Annalisa Nicholson

Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England

Next Thursday (March 5th) @ihrscb.bsky.social we are hosting the Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in #EarlyModern England. Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Deadline tomorrow! Send in your expressions of interest.

A illustration of James Byres and Christopher Norton in a 'Birth of Adam' style position.

What if the Jacobite cause had a queer history we were never told about? 🌈

In our new long-read, researcher and writer Indigo Dunphy-Smith takes us on a journey from Aberdeenshire’s estates to the art circles of Rome.

We're back! Building on the success of our inaugural conference last year, we are delighted to announce its return with the new theme: Beyond the Battlefield🗡️

The conference will take place at the University of Exeter on 2-3 September. Deadline for abstracts is 22 May.

Please circulate widely!

Thank u! I’m delighted it’s out at last 🥰

Oh that's wonderful ❤️

A new issue of HLQ is out - see more via Project Muse. It's really exciting to see the directions the journal is taking with @brettrushforth.bsky.social as editor.

muse.jhu.edu/issue/56420

So excited for this 😍

Proofs just in for A Golden World, featuring our glorious cover artwork ✨

A glittering new history of how the Americas transformed early modern England from award-winning historian @laurenworking.bsky.social, A Golden World is out 18 June and available to pre-order now.

linktr.ee/agoldenworld

Do you have an essay that contributes to our understanding of literature, history, or culture in the Anglophone world, 1660-1700, or the adjacent periods? We’re open to any subject and any convincing method! Find more information on our website: blog.umd.edu/restorations...

📣 3-year early modern French job at Oxford: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Had the most wonderful evening back in Oxford last night with my PhDay 1 Marina Perkins celebrating the publication of our books. Thanks to all who joined us (didn’t get enough photos bc I was having too much fun/wine) ❤️

Parisian street songs and the propaganda campaign over the Sorbonne’s Chinese censure (1700) Abstract. In October 1700, the Faculty of Theology of the Sorbonne issued a formal censure of statements concerning Confucius and ancient Chinese religion

Sean Heath on Parisian street songs and the Sorbonne Chinese censure of 1700

doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

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Mélanie Lamotte, "By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire" (Harvard UP, 2026)

It was such a pleasure to interview Mélanie Lamotte about her new book, "By Flesh & Toil". Historians of early modern empire, France, gender, sex, race and labour will find so much food for thought here – a truly game-changing book for our understanding of the early French empire! 🗃️

I wrote a piece for the CDBU blog with some low or no cost things our employers could do right now if they care about precarious staff as much as they say they do.

Another very attractive job offer (only two years, alas) to join the Faculty of History in Cambridge!
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

Le roman Sévigné : un podcast à écouter en ligne | France Culture Par Albane Penaranda, une "Nuit" avec Madame de Sévigné, célèbre épistolaire française du Grand Siècle. D’une grande liberté de ton, ses Lettres, écrites entre 1648 et 1696, nous introduisent tour à t...

Le roman Sévigné
D’une grande liberté de ton, ses Lettres, écrites entre 1648 et 1696, nous introduisent tour à tour dans son univers privé et dans la vie de la Cour de Louis XIV.
www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies Language, Sense, and Proof in the Early Modern World. Deadline for submissions: 12th April 2026.

Call for Chapters: Evident Tongues, Evident Bodies
Deadline to submit: 12th April 2026
We invite chapter proposals for an edited volume examining how encounters through language and the senses shaped the production of evidence in the early modern period (c.1492–1700).
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

A purple banner that reads 'OXFORD INTERSECTIONS: Gender Justice'. It includes an icon depicting birds escaping from a cage, a link to the project homepage (https://lnkd.in/eNY_RVVh), and the OUP logo.

We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the 'Gender and Creativity' section of the Gender Justice project for @academic.oup.com. This section is edited by Dr. Paulina Bronfman, with Madelyn Detloff serving as General Editor for the overall project. Details: drive.google.com/file/d/1ZI-0...

European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women" The resolution, though nonbinding, is a significant shot at those who seek to erode transgender rights on the continent.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."

Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.

It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Our latest.

Thank you - I didn’t know Sarah was your colleague - if you see her, pass on my best wishes. Her research is cited lots throughout!

When I first started working on Mancini, I often read that none of her letters survived. After a lot of archive rummaging (in five different countries!), I managed to find about seventy. The magic of the archives is quite something ✨

Late to my own party, but it is wonderful to see my edition of Hortense Mancini’s letters in print, which arrived at the start of the year. If you think your library would benefit from the words of one of the seventeenth-century’s most libertine women, here is the link: iterpress.org/978164959131...

Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why

Joan W. Scott calling upon democrats everywhere👇🏽

“The suppression of gender studies is not only an attempt to suppress a critical analytical tool, but also knowledge itself.

“Defence of gender studies is… a vital stand (for)…democracy, one based on aspirations for equality and justice for all”.

Front cover of Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England by Elly Robson Dezateux.

Blurb of Violent Waters: How were environments and politics remade by sovereigns, floods, mapmakers, migrants, rioters, and writers during wetland improvement projects in early modern England? Violent Waters examines flagship ventures which promised to transform unruly fenland fringes into orderly terrain at the heart of national power and productivity. In practice, these projects sparked constitutional controversy, new floods, and huge riots. The first state-led project in Hatfield Level brought local, national, and transnational interests into contact and conflict for almost a century. Elly Robson Dezateux traces the environmental politics that emerged as water and land were constructed and contested, both mentally and materially. These disputes pivoted on urgent questions about risk and justice, which became entangled in civil war conflict and exposed the limits of central authority and technology. Ultimately, improvement was destabilised by a lack of legitimacy and the dynamism of local custom as a method of environmental management and collective action. Wetland communities, as much as improvers and sovereigns, remade the terrain of politics and the future of the fens.

Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England is out now with Cambridge University Press: www.cambridge.org/core/books/v...

This watery, riotous book has been more than a decade in the making, and I'm delighted to see it out in the world to live its own life!

sign with lots of angry wugs protesting cuts

good morning, #linguistics 🐦🐦 pals

the University of Essex wants to cut 50% of our Language & Linguistics department, close our foundation programme & our Southend campus, + cut 400 jobs academic departments and professional services jobs across all depts

join us in the fight against these cuts!

Jim Ratcliffe, who wants the UK government to fund a new stadium for the football club that he owns (and should pay for himself), says migrants are taking resources from the state. Billionaire logic.

humbling!

Performing Citizenship: Public activism and the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts

The next @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar is on 3rd March - @conniethomas.bsky.social will be presenting 'Public activism and the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts' - of (huge) interest to those interested in migration, citizenship & US history. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/3s6yym7t

Friends! We are looking for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in 17th century literature. Help me spread the word? It’s limited term, but I can promise wonderful students and lovely colleagues for a very nice bit of teaching experience… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...