It’s officially pub day for this incredible work! Thank you to Oscar de la Torre for making this possible!! And thank you to CUNY DSI for research consults and permission to use your images in my work!! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978088...

We are advertising a two-year lectureship in Modern British History at University of Cambridge, please spread the word! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...

As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️ sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...

Christopher Benfey on Jefferson and Madison’s excellent adventure

For much more on Ireland during the imperial crisis and American War of Independence see the @virtualtreasury.bsky.social's Age of Revolutions Portal (virtualtreasury.ie/portals/age-...). The browse feature underneath the main search bar to the right shows all repositories and documents.

Interesting letter on the severity of the constitutional crisis between Ireland and Britain in 1782. Portland claims 'the consequences of rejecting or of delaying to gratify the wishes of this country ... would be an end of all government. (1/2) virtualtreasury.ie/item/VRTI-CS...

Late to my own party, but it is wonderful to see my edition of Hortense Mancini’s letters in print, which arrived at the start of the year. If you think your library would benefit from the words of one of the seventeenth-century’s most libertine women, here is the link: iterpress.org/978164959131...

In the eighteenth century, landlords in the Scottish Highlands exerted control over what their tenants planted and how they planted it. In reality, these 'reforms' disrupted resilient ecological practices. Cat Scothorne on seeds and the Highland Clearances.

This also means that reports about falling daily active users don't give an accurate picture of the utility of this site as a research platform. I see more researchers posting occasionally here and this isn't captured in the statistics detractors often use to forecast the eventual demise of Bluesky.

To celebrate the BNA reaching 100 million pages, my colleague Claire O'Halloran has written a blog sharing some of our highlights. A huge achievement-well done to everyone involved at @britishlibrary.bsky.social & @findmypast.bsky.social Here’s to the next 100 million! www.bl.uk/stories/blog...

Read our new blog - Finances and Funerals: The Digital Archive of Irish Tontines! Dr Andrew McDiarmid @ucddublin.bsky.social is our guest contributor. His project 'Forgotten Funding' is funded by a @researchireland.ie Pathways Fellowship. www.ria.ie/blog/finance...

Great new article by Pádraig Ó Liatháin on an Irish-language family commonplace book begun in 18th-century Donegal, brought to New York in the 19th century, and now in the Burns Library at Boston College. Am I biased because it's about the Gallaghers? How dare you. muse.jhu.edu/pub/41/artic...

🚨We're hiring! The Research Ireland Centre ADAPT at Trinity College Dublin is hiring a Post-Doctoral Researcher in NLP for Historical Texts and Knowledge Graphs with Prof John Kelleher on the VOICEs project. 💡Find out more here www.adaptcentre.ie/careers/ @researchireland.ie

Proofs just in for A Golden World, featuring our glorious cover artwork ✨ A glittering new history of how the Americas transformed early modern England from award-winning historian @laurenworking.bsky.social, A Golden World is out 18 June and available to pre-order now. linktr.ee/agoldenworld

Welcome remarks by @micheal-martin.bsky.social at @trincolllibcam.bsky.social Irish + British histories are bound together: sometimes literally! virtualtreasury.ie/item/CamTrin... often personally - virtualtreasury.ie/item/CUL-MS-... and collaboratively 👍️ 👀 ALT text @camlibresearch.bsky.social

Fellowship Opportunity! Keasbey Isaac Newton Fellowship in American Studies 2026 University of Cambridge - Selwyn College Cambridge www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO954/k...

‘X shows the fragility of relying on tech corporations for business continuity and knowledge sharing.’ This piece is excellent and raises some big questions about social media, academic culture, and the university.

🗣️ "For those with the largest followings on X, it has been universities who are most reluctant to let go." #AcademicSocialMedia #X

Jessica Chopin Roney will take over after the Library Company of Philadelphia merges with Temple University. She has existing ties to both institutions.

Prof. Alvin Jackson named as the new Chair of Irish History at the University of Cambridge.

✈️ Calling international scholars! Apply by March 2 for APS short-term fellowships, including the David Center for the American Revolution Research Fellowships for International Scholars. 🔗 More info about fellowships: https://bit.ly/4rqmXwY

Join me this Sunday, February 22nd at the @versobooks.bsky.social Book Club for an online discussion of my latest work, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/d...

The next @ihr.bsky.social 'Parliaments, Politics & People' seminar looks like a corker. Sarah Wride (@york.ac.uk & IHR) 'Re-Membering the Medieval Parliament, 1769-1886' 📆 17 March ⏰ 17:30-19:00 @ IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU & online www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Call for Contributors! Writing the Industrial Revolution brings together short illustrated essays on industrial change and its cultural consequences in Britain, circa 1770–1830. We'd love to hear from other researchers who'd like to contribute an essay. Please see ⤵️ www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6341

“The professor thinks about the trustees who approved this ostentatious facility, knowing they’d pass the bills for upkeep to future deans. He’s no fiduciary, but he wonders how responsible that is.”

Greeting the sun this morning like a long lost friend.

The Journal of the Early Republic is currently accepting applications for a Book Reviews Co-Editor! Serve a three-year term beginning July 2026. Review of applications begins March 10, 2026. View the #JERPano CFA on The Panorama thepanorama.shear.org/2026/01/13/c...

The next @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar is on 3rd March - @conniethomas.bsky.social will be presenting 'Public activism and the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts' - of (huge) interest to those interested in migration, citizenship & US history. Sign up here: tinyurl.com/3s6yym7t

Starting to plan next year's New Netherland Institute Seminar Series (previous, wonderful guests here: www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/sch...). If you would be interested in presenting scholarly work of article or chapter length related to New Netherland and the Dutch Atlantic, let me know!

Ever wondered how Spanish privateers shaped global warfare & trade? Join Dr Vera Moya Sordo on Mon 23 Feb (1–2 pm CET) for “Kings of Privateering: A History of the Spanish Enterprise”, part of our Ships & Seafaring series #earlymodern #maritimehistory 🗃️ Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

We're looking forward to today's Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Lecture, given by Prof. Kevin O'Rourke of @scpo-research.bsky.social ceph.ie/events/19-02... @tcdeconomics.bsky.social @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social #econsky #NSRP #EconomicHistory

Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...

My co-editor Jennifer Keene and I are very excited for our volume to come out this summer! Click through the link to see the amazing roster of contributors.

Join us next Tuesday, at the IHR, London or on Zoom for 'The Empire's treasure house: diplomatic gifts, bureaucratic indifference and the erasure of provenance in colonial India'. Free and open to the public. #Skystorians

📣 Announcing The 2026 Modern Intellectual History Lecture! We're thrilled to welcome Prof. Marlene L. Daut (Yale) for her talk: “The King of Haiti and Black Statecraft in the Nineteenth Century.” 📅 March 19, 2026 ⏰ 2:15–3:45 PM CST 📍 Black Cultural Center Auditorium, Vanderbilt University

An improved Irish Townland and Historical Map Viewer with new features is available online. Please note: the old URL is no longer functional. Explore the new viewer: experience.arcgis.com/experience/b...

CFP - After 1776: Settlers, Slavery, and Citizenship in the Atlantic Republics Papers are invited that engage with any aspect of settler republicanism, revolutionary change, or political belonging in the Atlantic world. Deadline: 28th February

Considering the beginning of the long nineteenth century is known as the age of revolutions, a lot of ideas out there for this great workshop hosted at UCL!

New! The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hosting a year-long public exhibition titled, “1776 Across the Americas: A Hemispheric History from the Collections of the John Carter Brown Library,” now on view in the Bromsen Room during Reading Room hours. Learn more:

@jgienapp.bsky.social responds at great length to critics of his criticism of originalism. It’s a tour de force. read it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

CfP 📢 "Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern (c.1500 - 1850)", Aberystwyth University 📆11-12 June 2026 | 🌍 Aberystwyth (Galles) ⏰Deadline: 27 February 2026 All info👇 #EarlyModern #CfP

📢We're recruiting four new postgraduate and two early career researchers! Please visit our website for more information and to submit your application (deadline 23rd February).

IJAS Online (the journal of the Irish Association for American Studies) is seeking a new Reviews Editor. More details below. Applications due by March 13 - please write to us if you have any questions! ijas.iaas.ie/reviews-edit...

👀ICYMI: "Most misinformation strategies treat the problem as one of incorrect knowledge. But if the underlying issue is divergent structures of appearance, then content-level interventions are bound to fail" #FakeNews #InfoLit #Misinformation

This was a generative discussion and what a timely series of talks. As someone who works on the news and with lots of 18C. newspapers it has been fascinating to hear from journalists about their approach to making the news and how they engage with history and historical writing in doing so.

Against Archival Erasure: a conversation on Caribbean women and the archive. 2/27 at the CUNY Graduate Center.

The CFP for "New Netherland and the World," this year's NNI conference is up. We'll be meeting in Albany at the New York State Museum on Nov. 7-8. For more information, visit www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/eve.... Proposals are due on April 1.

Our latest Newsletter, coinciding with the publication of Past & Present No. 270 (February 2026) went out to subscribers this morning If you are not currently signed up to he mailing list check it out, subscribe, and share with your networks: pastpresentsoc.substack.com/p/past-and-p...

The brilliant Mary Sarah Bilder is joining us Wed. 2/25 at 630 for the 13th Annual John Patrick Diggins Memorial Lecture: "The Perils of Sex: Catherine Macaulay's Constitution of Liberty" Segal Theatre, CUNY Graduate Center In-Person RSVPs: email [email protected] Online: Register at bit.ly/2026