The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society has a new website that is well-worth checking out for details of the annual conference, journal, and news of the inaugural ECR bursary, which was awarded to @mzukovs.bsky.social. The next bursary will be announced shortly. www.ecis.ie/news-events/

So delighted to see my first book up online with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @anzamems.bsky.social @memorients.bsky.social @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social. DM or email me for a review copy request form, and ask your uni librarian to buy the book!! global.oup.com/academic/pro...

A reminder that there are still a few days left to apply for this funded PhD, working on literary and cultural reception of the Vikings. University fees and a budget for conference attendance included in addition to the stipend: it's a great opportunity for someone! www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...

We are thrilled to announce this year's rendition of the Prize Papers Talks Special Edition - an online lecture series organised by the German Maritime Museum and the Prize Papers Project! The first talk will be on November 10th, with Jane Ohlmeyer, Tom Truxes, and John Shovlin on the Amity Papers!

Mind-numbing how many layers of history there can be to a single manuscript page: Syriac upper text (10th c.), Armenian undertext (pre-10th c.), Arabic material used for binding (11-12th c.?), Coptic foliation in the margin (date?), modern foliation at the bottom. Image: Leiden UL Or. 14236, link ⬇️

Pleased to see my interview with the BBC History Extra podcast has now gone live! Had great fun chatting with Emily Briffett about my book on 'Serious Crime in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland'. www.historyextra.com/membership/c...

Missið ekki af erindi Péturs Húna í dag!

Final reminder about Lyndal Roper's talk on Thursday at the @ihrscb.bsky.social on 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. Register here for in-person or online attendance: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

After seven weeks at my residency here in Jónshús, Copenhagen and numerous hours spent at the Danish National Archives and Saxo Institute, I head back to Dublin. This stay has been a privilege, enriching my research and allowing me to meet new people and spend time with dear friends and family here.

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

At #AHA26, historians are exploring new approaches to research, teaching, professional development, and public engagement through panels, workshops, meetups, poster sessions, networking events, and much more. The annual meeting program—featuring 460+ sessions and events—is now available online.🗃️

Surgeon Christian Løvendahl’s 1768 letter of certification from Flensburg. A beautiful piece of work, produced on official, stamped paper (RA 232 F77).

Gossiping is both an art and an annoying practice. In #earlymodern Europe, a gossipmonger would often be depicted as a person with three mouths. Like these three fellas that made it on a title page of a pamphlet in 1605, a Turk, a Hungarian, and a German. #skystorians #gossip

Incredible.

Through Oct. 31st, @princetonupress.bsky.social has a 70% off sale on a wide range of titles -- Susan Dackerman on Albrecht Dürer, Judith Herrin on Ravenna, Jed Buchwald & Diane Greco Josefowicz on the Rosetta stone, James Costa on Alfred Russel Wallace, and more: press.princeton.edu/sale/70-off

Globalizing the Baltic in the Early Modern Period: Conference CfP 'The Baltic Sea and Global Currents: 400 Years After the Battle of Oliwa. Maritime Expansion, Domination, and Water Spaces in a Globalizing World' networks.h-net.org/group/announ... #earlymodern #History

When I order documents from various #c18th investigative commissions at the archives, I most often receive a modest assortment of protocols, petitions, and numerous letters. But occasionally, I get something like this. It’s only about 2300 pages (RA 236 F4-17).

Many thanks to the editors at the @historicaljnl.bsky.social blog for publishing this short piece, and to @ellasbaraini.bsky.social for her help with it. My recent article, and one of the central ideas of the book manuscript I’m currently working on, in a nutshell. www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

A pleasant surprise to discover this stunning #c18th map of the Duchy of Holstein (then part of the Danish Oldenburg Empire) among the documents of an 1781 investigative commission which was to determine whether the surgeon Christian Løvendahl was indeed entitled to use his own name. (RA 232 F77).

There's stuff leaking out on social media about breakthrough research in the Apostolic Library of the Vatican that has apparently yielded a mention of Lithuania datable to 451AD, 558 years earlier than the previously accepted earliest mention 😱 #LithuaniaMentioned

Who did what in early modern England? New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️ Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

First page of 18th century Basque-Icelandic dictionary. A Basque-Icelandic pidgin was spoken between locals and Basque whalers from ~1600 including the well-known expression "Fenicha for ju" meaning F**k you! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basque%...

My latest article now out in Eighteenth-Century Ireland my first and probably last foray into Swift Studies liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/10.3828/...

Editing revised chapters for the forthcoming 2nd edition of our guide to #EarlyModern 🗃️ sources today👌 The revised volume will also include 3 new chapters: Part 1 'Sources': - Digitised Sources Part 2 'Histories': - Race - The Body, Mind & Emotions.

Juat arrived at my academic residency in Jónshús, Copenhagen. I’m really looking forward to spending the next seven weeks here doing research and digging in the Danish National Archives and the Royal Library. If you’re around, hit me up, and we can grab coffee!

Great to be back home in Iceland to take part in the 31st Congress of Nordic Historians where I met some brilliant people working on fascinating projects. I had the honour of presenting a paper at a session organised by a few of us on reimagining the #c18th Danish Oldenburg Empire. Takk! #nhm2025

The 31st Congress of Nordic Historians is underway in Reykjavík, Iceland! #nhm2025

5k run, an Espresso, and the Gazzetta. Buongiorno.

Delighted to share vol. 12 of French History & Culture is now published! Featuring fantastic new work by David Garrioch, @leonhughes.bsky.social, Jean Elisabeth Pedersen, Robert Aldrich, Adrian Muckle, Helen Gramotnev, and Martyn Lyons. All open access – enjoy! 🗃️ @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social

This is a brilliant project, I'd be super interested in the results of this.

35 degrees here in Pisa today; coincidentally, my productivity is at roughly 35% as well.

Calabria moodboard

Första publikationen i nya projektet / First publication in my latest project.

Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-century Barbados and Britain. A 2-day workshop 25-26 June in London at KCL. Be there. www.mmor.co.uk/events/carib...

What’s better than this?

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Funded PhD studentship of €25,000/year for 4 years plus fees available @tcddublin.bsky.social to work with me on Irish women's life writing from the long 18th century! Please spread the word! @ecfjournal.bsky.social @cecs-york.bsky.social @clhlwr.bsky.social @oxfordlifewriting.bsky.social

A gem in Pisa

Listen to @drdeefoley.bsky.social on the RDS podcast talking about her research on Irish women's craft work: therds.podbean.com/e/episode-7-...

Tonight we dined at Vicolo Colombiana here in Bologna and had traditional roasted rabbit from Alberto Pelloni with side of bolognese friggione, pickled vegetables and potatoes. Magical!

The two towers of Bologna!

📣Out now on #firstview Joel Herman (@joelherman.bsky.social) (@tcddublin.bsky.social) on 'The Imperial Public Sphere: The Press, Publicity, and the Destabilization of the British Empire, c. 1695–1765' #Britain #Imperial #Colonial 17thc 18thc 🗃️☕ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Happy May Day!

Glad Valborg!

the Champions League semi-finals are the highlight of the football season for me. In terms of quality and drama you can’t beat it. And this is the most exciting quartet of sides at this stage for many years. It’s going to be excellent.

Just wrapped up my Year 1 review! Now: back to reading pdfs

Ah, the cut and thrust of historical debate

Today is the Icelandic first day of summer. Happy summer everyone!

Just one week left to get your abstracts in for 'Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives'. Conference speakers include Eliga Gould, Patrick Griffin, Nicholas Canny, and James Stafford, among others. Please don't hesitate to email if you have any questions at all.

I really am trying to invoke the aura of Peter Weir's Master and Commander with the slides for this paper I'll give next week.