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Tomos Evans @tomos-evans.bsky.social · 16h

Society elects 248 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members - RHS

At its latest meeting on 12 September 2025, the RHS Council elected 73 Fellows, 63 Associate Fellows, 50 Members and 63 Postgraduate Members, a total of 249 people newly associated with the Society, f...

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Tomos Evans @tomos-evans.bsky.social · 21h

Delighted to have been elected as an Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society! @royalhistsoc.org

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Tomos Evans @tomos-evans.bsky.social · 7d

British Milton Seminar and Andrew Marvell Society via Zoom on Friday 24 October 2025 at 2.00 pm (BST) / 9.00 am (EDT)

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: British Milton Seminar/Andrew Marvell Society Autumn Meeting 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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Tomás Antonio Valle @tomasantoniovalle.bsky.social · 13d

CFP: Ecosystems of the Mind: Resources for Reconstructing Early Modern Intellectual Life || 21–23 May 2026 || Hamburg, DE

Please spread broadly! Feel free to reach out with questions.

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Tomos Evans @tomos-evans.bsky.social · 9d

My article ‘Marshall’s Ignorant Hand’ has been published (open access!) in Milton Quarterly onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 19d

Rare books people! Following some lively & productive discussion at the @livesandletters.bsky.social conference last week, I have a question: how would you describe inscriptions like these?

St John's Cambridge Rr.7.15. Title page with ownership inscription crossed out messily.

Cambridge Whipple WS 570. Page with six lines of writing crossed out, and new ownership inscription added in.

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GrECI @greci-eu.bsky.social · 23d

✨ GrECI Concluding Conference ✨

We are pleased to announce the concluding conference of the GrECI Project, “Greek Heritage in European Culture and Identity”

📍 Nicosia, Cyprus (Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation)
📅 22–24 October 2025

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Tomos Evans @tomos-evans.bsky.social · Jul 13

7 Neo-Latin PhD positions at Innsbruck and Freiburg: Ancient Greek and Neo-Latin; Oral Neo-Latin; Women’s Voices in Neo-Latin; Bilingual Books for Early Modern Readers; Catholic Inculturation(s); Canones of Neo-Latin Texts; The Nachleben of Neo-Latin Literature.

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Tomos Evans @tomos-evans.bsky.social · Jun 23

Looking forward to returning to my alma mater for the @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference next week!

Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Jun 22

Just over a week until all #EarlyModern ists descend upon Bristol!! Find out who’s joining us at #RenSoc25 and start those conversations ahead of our gathering in person:
go.bsky.app/DVyFCxt #SkyStorians

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Tomos Evans @tomos-evans.bsky.social · Jun 16

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International Graduate Students Engage in Research and Intellectual Exchange at the Seeger Center

By Catherine CuranSix early-career scholars joined the Seeger Center's academic community for a week of research and intellectual exchange at the seventeenth International Graduate Student Conference ...

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History of Parliament @histparl.bsky.social · Jun 16

Born #OTD 1514, John Cheke, MP for Bletchingley in 1547 and 1553. As sometime tutor to Edward VI, Cheke enjoyed great prestige during the king’s reign, becoming a secretary of state just a month before Edward’s death.

Read Cheke's biography here 👉 ow.ly/RWPh50zXSdn

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Tomos Evans @tomos-evans.bsky.social · Jun 2

New Ancient Greek Literatures: Contexts, Audiences, Legacies (8–10 July 2026)

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Tomos Evans @tomos-evans.bsky.social · May 22

Congratulations John!

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Tom Ashbyトム ∙ アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · May 18

Recently out in HR: @nicolegreenspan.bsky.social on how news in Cromwellian England about the 1655 massacre of Waldenses by Savoyard troops in Piedmont was composed, circulated, & altered as well as its impact & the methods of informal & public diplomacy employed academic.oup.com/histres/arti...

A screenshot of the title and abstract of the article, find via the link

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Tomos Evans @tomos-evans.bsky.social · May 12

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John Milton, Oliver Cromwell, and virtue politics: magnanimity in England, Eden, and Hell

What did John Milton think of Oliver Cromwell? This has long been one of the most debated questions in seventeenth-century studies. Milton worked for the Cromwellian Protectorate throughout its exi...

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Tomos Evans @tomos-evans.bsky.social · May 1

5th June 2025
Balliol College, Oxford
“Transmitting and Preserving Languages in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean”

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Transmitting and Preserving Languages in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean

Transmitting and Preserving Languages in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean Date: 5th June 2025 Venue: Balliol College, Gillis Lecture Theatre an

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Tomos Evans @tomos-evans.bsky.social · Apr 23

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Seventeenth International Graduate Student Conference in Modern Greek Studies

PRINCETON UNIVERSITYSeeger Center for Hellenic StudiesSeventeenth International Graduate Student ConferenceIN MODERN GREEK STUDIES“Works in Progress: New Approaches”Friday, May 2, 2025Scheide Caldwell...

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Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social · Apr 14

We’ve extended the deadline to submit an abstract for our colloquium on early modern war narratives! Please share widely and send us your abstracts!

#earlymodern #history

CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · Apr 14

Deadline Extension! CEMS Colloquium on Early Modern War Narratives. Send us your abstracts by this Friday (18th)!

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Early Modern War Narratives - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog

Join CEMS for our annual colloquium. This year's theme is early modern war narratives. CfP deadline: 11th April.

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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · Apr 16

📣 New open access publication on early modern student notes, in which Leuven features quite prominently, as it has a long tradition of research in this source type (e.g. Magister Dixit, DaLeT). An extra surplus is that it has appeared in the year of KU Leuven's sexcentenary.

Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750)

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Tomos Evans @tomos-evans.bsky.social · Apr 15

Wonderful news, Rhodri! Congratulations!

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Gianamar Giovannetti-Singh 🍉🌻🟥 @gianamar97.bsky.social · Apr 12

My new article, "Wild Horses," is now out in Annals of Science! It argues that the Manchu conquest of China—as presented to Europeans by the Jesuit Martino Martini—shaped dialectical theories of the rise and fall of empires, and of the role of horses therein 🐎

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Wild horses: Tartar warfare and the history of civilization

In 1644, the Manchus, a Tungusic population from northeast Asia, conquered Ming China, establishing the Qing Empire. Four years later, Crimean Tartar horsemen joined a major uprising against the Po...

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International Spenser Society @spensersociety.bsky.social · Apr 10

Join us on April 24 for a lively discussion of how teaching Spenser can solve the crisis of attention in the classroom! Or at least distract us from other crises. Register here: binghamton.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Tomos Evans @tomos-evans.bsky.social · Apr 2

‘Milton’s Diodatian Poetics’ in the latest issue of Milton Studies is now accessible on @projectmuse.bsky.social

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Anne Goldgar @annegoldgar.bsky.social · Mar 24

28 MARCH: John Gallagher on “The notaries of the Royal Exchange: migration and translation between London and the Low Countries?” IHR Low Countries seminar 5:30 pm GMT (UK clocks not yet changed), online & in person at IHR Wolfson Rm 2. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/events/notar...

The notaries of the Royal Exchange: migration and translation between London and the Low Countries

www.history.ac.uk

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