My article on Queen Anne’s wardrobe has just been published OA.
I provide a qualitative & quantitative overview of her extensive wardrobe accounts (incl makers & suppliers) & show how fashion influenced her representation!
#18thc #17thc #earlymodern
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
friends fear he's buying Will Self novels again
I'm really looking forward to this event on Monday, where I'll be discussing William Bedwell with Prof. Alastair Hamilton and the curators of the Bedwell exhibition, Deborah Hedgecock & Bridget MacKernan. There's still time to sign up if you'd like to come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/william-be...
For an audience of five, one of whom is already a Reform MP.
Half expect Reform to start with the Seven Mountains stuff soon.
one thing I've been thinking about lately is that because so many British right types are atheist / agnostic, they have little idea how *weird* that strain of American Christianity is to other Christians, politically yes but also theologically.
Green-blue-grey blocky soundwaves on background. Centred in black serif lettering “Sonance”, with “journal of early modern sound studies” underneath.
👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.
I have seen a bunch of things floating around lately about Making Humanities Graduate Degrees Useful, etc, and I think the number 1 thing I would want to see as of today in 2026 is "more collaborative work for humanities grad students early on"
honest to god, this is an amazing looking job
oh completely (I sort of loved that the NA’s finding list for SP Dom. Geo. II was handwritten with directions to go straight to the Jacobite stuff, but there’s so much more weird and curious material in there)
god I love the reigns of William III / Anne / George I, the closest British pol history ever gets to teaching by example in two generations. Teach it in schools™
A illustration of James Byres and Christopher Norton in a 'Birth of Adam' style position.
What if the Jacobite cause had a queer history we were never told about? 🌈
In our new long-read, researcher and writer Indigo Dunphy-Smith takes us on a journey from Aberdeenshire’s estates to the art circles of Rome.
Job! A 21-month postdoc at Birmingham on French-language print publications in England to 1685 led by the marvellous team of Peter Auger and Suzanne Jones. International applicants are welcome and Birmingham can support a visa application where required. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQN896/r...
"I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but ah sod it he’s over there yes that one there”
I'm so proud of this project I did two years ago with Jonathan Ashley.
It's an essay and web comic about how historical archives deserve to be treated as more than just fuel for AI training.
I wrote a scripting system for the web comic, and also spent nearly a full year with writing and research.
omg
it's called ignAItius
somewhere in San Francisco, a start-up is born
lesson to self: never buy apples with a ™ after the variety name
It is with great sadness that we are sharing the news that the UCL Faculties of Social & Historical Sciences and Arts & Humanities have decided to close the IAS.
We will close our doors forever on 31 July 2026.
Follow the link to leave thoughts, comments, memories 💗
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
when did OUP start printing the DOI at the end for each chapter in research monographs? honestly i love it, 10/10 all publishers should do this
@kmcdono.bsky.social @danielwilson.bsky.social and I have a new OA article out: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A... It’s about the fragmented landscape of historical data, and what we can do about it to improve discoverability, sustainability and reuse.
‘The early modern postal system had its origins in medieval northern Italy. Political intrigue and commercial exigency fed the need for a reliable service.’
@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on early modern news:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Pictured: John Pell's 17th-century equivalent of an Enigma machine.
A detail from a 1591 German pamphlet about "Ketzerei", heresy. You see a man standing, carrying 7 cats. This detail is part of a title page: https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/details/bsb00086437
Meet the 1591 cat man. I am counting 7 cats on and near him. #catcontent
yeah, struck me it was the lit equivalent of all those people selling courses on how to become a millionaire through buying houses
“look, no one expected this proven liar to lie to us.”
Three scholarships for PhD in Arthur Scargill Archive - quite the opportunity. Believe me when I say that I am sure that some of the stuff in here will be quite the eye-opener! (if the good stuff hasn't been already shredded or slapped with an embargo)
"You still haven't written the email to Person C you told Person B you sent yesterday."
see you there!
