Annalisa Nicholson

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Molière The great French playwright and comic actor who flourished at the court of Louis XIV.

Have you listened to this episode of BBC Radio 4's 'In Our Time' on Molière yet? Featuring Melvyn Bragg alongside three SEMFS members: Professors Jan Clarke, Joe Harris, and Noel Peacock. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

My review of The Graces: The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration Court is out now in the August issue of @historytoday.com. Stans of the Stuarts, the Roaring Restoration, and early modern women - this book is for you 💘

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign? Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

The situation in many UK universities is awful, but the news coming out of Lancaster is especially bad: 1/4 jobs to go, with senior management either leaving or not taking a pay cut. Please sign and share this petition to support colleagues there: chng.it/X6g46TjMSC

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Gone full name here as I have a couple of things coming out soon (eek), but all variants on my forename are still welcome ✌️

Our #siteoftheweek is the Thomson Index of Slavonic Translation Literature. The aim of the project is to preserve, digitize and extend access to this card index in order to preserve Thomson’s academic legacy as well as to promote + support further research in the field of Byzantine-Slavonic studies.

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Sign the Petition Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

Travelling home after a wonderful day in York at the Women’s Worlds workshop where we explored the relationship between salons and slave ports, organised by the brilliant @susannah-lw.bsky.social. Inspired by the new methodologies being pioneered by young scholars and cultural heritage sites ✨

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This Friday 11th July from 12pm I will be introducing a newly produced full size reproduction of the stunning world map from 1546 we have been busy with at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social
Come explore the world seen through the eyes of a French renaissance king!

Early-Career Research Fellowship at University of Cambridge Recruiting now: Early-Career Research Fellowship on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

Fellowship Opportunity!

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge seeks one Early-Career Researcher (4 years). This year applications will be considered in the following subjects: Modern and Medieval Languages; Classics; Linguistics; Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNY167/e...

A wonderful evening celebrating the launch of Breeze Barrington’s The Graces 🚀. All about the most exciting, innovative, and scandalous women of seventeenth-century England. Tasters of the book are in her article on Maria of Modena in this month’s BBC History magazine @historyextra.bsky.social

Does a Focus on Royalty Obscure British History?

Quite enjoyable to have a head-to-head with @proflroach.bsky.social @michaelledgerlomas.bsky.social and the fabulous Professor Sue Doran in the July issue of @historytoday.com www.historytoday.com/archive/head...

Universities in England at risk of long-term decline, says British Academy Outgoing president Dame Julia Black calls on ministers to overhaul their ‘confused’ approach to higher education

“You’ve got more languages students setting up successful start-ups than you do maths graduates, and the same number of history students setting up start-ups as engineers, so there’s a bit of myth busting that needs to go on.”

www.ft.com/content/3162...

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Fellowships

Researchers!

Short-term fellowships for working with Beinecke Library (and all Yale special collections) are open for applications.

Deadline is July 31.

beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs/fel...

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Glorious Failure | Hurst Publishers From war with the British to the enslavement of Indians, Ivermee uncovers the dark history of France’s doomed imperial project in South Asia.

It was Pratinav Anil on this book (which I want to read): www.hurstpublishers.com/book/gloriou...

My partner likes to joke the French will put a croissant on anything - after we saw a croissant-handbag in a Paris boutique. Read a review this morning about French imperialism in India & the ‘Croissant’ vessel dispatched from France to the East Indies, imagining a little pastry logo on the mast 🥐🌜

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Somehow things have conspired so that I am doing two proofs and two indexes this month(!). But I am so excited for my first academic book - and my little edition of Hortense Mancini’s letters - to be out in the world soon 🌍. A summer of printing and proofs 💫

Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop, 2025 History Workshop is advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships in 2025, open to early career historians.

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.

Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....

It is endlessly infuriating to me that Caster Semenya, and other women athletes, are punished for "naturally produc[ing] higher levels of testosterone than most women" - when that very same capacity is celebrated, rewarded, given medal after medal in the men's sports

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Somehow things have conspired so that I am doing two proofs and two indexes this month(!). But I am so excited for my first academic book - and my little edition of Hortense Mancini’s letters - to be out in the world soon 🌍. A summer of printing and proofs 💫

Beyond the bonnets: Jane Austen’s working women finally get their place in the spotlight Exhibition looks at housekeepers, maids and governesses who ‘enable the lives of the heroines and heroes’

I'm really so pleased that ordinary, working women's stories are being integrated back into the historical record. Their lives are interesting too, but part of me despairs when every Georgian woman's story has to be told in connection with Jane Austen.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Call for papers for the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, taking place at the University of Exeter on 30-31 October. We are exploring early modern conflict in all its forms. We particularly seek to unpack the interactions between the more traditional aspects of conflict, such as the political, tactical and strategic, with the more human side of it, including sociocultural approaches that explore experiences, representations and impacts of violence. As such, we particularly welcome proposals that look beyond purely military history and break chronological, geographical and disciplinary boundaries. We welcome proposals for individual papers of up to 20 minutes, or full panels of three to four papers, on any aspect of conflict, war and violence in the early modern period. Speakers might consider, but are not limited to, the following themes: Physical, tactical, operational and strategic aspects of warfare. Martial identities, values and motivations. Notions of gender, race, class and religion. Remembering, (re)imagining and representing violence and/or conflict. The experience of violence, its impact and the everyday at war. Popular allegiance in early modern conflict. Maritime violence and naval warfare. The bureaucracy of conflict, finance and the law. Abstracts of up to 300 words, along with a biographical note, should be sent to earlymodernwar@gmail.com by Friday 5th September.

We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter.

Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️

Lazy Sundays with Breeze Barrington’s new book on women at the Restoration court. Review out soon! 🌸🌻🌷