I co-edit a book series for Boydell & Brewer on "The Urban World in the Middle Ages." Open to *BOOK* proposals c. 800–1600, covering urban life, societies, or cultures in Europe, Mediterranean, or Islamic world. For more info, email me, CuencaE@tamuv.edu. Happy to hear from 1st-time book authors.

One of the absolute greats.

Mickaël Wilmart@mickaelwilmart.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Carlo Ginzburg est mort, annonce la presse italienne. Immense historien, il a su construire une oeuvre originale entre micro-histoire et anthropologie historique qui a considérablement renouvelé la discipline. www.repubblica.it/cultura/2026...

Great to be in Prato for the LVII Datini Settimana, talking with colleagues about #guilds in pre- modern Europe. My paper from 28:30. youtube.com/live/57XLQVQ...

II/1 Representation and Defence of Interests

YouTube video by Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica "F. Datini", Prato

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✉️ 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

Just over a week to go… tickets (free) available at www.bbk.ac.uk/booking/even...

Matthew Davies@mpdavies.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Looking forward to this event in Birkbeck Arts Week, 6 May, in which Sarah Dickenson and I will be discussing our collaboration on her new play about a remarkable medieval woman, Thomasine Bonaventure. Featuring a performance from Birkbeck MFA students. Please repost! www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Nominations are open for the London Archaeological Prize! If you’ve read – or written – a great piece of work about London's archaeology over the past two years, why not enter it for this prestigious award? Deadline: 20th May 2026 Nomination form here www.londonarchaeologist.org.uk/london-archa...

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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Three - yes three! - medieval & #EarlyModern events at Birkbeck soon. Weds May 6th ‘Women, History and the Stage: Creative Encounters with the Medieval Past’, playwright Sarah Dickson, medievalist @mpdavies.bsky.social, with performance of ‘The Will of Ellen Langwith’: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Our Partners at the Thames Festival Trust are advertising for a Heritage Project Manager. Could this be you? thamesfestivaltrust.org/about-us/joi...

Thames Festival Trust - Join our Team - Thames Festival Trust

All our current job and volunteer opportunities.

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Do read @lucycmunro.bsky.social’s wonderful article and thread. Also fwiw some quick superficial comments -

Lucy Munro@lucycmunro.bsky.social · 4mo ago

As a supplement to the piece in The Times Literary Supplement (@thetls.bsky.social), www.the-tls.com/regular-feat..., here’s a (rather long!) thread on Shakespeare’s house in the Blackfriars, what we knew, and what we now know, with some links to key documents. (1/20)

Our first new issue of 2026 has been published! A 🧵 on its contents...

The London Journal

Volume 51, Issue 1 of The London Journal

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Looking forward to this event in Birkbeck Arts Week, 6 May, in which Sarah Dickenson and I will be discussing our collaboration on her new play about a remarkable medieval woman, Thomasine Bonaventure. Featuring a performance from Birkbeck MFA students. Please repost! www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Finally getting round to a draft of a conference paper on guilds and regulation, and came across these lovely Coopers' marks from 1420 in Letter Book I. @thelondonarchives.bsky.social

The first of two @lrb.co.uk podcasts exploring the history of medieval London, in conversation with Rosemary Hill. This one takes the story of London and Westminster from the 5th century up to the end of the 13th! Ep 2 being recorded this week …

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 5mo ago

On our Close Readings subscription podcast: Rosemary Hill and Matthew Davies, professor of urban history at Birkbeck, trace the story of London through the multiple invasions that took it from a field of ruins to a busy medieval capital. Listen to an extract: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...

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.

Artist Timothy Yufit’s In Place project uses Layers of London to document displaced headstones embedded within London’s parks and public spaces. These fragmented historical traces remain present within the contemporary urban landscape. www.layersoflondon.org/map/collecti...

"In Place"--- An Archive of Displaced Headstones in London Parks & Gardens

"In Place"  is an archival and research-led visual project documenting displaced headstones embedded within London’s contemporary public landscape. Before the mid-nineteenth century, many of London’s ...

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On Friday, 6 March 2026, the MLA, ACLS, and AHA filed a motion for summary judgment in our case seeking to reverse the elimination of grants, grant programs, staff, and entire divisions and programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

Please repost - opportunity to work on a great project with a great team here at Birkbeck!

Brodie Waddell@brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We are hiring postdoc researchers to join our #WrittenWorlds project at Birkbeck, with Sue Wiseman, @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social, @richardjansell.bsky.social and I. 0.5FTE, 13 months, focus on women's or provincial non-elite writing #EarlyModern 🗃️ cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

We are hiring postdoc researchers to join our #WrittenWorlds project at Birkbeck, with Sue Wiseman, @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social, @richardjansell.bsky.social and I. 0.5FTE, 13 months, focus on women's or provincial non-elite writing #EarlyModern 🗃️ cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

Great to see the new website for ‘LIMINALWATER: Liminal Waterway Countercultures’, led by my colleague @bengidley.bsky.social and working with the fab @humap.bsky.social liminalwater.uni-graz.at/en/projects/

Sound on, hats off.

This is such sad news….

Helen Gittos@helengittos.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Terrible news of the death of Stephen Baxter, superb historian and kind colleague. www.spc.ox.ac.uk/news/in-memo...

Terrible news of the death of Stephen Baxter, superb historian and kind colleague. www.spc.ox.ac.uk/news/in-memo...

In memoriam: Prof Stephen Baxter (1969-2026)

It is with deep sadness that the Master and Fellows of St Peter’s College share news of the death of Professor Stephen Baxter.

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It’s time for a new 🧵 about one of our editorial board’s choice of an article from the journal’s back catalogue that was influential on them. This time it’s our Board Chair Bob Shoemaker’s choice of Valerie Pearl’s 1979 article, ‘Change and Stability in Seventeenth-century London’.

Change and Stability in Seventeenth-century London

Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Vol. 5, No. 1, 1979)

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The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery (CSLBS) is excited to announce 3 new roles on our groundbreaking Valuable Lives project! 🔍 Open roles: • 2 x Research Assistant (Digital Humanities) • 1 x Research Fellow (Digital Humanities) 🗓 Closing date: 23 Jan 2026 shorturl.at/OCpLP

Opportunities

Find opportunities to join UCL History in academic, research, teaching and learning, admin and other capacities below.

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@britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships are now open Applications are welcome across the #humanities and #socialsciences from early career researchers anywhere in the world to come to 🇬🇧 for 2 years The deadline is 11 March www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

International Fellowships 2026

The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.

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Jen Baird@jenbaird.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The first Carena Institute of Sustainable Archaeologies Seminar series, on Collaborative Archaeologies in (Post)Conflict Contexts, kicks off next week with Hiba Alkhalaf. All welcome! Sign up via the link: www.bbk.ac.uk/events?tag=1...

Uh oh for the university business model as student visa applications hit four year low since Oct. Only 29,300 applications last month, down from 35,200 in Dec 2024. Back in December 2022 more than 46,000 would-be international students applied… www.researchprofessional.com/news-article...

Calling all fifteenth-century scholars: if you have not yet submitted your proposal for this year's conference hosted by @memsunikent.bsky.social, now is the time to do so. CfP open until 31st January.

Dr David Rundle@drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Are you a scholar of the fifteenth century and have an interest in the British Isles and its wider connections? If so, then you will want to know that @memsunikent.bsky.social will be hosting the 2026 Fifteenth Century Conference in Canterbury and the CfP is now open: www.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...

If you want to do an MA in London but have 'barriers accessing education or may face greater challenges while undertaking their degree' (specific criteria below), you can apply for a £3,000 tuition grant at Birkbeck. Lots of choices at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social: www.bbk.ac.uk/student-serv...