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Mirjam Haehnle @mirjamhaehnle.bsky.social · Jul 22

Auf der Suche nach neuen Formen der Geschichtsschreibung. Das klingt großartig 💜

SinaSteglich @sinasteglich.bsky.social · Jul 7

Vor der Sommerpause schon Vorfreude auf nach der Sommerpause, mit Freude an - neuen, anderen, fließenden, kreativen - Formen! Geschichte schreiben im 21. Jahrhundert mit @achland.bsky.social @susannequitmann.bsky.social @lisaregazzoni.bsky.social @modomodo.bsky.social @michaelwildt.bsky.social ua

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jul 18

If you're a UK-based postdoctoral researcher in Humanities or Social Sciences keen to develop your talents (for example in interdisciplinarity, quantitative methods, languages or data science), this award scheme (up to £10,000 for up to 12 months) may be for you. Deadline 8 October. 1/2

Talent Development Awards 2025-26

The Talent Development Awards are available to promote the acquisition and advancement of skills in relevant areas by UK-based researchers, promoting innovative research methods, be that through skill...

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Mirjam Haehnle @mirjamhaehnle.bsky.social · Jul 1

Cool! 👹

Tim Howles @timhowles.bsky.social · Jul 1

"The Oxford Handbook of Biblical Monsters"
Ed. Brandon R. Grafius and John W. Morehead
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Evie Nash @evienash.bsky.social · May 18

Excited to be co-organising this conference on early modern nonconformity. Please submit an abstract or share with anyone who might be interested in doing so! Open to researchers of all career stages! ✨

Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic 1500-1800 @nonconformity2025.bsky.social · May 18

Call for Papers for our interdisciplinary conference exploring Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic World, 1500-1800, taking place at the University of Birmingham on 12 September 2025. Keynote delivered by Professor Alec Ryrie. Papers welcome from researchers at any career stage.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · May 4

The Society also welcomes applications for Associate Fellowship from historians across a range of professions.

Associate Fellows are academic historians beginning their careers, or those working in teaching, museums, publishing, teaching or community history bit.ly/3XXlXn7, 1/2 #Skystorians

Image of museum curator with text: 'Associate Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society. Our Associate Fellowship category is for recent PhD graduates who are developing their career, or professional historians engaged in sectors such as teaching, museums and libraries. Next closing dates: 26 May and 11 August 2025'

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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · Apr 30

FINAL PROJECT CONFERENCE! Register to attend Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, bringing together longstanding project collaborators and exciting, new interlocutors. Spaces are *extremely* limited, so do sign up... see the programme at www.mmor.co.uk/events/confe...

#EarlyModern 🗃️

Select tickets – MMoR Conference: Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World – The Council Room, King's College London

After four full years, the initial funded stage of Medicine and the Making of Race comes to a close in September 2025. To mark ...

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Mirjam Haehnle @mirjamhaehnle.bsky.social · Apr 25

Ach schön, danke für die Führung durch mein altes Departement in Basel! 💜

Departement Geschichte Universität Basel @geschichtebasel.bsky.social · Apr 24

Geschichte ist langweilig? Von wegen!

Moderatorin Lena entführt bei ihrem Besuch eines Geschichts-Seminars kurzerhand Nadia und Tobias und will von den beiden wissen, was das Geschichts-Studium so spannend macht.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Akb...

Unscripted: zu Besuch im Geschichts-Studium

YouTube video by Universität Basel

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Apr 11

Could you do with £10k for some humanities or social science research? We’ve opened the call for our small grants. These are assessed using partial randomisation - after applications meet our quality threshold awards are allocated at random, reducing bias
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-l...

British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grants

The BA/Leverhulme Small Research Grants are available to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. These awards, up to £10,000 in value and tenable for up to 24 months, are provi...

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · Mar 31

Blog-post alert! A pleasure to feature our neighbour Michael Aidan Pope (UCL) on the MMoR blog- read his work on Sandoval as a source for the religious politics of racemaking #EarlyModern 🗃️

www.mmor.co.uk/blog/alonso-...

Alonso de Sandoval, De instauranda Æthiopum salute, and the Religious Conversion of Black Africans — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720

Alonso de Sandoval (1576-1652) was a Jesuit missionary in the Viceroyalty of Peru, known for his work to convert enslaved Black Africans to Catholicism. This included the publication of De instauran...

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Mirjam Haehnle @mirjamhaehnle.bsky.social · Apr 1

Ich freu mich auf die Lektüre!

Achim Landwehr @achland.bsky.social · Apr 1

So, hier mal etwas offenbar Unvermeidliches in Sachen Eigenwerbung: In "Geschichte und Gesellschaft" ist ein Beitrag von mir erschienen über "Nachträgliche Vorläufigkeit. Geschichte schreiben nach der Gegenwart." Irgendwie präsentisch, aktivistisch, jetzig.
www.vr-elibrary.de/toc/gege/cur...

Cover der neuestesn Ausgabe der Zeitschrift "Geschichte und Gesellschaft"

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German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · Mar 28

Only a few days left to apply for our GHIL research scholarships! 📢👇

German Historical Institute London @ghilondon.bsky.social · Feb 25

Call for Applications! 🎓

Each year, the GHIL offers research scholarships for postgraduate students, Habilitanden, and postdocs at German universities, providing an incredible opportunity to conduct research in the UK!

Applications for the period from July 2025 are open until 31 March!📥
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Virginia Reinburg @vreinburg.bsky.social · Feb 14

Review of Lyndal Roper's new book on the German peasants war #earlymodern

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/b...

You Can’t Trust Elites. Just Ask a 500-Year-Old German Peasant. (Gift Article)

In “Summer of Fire and Blood,” Lyndal Roper tells the story of the serfs who fought for a better life and the elites who co-opted their movement.

www.nytimes.com

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Amrei Bahr @amreibahr.bsky.social · Feb 14

„Fast alle meldeten sie sich zu Wort nach den denkwürdigen Abstimmungen mit einer in Teilen als gesichert rechtsextrem geltenden Partei im Deutschen Bundestag“, nur nicht die Wissenschaft — so Wormer in diesem lesenswerten Beitrag.

Wissenschaft, Du musst ENDLICH lauter werden!

#LauteWissenschaft

Das Schweigen der fünften Gewalt: Wo bleibt die Stimme der Wissenschaft?

Die Wissenschaft muss sich mehr in die öffentliche Diskussion um demokratische Grundwerte einmischen. Ungefragt und über Lippenbekenntnisse hinaus, sagt unser Gastautor.

www.tagesspiegel.de

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UCL Anthropocene @anthropoceneucl.bsky.social · Jan 22

The removal and production of natural resources has long shaped the world on a local, national, and global scale.

How might an attention to images help us understand the fraught history of extraction?

📆Join us online today at 3pm!

▶️Book your place shorturl.at/4kLKB

Anthropocene Histories Seminar: Images of Extraction

The panel for the seminar will comprise two experts in the imagery of extraction, Dr. Siobhan Angus (Carleton) and Dr. Jarrod Hore (University of New South Wales), in conversation with Andrew Seaton (...

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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · Jan 13

KCL's Centre for Early Modern Studies is on Bluesky! Give us a follow for updates on our upcoming events.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk

@jamie-gemmell.bsky.social @hsmurphy.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social

CEMS KCL Blog — Home

CEMS KCL Blog -- Events, projects, articles, and workshops from The Centre for Early Modern Studies at King's College London. Join the Mailing List to stay up to date with our regular programme of pub...

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · Jan 13

🖊️ Applications are now open for the Knowledge Orders before Modernity Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Programme.

The deadline for PhD applications will be 12pm, 27 February 2025.

You can find eligibility criteria and a guide to apply here ⬇️

Knowledge Orders before Modernity

A Leverhulme DoctoralScholarships Programme

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · Jan 11

Great piece. Here's another article I've been thinking about from 2020: 🗃️

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Mirjam Haehnle @mirjamhaehnle.bsky.social · Dec 20

Yes, there’s books. Thanks @naomiaklein.bsky.social for this list of resistance, solidarity and hope!

Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Dec 20

My friends, 2025 is going to be rocky. But one thing I know for sure is that some incredible people put a huge amount of care, craft, love and rage into writing books that will soon be published that are going to help us make sense of this broken and beautiful world.

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Navy blue text on a wavy light blue and cream background. Text reads:

10 books to watch for in 2025.

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Hsozkult Service @hsozkultservice.bsky.social · Dec 16

Job: 0,65 PhD Position "Toxic Heritage: Socio-natural Landscapes of Extraction and Pollution in the Harz and Cornwall" (Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum)

https://www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-152027

Bochum, 01.04.2025-31.03.2028, DMT-Gesellschaft für Lehre und Bildung mbH (DMT-LB), …

0,65 PhD Position "Toxic Heritage: Socio-natural Landscapes of Extraction and Pollution in the Harz and Cornwall" (Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum)

www.hsozkult.de

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Work, Authenticity, & Social Identity in Early Modern Britain @earlymodern2025.bsky.social · Dec 11

Please share the CFP for our Work, Authenticity, and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain Conference, to take place 10-11 June 2025 at the University of Warwick, with keynote addresses from Steve Hindle, @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social & @brodiewaddell.bsky.social!

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Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social · Dec 10

Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

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Mirjam Haehnle @mirjamhaehnle.bsky.social · Dec 10

A brilliant book about past materialities, looking forward to reading the English translation!

Lisa Regazzoni @lisaregazzoni.bsky.social · Dec 8

Thrilled to share my dive into the 'epistemic thing’ called ‘monument’ and the quest for the Gallic past in 18th-century France, now accessible in English!
A heartfelt thanks to the brilliant John N. Dillon for his masterful and nuanced translation....
www.routledge.com/The-Episteme...

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · Dec 5

Could you all share? We're advertising a 2 yr postdoc position for someone who works in #VastEarlyAmerica #VastEarlyAmericas to help coordinate the @jcblibrary.bsky.social projects and programs around 2026. Fuller info here: apply.interfolio.com/159279 and v happy to answer questions!

Ad for the position posted at interfolio @ apply.interfolio.com/159279

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Celine Camps @celinecamps.bsky.social · Dec 2

🚨 #Skystorians: @cambridgeup.bsky.social, publisher of 'Renaissance Quarterly', has "temporarily enabled free access to all articles published since the 1st of January 2023; this will continue for all new articles published through the 31st of December this year" 🗃️ #EarlyModern
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Renaissance Quarterly | Cambridge Core

Renaissance Quarterly - Barbara Fuchs, Carina L. Johnson, Brian J. Maxson, John R. Decker

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