📢 The Toynbee First Book Workshop 2025-26 is now open for applications! To support early career scholars in global history, it funds a first book manuscript/work in progress workshop. Find the application details here: toynbeeprize.org/posts/call-f... Deadline: November 2, 2025.

Our closing roundtable on “Publishing Global History” highlights how editorial practices shape the field’s horizons – featuring co-editors from "Comparativ", "History" (@hisjournalha.bsky.social), "Global and International History", and the "Journal of Global History" (@globalhistjnl.bsky.social).

📢 New on FirstView! Stephanie Mawson (@york.ac.uk) argues that the spellcasting activities of Ternaten hostages represent a hidden transcript of politics and power. #folk magic #empire #Manilia #Maluku #Southeast Asia #captives of war 👉 Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

'A research consortium...will launch a three-year study of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) next month, aiming to "make a substantive contribution to the current scholarly debate on colonial legacies and their contemporary impact”.' 1/3

Delighted to draw your attention to JGH’s July 2025 volume – now available on Open Access!

📢 New on FirstView! Max Ferrer explores claims to authenticity in Catalan tourism attractions and promotion, which emerged as shrewd marketing language in the increasingly competitive tourism market of the 1980s and 1990s. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on FirstView! Jérôme Sgard uses the archives of the London Corn Trade Association to show that market power, private ordering, and legal pluralism should be seen as a defining feature of Britain’s global economic governance. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on FirstView! Faridah Zaman (@faridahzaman.bsky.social‬) examines portraits of Indian pan-Islamists who advocated for more lenient terms for the Ottoman Empire in Europe in 1920, showing how the Muslim world emerged as a heterotopic space. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on FirstView! Jess Marinaccio examines how the Taiwanese fishing community in American Samoa became intertwined in American Samoan society and complicated state-level relationships. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on FirstView! Niping Yan demonstrates that the evolution of Chinese terminology for cochineal was intricately linked to shifts within the intertwined spheres of global, regional, and local histories. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on First View! Bingyi Gong explores how multilateral negotiations for technology trade accelerated the fall of the Cold War economic divide in East Asia. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 Call for Registration! JGH and the Toynbee Prize Foundation are delighted to announce the Second TPFxJGH Publishing Workshop with @emleake.bsky.social‬ and @heiditworek.bsky.social‬ (July 9 8-9:30 am PST/3-4:30PM GMT via Zoom). Find out more and register here: toynbeeprize.org/posts/call-f...

📢 New on FirstView! Jorge Bayona (@jbayona.bsky.social‬)uses non-literary essays that appeared in the Peruvian press during the Oncenio period in Peru (1919–30) to nuance our understanding of Latin American Orientalism. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on FirstView! Avi-ram Tzoreff examines Palestinian disillusionment with the expectation that the principle of self-determination would serve as a basis for the creation of a new world political order. Read more here! doi.org/10.1017/S174...

very exciting new article - by @tomlongphd.bsky.social & Carsten-Andreas Schulz in @globalhistjnl.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🎉 Time to celebrate! 🎉 My article, “Where Europe ends, where Africa begins: Transimperial dryland science in the Italian South (1900s–40s),” is now out in open access in the Journal of Global History (@globalhistjnl.bsky.social). Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on First View! Open Access! Michele Sollai ‪(@michelesollai.bsky.social‬) shows how Italian agrarian scientists developed a ‘dryland’ science, allowing the adaptation of modern and intensive food production to semi-arid regions. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on First View! Giacomo Macola makes a case for the role of African consumer demand in fostering processes of global economic integration. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on First View! Or Rosenboim (@orrosenboim.bsky.social‬) shows that jurist Hans Kelsen’s global thinking is characterised by a multi-scalar logic and an emphasis on positive law as the foundation of political and legal order. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

My new article on the international thought of Hans Kelsen is now out on @globalhistjnl.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on First View! Tom Long (‪@tomlongphd.bsky.social‬) and Carsten-Andreas Schulz ‪(@caschulz.bsky.social‬) highlight the broader repercussions of late nineteenth-century ‘high imperialism’ and reassess the nature of Latin American anti-imperialism. Read more here! doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on First View! Freg Stokes et al. show how Indigenous resistance assisted in the conservation of South American tropical forests, acting as a significant factor in both regional and global environmental history. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 New on First View! Hia Sen examines how India and Indian children mattered to the internationalist imaginaries that the Church Missionary Society (CMS) promoted from the 1920s. Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

Looking forward to the book launch of Rethinking Global History (open access) with our very own board member Stefanie Gänger. May 14, 2025, 4:15-5:45pm (CET). Email [email protected] for link.

We are looking forward to the book launch of Rethinking Global History (open access) with speakers such as Jeremy Adelman, Jürgen Osterhammel and John-Paul A. Ghobrial, on May 14, 2025, 4:15-5:45pm (CET). Email [email protected] to request link.

📢 New on FirstView! Johanna Gautier Morin examines the contributions of a generation of women who reshaped CEPAL’s development agenda by advocating for the integration of gender perspectives into regional policies. Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 Now available on FirstView! Raf De Bont (@rafdebont.bsky.social) discusses how computers changed zoos, touching upon databases, ‘infrastructural globalism’ and transcontinental flows of Siberian tigers! Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

How did computers change zoos? I discuss the question in an article that just came out in the Journal of Global History - touching upon databases, 'infrastructural globalism' and transcontinental flows of Siberian tigers. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

this looks fantastic @globalhistjnl.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢 Now available on FirstView! Siobhán Hearne (@siobhanhearne.bsky.social) explores the mutually beneficial relationship between the Soviet Red Cross & the League of Red Cross Societies during the Cold War. Read it here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

My article 'Between Moscow and Geneva: The Soviet Red Cross and the International Red Cross Movement' is out in the Journal of Global History. It explores the mutually beneficial relationship between the Soviet Red Cross & the League of Red Cross Societies during the Cold War tinyurl.com/yck3xzsc

📢 Reminder that the deadline for JGH's Development Editing Workshop is 1 March 2025. Workshop open to scholars for whom English is not a first language who study/work outside of North American and Western European institutions. Find out more here: drive.google.com/file/d/1lwRt...

Reminder that the deadline for this is less than a week away! @globalhistjnl.bsky.social

I've got a new article out in @globalhistjnl.bsky.social It's about the 'paper famine' of the 1970s, the causes and consequences of newsprint shortages in the developing world, and how we can think about print media as material infrastructure There's a graph, too www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢 Now available on FirstView! George Roberts (@george-roberts.bsky.social) explores the global political economy of paper during the era of decolonisation, enriching our understanding of the media by highlighting the material substance by which information circulates. doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 Now available on FirstView! Guiseppe Marcocci calls attention to the periodic interruption of the main lines of maritime communication experienced by port cities in the early modern world, complicating conceptions about the circulation of people, goods, and knowledge. doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 Now available on FirstView! Jason Parker examines postwar decolonisation in the global South showing how the demise of two unions, the West Indies Federation and Malaysia, despite occurring at the height of the Cold War, had little to do with that conflict. doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 Now available on FirstView! Mario Peters examines the significance of transport infrastructure in the early development of pan-Americanism and the formation of a vision of global transport in South America in the late 19th century. Open Access - Read here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

📢 In recognition of International Holocaust Memorial Day, JGH draws your attention to James Loeffler's (@jloeffler.bsky.social) re-framing of the relationship between human rights, the Holocaust, and the Nakba. Find it here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...

This is such a great initiative! 🙌 As part of efforts to make the field of global history more truly ‘global’, @globalhistjnl.bsky.social is hosting an online development workshop to help prospective authors through the submission process. Apply by 1 March! networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

This is a great idea: a developmental editing workshop, run by the Journal of Global History. But, it's for colleagues for whom English is not a first language - and who work in institutions outside Western Europe and North America. 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

This article editing workshop from @globalhistjnl.bsky.social looks like a great opportunity: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🗃️

Fantastic initiative for those hoping to publish in the Journal of Global History!

CFP: @globalhistjnl.bsky.social development editing workshop (deadline 1 March 2025). Workshop open to scholars & #skystorians for whom English is not a first language who study/work outside of North American and Western European institutions. Keep an eye out for an ECR workshop later in the year! 🗃

📢 Exciting News! JGH is hosting a Development Editing Workshop. Workshop open to scholars for whom English is not a first language who study/work outside of North American and Western European institutions. Find out more here: drive.google.com/file/d/1lwRt...

JGH is excited to welcome new editorial board members: Pierre Singaravélou, Seema Alavi, Taomo Zhou, Tawanda Valentine Chambwe, Stefanie Gänger, Carolien Stolte, John-Paul Ghobrial, and Sven Benjamin Schuster. We are looking forward to working with you in 2025!'

Wishing everyone a happy New Year! JGH is indebted to outgoing editorial board members: Patricia Seen, Ulrike Fretag, John Chalcrog, Ronald Po, Barbara Andaya, William Gervase Clarence-Smith, Leo Lucassen, and Pamila Gupta. Your contributions and support have been invaluable. Thank you!