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John Gallagher
@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
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Irishman in Yorkshire. Historian of language, education, migration at the University of Leeds. Co-editor of the Historical Journal; from 2026, editor of Renaissance Studies. Occasional BBC radio presenter. Currently learning Amharic. Dad!
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · May 22
Some news: in 2026 I'll take over as Editor of Renaissance Studies. It's a journal that means a great deal to me and which occupies a uniquely important position in the interdisciplinary study of the early modern world. With our new Associate Editor, Dr Elizabeth Petcu, I can't wait to get started!
New editor and associate editor, Renaissance Studies – Society for Renaissance Studies
www.rensoc.org.uk
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 22h
And an excellent article it is, too. Well done, John!
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 1d
Delighted to see the open access publication of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms -- a superb volume featuring artists, poets, scholars, and a short essay by me on Dutch- and French-speaking women in 16th-century London telling their stories of migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...
Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms – punctum books
punctumbooks.com
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 21h
Bless you Christine, that's very kind! I wrote it absolutely yonks ago (in deep lockdown, pre-kids if I remember rightly) and when getting proofs had to be quite firm with myself and not change everything to reflect where my thinking and the work is now. So pleased you enjoyed it!
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 1d
Delighted to see the open access publication of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms -- a superb volume featuring artists, poets, scholars, and a short essay by me on Dutch- and French-speaking women in 16th-century London telling their stories of migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...
Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms – punctum books
punctumbooks.com
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 1d
A lot of talk about emotion in the archive recently, and I get it. This morning I've been brought nearly to tears by trying to unpick the history of a Flemish family where the grandfather, father, and son all have exactly the same name.
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 1d
Delighted to see the open access publication of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms -- a superb volume featuring artists, poets, scholars, and a short essay by me on Dutch- and French-speaking women in 16th-century London telling their stories of migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...
Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms – punctum books
punctumbooks.com
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 1d
Not to where I am currently, I'm afraid! But sorted now.
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 2d
Thank you so much Steven! I saw you had a copy but know how busy you are and didn't want to ask...
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 2d
Without seeing the book it's not possible to know how much or which bits I need to have scanned, unfortunately, and I'm not sure full-book scans are on offer?
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 2d
So a book I need to see — Albert Schouteet, De klerken van de Vierschaar te Brugge met inventaris van hun protocollen (Brugge, 1973) — seems only to exist in a couple of libraries in Belgium and the Netherlands. If it's near you and you could take some pictures, I'll happily pay for your time!
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 4d
Really is amazing how good the tech is getting these days.
A prompt from my phone's Google Photos app, reading "New memory for you: Nature's bouquet". The image is of a bunch of flowers on a fresh grave.
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 5d
But that said, I've just found a footnote where I hypothesised that one of the books I'm looking at might have been owned by someone who died seventeen years before it was published. Which, you know, maybe we can blame the pint.
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 5d
The last time I worked on the footnotes for this essay about multilingual reading in @marshslibrary.bsky.social, it was over a summer evening post-library pint of Guinness in Fallon's. Hard not to think that was a pretty ideal way to do it.
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 16d
I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Historical Journal Call for Special Issues
Welcome to Cambridge Core
www.cambridge.org
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 6d
'The affected staff, in the schools of foreign languages, history, religion and music, have been warned the university cannot rule out compulsory redundancy.'
Almost 200 Cardiff University staff left in limbo as they face losing jobs
Cardiff University confirmed it cannot rule out compulsory redundancies as it also apologised to students for problems with a new timetabling system as the academic year begins
www.walesonline.co.uk
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 6d
This took some googling to work out but now I am indeed dubiously honoured!
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 6d
A delight to examine Dr Commons's superb PhD -- strongly recommend her Historical Research article and other forthcoming publications to anyone interested in histories of migration and law in the early modern period!
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Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 8d
On a personal and slightly self-aggrandizing note, will be pleased to introduce this banging lineup for the first time officially as *Dr* Commons. Many thanks to @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social and Phil Withington for examining me with such care, and Anthony Milton for being a superlative supervisor
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Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 8d
reminder we’re kicking off tomorrow
5:30- 7:30pm Hybrid/IHR

@profpanayi.bsky.social & @kabcommons.bsky.social will open, then I’ll will speak on history & social studies; @marcloureiro.bsky.social on history & law; and Natalya Din-Kariuki on history & literature.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 9d
A Bohemian spotted in London, 1641 @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 14d
Very very kind, thank you! I'm j.gallagher1 at leeds dot ac dot uk!
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 14d
Thanks so much Neil, very much appreciated! From the index I think the ones I'm looking for are 422, 451, 467, 598, and 652 -- if you have the time to snap that would be fantastic but no trouble if it's too much to ask!
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 14d
Does anyone happen to be sitting next to a copy of Tudor Royal Proclamations vol. 2? Archive dot org has the first and third volume and predictably the five (I think) proclamations I need to see are in neither...
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 15d
Specifically me?
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 15d
Great news about Dr Atkinson's excellent thesis — now available to read open access!
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Juliet Atkinson @julietatkinson.bsky.social · Aug 28
Happy to say that my recently completed PhD thesis 'Identification Documents and the Governance of Mobilities in,through and beyond Seventeenth-Century London' is now available to download online open-access if anyone ever fancies having a read etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/37...
The abstract of my thesis
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 15d
Keen to Zoom into this if I can, sounds fantastic!
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Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social · 15d
Come listen to me talk about religious certificates next week! Featuring a fun mix of stranger churches’, recusant, and Church of England approaches to religious paperwork.
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IHR Tudor and Stuart Seminar @tudorstuartseminar.bsky.social · 16d
The IHR Tudor and Stuart seminar has joined Bluesky! Please follow and RT!

Our programme for the year is starting NEXT WEEK on Monday 29 September with Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social speaking on 'Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper'.
Online and in-person, 5.30pm
Book here:
Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper
www.history.ac.uk
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 16d
It sounds like you have a lot of problems alright! Hope they improve but so sorry Ireland has made things so hard for you.
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