Lenny Hodges

Nizam II on a Hunting Expedition - Rai Venkatachallam - Google Arts & Culture Framed painting in Deccani style with Rai Venkatachallam, the court artist, also the painter of this scene. A royal procession of Asaf Jahi ruler Nizam Ali...

Late 18th Century painting of a royal hunting scene in the planes of Golconda, led by Nizam Ali Khan of Hyderabad. In the painting's top right hand corner, the famous female poet and performer, Mah Laqa Bai Chanda, observes the scene from her palanquin.
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French prisoner-of-war sociability in Hampshire during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars Abstract. Daniel Gordon in his monograph on Citizens without Sovereignty explored how, in eighteenth-century France, sociability enabled those without powe

New article by Katherine Astbury and Abigail Coppins, 'French prisoner-of-war sociability in Hampshire during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars'

Open Access here: doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

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Interesting - thanks!

How has that been going? I've heard AI-based assessments can result in clustered grades?

Women, Food and Power - Joint Session

Excited to be speaking at the IHR Food History seminar on 12 February 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm.

Book a place to hear about cheesemaking and women’s dominance of the dairy in early modern England.

Online via Zoom so no real cheese this time I’m afraid.

Rachel Reeves: "It is not right that people who don't go to university bear the cost for others to." I don't use local leisure centres and I don't drive, so will I be made exempt for taxation that pays for all that stuff? Or is it only education we'll be going after

Delighted to have had this joint article published - even if the keynote it grew out of was almost 3 years ago now! Thank you for being so patient with me @tombhamilton.bsky.social @frenchhistory.bsky.social

The Senses and Medical Humanities A one-day workshop exploring sensory studies and medical humanities through short talks, creative activities, and networking.

The Senses and Medical Humanities – 24 February

A one-day workshop exploring sensory studies and medical humanities, organised by @claireturner.bsky.social with the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University

Details here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-senses...

Happy 50th birthday, HWJ! Being a member of the History Workshop collective has shaped the kind of historian I am (& want to be). I'm so proud to have helped edit this 100th issue of History Workshop Journal, which includes reflections on History Workshop for these turbulent times; on HW's past;...

Tokens of Love ❤️

This cow horn was carved in 1758 as a gift by Edward Davis for his sweetheart Mary 🐄

"These tokens shed a unique light on the emotional experiences of the receiver and those who loved them."

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#Wales #History

IMEMS travels to Parma! 🌍

Last month, our Director Ita Mac Carthy was in Parma as part of the organising committee of a 3-year project focused on the 15thc Italian poet Maria Matteo Boiardo, concluding at @durham.ac.uk in June.

To summarize, the landscape of academia, just like the rest of the global political economy, is marked by a huge fracture engendered by colonialism that continues to operate as well as mutate. This book observes it and attempts to address it, but it is not in itself sufficient repair. We hope that it will act as a preliminary point d'étape in what remains an incomplete process of trying to produce a genuinely global form of knowledge that can help us navigate our shared, divided, burning world.

Brilliant round table online ahead of print from @frenchhistory.bsky.social on “Colonisations: notre histoire”, a history in reverse of France and empire, written by 268 contributors (!!!)

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Fantastic achievement for Talitha! Massive congratulations!

VERY excited we get to discuss Mélanie Lamotte's book @ihreurope1500.bsky.social with @lrhodges.bsky.social & @juliehardwick.bsky.social and Mélanie herself!

18 May, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social

Get your copy @harvardpress.bsky.social: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
#EarlyModern #SkyStorians

The book "By flesh & toil: how sec, race, and labour shaped the early french empire" by Mélanie Lamotte

Thanks @onslies.bsky.social for sending me Mélanie Lamotte's fabulous new book. Really looking forward to discussing it in the spring with Mélanie herself!

I'm referring to the programme "Moral Maze" which is being discussed here. It's broadcast live.

It's not recorded as far as I'm aware but broadcast live

This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com

My previous job ended in October: if anyone needs a temporary tutor in early modern history or as a freelance researcher please do drop me a line! I have over 10 years experience in teaching and a wide practical knowledge of working in archives in the UK and abroad.

Birkbeck, University of London, is seeking a Lecturer in Medieval Studies to join our dynamic team within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Autumn 2026. As Lecturer in Medieval Studies you will contribute to the teaching of Medieval English literature and Medieval history across the Faculty, within our School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, and School of Historical Studies - this includes our BA English and BA History programmes, as well as postgraduate taught programmes in the two subject areas. This post is offered on a permanent contract at Birkbeck, full time 35 hours per week, with a salary of £44,247 rising to £60,858 per year. Teaching hours will vary from 6pm - 9pm, Monday to Friday. To be successful, you will bring research expertise in the literature, history and culture of the Late Medieval period (c.1300-1500), and demonstrate a capacity to contribute to interdisciplinary research and teaching, participate actively in curriculum development, supervise doctoral students, and help shape the intellectual life of our vibrant academic community. We would also welcome applicants who would be able to contribute to collaborative teaching programmes or research in the Faculty, in areas such as identity, race/ethnicity, or gender - experience of collaboration with cultural institutions, whether through research or teaching, is also welcome. Core responsibilities will initially include programme/module administration, teaching, supervision, assessment, student support and pastoral care. You will also be equipped to supervise doctoral students. With a PhD in any area of Medieval Studies, you will contribute the Faculty’s and Schools’ research impact and culture, and to the intellectual and cultural life of the institution and the various communities and partners with whom we work and serve.

Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended.

They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision.

Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Review article: the history of sexuality in modern France Sometimes, when I explain that my research expertise lies in the history of sexuality in modern France, the follow-up is some version of a question: ‘so I

Merry Christmas! My state of the field essay on the history of sexuality in Modern France was published in open access yesterday by @frenchhistory.bsky.social. Check it out at academic.oup.com/fh/advance-a...

In case you needed to well up a little.

"There’s no show… It’s wisdom." He says about the poem, but what a way of summing up how he showcased knowledge and insight on national radio: not to show off yet also not ashamed of intellect.

The Asiento System and the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans (circa 1580–1750) This is the first edited volume to focus explicitly on the asiento, the contractual framework that regulated the transatlantic slave trade to Spanish America between the late sixteenth and mid-eightee...

Out this Thursday: the awesome edited volume I contributed to, "The Asiento System and the Transatlantic Trade in Enslaved Africans (c.1580–1750)" (Brill). A transimperial, heavily archival take on the Spanish asiento de negros, with truly new perspectives.

Dreadful behaviour calling a croissant a bun imo. I'm sure @jacksaundrs.bsky.social has stronger opinions though

b&w photo of a large room with high arched windows and doors to the left and large tables at which women (all in long dresses and with hair pulled up in buns) are working, reading piles of papers. This is the Paris census office photographed in 1911.

Women workers pore over pages and pages of people's responses in the French census office in Paris in 1911 (Gallica, BnF) 🗃️

EU’s Erasmus scheme to reopen to UK students for first time since Brexit at cost of £570m Deal agreed to rejoin exchange programme in 2027, fulfilling Labour election manifesto pledge

This is great news. I benefited enormously from the Erasmus scheme, and it's wonderful that it's back.

*DEADLINE*⏳

Just 6 weeks until our 16 January deadline to apply for one of our fully funded Inventing Futures PhD places! 🎓

🎨Daphne and Her Sisters:
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🌎Imagining Alternatives: Utopia in the World: durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

It's wild that there appears to be more current concern for the Lost Library of Alexandria than for the British Library. The BL's crisis exemplifies the accelerating destruction--through apathy as much as by design--of human knowledge & learning. I'm not even being dramatic.

Books of Devotion: Medieval Bibles and Books of Hours Immerse yourself in the gilded world of biblical manuscripts and Books of Hours. Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Amiatino 1, 5r. A fully online course This one-week online course, supp…

What is a Book of Hours? How to read a calendar? What is an Atlantic Bible? And a Paris Bible?...

If you've ever wondered any of the above (who hasn't?) join my latest online course for @imems.bsky.social: 'Books of Devotion: Medieval Bibles & Books of Hours'

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Just out: symposium on my article on abortion in colonial India, featuring comments by 3 historians of abortion in other times and places: Melissa Feinberg, Matthew Sommer, Philippa Levine. Open Access. I love the comparative insights that came out of this: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...