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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 14d

Look what we have here then.

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PD Dr. Laury Sarti @laurysarti.bsky.social · 6d

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen) www.hsozkult.de/job/id/job-1...

Tenure-track assistant professor "Early medieval history" (Univ. of Copenhagen)

Tenure-track assistant professor in early medieval history at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen The Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen (UCPH) invites ap...

www.hsozkult.de

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 8d

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 · 8d

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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Linguistic Discovery @linguisticdiscovery.com · 8d

Where did we get the letters of the alphabet from?

And why does English use them so strangely?

Here’s an excerpt from the new book, “Why Q needs U: A history of our letters and how we use them”, which takes you on a linguistic odyssey through the history of the alphabet:

Where does the alphabet come from? And why does English use it so strangely?

A new book takes us on a linguistic odyssey through the history of the alphabet

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ref2029.bsky.social @ref2029.bsky.social · Sep 4

The names of panel members for the criteria-setting phase of REF 2029 have now been announced on our panels pages. 2029.ref.ac.uk/news/expert-...

Expert panels appointed for REF 2029 – REF 2029

2029.ref.ac.uk

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Jonathan Leader Maynard @jleadermaynard.bsky.social · Aug 27

Really important research from The Policy Institute and the Higher Education Policy Institute:

The UK public hugely underestimate both the economic importance of universities to the economy, and the levels of graduate satisfaction with university.

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/public-...

Public hugely overestimate graduate regret while underestimating economic value of universities and being wrong on tuition fees – new study

People guess that 40% of graduates wouldn't go to university if they could choose again, when the reality is just 8%

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · Aug 13

🚨JOB KLAXON🚨

@kingsmusic.bsky.social is delighted to offer a permanent Lectureship/Senior Lectureship, starting ASAP, in the history of opera and/or music theatre (any timeframe) OR historically European music c. 1780 to1900.

SHORT DEADLINE – 31 AUGUST

APPLY HERE: tinyurl.com/2t34j665

SHARE!!!

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Ruth Atherton @ruthatherton.bsky.social · Aug 27

What is that tiny speck I see in the distance? Could it be the book-writing finish line? Yes I think it is! #amwriting #slowprogress #whydidieverstartthis #skystorians #earlymodern

a cartoon scene from spongebob squarepants with the words " almost there " on the bottom

ALT: a cartoon scene from spongebob squarepants with the words " almost there " on the bottom

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Theology Hub @theologyhub.bsky.social · Aug 11

🔔 #theologyjobs Assistant Professor in New Testament at McCormick Theological Seminary:

www.mccormick.edu/jobboard

#theology #theologie #newtestsment #BibleStudy #ichbinhanna #AcademicChatter

Job Board — McCormick Theological Seminary

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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · Jul 30

Can someone please point me in the direction of people working on philosophy and religion in the long eighteenth century..?

#18thC #18C #C18th #18thCentury

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Dr Una McIlvenna @unamcilvenna.bsky.social · Jul 28

For those who would like to watch the recording of my public talk the other evening on Ballads as News Media in Early Modern Europe, the link is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGVz...
Thanks to the @historycouncilvic.bsky.social, University Publishing and the Old Treasury Building Melbourne!

Making Public Histories: 'Hearing the News', July 2025

YouTube video by History Council of Victoria

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Jul 9

There are three types of library users: the absent-minded dreamer (1), the busy and silent reader (2), and the one looking at the other two types (3). Which one are you? #bookhistory #skystorians

Detail of a copperplate print featured in volume 1 of "Neuer Bücher-Saal der gelehrten Welt oder Ausführliche Nachrichten von allerhand neuen Büchern und andern Sachen" (1710, Leipzig) featuring three men sitting in a library.

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Ueli Zahnd @uelizahnd.bsky.social · May 23

Having a great time at #reforc2025 with a great paper yesterday by @giovannigellera.bsky.social and right now a fascinating one on Osiander by @ruthatherton.bsky.social

Looking forward to the rest of it...

#earlymodern #skystorians

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Ruth Atherton @ruthatherton.bsky.social · May 10

My article has been published! And it's open access so you can all enjoy reading about Protestant church orders 🤣 #earlymodern #churchhistory #skystorians #history #reformazing

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Consolation in Sixteenth Century Protestant Church Orders

This article presents four ways that demonstrate how Protestant church orders provided comfort and consolation to the laity in sixteenth century Germany, with specific focus on the sacraments of ba...

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Brepols @brepols.net · Apr 30

𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗼𝘄 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 (𝗰. 𝟭𝟰𝟳𝟬-𝟭𝟱𝟱𝟬)
By Joanka van der Laan

More info: bit.ly/4cSBgnk

#Literature #LowCountries #ReligiousStudies #History #Medievalsky #Renaissance #EarlyModern #Historysky

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Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social · Apr 13

New episode for you today, on Descartes' physics! Given his mathematical theory of body, how could he explain qualitative features like color and heat, or even why things move around?

www.historyofphilosophy.net/descartes-ph...

#philsky #descartes #earlymodern

Picture of Cartesian cosmology from an early modern printed book

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Apr 11

so exciting the Harleian collection will get its historian!!! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Nicholas Seager @nick-seager.bsky.social · Apr 3

Fully funded (4 year) PhD studentship supervised across Keele Univ. and the British Library: "Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection". You'll generate your own project focused on how this unique collection was created and used: www.keele.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection

www.keele.ac.uk

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socforrefstudies.bsky.social @socforrefstudies.bsky.social · Apr 11

Hello Bluesky! This is the official account of the Society for Reformation Studies. We meet each April in Cambridge for our annual conference and our journal is Reformation and Renaissance Review.

We are keen to engage with anyone interested in Reformation studies!

#earlymodern #skystorians

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Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social · Apr 1

The Ecclesiastical History Society is delighted to join BlueSky and the #academic community here. Our Society is dedicated to the study of all things #churchhistory. We will be moving from posting on our X account soon, so please give us a follow!

Committee members of the EHS at the 2024 Summer Conference

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German Peasants’ War - As It Happened @germanpeasantswar.bsky.social · Mar 28

#OTD in the German Peasants’ War:

Tuesday, 28 March 1525

The Prior and monks of Ochsenhausen monastery were threatened by the peasants and were forced to co-operate.

#earlymodern #skystorians

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Steve Murdoch @profmurdoch.bsky.social · Mar 16

Essay Competition Alert!

Early Career Scholars, inc. podtgrads - An opportunity to submit a short essay to the @northernstudies.bsky.social prize committee.

www.ssns.org.uk/magnusson-pr...

#Skystorians
@insuhi.bsky.social @uhihistory.bsky.social @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social @aberjack.bsky.social

Magnusson Prize - Scottish Society for Northern Studies

www.ssns.org.uk

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · Mar 3

Think some starter packs are doing the rounds again, if you're a historian of the body (broadly defined) and you'd like to be added to this one let me know! bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Feb 26

‘More than ever, history and historians need a collaborative and co-ordinated approach' bit.ly/4iddCU8

In advocacy, the Royal Historical Society works closely with fellow #history organisations. Today we release a statement with @histassoc.bsky.social, @ihr.bsky.social and History UK.
#skystorians

Opening text of a joint statement from the Historical Association, Institute of Historical Research, History UK and Royal Historical Society entitled 'More than ever, history and historians need an collaborative and co-ordinated approach, a statement.' Published on 26 February 2025.

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