Next week Wednesday 11 February we are delighted to have @pbhellawell.bsky.social & @libertypaterson.bsky.social present their paper titled 'The Ship Bedford: Atlantic and Archival Crossings in the Long Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade'. Join us either in person at the IHR or online from 17:30

Very happy that my article on the ackee tree in Jamaica is out! Thanks to @treeseeker.bsky.social and @planthums-uk.bsky.social for editing this excellent special issue. www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/article/v...

Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field. 📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online 📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025 ⏰ 17:30 🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO

I'll be hosting an online event on encountering extinction in the archives with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social as part of The National Archives' Research Routes series. Come along to hear about researching animal histories in the archive! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/extinction...

When someone claims that AI can just read all digitized history and discover new things, they should be required to catalog one of the many boxes full of random 17th century papers left over from a chancery case.

Not quite sure how I only just heard about this @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy project led by @pbhellawell.bsky.social but I AM VERY EXCITED about it!

On the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade, I am reflecting on my recent trip to Ghana, where I had the privilege to visit Cape Coast Castle, a place I had encountered countless times, but only through records at The National Archives.

Current programmes, for which applications are invited, include the Society's Martin Lynn Scholarship in African History. The Scholarship (£1500) is for a PhD student to undertake research on the history of Africa. Further details: bit.ly/3ssb3c0. Closing date 5 September 2025 #Skystorians

God, this is dreamy. Three months in Italy to do pre- or postdoctoral archival work!

REMINDER: We offer bursaries of up to £500 per head to support UK-based postgraduate and early career researchers to arrange panels on London-related topics for academic conferences. See here for further details on how to apply (please repost to help spread the word!)

The *big thing* I've been finishing is my next book Ruthless, which is coming out in October. It connects the exploitation of land and people across Britain and its empire with scientific and technological innovation to offer a new history of capitalist development. yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

PASSAGE is recruiting for two fixed-term posts to join me working on 18thC records of enslavement 1) Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/aZwqn 2) Project Cataloguer (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/6aSpz If you have questions, please let me know & please circulate widely!

We are hiring at St John's! We have an opening for an Early Career Librarian post, 3 year fixed term, salary £27,786, and as part of the role the College will pay the successful candidate's fees and give them day release to undertake a Masters' degree in Librarianship. www.joh.cam.ac.uk/vacancies

📣 NEW COURSE MEET THE TON: THE REAL HISTORY OF FASHIONABLE SOCIETY IN GEORGIAN LONDON A new four-week course with academic, author and historical advisor Professor Hannah Greig Starts: Thurs 29 May Course Fee: £40 (+booking fee) Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meet-the-t...

📣 Calling early modernists 📣 3 x 4-year jobs at Durham in French, History, & Italian!! Also 3 x PhDs. All working under the banner of 'Inventing Futures' in a wonderful department. Apply / spread the word.... www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

I'm very pleased to share news of a new project I am leading at The National Archives. PASSAGE combines archival research on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people with an international programme that centres the research of West African & Caribbean scholars. Read more here: shorturl.at/XLyC8

Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

Early Career Ocean History Scholars! Please take a look at (& share!) the call for the 2025 ICHO Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History: oceansciencehistory.com/2025/01/06/c...

New Horizons: Workshop for Emerging Scholars in Maritime History. Looking forward to presenting the @prizepapers.bsky.social & my work in Research & PR management on Tuesday, joined by the wonderful @saracaputo.bsky.social thanks to @slopclothes.bsky.social Info maritimeworkshops.com #earlymodern 🗃️

📢📢📢 Hakluyt Society ECR Essay Prize 2025 📢📢📢 Essays (6k-8k) are invited by ECRs on the history of travel, exploration, cultural encounter or their effects, or that critically engage with the work of the Society. 1st prize £1250 & 2nd prize £250. * Enter by 1/3/25 * www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...

A terrific column on why all or even a substantial portion of archives will never be digitized and why writing serious books will continue to take years, involve analog work, stay material, deserve funds and institutional respect. contingentmagazine.org/2019/03/25/m...

#histmed Postdoc at University of Edinburgh School of Law. Post is for a historian of medicine, esp. one interested in the history of emotions and/or the law. Modern (1750-present) focus. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Funding available to cover childcare costs to attend this event. If you know someone with young children who is working to publish some historical research, please share this with them.

Can anyone recommend any good project management software for managing research projects? Complete novice here, so the easier, the better!

Just listened to a fascinating paper by Dr Neil Johnston (The National Archives UK, Head of Early Modern Records) on ‘Securing Ireland, 1660–1685: State Intelligence in the reign of Charles II’. A great start to the ‘Spying on Hibernia’ Symposium.

Are you a PhD student at a UK/Irish uni, or are you within 3 yrs of award? Did you publish your first academic journal article this year (2024)? Please consider applying for the RHS Early Career Article Prize. Nominations open Mon 2 Dec 24 and close Fri 31 Jan 25: royalhistsoc.org/prizes/royal... 🗃️

Call for Papers! The British Commission for #MaritimeHistory will hold their 30th annual New Researchers conference at Hull in April 2025. It has THE BEST supportive environment for new scholars (also including independent) I've ever been to. www.maritimehistory.org.uk/news/items/c...

Just heard about this excellent mentoring initiative from the Early Modern Scholars of Color Network, in partnership with The Society for Renaissance Studies - more info and sign up links here: www.emsoc.co.uk/mentorship

Any Atlantic History starter packs out there? I also haven't seen any for Global History. If you have, please point me in the right direction.

A reminder that @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social was designed to make scholarly research about revolutionary ages accessible to the public! Consider sending us a pitch! ageofrevolutions.com/submissions/

We have an exciting one-year post at The National Archives for an 18thC researcher to shape our public engagement programme in the lead up to the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. Please share & get in touch if you have questions! www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...

New work-in-progress! I'm recovering stories from an amazing French merchant ship caught up in the 7 Years War. Curious about how I've untangled records in half a dozen archival boxes? Join me this Monday, Feb. 26, 9 a.m. EST/3 p.m. CET. Register/link: www.prizepapers.de/events/prize...

The History Department at the University of York UK, is looking for a historian of South Asia for a permanent lectureship. Please spread the word! We are a great department with lovely colleagues jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for summer term 2024. Stipend of £100 and a chance to get involved in a great seminar! 🗃️ societycultureandbelief.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/o...

Royal Society travel grants of up to £6,000 for early career researchers, including PhD students -- for archival research, conference attendance, etc. in the history of science. Non-UK researchers are eligible but must incorporate research at the Royal Society. Deadline 5 March.

Submissions are invited for the BSECS PGR & ECR Conference, to be held at Uppsala University, 22/23 August 2024. The theme this year is 'Communication and Exchange' #18thC 🗃️ #skystorians

Book historians or just generally knowledgeable early modernists, is there a term for the sub-titles/précis in book margins? I understand marginalia as hand-written, is there an equivalent term for printed text in the margins like in the left-hand margin below?

Amazing opportunities for SIX postdocs to work with Diana Berruezo-Sánchez (UABBarcelona) on an ERC project ‘The Cultural History of the Black Diaspora in Early Modern Spain’! (deadline: 15/2/2024) #earlymodern #BlackEurope euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/179776 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/179781

Hey, ECR peeps! Got an idea that needs a bit of time and cash to develop using Leeds Uni Special Collections? The Brotherton Fellowship is a cracking opportunity and plus there's loads of us who will take you out for a cuppa. Details here, deadline 8 Jan. lahri.leeds.ac.uk/support-and-...

We have launched our first batch of Spanish Prize Papers online. Materials from 130 Spanish ships taken by the British in the 1740s are now in our portal. We had the honour of welcoming the Spanish Ambassador at The National Archives to our launch event. www.prizepapers.de #earlymodern #history 🗃️

Please share - I’ve got a great postdoc project I’d love to undertake, on the role of hymns in the British Atlantic world of C17 and 18, specifically in contexts of mission, colonialism, slavery, and abolition. I’m looking for a prospective supervisor/institution - thanks

Apply to join the brilliant Alex Sapoznik at King’s, working on coral, honey, citrus and cheese across the medieval Mediterranean! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/076826-...

"If you are of African/African Caribbean heritage, based in the UK, and have an idea you'd like to develop into an academic book but are unsure where to start, this Fellowship is for you." Deadline: midnight (GMT) 30 November 2023. #AcWri #AcademicPublishing #ECR www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

Hello Bluesky. We are the Prize Papers Project, dedicated to the study & digitization of the Prize Papers collection, a vast trove of documents & artifacts stored at The National Archives, UK: www.prizepapers.de Watch this space for updates, exciting finds & upcoming events #earlymodern #skystorians

From Prof Richard Toye: ‘The British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies is delighted to offer one bursary, worth £25,000, to one #BAME student enrolling on a #postgraduate taught programme within English, #History or Modern Languages and Cultures in 2023/24. Find out more at rb.gy/t6wd6.’ #c18th

The History of Parliament was deeply saddened by the death of Professor Arthur Burns on 3 October 2023. Dr Martin Spychal, for @victoriancommons.bsky.social, has paid tribute to him in this blog: ow.ly/NKoO50Q1onY