Liesbeth Corens

Not an actual Calvin & Hobbes comic, but pretty funny just the same! And, in case you didn't already know how far gone I actually am, the Voynichese text in the last panel is from folio 15v... (h/t @theefantomas.bsky.social) #Voynich

You're speaking my language here.

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Prime Day what? Bookshop.org is offering FREE SHIPPING for October 7-8! Buy books, get free shipping, support local bookstores! Easy!

#primeday #antiprime #freeshipping #supportlocal #supportindie

Why not listen to this podcast of a previous conversation about #YayArchives @rshc.bsky.social in preparation for the 28 October event? #SkyStorians

Such a privilege to be part of this amazing roundtable, organised by @onslies.bsky.social at @rshc.bsky.social. So pleased that the conversation can be shared more widely (less pleased about my wobbly voice)

Leaflet about Archival Ambivalence event, 28 October, London WC1B. Shows archivist looking in archive.

OOOOO! This sounds utterly fascinating! More #YayArchives research @rshc.bsky.social!

#SkyStorians #HistArchives

PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

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"Mischaracterised by university leaders as financial ‘saving’, austerity is in truth vandalism."

yet another way that the war on academic knowledge is a war on the past & a violent thinning out of historical experience — you’re taking years & often decades of slow-building expertise (& the investments that made it possible) and just tossing it in the bin

Your Sunday read on #UKHE:

Mourning those murdered by Hamas isn't incompatible with mourning those murdered by the Israeli state.

Demanding that the hostages return isn't incompatible with naming & demanding an end to genocide.

Naming the power imbalance & impact thereof doesn't desecrate those murdered two years ago today.

Yesterday I submitted the proofs for Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic. This volume I’m editing with Jessica Roney is out next spring with @pennpress.bsky.social, but here’s a peek now at our table of contents!

Delighted to see the open access publication of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms -- a superb volume featuring artists, poets, scholars, and a short essay by me on Dutch- and French-speaking women in 16th-century London telling their stories of migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...

Ursula K. Le Guin about writing is always lovely. She wrote an introduction to The Complete Orsinia which reflects on the process that led her to writing it which sounds like it fits your brief?

HELLO YOU ARE HERE! Looking forward to reading that article!

I think there's a bit more of a culture in Belgium to write library purchases into grants than in the UK? Still comes with the issue of imbalance created by whoever wins the lottery rather than thought-out library strategies though.

exactly. The one-size-fits-all approach imposed upon us by sciences who need expensive labs is both undermining the actual research of humanities scholars & leading to the monopoly of a couple of Absurdly Ginormous Projects (which can't exist w/o the broader ecological system they're destroying)

There are moments when the attack on the humanities is so transparent without them just tweeting it out like Trump does that I wonder how much I'm hallucinating it.

A total privilege to hear @eicathomefinn.bsky.social's work on imperial family formation - representation, political manipulation, and the ambivalence of its legibility in the context of the EIC and Tipu Sultan. The perfect start to our @ihreurope1500.bsky.social year

#EarlyModern 🗃️

How is anyone going to do the work that leads up to those big grants? You need loads of small bits of financial support for most humanities research (or, well, job security and non-overload with teaching & admin but 🤷‍♀️) and to support the groundwork. Only massive grants skew the research environment.

We’re OFF! (I just managed to lock myself out off the @ihreurope1500.bsky.social account on this device, apparently…) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Have zoom link, can smuggle you in under our big coat if you didn't sign up clandestinely. #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

PSMEMM 11
𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐝𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐄𝐮𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐞
Michael Stolberg

𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐭: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

#CSMBR #PSMEMM #Body #Medicine #EarlyModern #Medicalhistory

#SkyStorians, I'm looking for #MedievalSky and #EarlyModern paintings, engravings & other visual sources that depict screws.
(N.B. I'm not looking for depictions of screws in technical sources on this topic).
If anyone has come or comes across them, I'd love to know! #HistSci #HistTech #ArtHistory

aha! very much fair enough! We're a bit random but indeed not too random, so that sounds wise. Hope you entice them with all kinds of other New Netherlands goodies!

PhD Session: Conversion and Christianisation in late medieval Iberia

oh! This week's session of the European History 1150-1550 seminar @ihr.bsky.social has papers from Natalia Muñoz Rojas and @qmul.bsky.social's own and fabulous @arodsan95.bsky.social !! You don't want to miss this, #MedievalSky!

Thursday 9 Oct, 17:30 in person & on zoom:

(with that, if anyone else has had to deal with CampusM and knows how to get it to recognise trans lives, I'd be much obliged)

*(which the School of History managed to avoid using for years, but the School of Society & Environment somehow can't avoid... As if I needed any proof that larger centralisation meant less decision-making power.)

The latest platform, CampusM* is deadnaming my students.

We spent SO MUCH EFFORT on getting the internal systems to use the right name, and then we get yet another platform we have even less control over, which can't conceive of trans lives. It greets them with their deadname in massive letters.

Staggered reorganisations 12 restructure papers 90 at risk of redundancy in 3 months 2 voluntary severance schemes in 3 months Uncountable protected conv3rswtions Too lean professional service teams

Where does qmul management spend money? Qs rankings: £252,000; waterstons: £882,000; Deloitte: £596,847; Eulogy:£131,320; NOUS Consultancy: £435,275; plot of land of £77 million

Where management chooses to spend money is a political choice: qmucu.org/2025/06/26/s...