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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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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 7d

Brilliant article and great to see this out – congratulations Ben!

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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 7d

Really fascinating on what drove the significant increase in sodomy prosecutions in early C18 Paris – in large part a nosy lecturer at the Collège Mazarin collaborating with police, not the rise of the absolutist state...

Ben Bernard @drbernard.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 New article! I'm excited to share “The sodomy consultant of Paris, 1688–1737,” published this week in French Historical Studies: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo... . A 🧵:

The Sodomy Consultant of Paris | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press

read.dukeupress.edu

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Ben Bernard @drbernard.bsky.social · 7d

🚨 New article! I'm excited to share “The sodomy consultant of Paris, 1688–1737,” published this week in French Historical Studies: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo... . A 🧵:

The Sodomy Consultant of Paris | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press

read.dukeupress.edu

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 7d

Good to know if unsurprising jobs impact. If you're looking for AI killing, have a look at environmental impact.

AI is not killing jobs, finds new US study

Research shows little evidence the cutting-edge tech such as chatbots is putting people out of work

www.ft.com

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 8d

New from me: a *free* short version of my Political Quarterly piece on universities... The issue is settled now: the massified and accessible Higher Education system we have spent tens of billions building since the 1970s is coming to an end. (1/2)
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...

Where now for Britain’s Universities?

UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.

politicalquarterly.org.uk

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 11d

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World- King's College London - Department of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London

Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 13d

“Without the ideas+perspective of ECRs… there will be no new generation of scholars to take up ideas and push them in new directions”

@wadehistory.bsky.social on “What can be done?” for the French History Network’s ECR in 2025 series

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6746/

🗃️#FRHistory

Let me be blunt: senior colleagues, institutions and organisations need to act in accordance with the mentality that French history in Britain is on the verge of extinction, because it is. Based on the nature of the job market today, the majority of ECRs in French history are, realistically, looking for permanent positions in European (or possibly global) history or in a particular subdiscipline of history (e.g. political history, economic history, social history, and so on). This puts them in fierce competition with historians studying other countries, all of whom face the same challenges. If ECRs in French history do not manage to secure permanent positions, the entire French history community will suffer: without the ideas and perspective of ECRs, senior scholars will only be able to have conversations with each other, and there will be no new generation of scholars to take up their ideas and push them in new directions. Put another way, senior scholars who do not wish to see their books merely gathering dust in libraries twenty years from now need to be doing whatever they can to support ECRs on the job market.

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 14d

This is an especially important blogpost, because ECRs know that senior scholars have far too much on their plate already, but the support of senior scholars (or lack thereof) makes a world of difference to the ECR experience.

(My full response follows tomorrow!)

will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 14d

Treat ECRs like people, prepare ECRs in our fields for other careers, only supervise students if you can really commit. It’s sad this stuff still needs saying.

2nd anon post in ECR in 2025 series on the French History Network asks “What can be done?”

🗃️#FRHistory

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6693/

ECR in 2025: Part Two- What can be done? – SSFH

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 14d

Treat ECRs like people, prepare ECRs in our fields for other careers, only supervise students if you can really commit. It’s sad this stuff still needs saying.

2nd anon post in ECR in 2025 series on the French History Network asks “What can be done?”

🗃️#FRHistory

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6693/

ECR in 2025: Part Two- What can be done? – SSFH

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk

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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 13d

New article by Déborah Cohen – 'Denouncing charlatans at the end of the eighteenth century: the politics of constituting a medical public' doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

@frenchhistory.bsky.social

Denouncing charlatans at the end of the eighteenth century: the politics of constituting a medical public

Abstract. This article explores the porous boundary between medical and political publics at the end of the eighteenth century, based on letters sent to th

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 16d

I was deeply disappointed by the renovation of the Musée Carnavalet, one of my favorite Parisian museums. The editors of @frenchhistory.bsky.social kindly invited me to explain why.

Mille mercis to @eldrclaire.bsky.social and @tombhamilton.bsky.social for their feedback and tolerance.

An unworldly world museum: the new Musée Carnavalet– Histoire de Paris

When the Musée Carnavalet, the history museum of the city of Paris, closed for renovations in 2016, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo declared that the twin goals o

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 15d

AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research.

Run, don’t walk.

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 13d

'At a time when fully two thirds of Parisians were born elsewhere and the central intramuros arrondissements account for an ever-shrinking proportion of the metropolitan population, it can only be seen as a wilful misrecognition of the true diversity of Paris and the forces shaping its history.'

Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 13d

'as an interpretive endeavour, especially one that claims to reflect the pluralism of contemporary Paris, it falls short ... [the Carnavalet] fails to engage with essential new historiography globalizing Parisian history or to challenge the imperial logic of a civic identity'

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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 13d

New in French History: Jennifer Sessions' powerful decolonial critique of the re-opened Musée Carnavalet in Paris doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

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An unworldly world museum: the new Musée Carnavalet– Histoire de Paris

When the Musée Carnavalet, the history museum of the city of Paris, closed for renovations in 2016, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo declared that the twin goals o

doi.org

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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 19d

First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate!

#EarlyModern 🗃️

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 21d

I know senior scholars have too much on their plates already, but I hope they will give this blogpost (and the ones to follow) a read. The "Early Career state of mind" is very real, and the anonymous ECRs here capture so many of the challenges that it raises

will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 21d

“Cataclysmically bad”

This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.

1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

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ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk

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will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 21d

“Cataclysmically bad”

This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.

1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

🗃️

ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 29d

✨Excitingly my monograph now has a cover!✨ It’s out in November @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social, which means there will finally be a whole book on Hortense Mancini’s salon, the eager few will be relieved to know. It comes with an academic price tag £££ but will be Open Access. Library orders welcome 🙏

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Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales @annales.ehess.fr · Sep 8

🚨 Les #Annales recrutent un éditeur/une éditrice bilingue anglais-français 🚨

L'offre d'emploi est à retrouver ici
👉 recrutement.ehess.fr/offre-emploi...

Poste à pourvoir à partir du 1er novembre 2025
⚠️ Candidatures à envoyer avant le 8 octobre 2025

EHESS - recruitment area

Niveau de recrutement : Ingénieur d’études (Catégorie A)

recrutement.ehess.fr

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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · Sep 8

"Rethinking rebellion in early Capetian Burgundy (1002–1016)" doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... Just out, by @ralphtorta.bsky.social

Rethinking rebellion in early Capetian Burgundy (1002–1016)

Abstract. This article examines the civil conflict which took place in Burgundy after the death of Duke Henry (r. 965–1002), normally understood as a strug

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Aug 27

Seeing a lot of critical responses from medievalists about this BBC 1066 thing. As an early modernist, just to say that I'm happy to confirm that medieval people were indeed covered in dirt all the time and did all sound like they were in the Wurzels.

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Durham History @durhamhistory.bsky.social · Aug 20

🚨 JOB ALERT🚨
We are looking to hire an Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern). This Grade 8 open-ended position has an application deadline of 28/09/2025. Click below to learn more and apply. Please share widely!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOJ050/a...

Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern) at Durham University

Apply now for the Assistant Professor in Histories of the Islamicate World (Medieval/Early Modern) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · Aug 20

I wrote a blogpost for the French History Network reflecting on my postdoctoral work and the long, windy path that brought me here. In short, the archives sometimes push us in an unexpected direction, and that's okay! Postdocs are the perfect time to gather lots of material and think ambitiously 🗃️

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