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The SpoOoky History Conference @spookyhist.bsky.social · 3d

We're pleased to announce the programme for the 2025 Spooky History Conference!

We have 3 fantastic panels full of spooky papers.

Sign up for the conference here:
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The
SPOOKY HISTORY
Conference
31st October 2025
PROGRAMMЕ
9:30 Opening Remarks
9:45-10:45 Panel 1: Morbid and Magical Medicine
10:45 - 11:00: Break
11:00 – 12:30 Panel 2: Death and the Supernatural in Popular
Entertainment

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 Panel 3: Folkloric Hauntings: Ghosts and Deities
14:30 – 14:45 Closing Remarks

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The SpoOoky History Conference @spookyhist.bsky.social · Sep 25

Our Call for Papers is open!
If you are working on anything spooky get in touch!

This is a fun, informal conference for anyone studying anything “spooky” in history or a related field and the perfect way to spend Halloween 🎃

🗃️ #skystorians #academicsky #HexTag

Image of the call for papers, a black background decorated with orange pumpkins and white text that reads:
The Spooky History Conference
2025
Call for Papers
We Invite abstracts for 15-minute papers on any aspect of history (broadly defined that) is spooky!
Suggested topics include but are not limited to:
Ghosts
The Supernatural
Witches
Death
Gothic Literature
The History of Halloween
We strongly encourage submissions from PGRs, ECRs and independent researchers. We invite abstracts from individuals (200 words) as well as from panels of 3-4 speakers (600 words). Please submit your abstracts, along with a short biography to spookyhistory23@gmail.com by Friday 3rd October 2025
The Conference will be held online via Zoom on Friday 31st October 2025.

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Holly B 🌈 @hsbamford.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's spooky time!
Elizabeth and I cannot wait to read all the fantastic abstracts!

The SpoOoky History Conference @spookyhist.bsky.social · Sep 5

Spooky season is coming and we’re excited to open our call for papers for this year’s Spooky History Conference!

This is a fun, informal conference for anyone studying anything “spooky” in history or a related field and the perfect way to spend Halloween! 🎃👻

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Holly B 🌈 @hsbamford.bsky.social · Sep 3

I enjoy living in a village. I do not enjoy walking 45 mins for a doctors appointment when the farmers have just manured the fields

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · Aug 22

On which ... what are you favourite online collections of early modern letters, diaries/life-writing, and other 'personal documents'?

#EarlyModern 🗃️

Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · Aug 22

Editing revised chapters for the forthcoming 2nd edition of our guide to #EarlyModern 🗃️ sources today👌

The revised volume will also include 3 new chapters:

Part 1 'Sources':
- Digitised Sources

Part 2 'Histories':
- Race
- The Body, Mind & Emotions.

Front cover of a book called 'Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources', part of the Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources series. edited by Laura Sangha and Jonathan Willis. The cover image is a painting of early modern objects - a pile of books and papers, a flask and glass, bread roll, lute and globe.

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Holly B 🌈 @hsbamford.bsky.social · Aug 15

Had a lovely chat with my supervisor, it's finally hitting me just how much work I have done! The end is in sight!

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · Jul 31

📢Handwritten Text Recognition model klaxon📢

Want to give automated transcription a try? See below 👇

#EarlyModern 🗃️

Emily Kadens @ek27.bsky.social · Jul 30

The @transkribus.bsky.social "Egerton: English Secretary Hand" model is now public! app.transkribus.org/models/publi.... We have a website with sample transcriptions for different hands, information about our training conventions, and more: sites.northwestern.edu/egerton/

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Holly B 🌈 @hsbamford.bsky.social · Jul 30

Listening to research proposal presentations today and feeing inspired by all the new research going on!

Holly B 🌈 @hsbamford.bsky.social · Jul 27

Let’s gooooooo!

Holly B 🌈 @hsbamford.bsky.social · Jul 22

Hey England can we stop going down to the wire my heart can’t deal with extra time

Holly B 🌈 @hsbamford.bsky.social · Jul 19

Congrats Aaron!

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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · Jun 30

Still looking for submissions for the @rsaorg.bsky.social panel "Living with Demons: Emotions, Encounters, Experiences".

Any #earlymodern #hextag peeps please do get in touch? Fwiw, Stuart Clark personally endorsed the abstract. 😅

www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

Renaissance Society of America

365 Fifth AvenueRoom 5405New York, NY 10016 • USA

www.rsa.org

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Holly B 🌈 @hsbamford.bsky.social · Jun 25

Brilliant round table to end the magic and witchcraft conference!

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Holly B 🌈 @hsbamford.bsky.social · Jun 24

Thanks Josh!

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Holly B 🌈 @hsbamford.bsky.social · Jun 24

Day 2! 🧙‍♀️

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Sarah Jack @restingwitches.bsky.social · Jun 23

1 month into The Thing About Salem podcast, & we're thrilled with the opportunity to tell this rich, complex story week by week.
From Salem's "witch cake", to judges experimenting with poppets in court proceedings. Read about it: aboutsalem.com/we-are-just-...

We Are Just Getting Started Talking About the Things – The Thing About Salem

aboutsalem.com

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Holly B 🌈 @hsbamford.bsky.social · Jun 23

Ready and raring for the York Magic and Witchcraft Conference! 3 days talking about all things witchcraft!

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Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social · Jun 20

A great Friday read. 🗃️

#Pride #TransHistory

Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · Jun 20

For those interested in the Chevalier D'eon or James Allen, please see this blog from our Archives and Manuscripts team, 'What the John Johnson Collection Tells us About Gender in Early Modern Britain': blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandm...

#Pride #TransgenderHistory #TransHistory.

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Holly B 🌈 @hsbamford.bsky.social · Jun 18

I've had my first meetings with my new Master's students this week, and it's so nice to hear their motivations for their research projects!
It's really helping me get through the last stretch of my PhD

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Jessica Elena @byjessicaelena.bsky.social · May 31

He's ready for pride month :')

#cats

A photo of a grey cat sleeping on a pink duvet, with a rainbow prism hitting him right on the cheek, looking like rainbow face paint. Behind him there are some rainbows on the wall as well.

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Holly B 🌈 @hsbamford.bsky.social · May 13

Travelling to Liverpool for my final ever PGR conference! Theses conferences are always a great opportunity to see the variety of research done in the history department (and an opportunity to socialise!)

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Chris(tyn) Parkes @parkesland.bsky.social · May 1

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS

Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!

Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn