Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg
@evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social
Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel. Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg
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Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700
Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700
www.cambridge.org
My Element is out out featuring several #earlymodern mobile lives and open access too. Let me know if you use it in your teaching and if you like it. Woohoo! 🎉 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Scholars of #mobility, #travel, #exploration, #colonialism. Do remind your PhD students and ECRs about the @hakluytsociety.bsky.social annual essay prize! 🗃️We are accepting entries until 1 March. More details here: www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...
The Hakluyt Society annual essay prize for graduate students
The Hakluyt Society awards an annual essay prize of up to a total of £1,250. The competition is open to any registered or recent graduate students
www.hakluyt.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Scholars of #mobility, #travel, #exploration, #colonialism. Do remind your PhD students and ECRs about the @hakluytsociety.bsky.social annual essay prize! 🗃️We are accepting entries until 1 March. More details here: www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...
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Thrilled to start this year’s #affectiveartefacts seminar series with @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social!
@bemccollective.bsky.social
@bemccollective.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Thrilled to start this year’s #affectiveartefacts seminar series with @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social!
@bemccollective.bsky.social
@bemccollective.bsky.social
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#Earlymodern cancer experiments such as that undertaken by English surgeon Samuel Smith privileged the senses, but the effects could be fatal.
🔓 Claire Tuner’s new History Matters is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
🔓 Claire Tuner’s new History Matters is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
The Contagious Taste of Cancer
www.historytoday.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:50 PM
#Earlymodern cancer experiments such as that undertaken by English surgeon Samuel Smith privileged the senses, but the effects could be fatal.
🔓 Claire Tuner’s new History Matters is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
🔓 Claire Tuner’s new History Matters is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...
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🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️
Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around!
👇👇👇
@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around!
👇👇👇
@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (111286-0126) - University of Warwick
Title: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (111286-0126). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent
warwick-careers.tal.net
February 4, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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JOB ALERT: Lead Curator, Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601-1800) at The British Library - closing date: 18th Feb
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH179/l...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH179/l...
Lead Curator: Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601 – 1800) at British Library
Explore an exciting academic career as a Lead Curator: Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601 – 1800). Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
www.jobs.ac.uk
January 28, 2026 at 12:15 PM
JOB ALERT: Lead Curator, Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601-1800) at The British Library - closing date: 18th Feb
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH179/l...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH179/l...
Anyone else struggling to do any meaningful work whilst witnessing fascism on the rise everywhere? 😢😢😢
(Well at least that Bowino guy got sacked, fuck that guy).
(Well at least that Bowino guy got sacked, fuck that guy).
January 27, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Anyone else struggling to do any meaningful work whilst witnessing fascism on the rise everywhere? 😢😢😢
(Well at least that Bowino guy got sacked, fuck that guy).
(Well at least that Bowino guy got sacked, fuck that guy).
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Delighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu.
A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies.
Sign up to attend!
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies.
Sign up to attend!
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
Race and the Early Modern — CEMS KCL Blog
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
January 15, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Delighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu.
A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies.
Sign up to attend!
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies.
Sign up to attend!
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
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Winter Programme 2025-26 for our seminar on Europe & the World @ihr.bsky.social !
Mondays, 17:30 (UK time).
Everybody very welcome, in Bloomsbury or on zoom. All info and forms to get the zoom links here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
Mondays, 17:30 (UK time).
Everybody very welcome, in Bloomsbury or on zoom. All info and forms to get the zoom links here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
January 15, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Winter Programme 2025-26 for our seminar on Europe & the World @ihr.bsky.social !
Mondays, 17:30 (UK time).
Everybody very welcome, in Bloomsbury or on zoom. All info and forms to get the zoom links here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
Mondays, 17:30 (UK time).
Everybody very welcome, in Bloomsbury or on zoom. All info and forms to get the zoom links here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
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I spent the summer of 2024 in Leuven on a LECTIO fellowship, and I highly recommend it. Fabulous libraries, delightful town, great colleagues. Plus they put you up in the Beguinage! #earlymodern 🗃️
Interested to work on our collections? The Call for applications of the LECTIO – KU Leuven Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027 is now open. As in previous years, Special Collections offers a joint fellowship. We will be happy to welcome you!
Call for applications: LECTIO Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027
www.kuleuven.be
January 16, 2026 at 1:39 PM
I spent the summer of 2024 in Leuven on a LECTIO fellowship, and I highly recommend it. Fabulous libraries, delightful town, great colleagues. Plus they put you up in the Beguinage! #earlymodern 🗃️
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The only thing better than having your publication date moved up? Having your publication date moved up to your birthday! Claiming Land, Claiming Water is now due out on March 17th, and the kind folks at @pennpress.bsky.social have gifted us this discount code at www.pennpress.org/978151282925...
January 13, 2026 at 3:23 PM
The only thing better than having your publication date moved up? Having your publication date moved up to your birthday! Claiming Land, Claiming Water is now due out on March 17th, and the kind folks at @pennpress.bsky.social have gifted us this discount code at www.pennpress.org/978151282925...
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January 1625 - Richard Napier briefly owns a swan.
3 Jan: 'Mr Grub sent me a Cygnet ... I gave him 2s'. 8 Jan: 'My Cygnet did flye away'. #otd #earlymodern
3 Jan: 'Mr Grub sent me a Cygnet ... I gave him 2s'. 8 Jan: 'My Cygnet did flye away'. #otd #earlymodern
January 8, 2026 at 12:42 PM
January 1625 - Richard Napier briefly owns a swan.
3 Jan: 'Mr Grub sent me a Cygnet ... I gave him 2s'. 8 Jan: 'My Cygnet did flye away'. #otd #earlymodern
3 Jan: 'Mr Grub sent me a Cygnet ... I gave him 2s'. 8 Jan: 'My Cygnet did flye away'. #otd #earlymodern
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A man travelling within the lines of a text printed in 1621. Enjoy this short 🧵 for #skystorians and friends of news flows.
January 7, 2026 at 9:08 AM
A man travelling within the lines of a text printed in 1621. Enjoy this short 🧵 for #skystorians and friends of news flows.
Checking proofs today! #earlymodern 🗃️
January 7, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Checking proofs today! #earlymodern 🗃️
Scholars of #mobility, #travel, #exploration, #colonialism. Do remind your PhD students and ECRs about the @hakluytsociety.bsky.social annual essay prize! 🗃️We are accepting entries until 1 March. More details here: www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...
The Hakluyt Society annual essay prize for graduate students
The Hakluyt Society awards an annual essay prize of up to a total of £1,250. The competition is open to any registered or recent graduate students
www.hakluyt.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Scholars of #mobility, #travel, #exploration, #colonialism. Do remind your PhD students and ECRs about the @hakluytsociety.bsky.social annual essay prize! 🗃️We are accepting entries until 1 March. More details here: www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...
Everyone is circling back I see, so a good moment to advertise that we have just signed a contract with Helsinki University Press for a collection of articles entitled Writing the Self in Pain: Historical Perspectives 🗃️#earlymodern themes included as well! Hopefully out in 2026 #openaccess
January 7, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Everyone is circling back I see, so a good moment to advertise that we have just signed a contract with Helsinki University Press for a collection of articles entitled Writing the Self in Pain: Historical Perspectives 🗃️#earlymodern themes included as well! Hopefully out in 2026 #openaccess
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Another exodus from the other site, from the sounds of it? If you're looking for the #EarlyModern gang, we've got three starter packs that compile a bunch of them. I can keep adding to the third, just poke.
Here's the OG: go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF 1/3
Here's the OG: go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF 1/3
January 5, 2026 at 8:18 PM
Another exodus from the other site, from the sounds of it? If you're looking for the #EarlyModern gang, we've got three starter packs that compile a bunch of them. I can keep adding to the third, just poke.
Here's the OG: go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF 1/3
Here's the OG: go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF 1/3
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This feels like an excellent occasion to mention I'm now co-editor of the Studies in #EarlyModern European History with @sarakbarker.bsky.social & Laura Kounine.
Come get those excellent books at 40% off! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/studi... #SkyStorians
And sorry.
Come get those excellent books at 40% off! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/studi... #SkyStorians
And sorry.
January 6, 2026 at 11:23 AM
This feels like an excellent occasion to mention I'm now co-editor of the Studies in #EarlyModern European History with @sarakbarker.bsky.social & Laura Kounine.
Come get those excellent books at 40% off! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/studi... #SkyStorians
And sorry.
Come get those excellent books at 40% off! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/studi... #SkyStorians
And sorry.
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PROGRAMME FOR THE TERM UP!
Exciting papers coming you way, on zoom & @ihr.bsky.social, #EarlyModern #SkyStorians: sacred spaces, epidemics, and corporeality.
Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Exciting papers coming you way, on zoom & @ihr.bsky.social, #EarlyModern #SkyStorians: sacred spaces, epidemics, and corporeality.
Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
January 5, 2026 at 2:40 PM
PROGRAMME FOR THE TERM UP!
Exciting papers coming you way, on zoom & @ihr.bsky.social, #EarlyModern #SkyStorians: sacred spaces, epidemics, and corporeality.
Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Exciting papers coming you way, on zoom & @ihr.bsky.social, #EarlyModern #SkyStorians: sacred spaces, epidemics, and corporeality.
Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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The last 2025 issue of the JEMH just dropped, a Special Issue on Environment & Empires. Don’t miss it! #earlymodern #envhist #envhum
December 31, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The last 2025 issue of the JEMH just dropped, a Special Issue on Environment & Empires. Don’t miss it! #earlymodern #envhist #envhum
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And a bonus review essay on “The Challenge of Early Modernity” in the new Special Issue of the JEMH on Environment & Empires! #earlymodern #envhist #envhum
Lastly, we have a review essay by Alan Strathern entitled "India as the World: The Challenge of Early Modernity."
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com
December 31, 2025 at 8:59 PM
And a bonus review essay on “The Challenge of Early Modernity” in the new Special Issue of the JEMH on Environment & Empires! #earlymodern #envhist #envhum
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With some wonderful articles on the history of anxiety ( #EmoHistory), maritime communities, and an #AngloDutch couple: emlc-journal.org
The #LowCountries have something for all #SkyStorians.
The #LowCountries have something for all #SkyStorians.
January 2, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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Listening to Susanah Romney in 2015, about intimate networks.
“Small scale connections that individuals were making across the oceans really added up to something that was a lot weightier than what just the companies were doing or just the colony governments were doing.”
#genealogy #earlymodern
“Small scale connections that individuals were making across the oceans really added up to something that was a lot weightier than what just the companies were doing or just the colony governments were doing.”
#genealogy #earlymodern
December 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Listening to Susanah Romney in 2015, about intimate networks.
“Small scale connections that individuals were making across the oceans really added up to something that was a lot weightier than what just the companies were doing or just the colony governments were doing.”
#genealogy #earlymodern
“Small scale connections that individuals were making across the oceans really added up to something that was a lot weightier than what just the companies were doing or just the colony governments were doing.”
#genealogy #earlymodern
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enables self-promotion but great work, if I may say, from @murphyte.bsky.social and other fine historians (including late Laurie Wood) uscpress.com/The-Torrid-Z... #ICYMI #mairtimehistory #earlymodern
December 18, 2025 at 2:41 PM
enables self-promotion but great work, if I may say, from @murphyte.bsky.social and other fine historians (including late Laurie Wood) uscpress.com/The-Torrid-Z... #ICYMI #mairtimehistory #earlymodern
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So delighted to see my first book up online with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @anzamems.bsky.social @memorients.bsky.social @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social. DM or email me for a review copy request form, and ask your uni librarian to buy the book!! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
December 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
So delighted to see my first book up online with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @anzamems.bsky.social @memorients.bsky.social @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social. DM or email me for a review copy request form, and ask your uni librarian to buy the book!! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Beautiful little drawing of a waterfowl in the log of the East India Company ship 'Rochester', ca. 1709-12, headed to China, kept by Captain Francis Stane (IOR/L/MAR/B/137B).
December 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Beautiful little drawing of a waterfowl in the log of the East India Company ship 'Rochester', ca. 1709-12, headed to China, kept by Captain Francis Stane (IOR/L/MAR/B/137B).