Letters of marque! How delightfully early modern.

C 132/1/1 is a Chancery Inquisition Post Mortem for Richard Noel from 1236, making it The First Noel on The National Archives' online catalogue... discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C8...

‘so what illuminations are you going to put on this manuscript?’ ‘bear with me’ TNA, E 36/274

Over 20,000 item descriptions have been added to REQ 2 (Court of Requests proceedings) since March 2024. An absolute treasure trove for Tudor historians. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C...

Come and work with me! The National Archives are looking for an Early Modern Parliamentary Records Specialist. More details available via the link. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

Winner of the RHS First Book Prize (2025): 'Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547', by Laura Flannigan (Cambridge University Press, 2024) bit.ly/4nwi4kj 1/2 #Skystorians

Looks like this would be the mastodon (Mammut americanum) found at Big Bone Lick in 1755. (I don’t have institutional access to read the whole chapter but there ya go) www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt...

The National Archives is full of old fossils. No, not the staff/visitors - I mean this report of mastodon remains found along the Ohio River, included as a brief annotation in this map of lands ceded in 1768 Fort Stanwix treaty. Either that or a REALLY big bison. #MastodonPosting CO 700/Virginia18

In Which the Aladdin's Cave of HCA Series Papers Lures @thiagokrause.bsky.social 🤣 @mooregraham.bsky.social @prizepapers.bsky.social I look forward to your report!

‼️🐠 Our short “History Matters” piece — “Colonialism, Governance, and Fisheries: Perspectives from Lake Malawi” just published OA in The Journal of African History! doi.org/10.1017/S002... A lengthier piece expanding on fisheries surveys & colonial development in L. Malawi coming soon in Isis… 🐠‼️

📣 Amazing PhD opportunity with Dr Hannah Young at the University of Greenwich: ‘De-colonising Maritime Greenwich: Confronting histories and legacies of empire, c. 1694-2025.’ Fully-funded!! Spread the word to prospective applicants! #PhD #postgraduate www.gre.ac.uk/__data/asset...

Francis Drake fans (?) rejoice, because this book is for you! New review of M-C Velázquez’s ‘Cultural Representations of Piracy’ (2023) in IJMH. The book does great stuff with both English and Spanish sources, arguing that cultural ideas of piracy stabilised by the end of the 16th-C.

New MA Scholarship in Maritime History @ueahistory.bsky.social starting in 2025, funded by the generosity of @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social alumni Dominic Christian. ⚓⚓⚓ For details and eligibility see: lnkd.in/dVgNZqYX Apply by 2/5/2025.

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP): The Hidden Gender of Collections: Women and the Curation of Scientific Heritage phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/2233... #skystorians 🗃️

enjoying this devious polar bear today, in John Seller’s Atlas Maritimus (1698) [TNA, FO 925/4111]

This looks to be a fantastic #CoastalHistory talk for anyone near London!

Catalogue descriptions for the indictments, etc, in KB 9 have had an upgrade. We've tidied up dates and descriptions, which has hopefully made everything a bit clearer. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C...

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!

A catalogue search tip for #InternationalWomensDay, add "SFP" to your Discovery search to find Single Female Plaintiffs in pre-modern court records. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_q...

this pigeon is also going to The National Archives today

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

Many thanks Claire and Rohan - it was a true pleasure to have the opportunity to discuss the work with you both! (And to reiterate my own thanks to Richard and @thegozfather.bsky.social, as well as all other supervisors, friends, & faculty, for their support!)

This week! Come hear me chat about d'Eon's many interactions with the English Law Courts this Friday 14 February.

Very kind words - thank you, Dave!

Chevaliere d’Eon or Chevalier d’Eon? An #18thcentury legal dispute between two French spies unravelled into a public battle about identity. 🔓 𝗗𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗚𝗼𝘀𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴’𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝟳 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 buff.ly/3ZJSeyg

Together with Sarah Lentz from the @unibremen.bsky.social, I am organising an exciting workshop at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg from 7 to 9 July on Transient Communities and Spaces of Mobility, 1500-1900. The CfP for the event is now open. www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve... #earlymodern #history 🗃️

Hey, you! Tired of trekking all the way to the mill? Introducing ‘Mill in a Boat’ - the mill that comes to you! Mill in a Boat’s patented floating technology means you can #grind whatever the water level. Mill in a Boat: for bakers who rise to the occasion! MPI 1/386

* NEW PUBLICATION * The official publication date is January 6, however, the Open Access version is already available. library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... @amsterdamupress.bsky.social @jessicadenoudsten.bsky.social @camilladekoning.bsky.social @fatahblack.bsky.social @ilsejosepha.bsky.social

When I teach sailing, the kids always tell me the boats I draw on the whiteboard ‘don’t look like boats’ - so it’s nice to know that Admiralty officers in 1779 shared my artistic vision. This map shows a proposed fleet formation for defending the entrance to New York at Sandy Hook. [MPI 1/100]

superannuated forgot to tag @mooregraham.bsky.social who published a splendid blog on the HCA papers for @globalmarhist.bsky.social @lhaasis.bsky.social to which one can find a link here 🙃

Many thanks to @globalmarhist.bsky.social and to @canadianerrant.bsky.social for patience and attention to this endeavo(u)r: includes intro to new work on Guinea Co (1649 failure at Santa Cruz/St Croix @erikagaffney.bsky.social )

Enjoying these alligators today, adorning maps of colonial America - with a Bonus Beaver [TNA, CO 700/AmericaNorthAndSouth35, 42]

This is the good stuff. www.newberry.org/calendar/eme...

(reposting w/ slight CFP change!) Just Announced! The next #ConnectedPast in 2025 will take place in Coimbra Portugal! You have until March 15 to submit your abstracts! Share widely amongst your networks! @fionacoward.bsky.social #networks #archaeology more details: www.connectedpast.net

Call for Papers: Port Cities and Maritime Cultures International Conference, 10-11 June 2025, Portsmouth, UK. www.port.ac.uk/news-events-...

SlaveVoyages Postdoctoral Fellowship 2024-2026 Postdoctoral Fellow at University of California, Merced #skyststorians 🗃️ www.slavevoyages.org/blog/slavevo...

It's happening: my ERC Consolidator project 🪶#FEATHERS🪶is organising a 3-day international conference on early modern scribal culture & manuscript production at @unileiden.bsky.social on 7-9 May 2025. See Call for Papers (deadline for abstracts 20 Dec): student.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Piracy: treason, or simple robbery? Let’s discuss - tomorrow (19 Nov) at 17.30 GMT, for Bristol’s Law and History Network. I suggest that, in the seventeenth century, newly ‘treasonous’ definitions of piracy arose to consider maritime depredation in an early colonial context. Sign up at the link!

Oh fine: this is absolutely the most fun (and, I think, interesting) thing I've ever written, and I'm not sure it got read as widely as I'd have loved it to. The Italian London of John North — an Englishman"s Italian-language diary of life in Elizabethan London. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This year’s Past & Present supplement “Ordering the Oceans, Ordering the World” has been published. Edited by Renaud Morieux (Pembroke, University of Cambridge) and Jepe Mulich (City, University of London). Read the full volume here: academic.oup.com/past/issue/2... Or scroll down the thread👇

Pleased to report that I had a Very Good First Week in my new job as an 18th Century Researcher at TNA. Thanks to the TNA Team for making me feel welcome! Interesting 1776-related things are in the works - watch this space…

Not sure how this works, but if you want to be added, let me know (lots of people have different usernames over here and it's confusing me 😂) go.bsky.app/4R4Awhv

Favourite exchange thus far from Kew Gardens' record books. In August 1796, Kew sent a small shipment of decorative plants to George Spencer-Churchill in Berkshire. Later notation added, in an indignant (and rare) aside: 'but Lord Blandford never added any Plant to the Royal Collection!'

Spent today diving into Trinity House records at the London Met Archives. Historical highlights include lists of seafarers’ wages, like this one from a 1608 voyage to the Americas. [LMA, CLC/526/30045/1]

Do you like sheep? Do you like finding them in unusual places (like the Eiffel tower)? Are you interested in a sheepdog called Stalin? All in my new @frenchhistory.bsky.social article on sheep as protest objects & animal agents in the Larzac struggle doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...