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Sarah Bendall
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Material Culture | Women’s History | Trade, Production & Consumption of Fashion 1500-1800 | Recreation & Making |📚 Shaping Femininity & Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens (Bloomsbury) |✍️ Embodied Experiences of Making (AUP) | sarahabendall.com
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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · Nov 4
My next book, The Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens, has a cover!!! And a preorder link!! Yippee!

www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...
Book cover shows Queen Mary II on one side and a French dressmaker holding a measuring tape taken from a print from the 1690s on the other side.
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rhetorician.bsky.social
Delighted to be series editor for Cambridge Elements in Women, Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Literature and Culture. If you have something cool and interesting you’d like to work with us on please get in touch (micrograph 20-30k)

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Women, Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Literature and Culture
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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February 14, 2026 at 5:08 AM
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📣✨ Two funded postdoc positions✨📣

Two fully funded postdoctoral positions are now open at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), beginning September 1, 2026, in History, Theory, and Heritage. Fellows will work closely with Cammy Brothers.
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Two Postdoctoral Positions, History, Theory, and Heritage, EPFL Lausanne
Cammy Brothers. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 01.09.2026, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.04.2026
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February 14, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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davehitchcock.bsky.social
See the full list of panelists and our amazing keynote here:

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Festival of Social History
To celebrate 50 years of the Social History Society, we’ve teamed up with the Institute of Historical Research to host a Social History Festival! The festival will feature two expert discussion pan…
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February 6, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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purseigle.bsky.social
🚨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

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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
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February 4, 2026 at 11:13 AM
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smcdonald.bsky.social
#earlymodern #17thC I'm not on here often, but...my first ever history article is out! It's about the goings-on in 17th C Ashton-under-Lyne. I've been passionate about 17th C history for decades, but it's not my official academic field so I'm very excited :) www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MZICG...
From Jacobean ‘nonconformity’ to Restoration Nonconformity: three rectors, one parish, and English Church turmoil in a nutshell
The parish of Ashton-under-Lyne near Manchester had only three rectors for nearly the whole of the seventeenth century: Henry Fairfax from 1619 to 1643; John Harrison from 1643 to 1662; and Thomas ...
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February 4, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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hsmurphy.bsky.social
Apply for this! #EarlyModern 🗃️
February 3, 2026 at 1:23 PM
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guel-sen.bsky.social
#earlymodern #ottomanhistory #booksky
sariyannis.bsky.social Marinos Sariyannis @sariyannis.bsky.social · 13d
30% discount code for my book, "Ottomans and the Supernatural". Please share it with your librarians!
February 3, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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drsurekhadavies.bsky.social
One month in which to apply!
#earlymodern #arthistory
drsurekhadavies.bsky.social Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · Dec 17
@rsaorg.bsky.social's inaugural Eloise Quiñones Keber Fellowship "supports research travel for a scholar working in any area of pre-Columbian, early modern, or colonial Latin American art history for the period 1300–1700."

Apply by March 1. 🗃
#arthistory #LatinAmerica
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February 2, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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jrrfitzgibbons.bsky.social
Call for Papers: Revolt of the Provinces? A Conference at the National Civil War Centre in Newark exploring the local impact and legacies of the ‘English’ Civil War(s). Organised by The Lincoln Record Society. Please share! #cfp #earlymodern royalhistsoc.org/calendar/the...
The Revolt of the Provinces: Local Dimensions of the English Civil War - CALL FOR PAPERS - RHS
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Revolt of the Provinces: Local Dimensions of the English Civil War A one-day conference, organised by the Lincoln Record Society, to be held at the National Civil War Centre, Newa...
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February 3, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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christopheschfir.bsky.social
Early Modernists on Bluesky! Can someone provide me with bibliographical indications on fur trade in Central- and Eastern Europe in the sixteenth century?
January 23, 2026 at 1:37 PM
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sharonhoward.bsky.social
If you've ever used the #earlyModern #18thc #openData London Lives Pauper Exams dataset I shared on Zenodo back in 2018, I've discovered that it omitted 4000+ names. (!!!) I've published an update rectifying this and making some other updates. zenodo.org/records/184502…
sharonhoward/llep: v3.0 February 2026
Major correction to names data Changed data format to CSV A few other updates, improvements and corrections
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February 1, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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STIP: The Burlington Magazine scholarship for French 18th Century art

https://arthist.net/archive/51622

The Burlington Magazine scholarship for French 18th Century art
Zoe Firth. The Burlington Magazine, Bewerbungsschluss: 31.03.2026
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January 30, 2026 at 12:58 PM
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c18ah.bsky.social
Inspired by the #BSECS2026 talk on the fabulous "Three Thousand Dishes on a Georgian Table, 1788-1813" data compiled by @historybeagle.bsky.social and team, I pulled together this website:

threethousanddishes.hubers.org.uk

It is such a fun dataset to explore!
@bsecs.bsky.social #c18th #foodhistory
Three Thousand Dishes | Royal Dining in Georgian England
Explore 40,000+ dishes served to King George III and the Prince Regent (1788-1813). A digital resource for Georgian food history.
threethousanddishes.hubers.org.uk
February 2, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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brodiewaddell.bsky.social
‘Tasting History: Researching and Experiencing the Development of the Cheese Trade’, with @cheesetastingco.bsky.social and @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social, hosted by Birkbeck's Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Feb 24th!

Register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Tasting History Researching and Experiencing the Development of the Cheese Trade Keynes Library, Gordon Square Tuesday 24 February 2026 1500-1730 This interactive, experiential event will include a discussion with Ned Palmer, author of A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles, and Alasdair McNeill, a Birkbeck doctoral student researching the early modern cheese trade. It will be accompanied by a free tasting of six historic cheeses. Ned will introduce each cheese by placing it in its historical context, and the tastings will be interspersed with a conversation between Ned and Alasdair about the development of the trade and its importance to broader histories of commercialisation, labour relations, and women’s social and economic role. They will also discuss the value, and limits, of experiential food studies. How can the history of cheese – from milking to mongering – illuminate the role of ordinary women and men in their local communities and wider society? How can producing and tasting historic foods help us understand their histories?
February 3, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social
Hello #skystorians.
Possibly a silly question, but is there an easy way to find out if our books are being used to teach? And if so, what is it?!
OR if any of you are using my book in your teaching, could you please let me know?
Thank you so much!
#18thC #ECR #publishing #teaching #research 🗃️
January 30, 2026 at 4:03 PM
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profelainechalus.bsky.social
What a post! This would be fascinating.

Lead Curator: Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601 – 1800) - British Library #skystorians 🗃️#earlymodern #c18th www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH179/l...
Lead Curator: Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601 – 1800) at British Library
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lead Curator: Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601 – 1800) at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
www.jobs.ac.uk
January 29, 2026 at 12:44 PM
sarahabendall.bsky.social
It’s been just a year since my co-edited volume with @serenadyer.bsky.social was released! It’s full of thought-provoking chapters by fantastic scholars & the introduction is still OA via the link in the thread below!
#earlymodern #18thC #17thc #16thc
sarahabendall.bsky.social Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · Jan 6
@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are thrilled to announce that our edited book is out now!

It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life.

Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇
January 30, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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laurenworking.bsky.social
I love Jonathan Anderson anyway and now he is BRINGING RUFFS back to menswear #earlymodern
January 28, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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profelainechalus.bsky.social
Rhodes Professorship of American History
University of Oxford #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQF092/r...
Rhodes Professorship of American History at University of Oxford
An opportunity for an academic position as a Rhodes Professorship of American History is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk
January 29, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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profelainechalus.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Fellowship in the research project Locally Crafted Empires (LoCiS)
Aarhus University - School of Culture and Society www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH625/p... #skystorians 🗃️
Postdoctoral Fellowship in the research project Locally Crafted Empires (LoCiS) at Aarhus University
An academic position as a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the research project Locally Crafted Empires (LoCiS) is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional acade...
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January 29, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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heatherfro.bsky.social
Did everyone else know about researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/ already? Searches 7 million records at 1,400 archival institutions all in ONE PLACE
ArchiveGrid
ArchiveGrid connects you with archives around the world to find historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more.
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January 26, 2026 at 5:22 PM
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btwhite.bsky.social
The new issue of History Workshop Journal is out: issue 100, marking 50 years of the journal's existence. It's more necessary than ever.

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Front cover image of History Workshop Journal issue 100, with a hand-drawn illustration of a Wollemi pine.
January 26, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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lc-beguines.bsky.social
CFP: Conference, 'Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750', University of Oxford, 18-19 June 2026

Deadline: 28 February 2026

Paper proposals are invited for this conference on the overlooked role of early modern women as writers of history. See clioreframed.hcommons.org.
January 26, 2026 at 11:01 AM
sarahabendall.bsky.social
Coming soon! My article on Queen Anne’s wardrobe has been accepted into the Journal for #18thC studies.
In it I provide a qualitative & quantitative overview of her extensive wardrobe accounts (including makers & suppliers) & the ways that fashion influenced her representational strategies!
Formal Portrait of Queen Anne in a version of her coronation robes Queen Anne’s Wardrobe: Fashion, Sartorial Politics and the Representational Strategies of the last Stuart Queen The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth-century fashion marketplace and her representational strategies. Doing so reveals the queen to be a more complex and active participant in fashion culture, and her own image-making, than has previously been acknowledged. With the help of those around her, such as those in the Office of the Robes, including her Mistress of the Robes, Anne used contemporary fashions, including her beloved mantua gown, and informal conventions in portraiture to craft a distinct image of an English, and then British, protestant queen which spoke to her moment and articulated sovereignty in distinctly early eighteenth-century terms. Bar Graph showing garments made for Queen Anne between 1702 to 1704
January 26, 2026 at 4:04 AM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
These strange color decisions of the 1560s do have a background story. A short 🧵 for #bookhistory.
A detail from a title page from 1562: the image shows a table with various brushes and various mixing flasks. A few of the flasks are hand-colored.
January 23, 2026 at 2:17 PM