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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 2h

Eloquent testimony to the importance and contribution of scholarly training and expertise; the richness of regional archives; and history's potential and value for civic and cultural life #Skystorians

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 8h

'A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions, partly in the composer’s own hand – the first Purcell autograph to be found for more than 30 years.' 1/3

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · 22h

From today, we will release the documents related to the Fort de Nantes, a French ship chartered by Francisco Sánchez de Madrid, a merchant from Cádiz, to travel to Veracruz and Havana. It was captured by two ships of the British Navy on January 5 1747, on its journey back and taken to Plymouth.

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SculpturalMobilities @saraayres.bsky.social · 6h

Indexers: can I ask your advice? I am writing an index that needs to include the notes. Endnotes however start again after the introduction. How do I indicate in the index which section the note falls into? Is there an established convention for this? TIA for any help/advice! 🙏

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Archive Mole @archivemole.com · 9h

🔦 Spotlight On: Lambeth Palace Library

The principal archive of the Church of England, it holds:

📜 Manuscripts from the 9th century
✒️ Papers of every Archbishop since the 12th century
📚 120,000+ printed books

Archive Mole can consult what you need and pick up anything a reading-room day misses.

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Niall Curry @niallrcurry.bsky.social · 7h

New OA 🔓 paper with @perez-paredes.bsky.social & @paguado.bsky.social in Computer Assisted Language Learning @tandfresearch.bsky.social. Read, 'Integrating critical corpus and AI literacies in applied linguistics: A mixed-methods study' here: doi.org/10.1080/0958... & see 🧵 below for some details ⬇️

Integrating critical corpus and AI literacies in applied linguistics: a mixed-methods study

This study examines the integration of corpus literacy and critical AI literacy in language education. As part of a sequential mixed-methods design, undergraduate learners from a southern European ...

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 1d

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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The Prize Papers Project @prizepapers.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you! So cool!

Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social · 3d

What is that lovely cover? 🤩

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Ola Teige @olateige.bsky.social · 8d

Does anyone know of any work on the life stories career criminals in the 17th-18th centuries told in courts? Strategies, which identities the presented when etc.? Has anyone analyzed these as (short) autobiographical texts?
#EarlyModern #CrimeHistory #LegalHistory #Nordichistory

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Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social · 5d

Maybe the fourth letter isn't a t?

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 5d

Weird flex but ok dude 👀

Snippet from James Graham's book of 1779, pronouncing, 'I have not got the finest, most complete, and most valuable collection of drawings of diseased eyes, perhaps in the whole world'

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 5d

Including me!

Neil Johnston @nejohnst.bsky.social · 5d

Podcasts from this year's Tudor and Stuart Ireland conference @ucddublin.bsky.social are now available. Thanks to Mike Liffey @historyhub.bsky.social for making us all sounds so crisp historyhub.ie/tudor-and-st...

Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference Podcasts

Since 2011, more than 200 speakers from a range of disciplines including History, English, Archaeology and Art History, have presented papers at Tudor and Stuart Ireland conferences. Download podcasts...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 6d

We look forward to taking part, next Tuesday, in this excellent annual workshop from @ihr.bsky.social.

An essential guide to the resources, services, skills and opportunities of an essential institution for historians, including those beginning a research project #Skystorians

Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 23d

📣Calling all new research students in history & historical subjects. Do you want to learn how the IHR can help you during your studies?

Join us on the 8 October to find out more.

@royalhistsoc.org @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social @historyandpolicy.bsky.social @chppc.bsky.social

bit.ly/41UPOyG

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 6d

Who did what in early modern England?

New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️

Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

This book applies the innovative work-task approach to the history of work, which captures the contribution of all workers and types of work to the early modern economy. Drawing on tens of thousands of court depositions, the authors analyse the individual tasks that made up everyday work for women and men, shedding new light on the gender division of labour, and the ways in which time, space, age and marital status shaped sixteenth and seventeenth-century working life. Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, the book deepens our understanding of the preindustrial economy, and calls for us to rethink not only who did what, but also the implications of these findings for major debates about structural change, the nature and extent of paid work, and what has been lost as well as gained over the past three centuries of economic development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Cover of Whittle, Jane, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, and Taylor Aucoin. The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. of Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.

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Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social · 7d

And the fight you sometimes have to have to get honorary research fellow status.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 7d

RHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants.

Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI

Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: 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 closing dates from 5 December 2025 onwards. For f...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 7d

RHS funding opportunity: David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People.

The Society's Fellowship, for up to £2500, supports research by historians of Scotland at any career stage: bit.ly/4ns6LJj

Closing date for the 2026 Fellowship: 6 March 2026

David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People - RHS

Launched in 2023, the David Berry Fellowship provides an annual award of up to £2,500 to undertake research on the history of Scotland and the Scottish people worldwide. Applications for the 2026 Fell...

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eilishgregory.bsky.social @eilishgregory.bsky.social · 28d

Position still stands so please do let me know if you or anyone needs a temporary tutor or freelance researcher after October.

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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Marina Dossena @marinadossena.bsky.social · 8d

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NEW DISCOVERIES ON A GEORGIAN MURDER CASE — The WS Society

When Katherine Nairn fell in love with the dashing Patrick Ogilvie in 1765, it would have been the perfect match – but for the fact that she was already married to Patrick’s older brother, Thomas. In ...

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 8d

#HistoryJob - just a reminder that our colleagues in VCH Herefordshire are looking for *two* contributing editors to bring their first #BigRedBook for over 100 years to fruition.

Details in the link, applications close on 10 October.

Contributing Editors at The Herefordshire Victoria County History Trust

Apply for the Contributing Editors role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 8d

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 9d

RHS First Book and Early Career Article Prizes, 2026.

We invite submissions for the Society's book and article prizes: for eligible titles published in 2025. Further details and how to apply: bit.ly/3KnR47v

Submissions are by self-nomination by an author. Closing date: 15 December #Skystorians

Royal Historical Society Book and Article Prizes, 2026: submissions now invited - RHS

The Royal Historical Society invites applications for its First Book Prize, 2026 and Early Career Article Prize, 2026. The call for submissions opens on Monday 29 September 2025 and runs to Monday 15 ...

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 9d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social · 9d

@ihr.bsky.social and @ies-sas.bsky.social are partnering with @thelondonarchives.bsky.social to run a new series of public lectures, featuring the chance to see the original records first hand. First lecture by @patrickwallis.bsky.social on "Apprenticeship and the Rise of London", Weds 15th October!

SAS and The London Archives: Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500-1800

ies.sas.ac.uk

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