Dr Lena Liapi
@lenaliapi.bsky.social
Assistant Professor Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Early modern history. Working on early modern criminals, print, and cultures of communication in England and France
Bluesky hive mind: I am looking for a robust theoretical discussion of civil wars in history, would anyone have any suggestions? I have read some, but I would like to dig deeper! #history
October 15, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Bluesky hive mind: I am looking for a robust theoretical discussion of civil wars in history, would anyone have any suggestions? I have read some, but I would like to dig deeper! #history
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I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Historical Journal Call for Special Issues
Welcome to Cambridge Core
www.cambridge.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
This has got absolutely ridiculous. I have just deleted my account
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 18, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This has got absolutely ridiculous. I have just deleted my account
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"Women have been describing their experiences of male abuse for centuries – we just haven’t always been ready to listen to them."
@drnaomibaker.bsky.social reminds us that if you think domestic and family violence is a new thing, you're not paying attention.
theconversation.com/the-17th-cen...
@drnaomibaker.bsky.social reminds us that if you think domestic and family violence is a new thing, you're not paying attention.
theconversation.com/the-17th-cen...
The 17th-century woman who wrote about surviving domestic abuse
In the 17th century, Anne Wentworth spoke out against her abusive husband and the religious institution that protected him.
theconversation.com
September 15, 2025 at 11:47 PM
"Women have been describing their experiences of male abuse for centuries – we just haven’t always been ready to listen to them."
@drnaomibaker.bsky.social reminds us that if you think domestic and family violence is a new thing, you're not paying attention.
theconversation.com/the-17th-cen...
@drnaomibaker.bsky.social reminds us that if you think domestic and family violence is a new thing, you're not paying attention.
theconversation.com/the-17th-cen...
This is a thought-provoking piece about what historians should do in the face of AI-generated history
With the dumb take on AI from a historian doing the rounds, bumping @davehitchcock.bsky.social's more interesting take presented @qmcbs.bsky.social: hitchcockian.medium.com/this-is-the-...
Our skills as historians are all the more valuable, lets champion them rather than throw them out #SkyStorians
Our skills as historians are all the more valuable, lets champion them rather than throw them out #SkyStorians
This is the paper I gave to historians about “AI” last week.
I was at Queen Mary University in London last week at a charming conference that turned out to be mainly about modern British history. I…
hitchcockian.medium.com
June 30, 2025 at 10:57 AM
This is a thought-provoking piece about what historians should do in the face of AI-generated history
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Very much looking forward to John Coffey speaking about the diaries of William Wilberforce this Wed. at the earlier time of 3pm - in Northampton. Do join us online or in person (some travel funds are available). www.history.ac.uk/events/diari... @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
The Diaries and Journals of William Wilberforce: An Editor’s Report
www.history.ac.uk
June 9, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Very much looking forward to John Coffey speaking about the diaries of William Wilberforce this Wed. at the earlier time of 3pm - in Northampton. Do join us online or in person (some travel funds are available). www.history.ac.uk/events/diari... @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
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With plans for the coming academic year being firmed up: non-UK-based #EarlyModern #SkyStorians: let us know when & where you're passing through this little island. Would be lovely to grab a coffee or to get you to present your work where feasible.
Visitors To The UK
An attempt to capture and disseminate information about earlymodernists visiting the UK.
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May 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM
With plans for the coming academic year being firmed up: non-UK-based #EarlyModern #SkyStorians: let us know when & where you're passing through this little island. Would be lovely to grab a coffee or to get you to present your work where feasible.
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My project on early modern public diplomacy has entered its final year, and our archival work is at an end. Time to start sharing!
Here's a first batch: the 1000+ letter catalogue of one our favorite publishing diplomats, Pieter Cornelisz Brederode.
emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/...
Here's a first batch: the 1000+ letter catalogue of one our favorite publishing diplomats, Pieter Cornelisz Brederode.
emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/...
The Correspondence of Pieter Cornelisz Brederode – EMLO
Helmer Helmers and Romee van Dommele
emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
May 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My project on early modern public diplomacy has entered its final year, and our archival work is at an end. Time to start sharing!
Here's a first batch: the 1000+ letter catalogue of one our favorite publishing diplomats, Pieter Cornelisz Brederode.
emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/...
Here's a first batch: the 1000+ letter catalogue of one our favorite publishing diplomats, Pieter Cornelisz Brederode.
emlo-portal.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/collections/...
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Happy Friday! you can now register for our @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on Early Modern War Narratives! June 6th in person and online! Keynote by Andrew Hopper and Ismini Pells, funded by KCL, CEMS, & @srsrensoc.bsky.social. Register here (and pls repost!) — www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
Select tickets – CEMS KCL Colloquium: Early Modern War Narratives – King's College London
This year, KCL's Centre for Early Modern Studies' Annual Colloquium will be on Early Modern War Narratives. Join us for a day o...
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May 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Happy Friday! you can now register for our @cemskcl.bsky.social colloquium on Early Modern War Narratives! June 6th in person and online! Keynote by Andrew Hopper and Ismini Pells, funded by KCL, CEMS, & @srsrensoc.bsky.social. Register here (and pls repost!) — www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...
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It's an apt week to remember the South Sea Bubble of 1720. And for anyone thinking of teaching comparative financial crises next year, a reminder of the fab resources and datasets on the Bubble compiled by the Yale School of Management: som.yale.edu/centers/inte...
April 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
It's an apt week to remember the South Sea Bubble of 1720. And for anyone thinking of teaching comparative financial crises next year, a reminder of the fab resources and datasets on the Bubble compiled by the Yale School of Management: som.yale.edu/centers/inte...
#skystorians I am looking for work on early modern Swedish witchcraft for a student of mine, does anyone have any good suggestions?
April 4, 2025 at 6:50 AM
#skystorians I am looking for work on early modern Swedish witchcraft for a student of mine, does anyone have any good suggestions?
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🇹🇷📢 İstanbul today.
This is what hope looks like.
The current historical conjuncture may have emboldened authoritarian leaders worldwide, but it is also one of massive social mobilizations *for* democracy, in Turkey, Serbia, Georgia, Israel, in US townhalls...
The authoritarian wave can be stopped.
This is what hope looks like.
The current historical conjuncture may have emboldened authoritarian leaders worldwide, but it is also one of massive social mobilizations *for* democracy, in Turkey, Serbia, Georgia, Israel, in US townhalls...
The authoritarian wave can be stopped.
March 29, 2025 at 7:55 PM
🇹🇷📢 İstanbul today.
This is what hope looks like.
The current historical conjuncture may have emboldened authoritarian leaders worldwide, but it is also one of massive social mobilizations *for* democracy, in Turkey, Serbia, Georgia, Israel, in US townhalls...
The authoritarian wave can be stopped.
This is what hope looks like.
The current historical conjuncture may have emboldened authoritarian leaders worldwide, but it is also one of massive social mobilizations *for* democracy, in Turkey, Serbia, Georgia, Israel, in US townhalls...
The authoritarian wave can be stopped.
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28 MARCH: John Gallagher on “The notaries of the Royal Exchange: migration and translation between London and the Low Countries?” IHR Low Countries seminar 5:30 pm GMT (UK clocks not yet changed), online & in person at IHR Wolfson Rm 2. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/events/notar...
The notaries of the Royal Exchange: migration and translation between London and the Low Countries
www.history.ac.uk
March 24, 2025 at 11:45 AM
28 MARCH: John Gallagher on “The notaries of the Royal Exchange: migration and translation between London and the Low Countries?” IHR Low Countries seminar 5:30 pm GMT (UK clocks not yet changed), online & in person at IHR Wolfson Rm 2. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/events/notar...
Excellent news!
For anyone interested in the early Bodleian Library or early modern book owners, the Shaping Scholarship project at CELL, UCL has made the project data available: ebdo.org.uk/data/ It details every officially recorded donation made c. 1600-1620, plus some extras, which is around 10,000 items.
March 17, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Excellent news!
This is what Greeks did yesterday - our biggest ever (I feel) demonstration. Many media outlets focus on the few violent clashes, but this was a massive protest in many parts of Greece
#Greece: #Anarchist views on #Tempi riots
via @freedompress.bsky.social
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/02/28/g...
via @freedompress.bsky.social
freedomnews.org.uk/2025/02/28/g...
Greece: Anarchist views on Tempi riots - Freedom News
The fatal Tempi train crash has reignited the streets of Greece with some of the largest protest rallies the country has ever seen ~ Rob Ray ~ Mass demonstrations have taken place of the streets of At...
freedomnews.org.uk
March 1, 2025 at 10:55 AM
This is what Greeks did yesterday - our biggest ever (I feel) demonstration. Many media outlets focus on the few violent clashes, but this was a massive protest in many parts of Greece
I am really pleased to hear it, what a great resource for historians!
📢NEW MANY-HEADED MONSTER SERIES📢
Today I introduce 'Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England', a series that celebrates the relaunch of the brilliant 'British Printed Images to 1700' database and showcases historians' use of printed images.
🗃️ #Skystorians
manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...
Today I introduce 'Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England', a series that celebrates the relaunch of the brilliant 'British Printed Images to 1700' database and showcases historians' use of printed images.
🗃️ #Skystorians
manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...
February 24, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I am really pleased to hear it, what a great resource for historians!
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I've just cleared a few to-do list items and been alerted that the first pre-ordered copies of Postal Intelligence have arrived (!) so now seems like as good a time as any to share some exciting and troubling tidbits from my ten years with Europe's postal technocrats 1/? #earlymodern 🗃️
February 18, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I've just cleared a few to-do list items and been alerted that the first pre-ordered copies of Postal Intelligence have arrived (!) so now seems like as good a time as any to share some exciting and troubling tidbits from my ten years with Europe's postal technocrats 1/? #earlymodern 🗃️
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This is ‘Miss Clara’.
This #rhinoceros came to Europe from India in 1741, where she was shown in many places and became very famous.
I saw the bronze figure (c. 1770) in the museum today and then followed some of Clara’s tracks.
1/9
🦏 #Birmingham, The #Barber Institute, attr. to P.A. v. Verschaffelt
This #rhinoceros came to Europe from India in 1741, where she was shown in many places and became very famous.
I saw the bronze figure (c. 1770) in the museum today and then followed some of Clara’s tracks.
1/9
🦏 #Birmingham, The #Barber Institute, attr. to P.A. v. Verschaffelt
January 23, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is ‘Miss Clara’.
This #rhinoceros came to Europe from India in 1741, where she was shown in many places and became very famous.
I saw the bronze figure (c. 1770) in the museum today and then followed some of Clara’s tracks.
1/9
🦏 #Birmingham, The #Barber Institute, attr. to P.A. v. Verschaffelt
This #rhinoceros came to Europe from India in 1741, where she was shown in many places and became very famous.
I saw the bronze figure (c. 1770) in the museum today and then followed some of Clara’s tracks.
1/9
🦏 #Birmingham, The #Barber Institute, attr. to P.A. v. Verschaffelt
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Post brings this chunky number from the Printing Historical Society, containing many scholarly essays about the history of colour lithography
January 25, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Post brings this chunky number from the Printing Historical Society, containing many scholarly essays about the history of colour lithography
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📚🎉📚 Huge congratulations to CECS member Dr Alison O’Byrne on the publication day of her book, The Art of Walking in London: Representing the Eighteenth-Century City, 1700-1830 from @cambridgeup.bsky.social
‘Elegantly written, well-researched, and highly engaging’ and with a gorgeous cover. #18thC
‘Elegantly written, well-researched, and highly engaging’ and with a gorgeous cover. #18thC
January 23, 2025 at 11:04 AM
📚🎉📚 Huge congratulations to CECS member Dr Alison O’Byrne on the publication day of her book, The Art of Walking in London: Representing the Eighteenth-Century City, 1700-1830 from @cambridgeup.bsky.social
‘Elegantly written, well-researched, and highly engaging’ and with a gorgeous cover. #18thC
‘Elegantly written, well-researched, and highly engaging’ and with a gorgeous cover. #18thC
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If you fancy some Renaissance listening this Sunday, you're in luck. I have a new podcast up: talking to @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social about Cesare Borgia for Not Just the Tudors.
Not Just the Tudors
<p>Professor Suzannah Lipscomb talks about everything from the Aztecs to witches, Velázquez to Shakespeare, Mughal India to the Mayflower. Not, in other words, just the Tudors, but most definite...
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January 19, 2025 at 8:39 AM
If you fancy some Renaissance listening this Sunday, you're in luck. I have a new podcast up: talking to @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social about Cesare Borgia for Not Just the Tudors.
I am really excited for this, especially since Heidi Mehrkens is an excellent former colleague who always manages to make any subject she deals with interesting! Mind you, this topic probably does not need any help to be interesting :)
Oh hurrah! Fabulous colleague Colin Jones is on In Our Time (not (yet?) on this app, @simontillotson.bsky.social?) this week!
With Michael Rowe & Heidi Mehrkens to talk about the Battle of Valmy & the French Revolution!@frenchhistory.bsky.social @fhp.bsky.social> #EarlyModern #Skystorians
With Michael Rowe & Heidi Mehrkens to talk about the Battle of Valmy & the French Revolution!
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Battle of Valmy
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the day in 1792 when the French Revolution risked defeat.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I am really excited for this, especially since Heidi Mehrkens is an excellent former colleague who always manages to make any subject she deals with interesting! Mind you, this topic probably does not need any help to be interesting :)
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Available in Open Access here: boydellandbrewer.com/978183765021...
Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France - Boydell and Brewer
This book closely analyses the rise and fall of Louis XIV's marine insurance institutions in Paris, which were central to the French monarchy's efforts to st...
boydellandbrewer.com
January 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Available in Open Access here: boydellandbrewer.com/978183765021...
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Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...
December 10, 2024 at 10:46 AM
Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...