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Stefan Hanß
@stefanhanss.bsky.social
Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester
#materialculture #globalhistory #earlymodern

Dragoman’s Self @routledgehistory.bsky.social
In-Between Textiles @amsterdamupress.bsky.social

@uomhistdept.bsky.social @bemccollective.bsky.social
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NEW PUBLICATION
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes

doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance
Abstract. Collaborations between the humanities and sciences allow for novel insights into the material world of Renaissance recipe cultures, and in partic
doi.org
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In “Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes,” @stefanhanss.bsky.social and his research team show how scientific analysis and historical contextualization of biochemical information of early modern recipes reveals new insights into early modern medicine and material practices. #AHR
The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance
Abstract. Collaborations between the humanities and sciences allow for novel insights into the material world of Renaissance recipe cultures, and in partic
doi.org
January 28, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Wonderful to see our research receiving such wide attention
January 26, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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This sounds like an unmissable exhibit, but the phrase "defence of museums with global collections" is doing a huge amount of work as a justification for clinging on to "collected" (stolen) Hawaiian heritage.
Hawaii: A Kingdom Crossing Oceans review – a feather-filled thriller full of gods, gourds and ghosts
This retelling of Captain Cook’s death and the merging of two cultures is a trove of miraculously preserved wonders – but beware of the shark-toothed club!
www.theguardian.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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oh! The latest issue of Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte is a tribute to Natalie Zemon Davis 🥰 and what a wonderful-looking tribute it is: contributions from @vreinburg.bsky.social @anakroniks.bsky.social, Penny Roberts, Hilary Bernstein, @paulecohen.bsky.social, & many more! #NZD4Eva #EarlyModern
Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History Volume 116 Issue 1
Volume 116, issue 1 of the journal Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History was published in 2025.
www.degruyterbrill.com
December 20, 2025 at 12:16 PM
If you ever wondered what biochemical traces of past users of medical recipes may tell us about early modern haircare, see @uk.theconversation.com's discussion of our @historians.org article:
doi.org/10.64628/AB....

Research supported by @thejohnrylands.bsky.social & @britishacademy.bsky.social
What Renaissance readers left behind in haircare books
New biochemical techniques offer unmatched insight into early modern medicine, as traces of plants, animals and even human waste have been sampled from pages.
doi.org
January 9, 2026 at 6:07 AM
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By way of introduction: my book, The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible (Toronto: PIMS 2025)
pims.ca/publication/...

Available in North America via @uoftpress.bsky.social, in Europe via @brepols.net, and in digital form by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
The Multiplicity of Scripture: The Making of the Antwerp Polyglot Bible – Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
pims.ca
January 7, 2026 at 9:09 AM
Christmas comes early!

NEW open access @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Bulletin spec issue on how imaging science transforms our understanding of heritage!
www.manchesterhive.com/view/journal...

Co-edited w/ @rylandsesoterica.bsky.social
@nhsf.bsky.social @uomhums.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social
December 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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🎉 At Christmas we look back on the good things the year brought. So today's #AcademicAdvent is Dr Beatriz Marin-Aguilera @archaeotext.bsky.social who won a prestigious @leverhulme.ac.uk Philip Leverhulme Prize for her research into the origins of anti-colonial resistance in the Caribbean.
Archaeology researcher wins prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize - University of Liverpool News
Archaeology researcher wins prestigious Philip Leverhulme Prize
news.liverpool.ac.uk
December 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Next year we are co-hosting a celebration event with @rshc.bsky.social to mark the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal.

📍Birkbeck, University of London
🗓️Saturday 31 January 2026
⏱️14:00-18:00

Everyone welcome! Please make sure to book via the link below.
History Workshop Journal’s 100th Issue: a celebration
Speakers include former and newer editors, and friends of the journal. Tea, coffee and a drink will be provided.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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New calls for research funding: bit.ly/44d2mTb

Today we open calls for the Society's next rounds of 'Early Career Fellowship Grants' and 'Open Research Grants'. These schemes offer support for post-doc and later career historians to pursue research.

Closing dates: 6 March 2026 #Skystorians 1/2
Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes - RHS
The Society currently invites applications for the following six schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 23 January to 6 March 2026. For ...
bit.ly
December 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Know your rights. Protect your neighbors.

New York is — and always will be — a city for all immigrants.
December 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Just got my contributor’s copy!

Stay tuned for this wonderfully powerful Jan 2026 volume w/ Disobedience Press, celebrating the legacy of Chandler Davis for the current struggle for academic freedom.

Pre-order here:
disobediencepress.com/in-the-spiri...
December 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Wonderful to see our @historians.org article on

"The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance"

on top of the "most read" AHR articles!

It is available open access here:

doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
December 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
...and we have many of these manuals @thejohnrylands.bsky.social @manchester.ac.uk!
Wonderful to see our @historians.org American Historical Review article sparking wider discussions across disciplines!
@uomhums.bsky.social @uomsalc.bsky.social @uomhistdept.bsky.social
Do you have recipe books with annotations and stains on the most popular pages? Me too, and so does the University of Manchester. Except their recipe books are medieval medical manuals.
@bethanyhalford.bsky.social for @cenmag.bsky.social
🧪 #chemsky
cen.acs.org/analytical-c...
Proteins plucked from the pages of Renaissance recipes
Analyses of German medical manuals from 1531 reveal what ingredients those who handled the books used
cen.acs.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
“The originality and innovation of the study cannot be overstated.”

Wonderful to see @columbiauniversity.bsky.social Pamela Smith commenting on our @historians.org article in @cenmag.bsky.social news release by @bethanyhalford.bsky.social!

Massive thanks!
Just as the page of a preferred pie crust recipe bears traces of flour and butter, the pages of two German medical manuals from 1531 hold traces of the ingredients used by medicine makers, a proteomic analysis from @stefanhanss.bsky.social and coworkers reveals
cen.acs.org/analytical-c...
Proteins plucked from the pages of Renaissance recipes
Analyses of German medical manuals from 1531 reveal what ingredients those who handled the books used
cen.acs.org
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
NEW PUBLICATION
Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes

doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance
Abstract. Collaborations between the humanities and sciences allow for novel insights into the material world of Renaissance recipe cultures, and in partic
doi.org
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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This is just so grim. Students deserve to be taught by experts, not be expected to settle for AI. It is so disheartening to add this to the list of ways in which staff expertise is devalued, undermined or sidelined by institutions across the sector.

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:34 AM
We had to decide to switch off the respiration machine of my grandfather on a 1st Jan as the hospital had run out of machines for patients with better chances of survival
“Too little, too late” is true for the UK & other countries,like Germany.I am beyond relief to hear it being said.Finally.Loudly.
November 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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🔊 JOBS ALERT! Two vacancies at the #InternationalSlaveryMuseum in #Liverpool! Join the wonderful team of curators reimagining this unique museum!

Curatorial fellow: liverpoolmuseums.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

Project facilitator: liverpoolmuseums.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
November 19, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Finally, a voice of reason. It is time to see RE reformulated across the country. Now.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a Belfast-based non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education and mandatory Christian collective worship in Northern Ireland are discriminatory under human rights law.
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Just TEN DAYS LEFT to submit your abstracts for @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on EM practical texts @sheffieldcems.bsky.social. The conference has hybrid capability, and we have six self-funded student/non-waged ECR travel bursaries of £75 each.

sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...
Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature
sites.google.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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"Wherever Afro descendants are located, they are most vulnerable to climate and environmental impact”

“Climate justice cannot be separated from reparatory justice. The same systems that enriched the north created today’s vulnerabilities.”

#coloniallegacies #Afrodescendants #Indigenous #Jamaica
Hurricane Melissa a ‘real-time case study’ of colonialism’s legacies
Destruction in Jamaica shows why climate justice cannot be separated from reparatory justice, campaigners say
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
VERY excited to see the forthcoming @thejohnrylands.bsky.social Bulletin special journal issue available for pre-order:
shorturl.at/jWDap

Edited by @rylandsesoterica.bsky.social & myself, we showcase stunning projects to discuss the extent to which imaging innovation transforms heritage studies
Manchester University Press - Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 101/2
Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 101/2 - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 101/2 by Stefan Hanß
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November 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM