Dr Imogen Knox (she/her)

Suicide and the Supernatural in Early Modern Britain and America is available now open access link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Commonplacing, lameness, disability, printing, massacres, the Tower, the church, landscape and more! #EarlyModern lightning talks for @ihrscb.bsky.social on Nov 12th at the @ihr.bsky.social, with @joesaunders1.bsky.social, @maybeitwasutah.bsky.social and more. Registration link to follow soon.

It was wonderful to launch my book with @emeccwarwick.bsky.social yesterday. Thank you to @naomipullin.bsky.social for organising, Alanna Skuse for coming to discuss my work, and everyone who attended and asked such stimulating questions

No better place to celebrate the launch of my first monograph than @emeccwarwick.bsky.social, a forum which has been so supportive and stimulating for my research and development as a scholar

Calling #Historians 📢 We're looking for academics & PGs to be authors for our winter blogpost series (Jan, Feb, Mar 2027)! If you would like to write for our blog on any topic of #churchhistory, please send a 100-word abstract to eccleshistsoc@gmail.com by 30 October. We hope to hear from you!

New from History UK: a valuable and interesting survey of UK history students use of and attitudes towards GenAI in HE teaching - their preliminary report is published today: bit.ly/4hatsRR The report is by Dr Sarah Jones and Dr Simon Peplow @simpep.bsky.social #skystorians

Nov 12th - PhD Lighting Talks at @ihrscb.bsky.social! A chance to introduce your PhD project in 3-5 minutes on any aspect of society, culture or belief, 1500-1800. Organised by @teaphaine.bsky.social and @annajpravdica.bsky.social. Email abstract to tmt29@cam.ac.uk by Oct 12th. #EarlyModern 🗃️

Very pleased @royalhistsoc.org will be there at this annual introduction to @ihr.bsky.social and the many supports and community it offers to those beginning a PhD in #History #Skystorians

📣 GALE-ANZSECS FELLOWSHIP 2026-27 📣 ANZSECS is excited to announce three non-residential Digital Humanities fellowships for postgrads and ECRs to support research or teaching projects that rely on Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) and use digital humanities methodologies.

Final call! We are hiring a new Editorial Fellow who specialises in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe 🌍 👉 this 2-year fellowship runs from October 2026 - September 2028 👉 this role is paid and part-time (3 hours per week) 👉 the application deadline is tomorrow, Friday 7 August

Even with full time work and the full maintenance loan I think parts of England are now out of bounds for the residential student life as it's been imagined for decades. That door is shut. No-one seems to care: they're all too busy talking nonsense about rubbish. wonkhe.com/blogs/a-fres...

Oh, and my first academic article is now out with @genderandhistory.bsky.social! It’s on the gendered depiction of the eating disorder pica in 17th century medicine and theatre. No idea how to promote these things so any advice welcome.

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the sharks, for today is their special day! To celebrate Shark Awareness Day, here are three illustrations of sharks from the book 'Animated Nature Vol. 2' (1821) by Georges-Louis Leclerc. 📷 Reserve 590 BUF #SharkAwarenessDay #SharkDay #RareBooks

🚨 Call for Papers 🚨 @joshuarushton8.bsky.social and I are holding an online colloquium 'Environmental Approaches to the Reformation World' on 30 Sept 2026 🌳 🌊 ⛪ 🐄 Deadline for submissions 1 September.

#CfP 📢 Workshop: "Growing Up in the Early Modern World: Children, Institutions and Belonging", Macquarie University 📆27 November 2026 | 🌏Sydney ⏰ Deadline: 15 July 2026 🔗 anzamems.org/cfp-growing-... #EarlyModern #ChildhoodStudies #SocialHistory #EarlyModernHistory

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

We are dismayed to learn about further proposed HE cuts, this time at the University of Hertfordshire and the University of Exeter. In solidarity, please join us by signing and sharing the two urgent petitions below. 🚨🖊️ 1/3

Hey Bluesky crowd! You also should be signing our petition opposing the announced redundancies at the University of Exeter. 📢 We're 17k and growing! Redundancies ARE NOT necessary and we must #DefendExeterUni 🩷 c.org/RFqMvrKb6z

CALL FOR PAPERS  📣   Experiencing Relief in Early Modern Britain: 1500-1800   We welcome papers from ECRs, PGRs, and established scholars. For more info (e.g., how to submit a paper) please see our website: earlymodernreliefconference2027.wordpress.com #earlymodern #earlymodernists #AcademicSky

📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!

The University of Exeter has become the latest Russell Group university to announce major job cuts, insisting it “must” take action to reduce financial pressures. Juliette Rowsell reports #highered #jobcuts https://ow.ly/K8bq50ZfYlY

Call for Papers for the Smell Studies Journal

Call for contributions - Decluttering: Past and Present Perspectives - please do get in touch if you would like to join us for our workshop at Royal Holloway in November …

How do we enhance the engagement of history students in their degree programmes? A new article - 'Rethinking Engagement: Insights from UK History Departments' - bit.ly/4viEKru, by Sarah Jones and Simon Peplow offers discipline-specific proposals. Latest Open Access article in 'Transactions' 1/2

This morning the Department for Culture, Media and Sport have published a refreshed and updated list of Areas of Research Interest. These are an important way for researchers to engage with policy, so please do read them! www.gov.uk/government/p...

📣 2026/7 MA in Eighteenth Century Studies bursaries 📣 We're delighted to announce that we will be awarding four MA bursaries for the 2026/7 MA in Eighteenth Century Studies cohort. Full details can be found on the CECS website: 🔗 www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... Spread the news!

We're pleased to be supporting the "Death and Bereavement in Early Modern Britain, 1520-1689" Conference @standrewshist.bsky.social on 26 - 27 June 2026 For programme and registration details please see below: pastandpresent.org.uk/programme-an...

I'm delighted to finally share details of a workshop series I'm hosting with @thackraymuseum.bsky.social! 'Researchers in Museums' is open to a wide range of early career researchers and offers the opportunity to go 'behind the scenes' in a fantastic medical museum. Please share widely!

As a big King James Version fan I was inordinately excited to see the tomb of Richard Edes in Worcester Cathedral yesterday

Hi everyone, I'm organising a conference in Leuven, 4-5 June, and you're all invited*! It's called 'Performing evil: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres 1700-2000' and here is the call for papers (get in touch if you'd like a pdf!). Please share widely! *to submit an abstract before 21/3

Enjoyed this conversation with @simpep.bsky.social and @callingdrjones.bsky.social for History UK - a great opportunity to reflect on my teaching experiences as a PGR and how they have formed my ECR teaching identity

Back in a rainy Exeter for term 2

Term 1 at Exeter done! An absolutely knackering 12 weeks for my first experience of (nearly) full time teaching, but couldn't be doing it at a better place or alongside more welcoming colleagues

The @ihr.bsky.social #London #SummerSchool 2026 is now booking on the theme of 'Sickness & Health'. From the Black Death to Covid-19. Use code HEALTH10 before 24th Jan to get 10% discount! Bursaries available www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Does Artificial Intelligence have the potential to simplify, and ultimately impoverish, our study of the past? Gordon McKelvie @gordonmckelvie.bsky.social considers the recent explosion in A.I. and what it might mean for historians facing the current Higher Education crisis.

Our University Archive is a rich resource for exploring the lives & experiences of Black people at the University of Exeter & its predecessor institutions. Find out about this archive & more in our online guide to Black History research resources ⬇️ #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM #Archives #RareBooks

New in 'Transactions of the Royal Historical Society' '"your poore distressed suppliant": ‘Madness’, Emotion and the Archive in Early Modern England', by Jonathan Willis bit.ly/4mM49G4 How can perspectives from the history of emotions inform understanding of 'madness' in early modern England? 1/2

My latest piece with The Conversation - a short read on the long history of fermenting foods 🥒

Delightful break to the journey back from York stopping at Hardwick Hall

In York today for the Cabinet of Curiosities conference. Speaking later on truth and deceit in 17th century witchcraft reporting

Call for Papers for our interdisciplinary conference exploring Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic World, 1500-1800, taking place at the University of Birmingham on 12 September 2025. Keynote delivered by Professor Alec Ryrie. Papers welcome from researchers at any career stage.

A snapshot into my current research as Visiting Early Career Fellow at @thejohnrylands.bsky.social and my enduring fascination with the Ordinary of Newgate, Paul Lorrain - what a character!

We have a great programme of emotions events kicking off at Warwick today with a conversation on Teaching Emotions History with @katieebarclay.bsky.social and Sasha Turner. Lots more to come this week! @naomipullin.bsky.social warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

Had a wonderful time last week discussing early modern masculinities with @benltjackson.bsky.social and Hannah Yip at Manchester's Affective Artefacts seminar