Tim Wade

@WarwickHistory are recruiting for an Assistant Professor in Environmental History - with an open chronological and thematic focus.

Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students.

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#history #envhistory #earlymodern

Are you an early career or established researcher engaged on original research intended to produce monographs, editions or studies of documents, texts or illustrations? Apply for the Neil Ker Memorial Fund 2026: https://bit.ly/4hO0Oo1

Apparently there was an earthquake in Hereford in the 19th century so I guess you never know #skystorians

Email header reading: ‘Tim, you ride the rails tomorrow’

Email header offering alerts for ‘natural disasters and urgent disruptions in Hereford’

Is it just me or are my emails trying to tell me something?

The Society for Neo-Latin Studies is organising a panel on career opportunities for PhDs and early career researchers as part of our AGM at the Warburg Institute on Friday 14 November!
All are welcome and attendance is free! Registration is encouraged via this link: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren...

Starting Nov 26 (4pm CET) - online Prolepsis Research Network seminar series "#NeoClassica: Texts and Perspectives from the Early Modern Classical Tradition" listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A... Link: email prolepsis.network@gmail.com

YouTube video by IllinoisRBML Paul Needham talk, 10/23/25 - "Gutenberg's Second Invention: The 1460 Mainz Catholicon"

So pleased that Paul Needham's recent talk @illinoisrbml.bsky.social is up! Interested to learn more about the progression of his work on the Catholicon... 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYa5...

The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

Have you heard about our new Archie L. Dick Research Grants? If not, take a look and see if you qualify! Even if you don't, maybe someone you know does? Deadline to apply is December 1, 2025.

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Curriers' Essay Prize | The London Journal The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal. Other promising entries may also be considered for publication.

The Worshipful Company of Curriers essay prize on London for early career scholars, in association with The London Journal Trust and the Institute of Historical Research.

The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal.

Warwick's interdisciplinary Centre for the Study of the Renaissance has also called for PhD applicants interested in Warwick's central Postgraduate Research Scholarships. Same early deadlines as for Modern Languages... so alert prospective students please. warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ren...

Every year, The Bibliographical Society awards a number of major grants to those engaged in bibliographical research with primary focus on the physical object as historical evidence.

Nicholas Udall’s Copy of Polydore Vergil For many years, scholars have been diligently tracking down surviving books from the library of the Tudor educator, translator and playwright, Nicholas Uda

This was a fun recent find: a new book from the library of the Tudor playwright Nicholas Udall, which tells us something about his sometimes elusive religious views. Read all about it in N&Q: doi.org/10.1093/note...

#BookHistory #EarlyModern

RIP St Jerome, you would've HATED sprayed edge special editions in Waterstones.

Folks, applications for FEEGI's April 2026 conference at Rutgers are due 10/30! And for people interested in attending the PEAES workshop immediately beforehand (we're teaming up this time around), apps are due TODAY, 10/17! librarycompany.org/academic-pro... #earlymodern #earlyAmerica #historians

Ripon knitters make 12ft Remembrance Week poppy dress Ripon Community Poppy Project volunteers spent at least 1,000 hours knitting the garment.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Here we FUCKING GO!!

Good news, 📜 #bookhistory #booksky #libsky #rarebooks folks - (and via @lynnemthomas.com ) - Paul's talk will be recorded and posted on the @illinoisrbml.bsky.social YouTube! (No livestream, tho, but glad to see it recorded)

I'm usually pretty meh about the provenance of manuscripts, and in general about 16th C printed books... But Ott.lat.1902 is the copy of Copernicus that was owned, read, an annotated by Tycho Brahe, and has his notes about orbital mechanics bound in at the end. digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Ott...

Same old garbage by people who despise teachers

One week to go until Lyndal Roper's talk at @ihr.bsky.social!

Register for the hybrid event here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

And check out our other talks by @emilymayvine.bsky.social and @nailyas.bsky.social here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Have you been bereft without MLGB3? It was the essential and much-used online listing of extant books from British medieval libraries. Those good people @bodleian.ox.ac.uk have been working away and have just re-launched it, with the promise of more in the year ahead:
mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

This looks like a very interesting conference, being organised by @tomasantoniovalle.bsky.social at @uni-hamburg.de. 21 to 23 May 2026.

Abstracts due 1 December 2025.

#EarlyModern #skystorians #16thC #17thC

I am once again asking the British punditry class to look at the coffee supply chain to see why it’s gone up in price!

Happening tomorrow! Join me and Simon Devereaux. We’ll be chatting about my new book on London prisons and more generally about the history of imprisonment.

(Un)chained Knowledge In the mid-15th century, at the time when Dieric Bouts (ca. 1410-1475) settled in Leuven as a town painter, access to scientific knowledge was very limited. Professors could afford manuscripts, while ...

Almost two years ago, we opened our exhibition (Un)chained Knowledge, subtitled “Fake news, censorship and information around 1500 and today”. The digital version of this exhibition is still available online. Why are we putting this exhibition back in the spotlight now?

Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper

The IHR Tudor and Stuart seminar has joined Bluesky! Please follow and RT!

Our programme for the year is starting NEXT WEEK on Monday 29 September with Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social speaking on 'Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper'.
Online and in-person, 5.30pm
Book here:

Cover von JbKG 27 (2025)

Das "Jahrbuch für Kommunikationsgeschichte" erscheint in Band 27 (2025) in diesen Tagen: www.steiner-verlag.de/Jahrbuch-fue...

Zum Inhaltsverzeichnis: medien.davlink.de/978351514024...

Die Rezensionen sind, wie jedes Jahr, open access. #skystorians

Have a good weekend

Currently on its latest travels!

Archivist: We kindly ask you to put your bag in a… wait, what is that?

Me: A pop-up Rembrandt house!

Archivist: …

Me: I got it at The Hague!

Archivist: …

Me: Do you want to look?

Archivist: Use the lockers please