Nailya Shamgunova
@nailyas.bsky.social
Historian of early modern of encounter at the University of East Anglia. Working on The Global Library Project (https://www.globallibrary.net/). English and Scottish visits to foreign libraries. Also early modern queer history. She/Her
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A great paper from @mareilep.bsky.social at #RenSoc25 on "The humanist exception: Renaissance cosmopolitanism and ars apodemica in England". Thought-provoking reflections on the role of academic travel in humanist education.
#EarlyModern #16thC #17thC #skystorians @srsrensoc.bsky.social
#EarlyModern #16thC #17thC #skystorians @srsrensoc.bsky.social
![Mareile Pfannebecker presenting in front of a slide with a quote from "An oration made by Hermannus Kirchnerus in the Praise of Travel," translated in Thomas Coryat's Coryat's Crudities (1611): "[Those] who having travelled from their owne house, naked in a manner, destitute of all better discipline and nurture, and voyde of humanity, have returned home singularly furnished and affirmed with all kinds of qualities of the minde, and all such worthy gifts as can be incident in a man."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mcpo736y3yy3wtp5fpp5lwid/bafkreigbcu3k5rcvfjqkt3rw6vllvq3gnu4ucc7bw4qcax73pdsv3ed3a4@jpeg)
July 4, 2025 at 4:04 PM
A great paper from @mareilep.bsky.social at #RenSoc25 on "The humanist exception: Renaissance cosmopolitanism and ars apodemica in England". Thought-provoking reflections on the role of academic travel in humanist education.
#EarlyModern #16thC #17thC #skystorians @srsrensoc.bsky.social
#EarlyModern #16thC #17thC #skystorians @srsrensoc.bsky.social
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So cool that people are still discovering this #Sinners syllabus, published by the African American Intellectual History Society, and composed by Jemar Tisby & Keisha N. Blain. Enjoy!
July 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
So cool that people are still discovering this #Sinners syllabus, published by the African American Intellectual History Society, and composed by Jemar Tisby & Keisha N. Blain. Enjoy!
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My personal fav panel from yesterday was John-Mark Philo's project on Global Libraries, check it out if you like books, travel, knowledge exchange, and putting the past in dialogue with the present (in this case forced migrants' lack of/access to libraries) #RenSoc25 www.globallibrary.net/about
About | Global Library
The Global Library Project (1500–1700) reconstructs the journeys made by Anglo-Scots visitors to libraries across North America, Europe, and the Middle East during the early-modern period. By reconstr...
www.globallibrary.net
July 4, 2025 at 12:14 PM
My personal fav panel from yesterday was John-Mark Philo's project on Global Libraries, check it out if you like books, travel, knowledge exchange, and putting the past in dialogue with the present (in this case forced migrants' lack of/access to libraries) #RenSoc25 www.globallibrary.net/about
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This was great btw
Tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 9am on BBC Radio 4 — In Our Time discusses civility with Teresa Bejan (@tmbejan.bsky.social), Phil Withington, and me! Listen live or after broadcast at the link below.
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Civility: talking with those who disagree with you
On the value of keeping conversations going with opponents, from the Reformation onwards
www.bbc.co.uk
July 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This was great btw
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The Society is very pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 Early Career Article and First Book Prizes bit.ly/3GqSCfk
This year's recipients are Laura Flannigan, William Ross Jones, Michaela Kalcher, and Jules Skotnes-Brown for work published in 2024.
Our congratulations to all #Skystorians
This year's recipients are Laura Flannigan, William Ross Jones, Michaela Kalcher, and Jules Skotnes-Brown for work published in 2024.
Our congratulations to all #Skystorians
July 3, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The Society is very pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 Early Career Article and First Book Prizes bit.ly/3GqSCfk
This year's recipients are Laura Flannigan, William Ross Jones, Michaela Kalcher, and Jules Skotnes-Brown for work published in 2024.
Our congratulations to all #Skystorians
This year's recipients are Laura Flannigan, William Ross Jones, Michaela Kalcher, and Jules Skotnes-Brown for work published in 2024.
Our congratulations to all #Skystorians
I am looking for someone to copy something for me from New York Public Library (2 documents), does anyone know how to go about this sort of thing? Any NY based graduate students or early career academics who could help out?
July 3, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I am looking for someone to copy something for me from New York Public Library (2 documents), does anyone know how to go about this sort of thing? Any NY based graduate students or early career academics who could help out?
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Now live! We've created the most comprehensive map to-date of religious institutions in the German Peasants' War (1524-26), identifying many more affected institutions than existing source lists.
Find our map, case studies, and much more on our website:
germanpeasantswar.web.ox.ac.uk
#skystorians
Find our map, case studies, and much more on our website:
germanpeasantswar.web.ox.ac.uk
#skystorians
Visualising the Destruction of Convents and Monasteries in the German Peasants' War
The the first-ever attempt to quantify and map the full destruction of religious houses during the German Peasants' War (1525-26).
germanpeasantswar.web.ox.ac.uk
July 3, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Now live! We've created the most comprehensive map to-date of religious institutions in the German Peasants' War (1524-26), identifying many more affected institutions than existing source lists.
Find our map, case studies, and much more on our website:
germanpeasantswar.web.ox.ac.uk
#skystorians
Find our map, case studies, and much more on our website:
germanpeasantswar.web.ox.ac.uk
#skystorians
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The disappearance of public adult education in the UK over the past twenty years - whether local authority or government - is a national disgrace.
Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.
June 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The disappearance of public adult education in the UK over the past twenty years - whether local authority or government - is a national disgrace.
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Our #OpenAccess collection on the #PowerOfPetitioning in early modern Britain has only been out for a year and amazingly it's been downloaded over 4,000 times from @uclpress.bsky.social. So pleased to see all the interest in petitioning! Get your free copy here:
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-pow...
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-pow...
June 26, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Our #OpenAccess collection on the #PowerOfPetitioning in early modern Britain has only been out for a year and amazingly it's been downloaded over 4,000 times from @uclpress.bsky.social. So pleased to see all the interest in petitioning! Get your free copy here:
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-pow...
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-pow...
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Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.
June 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.
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Today is the Day of the Seafarer.
Discover the crucial role played by Asian sailors in driving colonial trade by exploring the term 'lascar' in the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH).
You can also explore the topic of 'Seamen and boatmen' in BBIH and find more than 1000 references.
Discover the crucial role played by Asian sailors in driving colonial trade by exploring the term 'lascar' in the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH).
You can also explore the topic of 'Seamen and boatmen' in BBIH and find more than 1000 references.
June 25, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Today is the Day of the Seafarer.
Discover the crucial role played by Asian sailors in driving colonial trade by exploring the term 'lascar' in the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH).
You can also explore the topic of 'Seamen and boatmen' in BBIH and find more than 1000 references.
Discover the crucial role played by Asian sailors in driving colonial trade by exploring the term 'lascar' in the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH).
You can also explore the topic of 'Seamen and boatmen' in BBIH and find more than 1000 references.
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On this day in 1978, the rainbow flag first flew as a symbol of pride. It was raised at San Francisco Gay Freedom Day.
June 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
On this day in 1978, the rainbow flag first flew as a symbol of pride. It was raised at San Francisco Gay Freedom Day.
I am looking for what happened to a manuscript from the 'Manuscripts op the Right Honourable the Earl of Portsmouth, Hurstbourne Park, Hampshire'. The manuscript I am after is NOT Newton related. If anyone has easy access to the 1936 Sothesby's catalogue or can help in any way, please reply!
March 31, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I am looking for what happened to a manuscript from the 'Manuscripts op the Right Honourable the Earl of Portsmouth, Hurstbourne Park, Hampshire'. The manuscript I am after is NOT Newton related. If anyone has easy access to the 1936 Sothesby's catalogue or can help in any way, please reply!
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To mark the end of #WomensHistoryMonth, I wrote this post on @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📜 📚
From grieving the loss of her mother to wanting to provide for her three fatherless children, Alice Thornton’s manuscript books reveal one woman’s perspective on life, death and the law in seventeenth-century England.
Read Cordelia Beattie's blog here bit.ly/4iOOKTx
Read Cordelia Beattie's blog here bit.ly/4iOOKTx
March 31, 2025 at 1:31 PM
To mark the end of #WomensHistoryMonth, I wrote this post on @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social. #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📜 📚
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The Society is v. much looking forward to attending the 2025 Historical Association conference, and with it chance to hear how historians in HE can work with teachers to promote new research, and encourage as many A-Level historians as possible to continue with their subject to a university degree.
Fancy two days of fantastic history talks - no book buying required? Historical Association Conference 2025 is in Liverpool - it’s open to everyone with general interest talks from leading academics and specialist sessions for history educators/teachers.
www.history.org.uk/aboutus/cate...
www.history.org.uk/aboutus/cate...
Historical Association Conference 2025 in Liverpool
The UK National Charity for History
www.history.org.uk
February 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The Society is v. much looking forward to attending the 2025 Historical Association conference, and with it chance to hear how historians in HE can work with teachers to promote new research, and encourage as many A-Level historians as possible to continue with their subject to a university degree.
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These are real people that we study. They loved and they hated and they feared and they hoped. They lived and they died. And you spend time with them, and sometimes you mourn them.
February 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
These are real people that we study. They loved and they hated and they feared and they hoped. They lived and they died. And you spend time with them, and sometimes you mourn them.
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If you don’t like Mantel’s portrayal of Thomas Cromwell it is in your power to write (or, still more easily and plausibly, recommend) a better one. If you kill an archive there is not another one waiting to take its place, and you lose the material basis for better representations into the bargain.
February 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM
If you don’t like Mantel’s portrayal of Thomas Cromwell it is in your power to write (or, still more easily and plausibly, recommend) a better one. If you kill an archive there is not another one waiting to take its place, and you lose the material basis for better representations into the bargain.
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I don’t mean to say that historical fiction can’t be criticized in terms of its presentation of history. But I think it’s a serious problem that far more public ink goes to critiquing novelists’ source work or directors’ casting decisions than the gutting of libraries, archives and history programs.
February 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
I don’t mean to say that historical fiction can’t be criticized in terms of its presentation of history. But I think it’s a serious problem that far more public ink goes to critiquing novelists’ source work or directors’ casting decisions than the gutting of libraries, archives and history programs.
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Please repost! My department -- Waseda University's Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies -- is planning to offer a tenured position to begin in 2026. We're a friendly place and we offer one of the best research environments in Japan. Application information here! Thanks for reposting, folks!
Academic Recruitment April 2026 for the Post of Full-Time Academic Faculty
The Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies (GSAPS) at WASEDA University is conducting a search for the following full-time academic faculty...
www.waseda.jp
February 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Please repost! My department -- Waseda University's Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies -- is planning to offer a tenured position to begin in 2026. We're a friendly place and we offer one of the best research environments in Japan. Application information here! Thanks for reposting, folks!
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We're joining the @royalhistsoc.bsky.social in this #Skystorians X-ile and won't be posting on twitter anymore from Friday. Follow us here for updates about our seminar and other #EarlyModern goings-on in London.
From 21 February @royalhistsoc.bsky.social will be closing and archiving its X account.
From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky.
Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians
From this date all updates from the Society - and its promotion of work by fellow organisations for #history and the humanities - will be via BlueSky.
Please encourage colleagues to join us here #skystorians
February 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
We're joining the @royalhistsoc.bsky.social in this #Skystorians X-ile and won't be posting on twitter anymore from Friday. Follow us here for updates about our seminar and other #EarlyModern goings-on in London.
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The lid of painted wooden casket depicting a courting couple. Possibly dating to the 15th century, the casket may have been used as an engagement present. Now part of the collections at Tullie House Museum in Carlisle. 📷 My own. #Woodensday #Medieval #Carlisle
February 19, 2025 at 7:10 AM
The lid of painted wooden casket depicting a courting couple. Possibly dating to the 15th century, the casket may have been used as an engagement present. Now part of the collections at Tullie House Museum in Carlisle. 📷 My own. #Woodensday #Medieval #Carlisle
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As someone with an above-average love for both rare books and tiny things, today has now turned into a great day.
We see your tiny Hedge Hog (so precious) and we raise you... miniature Galileo!
February 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
As someone with an above-average love for both rare books and tiny things, today has now turned into a great day.
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Final visit on this Bookscapes whistle-stop tour of Essex is to the Knightbridge Library bequeathed in 1679 to what is now Chelmsford Cathedral.
February 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Final visit on this Bookscapes whistle-stop tour of Essex is to the Knightbridge Library bequeathed in 1679 to what is now Chelmsford Cathedral.
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A non-binary gender spectrum has been affirmed by well-established science for decades. You don't get to executive-order it away just because you think it's icky. Science doesn't care about your tantrums.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Trump says there are ‘two sexes.’ Experts and science say it’s not binary.
The president’s executive order signaled an intention to narrowly define the sexes, but experts say he is oversimplifying the intricate nature of human biology.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A non-binary gender spectrum has been affirmed by well-established science for decades. You don't get to executive-order it away just because you think it's icky. Science doesn't care about your tantrums.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Pleased to see that the @srsrensoc.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships 25/26 have been announced www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...
Very happy to share my experience/knowledge with anyone thinking of applying! Drop me a message :)
Very happy to share my experience/knowledge with anyone thinking of applying! Drop me a message :)
Postdoctoral Fellowships – Society for Renaissance Studies
www.rensoc.org.uk
February 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Pleased to see that the @srsrensoc.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships 25/26 have been announced www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...
Very happy to share my experience/knowledge with anyone thinking of applying! Drop me a message :)
Very happy to share my experience/knowledge with anyone thinking of applying! Drop me a message :)