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Tim Wade
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Leverhulme ECF at the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance at the University of Warwick. Current project ‘England’s Roads to Renaissance’ on English scholars in Europe, 1490-1550. Likes: Renaissance, reformation and early modern books
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I love working on this team. Our editors are collaborative, the workload is manageable, and the engagement with authors on public-facing work is delightfully gratifying. Contact us and/or repost to help us get the word out to #academicsky. 🗃️
February 19, 2026 at 3:10 AM
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What's with all the ducks?
February 17, 2026 at 1:03 PM
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Another very attractive job offer (only two years, alas) to join the Faculty of History in Cambridge!
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor in World History, 1700-1850 (Temporary Cover)
The Faculty of History wishes to recruit a Temporary Assistant Professor in World History who specializes in eighteenth or early nineteenth century history. This is a fixed term 24 month Temporary
www.cam.ac.uk
February 16, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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stefanhanss.bsky.social
Wonderful to see my “Situating Early Modern Translators: A Mediterranean Epilogue” out in @degruyterbrill.bsky.social ‘On the Move: Mobility and Early Modern Translation’

Massive thanks to @eui-eu.bsky.social eds Giancarlo Casale & Ann Thomson!

👉🏽 shorturl.at/TX4wb
February 16, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England is out now with Cambridge University Press: www.cambridge.org/core/books/v...

This watery, riotous book has been more than a decade in the making, and I'm delighted to see it out in the world to live its own life!
Front cover of Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England by Elly Robson Dezateux. Blurb of Violent Waters: How were environments and politics remade by sovereigns, floods, mapmakers, migrants, rioters, and writers during wetland improvement projects in early modern England? Violent Waters examines flagship ventures which promised to transform unruly fenland fringes into orderly terrain at the heart of national power and productivity. In practice, these projects sparked constitutional controversy, new floods, and huge riots. The first state-led project in Hatfield Level brought local, national, and transnational interests into contact and conflict for almost a century. Elly Robson Dezateux traces the environmental politics that emerged as water and land were constructed and contested, both mentally and materially. These disputes pivoted on urgent questions about risk and justice, which became entangled in civil war conflict and exposed the limits of central authority and technology. Ultimately, improvement was destabilised by a lack of legitimacy and the dynamism of local custom as a method of environmental management and collective action. Wetland communities, as much as improvers and sovereigns, remade the terrain of politics and the future of the fens.
February 13, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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Fellowship Opportunity!

Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History
University of Oxford - St Hilda’s College

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQL341/j...
Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History at University of Oxford
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Jenny Wormald Junior Research Fellow in Women’s History at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
www.jobs.ac.uk
February 13, 2026 at 4:50 AM
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adamwithbooks.bsky.social
JOB!

Come and be my colleague!

Tutorial Fellow and Professor (or Associate Professor) of English Literature, ca. 1780–1914, at Balliol College, Oxford.

Details: www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/balliol-peop...
Tutorial Fellow and Professor (or Associate Professor) of
Tutorial Fellow and Professor (or Associate Professor) of Literature in English Balliol College, Oxford, and the Faculty of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford are seeking to
www.balliol.ox.ac.uk
February 12, 2026 at 4:42 PM
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stefanbauer.bsky.social
Next Thursday, 19 February 2026, 5:30pm London (12:30pm NYC/6:30pm Brussels), Kate Travers (Warwick) will speak about ‘The Face in the Tower: Reading Petrarch in the Early Fifteenth Century’. Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR London. To register: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/ita...
Italy 1200-1700
Seminar
www.history.ac.uk
February 12, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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Reminder: today is the last day to respond to the UK government consultation to the cruel changes to immigration rules being proposed. Can take just 20 mins.

I really recommend using Amnesty's guide to the survey because the survey is designed to catch you out
media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...
media.amnesty.org.uk
February 12, 2026 at 11:10 AM
tpwade.bsky.social
The latest issue of Erasmus Studies is out and features an article from me about the efforts of Polydore Vergil to compete with Erasmus in print. Lots on proverbs, republic of letters and petty quarrels.

Should be of interest to #BookHistory and #EarlyModern people!

brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com
February 12, 2026 at 8:43 AM
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📣Call for Applications📣
Applications are open for the Anne Jacobson Schutte Early Career Research Grant. This grant is designed to support advanced graduate students or early career scholars who need to go to Europe to do research.
February 11, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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Delighted to announce our seminar - 'Race and the Early Modern' - now has a full schedule of events. We'll be convening monthly to discuss research on race, racemaking, and racialisation across #earlymodern studies.

@kingsartshums.bsky.social @folger.edu

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
Race and the Early Modern — CEMS KCL Blog
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 8:17 AM
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Fixed term #museumjob @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social Assistant Curator in Renaissance and Early Modern History, based in the Scottish History & Archaeology Department 📜🗃️
careers.nms.ac.uk/job/829206
Asst Curator Renaissance and Early Modern History
careers.nms.ac.uk
February 5, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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#CfP: Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750. Oxford, June 18-19, 2026 Abstracts by Feb 28 '26. Featuring a quintessential quartet of keynotes: @rhetorician.bsky.social, Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social, & Sue Wiseman www.rensoc.org.uk/event/clio-r... #SRS_Sponsored
Clio Reframed aims to explore historical writing and historiography produced by women between the sixteenth and mid-eighteenth centuries, asking why, when and to what purpose and effect women chose different historical subjects as their focus; to situate these texts within their social, religious, political, and textual production contexts, with the aim of expanding our critical understanding of historical writing that often elides the participation of women; and to challenge narratives that homogenize women’s interests in history and their writing strategies. It proposes that women’s historical writing is not an essentially gendered or isolated space in which individual contributions and agendas are uniform. Rather, women’s historical writing is diverse, prevalent, and characterized by relational frameworks and networks, involving other writers, patrons, stationers, and readers.
January 23, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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If you missed Ann Blair’s @ransomcenter.bsky.social Pforzheimer Lecture last night, you can check it out on YouTube:

www.youtube.com/live/u16QHaI...

I think you’ll agree that it’s both sharp and a lot of fun.
Dr. Ann Blair - How Renaissance Scholars and Printers Decided on the Size of Books
YouTube video by Harry Ransom Center
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January 22, 2026 at 11:05 AM
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A diamond-shelled “treasurer” tortoise that dispenses money and predicts the future?

Short-Term Frances Yates Fellow Giulia Depoli explores Paolo Ramusio’s fifteenth-century visionary text on the Warburg blog.
A Tortoise in Search of Meaning: Cryptic Animal Symbolism in Paolo Ramusio’s Vision
Short-Term Frances Yates Fellow Giulia Depoli unpacks one of the strangest details in Ramusio’s fifteenth-century vision, and what it reveals about how symbols acquire new lives.
warburg.sas.ac.uk
January 22, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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PhD funding for early career historians completing a doctorate.

Applications are invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships for the academic year 2026-27 bit.ly/49MzqmT.

Two awards of £8500 per student, held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
Call for Royal Historical Society PhD funding with text: The Royal Historical Society offers two annual PhD Fellowships for postgraduate historians in their third year of research at a university in the UK or overseas in order to complete a doctorate. The Fellowships comprise: Two RHS Centenary Fellowships: each Centenary Fellowship runs for 6-months and is worth £8,500 for final-year PhD students to complete their dissertations and to develop their research career. All Fellowships are open to candidates without regard to nationality or academic affiliation. They are jointly held with the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), University of London, where Fellows are based.
January 22, 2026 at 8:47 AM
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Free on Zoom! Suitner on "Venice and the Radical Reformation: An Italian Republic in European Context" www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... 22 Jan 2026, 5.30 UK Time
Venice and the Radical Reformation: An Italian Republic in European Context
www.history.ac.uk
January 21, 2026 at 11:37 PM
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Are you a scholar of the fifteenth century and have an interest in the British Isles and its wider connections? If so, then you will want to know that @memsunikent.bsky.social will be hosting the 2026 Fifteenth Century Conference in Canterbury and the CfP is now open: www.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
MEMS to Host the Fifteenth Century Conference 2026
www.kent.ac.uk
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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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 🗃️
speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections @speccoll-kuleuven.bsky.social · Jan 16
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
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adamwithbooks.bsky.social
'Beyond the book: recycling print in early modern England' is out in splendid & lovely English Literary Renaissance.

50 free downloads, warm & ready to go, at www.journals.uchicago.edu/eprint/Q2MMD...

(pcis: Bodleian coffret lined w. Horace & Virgil; damasked pages in Worcester College deed box)
January 17, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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#EarlyModern #BookHistory
janblo.bsky.social Jan Blonski @janblo.bsky.social · Jan 14
Post-doc position at the University of Warsaw
in a project on #earlymodern protestant printing centres operating in Poland-Lithuania and Prussia

konkursydlanauczycieli.uw.edu.pl/api/document... (English version starts at page 7).

Applications are accepted until 9 March 2026.

#history
konkursydlanauczycieli.uw.edu.pl
January 14, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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📣 We’re hiring!
The History of Parliament are seeking a Research Fellow for our House of Lords 1660-1832 project. @georgianlords.bsky.social

We’re looking for a historian with a PhD in 18thC British political or cultural history to join our expert team.

🔗 Details below:
#AcademicJobs #HistoryJobs
Job Vacancy: Research Fellow, 1660-1832 House of Lords - The History of Parliament
The History of Parliament are excited to advertise for a research fellow to join our House of Lords 1660-1832 project.
historyofparliament.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:33 AM
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This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com
The Library of Early Modern Women's Marginalia
The Library of Early Modern Women's Marginalia.
emwmlibrary.com
January 11, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended.

They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision.

Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
Birkbeck, University of London, is seeking a Lecturer in Medieval Studies to join our dynamic team within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Autumn 2026. As Lecturer in Medieval Studies you will contribute to the teaching of Medieval English literature and Medieval history across the Faculty, within our School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, and School of Historical Studies - this includes our BA English and BA History programmes, as well as postgraduate taught programmes in the two subject areas. This post is offered on a permanent contract at Birkbeck, full time 35 hours per week, with a salary of £44,247 rising to £60,858 per year. Teaching hours will vary from 6pm - 9pm, Monday to Friday. To be successful, you will bring research expertise in the literature, history and culture of the Late Medieval period (c.1300-1500), and demonstrate a capacity to contribute to interdisciplinary research and teaching, participate actively in curriculum development, supervise doctoral students, and help shape the intellectual life of our vibrant academic community. We would also welcome applicants who would be able to contribute to collaborative teaching programmes or research in the Faculty, in areas such as identity, race/ethnicity, or gender - experience of collaboration with cultural institutions, whether through research or teaching, is also welcome. Core responsibilities will initially include programme/module administration, teaching, supervision, assessment, student support and pastoral care. You will also be equipped to supervise doctoral students. With a PhD in any area of Medieval Studies, you will contribute the Faculty’s and Schools’ research impact and culture, and to the intellectual and cultural life of the institution and the various communities and partners with whom we work and serve.
January 8, 2026 at 12:48 PM