18-month position on the Irish Research Council-funded project MALCONTENTS: Order and Disorder in the Early Modern World of Learning. Details can be found here: jobs.ac.uk/job/DHD903/pos… Richard Kirwan

5th place in England for King's History according to the QS World University Rankings. 23rd in the world. topuniversities.com/university-sub…

4th place in England for King's Arts & Humanities according to the QS World University Rankings. 22nd in the world. topuniversities.com/university-sub…

Funded PhD in early modern literature!! “Editing lost copy-texts” focuses on the prose letters of John Donne, working with Daniel Starza Smith at King’s College London and Rory Loughnane Rory Loughnane at Kent. Please see here for more information: komldsp.org.uk/projects/editi…

Lyndal Roper's wonderful obituary on Jim Sharpe theguardian.com/books/2024/mar…

The 'Entangled Pasts' exhibition at the Royal Academy is beautiful, moving and thought-provoking (though perhaps a little sanitised). Overall, highly recommended.

Seminar reminder: This Thursday, 14 March, 5:30pm, London time (12:30pm New York/18:30 Brussels), John Henderson will speak on ‘The Great Pox in Renaissance Italy' - in person at the IHR London and via Zoom - history.ac.uk/events/great-p…

Discover 'the most important book on the Italian Renaissance since Wallace K. Ferguson's The Renaissance in Historical Thought (1948)' alcuinbooks.com/pages/books/02…

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#FakeFriday recommendation: a wonderful new special issue dedicated to a range of imposters, forgers and fake news spinners - direct link in the comment! Luís Filipe Silvério Lima Stefan Bauer Remco Breuker

Shocked to hear about the sudden death of Saskia Murk Jansen, who so elegantly introduced me as a visiting fellow at Peterhouse Cambridge and with whom I reminisced about old times in Aachen. pet.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-saskia…

Jim Sharpe was a generous colleague and great inspiration when I taught his course on the witch craze at York in 2017 york.ac.uk/history/about/…

Let them eat cake!

An interesting article in the FT on art forgery: 'Fakes, forgeries and the meaning of meaning in our post-truth hellscape' archive.ph/8SMdL

A super rare occasion for an Italian Renaissance specialist: jobs.ac.uk/job/DFL265/lec…

‘Bibliotheca Fictiva is and will remain the definitive account of literary forgers and forgeries from antiquity to the present day.’ –Nicolas Barker, The Book Collector

The revised edition of Arthur Freeman's Bibliotheca Fictiva is now available online: bit.ly/Q-Freeman-U62

Congratulations to my colleagues Julia Crick and Alice Taylor and to @drdavidrundle kcl.ac.uk/news/consortiu… King's History

SEMINAR ALERT: Dr Lisa Di Crescenzo will speak on 'Questions of émigré agency: a Florentine governess at the Este Court, 1480–1491', IHR Italy seminar, 18 Jan 5.30pm, online and in person. history.ac.uk/events/questio…

British Library, update on restoring services (partly) blogs.bl.uk/living-knowled…

Access Henry Woudhuysen’s spellbinding first #Panizzilecture British Library until this coming Sunday (3 Dec) here: