My current role ends in October: if anyone needs a temporary tutor in early modern history or as a freelance researcher please do drop me a line! I have over 10 years experience in teaching and a wide practical knowledge of working in archives in the UK and abroad.

My new article on pauper apprenticeship is online and open access! Bound to the soil (Part I): the origins of compulsory apprenticeship schemes in South-West rural England c.1670–1750 doi.org/10.1017/S026...

How can we better approach the histories of Indigenous peoples? Mary Katherine Newman introduces a new History Workshop series which will introduce a range of scholars, educators, and activists and the ways in which they examine Indigenous histories. www.historyworkshop....

Great to see that Jake Subryan Richards' book, The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade (Yale, London) will be out in the autumn. Publication date 28 October 2025.

418 years ago today, Jamestown, Virginia—the first permanent English settlement in North America—was established. You can learn more about this event's importance to English society and early American history in @drmishaewen.bsky.social's book THE VIRGINIA VENTURE: bit.ly/4delPpE

And everyone should go and read it! www.pennpress.org/978151282299...

On the anniversary of the colonisation of Jamestown, @historytoday.com have made my article on the “Jamestown Brides” freely available: www.historytoday.com/archive/feat... #onthisday #Jamestown #history #Virginia #women

14 May 1607: English colonists arrive at Jamestown. In my book The Virginia Venture @pennpress.bsky.social I explored the social history of this colonial project, from an English/transatlantic perspective involving women, the poor, children, institutions #onthisday #Jamestown #Virginia #history

If you're working in museum collections, digital storytelling, or on projects exploring migration history, join the Migration Network on 20 May 2025, 10:00-12:30 for this online event.

I haven’t been able to get into Bluesky yet, maybe still a bit traumatised from X… In the meantime, posting slightly more interesting stuff about my research over on Insta @mishaewen12 ✨

So thrilled that my piece on Barbary Newton, a seventeenth-century enslaving woman is out in the world - part of a WMQ article forum, “Absentee Women Enslavers: Two Case Studies” - paired with Jared Ross Hardesty’s research on the Mackintosh sisters w/ reflections from Zacek, Maskiell & Amussen ✨

*VACANCY* PhD in the study of religion and slavery in the context of Dutch colonialism and its afterlives at KITLV. Deadline: 16 May 2025 👇 vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Leiden-P...

Attention #skystorians! Do you work on public history, memory or Tudor history (broadly understood)? @estelleprnq.bsky.social and I are launching a new project on the Break with Rome and want to hear from you 1/2

Can anyone think of any instances when a mother might be deemed 'unnatural' in the period c.1700-1900? I've got the more obvious things like infanticide, but I'm looking to branch out into other subversive female behaviours.

From the creation of lectureships to the closure of postgrad programmes, the last five years represent a tumultuous period within the study of #BlackBritishHistory Join us for a roundtable: Black British History in 2025 🗓️ 6th March ⏰ 17:30 📍 IHR Wolfson Room NB01 www.history.ac.uk/events/black...

A few more days to get abstracts in for this workshop in June, with keynotes from Susan Amussen & Jenny Shaw! www.mmor.co.uk/news/cfp-car...

Experience the future of the Portico! We’ve got a number of experimental events to support our Reunited project, a £9 million transformation to make the Library more accessible and sustainable. Check out this piece by @mcrwire.bsky.social & join us on this exciting journey! bit.ly/4kfH3GR

New episode! This week on BBC You’re Dead To Me we turn our hands to Arctic Exploration and go in search of the deadly Northwest Passage With expert historian @hpsvanessa.bsky.social and comedian @stuartgoldsmith.bsky.social Listen now on BBC SOUNDS www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

ICYMI - I’m running a new online course in April exploring the connected histories of Pendle and Salem witch trials. If that’s your kind of thing, do consider signing up! Details below ⬇️

This is cool! A state school has defeated Eton to reach the finals of the International History Bowl & Bee in Vienna. They’re former winners, and are sending two young teams to compete again They need help with travel costs, can you help these young historians? www.gofundme.com/f/send-the-f...

'Multiple Dutch universities have announced reorganisations that are likely to involve layoffs, in the wake of drastic government budget cuts that will amount to about €500 million (£414 million) a year across higher education and research.' 1/2

📢NEW MANY-HEADED MONSTER SERIES📢 Today I introduce 'Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England', a series that celebrates the relaunch of the brilliant 'British Printed Images to 1700' database and showcases historians' use of printed images. 🗃️ #Skystorians manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, Vast Early America. Excited to be here.

📢WILLS PROJECT PROGRESS 📢 📜353,402 lines transcribed 🙋2,582 volunteers ⌛7,816 hours 23 minutes of work We're staggered by the engagement with our wills. Thank you to every single person who has transcribed a line for us! 👏🙏🙌 #EarlyModern 🗃️ @leverhulme.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

Can't get enough MMoR & @kingshistory.bsky.social conferences?? We're thrilled to be associated with "Caribbean Connections", organised by Michael Bennett and @drmishaewen.bsky.social and taking place 25-26 June at King's. See the CfP here.... #EarlyModern 🗃️

@emleake.bsky.social will be delivering a lecture 6th March titled Decolonization's Discontents, hosted jointly by @rshc.bsky.social , @qmul.ac.uk 's History and IHSS . It will be great, event (and wine reception) free, but do register here: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

Don't forget to submit your abstract in for our June conference, 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' - speaker expenses will be covered and we have two amazing keynotes in Marcy Norton & Sara Miglietti!

12 days until the deadline for our 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' conference so still plenty of time to put something together!

I got to be on my favourite podcast, You’re Dead to Me, and it’s out today! It was such a treat to talk to @gregjenner.bsky.social and Cariad Lloyd about the Arts and Crafts movement. Listen to it here or check it out on @BBCRadio4 tomorrow morning at 10am: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Looks like a great event in Edinburgh in March: ‘Collecting Environmental Change’ 🗃️

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...

Currently reading Dr Tara Inniss's post on this bsky.app/profile/drmi... which is here: historyforumcavehillcampus.blogspot.com/2025/01/when...

Comparisons between paper and digitised wills (central to this week's MoJ statement) are also the subject of a recent 'Transactions of the RHS' article. 'Material and Digital Archives: the Case of Wills' considers how format informs use and interpretation, for pre-1858 documents bit.ly/3DMb6W7

⬇️ Sign the petition, and also read the essay in the thread for context. historyforumcavehillcampus.blogspot.com/2025/01/when...

More context here: historyforumcavehillcampus.blogspot.com/2025/01/when...

I will post about this properly tomorrow, including sharing a piece written by Dr Tara Inniss at UWI, but if you care about Caribbean history & heritage please read, sign & share.

We're recruiting! Join History at the University of Glasgow (the best History dept in Scotland and one of the best in the UK) as a lecturer (permanent post, research and teaching) in Asian history 1500-2000. Please share with suitable candidates. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

#HistoryLab+, @ihr.bsky.social's network for #ECRs, is recruiting! Calling #Skystorians from any Humanities discipline keen to support their peers & develop their own skills & professional connections ...&, of course, to join a committee of AMAZING people! 👉🧵& tinyurl.com/53twjemw for details!

Hi #VastEarlyAmerica historians! Does anyone know who first invented the ticket system to control the movement of enslaved people? Was it the Spanish or the Portuguese? If so, where and when? This could be a good topic to explore the circulation of policing techniques between empires.

We invite submissions for the Society's 2025 First Book and Early Career Article prizes, to recognise historical scholarship, by early career historians, published in 2024. Closing date 31 January. Details of author eligibility, and how to submit your first book or an article: bit.ly/4i9180F

“Rather than mourn the past through land acknowledgments, institutions should expand these more practical efforts and work with modern Native nations as true partners.” Impt though headline doesn’t do justice to @kathleenduval.bsky.social incisive & sensitive piece! 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/o...

New Article! Helen Gittos @helengittos.bsky.social on 'Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Happy New Year! ✨ Have an article that you’re thinking of submitting this year? As the newest editor of the @enghistrev.bsky.social, I’d love to read your submissions. We publish global histories from c. 400 CE to the present day & we especially encourage submissions from underrepresented groups.

Hey historians! Any recommendations for readings on passes being issued to foreign sailors by English governors in the 17th century Caribbean? Not privateering licenses but passes to allow a foreign (in this case Spanish) sailor to leave an island (in this case Nevis). Please and thank you! 🗃️

What if we rethink design as a crucial part of medicine and care? 🏥 Dr @victoriabates.bsky.social considers how good design can make a difference to our healthcare spaces in her @ukri.org project Watch the full video to find out more 👉 bit.ly/40XWMU1 @uobrishistory.bsky.social

Today!!! Join us for this sure-to-be incendiary seminar by @erinmaglaque.bsky.social with a response by John Henderson - online or in person. You can email us for a link if you haven't signed up!

I'm currently working on a project about early modern miscarriage. Here is one of my latest articles for anyone who is interested. Freely available open access: academic.oup.com/histres/arti...

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC), part of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, offers a variety of residential research fellowships. #skystorians 🗃️ macmillan.yale.edu/glc/fellowsh...