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Tomorrow!
Just over one week until the first DHRC seminar of autumn 2025! DM if you want the Zoom link. #dh
@stemma.bsky.social | @uniofgalway.bsky.social | @dariahie.bsky.social
@stemma.bsky.social | @uniofgalway.bsky.social | @dariahie.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Tomorrow!
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Join the @stemma.bsky.social team! We've just advertised a two-year postdoc on WP2, "Networking Early Modern Poems." Apply by 30 September; details at link below. #earlymodern #dh #postdoc #jobfairy
www.universityofgalway.ie/human-resour...
www.universityofgalway.ie/human-resour...
011345 - University of Galway
www.universityofgalway.ie
September 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Join the @stemma.bsky.social team! We've just advertised a two-year postdoc on WP2, "Networking Early Modern Poems." Apply by 30 September; details at link below. #earlymodern #dh #postdoc #jobfairy
www.universityofgalway.ie/human-resour...
www.universityofgalway.ie/human-resour...
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Best thing I've ever read about AI and the academy - every line a banger
“An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the artificial intelligence industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny.” Out from behind the paywall: the Editors on the literature of AI resignation.
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
www.nplusonemag.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Best thing I've ever read about AI and the academy - every line a banger
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Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906...
ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️
ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️
www.oxforddnb.com
August 16, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906...
ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️
ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️
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The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) has recently been updated with 4500+ new references. Discover further details about this update in our latest On History blog blog.history.ac.uk/2025/07/bibl... @brepols.net
Bibliography of British and Irish History June 2025 update - On History
The future of BBIH The IHR are delighted to confirm that it has now signed a new five year agreement with Brepols that secures the future of the Bibliography. Both the IHR and Brepols are very…
blog.history.ac.uk
July 17, 2025 at 11:01 AM
The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) has recently been updated with 4500+ new references. Discover further details about this update in our latest On History blog blog.history.ac.uk/2025/07/bibl... @brepols.net
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The FEATHERS conference in Leiden last week was absolutely fantastic, full of excellent papers and truly interdisciplinary conversation. Thank you to the FEATHERS team for organising, and for giving me the opportunity to participate!
May 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The FEATHERS conference in Leiden last week was absolutely fantastic, full of excellent papers and truly interdisciplinary conversation. Thank you to the FEATHERS team for organising, and for giving me the opportunity to participate!
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Italian route network is done! 8 influential itinerary books from the #16thcentury through the #18thcentury ready for Maps-style route planning. We're on track for sharing the shapefiles in coming weeks as we continue to develop the tool. Watch this space! #earlymodern #digitalhistory 🗃️
April 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Italian route network is done! 8 influential itinerary books from the #16thcentury through the #18thcentury ready for Maps-style route planning. We're on track for sharing the shapefiles in coming weeks as we continue to develop the tool. Watch this space! #earlymodern #digitalhistory 🗃️
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Check out the latest VOICES blog!
Our Research Fellow, Diego Rincon Yanez, explores how Natural Language Processing and AI helps us learn about the lives of women in early modern Ireland:
@tlrhub.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social
@adaptcentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @tcddublin.bsky.social
Our Research Fellow, Diego Rincon Yanez, explores how Natural Language Processing and AI helps us learn about the lives of women in early modern Ireland:
@tlrhub.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social
@adaptcentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @tcddublin.bsky.social
Blog 5: Giving Voice to the Past: How AI Helps Us Listen - VOICES
NLP on VOICES project
voicesproject.ie
April 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Check out the latest VOICES blog!
Our Research Fellow, Diego Rincon Yanez, explores how Natural Language Processing and AI helps us learn about the lives of women in early modern Ireland:
@tlrhub.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social
@adaptcentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @tcddublin.bsky.social
Our Research Fellow, Diego Rincon Yanez, explores how Natural Language Processing and AI helps us learn about the lives of women in early modern Ireland:
@tlrhub.bsky.social @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social
@adaptcentre.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu @tcddublin.bsky.social
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Here’s a description of @matthewsteggle.bsky.social ‘s work that can be read by an interested public. The rest of us will await the grainier details in the journal Shakespeare.
Wow! And the binder to Shakespeare's printer Richard Field possibly using a letter to Anne Hathaway as binder's waste. Did some households give/sell their old business correspondence to binders?
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
Shakespeare did not leave his wife Anne in Stratford, letter fragment suggests
Professor says text shows Hathaway lived with playwright in London, upending the established idea of an unhappy marriage
www.theguardian.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Here’s a description of @matthewsteggle.bsky.social ‘s work that can be read by an interested public. The rest of us will await the grainier details in the journal Shakespeare.
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In *Sweet Taste of Empire,* (forthcoming August 2025), you can read my re-visiting of the Black boy mentioned by Pepys who was “dried in an oven, and lies there
entire in a box” who has been troubling me since graduate school. Another colonial “souvenir” 😢
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
entire in a box” who has been troubling me since graduate school. Another colonial “souvenir” 😢
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
April 22, 2025 at 1:22 PM
In *Sweet Taste of Empire,* (forthcoming August 2025), you can read my re-visiting of the Black boy mentioned by Pepys who was “dried in an oven, and lies there
entire in a box” who has been troubling me since graduate school. Another colonial “souvenir” 😢
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
entire in a box” who has been troubling me since graduate school. Another colonial “souvenir” 😢
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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PhD Studentship at Exeter: 'Remembering William Shakespeare'!
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
The studentship is part of the new Leverhulme Research Project 'Shakespearean Graves: Literature and the Anglophone Way of Death' (launching in September).
Please spread the word!
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
The studentship is part of the new Leverhulme Research Project 'Shakespearean Graves: Literature and the Anglophone Way of Death' (launching in September).
Please spread the word!
Award details | Funding and scholarships for students | University of Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk
April 14, 2025 at 8:55 AM
PhD Studentship at Exeter: 'Remembering William Shakespeare'!
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
The studentship is part of the new Leverhulme Research Project 'Shakespearean Graves: Literature and the Anglophone Way of Death' (launching in September).
Please spread the word!
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
The studentship is part of the new Leverhulme Research Project 'Shakespearean Graves: Literature and the Anglophone Way of Death' (launching in September).
Please spread the word!
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My new book, co-authored with Michelle Dowd, is now out from Oxford University Press in the UK. US publication to follow shortly. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
March 31, 2025 at 5:13 PM
My new book, co-authored with Michelle Dowd, is now out from Oxford University Press in the UK. US publication to follow shortly. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Rachel Ruysch, b. 3 June 1665 - d. 12 Oct 1750. Still Life with Bouquet of Flowers, 1698
(Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main)
(Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main)
April 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Rachel Ruysch, b. 3 June 1665 - d. 12 Oct 1750. Still Life with Bouquet of Flowers, 1698
(Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main)
(Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main)
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Renowned during the Dutch Golden Age for her original style but under-acknowledged for centuries in the canon of Western art history, Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750) finally gets her flowers in the first major U.S. exhibition of her work.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/rach...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/rach...
March 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Renowned during the Dutch Golden Age for her original style but under-acknowledged for centuries in the canon of Western art history, Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750) finally gets her flowers in the first major U.S. exhibition of her work.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/rach...
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/03/rach...
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🚨FT Permanent Job 🚨
My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️
My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️
April 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🚨FT Permanent Job 🚨
My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️
My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️
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I won't pretend that Amazon's launch of a .ie site is not a threat to many small (and medium sized) businesses here.
It is.
But if I could ask Irish people to do one thing - don't assume that whatever you're buying will always be cheaper there. A monopoly is in no one's interest. #speirgorm
It is.
But if I could ask Irish people to do one thing - don't assume that whatever you're buying will always be cheaper there. A monopoly is in no one's interest. #speirgorm
March 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I won't pretend that Amazon's launch of a .ie site is not a threat to many small (and medium sized) businesses here.
It is.
But if I could ask Irish people to do one thing - don't assume that whatever you're buying will always be cheaper there. A monopoly is in no one's interest. #speirgorm
It is.
But if I could ask Irish people to do one thing - don't assume that whatever you're buying will always be cheaper there. A monopoly is in no one's interest. #speirgorm
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Happy International Women’s Day! For #IWD, why not pay a visit to the digital version of last summer’s ‘Her Booke’: Early Modern Women and their Books, celebrating the role of women in England’s devotional, intellectual & bibliographical cultures. www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/exhibitions/...
‘Her Booke’ : early modern women and their books at Lambeth Palace Library – Lambeth Palace Library
www.lambethpalacelibrary.info
March 8, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Happy International Women’s Day! For #IWD, why not pay a visit to the digital version of last summer’s ‘Her Booke’: Early Modern Women and their Books, celebrating the role of women in England’s devotional, intellectual & bibliographical cultures. www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/exhibitions/...
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Cherries in a Silver Compote by Fede Galizia, c. 1578– c. 1630
She was born in Milan and died there, possibly of plague.
(Private Collection, via Web Gallery of Art) #InternationalWomensDay
She was born in Milan and died there, possibly of plague.
(Private Collection, via Web Gallery of Art) #InternationalWomensDay
March 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Cherries in a Silver Compote by Fede Galizia, c. 1578– c. 1630
She was born in Milan and died there, possibly of plague.
(Private Collection, via Web Gallery of Art) #InternationalWomensDay
She was born in Milan and died there, possibly of plague.
(Private Collection, via Web Gallery of Art) #InternationalWomensDay
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Also from today's jaunt into the Princeton Special Collections. Will somebody *please* come and do a PhD with me on ownership & usage of early modern language-learning books? Obviously very open to generous funding for such a project (and collaborating with libraries & special collections!)
March 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Also from today's jaunt into the Princeton Special Collections. Will somebody *please* come and do a PhD with me on ownership & usage of early modern language-learning books? Obviously very open to generous funding for such a project (and collaborating with libraries & special collections!)
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Welcome to the Longlist! womensprize.com/prizes/women...
March 4, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Welcome to the Longlist! womensprize.com/prizes/women...
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These are difficult times so let's remember the impact humanities research has in the world. In 2022 @englishassociation.bsky.social, @univeng.bsky.social & @ies-sas.bsky.social met with colleagues to find out about their work. See 🧵Here is no. 1 on policy: englishassociation.ac.uk/speaking-for...
Speaking for English: Policy | The English Association
We support the teaching, learning, and enjoyment of English at all levels of education, from early years to further and higher education and beyond.
englishassociation.ac.uk
February 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
These are difficult times so let's remember the impact humanities research has in the world. In 2022 @englishassociation.bsky.social, @univeng.bsky.social & @ies-sas.bsky.social met with colleagues to find out about their work. See 🧵Here is no. 1 on policy: englishassociation.ac.uk/speaking-for...
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The Hosking Houses Trust
supports women writers, artists and creative practitioners, usually over the age of 40 to develop their work through short-term residencies at Church Cottage nr Stratford-upon-Avon.
Details in link.
Please share :)
hoskinghouses.org.uk
supports women writers, artists and creative practitioners, usually over the age of 40 to develop their work through short-term residencies at Church Cottage nr Stratford-upon-Avon.
Details in link.
Please share :)
hoskinghouses.org.uk
February 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The Hosking Houses Trust
supports women writers, artists and creative practitioners, usually over the age of 40 to develop their work through short-term residencies at Church Cottage nr Stratford-upon-Avon.
Details in link.
Please share :)
hoskinghouses.org.uk
supports women writers, artists and creative practitioners, usually over the age of 40 to develop their work through short-term residencies at Church Cottage nr Stratford-upon-Avon.
Details in link.
Please share :)
hoskinghouses.org.uk
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😍 Archival materialities!
"How do born-digital records transform our understanding of the materiality of the archive? How do digital techniques provide new insights into the materiality of older archives?"
Looking forward to seeing this--what a great ToC.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
"How do born-digital records transform our understanding of the materiality of the archive? How do digital techniques provide new insights into the materiality of older archives?"
Looking forward to seeing this--what a great ToC.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
February 9, 2025 at 3:21 PM
😍 Archival materialities!
"How do born-digital records transform our understanding of the materiality of the archive? How do digital techniques provide new insights into the materiality of older archives?"
Looking forward to seeing this--what a great ToC.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
"How do born-digital records transform our understanding of the materiality of the archive? How do digital techniques provide new insights into the materiality of older archives?"
Looking forward to seeing this--what a great ToC.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...