The vast body of research that Ken Burns relied upon to make his new documentary on the American Revolution would be practically impossible to be produced today, what with the defunding of humanistic scholarship, the collapse of stable academic jobs, the attack on public history & academic freedom.🗃️
17.11.2025 21:43 — 👍 502 🔁 148 💬 9 📌 3
We can't wait!
19.11.2025 02:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great idea! We love connections. Any takers in Germany?
19.11.2025 01:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Which ‘Witch’ is Which?, by Kelsie Ehalt
Eventbrite - Bodies and Being: The Pre-modern Body Project presents Which ‘Witch’ is Which?, by Kelsie Ehalt - Sunday, November 30, 2025 - Find event and ticket information.
We are excited to welcome @wedgie-bce.bsky.social on November 30th for our online speaker series!
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory #witchcraft
19.11.2025 01:07 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Bodies and Being
The Pre-Modern Body Project
We're looking for our January speaker for our speaker series. Is it you we're looking for? For details, go to Bodiesandbeing.com
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
05.11.2025 20:15 — 👍 12 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
EARLY MODERN PHDs!!! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
03.11.2025 19:38 — 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Hamilton_Book award - Durham University
TOOOOOOOOOOM!!! @tombhamilton.bsky.social! Oh this is brilliant, humongous congratulations. The Natalie Zemon Davis Prize from the @16csociety.bsky.social! 🤩
#NZD4Eva (don't forget her birthday on Saturday, our #EarlyModern feast day)
03.11.2025 19:43 — 👍 36 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
Bodies and Being Colloquium
A monthly online gathering open to scholars of all disciplines and career stages who are interested in the pre-modern body.
It's almost time for our Nov meetup. No presentations, just a monthly hagout with your favorite body-focused scholarly collective.
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
03.11.2025 20:17 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Bodies and Being: The Pre-Modern Body Project
The Executed Body in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century London, Anna Cusack
We were so lucky to have @annacusack.bsky.social come talk to us this month about the executed body. It was extremely interesting! Come check it out.
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Skystorians #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
26.10.2025 00:19 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Looking forward to talking about the executed body this Saturday for @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social 👇🏻
14.10.2025 08:39 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The Executed Body in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century London
In this lecture we hear Dr Anna Cusack, a social historian of early modern England, present her research into executed bodies.
Suitably spooky for our online Oct talk. Sign up now, it's free!
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory #Execution #Death #Crime
12.10.2025 23:59 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2
@suespins.bsky.social is an absolute GENIUS in coming up with creative classroom activities for undergrads. If you were here, you would be full to the brim with ideas and inspiration!
#academicsky #teaching #pedagogy #teachinghistory #lessonplans #medievalsky
11.10.2025 18:14 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Is it a #loomweight or a #dropspindle asks @francescasq.bsky.social and @suespins.bsky.social asks, should those who study historical #textiles be able to make them?
#weaving #knitting #Vikings ##NorseHistory
11.10.2025 17:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@suespins.bsky.social is telling us about her research into dye plants used and traded by Vikings. Give her a follow!
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory #needlework #dyeing #yarn
11.10.2025 17:11 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Stop by and say hello! Introduce yourself and tell us a bit about your work in an informal online setting, no prep needed. #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
10.10.2025 20:18 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
📢NEW MANY HEADED MONSTER POST📢
A series of posts to celebrate the publication of a really important new study of work in #EarlyModern England, by Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, Taylor Aucoin.
Just off to fetch a 'burden of wood'. 🪵🪵🪵🪵🪵 🗃️
07.10.2025 08:53 — 👍 37 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0
I love the literal depiction of a loose tongue!
07.10.2025 10:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A detail from a German pamphlet showing three male human heads: a Turk, A Hungarian, and a German. All heads have three mouths and you can see the tongues. The pamphlet was printed in 1605 and will be highlighted in more detail in my upcoming book about early modern news.
Gossiping is both an art and an annoying practice. In #earlymodern Europe, a gossipmonger would often be depicted as a person with three mouths. Like these three fellas that made it on a title page of a pamphlet in 1605, a Turk, a Hungarian, and a German. #skystorians #gossip
07.10.2025 09:09 — 👍 53 🔁 16 💬 2 📌 2
Bodies and Being Colloquium
A monthly online gathering open to scholars of all disciplines and career stages who are interested in the pre-modern body.
Our October hangout is coming up! Join us for some informal chat this Saturday.
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
07.10.2025 04:40 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
The Ritual of Death in the Early Modern Period, 1550-1650
Discover how rituals of death between 1550 and 1650 reflected religion, culture, and society in the early modern world.
From 1550–1650, death was a carefully crafted ritual — faith, culture, and memory woven together. ⚰️✨
Discover how early modern society understood dying.
#History #EarlyModern #Brewminate
01.10.2025 21:27 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Death Rituals
Cambridge Core - Global History - Death Rituals
A fabulous looking new book from Tonicha Upham exploring all the Arabic and Persian evidence on Rus burials and sacrifices, complete with translations! #medievalsky #vikings
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
15.09.2025 10:56 — 👍 41 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 3
Call for applications! 📣
The German Historical Institute London is seeking a Research Associate with a particular research interest in medieval history (with a focus on late medieval English history) for a part-time project position to start on 1 February 2026. 🤝
1/3
29.09.2025 09:00 — 👍 42 🔁 45 💬 2 📌 2
The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
Cambridge Core - Economic History - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781...
#earlymodern #economic #history
22.09.2025 13:13 — 👍 148 🔁 67 💬 7 📌 2
Events
Stay up to date with the upcoming events organised or hosted by the Institute of Historical Research
History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public.
Starting this week:
22.09.2025 12:32 — 👍 169 🔁 93 💬 1 📌 3
Don't miss a chance to sit around and gab with fellow historians and/or others interested in body studies. #Cats always welcome, too.
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
11.09.2025 20:34 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bodies and Being Colloquium
A monthly online gathering open to scholars of all disciplines and career stages who are interested in the pre-modern body.
Our September colloqium is nigh! Join us this Saturday for informal chat and sharing. Everyone is welcome to participate or lurk.
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
08.09.2025 15:11 — 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 1
Just over two weeks left to send us your abstracts! #CfP #IMC2026 #medievalsky
28.08.2025 09:29 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Full plain text available at: https://medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/24/cfp-borders-boundaries-and-barriers-real-and-imagined-in-the-middle-ages/
Just over 2 weeks left to apply to the Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers conference! It will take place in Oxford on April 20-21, 2026. We hope to provide bursaries to help with attendance. Email your abstracts to bordersboundariesbarriers[at]gmail[dot]com
#medievalsky #skystorians
28.08.2025 21:29 — 👍 25 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 1
Apply to be on season 5! Details available on our website. 🩷
26.08.2025 15:58 — 👍 22 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 2
History PhD Candidate - early modern China, Vietnam, Europe // Comparative political economy, borderlands and global history. California boy. @BrandeisGSAS
Biologist specialising in archaeogenetics, Ancient Near East enjoyer
🧬🏺🦴🦠
📍 Universität Tübingen
⬅️ Universitat de Barcelona
Historian/genealogist. APG board member. Recently completed MA Public History and Cultural Heritage in University of Limerick. Passionate about heritage, oral history and anything that connects to our past https://ryangenealogicalresearch.com/
Chaos maker, Anatomy Lecturer and Medical Artist at Bristol University
With a keen fondness for inside jokes, the facial nerve, and cheese of all shapes and sizes.....
Opinions sadly all my own doing
Medievalist 📚 PhD candidate & teaching assistant working on Jewish converts in 15th-c. Iberia and premodern critical race studies @qmul.bsky.social
#premoderncriticalracestudies #urbanstudies #latemedievaliberia
Early modern literature at the University of Glasgow • community care & justice • she/her • #LongCovid
Professor of Early Modern History, University of Manchester
#materialculture #globalhistory #earlymodern
Dragoman’s Self @routledgehistory.bsky.social
In-Between Textiles @amsterdamupress.bsky.social
@uomhistdept.bsky.social @bemccollective.bsky.social
Cynthia White, Phd. #bloggessfam #DisabilityAdvocate #ChronicFatigue. Left Democrat. Disabled former professor (sociology and statistics). Poetry, gardening, reading, sarcasm, puns. She/her. Cis-hetero. LGBTQ+ ally. Madison, WI. Instagram: lattesdotter11.
Legal practitioner - health law, veterans law, administrative law. Musician. Conductor of ANU Chinese Classical Music Ensemble. Canberra, Australia.
Medievalist - Punishments & Crimes
Post-doc researcher at @usc.gal & @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
Chercheur associé LaMOP (Paris 1)
See more in: https://usc-es.academia.edu/AbelLorenzoRodriguez
ig abel_de_lorenzo_rodriguez
Author of "La horca y el fuego"
Seminar for the history of Europe and the world 1500-1800 the Institute of Historical Research, London.
Mondays at 17:30
See our programme: https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/european-history-1500-1800
Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
AHRC English PhD student at Trinity Hall, Uni of Cambridge. Researching queer Dianas (not the princess) in early-modern Europe
https://www.oocdtp.ac.uk/people/jemma-louise-forster
Who Am I? Professional Genealogist, Tutor (with Pharos Tutors) and Family History Speaker. Tells tales about Transportation to Tasmania.
Academic researching gender-based violence, trauma, and refugees. Cat aficionado, caffeinated whirlwind, and amateur archaeologist. 🏳️🌈
Led by @suttonprofessor.bsky.social and Deputy Director Professor Paula Reavey, the Centre @stir.ac.uk is a dynamic, collaborative, interdisciplinary research project advancing knowledge in relations between place and memory - placememory.net
Director, Centre for the Sciences of Place & Memory, Stirling Uni, Scotland. Skill, memory, embodied cognition, philosophy, cognitive history, cricket, music, collaboration, wayfinding. Leverhulme International Prof: johnsutton.net & placememory.net
Writes about writing, especially for PhDs and researchers: poetry, music, food. Blogs at Research Degree Insider
Assistant Curator of Modern & Contemporary History, National Museums Scotland. Posts about history, museums, heritage, disability & my pets Lightning & Puggo. Discworld fan & disabled mum to 2 fabulous neurospicy kids (own opinions she/her)
The Warwick History Postgraduate Work in Progress.
Showcasing talks by PG students across departments on history-related topics.
Every Monday at 5pm during term time.
Run by the history PhD community.
