This has been the best way to remind everyone to renew the ole annual membership
COVER REVEAL. Really excited to show off the fantastic cover for my new book Sniff from @yalebooks.bsky.social. It’s a history of smells across time and space and hits the shelves on the 8th September. Pre-order from Yale, your local bookshop, or the usual suspects! yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Also: everyone should read this book.
For #WomensHistoryMonth we are resharing some of our past posts on Alice Thornton. As it is also #InternationalWomensDay we are sharing Patricia Phillippy's post on Thornton's North American connections. #EarlyModern #Skystorians 🗃️
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...
Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit?
They look so cool!
beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
currently teaching 19th-c sectarian medicine and struck by the long roots of anti-elitism in the US. Students picked up on it right away: "they sound like instagram influencers!"
I love that there’s a kids book (All in A Drop) about Leeuwenhoek and early modern science tho it made me think of this image and now curious about said drop…
www.harpercollins.com/products/all...
A window display out of an author’s fantasy - I’m here for it and so deeply grateful to the @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social for the support 😉
'Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England'
Sue Wiseman, Michael Powell-Davies and I will be introducing our five-year collaborative project at the @ihr.bsky.social on Thursday, March 5th. Hope to see you there!
Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
For Boston area peoples: there’s a fun-fact-filled talk about the history of STIs at Harvard’s @countwaylibrary.bsky.social on March 31!
libcal.countway.harvard.edu/event/15805705
Amanda Herbert and Kevin Dawson debut a new HLQ article category called Early/Modern Connections: original #earlymodern research in service of the public good. The article and cover feature art by Ebony Iman Dallas. Open access: muse.jhu.edu/article/983132
From biblical Greek, to the scandalous secret disease of early modern London, we've all sorts of new books for you to get stuck into. 🙌📚
There is 'Reading Biblical Greek' by Steffen G. Jenkins, 'The Dreaded Pox' by @oliviaweisser.bsky.social, 'Keeping Hold' by Kate Smith and many more. 🤩
Thank you for mentioning the history too and why the 1600s still matter!
How did people in the seventeenth century understand ending a pregnancy? Find out tomorrow, Thursday 2/19, at Mary Fissell’s talk, ‘Savin, Sex, and Scandal: Rethinking Abortion in Early Modern Anglo-America.’ 4:00–5:30 PM in 470 Stephens Hall, UC Berkeley. #History #Gender #Medicine
Discover how shame, secrecy and so‑called “shame‑free” cures helped turn the pox into the first modern disease and how Londoners navigated silent shopping, social judgement and new attempts at objective diagnosis.
Read more about Olivia Weisser's new book, 'The Dreaded Pox'🔗 https://cup.org/4qJwePw
The AAHM, in conjunction with the AAHN @aahnhistnursing.bsky.social, is pleased to share details about our 2026 Annual Meeting in Buffalo, NY.
Join us for what promises to be a dynamic gathering of scholars!
Learn more about our upcoming meeting here: histmed.org/buffalo-2026...
Chuffed to see this ranking!
One of my fave diaries! If I recall he also mentions location in the house.
Happy VD day! Hot off the press on this lovely Valentine’s Day- THE DREADED POX - a history of having and living with VD (venereal disease) in London hundreds of years ago. www.cambridge.org/core/books/d...
I had a fun conversation with Miranda Melcher for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my new book THE DREADED POX and all the wild ways to treat a clap in the 1700s. newbooksnetwork.com/the-dreaded-...
The new issue of History Workshop Journal is out: issue 100, marking 50 years of the journal's existence. It's more necessary than ever.
academic.oup.com/hwj/issue/10...
A beautiful day to vote!
Join us next Thursday (30/10, 5.30 pm) for Dr Emily Vine’s (@emilymayvine.bsky.social) talk on ‘Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London’! You can sign up to join in-person (IHR Wolfson Room, NB02) or online via Zoom here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
These little tools are apple scoops. They date from the 1800s and are made of sheep bone. They were common in apple-growing districts. The marrow has been hollowed out to allow the user to scrape off pieces of apple if they had few teeth and couldn’t afford dentures.
My favorite prof, mentor, & committee member Martha Howell wrote a new book & I'm psyched it's out:
"Making Merchants. The Cultural Construction of a Merchant Class in Early Modern Germany."
Undoubtedly of interest to many #SkyStorians on the #Medievalsky & #EarlyModern 🗃️ feeds.
l1nq.com/6gxOL
Saw this guy today - taking it as a sign of hope
Are you a researcher in the field of history of science, technology and medicine? The #NotesAndRecord essay award is now open for entries until 28 February 2026. Visit our website find out more: buff.ly/dedMm93 #HistSci #HistSTM
Hello UK! I wrote a book about living in London with an STI hundreds of years ago. Waterstones is having a preorder sale for 25% off that includes THE DREADED POX now thru Friday. Use OCTOBER25 at checkout.
Which book cover do you like better?
