Tim Wade

Indeed. We have an entire lesson about this. thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-14-au...

#Joinus this Thursday 29 October! #classicalreception #bookhistory #earlymodern #skystorians

Director emerita Lorraine Daston in conversation with @histphilosophy.bsky.social​ on the first episode of “Pages of History.” They discuss the surprising parallels between #Philology & #Astronomy, & why philology is one of humanity’s oldest empirical sciences. 📜 🔗 https://bit.ly/4k4GP7K #HistSci

I had the pleasure of seeing this a week or so ago at the BFI festival and it was every bit as beautiful and searing as Peter’s review suggested. I can’t recommend it enough

Rare example of a medieval scribe practicing Latin, Greek, and Hebrew on the same fragment. Any medievalists out there who can shed light on the style of the Latin characters? geniza.princeton.edu/en/documents...

This coming Tuesday, 27 October, we will be hearing about this exciting project and exhibition @marshslibrary.bsky.social from all those involved at the London Palaeography Seminar - come and join us, in person or online (5:30pm GMT). Register here: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

The latest issue of the newsletter @sibyllacumae.bsky.social and I write is out, and this issue is “On Authority”: please share and subscribe if you don’t already, pretty proud of this issue! top fav: 📜 #libsky #rarebooks twohalfsheets.substack.com/p/on-authori...

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

Went to the British Museum's 'Multiplied Wonders' exhibition at the weekend: the product of an amazing collab with Giorgio Cini foundation to produce an online census of woodcuts. I was left wondering what Christ and the disciples were eating at the last supper... is that a dog? #BookHistory #art

'The Warburg Institute is part of the School of Advanced Study at the University of London. Its collection enables the study of the interaction of ideas, images, and society (to borrow its own words). And it has a remarkable story.'

Yesterday @ihr.bsky.social launched a wide range of funding opportunities for historians. They include, with @royalhistsoc.org, calls for 2x Applied History Fellowships, 2027 and 2x PhD Fellowships for 2027-28. Full details of these and other current RHS calls: bit.ly/4Bfjsic #Skystorians

The ERC project Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe presents an online workshop, Nov 11-12th - Teaching Early Modern Women’s Writing Between Literature and Philosophy: Pedagogy and Practice culturesofphilosophy.exeter.ac.uk/2026/10/14/8...

We're now inviting #history book submissions for our 2027 #BookPrize. Check out our website for more details, and make sure to submit your book by 28 February 2027 to be eligible! 📚📚📚📚📚 ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/prizes/

We're excited to announce the first IHR Italy 1200-1700 Seminar of the year Hannah Lloyd (Yale) will be speaking on "Transformations in the Visual Role of Food in the Elite Dining of Late Medieval Italy" 5:30pm Thursday 15 October in person at the IHR in Wolfson NB01 and online

✨ How about a trip to Zurich next year? Join us at #REFORC2027, where scholars from around the world come together to explore themes of identity, alterity, and much more within the context of Early Modern Christianity. 📢 Registration and short paper submissions are open! tinyurl.com/3x7zdyra

🚨CFP, #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture Workshop! Early-career scholars, don't forget to apply to present your work on Early Modern Material Culture in Bern (19-20 Nov 2026)! Deadline: 2 Oct 2026 👇

Job Opening: Assistant Professor of Early Modern European Art History, College Park, Maryland #earlymodern

Historic England vanishing archive - details of why it is broken : www.sarsen.org/2026/09/hist...

Funded PhD Opportunity!

I'm delighted to prresent "Privilege and Power Printing Privileges and the Regulation of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe" from the @be4copy.bsky.social project and edited by Marius Buning, @andreaottone.bsky.social and me. #Printingprivileges #Bookhistory #OpenAccess www.scup.com/doi/book/10....

Ali and I have been working on this essay cluster on antiquarianism and literary history-- with wonderful contributions from @bkadams.bsky.social, David Landreth, @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social, and Jane Raisch-- for a really REALLY long time, and it is finally out! read.dukeupress.edu/modern-langu...

Interesting project and post-doc opportunity: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ013/p...

There is a boardgame (nearing production) about the Italian Wars developed around some of Machiavelli's ideas and language about rulership (eg. sentiment runs from Hated to Feared). Just pre-ordered my copy. This is not a drill! www.gmtgames.com/p-1229-foxes...

Talk, coming up 24 Sep 2026 - Moveable Type and the Early Modern Imaginary Image reproduction and the Early Modern mental universe Lecturer: Stephanie Leitch Sponsor: American Academy in Berlin www.americanacademy.de/program/move...

Looking forward to speaking about mantises, tricksters, and misunderstandings across the 18th-century Cape of Good Hope's colonial frontier at the Global Intellectual History Seminar at All Souls @ox.ac.uk (I should note that the flyer has promoted me to a higher position)

Bore Sul (Sunday morning), 1950, painting by John Elwyn, Welsh artist, 1916-97 (National Museum Cardiff).

THEY GOT TO 2000 SUPPORTERS! Now in need of 3000 more in just under a year. LETS GO! #earlymodern #bookhistory #skystorians

📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-Posi... Apply by 15 Oct 2026

One of the rarest things in the profession - an intellectual history job at a US university that is not attached to a right wing civic center!

New in the Proceedings of the British Academy, 'The Networked Court: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Late Medieval European Court Cultures' explores the role of innovative, network-based research methodologies in humanities research as applied to late medieval court studies https://bit.ly/3ULr4bo

#CfA 📢 *Founders’ Prize*, Sixteenth Century Society @16csociety.bsky.social Supporting early-career scholars publishing their first book in early modern studies (1450–1750). ⏰ 15 September 2026 🔗 sixteenthcentury.org/prize/founde... #EarlyCareer #EarlyModern #FirstBook #BookPublication

Why is the answer to employers wanting more work ready graduates always that universities should provide more workplace training, rather than employers providing more training in the workplace?

@nicolemaceira.bsky.social and I are delighted to share the final programme for our online colloquium “Environmental Approaches to the Reformation World” - 30th September* (forgive my date error on previous now deleted post 🤦🏼‍♂️) Register Below: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/environmen...

Two extraordinary charts from today’s PISA test results: 1) School test scores continue to collapse internationally, underscoring how this is no longer a Covid effect but sustained decline. Those falls in reading and maths are equivalent to about two years of lost schooling.

#BookHistory

Even crazier when more and more scientific evidence suggests the clean air zones are helping to limit damage to children’s lungs from car pollution. Cleverly’s position basically equates to poisoning kids 👇🏼 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Our friends at Christ Church, Oxford have asked us to share this: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-and-...

A great looking conference for #EarlyModern peeps!

🚨CFA PhD: #EarlyModern Grad students, come and join our amazing History Department at Bern!!! What a wonderful opportunity to pursue your own project in early modern history! 👇