Ewelina Sikora

the polish figure skating team in the kiss and cry holding a plush pierogi

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS:

THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

Women, Food and Power - Joint Session

Excited to be speaking at the IHR Food History seminar on 12 February 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm.

Book a place to hear about cheesemaking and women’s dominance of the dairy in early modern England.

Online via Zoom so no real cheese this time I’m afraid.

Next Wed 28 Jan I’ll be running a *free* 60-minute webinar on ‘How to Start Learning Grant Writing’ (4-5pm CET). It’s intended for grad students and ECRs in the arts/humanities planning to apply for their first big grants.

Please share widely!

www.eventbrite.com/e/pbp-how-to...

Post-doc position at the University of Warsaw
in a project on #earlymodern protestant printing centres operating in Poland-Lithuania and Prussia

konkursydlanauczycieli.uw.edu.pl/api/document... (English version starts at page 7).

Applications are accepted until 9 March 2026.

#history

The CfP for the 20th Graduate Conference on European History is open!

Ruptures in European History: Individuals, Institutions, and Historical Practices in Times of Uncertainty,

15-17 April 2026 @ox.ac.uk
@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

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2026graceh.wixsite.com/home/call-fo...

Teaching Eastern Europe Through a Decolonial Lens Why has Eastern Europe been absent from studies of decolonial history?

'One of the many toxic legacies of seeing Eastern Europe as primitive and backward, and a place without history, is the mess we have today with Ukraine.'

Oksana Dudko and Anna Hájková speak to Marybeth Hamilton about teaching Eastern European history.

Sharpie Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for apprentice Early Modern palaeographers

✍ Introducing ✍

Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography

gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/

AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.

#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.

Love g 🗃️

You know what tool existed when I was in high school that no one ever taught me how to use? Excel. A thing I use all the time now, mostly self-taught, existed in the late 1990s and no one was upending the curriculum to make sure I knew how to use it.

Pleased to see that an article I wrote w/ Rachel Rich, @adamcrymble.bsky.social and @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social is out! We look at George III's use of food for masculine self-fashioning. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Danzig’s Great Mill and the renown of its master mill builder The city of Gdańsk has a historical centre with several striking buildings which can make any historian’s heart beat faster, even with the knowledge that they were partly rebuilt after the destruct…

New blog post 📢
Project researcher Dr Edda Frankot on 'Danzig’s Great Mill and the renown of its master mill builder'
politicsoftheenglishgraintrade.co.uk/2025/10/06/d...
#earlymodern #historyofgrain

piss off the racists, make the English kofte kebab from 1660

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

#CfA Tandem #Scholarships in Entangled East Central European History

📌offered by GHI Warsaw and Research Centre Ukraine | 1–4 month stays in Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, or Czech Republic | for early-career, non-tenured scholars (doctoral & postdoctoral level)

🔗www.maxweberstiftung...

Well, there are many surprising features of Polish orthography, final consonant devoicing is one of them. If one gets more technical (or more precise) they would say that Polish is mostly phonemic, as there is a constant correspondence between phonems and graphemes.

So is Polish. Altho arguably it may be harder for an English person to wing it.

I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh.

(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)

Rebelles en diplomatie. Des expériences politiques singulières sur ... Notre rencontre scientifique a pour but d’observer les mobilisations diplomatiques rebelles. L’attention portera principalement sur les questions suivantes qui ont toutes pour but de mettre en lumi...

Un #colloque international, sur le thème "Rebelles en diplomatie. Des expériences politiques singulières sur la scène internationale (XVe-XVIIIe siècle)" est organisé à Nantes, du 10 au 12 juin 2026.
Un appel à communications a été lancé : calenda.org/1270070

Folger Library offer free online-only subscription which gets you access to JSTOR and a load of other stuff!

A thread on transcription and AI. One reason I don't use AI to transcribe (besides the fact that AI is hugely detrimental to the environment & is coming for our jobs) is that it can't tell the difference between original documents & new notes added by staff members to whom documents were sent. 🗃️ 1/?

🍻 Karczmy jako dawny Facebook?

W najnowszym odcinku podcastu Muzeum Historii Polski niespiesznie opowiadam:
- w czym karczmy były podobne do social mediów
- o niskim standardzie lokali i zorganizowanej przestępczości
- rozprawiam się z tytułowym mitem rozpitego chłopa

Linki ⬇️

1 decade of Open Access, now 300 titles 🔓

Introducing 'Renaissance skin' by @evelynwelch.bsky.social - freely available to all students and institutions.

A magnificent feat for research in Renaissance art & #histmed

Read it here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

#Renaissance #OpenAccess

In 1758, during the Seven Years' War, English privateers captured the Bremen merchant ship Concordia. The subsequent legal battle preserved something remarkable: the ship's complete archive. ⛵️
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Diplomatie moderne en Europe (16e - 18e siècle) (La)

💬 "Le mot diplomatie n’apparaît dans son sens moderne qu’à la fin du XVIIIe siècle. Il est sans doute alors un peu péjoratif !"
🖋️ Découvrez les explications de Lucien Bély 👇
ehne.fr/fr/encyclope...

🤝 @aphg.bsky.social @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social

📢 Just announced! The programme & booking is now live for our Annual Conference 2025.

🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections.

🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
#WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage

Finally, we have a forum by Jan Hennings, Carina L. Johnson, Macabe Keliher, Kaya Şahin, and Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger brill.com/view/journal...

A close-up of a document with stylized writing. Thomas Hutter's is signing it with a quill in Kurrentschrift.

The best part of Egger's "Nosferatu" is when Thomas signs the contract, and he does that in Kurrentschrift.

The title page of a sixteenth century book entitled: 'LEXICON LATINOPOLONI-CUM EX OPTIMIS LATINAE LINGVAE SCRIPTORI-BUS CONCINNATUM, which is dated to 1564. There are some faded manuscript annotations under the main title of the text.

Learn more about the relationship between Polish print and the Latin language in the early modern period in our latest blog ‘We are Poles, so, of course, we print in Latin’ by COMLAWEU PhD student in @standrewshist.bsky.social, Paweł Pietrowcew!

www.ustc.ac.uk/news/we-are-...

Reminder! Our online seminar series on historical food preservation kicks off tomorrow with a session on fermentation.

📅 Tuesday, February 25
🕒 15:30–17:00 (CET) / 09:30–11:00 (EST)

Speakers: Justin Linds & Carmen Schmechel

Register here: www.nybg.org/event/histor...

Hope to see you there!

Well, this one is timely.