Caroline Marris (she/her)

Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England

Just a reminder... Tomorrow, 5 March, 5.30 pm ✨ Sue Wiseman, Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social ,
and Michael Powell Davies @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social speaking on "Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England" Sign-up in person & online: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Understanding the Public History Workforce. Download Now!

For the past few years, I've been working on a research study at @aaslh.org exploring who works in public history, how they're paid, and how they feel about their work. This week, we published our first report. Please read and share! aaslh.org/history-work...

On Monday, at 1 PM, we welcome Casey Schmitt to our Ships & Seafaring Talk, where she will present her book "The Predatory Sea", a full-length study of the entangled history of captivity and colonialism using Spanish, French and English archives. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...

1953. It would appear that absolutely NOTHING has changed

Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 - Richmond, Virginia, United States Title: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 State Role Title: Library Specialist III Hiring Range: $78,000 - $88,000 Pay Band: 5 Agency: The Library of Virginia Location: The Library of Virgini...

Apply to join my team by 3/16!

Be the Library of Virginia's born-digital collections coordinator, leading planning and management of electronic gov/manuscript records. We're looking for a techie archivist type who can help improve access to our born-digital wonders.

$78k-$88k in Richmond VA.

A titan of vaccine development sees his field’s achievements slip away Stanley Plotkin, the 93-year-old "godfather of vaccines," is watching his field’s achievements slip away.

“In a pair of recent interviews with STAT, Plotkin expressed dismay at seeing the achievements of his career & his field slip away. He knows what lies ahead…
“All I can say is that I’m beginning to regret having lived so long —because we’re going downhill,” Plotkin said” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

‘Testament of Ann Lee’ Will Have No Physical Media Release — World of Reel I didn’t particularly like “Ann Lee,” which does have its fair share of fervent defenders, but there’s a concerning trend with Disney and their push to phase out physical media.

I am not a person who believes that it is the Criterion Collection’s job to fix all the movie industry’s failures, but this is a very specific one I would like them to fix.

Managing Pandemics in Early Modern Germany, edited by Peter Hess, is out now with Berghahn books, and I've just learned that the introduction (which I wrote) is free to read on the website! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/HessMa...

Kafka understood that an even greater indignity than being turned into a giant insect was still being required to go to work afterward.

Call for Proposals | Sixteenth Century Society Call for Proposals Chicago, Illinois, October 29—October 31, 2026 The Sixteenth Century Society (SCS) is pleased to invite proposals for individual presentations, panels, and roundtables for its annua...

CFP for the SCS conference in Chicago in October. Come join the most collegial gathering of early modernists that I know.
#earlymodern 🗃️

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The number of fixed-wing aircraft lost in friendly fire incidents today equals the number lost during the entire 20-year span of conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan since 9/11.

In person early modern metals event in London next month with me, @laurenworking.bsky.social, and Lubaaba Al-Azami. Please repost and share widely! And register here -- forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Prof Alexandra Walsham (Cambridge), President of
@histassoc.bsky.social, specialises in the religious and cultural history of EM Britain. This talk will examine how C17th perceptions of Stonehenge and the historic landscape were shaped by the upheavals of Reformation and Civil War.

Did these experts agree to be used in this way? Were they compensated? Or is this just more theft?

Hello! I am a trans journalist looking to speak with trans kids and parents of trans kids across the US who have been impacted by the clinic closures---please get in touch or share!

Two small dragons as part of a column decoration: both mouths are facing each other, and are opened.

Stress release for small dragons in the 11th century: either tongue kissing or yelling at each other. Or both.

hey, remember when the transphobes started coming for gender-affirming care for minors and it was framed as “concern for children” and trans folks said “lol they just want us to not exist” and our society full of rubes and people with turnips for brains took the transphobes’ arguments at face value

Contested Seas: War, Commerce, and the Making of the Law of the Sea... This conference explores the early modern law of the sea as a contested legal regime forged through warfare, commercial rivalry, jurisdictional overlap, and asymmetries of power. It invites contrib...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Contested Seas: War, Commerce, and the Making of the Law of the Sea (c. 1400–1800)

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Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

Traversées de la Manche : 119 migrants secourus en mer, au large de la mer du Nord Deux groupes de personnes tentaient de rejoindre l’Angleterre sur des taxi-boats, un mode opératoire qui consiste à mettre à l’eau des embarcations à l’abri des regards – souvent, sur des cours d’eau à l’intérieur des terres – pour échapper à la surveillance des forces de l’ordre près des principales plages de départ.

Traversées de la Manche : 119 migrants secourus en mer, au large de la mer du Nord

Academic friends: I'm hosting a campus discussion today with real talk about the the scholarly publishing process/pipeline, and would love to share some "in the trenches" wisdom: what is something you know now about the process that you wish you'd known as a first-year/early-career academic?

i'm so tired, but it's not from winning

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!

This morning’s new snow is ridiculous, uncalled for, and if I may say so, personally offensive.

FRIDAY! Join us for an exciting talk about Blindness, Writing, and Knowing: Visually Impaired Female Authors in the Netherlands (1770-1840) by Feike Dietz

27 February, 17:30 (UK) @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom -- sign-up link www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #SkyStorians #LowCountries #earlymodern

That cult of Elizabeth I was really something else. The frontispiece to the 1593 edition of John Case's Sphaera Civitatis. (Royal Collection Trust, HM CIII)

📢The information pages for NACBS prizes, grants, and fellowships are now updated for the 2026 application season.

Find more information at the link below!
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Bound Bowels at Sea: Obstipation and the Limits of Maritime Medicine - Global Maritime History Last month, we talked about shipboard lavatories as part of our regular “Health at Sea in the Age of Sail” features. This month, we continue that theme by considering a very common affliction that cau...

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Thank you to Richard DeGrijs for his latest Health and Sea/Maritime Medicine article.

A half-length portrait of a man resting his head on his hand and looking directly at the viewer, seated at a desk with books, papers, writing instruments, and a bag of coins. A paper nearly up against the surface of the canvas reads "Ratio Quique Reddenda" ("Each man must give an accounting")

Michiel Sweerts, Portrait of a Young Man, 1656, Oil on canvas, 114 x 92 cm (The Hermitage, St. Petersburg)