UPCOMING SEMINAR 12 Jan 2026 -- The Politics of Sacred Space in the Early Modern Islamicate World: The Shrines of Karbala and Najaf -- Yahya Nurgat (Sabanci University) @ihreurope1500.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

PROGRAMME FOR THE TERM UP! Exciting papers coming you way, on zoom & @ihr.bsky.social, #EarlyModern #SkyStorians: sacred spaces, epidemics, and corporeality. Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

More accolades for @chloeireton.bsky.social's Slavery & Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic, it's a finalist for the Pauli Murray Book Prize in Black Intellectual History from the AAIHS. @universitypress.cambridge.org www.aaihs.org/2026-finalis...

NOVEDAD-OPEN ACCESS🔥🔥🔥 📚 ❞𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗱𝗲 𝗮𝗹𝗺𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗮𝘀. 𝗟𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻̃𝗶́𝗮 𝗱𝗲 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘂́𝘀 𝘆 𝗹𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗼́𝗻 𝗱𝗲 𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘃𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘀 𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗮 𝗱𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘀 𝘆 𝗔́𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼-𝗼𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 (𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗹𝗼 𝗫𝗩𝗜𝗜)❞ 🗣️ de Andrea Guerrero-Mosquera Consulta el E-Book 🔗👉🏼 bit.ly/44PFZ6L Editorial: UAM Iztapalapa

We are so happy for @chloeireton.bsky.social and Shantel George who are both included in @slaveryarchive.bsky.social's Ten Best Books of 2025! Much deserved recognition for these stellar books. @universitypress.cambridge.org

Huge congratulations to Chloe L. Ireton (Associate Professor of the History of Iberia and the Iberian World 1500-1800), whose monograph Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic has earned an Honorable Mention from the Sixteenth Century Society! 📚👏 shorturl.at/WZKQJ

MONDAY! Looking forward to welcoming @rogerleejesus.bsky.social to the @ihr.bsky.social seminar for a talk on "Colonialism and Land: Rethinking Imperial and Local Agency in the Portuguese Empire in Asia 17 Nov, 5:30, hybrid (register for zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #EarlyModern

This term card is on 🔥🔥🔥 📍📍The London History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar📍📍 ⌛️Seminars are hybrid and take place in-person in London & Zoom, 5:30-7:00pm (GMT).⌛️ 📲To sign up to our mailing list for the seminar, please email [email protected]

🎓 Holden Lecture 2025 📜 Tickets and trifles: ephemeral print in Restoration England 🗓️ Thurs 30 Oct, 6pm 📍 Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, London Join Prof. Jason Peacey as he reveals how fleeting print shaped Restoration history. 👉 Learn more & book: shorturl.at/EEKa1

HYBRID: Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History 29 Oct 5:30–7:30 pm A roundtable with authors of new books on histories of the Spanish Atlantic: Bethan Fisk, @chloeireton.bsky.social, Adolfo Polo y la Borda, Julia McClure and Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

If you’re in London on 29 October, make sure you don’t miss this celebration of Iberian history books!

Just a reminder of this event later this month, taking place in person and on zoom. Don't forget to register!

FIRST SESSION THIS MONDAY! Join us for "At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule", a paper by @eicathomefinn.bsky.social with comment by @jhowesuk.bsky.social All welcome in person @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...)

JUST A WEEK FROM NOW! We'll host the marvellous Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social who will speak about "At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule" 6 Oct, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Join us for a roundtable on "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic, followed by a wine reception at UCL on 29th October 2025. The event is in person and with online transmission. More information: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

The September issue of Slavery & Abolition is a Special Issue: Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present Guest Editors: Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Wayne Dooling & Esteban Salas www.tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/c...

Upcoming Seminars @ihreurope1500.bsky.social We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

NEW PROGRAMME! What an exciting one it is! We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

WOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS PROGRAMME 🤩 And more excitement to come in 2026 as well. I often get driven to despair about the health of #earlymodern studies because of how it's deemed 'not useful' and 'unpopular in recruitment' and then I see just how much brilliant and varied work we do despite all that

We have two jobs at KCL History! 16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l... And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l... (both to start in January 2026)

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Join us for a roundtable on "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic, followed by a wine reception at UCL on 29th October 2025. The event is in person and with online transmission. More information: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

My review of @chloeireton.bsky.social's impressive debut monograph is out. It was a pleasure reading the book and writing the review, and you all should read it as well! www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KXRFJ...

My Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery is one of the two finalists of the @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social, am lucky and grateful to get this honor in times when the study of the history of slavery is being attacked on all fronts in this country. #slaveryarchive

We are happy to announce the three finalists of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024! The winner will be announced at the end of September. To know more about the three finalists, visit our website www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...

FIVE YEARS of #Slaveryarchive Book Club! More than ever, it's time to read, assign, discuss, share, buy, and gift books that tell the history of slavery in the Americas (and elsewhere) The book club has been doing this for full five years. Join us www.slaveryarchive.com/book-club/20...

Delighted to announce that my new article, "Dialogic Depositions: Finding Black Women’s Presence in Spanish Colonial Legal Records," is here! Thanks to the RQ editors and staff for their assistance and support.

If you're in Aberdeen on 17 September don't miss my colleague Professor Matt Smith's lecture on 'Twice Removed: Slavery, Big Data, and the Cultures of Caribbean Ancestral Histories'. Digital history both opens up new vistas and obscures 'the knotted histories of empire'. #Skystorians

British Academy postdoctoral fellowships scheme is now open. The deadline is 1 October. Time to get talking with potential host institutions and mentors about planning an application for this year or instead waiting for a future round. (The scheme is annual).

Here is my review of Chloe Ireton's book Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic just published in the Hispanic American Historical Review. Check it out and go get the book! #slaveryarchive

Thank you @araujohistorian.bsky.social for this generous review of Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (Cambridge University Press 2025) that will appear in Hispanic American Historical Review. doi.org/10.1215/0018...

My review on @chloeireton.bsky.social new book, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic is out on Ler Historia! Fantastic work and incredible research. journals.openedition.org/lerhistoria/...

“Scholars across disciplines who study the African diaspora, transatlantic slave trade, early modern Iberia and Latin America, legal history, and questions of political identity and belonging will benefit tremendously from Ireton’s acute insights and rigorous research.” Thank you Nathalie Miraval!

On the train to Liverpool for UKLAH 2025 & so looking forward to discussing Adolfo Polo y La Borda and Julia McClure's wonderful new books! Join us for discussion about each other's books & future methodological & theoretical directions in the field. links to books & programme. in thread

Join us for the next #Slaveryarchive Book Club on May 24, 2025, 2:00 PM EST to discuss my new book Slavery and FREEDOM in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (Cambridge University Press, 2025) t.co/8EeXLct6fn w/ wonderful scholars @araujohistorian.bsky.social & @elotroalex.bsky.social

With plans for the coming academic year being firmed up: non-UK-based #EarlyModern #SkyStorians: let us know when & where you're passing through this little island. Would be lovely to grab a coffee or to get you to present your work where feasible.

Already welcoming people for WOBD2: The Past in Danger in New Haven. As people start trickling in for an intense 2 days of conversations, private and public, we learn of more archives in danger by the hour. But we're not here to bemoan our fate. We're here to mobilize—hearts, minds and hands.

Join us for the next #Slaveryarchive Book Club on May 24, 2025, 2:00 PM EST to discuss my new book Slavery and FREEDOM in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (Cambridge University Press, 2025) t.co/8EeXLct6fn w/ wonderful scholars @araujohistorian.bsky.social & @elotroalex.bsky.social

Everyone is talking about @chloeireton.bsky.social 's new book. If you want to learn more about this @slaveryarchive.bsky.social session is the perfect opportunity. @cambridgeup.bsky.social #afrolatinamerica

96. 96 universities are destroying the careers of their staff (both academic & professional service), in what is pitched by every single one of them as an effort to appease the minister's drive for cost-cutting --though cutting your main resource never made you better So is it the 3 remaining ones?

‘Baroness Smith, the universities minister, said many institutions were failing to rein in spending despite demanding financial support from the government.’ Which institutions are these? We’ve seen absolute carnage in redundancies across the sector, so I’m curious which she is thinking of

A wonderful thread by @onslies.bsky.social detailing the themes of the discussion during the book launch of SLAVERY & FREEDOM IN BLACK THOUGHT at @ucl-ias.bsky.social . Thank you so much for capturing some of these very stimulating conversations, and of course for joining us for the event.

4 days to gather in New Haven to ask a second time, Who Owns Black Data? This year's theme is "The Past in Danger." Carla Hayden, the most qualified person to ever hold the position of chief librarian was just fired yesterday. We don't think we exaggerate when we say the past is in danger. #wobd2025

SUCH riveting conversations! Glad I got some notes to reflect with 😅 Congratulations again on a wonderful book and event!

Lovely shout-out from @chloeireton.bsky.social to the undergraduate students from @qmul.ac.uk who are here: she’s an alumna of the School of History “and you are the future of the profession”

A wonderful thread by @onslies.bsky.social detailing the themes of the discussion during the book launch of SLAVERY & FREEDOM IN BLACK THOUGHT at @ucl-ias.bsky.social . Thank you so much for capturing some of these very stimulating conversations, and of course for joining us for the event.

Friends in London: I will be celebrating the publication of my new book 'Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic' cup.org/4gUfaSj on May 8 at IAS-UCL, in conversation with esteemed scholars and dear friends. Hope you can join! Registration: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Such a fantastic Canterbury History Weekend this year - so lovely to meet @chloeireton.bsky.social @drjoannepaul.bsky.social & Professor Clare Jackson - we have a handful of signed copies in stock!

Such a privilege to visit Canterbury today to talk at the Tudor & Stuarts History Weekend organized by The Centre for Kent History and Heritage @canterburyccuni.bsky.social & many thanks to wonderful @cccubookshop.bsky.social for selling copies of my book Slavery & FREEDOM in Black Thought (2025).

And for our next talk at #TudorsStuarts we have @chloeireton.bsky.social speaking on slavery and freedom in black thought, in Early Modern Spain #CKHH #Canterbury