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Alex Bamji @alexbamji.bsky.social · 5d

Ooh I'm excited that the programme for the University Zone of @lightnightleeds.bsky.social is out. Get 22 and 23 October in the diary for amazing installations and performances. I can't wait to see 'A Midnight Hop', inspired by the bunnies all around campus openup.leeds.ac.uk/event-groupi...

Light Night Leeds

Step into a world of glowing butterflies, peacock lanterns, giant neurons and projection-mapped Kashmiri textiles...

openup.leeds.ac.uk

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Alex Bamji @alexbamji.bsky.social · 12d

There's a great Researcher Developer role (0.6fte, grade 6) available at White Rose University Consortium, supporting ECRs and PGRs across Yorkshire and Humber whiterose.ac.uk/news/job-opp...

Job opportunity: Researcher Developer - White Rose University Consortium

White Rose University Consortium is seeking a proactive and collaborative Researcher Developer (0.6 FTE) to support postgraduate researchers (PGRs) from across the White Rose Partners, as well as regi...

whiterose.ac.uk

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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 13d

📢 New Seminar Series!

We are thrilled to be working alongside @ihr.bsky.social on a brand new seminar series titled Migration and Mobility. We are coming together for a special edition of the seminar to showcase the work of PGRs and ECRs on migration and mobility history (1/3)

Migration and Mobility History

Call for Papers: IHR History Lab and Migration and Mobility Seminar

Taking place at the IHR Senate House and online, 10th February 2026, 5.30pm-7.30pm. The IHR History Lab and Migration and Mobility are coming together for a special edition of our seminar series to showcase the work of PGRs and ECRs working on migration and mobility history.

We invite submissions of 20 minute papers from PGRs and ECRs on the topic of migration and mobility (broadly defined), focusing on any period or place.

This is an opportunity to share your research with, and recieve feedback from, established and emerging scholars working on migration and mobility studies. To apply, send abstracts of under 250 words, with a short bio, to Kathleen Commons at kabcommons@gmail.com by 5pm on 15th November.

Migration and Mobility History

About the Seminars

History Lab is the national network for postgraduate students in history and related disciplines. Based at the Institute of Historical Research, it serves as an intellectual and social forum that connects, empowers, and supports the postgraduate community.

The IHR Migration and Mobility seminar provides a space for historians and scholars from other disciplines to come together to discuss migration and mobility in history. The seminar seeks to attract papers on a diverse range of themes and periods in migration and mobility history, including the emerging field of pre-modern migration histories, and histories of migration within the Global South. We will take an interdisciplinary approach, working with sociologists, legal scholars, and geographers with an interest in historical migration and mobility.

if you have any queries about this seminar, contact Kathleen at kabcommons@gmail.com

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Alex Bamji @alexbamji.bsky.social · 21d

Short-term post-doc for arts/humanities researchers! Do you love rare books, manuscripts, archives, art and/or objects? Would you like to explore one of our amazing Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social for c. 6 weeks (longer part-time)? Find out more lahri.leeds.ac.uk/brotherton-f...

Brotherton Fellowship | Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute

lahri.leeds.ac.uk

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Alex Bamji @alexbamji.bsky.social · 22d

please note that we 'embrace' AI

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Alex Bamji @alexbamji.bsky.social · 22d

Furniture history! Are you a postdoctoral researcher who'd like to explore and showcase an outstanding collection of 17th-20thC furniture history @universityofleeds.bsky.social by spending approx. 6 weeks (or longer part-time) in our Libraries? Find out more lahri.leeds.ac.uk/bedford-fell...

Bedford Fellowship | Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute

lahri.leeds.ac.uk

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 28d

Hot off the press, the British Academy's Cold Spots: Mapping Inequality in SHAPE Provision in UK Higher Education report. Read it if you care about universities or access to the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences for the rising generation. 1/5

Cold spots: Mapping inequality in SHAPE provision in UK higher education

This British Academy report reveals that many parts of the UK are becoming subject cold spots – areas with no provision in a subject within a commutable distance. These are often in rural, coastal or ...

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Alex Bamji @alexbamji.bsky.social · Aug 21

I really enjoyed discussing 'A Pamflyt compiled of cheese', a 400-year-old manuscript by a cheese enthusiast, with @neilbuttery.bsky.social on The British Food Podcast, available on all podcast apps including here (from 4 mins in) open.spotify.com/episode/1We5... @lulgalleries.bsky.social

A Rare Early Modern Cheese Manuscript with Alex Bamji

The British Food History Podcast · Episode

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Jean-Dominique Delle Luche @jddelleluche.bsky.social · Jul 22

Une liste de morts de la peste à Zurich en 1564. En plus des quatre mentions d'enfants d'un certain Erhard Trüb, une petite note en marge sur une noble morte à quelques kilomètres de Zurich : "la fuite n'a servi à rien".

J. Anna im Thurm, J. Hassan Balthazar Meysen enligne hussfraw, Starbucks zu Erlibach.
Flühen halff nit.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · Jul 16

CFP: Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800 (1-3 July 2026, Leiden)
memorients.com/events/cfp-b...
#CallForPapers #earlymodern #earlymodernhistory #medievaltimes #theology

CFP: Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800 (1-3 July 2026, Leiden) | MEMOs

Bringing together researchers working on books that were used in any form of prayer practice in the late medieval and early modern era (up to the 18th Century)

https://memorients.com/events/cfp-bound-for-devotion-the-prayer-book-as-object-and-practice-1300–1800-1-3-july-2026-leiden

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jul 15

So, today's REF2029 Town Hall was on CKU (Contributions to Knowledge & Understanding, including Outputs and Disciplinary Level Statements or DLSs). The recording with slides will be posted on Resources (link below) soon.

Here are some preliminary thoughts, starting with the good news. 1/10

Resources – REF 2029

2029.ref.ac.uk

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Alex Bamji @alexbamji.bsky.social · Jul 4

Fascinating paper from @ellenwerner.bsky.social on the annotations of two Manchester apothecaries in a collection of books now in Chetham's Library and the ways in which they reflect engagement between reader and book and the impact of reading cultures on local communities #RenSoc25

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Jun 23

Has anyone written on the auctioning of goods (especially of the dead) in London in the first half of the seventeenth century? Interested in the work of criers, how estates are sold off etc.

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Alex Bamji @alexbamji.bsky.social · Jun 13

Are you a researcher interested in histories of collecting and 19thC Victorian decorative art? This wonderful short-term fellowship is an opportunity to research the Albert Dawson archive in Cultural Collections and Galleries at the University of Leeds jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #jobfairy

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Albert Dawson Collection Fellowship

This role will be based on the University campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are open to discussing flexible working arrangements.Are you interested in nineteenth-centur...

jobs.leeds.ac.uk

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Dr Laura Fernández-González @laurafg.bsky.social · May 29

A term-time Lectureship in Early Modern Architectural History at the University of Edinburgh.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNG264/l...

Lecturer in Architectural History at The University of Edinburgh

Searching for an academic job? Explore this Lecturer in Architectural History opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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eilishgregory.bsky.social @eilishgregory.bsky.social · May 28

My current role ends in October: if anyone needs a temporary tutor in early modern history or as a freelance researcher please do drop me a line! I have over 10 years experience in teaching and a wide practical knowledge of working in archives in the UK and abroad.

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Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social · May 23

Delighted to see this mock up of the front cover of my first book, due to be published later in the Summer with @cambridgeup.bsky.social .

It's been several years in the making, and has had input and guidance from so many people - but it nearly exists!

A mock up of a front cover of a book entitled 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London'. The book cover is red, and the image is from a seventeenth-century woodcut of bodies being removed from London households during the plague.

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · May 26

Research Fellow in Global Health History x2- University of Leeds - Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Cultures - School of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNE369/r...

Research Fellow in Global Health History x2 at University of Leeds

Recruiting now: Research Fellow in Global Health History x2 on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Kristof Selleslach @kristofselle.bsky.social · May 26

Impressed by this #earlymodern bill measuring 105 cm in length, which resembles an exceptionally lengthy supermarket receipt. Table linen merchant Hans van Velroeij supplied dozens of tablecloths and napkins for the wedding of Maria de Sweert and Jan Moretus II in July 1605.

#Skystorians
#Antwerp

Museum Plantin-Moretus, Arch. 100, fol. 505, Invoice from Hans van Velroeij to Gaspas Offermans for the delivery of tablecloths and napkins for the wedding of Maria de Sweert and Jan Moretus II in July 1605. The archive document has an exceptional length of 105 by 15 centimetres.

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · May 19

ANNOUNCING 🔔

'Renaissance skin' by @evelynwelch.bsky.social - prev. winner of @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social

A magnificently illustrated study of skin in Renaissance Europe, coming 1st July 💎

What happens when you see skin differently?

@bristoluni.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social

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Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social · May 20

A contributor has had to withdraw from something I'm editing, late in the day. I'm looking for a sprightly 10,000 book historical words on the broad theme of 'consumers/consumption' and the period 1450-1650 (not necessarily all of it).

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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

Discover Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History, Material Culture & Heritage jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · Apr 26

CFP: Cemeteries as Part of the Landscape Through the Centuries conference, Prague, 5-6 November 2025. Deadline 31 May. www.udu.cas.cz/en/akce/hrbi...

Cemeteries as Part of the Landscape Through the Centuries | Ústav dějin umění Akademie věd ČR, v. v. i.

Ústav dějin umění Akademie věd ČR, v. v. i.

www.udu.cas.cz

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Alex Bamji @alexbamji.bsky.social · Apr 24

More on what people in England thought about cheese 400 years ago here, drawing on the wonderful 'A pamflyt compiled of Cheese' held by @universityofleeds.bsky.social ! www.leeds.ac.uk/main-index/n...

Curd Your Enthusiasm: Secrets of oldest book on cheese revealed

Held by Cultural Collections at the University of Leeds, the earliest-known English book about cheese is revealing its fascinating and sometimes nauseating contents to the public for the first time. A...

www.leeds.ac.uk

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Alex Bamji @alexbamji.bsky.social · Apr 11

Next week the Radio 4 Food Programme features the wonderful 'A pamflyt compiled of Cheese' from @universityofleeds.bsky.social. Tune in at 11am on Friday 18 April to find out more about how people assessed the health benefits and risks of cheese 400 years ago and today www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The Food Programme, Is our cheese heritage ancient history?

Sheila examines the heritage and health benefits of cheesemaking today.

www.bbc.co.uk

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