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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 1d

Have you been bereft without MLGB3? It was the essential and much-used online listing of extant books from British medieval libraries. Those good people @bodleian.ox.ac.uk have been working away and have just re-launched it, with the promise of more in the year ahead:
mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Medieval Libraries of Great Britain

mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

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Christian Callisen @ctcallisen.bsky.social · 9d

This looks like a very interesting conference, being organised by @tomasantoniovalle.bsky.social at @uni-hamburg.de. 21 to 23 May 2026.

Abstracts due 1 December 2025.

#EarlyModern #skystorians #16thC #17thC

H-Soz-Kult @hsozkult.bsky.social · 13d

CFP: Ecosystems of the Mind: Resources for Reconstructing Early Modern Intellectual Life

https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157626

Hamburg, 21.05.2026-23.05.2026, Tomás Antonio Valle, University of Hamburg, Bewerbungsschluss: 01.12.2025

www.hsozkult.de

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 9d

I am once again asking the British punditry class to look at the coffee supply chain to see why it’s gone up in price!

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 9d

£6.50 for a coffee? I’m going back to instant | Emma Beddington

It’s not just prices that are out of control – I can’t take the way fans talk about their favourite brew, or my own coffee machine’s reluctance to just do its job, writes Emma Beddington

www.theguardian.com

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Kiran Mehta @kiranmehta.bsky.social · 15d

Happening tomorrow! Join me and Simon Devereaux. We’ll be chatting about my new book on London prisons and more generally about the history of imprisonment.

TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social · 23d

📢Book event📢

📗To Detain or Punish
📅Sep 24

Free and open to the public. RSVP below!

Join NACBS to celebrate @kiranmehta.bsky.social recent publication To Detain or Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750-1840.

www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

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KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social · 14d

Almost two years ago, we opened our exhibition (Un)chained Knowledge, subtitled “Fake news, censorship and information around 1500 and today”. The digital version of this exhibition is still available online. Why are we putting this exhibition back in the spotlight now?

(Un)chained Knowledge

In the mid-15th century, at the time when Dieric Bouts (ca. 1410-1475) settled in Leuven as a town painter, access to scientific knowledge was very limited. Professors could afford manuscripts, while ...

tinyurl.com

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IHR Tudor and Stuart Seminar @tudorstuartseminar.bsky.social · 16d

The IHR Tudor and Stuart seminar has joined Bluesky! Please follow and RT!

Our programme for the year is starting NEXT WEEK on Monday 29 September with Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social speaking on 'Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper'.
Online and in-person, 5.30pm
Book here:

Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper

www.history.ac.uk

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 16d

Das "Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte" erscheint in Band 27 (2025) in diesen Tagen: www.steiner-verlag.de/Jahrbuch-fue...

Zum Inhaltsverzeichnis: medien.davlink.de/978351514024...

Die Rezensionen sind, wie jedes Jahr, open access. #skystorians

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 19d

Have a good weekend

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 19d

Currently on its latest travels!

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 19d

Archivist: We kindly ask you to put your bag in a… wait, what is that?

Me: A pop-up Rembrandt house!

Archivist: …

Me: I got it at The Hague!

Archivist: …

Me: Do you want to look?

Archivist: Use the lockers please

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 19d

A lesser traveller might have thought twice about buying an A3-sized, replica seventeenth-century house midway through their research trip to the Low Countries - but not me!

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Natasha Constantinidou @nconstantinidou.bsky.social · 19d

✨What Do We Know About How Printers and Bookworkers Learned Greek in the Sixteenth Century ?

Han Lamers and I are delighted to host Martine Furno (IHRIM / ENS de Lyon) at the second online seminar of the Early Modern Hellenism Colloquia

📆Online on 25 September at 15.00 CET (via zoom)

The Aldine edition of Lucian of Samosata (1503), annotated by the printer Robert Estienne (1503-1559) and his son, Henri Estienne (1528-1598)

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 20d

"Job insecurity shreds productivity, both through the time and effort required to apply for jobs and the impact of such insecurity on mental wellbeing."
Nail head hit.

will o’the wisp pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 20d

Today a follow up to yesterday’s post on being an ECR in French History, by @wadehistory.bsky.social

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6744/ 🗃️ #FRHistory

For me, it is difficult to overstate how challenging it is to be an ECR in French history right now. One fellow ECR speaks of it being
'cataclysmically bad'; another speaks of the academic job market as a ravaging 'tornado';
neither are exaggerations.

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 21d

I’ll check it out. Thanks!

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 21d

Looks like the death knell for academia .edu. Another corner of the internet that is dead. Is it worth creating an account somewhere else? Where do people gather these days?

#skystorians #academicsky

Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.bsky.social · 21d

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose???

This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 22d

Great lineup in this seminar series hosted at LUCK:

newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/09/16/a...

#skystorians #earlymodern #mediahistory #bookhistory

Autumn Seminar Series @LUCK

LUCK’s Seminar Series, Autumn 2025 8 October, 09.15–10.15 (LUX Nedre Aulan) An Early Information Society: Paris under the Ancien Régime* Robert Darnton (Harvard) 9 October, 13.00–14.00 (LUX Nedre A…

newhistoryofknowledge.com

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 23d

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate:

www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

Stuart Hall Essay Prize reopens to submissions - Stuart Hall Foundation

The second Stuart Hall Essay Prize is reopening to submissions. The new submission window is open from now until Monday 3 November. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, ...

www.stuarthallfoundation.org

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TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social · 23d

📢Book event📢

📗To Detain or Punish
📅Sep 24

Free and open to the public. RSVP below!

Join NACBS to celebrate @kiranmehta.bsky.social recent publication To Detain or Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750-1840.

www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

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Paul Cohen @paulecohen.bsky.social · 23d

read Joan Wallach Scott's reflection on her family, her childhood, and our present moment -- equal parts moving and sad, defiant and beautiful, thoughtful and angry, realistic yet in search of concrete reasons to build hope

www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review

The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

www.bostonreview.net

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 24d

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 24d

Shot, chaser

Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

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Yuzhou @baiy.bsky.social · 25d

#rarebooks & #bookhistory folks: in case this new Princeton exhibition on global book-making has gone under your radar, you should check it out now!

mheij.bsky.social @mheij.bsky.social · 28d

Finally, the Forms & Function exhibition: The Splendors of Global Book Making has opened! Best is coming in person, but for those who cannot, there is an online version (dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...) and a downloadable catalog ( dpul.princeton.edu/global-book-...)

Forms & Function

dpul.princeton.edu

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 25d

Made a little pilgrimage to the Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp today which was wonderful. The new ‘Women’s Business’ exhibition is fab as well

#BookHistory #skystorians #EarlyModern #museums

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Tara Nummedal @tnummedal.bsky.social · 27d

Please circulate - we are hiring in Early Modern European history!

Brown University - Early Modern European History, Brown University | H-Net

networks.h-net.org

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Tim Wade @tpwade.bsky.social · 26d

Constantly amazed at the efforts of scholars in 20thC to edit the materials on which so much Renaissance history still relies. Here's Henry de Vocht's account of rushing the famous Cranevelt letters through the streets of Leuven during WW1

#skystorians #EarlyModern

Thus I had that treasure with me during the dreadful night of August 25/26, when the approaching blaze drove me out of a friend's hospitable house into the fire-lit streets, where bullets whizzed past me until I found a shelter, and where at daybreak I was kept standing for a time beside a pile of burning corpses under the brazen look of the statue of Justus Lipsius;

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