Who's joining us on 26th September 2024 for our online Festival? The Festival comprises two sessions celebrating scholarship: the first showcases the #SRSlyGood work of our outgoing postdocs & the second announces the winners of our book & article prize crowdcast.io/c/srs-festival…

🚨New release! Purchase & support Víctor Sierra Matute & his wonderful lineup of specialists unearthing great source material in early modern Iberian sound studies. 🚨The Renaissance Society of America Sixteenth Century Society Renaissance SRS

After listening to The News Agents interview with michael sheen 💙 this morning, I genuinely can’t work out if that cameo at the end of the latest episode really was Jon Sopel third personing it from Italy or Sheen having a laugh 🥴🫠. Put me out of my misery, someone please? Diolch!

Thrilled & grateful that In-Between Textiles, 1400–1700 has been shortlisted for Dress Historians Book of the Year Award 2024! Massive thanks to Beatriz Marín-Aguilera our amazing contributors Amsterdam Univ Press Erika Gaffney | erikagaffney.bsky.social & to our funders The Leverhulme Trust School of Arts, Languages and Culture Churchill College St John's College, Cambridge!

#ALEXANDRIA 📖 Sunday Times book of the year 📖 TLS book of the year 📖 Booklist book of the year 📖 Waterstones book of the year 🏆 Winner of the Runciman Award ⭐️ London Hellenic Prize shortlist 🗞️ “Monumental” (Telegraph) ✅ OUT NOW IN PAPERBACK! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/alexan…

We welcome applications to The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship scheme for research projects from any discipline that are linked to the world-class Special Collections of the University of Manchester Library. Deadline 04/11/24: library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/resear…

I never could understand the attraction of these kinds of shows, but this is unconscionable. Lie detector tests are notoriously unreliable: getting a man off his meds to take one is cruel. To then berate, bully & belittle him when he is clearly bewildered & in destress is callous

Oh-oh. The vegans are taking over the world, one tasty scone at a time.

The replies to this are as absurd as the story. Man who is known to be a keen footballer…caught playing football…get a grip people.

At the risk of sounding cheesy, I’ll be plain. You could say this was her raisin d'etre. *runs away*

How to scare a researcher!

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

The calmness & confidence with which this man is intimidating a Muslim woman simply for being a Muslim woman is chilling. There’s no empathy or reflection on the impact of his threats, just a white supremacist emboldened by how islamophobic rhetoric is normalised & mainstream.

So proud of my colleague and fellow historian of rhetoric, Katrin Ettenhuber, this year's winner of the @BritishAcademy Rose Mary Crawshay prize for her fine, erudite book, 'The Logical Renaissance'. thebritishacademy.ac.uk/prizes-medals/…

Due to one of our speakers finding themselves caught in an unexpected odyssey, this session will now take place on 17th September 2024. See you the other side of Scylla and Charybdis!

Hello hive mind. Who should I be reading on early modern tattoos, especially Europeans on Native American skin? My research has taken an unexpected turn and I’m not sure where to begin.