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Deeply humbled to see In-Between Textiles shortlisted for the Textile Society RL Shep Memorial Book Award & Dress Historians Book of the Year Award! Massive thanks! 👉🏿shorturl.at/V7I9z Beatriz Marín-Aguilera Amsterdam Univ Press Erika Gaffney | erikagaffney.bsky.social The Leverhulme Trust School of Arts, Languages and Culture Churchill College St John's College, Cambridge

My review of Emily Michelson's Catholic Spectacle and Rome's Jews: Early Modern Conversion and Resistance is now out in Cultural and Social History. A Brilliant book which places religious minorities at the centre fo the story of Catholic Reform! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

My Routledge History, Heritage Studies & Archaeology Mediterranean microhistory of the Salvago dragomans & their experiences in the Veneto-Ottoman Balkans, 1550-1650, is now published also as PAPERBACK for only £39.99! (with Black Friday madness included it costs even only £29.99!) 👉🏿t.ly/6ljuO

My very first article has been published in the American Historical Review! ✨ In it I've transcribed a handful of petitions that help us to understand how people began to piece their lives back together following an outbreak of plague 👇 academic.oup.com/ahr/article-ab…

Please share the CFP for: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Keynotes are Marcy Norton Marcy Norton (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti @saramiglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June John Rylands Research Institute and Library Manchester. Further details: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

And here's the CFP weblink (compressed by 'X' in my first post): sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-well/…

Blood of Naples saint Gennaro liquefies in recurring 'miracle' wantedinrome.com/news/italy-mir…

Wishing you all a joyful, enlightening, and prosperous New Year!

Three Wise Men by Eyvind Earle, 1966

💻 Delighted to be teaching the Online Short Course ‘Elizabeth I’ for University of Oxford Oxford Continuing Education beginning on 27th Jan. If you’re interested in joining us to learn more about all things Elizabethan 👑 there’s still a couple more weeks to sign up here: conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/elizab…

Lovely to speak to Southmoor Academy students this afternoon about my research into Carlo Acutis and modern sainthood. Lots of thoughtful Qs afterwards too!

Congratulations to Cambridge historian Dr Marina Inì, who has been awarded a highly-competitive Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship. She will launch her research project at Sapienza Università di Roma, under the mentorship of @SerenaDiNepi. Read more - link in reply ⬇️

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This was a great project to be a part of. Have a read of our article: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

New article: Francois Soyer, "Authoritative Sources: Hagiography, Local History, and the Antisemitic Child Murder Libel in Early Modern Spain." Antisemitism Studies 9, no. 1 (2025): 71-100. muse.jhu.edu/article/956182.

Read all about Joshua Rushton's new article 'The Emotional Dimension of Shrine Formation in Early Modern Catholicism' in Cultural and Social History in his new blog post: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotion…

Congratulations to our very own Dr Holly Fletcher who has received a Wellcome Trust Early Career Award for the project 'The Fats of Life, 1500-1750: Matter in Multispecies Medicine': sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emotion…

My article has been published! And it's open access so you can all enjoy reading about Protestant church orders 🤣 #earlymodern #churchhistory #twitterstorians #history #reformazing tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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