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Historians, PhDs, and Jobs in 2023

13 March 2023

Brodie Waddell Amid yet another year of university strikes in the UK, the Higher Education Statistics Agency has released the latest data on staff and degrees granted. A couple of years...

Fact checking the Flying House of Loreto: Early Modern Truth and Doubt

15 December 2022

This post is part of the Monster Carnival 2022 – Why Early Modern History Matters Now. Dr Emily Price is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Newcastle University. She tweets at @dremilyprice....

Building Back Better – A Rather Old (and Rather Successful) Early Modern (German) Hat

12 December 2022

This post is part of the Monster Carnival 2022 – Why Early Modern History Matters Now. Philipp Rössner is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Manchester and works...

Understanding the Anglo-Scottish Political Union within the United Kingdom   

5 December 2022

This post is part of the Monster Carnival 2022 – Why Early Modern History Matters Now. Dr Kirsteen M MacKenzie is an academic historian and broadcaster who is passionate about early...