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Sarah Bendall
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Material Culture & Gender Historian | Trade, Production & Consumption of Fashion, 1500-1800 | Recreation & Making |📖 Shaping Femininity (Bloomsbury) | Co-I AHRC Making Historical Dress Network | 👩🏻‍🏫Senior Lecturer | sarahabendall.com
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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · 9d
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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lc-beguines.bsky.social
The Renaissance Society of America is partnering with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) to offer five tuition scholarships (each for one week) to current RSA members who wish to attend the institute in 2026. Deadline November 19, 2025.

www.rsa.org/general/cust...
www.rsa.org
November 12, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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historymatterssyd.bsky.social
One year postdoc in Australian history at Sydney Uni - details below. It’s a very short window - please spread among networks

Might suit someone already in the GLAM sector who wants to work on their research/practice - all applications welcome of course

usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/USYD_EXTERNA...
Colonel George Johnson Fellowship in Australian History
A 12-month fixed-term opportunity at 0.8FTE, with the possibility of variation work Inviting applications for the 2026 Colonel George Johnston Fellowship in Australian History Base Salary Level A $109...
usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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timhitchcock.bsky.social
Applications for the Caird Fellowships at Royal Museums Greenwich are now open - www.rmg.co.uk/collections/... It looks like a great opportunity to work on a fantastic collection and collaborate with some brilliant staff.
Fellowships at Royal Museums Greenwich
Apply for funding to support research at Royal Museums Greenwich through our Caird Research Fellowships
www.rmg.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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davidveevers.bsky.social
Can anyone recommend a good text / source for sea monsters and imagined marine life in early modern period? Niche request. Cheers!
November 12, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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royalhistsoc.org
Join us on Weds 19 November for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with
@ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN

Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians
New programme of 'Applied History Fellowships': launch and introductory event - RHS
In 2025-26 the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Royal Historical Society and DC Thomson will launch a new Applied History Fellowship partnership. Join us at this online session -- 2.30pm on Wed...
bit.ly
November 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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barbarasplendor.bsky.social
Just out of the box! Can't wait to read it! A fantastic dive into early modern drugs #histscie #histmed #earlymodern
November 6, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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zenothankyou.bsky.social
The great thing about working on early modern academia is you never know if the archive will a) overturn everything we thought we knew about early modern philosophy or b) be nothing but complaints about low pay
November 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
sarahabendall.bsky.social
Speaking of new books, I’m so excited to get my hands on Erin Griffey’s new book, FACING DECAY: Beauty, Aging, and Cosmetics in Early Modern Europe.
I’ve heard Erin give talks about her research and it is truly fascinating!!

www.psupress.org/books/titles...
Facing Decay: Beauty, Aging, and Cosmetics in Early Modern Europe By Erin Griffey
The pursuit of youth and beauty transcends time periods. As now, women in the early modern period also sought to turn back the clock using cosmetic recipes promising beauty and clear, younger-looking ...
www.psupress.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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onslies.bsky.social
Right, 'Evelyn's daughter' went on a big American late night show and talked about the Warburg and Renaissance research.

So early modern studies are saved, right? RIGHT? We've got impact now and are cool again?

(It *is* the most incredible place in the world.)
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November 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
sarahabendall.bsky.social
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.
November 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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judithflanders.co.uk
Timeline cleanse!

The @rijksmuseum.bsky.social has put out a banger of a voyage round Petronella Oortman's dollshouse. Not to be missed. www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/dollshouse
Rijksmuseum Poppenhuis
www.rijksmuseum.nl
November 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
sarahabendall.bsky.social
🚨 Job alert: Two 2-year post doctor fellowships in history at UNSW Sydney.

external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au/cw/en/job/53...
Postdoctoral Fellow in History
Undertake independent research and contribute to UNSW’s vibrant History program as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in any area of historical study.
external-careers.jobs.unsw.edu.au
October 21, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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royalstudies.bsky.social
Our next Digital Seminar Series seminar is TOMORROW at 6pm UK time. Join Julia Hamilton’s talk on ‘All that’s Rich’: The Intended Meanings of Luxury Goods in Stuart Interiors.

To attend, you must register before TONIGHT via the link:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dss-octobe...
October 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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hpsvanessa.bsky.social
#JobFairy because I’ve not seen this come up on the usual international job sites & the deadline’s quite soon #HistSTM -unclear if it will sponsor overseas applicants. (Let us know if you find out) 🗃️
October 16, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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onslies.bsky.social
#SkyStorians, question: are there small pots of money out there for non-affiliated historians to apply to to support their research project? Most of what I can find are full postdocs or small grants for people in a post to buy them out a bit.

With jobs going, some more of those funds would be good?
October 16, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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ladygiada.bsky.social
Call for Papers📣: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns. Join us in Florence. We look forward to hosting you in May 2026😎☀️ @eui-history.bsky.social #skystorians #academicsky #earlymodern
October 8, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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jessiewhchen.bsky.social
Printed copies of Everlasting Flowers are gorgeous! But the digital version is #openaccess for anyone to read: brill.com/display/titl....

A book presentation takes place at the KB in The Hague on 3 December. You are warmly invited! To register: tickets.kb.nl/nl-NL/Show/D...

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Printed copies of the book, with one copy open to pages 196 and 197, and the two that are stacked showing the cover. Flyer for the book presentation, with the text reads as the following. Left-hand side: Book Presentation, 3 December 2025, KB, National Library, Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5, The Hague Right-hand side: Programme 14:00 Walk-in 14:30 Welcome and opening, Esther van Gelder (KB, nationale bibliotheek), Editors of series Emergence of Natural History and De Gruyter Brill. 14:50 Book presentation, Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen (Huygens Instituut/KNAW). 15:10 Gifting of physical copies 15:15 Panel discussion: State of the field(s) and practical knowledge Moderator: Marieke Hendriksen (Huygens Instituut/KNAW) Panelists: Marlise Rijks (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Sietske Fransen (Bibliotheca Hertziana/Max Planck Institute), Trude Dijkstra (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen (Huygens Instituut/KNAW). 16:00 Introduction to pop-up show. Display of reconstructions and creative projects related to the book. 16:15 Drinks / Borrel, Opportunity to see the pop-up show and book table featuring volumes from the Emergence of Natural History series. 17:00 End of event Free admission with limited space. Please register at https://tickets.kb.nl/nl-NL/Show/Details/Book-presentation- Everlasting-Flower-Between-the-Pages--3-dec-134063. Link to book: https://brill.com/display/title/70483
September 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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rezekjoe.bsky.social
Academia dot edu licensing agreement says it can use your likeness and voice and publications in any manner they want, world wide.
hystericalblkns.bsky.social Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · Sep 17
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
The new TOC from academia dot edu. 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.
September 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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hpsvanessa.bsky.social
I wish more people would call this what it is: a lie/scam to increase unpaid labour. Management know many of us won’t give crap feedback, so instead we work evenings/weekends or let other work slip. Their spreadsheet is happy, students still get decent feedback. All the burden is on the Lecturer.
ernestopriego.com Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · Sep 17
Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...
Screenshot. King's College London page. Examples of effective practice The following scenarios follow the above guidelines and offer insights into ways that academic staff can use AI transparently and in an assistive capacity, always ensuring human oversight and judgment remain central. Scenario A – Scaling feedback while maintaining quality Lecturer A is responsible for marking over 100 essays within a two-week window. Conscious of the limitations this workload places on the depth of individual feedback, they adopt a hybrid approach using their university’s approved or supported LLM tool, Copilot. Without ever uploading student work directly, Lecturer A composes an anonymised summary for each student, noting which marking criteria were met and the approximate percentage achieved for each. They input this summary alongside the official rubric into Copilot, prompting it to generate supportive, criterion-referenced feedback. This feedback is then carefully reviewed, adapted, and personalised before being uploaded to the marking platform. Students are made aware of this process in advance and shown a demonstration, reinforcing transparency and trust.
September 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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slavagreenberg.bsky.social
Postdoc job in fashion just published at my department!
Talk to Tommy about it @tommytse.bsky.social
September 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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karinsennefelt.bsky.social
Calling #earlymodern and historians of religion! I'm looking for work on food, eating and fasting among religious radicals around 1700. I've found some work on Jansenists and Pietists, but would love to know more about all the other groups out there. Very grateful for any ideas!
#foodhistory
September 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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brettrushforth.bsky.social
Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians
Image of the cover of a book titled Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions, by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth. The background image is an eighteenth-century ink and watercolor rendition of the harbor of Le Cap in modern Haiti, with three ships and one small boat foregrounded in the bay and a handful of buildings scattered on the shore in the background.
September 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
sarahabendall.bsky.social
Proofs are here!! 🖋️📚 @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social
Is the abundance of East Asian lacquers, Indian textiles, and chinoiserie furnishings the product of a woman's taste? Or something else? A joint enterprise between a politically powerful couple in a court marked by colonial/global ambition? I lean towards the latter.
August 29, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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anzamems.bsky.social
Henry VIII loved to receive cryptic gifts, but the so-called horned helmet given by the Emperor Maximilian I is perhaps the most bizarre! In @parergon.bsky.social 42.1, Grace Waye-Harris analyses its long-disputed iconographical significance.

muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...
The horned helmet of Henry VIII, part of a full suit of armour made by Konrad Seusenhofer between 1511 and 1514. The armour was a gift from the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. The helmet includes a face piece with protruding eyes, a toothy grimace and a stubbly chin with ram's horns rivetted to its upper part.
August 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM