1/n Belatedly (for which I blame all the things this semester), I am celebrating Karin Wulf's wonderful, important, and gorgeous new book. So long in the making and so excellent. Order it and read it now if you haven't yet! 😍

if you would like to read about early modern hammocks, it's publication day for the article the brilliant @marcynorton.bsky.social and I wrote about them! (open access) link.springer.com/article/10.1...

1/2 At the airport at 3:45 for a 6 am flight (thank you gov shutdown!) but - nevertheless - I'm looking forward to my first ever visit to Princeton for a talk to the History Department today - about enslaved apprentices among other things in Nantes.

This is so interesting to me for line of work reasons, but I have also walked around many fields around there so who knows how close I might have been! I hope they raise the money. www.britishmuseum.org/tudor-heart-...

Announcing a brand new series launching this #Halloween 👻 Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place. Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen

Super new series at @manchesterup.bsky.social - perfectly launched today!

You can get my book for 50% off!

Please help SAVE TAYLORS BUTTONS, Maureen Rose's legendary shop in Cleveland St. They will shut in November forever unless they can pay their rent arrears from the Covid lockdowns: crowdfunder.co.uk/p/taylorsbut...

A 3D ship model of the Bremen ship CONCORDIA – captured 1758 – is currently in development in close cooperation with Oliver Urrea from Flinders University. The model is based on historical documents from the @prizepapers.bsky.social as well as historical ship models. #earlymodern #maritimehistory 🗃️

Francisco Ortiz, originally from Santoña, was appointed as shipmaster of the Fort de Nantes by the Spanish charterer, Francisco Sánchez de Madrid. His personal archive, comprising more than 500 documents, reveals many details about his personal life and his social relationships.

The issue at stake in 1686 was whether the king was bound by the law. How are we back here again?

Fantastic new work by @drbernard.bsky.social - on the sexual policing side hustles of a humanist in 17th-c higher education, and its relationship to absolutism and much else.

Oriane Guiziou-Lamour’s latest piece, “Sex Under the Guillotine”, dives into the intimate lives of women imprisoned during the French Revolution. Through powerful archival insights, she reveals how sexuality, punishment, and power collided behind prison walls. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/09/08/s...

Nothing makes the morning better than page proofs! @cindyermus.bsky.social @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social

If you are Academia [edu] platform, now might be a good time to delete your account

One feature of the combo vilification/ obsession w higher ed is that a bunch of people experience college as young adults. Maybe again as parents. They don’t know higher ed as a complex and diverse sector, mostly don’t think of the research. It’s this frozen intensely social / some learning moment.

The stunning Georgian interior of St Deiniol’s, Worthenbury has a complete set of original 18th-century box pews, an elegant triple-decker pulpit, and a grand west gallery. 1/7

More of this please.

Proofs are here!! 🖋️📚 @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social

RIP Margaret Rossiter, a true pionner in women's history, and an important thread from @histoftech.bsky.social

Delighted to see Sex in an Old Regime City reviewed here very generously with John Christopoulos on Abortion in EM Italy and Karen Harvey on the Imposteress Rabbit Breeder (Mary Toft - one of my favorites) by @ninakushner.bsky.social

Read Karen Graubert's fabulous article: ""Dialogic Depositions: Finding Black Women’s Presence in Spanish Colonial Legal Records" in this new issue! @kbgraubart.bsky.social

Team @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social - we are in the Guardian! @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social @uoe-llc.bsky.social

🥳 Big news! We’re excited to welcome Diana Heredia‑López & Alina Scott as our 2025–26 Postdoctoral Research Fellows. 🖋️ From cochineal dye to Wampanoag petitions, their work is bold, original & deeply rooted in community. 🔗 Meet them here: bit.ly/4lBH0FB @uthistory.bsky.social

We are so excited to announce the winners of NC Prize for Best Journal Article 🎉 And the winners are… Cathy McClive and Lisa Smith for their article "Women at the Centre: Medical Entrepreneurialism and 'La Grande Médecine' in Eighteenth-Century Lyon." academic.oup.com/fh/article/3...

Honorable mention goes to… Elise Mitchell for her article "The 'Practitioner of Physick and Surgery' and the Enslaved 'Doctor': Medicine, Slavery, Race, and Patriarchy in the Eighteenth-Century Jamaica." jiss.aberdeenunipress.org/article/id/3...

The whole issue is available here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55109

The introduction to the HLQ special issue on exhibitions in London is available for free download until Aug. 5. muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

1/2 A brief celebration with Miranda Spieler of her amazing new book, Slaves in Paris - run to order it now if you haven't yet. It's a true banger and a major field changer. I did not blurb it (see the lovely blurbs) but I endorse it so enthusiastically! Many congratulations to Miranda

Life in the #archives. A poisoning case two days in a row! A 15 hour day driving over 300 miles round trip to Quimper for the Archives Départementales du Finisterre. Took 325 photos (!). Followed by a big bowl of fantastic moules and a wonderful late afternoon swimming and sunning ❤️

1/2 Two nuns, a priest and a poisoning on 1781. The Ursulines you never knew ... Could be a movie! But really some very interesting and rare material - and so much of it - about the inner workings of a convent (so much loss of convent records due to the events of the Revolution of course).

Delighted to be in Geneva (first time!) for a fascinating workshop organized by Loraine Chappuis & Stéphanie Sourbrier at the University of Geneva. I'd never thought of my current project in terms of this historiography so I appreciate their lovely invitation & I'm looking forward to learning a lot!

Published an English-language book on French history this year? The AHA's Russell Major Book Prize is accepting submissions til May 15. 🗃️ More info here: www.historians.org/award-grant/...

Wow, this is the condom I wrote up in a blog post a few years ago having come across mention in sale catalogue a former colleague had passed on to me. Glad to see it has found a home where it can be appreciated and viewed by the public. lesleyahall.blogspot.com/2022/07/coll...

When I think they must be joking, but it turns out they are not .... www.alpsp.org/news-publica...

I endorse this challenge!

Always pleased to be able to add to my stock of historically accurate anti-immigrant slurs! Newest additions: 'false Lombard’, ‘strong French whoreson’, and 'rank Scot'. 🗃️ New #OpenAccess article by Bart Lambert and Josh Ravenhill: doi.org/10.25162/vsw...

📢 Calling all authors writing about Black Women's History 📢 Applications are now open for our Series Incubator! Finalists will have the opportunity to receive feedback on their WIP from series editors & other interlocutors in their field. Learn more and apply 👇 uncpress.org/black-womens...

Superbly written article about reconciling the digitization of sources with their materiality with a focus to "the many ways in which the creation of sources shape their potential use." By @bhamhistory.bsky.social and @emilymayvine.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

1/ Cool day in the archives today - 😍❤️ The Prize Papers! Mid-18th century material culture gone wild:-) A canvas bag - and the papers that were in it!

I'm honored to at the University of Glasgow next Wednesday for the Center for Gender History's annual Global Gender History public lecture to talk about the 18th-century migration stories of "Charlotte from the nation of Senegal" and other enslaved and free black women from West Africa to Nantes.

📣 Come join us! 📣 A two-year postdoc in Enlightenment Studies @voltaire.ox.ac.uk and Oxford's lively community of researchers working on the long 18thC @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social, Modern Languages, and beyond. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Applications welcome by 30 May.

A big must read coming so soon from @kawulf.bsky.social!

Launch day for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! So relieved to make it this far. 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

FINAL PROJECT CONFERENCE! Register to attend Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, bringing together longstanding project collaborators and exciting, new interlocutors. Spaces are *extremely* limited, so do sign up... see the programme at www.mmor.co.uk/events/confe... #EarlyModern 🗃️

I am delighted and honored to be celebrating Chloe Ireton's wonderful new book next month!

I am delighted and honored to be celebrating Chloe Ireton's wonderful new book next month!

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...

Delighted to see this excellent new book from Ben Jackson out this week from the Gender in History series at @manchesterup.bsky.social. Historians of the 18thc, Britain, or masclinity or material culture, here's one for you!

I am overjoyed amidst so much else to receive Mary Fissell's wonderful new book about the long history of abortions. It's uplifting in an important way! It's super accessible and would work well for students or any interested adult. You can buy it here: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/mary-...