Eloise Davies

The Hamilton School for Classical & Civic Education at the U. of Florida has hired various historians of political thought in recent years (some from Cambridge!) & is now on the hunt for more faculty members.

Ads here explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53... & here explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

Melvyn Bragg decides to step down from presenting In Our Time After 26 years on the programme, the legendary presenter bids farewell to the series

A huge moment -- Melvyn Bragg steps down from In Our Time after over a quarter of a century. What a programme and what a legacy! Just a model for how to make great, clever, engaging radio, and a twenty-seven-year experiment that proves there's a huge global audience for smart, scholarly programming.

A Rarely Seen Caravaggio Masterpiece Makes Its Way to Florida "In Caravaggio’s Light: Baroque Masterpieces from the Fondazione Roberto Longhi" comes to the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida.

Important Caravaggio on its way to Florida, home of rare communicable diseases

‘Time, that great discoverer of truth and falsehood’: the calendar change of 1752 and the dating of Easter - The History of Parliament As Easter weekend - late this year - approaches, Dr Robin Eagles, Senior Research Fellow in the House of Lords 1660-1832 section, discusses the timing of

#OTD 1752, Britain went to bed like usual. But when they awoke, it was ‘eleven days later’ on Thursday 14 September. Find out why...👇 @georgianlords.bsky.social

We’re hiring again @ufhamilton!

3 open-field humanities/social sciences
4 jobs in PPEL
(All open rank)

Do apply! 😎🐊

explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/53...

Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

An illustration of a man riding a horse while blowing a horn, with a yellow sun above. The illustration is laid over faded text on a blue backdrop.

You can now access a beta version of the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC).

A bibliography of about 500,000 records, the ESTC aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced before 1801 in the English-speaking world.

Explore the catalogue: datb.cerl.org/estc/

Beyond thrilled and honoured to see my book on the shortlist for this year's @royalhistsoc.org First Book Prize!!! Thanks to the prize panel for this recognition, and congrats to the other shortlisted authors

It’s publication day for Thomas More: A Life and Death in Tudor England with Michael Joseph @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social!

Pop by your local bookshop or order now - uk.bookshop.org/a/12264/9781...

Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference 2025

There's still time to sign up for next week's graduate conference! See below for details ⬇️

intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford...

Planetary Orders and Global Divisions in the Political Thought of Barbara Ward

📢 New Blog

Or Rosenboim (@orrosenboim.bsky.social) explores 'Planetary Orders and Global Divisions in the Political Thought of Barbara Ward'

intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/plan...

This year's Quentin Skinner Lecture will be delivered by Dr Max Skjönsberg.

Date: 6 June 2025
Time: 11:00 – 18:30
Location: Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DP

To register, please visit the following website:
onlinesales.admin.cam.ac.uk/conferences-...

Faisal Devji appointed as Beit Professor of Global and Imperial History

How exciting and well-deserved. @faisaldevji.bsky.social www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/beit...

Women, Race, and the Moravian Church in the Early Modern Atlantic World This book focuses on women’s participation in the Moravian Church during the eighteenth century, focusing on international marriage and migration.

It's officially out! As of Friday, my book is available to purchase and exists in the world. What a long and wonderful ride this has been and I'm thankful for all the support I've received along the way!

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

A Closer Look at Pope Francis’ Favorite Painting (Gift Article) Caravaggio was an artist of rare directness, whose naturalistic pictures brought the heavens down to earth. Our critic Jason Farago shows you what Francis may have seen in them.

A close reading of Caravaggio's "Calling of St. Matthew" #earlymodern #arthistory

Join us for the colloquium celebrating the 40th anniversary of Sylvana Tomaselli’s article ‘The Enlightenment Debate on Women’.

Date: 28 April (Monday)
Venue: Palmerston Room (Fisher Building), St John's College.

See our website for further details:
www.polthought.cam.ac.uk/future-event...

A detail of a fresco showing a man who sits before a hearth and a woman who prepares roast meat on a spit

Federico Zuccaro, Scenes from the Life of the Artist's Family, detail, 1579, Casa del Sarto-Zuccari, Florence #arthistory #earlymodern #renaissance

‘The Grammar of Angels’ by Edward Wilson-Lee review

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘭𝘴: 𝘈 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘗𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘢𝘨𝘦 by Edward Wilson-Lee finds in Giovanni Pico della Mirandola a case for the Rennaissance as a triumph not of individuality but of universal experience.

✍️ Eloise Davies reviews the recent book

www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...

Alexander Bevilacqua · Can we speak Greek? Martin Crusius’s Project Crusius plundered contemporary travel accounts for information alongside chronicles and histories. He recognised the...

Thrilled that the @lrb.co.uk published Alexander Bevilacqua's wonderful review of my book on The Discovery of #Ottoman Greece

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

#earlymodern #skystorians

A poster with details for the book launch of The Limits of Erudition: The Old Testament in Post-Reformation Europe (Cambridge, 2024). For more information, see: https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series/early-modern-scholarship-and-religion

I’ll be launching my book The Limits of Erudition in Cambridge on 2 May 2025 with Simon Ditchfield. All very much welcome, whether in person or online! For further details see the poster attached and register for Zoom here: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/event-series...

#earlymodern

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Typology Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss biblical typology.

Listen Now 📻🎤

'Biblical Typology' on In Our Time with the wonderful @mirierubin.bsky.social and Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe @peterhousecam.bsky.social, and me @darwincollegecam.bsky.social @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social

Plus an Easter thread!

tinyurl.com/2zchj3vy

Great to see these translations out and now online - not least as I was lucky enough to take an intellectually formative class on embryonic versions of these back as a 1st year undergrad.

Bartolus of Sassoferrato Cambridge Core - European History 1000-1450 - Bartolus of Sassoferrato

New Cambridge blue text now out 🔔: George Garnett and Magnus Ryan’s edition & translations of Bartolus of Sassoferrato’s political tracts @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @oxfordcih.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/books/b...