Let me share this again. If interested, please drop me a line by the end of February.

Every American needs to watch this:

Thanks for reposting this yesterday!! Let me share this once again! #historysky #earlymodern

Looking for a postdoc opportunity outside the UK/US? I'm happy to support up to two JSPS postdoc applicants for the coming round for two-year posts starting from Sep./Oct. 2026 onwards at UTokyo. The application to be submitted before the end of March. 1/n

#NACBS at Montreal has been wonderful. I presented here for the first time. Really useful feedback and stimulating panels across the entire program. The presidential address on J.S. Mill's 'family life' was a real treat. Looking forward to coming back to it again.

Today I worked with Adam Smith's copy of Hobbes's "Leviathan" (1651)

📣John Locke’s Forgotten Manuscript We are thrilled to announce that @davidrarmitage.bsky.social's article on his discovery of a new John Locke manuscript is out now👇 It sheds new light on Locke's practical involvement in political economy & his engagement with Ireland 📜🗃️

東京カレッジGHCでのChie Ikeyaさんのブックトーク、とても面白かった。　InterAsian intimacies across race, religion, and colonialism (2024)についてで、本の一部をご本人が読み上げて解説を加えるというスタイルだった。小説などではよくある手法だけれど、研究書の文脈ではとても新鮮に感じた。

Yesterday I participated at a workshop in a traditional teahouse in the Edo-era Hama-rikyū gardens with scholars from UTokyo & KyotoU. Brilliant range of talks - from 17thC naval contracting & confessional co-existence to a 20thC asylum in Peking & the 1999 introduction of the pill in Japan.

Today was my first day @utokyoofficial.bsky.social as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow. I am grateful to the @britishacademy.bsky.social for the nomination & to colleagues at the JSPS & UTokyo for supporting my move to Japan, especially @kyamamoto.bsky.social. I am very excited to begin my new work!

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...

Some news: in 2026 I'll take over as Editor of Renaissance Studies. It's a journal that means a great deal to me and which occupies a uniquely important position in the interdisciplinary study of the early modern world. With our new Associate Editor, Dr Elizabeth Petcu, I can't wait to get started!

Call! In September we will host "Providence, Propaganda, & Profit in the Early Modern English World" at UTokyo. Keynotes: @annlaurahughes.bsky.social, Shusaku Kanazawa, Keiko Kawawake, & Peter Lake. Deadline: 15 July! See politicaleconomyseminar.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/%... @kyamamoto.bsky.social

Thanks Eva! I'm currently working on a few things, including London soap boilers and washerwomen and the constitutional crisis, and also on state-interventions on essential work like cooking, washing, heating and food preservation.

This is really cool:

Image of library book display labeled: “It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.” Books on display: • On Tyranny • Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century • 1984 • A Handmaids Tale • Diary of Anne Frank • Parable of The Sower • Fahrenheit 451 • Animal Farm • Brave New World ~TAiLS of a Bookworm

今の世の中が生きづらい原因の一つは、前の世代の人たちが十分に苦情を訴えなかったこと。

OMG!! The ESTC is back!!!! datb.cerl.org/estc/

Hello colleagues! I'll be on sabbatical, and plan to be in London / Amsterdam between October 2025 and September 2026. Please let me know if there are places where I can share my ongoing research / advocacy work with you. I'd love to see if I can come and see my old friends and meet new ones.

If you're an archivist, librarian, local or family historian, researcher or student of British and/or British & colonial/imperial history (from the Roman era to the present) this introduction to BBIH is worth a look. Google searches are degrading and hallucinating with generative AI; BBIH is not.

Expert guidance on using, and getting the most from, the 'Bibliography of British and Irish History', from @ihr.bsky.social. Booking now available. #skystorians

Getting pretty tired of the “future historians will say X about this time.” I promise you, PRESENT historians are saying plenty, and you don’t seem to be listening!

来週の月曜日4時50分から本郷で研究発表をします。テーマは「No more rigid monopoly? チャールズ一世親政期ウェストミンスター石鹸会社再訪、1633-1637」 ハイブリッド開催です。 www.cirje.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/wor...

As of April 11, more than 840 international students and recent graduates at 160 universities and colleges around the US have had their visas revoked by the Trump administration, per @insidehighered.com's count: www.insidehighered.com/news/global/... This is not normal. Refuse to treat it as such.

リーディングクラブ、今年度一回目。

Superb analysis from Liz on state capture/kleptocracy in the US and globally. We need to talk about the related concepts of "state capture" (@lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social), "kleptocracy" (@tenaprelec.bsky.social) and "Poligarch" (@balint.bsky.social)! 1/2 www.foreignaffairs.com/world/econom...

10 years after the project finished we have finally found our longitude! All the c.18th seafaring and boardroom drama you could wish for in one expertly written volume! Only £32 from @cambridgeup.bsky.social

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

It's an apt week to remember the South Sea Bubble of 1720. And for anyone thinking of teaching comparative financial crises next year, a reminder of the fab resources and datasets on the Bubble compiled by the Yale School of Management: som.yale.edu/centers/inte...

論文　from:jun-naibzade.bsky.social と検索すればオスマン帝国史関連の最新論文情報が収集できます。 新刊　from:jun-naibzade.bsky.social だと新刊書の情報になります。fromを入れなくても「新刊　osmn」て洋書が、「新刊 osmn」でトルコ語の本が検索できます。 いずれも私の勝手な基準で選んでますが、できるだけ網羅的になるようにしています。

Hello colleagues! I want your recommendations: Do you know any great articles exploring the ethics and the politics of historical research (or any other context-driven disciplines) in the age of Chat GPT and other LLMs? I'd like to assign some reading to graduate students. Thanks for suggestions!

Hello - good evening new followers! Let me repost this self-introduction in case it has escaped your attention. :)))

PhD Studentship available! @ihr.bsky.social and Historic Royal Palaces AHRC CDP project on the Tower of London and Londoners, late medieval and Tudor. Focus on looking at everyday people supplying the Tower, especially migrants, also global commodities. Full fees + stipend - UK or international

I could not be prouder of this Georgetown University Law Center student group. They were invited to an exclusive recruiting event with Skadden and withdrew because of Skadden’s preemptive capitulation to the Trump regime. Alanna, Caleb, and Carly were all students of mine.

The forthcoming issue of the BJHS on science diplomacy in Asia looks good. Some CHSTM involvement.

Trump’s Justice Department is now arguing that the president can deport people to a prison in El Salvador without giving them a chance to object or prove their innocence… AND that the “mandate of the electorate” shields the operation from judicial scrutiny. Dictator shit. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The DARVO Presidency.

We are all vulnerable when anyone in our community / vicinity is vulnerable! PS I’m also concerned about potential ICE impersonators. If ICE won’t show ID or give names and uses unmarked vehicles, who is to say kidnappers won’t do the same.

Interessantes Forschungsthema aus dem Bereich der "Frauengeschichte" - es geht um Londoner Waschfrauen und die Qualität der Seife.

Hello! This is 'Material Identities, Social Bodies', a Leverhulme Trust-funded research project at the University of Birmingham. Led by @kharveyhistory.bsky.social and supported by @helenesfandiary.bsky.social, it explores embodiment & social identity in C18th British letters socialbodies.bham.ac.uk

Clear and thoughtful, as always. @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social on Trump's attacks on academic freedom and what to do.

アメリカで開催される学会に出席するために渡米したフランス人科学者が、チャットのメッセージでトランプ政権の政策を批判してるのが入国管理官の目にとまり入国拒否された、という、もう完全にイっちゃってる出来事が既に起きているンですよ。

I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Earlier today, the president attempted to illegally fire me. This is corruption, plain and simple. I will see the president in court. My full statement:

Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.

Tokyo Tower right now.

If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.

「女性トラブル」から「中居さんトラブル」に変わっていた。 「女性トラブル」はおかしいと言い続けた意味があったように思う。 実際、トラブル起こしたのは中居さんなわけだしね。

Hello new followers!! I'm a historian interested in market and morality, improvement and state-formation, and more recently gender and feminism in England before its industrial take-off, c. 1550-1720. My first book was about what we might call the taming of capitalism before its triumph.

Response from student leaders at @georgetownlaw.bsky.social: “While we did not expect to be fighting for our basic First Amendment rights, we are prepared to do so—we will not waver, cower, nor hesitate.”