage from across the United Kingdom have been inscribed onto the UNESCO Memory of the World National Register, recognising their outstanding historical…

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A new #VIDAblog commemorates the life and career of esteemed Australian historian Kay Saunders. We share some beautiful reflections from @shirleene.bsky.social, @amcgrath.bsky.social, Jackie Huggins, @zorasimic.bsky.social, and @megancw.bsky.social. Read here ⬇️ www.auswhn.com.au/blog/remembe...

Remembering Kay Saunders (1947-2026) | Australian Women's History Network

In this blog, Shirleene Robinson and the Australian Women's History Network remember Emeritus Professor Kay Saunders, AO, FASSA, FRHistS (1947–2026).

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The Religious History Association is offering conference bursaries up to AUD1000 for academics and students presenting on a religious history topic (broadly construed) at an academic conference. Applications due by June 30, 2026. Details at: therha.com.au/bursary-sche... #AcademicSky #MedievalSky

“We must … avoid … the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance”. www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

A depiction of a Seljuk man, possibly used as a chess piece (12/13th century, Persia)

The Religious History Association is offering conference bursaries up to AUD1000 for academics and students presenting on a religious history topic (broadly construed) at an academic conference. Applications due by June 30, 2026. Details at: therha.com.au/bursary-sche... #AcademicSky #MedievalSky

✉️ Explore 145,000 medieval merchant letters as a live map: the correspondence network of Francesco di Marco Datini (c.1363–1412), spanning Florence to Barcelona to North Africa. Visualise routes, travel times & seasonality. docuracy.github.io/datini/ #DigitalHumanities #MedievalHistory

ANZAMEMS Seminar Proposals for 2026 and 2027 #medieval #earlymodern anzamems.org/anzamem...

Colloque – Matérialité et enfermements au Moyen Âge et à l’époque moderne : objets, acteurs et expériences rmblf.be/2026/04/17/c...

Colloque – Matérialité et enfermements au Moyen Âge et à l’époque moderne : objets, acteurs et expériences

Université de Lausanne22-24 avril 2026 This international conference examines the history of confinements through the lens of their materiality. Indeed, confinement is defined by walls that separat…

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Are you interested in public health in the premodern Islamic World? All three Open Access chapters of "Public Health in the Premodern World" published by @oxfordunipress.bsky.social will be of interest to you then. Check it out! #historiansofislam #medievalsky #histstm

And here is an impression of two grown Pope trees in a setting with smaller Pope plants, in a garden watered by angels, and supervised by a few Saints. The Pope plants and trees are easy to grow, do not fall for Protestant propaganda claiming otherwise!

Co-editor needed for the Journal of Religious History! Contact mcassidywelch@divinity.edu.au

Journal of Religious History@j-religioushist.bsky.social · 5mo ago

@j-religioushist. bsky.social is looking for a new co- editor! Applications are due to @megancw.bsky.social by 1 May 2026. #ReligiousHistory #skystorians

Budding historians of medicine and public health: have a look at this exciting opportunity to conduct PhD research at the University of Newcastle, on a larger project of the Australian history of polio, led by Catharine Coleborne! More information at the link: www.newcastle.edu.au/study/resear...

A Social History of Polio Vaccination in Australia, 1950s to 1970s

Closing Date: 30 April 2026 Apply Now

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Registration has opened for our conference - "Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches"! Attendance is both virtual and in-person in Melbourne, Australia. See the program here: drive.google.com/file/d/1mZ4F... Registration: forms.gle/TqQ6GmN9c6pK...

@j-religioushist. bsky.social is looking for a new co- editor! Applications are due to @megancw.bsky.social by 1 May 2026. #ReligiousHistory #skystorians

@j-religioushist.bsky.social is looking for a new co-editor! Applications are due to @megancw.bsky.social by 1 May 2026. #ReligiousHistory #skystorians #EarlyModern #nuntastic #Reformazing

And one more thing. Students. If you have a professor who is, for some reason, outsourcing their own job to ChatGPT....drop the class. If they tell you to "ask ChatGPT" for sources, drop the class. Because they apparently don't know their own discipline well enough to teach it.

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ARC Tracker@arc-tracker.bsky.social · 7mo ago

ARC’s new schedule is at www.arc.gov.au/funding-rese... It will now take A YEAR, or more, for researchers to know whether their grants are successful or not. For example, early-career researchers are to submit DECRA proposals 11 March this year but they may not be announced 'til 9 March NEXT YEAR!

We're hosting a hybrid conference in July! "Health and the Environment in the Preindustrial World: Multidisciplinary Approaches" will explore traditional and recent themes converging on public health history. To be notified when registration opens, fill out this form: forms.gle/5dMU4rNd8d5q...

A happy discovery for holiday reading: the British Academy have put the memoirs (i.e., biographical essays by colleagues) of almost all departed Fellows online: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publishing/m... (short 🧵 👇)

Important information for those considering or conducting baptisms.

Steffen Hope@hopesteffen.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Another beer post for the evening: In 1241, Pope Gregory IX informed Archbishop Sigurd Eindridesson (r.1231-52) that children who are baptised in beer can not be considered to have been properly baptised.

A statement from the Religious History Association in response to the Bondi beach terrorist attack.

"For the first time in history, representatives of the five ancient patriarchal sees—Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem—will stand together at Nicaea to commemorate the council’s 1700th anniversary." orthodoxobserver.org/why-is-pope-...

Why is Pope Leo XIV's visit to Türkiye important for the Orthodox Church?

Pope Leo XIV is about to set foot on Turkish soil for his historic journey to İznik and Constantinople.

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I had this cancer and rate it zero stars, do not recommend. Vaccines are the best - get yours now!

Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s. This is the power of vaccines. The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer. Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!

#SkyStorians, question: are there small pots of money out there for non-affiliated historians to apply to to support their research project? Most of what I can find are full postdocs or small grants for people in a post to buy them out a bit. With jobs going, some more of those funds would be good?

#cfp for the 2026 Conference of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland, ‘Women Religious: Patronage & Networks from Medieval to Modern’ taking place at Queen Mary University of London on 11/12 June. Please share widely #nuntastic historyofwomenreligious.org/call-for-pap...