Janet Dickinson
@janetdickinson.bsky.social
Historian, tutor. Curious about things, mostly early modern. Teaches for Conted in Oxford and NYU in London.
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Nothing to see here? Well, this is a slow moving 🧵 for #skystorians and others about #eyeglasses of the past, about how to read in the past, where to buy eyeglasses, and how to do with them in general. The hashtag is #HowToDoWithGlassesInThePast
Let's roll.
Let's roll.
October 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Nothing to see here? Well, this is a slow moving 🧵 for #skystorians and others about #eyeglasses of the past, about how to read in the past, where to buy eyeglasses, and how to do with them in general. The hashtag is #HowToDoWithGlassesInThePast
Let's roll.
Let's roll.
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"EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it!"
Catch up on the news from the @universalstc.bsky.social annual conference on 'Newspapers and Periodicals', which took place in June 2025, with our newest blog by @zbrookman.bsky.social (PhD Candidate and Research Assistant).
ustc.ac.uk/news/ustc-20...
Catch up on the news from the @universalstc.bsky.social annual conference on 'Newspapers and Periodicals', which took place in June 2025, with our newest blog by @zbrookman.bsky.social (PhD Candidate and Research Assistant).
ustc.ac.uk/news/ustc-20...
August 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
"EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it!"
Catch up on the news from the @universalstc.bsky.social annual conference on 'Newspapers and Periodicals', which took place in June 2025, with our newest blog by @zbrookman.bsky.social (PhD Candidate and Research Assistant).
ustc.ac.uk/news/ustc-20...
Catch up on the news from the @universalstc.bsky.social annual conference on 'Newspapers and Periodicals', which took place in June 2025, with our newest blog by @zbrookman.bsky.social (PhD Candidate and Research Assistant).
ustc.ac.uk/news/ustc-20...
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All roads lead to Rome.
Meet the earliest known European map with a scale: This woodcut "south up" map by Erhard Etzlaub offers a route to Rome - located on the top of the map - through #earlymodern German speaking Europe.
A 🧵 for #skystorians with an interest in hand-coloured maps.
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Meet the earliest known European map with a scale: This woodcut "south up" map by Erhard Etzlaub offers a route to Rome - located on the top of the map - through #earlymodern German speaking Europe.
A 🧵 for #skystorians with an interest in hand-coloured maps.
1/5
November 21, 2024 at 6:53 AM
All roads lead to Rome.
Meet the earliest known European map with a scale: This woodcut "south up" map by Erhard Etzlaub offers a route to Rome - located on the top of the map - through #earlymodern German speaking Europe.
A 🧵 for #skystorians with an interest in hand-coloured maps.
1/5
Meet the earliest known European map with a scale: This woodcut "south up" map by Erhard Etzlaub offers a route to Rome - located on the top of the map - through #earlymodern German speaking Europe.
A 🧵 for #skystorians with an interest in hand-coloured maps.
1/5
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Don't miss this year's Holden Lecture by Prof Jason Peacey at Senate House Library, University of London, 30 October at 6PM. It's inspired by Senate House Library's Spineless Wonders Exhibition. 1/2 @uclhistory.bsky.social
Holden Lecture: Tickets and trifles: ephemeral print and Restoration England
www.london.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Don't miss this year's Holden Lecture by Prof Jason Peacey at Senate House Library, University of London, 30 October at 6PM. It's inspired by Senate House Library's Spineless Wonders Exhibition. 1/2 @uclhistory.bsky.social
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Spineless Wonders can be visited at Senate House Library until 29 November. Details here. 2/2
Spineless Wonders
Explore the riches held in Senate House Library’s collections of pamphlets and other unbound and ephemeral publications. This free exhibition is open from 18 June - 29 November.
www.london.ac.uk
October 10, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Spineless Wonders can be visited at Senate House Library until 29 November. Details here. 2/2
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Autumn schedule for @ihr.bsky.social 's British History in the Long 18th Century fortnightly seminar is now live. @long18thsem.bsky.social. Join us in person at the IHR in London or on Zoom, for Mansfield on the Chevalier d'Eon, servants' travel, rhetorics of slavery, Bengal textile workers & more.
British History in the Long 18th Century
Supported by Mark Storey and Carey Karmel, in memory of Arthur Burns
www.history.ac.uk
August 1, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Autumn schedule for @ihr.bsky.social 's British History in the Long 18th Century fortnightly seminar is now live. @long18thsem.bsky.social. Join us in person at the IHR in London or on Zoom, for Mansfield on the Chevalier d'Eon, servants' travel, rhetorics of slavery, Bengal textile workers & more.
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two complaints:
can't see a link to the edition (grrr journalists grrr etc) thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
dads in the pub story gets one sentence I mean come on. thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...
can't see a link to the edition (grrr journalists grrr etc) thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
dads in the pub story gets one sentence I mean come on. thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...
August 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
two complaints:
can't see a link to the edition (grrr journalists grrr etc) thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
dads in the pub story gets one sentence I mean come on. thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...
can't see a link to the edition (grrr journalists grrr etc) thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
dads in the pub story gets one sentence I mean come on. thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...
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And it's out! Open access and free to download. Thank you @wellcometrust.bsky.social and @manchesterup.bsky.social. Excited to see it out in the world (and sure that despite all the proof reading, I will find typos) @hsmurphy.bsky.social @historyelaine.bsky.social @medievalbadger.bsky.social
1 decade of Open Access, now 300 titles 🔓
Introducing 'Renaissance skin' by @evelynwelch.bsky.social - freely available to all students and institutions.
A magnificent feat for research in Renaissance art & #histmed
Read it here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
#Renaissance #OpenAccess
Introducing 'Renaissance skin' by @evelynwelch.bsky.social - freely available to all students and institutions.
A magnificent feat for research in Renaissance art & #histmed
Read it here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
#Renaissance #OpenAccess
July 1, 2025 at 11:33 AM
And it's out! Open access and free to download. Thank you @wellcometrust.bsky.social and @manchesterup.bsky.social. Excited to see it out in the world (and sure that despite all the proof reading, I will find typos) @hsmurphy.bsky.social @historyelaine.bsky.social @medievalbadger.bsky.social
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Applications now open (until 27 June 2025) for the Institute of Historical Research's non-stipendiary IHR Fellowships. Ideal for active, non-affiliated historians who would benefit from a period embedded in @ihr.bsky.social 's community of public, local & academic historians, archivists, curators.
The IHR Fellowship
The IHR Fellowship is comprised of leading historians recognised for their research and the promotion of history.
www.history.ac.uk
June 26, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Applications now open (until 27 June 2025) for the Institute of Historical Research's non-stipendiary IHR Fellowships. Ideal for active, non-affiliated historians who would benefit from a period embedded in @ihr.bsky.social 's community of public, local & academic historians, archivists, curators.
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The appointment of Blaise Metreweli as head of MI6 would come as no surprise to anyone who has read Invisible Agents and Spycraft by @misswalsingham.bsky.social - if you have yet to do so, maybe now's the time ... @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/7417...
The secret lives of MI6’s top female spies
For the first time ever, SIS officers reveal why women often make the best spies for our times
www.ft.com
June 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM
The appointment of Blaise Metreweli as head of MI6 would come as no surprise to anyone who has read Invisible Agents and Spycraft by @misswalsingham.bsky.social - if you have yet to do so, maybe now's the time ... @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/7417...
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'The book was translated in the year of the Spanish Armada – when Elizabeth I was monarch – by Bishop William Morgan as part of an effort to bring scriptures to people in languages they understood.'
Rare Welsh-language Bible to be displayed at St Davids Cathedral
The rare copy of the Bible in Welsh, printed in 1588, has never been displayed before.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 16, 2025 at 8:56 AM
'The book was translated in the year of the Spanish Armada – when Elizabeth I was monarch – by Bishop William Morgan as part of an effort to bring scriptures to people in languages they understood.'
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So anyway yes @historybeagle.bsky.social and me are speaking at this next Thursday 19 June, 4–6pm:
www.mfo.ac.uk/event/pen-pi...
www.mfo.ac.uk/event/pen-pi...
‘From Pen to Pixel: Valorising Women’s Manuscript Writings in Digital Humanities Projects’
As part of the Channels of Digital Scholarship Seminar
www.mfo.ac.uk
June 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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A wearable piece of #BookHistory!
I stumbled upon an unusual payment by Balthasar III Moretus for "boeckenvellen" to make a "boecke leeren onderkleet" for his son Melchior moving into the St. Michael’s Abbey.
Never expected leather bindings to be recycled as clothing! #EarlyModern #RareBooks /1
I stumbled upon an unusual payment by Balthasar III Moretus for "boeckenvellen" to make a "boecke leeren onderkleet" for his son Melchior moving into the St. Michael’s Abbey.
Never expected leather bindings to be recycled as clothing! #EarlyModern #RareBooks /1
May 26, 2025 at 3:47 PM
A wearable piece of #BookHistory!
I stumbled upon an unusual payment by Balthasar III Moretus for "boeckenvellen" to make a "boecke leeren onderkleet" for his son Melchior moving into the St. Michael’s Abbey.
Never expected leather bindings to be recycled as clothing! #EarlyModern #RareBooks /1
I stumbled upon an unusual payment by Balthasar III Moretus for "boeckenvellen" to make a "boecke leeren onderkleet" for his son Melchior moving into the St. Michael’s Abbey.
Never expected leather bindings to be recycled as clothing! #EarlyModern #RareBooks /1
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🎙️FREE LECTURE: The British Imperial Way of Warfare
Join Prof Yasmin Khan on 10 June (4:30pm BST) for a fresh take on British warfare – highlighting the often forgotten roles of Asian non-combatants. Free, online or in Oxford!
🔗 Book now: buff.ly/2wLvVWl
Image from the National Army Museum.
Join Prof Yasmin Khan on 10 June (4:30pm BST) for a fresh take on British warfare – highlighting the often forgotten roles of Asian non-combatants. Free, online or in Oxford!
🔗 Book now: buff.ly/2wLvVWl
Image from the National Army Museum.
May 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
🎙️FREE LECTURE: The British Imperial Way of Warfare
Join Prof Yasmin Khan on 10 June (4:30pm BST) for a fresh take on British warfare – highlighting the often forgotten roles of Asian non-combatants. Free, online or in Oxford!
🔗 Book now: buff.ly/2wLvVWl
Image from the National Army Museum.
Join Prof Yasmin Khan on 10 June (4:30pm BST) for a fresh take on British warfare – highlighting the often forgotten roles of Asian non-combatants. Free, online or in Oxford!
🔗 Book now: buff.ly/2wLvVWl
Image from the National Army Museum.
Due to my good fortune elsewhere, I can no longer maintain all of my teaching at NYUL, which provides a wonderful opportunity for someone to take on one of my courses. I hugely recommend this - students and colleagues are excellent and the pay is decent. Happy to discuss! apply.interfolio.com/167669
Apply - Interfolio
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May 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Due to my good fortune elsewhere, I can no longer maintain all of my teaching at NYUL, which provides a wonderful opportunity for someone to take on one of my courses. I hugely recommend this - students and colleagues are excellent and the pay is decent. Happy to discuss! apply.interfolio.com/167669
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Hello! We're The London Archives, a free public archive focusing on the history of London from 1067. We look after over 100km of manuscripts, books, drawings, engravings, photos and films spanning 1000 years of London's history!
Give us a follow.
#archives #history #LondonHistory
Give us a follow.
#archives #history #LondonHistory
April 16, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Hello! We're The London Archives, a free public archive focusing on the history of London from 1067. We look after over 100km of manuscripts, books, drawings, engravings, photos and films spanning 1000 years of London's history!
Give us a follow.
#archives #history #LondonHistory
Give us a follow.
#archives #history #LondonHistory
We are looking for a new colleague!
Associate Professor in History, 1000-1500
University of Oxford - Department for Continuing Education in association with Kellogg College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS153/a...
University of Oxford - Department for Continuing Education in association with Kellogg College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS153/a...
Associate Professor in History, 1000-1500 at University of Oxford
An opportunity for an academic position as a Associate Professor in History, 1000-1500 is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.
www.jobs.ac.uk
April 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
We are looking for a new colleague!
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📢Call for Papers📢
Music and Reformation: A Symposium at Lambeth Palace Library, 16 September 2025.
We welcome proposals from people at all career stages, and from professional and amateur practice.
For more information, click the link to the Symposium Call for Papers document below.
Music and Reformation: A Symposium at Lambeth Palace Library, 16 September 2025.
We welcome proposals from people at all career stages, and from professional and amateur practice.
For more information, click the link to the Symposium Call for Papers document below.
Call for Papers – Lambeth Palace Library
www.lambethpalacelibrary.info
April 16, 2025 at 8:02 AM
📢Call for Papers📢
Music and Reformation: A Symposium at Lambeth Palace Library, 16 September 2025.
We welcome proposals from people at all career stages, and from professional and amateur practice.
For more information, click the link to the Symposium Call for Papers document below.
Music and Reformation: A Symposium at Lambeth Palace Library, 16 September 2025.
We welcome proposals from people at all career stages, and from professional and amateur practice.
For more information, click the link to the Symposium Call for Papers document below.
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Mon 30 June, Jon Cooper: ‘Usury and the politics of interest in later sixteenth-century England’ (Zoom only)
All welcome! Details and booking here: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/tud...
#earlymodern
All welcome! Details and booking here: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/tud...
#earlymodern
Tudor & Stuart History
www.history.ac.uk
April 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Mon 30 June, Jon Cooper: ‘Usury and the politics of interest in later sixteenth-century England’ (Zoom only)
All welcome! Details and booking here: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/tud...
#earlymodern
All welcome! Details and booking here: www.history.ac.uk/seminars/tud...
#earlymodern
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Mon 2 June, Katy Gibbons: ‘Religious objects and Political Loyalties: The 7th earl of Northumberland and Catholic resistance to Elizabethan rule’ (Zoom only)
Mon 16 June, Alistair Bellany: 'The Rains of 1661: Dearth, Religion, and Politics in Little Ice Age England’ (in person and on Zoom) 2/3
Mon 16 June, Alistair Bellany: 'The Rains of 1661: Dearth, Religion, and Politics in Little Ice Age England’ (in person and on Zoom) 2/3
April 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Mon 2 June, Katy Gibbons: ‘Religious objects and Political Loyalties: The 7th earl of Northumberland and Catholic resistance to Elizabethan rule’ (Zoom only)
Mon 16 June, Alistair Bellany: 'The Rains of 1661: Dearth, Religion, and Politics in Little Ice Age England’ (in person and on Zoom) 2/3
Mon 16 June, Alistair Bellany: 'The Rains of 1661: Dearth, Religion, and Politics in Little Ice Age England’ (in person and on Zoom) 2/3
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As the @ihr.bsky.social Tudor & Stuart seminar is not formally on Here yet, here's our programme for next term (please RT):
Mon 19 May, Paulina Kewes @paulinakewes.bsky.social and Fred Smith: ‘Excommunicating Henry VIII’ (in person and on zoom) 1/3
Mon 19 May, Paulina Kewes @paulinakewes.bsky.social and Fred Smith: ‘Excommunicating Henry VIII’ (in person and on zoom) 1/3
Tudor & Stuart History
www.history.ac.uk
April 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
As the @ihr.bsky.social Tudor & Stuart seminar is not formally on Here yet, here's our programme for next term (please RT):
Mon 19 May, Paulina Kewes @paulinakewes.bsky.social and Fred Smith: ‘Excommunicating Henry VIII’ (in person and on zoom) 1/3
Mon 19 May, Paulina Kewes @paulinakewes.bsky.social and Fred Smith: ‘Excommunicating Henry VIII’ (in person and on zoom) 1/3
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Plus another reminder that the Early Career Researcher Network is free to join for any Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences postdoctoral graduate based in the UK. You don't need to be employed by a university or in a research post to join. 2/2 thebritishacademyecrn.com
The British Academy
Network:
We are delighted that the Wolfson Foundation will continue to support the Early Career Researcher Network for Early Career Researchers in the humanities and social sciences for a further 3-ye...
thebritishacademyecrn.com
April 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Plus another reminder that the Early Career Researcher Network is free to join for any Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences postdoctoral graduate based in the UK. You don't need to be employed by a university or in a research post to join. 2/2 thebritishacademyecrn.com
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A new MEMOs blog post from Lucy Morgan today! She examines the hold of Mughal royal women on the early modern English imagination
memorients.com/articles/mug...
memorients.com/articles/mug...
Mughal Matriarchs: The Untold Power of Royal Women in the Renaissance | MEMOs
Mughal India’s queens were a formidable force for impoverished and isolated England
memorients.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM
A new MEMOs blog post from Lucy Morgan today! She examines the hold of Mughal royal women on the early modern English imagination
memorients.com/articles/mug...
memorients.com/articles/mug...
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Big news! The digital edition of Alice Thornton's four Books is now complete and online. There are 1,019 pages (c. 270,000 words) of Thornton’s life-writings in both modernised and semi-diplomatic versions and they are fully searchable.
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
Full and Final Edition Now Available
News article - 24 February 2025
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
March 7, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Big news! The digital edition of Alice Thornton's four Books is now complete and online. There are 1,019 pages (c. 270,000 words) of Thornton’s life-writings in both modernised and semi-diplomatic versions and they are fully searchable.
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
Planning a trip to Wrest Park. This is an intriguing possibility!
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Sole portrait of England’s ‘nine-day queen’ thought to have been identified by researchers
‘Compelling evidence’ suggests figure is Lady Jane Grey, making it only known depiction made before 1554 execution
www.theguardian.com
March 7, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Planning a trip to Wrest Park. This is an intriguing possibility!
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...