Helen Kemp

Happy anniversary 🎉

JOB!

Come and be my colleague!

Tutorial Fellow and Professor (or Associate Professor) of English Literature, ca. 1780–1914, at Balliol College, Oxford.

Details: www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/balliol-peop...

How better to put off bad luck on Friday the 13th 😱 than by discussing all things future-thinking with @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social?

Friday, 13 FEB, 17:30. Join us @ihr.bsky.social, or sign up for the zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #LowCountries #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians

🎇Job Klaxon!!🎇 Assistant Lectureship in Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies at Maynooth University (12-month contract). Application deadline 22 March 2026. Come work with us in the Department of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social!

my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

Hear Murray sharing about postcards, available to purchase in Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library, featuring beautiful artwork of Leighton Library Volunteer Guide Jane Dunbar

Max & Murray are members of 25th Stirling (Dunblane) Boys’ Brigade, volunteering at Leighton Library

Lecturer in Early Medieval History | King's College London

JOB! Lecturer in early medieval history at my lovely once and future department! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...

IHR Low Countries programme 30 January David Hopkin: Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion 13 February Jeroen Puttevils: Back to the Future: What can we Learn about Future Thinking from Late Medieval and Early Modern Merchant Correspondences from the Low Countries 27 February Feike Dietz: Blindness, Writing and Knowing: Visually Impaired Female Authors in the Netherlands (1770-1840) 13 March Sam Geens: Reassessing the Little Divergence: Evidence from the Medieval Southern Low Countries 22 May Valika Smeulders: The Rijksmuseum: New Horizons

Come & learn all things #LowCountries @ihr.bsky.social this term! We've got lace! We've got the future! We've got disability history! We've got divergence! We've got museums! Everything happens in the #LowCountries!

Fridays, 17:30, in person & on zoom: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians

Senior Research Officer at University of Essex Explore an exciting academic career as a Senior Research Officer. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

📢Job: postdoctoral research officer📢

For 'Witchcraft politics (Hexenpolitik) across the sea. A new entangled history of #EarlyModern England and the Holy Roman Empire', led by Profs Alison Rowlands & Rita Voltmer. 🗃️

- 33 months
- 0.8 FTE
- Deadline 1 Feb

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQC497/s...

Pomegranates growing in the courtyard of the Museum of Folklore and Culture, Málaga, early November 2025.

A reminder to book for the (online) @rcpmuseum.bsky.social Winter Lectures next Tuesday! a guided tour of the exhibition by @girlinthe.bsky.social, a lecture on Lancelot Browne and Arabic books by @samuscript.bsky.social, and a lecture from me on libraries 📚 history.rcp.ac.uk/event/body-k...

A Provincial Market in Second-Hand Books: Book Sales in Devon, 1688–1725 Abstract. Comparatively little is known about England’s early book-auction trade outside of London and the university towns, with few catalogues surviving

*small embarrassed voice*
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...

Have you had a look at beautiful items available in Leighton Library online shop? Every purchase supports the Leighton Library. From coasters & tote bags, framed & unframed prints, to mugs, table mats & tea towels. Leighton Library Online Shop:
🛍️ leighton-library-shop.co.uk
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Aby Warburg and the Politics of the Stamp Discover Warburg’s fascination with stamps and learn how these small, everyday symbols carry large historical narratives about our world.

There's only one week left to view our student curated display 'Aby Warburg and the Politics of the Stamp'!

Volunteers are welcome to join the project to help in the transcription! All volunteers will be named as co-editors, whether you contribute a line or multiple pages. For more info, contact the project lead, Aaron Allen, on administrator@kirkwalltailorsproject.co.uk
#palaeography #Orkney

This is happening in 1 week's time - including talks from the project team, and an opportunity to transcribe alongside like-minded volunteers 📜✍️

Sign up for free below 👇

#history #skystorians #earlymodern #citizenscience @zooniverse.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social

I will primarily be in Coupvray, Paris, London, and Brighton, but I'm willing to add stops if it helps fund the trip. Looking for anything related to book history, bibliography, digital humanities, or disability. If you know of anything that might help, please let me know!

It's me!

Bit later than some, but happy to have finally finished my marking and have had a little holiday up in Scotland.
If anyone knows of any teaching opportunities next academic year. Or if anyone needs a freelancer to do some archival work, please get in touch.

#EarlyModern #Oxford

THIS THURSDAY

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Albert Dawson Collection Fellowship This role will be based on the University campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are open to discussing flexible working arrangements.Are you interested in nineteenth-centur...

Are you a researcher interested in histories of collecting and 19thC Victorian decorative art? This wonderful short-term fellowship is an opportunity to research the Albert Dawson archive in Cultural Collections and Galleries at the University of Leeds jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #jobfairy

How are the meanings of images assigned, conveyed and recognised?

We are delighted to announce the publication of 'How Images Mean: Iconography and Meta-Iconography' by Paul Taylor, Curator of the Warburg Institute’s Photographic Collection.

Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news/new-pub...

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

A great Phd opportunity for a Black British student, starting this September. Spread the word!

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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We still have tickets available for our #Bloomsday Tour on Saturday 14th June at 3pm. A viewing of his signature in our visitors' book and the 'fading prophecies of Joachim Abbas' mentioned in Ulysses will be at the end of the tour.

www.eventbrite.ie/e/1344041035...

Revels Office: New Voices in Early Modern Material Culture, Theatre, and Performance - Society of Antiquaries of London This June, the Revels Office, an international network of early career academics, will hold its first conference with the Society of Antiquaries of London. The conference showcases early career schola...

‪Booking closes 9 June for our conference on the intersections of text, materiality & performance, w/ papers exploring objects, clothing & bodies in performance spaces. www.sal.org.uk/event/revels/ @crems-york.bsky.social @bsashakespeare.bsky.social @bibsoc.bsky.social @srsrensoc.bsky.social

Kalyves, Crete, last week. In case anyone is wondering, I slept through the earthquake!

LAST CHANCE to sign up for this, on 23rd May! A hands-on study day in UCL special collections, exploring their most experimental magazines, from the Modernist avant-garde to the mimeo revolution.
ies.sas.ac.uk/events/magaz...

Image of Inscription journal

Image of Inscription journal

How exciting! Thank you @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social

CfP ‘Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library’
Submit by 16th May
This 2-day symposium (9-10 Sept at UCL) will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

5.5 miles circular walk around nature reserve

5.5 miles circular walk around nature reserve

5.5 miles circular walk around nature reserve

5.5 miles circular walk around nature reserve

Tollesbury Wick Essex Wildlife Trust 💚💙