Really pleased and proud to announce a new @ihr.bsky.social seminar - Migration and Mobility History. We want to cover migration across time and space and speak with colleagues across disciplines. If you're interested in attending/presenting, get in touch: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

🚨Call for Papers: The 18th St Andrews/USTC Book History Conference on 'Print and Education' will take place 18–20 June 2026.

👉 Further details here: www.ustc.ac.uk/conference

📅 Application deadline: 12 December 2025

📖 We look forward to receiving your proposals!

#CfP #bookhistory #skystorians

How much did I enjoy the "Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern c.1500-1850: Far from Home" conference at Aberystwyth University this week?

I was too absorbed in the fantasticly informative and patient (no question too enthusiastic!) speakers to take any photos until the very end 🤔💭👌📷

Thank you to everyone who came to Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern: Far From Home at Aberystwyth University last week. It was a delight to organise the conference with my amazing colleagues @joeycrozier.bsky.social and @rharman.bsky.social and to hear all your fantastic research

Very privileged to host such a fantastic conference exhibiting a global voice on new perspectives of communication history. Thank you to all of the speakers who joined us, and @heathernicholas.bsky.social and @rharman.bsky.social for all your hard work! Same time next year?

Thrilled to say that this is now fully Open Access!

Hopefully now available to any and all interested #earlymodern #skystorians

Very excited for the Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern #conference at Aberystwyth, 12-13 June 2025.

For #skystorians interested in joining, please see the form for more information below. Looking forward to seeing y’all next month.

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The current state of life at Cardiff University.

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My article on the destabilization of the British Empire in the eighteenth century has been published open access in the
@historicaljnl.bsky.social. It brings one of the major arguments of my PhD to print: we need to think about the imperial transformations of the public sphere.

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‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’

CfP!

With Natasja Peeters, Jasper van der Steen, and Ton van Strien, I am organising the one-day Seventeenth-Century Society's conference on Family, Kinship, and Dynasty in the Early Modern Low Countries on 5 September 2025.

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A very warm welcome to Bluesky to my old friend and ex-colleague Prof. Alan Marshall (@57alan.bsky.social). Alan's most recent monograph is Intelligence and espionage in the English Republic, c.1600–60
#skystorians 🗃️#earlymodern #espionage
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For anyone interested in #c18th political or electoral history & for students researching EPQs, special subjects &/or final year dissertations, do check out the wealth of data & information available on our Political Participation
& Electoral Culture (ECPPEC) website #skystorians 🗃️ecppec.ncl.ac.uk

Delighted to announce @mrfw17thc.bsky.social as our keynote for keynote for Communication and Exchange this year. I’m excited to hear more about his exciting research on mobility.

The #cfp is still open! We’re looking forward to seeing y’all in Aberystwyth in June!

#earlymodern #History.

#Seaside Alphabet #AdventCalendar 1st December.
What better start than #Aberystwyth!
Boomed as a resort C19/early C20 when most seafront buildings & pier were built...And Britain’s longest electric cliff railway, Constitution Hill- where this postcard view is from & where m'profile pic was taken!

Thank you!

Great lists, don’t suppose I could get added? :)

I had an excellent time this week presenting on James Johnston as a person in intelligence at the #NIHC and delighted to cipher on a real enigma machine! Grateful to the organisers at Bletchley Park! #spystorians

Hello #skystorians 👋 good to see so many here!

I’ll leave the annual Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern c.1500 - 1850 #CfP here for folks who are interested.

Come and join us in Aberystwyth, 12 - 13 June 2025. Co-organised with @heathernicholas.bsky.social @rharman.bsky.social