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English, University of Limerick @ulenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Our second English lunchtime research seminar of the new semester will be delivered by our colleague Prof Michael Griffin, who will speak on Editing the Cambridge Goldsmith. All welcome! #speirgorm #research #English @ulresearch.bsky.social

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 2d

Portrait of Infante Baltasar Carlos, son of King Philip IV aged about 11. The prince was b. 17 Oct 1629 and died #otd 9 Oct 1646. He was heir apparent till his death 8 days before his 17th birthday. Attributed to Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo (Rijksmuseum)

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 26d

📅 September 18, 2025
🕟 16:30 (special time)
💻 Online seminar
🔗Learn More at:
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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 26d

✨ Upcoming AGENART Seminar ✨

On September 18, 2025 (special time: 16:30), art historian Peter Cherry (Trinity College, Dublin) will present:
“Velázquez and Royal Women.”

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Society for Iberian Global Art @siga.spainculture.us · 26d

#AGENART #Velázquez #RoyalWomen #HabsburgSpain #ArtHistorySeminar #SpanishArt #EarlyModernArt #Queenship #MaterialCulture #ArtHistoryResearch #OnlineSeminar #PhDLife #GraduateResearch #WomenInHistory #VisualCulture

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · Sep 6

Sir John Minnes, both Sir Williams and I to the Trinity House, where we had at dinner a couple of venison pasties, of which I eat but little, being almost cloyed, having been at five pasties in three days.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · Aug 14

Ratty, the charming water vole from Wind in the Willows, has been in deep trouble for decades.

But now, thanks to UK wildlife trusts, this riverside resident is making a hopeful comeback.

Kate Moore reports

Endangered – the remarkable water vole is making a comeback

Predation, pollution, climate change and habitat loss made Kenneth Grahame's Ratty one of the UK's most endangered species. But wildlife trusts are on the case

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · Aug 10

Exactly 100 years ago today, the Farne Islands came into the care of the National Trust - a whole century of care and conservation!

Two puffins - with their beaks bright in colour - face each other while sat on a white rock

An image of the Farne Islands. A rocky coastline, punctuated by sea water, is in the foreground. An old, stone building stands at the top on the small hillside

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · Aug 10

"A Prospect of Lymrick." Thomas Phillips, c. 1685 (British Library Maps K. Top. 54. 22.a.) #Limerick

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · Jul 11

11 July 1561: b. Luis de Góngora #Spanish #poet & cleric #otd

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Dr Alistair Malcolm @alimalhistory.bsky.social · Jun 22

Call for Papers: extended deadline for conference: Discipline and Punish: The Early Modern University Court in Theory and Practice. Abstracts due by 30 June. For more information, see: malcontents.hcommons.org/conference/

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · May 28

#CfP: 'Discipline and Punish: The Early Modern University Court in Theory and Practice'. Limerick 14-15 January 2026. Abstracts by June 16, 2025 www.rensoc.org.uk/event/discip...

The internal jurisdictional autonomy of early modern universities represented a significant inheritance from the medieval instruments of academic freedom. The rise of the territorial university as a model curtailed the independence of these institutions rendering them more directly subject to external political actors, a situation that became more pronounced as a consequence of the Reformation. Despite these transformations, the university’s powers of internal oversight and control of its members remained relatively intact. These powers were set out, instituted and sanctioned in charters, statutes and ordinances. The principal instrument through which the powers were asserted was the academic jurisdiction, i.e. the university court. At one level, these arrangements protected university members, ensuring their protection to a certain extent from external legal threat. However, in adhering to the university jurisdiction, the members submitted themselves to its regulating influence. In this forum, students, professors and the cives academici could be arraigned, prosecuted and sanctioned for minor or major acts of deviancy. Thus, the university court and other instruments of institutional authority could play a central role in the disciplining of university members, defining the parameters of and enforcing normative behaviours. This conference seeks to explore the characteristics of these jurisdictional regimes in the early modern period. Paper proposals that address the following themes are especially welcome:

The legal and administrative frameworks of discipline at early modern universities
The characteristics of university courts
Social disciplining and the normative functions of university courts
The pursuit of personal vendettas and factional strife through the instruments of university jurisdiction
The limits and limitations of academic disciplinary regimes
Subversions of academic jurisdiction

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Dr Alistair Malcolm @alimalhistory.bsky.social · Jun 22

Call for Papers: extended deadline for conference: Discipline and Punish: The Early Modern University Court in Theory and Practice. Abstracts due by 30 June. For more information, see: malcontents.hcommons.org/conference/

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Undiscovered Scotland @undisscot.bsky.social · Apr 13

306 years ago today. Spanish marines landed in Loch Duich on 13 April 1719 and took control of Eilean Donan Castle as part of a little-known and short-lived Jacobite uprising. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #EileanDonanCastle #Lochalsh #LochDuich Jacobites #1719 #OnThisDay

Eilean Donan Castle. The image shows a view down onto the castle from higher up the hillside behind it, though part of it is obscured by the top branches of a tree. Beyond the castle are the blue waters of a loch with land rising steeply beyond the loch. The scene is in sunlight.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · Apr 8

Born OTD in 1605, Philip IV of Spain. Here by Bartolome Gonzalez in 1615, looking slight beside his sister Anne of Austria (who would become Louis XIV's mother). Girls in that family had the most spirit!

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Dr Alistair Malcolm @alimalhistory.bsky.social · Mar 29

If you are in Limerick on Tuesday 8 April, please come to our annual Máire Ní Chrualaoich Public lecture in Medieval & Early Modern Local Studies. This is being organised by the Limerick Centre of Early Modern Studies (@cemslimerick.bsky.social), in Association with the Limerick Civic Trust.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · Mar 29

The Virgin and Child and the Franciscan St Diego of Alcalá, by Luisa Roldán, Madrid, ca.1690-95 (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

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Dr Alistair Malcolm @alimalhistory.bsky.social · Mar 29

If you are in Limerick on Tuesday 8 April, please come to our annual Máire Ní Chrualaoich Public lecture in Medieval & Early Modern Local Studies. This is being organised by the Limerick Centre of Early Modern Studies (@cemslimerick.bsky.social), in Association with the Limerick Civic Trust.

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Little Toller Books @littletollerbooks.bsky.social · Mar 28

On Monday our instagram account was hacked and then deleted. We received a ransom note to recover it; obviously we couldn't and wouldn't pay, and therefore lost thousands of followers. Meta support was useless. But we're BACK with a new account: @littletollerbooks. Can you follow us there and share?

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · Mar 28

Puppy with flowers. Dog with flowers. Who knew Spanish Golden Age could be so stately yet so cute? By Juan van der Hamen y León, d. OTD 1631.

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Centre for Early Modern Studies, Limerick @cemslimerick.bsky.social · Mar 24

CEMS is excited to announce the annual Annual Máire Ní Chrualaoich Public Lecture, 8 April, Pery Square. It will be delivered by Prof Tríona Ní Shíocháin of @uniofgalway.bsky.social. Gach duine fáilte! #research
@ulenglish.bsky.social
@michistory.bsky.social
@unioflimerick.bsky.social

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Centre for Early Modern Studies, Limerick @cemslimerick.bsky.social · Mar 18

We are pleased to welcome Dr Imke Lichterfeld to @unioflimerick.bsky.social where she will deliver a seminar on Shakespeare on 25th March at 12. All welcome! @michistory.bsky.social @oralhistoryul.bsky.social @ulenglish.bsky.social

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Museo del Prado @museodelprado.es · Mar 17

#LosBlueskydelPrado El Museo del Prado está lleno de cielos azules, hoy “Vista de Zaragoza” (1647) de Martínez del Mazo www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/ob... #Blueskies #cielosazules #art #MuseodelPrado

Detalle del cielo de “Vista de Zaragoza” (1647) de Martínez del Mazo

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Samuel Pepys @samuelpepys.bsky.social · Mar 16

Drinking of cold small beer here I fell ill, and was forced to go out and vomit, and so was well again and went home by and by to bed.

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Centre for Early Modern Studies, Limerick @cemslimerick.bsky.social · Feb 26

The Limerick History Research Seminar welcomes Professor Bridget Heal of @standrewshist.bsky.social on 4th March (online) to speak about 'News, Narration, and Religion during the Thirty Years' War'. All welcome! #research @unioflimerick.bsky.social

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