Michael Pearce

Lecturer (Education) in Modern European History at Queen's University Belfast Apply now for the Lecturer (Education) in Modern European History role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

A proper 12-month replacement post with decent salary (for UKHE, at least) in modern European history. Belfast is a decent place to live - relatively affordable apart from extortionate pint prices - and I can personally vouch for what a great & friendly School we have.
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It's crazy how much AI is like the your worst coworker.

Doesn't do their job right, steals your shit, isn't funny, and in the end you still have to redo all their work and for some god knows what reason your boss loves them and never fires them.

I have to say, this does not feel like it was a 'common thing'

Jewels of James III of Scotland - Wikipedia

Another list of things that used to be in Edinburgh Castle including Robert the Bruce's shirt

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I would have liked a bit more on Victoria's acquisition of smutty postcards, perhaps a drawing room drama doc scene with a lady in waiting

Apparently the Latin for the Chaseabout Raid was "exercitu versantibus" which may be one of the most amusing things in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland

In the death registers of early modern Venice, marginalia often marks the cause of death: drawings of daggers for murders, for instance.

In 1696, Giovanni Battista Rinaldi was killed by a dog. This is the drawing by his entry.

Learning about history helps to prevent repeating the mistakes of the past. It seems like a good time time to post this list of historians doing such great work in their field.
#skystorian #history

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Exploring the fragmentary remains of the Burgundian ducal necropolis in the Chartreuse of Champmol, now in the outskirts of Dijon. Here the well of Moses, commissioned by Philip the Bold from Claus Souter.

The summer is going by super quickly (nearly August already???)! Make sure that the deadline for “Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Real and Imagined” conference doesn’t sneak up on you. Get them in by 15 September!

Interested in how butter used to be made at home?
My latest YouTube short is up on my channel to show you how, featuring lots of lovely objects from my collection.

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#museumofkitchenalia

O yes he has

Banner: Book Launch: "The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), Author Helen Newsome-Chandler in Conversation with Elena Woodacre, 10 September 2025, 12.00EDT, 17.00BST, 18.00CEST https://www.crowdcast.io/c/holograph-letters Burnt red background, white text. Book cover to the left of the text, phoenix logo below.

📖I'm having an online book launch with @ewoodacre.bsky.social and @srsrensoc.bsky.social
for my @royalhistsoc.org Camden Edition of 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots' (out 8 Aug).

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A Portrait Attacked: Sectarianism on Cambridge Campus - Uncomfortable Oxford A painting of Arthur Balfour was attacked at Trinity College, Cambridge. This post explains why pro-Palestinian activists chose his portrait.

He wore his Cambridge robes at the Jerusalem university inauguration, according to some sources, I realise this is perhaps not an urgent point of controversy: www.uncomfortableoxford.com/balfours-pai...

There are a few findings in this article that I think will be of broad interest. First, it shows that eugenic sterilisation did happen in 1930s Britain, despite the failure of the eugenics society to secure legislation for it.

Wedding of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley - Wikipedia

#OTD Wedding of Mary, Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley, unusual stag do with plans to kidnap bride and groom and imprison them in Castle Campbell, and the thing about dress pins, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedding...

North of chancel #StMaryHutton #Somerset #StonemasonryMonday

Rather fine C15 niche re-set after the rebuilding of the chancel C19. Pseudo-4-centred arch, heavily moulded and with carved spandrels. Hosting a C16 (damaged) brass memorial #MemorialMonday

I've written a short piece for History Today on ships' surgeons and emotional lives at sea. Enjoy!

John Currour - Wikipedia

John Currour, made a crown for Margaret Tudor in 1503, and some other stuff, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cu...

Coronation of James I and Anne - Wikipedia

#OnThisDay 1603, the English coronation of James VI and I and Anna of Denmark, some of the more curious details en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronat...

Performing Race in the London Lord Mayors' Show, 1660-1708 | Folger Shakespeare Library Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

New blog post reflecting on some of the material I was looking at during my @folger.edu fellowship. Thinking about how race was staged on London's streets during the post-Restoration Lord Mayor's Show.

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Secret Bond - Wikipedia

They left Linlithgow on 26 or 27 July 1543, after a curious outdoor reconciliation event involving mass handshaking on 25 July: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_...

Book Launch! Early Modern Women's Writing and the Future of Literary History: August 13 11:00 CST

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I would have gone for "not actually in Warwick" as a campaign leader

Best wishes for a speedy recovery! There was an interesting suggestion that the pledged collar money might be used for something else to do with Dutch East India ships, Calendar State Papers Colonial Series, East Indies, 1625–1629 (London, 1884), pp. xiii–xiv, 494 no. 641.

Would this venture be partly funded by the sale of Henry VIII's great collar of balas rubies and knots of pearls?

Writing History Articles: A Workshop for PhD students and ECRs

For any PhD Students or ECRs in search of support in preparing their first journal article for publication, do check out this exciting workshop, run by @hisjournalha.bsky.social!

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In case you haven't seen it, here's our call for the upcoming Forum in Early Modern Women. Consider submitting a short piece on the theme of migrancy! #EarlyModern

Cataloguing the Campbell charters A new project is underway to examine an important collection of charters and rolls housed at the British Library. The Campbell charters are being catalogued as part of the British Library’s Hidden Col...

A post on my latest cataloguing project: the Campbell Charters, which include a collection of grants from Scotland's kings and a roll for calculating dice probabilities. #medievalsky

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The clothes of Marjorie Livingstone, Lady Findlater, 1577 Marjorie Livingstone died on 13 February 1577. She was the widow of James Ogilvie of Cardell and Findlater and had been a maid of honour in the household of Mary of Guise. Guise bought clothes for …

A good list of clothes from the 1577 will of Marjorie Livingstone, Lady Findlater, which she left to her sisters Lady Plane and Lady Airth and other relatives vanishedcomforts.org/2025/07/17/t...