Dr Laura Fernández-González

Getty Provenance Index wins the 2025 Apollo Award for Digital Innovation of the Year!

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EN THP 2025 - Fondazione 1563 Turin Humanities Programme call for application 2025 "After the Enlightenment: Histories, Debates, and Reinterpretations"

The Turin Humanities Programme again offers two-year #postdocs, this time with a #CFA on the topic "After the Enlightenment: Histories, Debates, and Reinterpretations”.

Sponsored by the fabulous Fondazione 1563, deadline 16 February. #skystorians

www.fondazione1563.it/progetti/en-...

The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍

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And the news is... We're recruiting! Applications are now open for our 2026 @leverhulme.ac.uk Doctoral Scholarships. So, if you want to study at PhD level pre-modern handwritten cultures and the organisation of knowledge and power within them, do investigate our refreshed website.

Gender pay gap growing across majority of UK universities More than half of higher education institutions failed to improve gender pay equity last year

'THE’s analysis includes more than 120 institutions from the government’s gender pay gap service providing undergraduate education in 2024-25, and excludes school trusts and further education colleges.' 1/3

Fellowships at Royal Museums Greenwich Apply for funding to support research at Royal Museums Greenwich through our Caird Research Fellowships

Keen to explore maritime environments and histories without going to sea? The Royal Museums Greenwich Caird Fellowship deadline is 18 January 2026.

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It’s excellent, but also heartbreaking. She is a master storyteller and her prose is gorgeous. (I wish I could write like her). I love There are Rivers in the Sky and The Architect’s Apprentice

I would love to be added if there is space, please. I am at work on a book project about port cities. Thank you

Gasped at this passage

‘Grief is a swallow’, he said, ‘One day you wake up and you think it’s gone, but it’s only migrated to some other place, warming its feathers. Sooner or later, it will return and perch in your heart again.’

Elif Shafak, 10 minutes, 38 seconds in This Strange World.

Hey historians 🗃️: Do you know of presses that publish short books (around 30K words / 90 pages plus notes)? I have been working on an article project that could easily turn into an great micro-history of that length, but I'm not sure it would make it to the usual full 60-90K words...

The families of Franco’s victims still seeking justice 50 years after his death | The Observer

'The Casa de la Memoria is a museum, a research archive, a lending library, an events space and the hub for a volunteer-run organisation that has helped lead the charge against forgetting in Spain.'

BREAKING: European Sleeper will start a Paris-Berlin sleeper train from 26 March 2026, after Nightjet pulls out in December.
It'll run via Brussels (with Eurostar connection from London) 3 times a week. This + existing train = Brussels-Berlin 6 times a week. www.europeansleeper.eu/paris

Do share this fully funded PhD (with stipend) in Architectures of the Global South as broadly conceived with people who maybe interested. It has Amit Srivastava, Peter Sciriver and Katherine Bartsch as supervisors in Adelaide University adelaideuni.edu.au/research/res...

ICYMI yesterday afternoon a fantastic new digital resource pulling together data on the Roman road network has just launched. Explore at:

The great thing about working on early modern academia is you never know if the archive will a) overturn everything we thought we knew about early modern philosophy or b) be nothing but complaints about low pay

The Scott Opler Fellowship in Architectural History for the Period 2026-2028 at University of Oxford Discover an exciting academic career path as a The Scott Opler Fellowship in Architectural History for the Period 2026-2028 at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

The Scott Opler Fellowship in Architectural History for the Period 2026-2028
University of Oxford - Worcester College HR - Research Fellows www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH476/t... #skystorians 🗃️

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Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place

'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3

The value of public R&D

Government has published one of those quiet but important documents that might get overlooked as it is not 'newsy'. The headline finding is that £1 of public R&D investment generates £8 in net economic benefits for the UK over the long term
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🚨🚨🚨 Major announcement!!!
I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨

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www.sahgb.org.uk/whatson - @thesahgb.bsky.social has a busy autumn events programme - our seminar series with @IHR kicks off this Thursday!

There's more detail of the AHRC decisions here, and while the numbers still aren't great they do look somewhat better than the FOI table suggests.

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I can't decide whose head in early modern England would explode the most watching this video.

Imagine what Charles V would have done (probably send the Tercios … again!)

Centre for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities 'La Capraia', Naples: Call for 2026-27 research residencies for doctoral students. utdallas.app.box.com/v/LaCapraiaC...

Published in May 2021 & reviewed in 12 academic journals so far (thank you indeed). I also hear that the price for the hardcopy has dropped significantly today (60%!). If you're interested, it can be found on Penn State University Press' site, as well as Blackwells, Amazon, and similar outlets.

PSU Press | Art History & Architecture-Latin American A listing of the books published by Penn State University Press in the subject of Art History & Architecture-Latin American.

It's lovely to see my book, 'Philip II of Spain and the Architecture of Empire', among excellent books in the 'new and best-selling books' from one of the Penn State University Press' subject series, namely, Art and Architectural History -Latin America, here: www.psupress.org/books/subjec...

Modern Peru: A New History

Today is the official release day of Modern Peru. There’s also a 50% off sale at @dukepress.bsky.social, so good time to get a copy.

www.dukeupress.edu/modern-peru