Spanish-English Translations Database, 1500 – 1640
This freely accessible database records translation activity between England & Spain in the early modern period, with detailed title page transcriptions, copy specific details and index of dedicatees & printers.
spanish-english-translation.ucl.ac.uk
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
When I tell you I cannot *wait* to read this 🫶
Early Modern Spain: Spanish-English translations database
Really can't cope with the fact that Nottingham's now departed VC (now VC at Leeds - god help them) wasted £80 MILLION on a building it is now selling at a crushing loss (£14m), and is attempting to recoup some of that by sacking 100s of academics and decimating the institution. Absolutely criminal.
In both the US and UK, we will soon have higher ed institutions with hundreds of managers who have never stood in the classroom and no faculty.
A gorgeous evening celebrating a gorgeous book. Congratulations again @laurenworking.bsky.social on A Golden World, a book that traces the influence of the Americas in early modern England from canoes to copper, from silver to sunflowers🌻.
Applications are open for the 2026/27 BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship, offering expenses up to the value of £4000 to support a visiting scholar undertaking research into the long eighteenth century. More information and apply at bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a... @bsecs.bsky.social
Our Annual Colloquium is next week! Join us on Thursday 11th June for a series of panels and a roundtable on 'Periodizing the Early/Modern'.
Full details below!
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...
John Gallagher
🌟 Dr Genevieve Robyn Arkle @kingsmusic.bsky.social is among five of the UK’s most promising early-career academics chosen by BBC Radio 4 and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to help shape Radio 4 programming and share their research with wider audiences.
UCL Early Modern Exchanges
The annual CEMS colloquium. This year’s theme is on Periodizing the Early/Modern. The colloquium will feature several panels and a roundtable. The Colloquium will take place on 11th June.
Shedding 608 academic posts but creating 75 new managerial posts. No clear answers as to what those posts are, who they will go to, and why we need them.
The Office for Students thinks "institutions should base their plans on more prudent forecasts to secure their long-term financial health and ensure they can continue to deliver a high quality education for students."
What they mean is, you lot aren't cutting or merging hard enough or fast enough.
wonkhe.com
David Kernohan digests this year's OfS summary of annual financial returns, and the parallel release of HESA finance data
2,700 letters sent last month warning staff that they are at risk of redundancy, with Nottingham senior management's goal to shed 608 academic posts, following the 350 professional services staff lost last year. 1/3
With hundreds of jobs on the line and dozens of courses at risk, staff living through one of the biggest university restructuring projects of recent years fear they are shouldering the blame for wider...
