'Bruce R. Smith’s life as a scholar was distinguished by intellectual generosity, fellowship, and warm wit' Shakespeare Association of America. As a much-loved The Leverhulme Trust fellow for 2 yrs, he is sorely missed by friends English at Newcastle & Newcastle Uni Music / ICMuS: shakespeareassociation.org/bruce_r_smith/

📢Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2025 for essays by ECRs in humanities/social sciences on history of travel, exploration & cultural encounter or their effects, or critically engage with the work of the Society. 1st prize £1250; deadline 1/3/25 - Pls RT hakluyt.com/hakluyt-societ…

If you’re working on interpersonal encounters produced by early modern mobility, Sandra Toffolo (also @toffolosandra.bsky.social) & I are welcoming abstracts for our ‘Mobility & Encounter’ panel Renaissance SRS in Bristol next July! Deadline 15 Sep: tinyurl.com/bdhs2hfc #cfp #RenSoc25 #Twitterstorians #EarlyModern

Our next research seminar is on September 10, 14.00-15.00BST. Join Dr Jenni Hyde, @wallyberry.bsky.social Dr Una McIlvenna 💀🎶 & Jan-Friedrich Mißfelder as they discuss “Sounding the News in Early Modern Europe” emsoundscapes.co.uk/sounding-the-n…

The new Chicago Manual of Style is out and it's no longer required to mention place of publication. It's a sad day for Basingstoke.

Two decades after Fynes Moryson of Lincolnshire lost his brother as they returned from Jerusalem, he published a heartbreaking account in a unique manual of travel advice. Today Suzannah Lipscomb finds out more from Dr. Eva Johanna Holmberg: eu1.hubs.ly/H0by-Hz0 Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg

News is out! This summer I signed with Faber Books to publish a trade book. It's a new history of Tudor & Stuart London, told through guavas & muskrats, Miskito ‘princes’ & Muzo emerald miners, baroque masterpieces & Caribbean gums in court masques. thebookseller.com/rights/faber-a…

Deadline fast approaching! Get your proposals in for what promises to be a #SRSlyGood conference #RenSoc25 #Twitterstorians #EarlyModernEvents

Participating in the TextDiveGlobal workshop in Kraków today and tomorrow. Have already learned so much and the morning is not even over yet... qmul.ac.uk/textdiveglobal/

Säätiöiden #postdocpooli​n haku on avoinna vielä tämän viikon ajan. 💡 #Apurahat on tarkoitettu hiljattain väitelleille tutkijoille ulkomailla tapahtuvaan työskentelyyn. Tiedeakatemiasta mukana ovat Väisälän rahasto ja Eino Jutikkalan rahasto. #tiede ➡️ postdocpooli.fi

Endless Stories, opens on 28 Sep at Cambridge University Library. It showcases the extraordinary manuscripts collected by 17th-century visionary, Thomas Van Erpe. The exhibition includes works in Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Malay. Book your free ticket: lib.cam.ac.uk/endlessstories

At the Czartoryski Museum today. Familiar faces.

My article on Richard Norwood's life writing is finally out with the Huntington Library Quarterly (vol. 86, no. 3): here is the link! Eva Johanna Holmberg, “An Unmoored Life: Mobility, Reading, and Life Writing in Richard Norwood’s (1590–1675) Confessions” doi.org/10.1353/hlq.20…

Praise the lord, the miracle of packing for two weeks of train travel in Europe. I managed to squeeze everything back in my carry-on, and I think I can be even more minimalist next time). It's been a blast, but am so so ready to return home now from this Grand Tour.

It's out! 'Migrant Voices in Multilingual London, 1560-1600' in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. Read to find out how insults and information moved between the city's languages, and to think about how linguistic diversity shaped urban life. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

UN demands Israel end 'unlawful' presence in Palestinian territories within 12 months reuters.com/world/middle-e…