After months of back-and-forth drafting, & over 10,000 words of dialogue, I am delighted that this discussion article co-authored with Quentin Skinner (@qmul.bsky.social) is now published @global-ih.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

1. There are two types of 18thC historian: those are secretly 17thC historians and those who are secretly 19thC historians. One group is correct.

From the latest LP issue on 'Oaths, Odes and Orations': 'How to Do Things with Oaths: Militancy and Loyalty in the French Revolutions' by Francesco Buscemi @francescobuscemi.bsky.social, University of Groningen @rug.nl. Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2024-68-2/

Histories wanted! Are you a recently terminated federal employee? Historians want to record your story! There's so much you know; let's get it on the record. You may record anonymously if you wish. www.oah.org/2025/03/04/f...

#History #SkyStorians New CFP! Workshop on Oaths and Oath-taking in Historical Perspective: Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire, 1600-present. Now taking place in *London in September 2025*. royalhistsoc.org/calendar/oat...

It has a cover! I am so excited to have The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean coming out September 2025 with @pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️

Het kabinet kan juridische stappen en schadeclaims tegemoetzien als het de geplande bezuinigingen op het hoger onderwijs doorzet. Zo waarschuwt Raymond Schlössels, hoogleraar Bestuursrecht aan de Universiteit Maastricht.

LP 68: 'Oaths, Odes and Orations', edited by David Duff & Marc Porée. Essays by Francesco Buscemi, Rémy Duthille, Judith Thompson, Pierre Lurbe, Robert W. Jones, Dafydd Moore, Catherine Bois, David Duff, and Paul Hamilton. 🔓 Available in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/magazin/2024...

Requesens, Regent o/t Habsburg Netherlands (1573-76) orders the reform o/t calendar and decrees that the new year would start on 1 January (1575, State Archives, Belgium). Happy New Year all !

Die Grenzen verschieben sich, commented my friend Ema, as we drank coffee by the Danube in August. The borders recede.

My edition of four travel journals by 18th-c servants is out now, including accounts of France, Italy, the Low Countries, Germany and the Ottoman Empire by three valets and a maid – the majority of people who went on the 'Grand Tour' #skystorians #18thc #c18th global.oup.com/academic/pro...

I have created a pack for scholars of the long seventeenth century! If there is anyone I should add or you would like to be added do let me know - apologies for all I missed, hard to keep up these days. Do consider sharing to help enable scholars reconnect & rebuild network(s)! go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq