Very short notice (deadline 18 August) but we're advertising a 0.5fte lectureship in public history for next year. Covers my 3rd year undergraduate course on public history of Rome (ancient to modern) plus some MA public history teaching.

Reading articles on the amounts HE has spent in APCs over the last 5-10 years, and slowly watching my blood pressure rise. Millions upon millions, on something WE CAN ABSOLUTELY DO OURSELVES FOR A FRACTION OF THE COST - what universities couldn't do with that kind of money now... 😠 And breathe...

John Latham-Sprinkle's book, 'The North Caucasian Kingdom of Alania, 850-1240' is described by the judges as 'a masterly study which shows how historical analysis can be brought to bear even when source material is largely absent or fragmentary.' 3/4

Yesterday evening, the Society was delighted to announce the winners of its 2026 First Book and Early Career prizes: bit.ly/44HbAH2 Many congratulations to the winners of the 2026 RHS First Book Prize: Dr Kiran Mehta and Dr John Latham-Sprinkle 1/4 #Skystorians

Come join our friendly team to do radical history online. History Workshop is recruiting one editorial fellowship this year, with specialism in pre-1800 history in any part of the globe.

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📣 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!

Still time to submit your book to the Society for the Study of French Book Prize! By 31 July 2026 📖📚🇫🇷 for 'an author based in the UK and Ireland, on a topic related to the history of France and the Francophone world in its broadest global context, which is the author’s first sole book publication'

Our 2026 Supplement (#18) "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" Edited by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) Has now been published by @academic.oup.com academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...

Colleagues at Exeter have asked me to circulate this petition as widely as possible: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

Katherine McDonald@katherinemcdon.bsky.social · last mo.

A brief appreciation thread for some of my colleagues in Classics at Exeter, who the University of Exeter have put at risk of redundancy @exeter.ac.uk. A few are on here, most are not, but I'm going to say nice things about them anyway.

This is a brilliant collection, that delivers a series of blows against any remaining simplistic notions of the “Enlightenment” being a movement of outsiders, or of censorship collapsing before a tidal-wave of dissent.

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The latest issue of French History is guest edited by Damien Tricoire on the theme of 'Court society and the politics of print in the eighteenth century' doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... @frenchhistory.bsky.social

The latest issue of French History is guest edited by Damien Tricoire on the theme of 'Court society and the politics of print in the eighteenth century' doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... @frenchhistory.bsky.social

Introduction: court society and the politics of print in the eighteenth century

Abstract. Promoting a political agenda and attacking the reputation of rivals were essential tools in the power struggles at the French court during the an

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An academic tribute to Rosamond McKitterick, published by Reti Medievali. www.rm.unina.it?p=554

Rosamond McKitterick (1949-2026) – Reti Medievali

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What happens when archival research meets lived experience? After the birth of her son, @erinmaglaque.bsky.social @durhamhistory.bsky.social began exploring how women’s bodies have been understood across history. Her new book uncovers hidden histories of the female body. 👉 bit.ly/4vhyG2y

The second is entitled "Execution and Martyrdom in the Early Modern World": www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... The idea behind these four sessions would be to explore what historians of religion and crime can learn from each other. The deadline is 24 July. Please get in touch! 😊

As the @rsaorg.bsky.social 's Religion discipline rep, I'm excited to share two #earlymodern #CfP for #RenSA27. The first, coorganised with Amanda Scott, is entitled "Banishment and Exile in the Early Modern World": www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

Job Opportunity! Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) University of Limerick - School of History and Geography www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU993/a...

Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) at University of Limerick

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Career Development Fellow in French & Francophone Studies (2 years) at Durham University 'we are especially interested to receive applications from those with specialisms in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries' Deadline 21 June, start Sept 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRS327/c... @imems.bsky.social

Career Development Fellow in French & Francophone Studies at Durham University

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📢 Job Opportunity at @durham.ac.uk Bridging Fellow in Early Modern Italian Studies: durham.taleo.net/careersectio... IMEMS seeks to appoint a Bridging Fellow with research interests in the field of early modern Italian studies to the Inventing Futures research programme @languagesdurham.bsky.social

thoroughly enjoying reading through this new special issue of the the journal of #earlymodern history, which critically reflects on the meaning of early modernity, what it stands for, whether it is inherently eurocentric, and whether multiple views on this are compatible brill.com/view/journal... 🗃️

Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the possibility – however unlikely – of survival.

What a list of Black Death survivors reveals about the way people recovered from plague

Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the possibility – however unlikely – of survival.

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New article 📢 written by Jane Whittle and me - about work and the problems of identifying workers in Medieval England. Open access here: doi.org/10.1080/0304... #history #medievalsky

Women's Wage Labour in Rural England, c. 1250-c. 1450: Identifying the Known Unknowns in Manorial Accounts

Rodney Hilton’s observations about women’s work recorded in manorial accounts underpin Tine De Moor and Jan Luiten van Zanden’s influential argument that paid work for women expanded significantly ...

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David's book is out! A box of *Remembering the Wars of Religion* recently arrived in Durham in time for his visiting fellowship. Book launch at St John's College on 4pm 22 May and full details via the link below... @imems.bsky.social @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social

New Open Access article in French History by Howard G. Brown Faction and fiction: political murder, compagnies de Jésus and the limits of justice in the Lyonnais, 1795–1800 academic.oup.com/fh/article/d... @frenchhistory.bsky.social

Faction and fiction: political murder, compagnies de Jésus and the limits of justice in the Lyonnais, 1795–1800

Abstract. During the ‘reaction’ of 1795, Lyon and its region suffered a spate of political murders and prison massacres. Republican officials blamed these

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New Open Access article in French History! 🎺🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💾💻🌟 Conner Muller on 'Scottish martyrs, Scotland and internationalism in revolutionary France, 1794–99' academic.oup.com/fh/article/d... @conormuller.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @frenchhistory.bsky.social

The Scottish martyrs, Scotland and internationalism in revolutionary France, 1794–99

Abstract. The case of the ‘Scottish martyrs’ transported from Britain for sedition in 1794 was followed closely in revolutionary France. Although these fiv

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Damien Tricoire's new article previews an upcoming special issue on eighteenth-century libelles with a major reinterpretation of the origins of the Revolution: 'Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville and his path from philosopher to revolutionary' doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... @frenchhistory.bsky.social

Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville and his path from philosopher to revolutionary

Abstract. Historiography has placed great emphasis on the improvised nature of the French Revolution, but a small minority of people worked purposefully to

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The latest issue of French History is now published! 💾🖥️🖨️ Articles covering the 11th to the 20th centuries... And a 🔥 series of decolonial reflections on historiography and curating via the landmark volume Colonisations: notre histoire and the Musée Carnavalet relaunch @frenchhistory.bsky.social

'Legacies of Violence? Catholic Militancy in Paris After the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre' Robert Descimon and I have pubished our article with French Historical Studies (@sfhs.bsky.social), with special thanks to colleagues at @crh.ehess.fr @durhamhistory.bsky.social doi.org/10.1215/0016...

Legacies of Violence?: Catholic Militancy in Paris After the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre

Abstract. This article traces continuities and changes in Parisian Catholic militancy after the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre (Aug. 24, 1572). It evaluates the rites of violence later reactivated by some of the killers, alongside a radicalized faction of their colleagues in the civic militia, who belonged to a younger generation and played a significant role in the later religious wars. Pursuing a forensic examination of the surviving manuscript sources, it provides a new perspective on the killers on Saint Bartholomew's Day by showing how these men were shaped by, and in turn reshaped, the transformation of Parisian society in the sixteenth century.

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Assistant Professor in History of the Iberian Empires (111483-0426) University of Warwick - #History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD751/a...

Assistant Professor in History of the Iberian Empires (111483-0426) at University of Warwick

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Assistant Professor in History of Capitalism (111484-0426) University of Warwick - #History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRD759/a...

Assistant Professor in History of Capitalism (111484-0426) at University of Warwick

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Fantastic PhD opportunity with a dream supervisory team including Katie Carpenter and Kevin Linch in the School or History at Leeds!

UK Archive Sector Leadership@uknatarcsector.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We’re welcoming applicants for a fully funded history PhD project researching the first 100 years of the UK's Public Record Office, ahead of its bicentenary in 2038. Find out more and apply here by Friday 8 May: phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2475... (1/2)

So so pleased to see that my book ‘Body Size in Early Modern Germany’ is now available on Oxford Academic ahead of its print publication later this month: academic.oup.com/book/62409 🎉🎉🎉 To mark its online publication, I thought I’d share a bit more about the book and its contents...

Body Size in Early Modern Germany

Abstract. This book uncovers the significance of body size—of fatness and thinness—in early modern Germany. It explores how early modern people conceived o

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