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Miranda L Elston
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Tudor Art & Architecture in Global Contexts - Travel Narratives, Maps, & Colonial Encounters / Sometimes Dabbling in Modernism & Design
#EarlyModern #Tudor #ArtHistory

Assistant Professor Coastal Carolina University @ccuarthistory | PhD @UNC
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Miranda L Elston @miraelston.bsky.social · May 2
Thrilled to have been awarded the Edwards College Apple Core Award last night. This also reflects on the value of Art History, and how this field can really impact them even if they took the course because “they had too.”

And yes, this is a handmade porcelain apple core 🍏
Ceramic apple core on desk with two plants in background and photo framed. auditorium with stage and four figures on the stage, giving and receiving awards.
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This has had a huge impact on research as well as teaching, I used to have assistance based on research in their digital collections…
eicathomefinn.bsky.social Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 19
Peacey points out that PhD students, particularly in the humanities, have been hit especially hard. “An academic who’s in an academic post, yes, their research suffers....But if you’re a PhD student, that kind of delay is harder to suck up and factor in to your work.” 1/2
resprofnews.bsky.social Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · Aug 19
Two years on, how has the British Library cyberattack hit research?

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August 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Job Opportunity!

Research Associate in Early Modern Global History

The University of Manchester - Humanities - History - School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

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Research Associate in Early Modern Global History at The University of Manchester
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August 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Job Opportunity!

College Lectureship and Fellowship in British History

University of Cambridge - Christ's College

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College Lectureship and Fellowship in British History at University of Cambridge
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August 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Job Opportunity!

Associate Professor/Professor in Cambridge Digital Humanities
University of Cambridge - Office of the School of Arts and Humanities

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Associate Professor/Professor in Cambridge Digital Humanities at University of Cambridge
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August 17, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Africana Studies / Black Feminist / Gender Studies TT job at Smith College; open to historians; deadline 9/28; apply.interfolio.com/171572 🗃️
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August 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Exciting job: Associate Professor/Professor in Cambridge Digital Humanities

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Associate Professor/Professor in Cambridge Digital Humanities at University of Cambridge
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August 1, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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5 September deadlines for 3 Royal Historical Society programmes: Martin Lynn Scholarship (PhD research) in African History (£1,500); Early Career Fellowships (up to £2,000) and Open Research Support (£500-1,000). #Skystorians
Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: three current programmes - RHS
The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with a closing date of 5 September 2025. For further i...
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July 31, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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Job Opportunity!

The Department of History at Smith College seeks a historian of science, technology, and medicine, and/or environment. The successful candidate will be able to teach comparative, global, and/or transnational histories.

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Assistant Professor of History | H-Net
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July 31, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Fellowship Opportunity!

Teaching Fellowship in Queer and Gender History with a Specific Focus on the 20th Century United States
University of Oxford - Faculty of History

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Teaching Fellowship in Queer and Gender History with a Specific Focus on the 20th Century United States at University of Oxford
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July 31, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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Departmental Lecturer in Global and Imperial History

University of Oxford - Faculty of History the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities in the Radcliffe Observatory Quarter

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Departmental Lecturer in Global and Imperial History at University of Oxford
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July 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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Taking a tiny break to the PNW, where I always feel delightfully spoiled by the bookstores, museum archives, and views
Bookstore interior with tall stacks Museum basement with stored historic radios San Juan islands
July 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Professor B in Early Modern European History
Maynooth University, National University of Ireland Maynooth - Department of History

€103,474 to €138,309 or £90,001.27 to £120,300.61

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Professor B in Early Modern European History at Maynooth University, National University of Ireland Maynooth
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July 5, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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We are looking for an archivist to work alongside a great team on the Champs Camp archive in Moss Side, Manchester - the UK’s 1st major black led boxing club. 18 months, full time - funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. Please share!
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Phil Martin, founder of Champs Camp Boxing gym, Moss Side, Manchester poses with a group of young boxers c.1981
June 24, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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I’m co-organising a medieval conference next year in Oxford! Please take a look at the CfP and consider submitting an abstract, by the 15th of September, to [email protected]. We hope to be able to provide funding to help cover expenses of attendance.
#medievalsky #skystorians
Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers have become increasingly prominent themes in historical scholarship. There is, therefore, a pressing need to examine how these constructs have shaped the lived experiences of historically marginalised groups, as well as how they were perceived, defined, and engaged with by those groups. This conference seeks to reorient discussions around borders, boundaries, and barriers by foregrounding the experiences and perspectives of marginalised groups and considering how these divisions were perceived from the peripheries of societies. Rather than treating these concepts as abstract or solely geopolitical, we will explore the ways in which they have operated — both historically and historiographically — as tools of exclusion and differentiation. Organised by Natasha Jenman (University of Oxford), Naomi Reiter (QMUL), and Dean A. Irwin (University of Lincoln/OCHJS), the conference will focus on individuals, religious groups, social groups, societal constructions, and natural phenomena. Participants are invited to explore the role played by evolving borders, boundaries, and barriers in the medieval world as part of group identities; and how groups used them to their advantage. Likewise, it will consider the extent to which borders, boundaries and barriers have been imposed upon the medieval world by modern scholars. Possible topics for consideration include: • Legal jurisdictions • The natural and the supernatural worlds • Socio-economic strata • Ritual and religion • Space, time, and the environment • Gender and sexuality • Disability • Transgression, delinquency, and the grey middle space This conference adopts a broad chronological and geographical approach with submissions from all historically-related disciplines being welcome. The conference will take place on 20 and 21 April 2026 in Oxford. To submit, please send a title, abstract (c. 250 words), and a bio (c. 100 words) to: bordersboundariesbarriers@gmail.com.
June 20, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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🌍✨ Calling all scholars of Iberian, Islamic, and Global Renaissance Art!

📣 SIGA is thrilled to announce THREE exciting Calls for Papers for RSA 2026 in San Francisco!
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June 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Best way to spend the day, microfilms in the basement and a glass of wine ✨
I side library at desk using computer to read microfilm Two glasses of wine on table
June 16, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-century Barbados and Britain. A 2-day workshop 25-26 June in London at KCL. Be there. www.mmor.co.uk/events/carib...
2-day Workshop: Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-Century Barbados and Britain — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720
Organisers: Dr Michael Bennett (University of Sheffield), Dr Misha Ewen (University of Sussex), and Dr Hannah Murphy (MMoR & CEMS, KCL) Barbados is central to the global history of slavery. The ...
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June 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Only a month now until our conference at @antiquaries.bsky.social :
Greensleeves: Text and Textiles in Early Modern English Culture
www.sal.org.uk/event/greens...

#earlymusic #earlymodern #greensleeves #greensleevesconference #materialculture #conference
Greensleeves: Text and Textiles in Early Modern English Culture - Society of Antiquaries of London
This interdisciplinary conference takes the iconic sixteenth century ballad Greensleeves as a focal point through which to explore the interconnections of texts, textiles and material culture in early...
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June 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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profelainechalus.bsky.social Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · May 16
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage- 1 yr research post working on ‘Knotted Histories: Early Modern Global Carpets, Global Exchange and the Public Country House’ - University of Oxford - Faculty of English #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNC287/p...
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage at University of Oxford
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May 17, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Closes on 25 May. #MedievalSky
May 17, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Celebrating another year older and wiser (well maybe not wiser…) but excited for the next year of adventures
Table with two drinks and bread
May 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
miraelston.bsky.social
Thrilled to have been awarded the Edwards College Apple Core Award last night. This also reflects on the value of Art History, and how this field can really impact them even if they took the course because “they had too.”

And yes, this is a handmade porcelain apple core 🍏
Ceramic apple core on desk with two plants in background and photo framed. auditorium with stage and four figures on the stage, giving and receiving awards.
May 2, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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I am thrilled for my graduate student Clayton, who passed their M.A. Thesis Defense with flying colors today. It was also lovely to work with an incredible committee, including Dr. Howie and Dr. Richards-Greaves. Exciting thing to come as he starts his PhD at Duke in fall 🎉
April 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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I only slightly recovered from an absolutely lovely @RSA in Boston #RenissanceArtHistory #GlobalTudors
Miranda Elston presenting her paper on Assessing the Land Sign at the conference of an Early Modern Painting
March 25, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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Phenomenal first day at @RSA - had a super great Q&A at my panel and heard some fantastic papers 📚
March 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM