John Gallagher

Attention creative medievalists! Eleanor Barraclough & I are co-editing a special issue of Public Humanities entitled CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW! See the cfp for details: essays of 2,000-3,000 words due 1 May 2026. (Amazing artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social). 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Having been a keen undergraduate medievalist it was a thrill to get invited for sherry with the legendary C.N.L. Brooke when I started at Caius. Though dining in that Polish restaurant with you was also a delight, so I feel I got the best of both worlds.

A friend of mine has a very similar Gmail address to that of a successful concert pianist so is forever getting invited to the Salzburg Konzerthaus etc. He forwards them on and him and the pianist have a very sweet relationship.

Yet more unrealistic expectations for the academic CV

Ugh, a double 'recently'? I'll tell you what, you wouldn't get it from John Gallagher.

I realised recently that Google Scholar fails to capture quite a few citations of my work. But today I spotted that it has recently decided that I'm the late imperial historian John Gallagher so at least I'm picking up a solid few of his.

Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship Robert Mcintosh Applied History & Policy Fellowship

If you are a historian with policy-facing interests who has recently submitted their PhD (or will do so imminently), this fantastic new London-based postdoc fellowship in Applied History could be for you. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

The more I work with consistory records the more I think I could just spend my life with them, really

VERY funny typo, it must be said

Now on the third day of painstaking archival reconstruction which if I'm lucky will yield maybe two paragraphs of the book. At least it's keeping my interest, even if I'll only have two or three sentences to cover this French bigamist, thief, and forger in 1560s London.

I am offering two doctoral positions (65%) in the Junior Research Group “Sustainability in Translation” (buff.ly/HULoKXy) at the University of Würzburg in Germany.
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(both until 06.01.2026)
Please share widely.
#TranslationStudies #ClassicalReceptionStudies #DH

Delighted to share the Call for Papers for a special issue of French Historical Studies on the theme "European-Indigenous Relations in the French Americas" (to be co-edited by Scott Berthelette and myself)

CFP and submission guidelines can be found here:
read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

Essex to close Southend campus and cut 400 jobs University says it has been forced into making ‘decisions we could have never previously imagined’ after steep drop in international student numbers

Grim news and vacuous messaging from Essex: 200 academic posts (in unspecified subjects) to go this year & 200 professional staff posts in the next 2 years. Closure of Southend campus will be a blow regionally as well. The vision and ambition that saw Essex et al established is sorely needed now.

Not to sound like a stuck record, but '400 jobs to be lost in city as car plant/steel works/aerospace facility closes' would be treated somewhat differently, I suspect.

A screenshot from our Zooniverse website, with a banner that shows that the project data has now been completed. The webpage contains black, green, and gold banners spanning across the top of the page, and the title of the Zooniverse project 'The Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790'. On the left half of the screen is a close up of an early modern manuscript, and on the right half, a textual description of the zooniverse project, featuring grey text on a white background.

📢 NEW 'Project Progress Update' Blog Post! 📢

We've recently reached a very significant project milestone, and thought this would be the perfect moment to provide a research update: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

Featuring @zooniverse.bsky.social news, and a sneak peek at our database! 📜✍️💻

You're very kind to say it! Always keen to chat early modern multilingualism. And my first ever research (my UG dissertation) was on Montaigne in translation, before I realised I was much too stupid to be a Montaigne person!

This sounds great! Sadly slightly too much of a schlep for me at the moment...

RHS Workshop Grants, 2026 - call open to fund day events on historical projects - RHS The Royal Historical Society is pleased to announce the next call for its RHS Workshop Grants for projects to take place in 2026. This scheme provides funding of £1,000 per Grant to enable historians ...

The Society currently invites applications for its 'Workshop Grants' programme 2026: bit.ly/3MlbX46

Grants provide funding for groups of historians to come together for a day event to work collaboratively on a shared project.

Closing date for applications: Friday 23 January 2026 #Skystorians

Yr Hen Iaith part 75 – The earliest Welsh-American literature Jerry Hunter The first Welsh-language American book was published more than half a century before the birth of the United States. Its author, Ellis Pugh, was one of a number of Welsh Quakers who immig...

From @yrheniaith.bsky.social podcast

Early Welsh language literature from the Americas includes a poem from 1596 imagining a dolphin carrying a message from a ship in the Caribbean home to Wales

Benjamin Franklin (yes, that one) printed a Welsh language book in 1730!

nation.cymru/feature/yr-h...

The Moved Apart team are happy to present Dr Mark Williams of Cardiff University, who is invited to hold a presentation called "Time Apart in the early English East India Company". The prese... The Moved Apart team are happy to present Dr Mark Williams of Cardiff University, who is invited to hold a presentation called "Time Apart in the early English East India Company". The presentation is...

For any interested #earlymodern #skystorians:

I've the pleasure of speaking at the Moved Apart Project's seminar series this coming Monday at 9am GMT/10am CET!

The talk (ca. 30 mins) will be 'Time Apart in the early English East India Company', and it's entirely online!

All welcome!

Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee - 1. Childhood - BBC Sounds Hermione Lee's vivid biography of one of theatre's leading playwrights.

Radio 4 is rebroadcasting its abridgement of Hermione Lee's biography of Tom Stoppard: this is the first childhood section

"His baby words would have been in his natal language, which he would soon forget"
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I send all my correspondence with Brill by courier to both Leiden and Boston. My research office hates me

Recordings available of the Society's 2025 Anniversary Lecture, with Professor Jane Ohlmeyer - RHS On 21 November, the Society was delighted to welcome Professor Jane Ohlmeyer to give the 2025 RHS Anniversary Lecture: ‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland’. Recordings of Jan...

Recordings are now available of Jane Ohlmeyer's excellent RHS Anniversary Lecture: 'Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland' bit.ly/3MdjXEn

Jane's lecture was given on 21 November and is available to watch or listen to again. #Skystorians 1/2

Just ran a spellcheck in Word and it gave me a 100% perfect score for a document which contained the word 'pragrmatic'. Is everything just broken now?

It comes around quicker every year.

We could simultaneously tackle underinvestment in Northern Irish higher education by founding the Newry College of the Humanities

Today marks my first day as a Visiting Early Career Research Fellow at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social! I’ll be using the time to develop my research on sensory experiences of cancer in the past. If you’re in Manchester between now and June, drop me a line - I’d love to connect!

'This is the first book-length study of the Mazarin salon in London, established by Hortense Mancini (Duchess of Mazarin) and Charles de Saint-Évremond in 1676. The salon hosted intellectual conversation, gambling, performance...bringing together...exiles with Restoration London’s elite.' 2/2

The original influencers: exiled women and the French salon in European culture | King's College London A new book explores how exiled women played a pivotal role in shaping elite culture in Restoration England through the introduction of the French salon model.

'Dr Annalisa Nicholson, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, reveals how the concept of the salon was translated to the capital in A Salon-in-Exile: Hortense Mancini and the French Diaspora in Restoration London.' 1/2