Please consider submitting something! The next Forum theme is Early Modern Women and Generations (full cfp in the quoted post). Our Forum is a great home for shorter pieces. Submissions are peer-reviewed and accepted manuscripts will appear in the spring 2027 issue. #earlymodern

Absolutely delighted to come to home to find @sarahabendall.bsky.social's wonderful, important (and gorgeous inside and out!) new book. It will be released next month but see more about it and pre-orders below: sarahabendall.com/2026/06/14/t...

Thank you for the field inspiration, CG! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/b...

GRWM, 17th-c make up and empire version!🤣 Such a clever and fascinating piece - so teachable! [From the ongoing short treats from Chris and @brettrushforth.bsky.social's endlessl interesting new book] frenchatlantic.substack.com/p/get-ready-...

Today's the anniversary of the Nazis executing Marc Bloch. Or, someone who could sit with uncertainty, champion inquiry & trying to understand, and recognise plurality & perplexity. And, in that knowledge, made the choice not to remain passive. Bloch, Historian’s Craft (MUP, 1992), pp. 64, 119, 160.

The second is entitled "Execution and Martyrdom in the Early Modern World": www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... The idea behind these four sessions would be to explore what historians of religion and crime can learn from each other. The deadline is 24 July. Please get in touch! 😊

As the @rsaorg.bsky.social 's Religion discipline rep, I'm excited to share two #earlymodern #CfP for #RenSA27. The first, coorganised with Amanda Scott, is entitled "Banishment and Exile in the Early Modern World": www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

The earliest days of French colonization from @brettrushforth.bsky.social (and Chris Hodson) and their important new book: substack.com/@frenchatlan...

I’m rarely at a loss for words but today I don’t have many for the enormity and the complexity of Gordon Wood’s legacy - I was inspired by his work even as I agreed with about 1/2 and was often irritated by the rest. RIP. A real one. www.brown.edu/news/2026-06...

An absolutely excellent piece on the long life (and now death in some but not other ways) of the Code Noir from @brettrushforth.bsky.social - follow this Substack too which is tied to Brett and @Chris Hudson's important new book, Beyond the Ocean: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

I have to say the spring cygnets are absolutely one of my favorite parts of working at Kew! [Also looking a ship's papers I have looked at TWICE before - this is why these projects take so long .....]

On 11 June 2026, I'm running an online intro to early modern legal records, part of The National Archives' Practical Archival Skills Training #TNAPAST workshops. More details can be found via the link. For accompanying on-site workshops, see the below thread www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-early...

1/2 Help! Do I know anyone who's worked in the Y series on the commissaires' records who could give me some guidance about finding one in 1781? I have the name of the commissaire (Gauthier) and the neighborhood (Montmartre). www.quotidien-genealogie.fr/paris-les-mi...

Today! I am so delighted to be celebrating and discussing Mel's new book.

1/ Such an interesting and for me very rare foray into the 19th century today at an event to mark the erection of a memorial stone for Jeanne Deroin, the great feminist-socialist who fled to West London to avoid prosecution in France, and was buried in an unmarked grave in Margravine cemetery.

Anyone going to be at Kew in the next month? I'd love to see you if so. Be in touch! Yes I'm still reading the Prize Papers - until the end of time apparently:-)

THIS TERM's PROGRAMME! Join us for 2 exciting events with Mélanie Lamotte, @lrhodges.bsky.social, @juliehardwick.bsky.social, and @roperlou.bsky.social Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social Everybody welcome, in person or online--register for the zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern

UPDATE: about 20 minutes after, the curator came to tell me he had asked the staff to bring the boxes out for me. YEAH!

When you have been saving something in the archives for an exciting treat, but when you put the order in it says "not available until .... a date six hundred years ahead." I thought it must be an error but then a curator tells you it's because they are digitized -

1/2 Well hello old friend 😍 I like this project very much - but even though it’s my third summer in a row back here after 25+ years in Lyon, it turns out I autopiloted to picking up my Lyon cards before I left home 🤣.

Huge thanks to @lynnprobbins.bsky.social for the great conversation and the whole REVOLUTIONS IN RETROSPECT team for putting the final product together. It was such fun! 🗃️ cc. @sonyabonczek.bsky.social; @uncpress.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPvS...

Dream positions: 3 (!!) PhD placements at the Prize Papers with emphasis on finding students with the following language skills: French, Spanish, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages. (Of course, I emphasize the Dutch language!) www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...

also in the 17C

My first ever trip to western North Carolina! A gorgeous morning at Wake Forest University where I'm enjoying delightful hospitality and the great faculty here. I'll be floating a new part of my book project at a seminar with them and a lecture later. Lucky to call this my work category.

@profchrisadams.bsky.social and I remember two remarkable scholars, Elborg Forster and Patricia Ranum, "faculty wives" who never held formal positions but their generative scholarship made contributions to the field of French history. www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/in-memoriam

So delighted to see our professional society recognizing this important book!

The March issue of Slavery & Abolition contains a Forum on "Human Commodification". The Guest Editors are Tawny Paul, Andrew Apter, and Craig Koslofsky. It is available at: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/c...

Keen to listen! And if this tastes of more: come and listen to a conversation about it @ihreurope1500.bsky.social & the French Seminar @ihr.bsky.social with Mélanie Lamotte, @juliehardwick.bsky.social, and @lrhodges.bsky.social. Bound to be fascinating! 18 May, 17:30 (UK Time), in person & online

One of the toughest obstacles to this volume was selecting which pieces from @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social to include. There are so many great essays. The volume is meant to be read alongside the website! www.upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...

1/n Absolutely my honor & please to be part of this forum about Miranda Spieler's amazing new book, Slaves in Paris - an instant classic. Such an important intervention in French & European history as well as the history of Black Europe & Atlantic history. h-france.net/h-france-for...

Check Toby Green's beautiful essay on @aeon.co, edited by dear Sam Haselby, essay draws on Toby's new magnificent book The Heretic of Cacheu. For reading and listening, and to be shared widely in these difficult times we live in #slaveryarchive #Africanhistory #Africa aeon.co/essays/lesso...

This article is the best I have read so far this year and I think it will keep that award until the end of the year. It is a hard, painful read, but so well described and flipping the historiographical table. It keeps me thinking about what a sustained comparison with Protestant regions would bring.

It was a pleasure to participate in this roundtable about a remarkable book. We find things to critique because that's the exercise, but what an achievement by the editors and all 260+ contributors.

Brilliant round table online ahead of print from @frenchhistory.bsky.social on “Colonisations: notre histoire”, a history in reverse of France and empire, written by 268 contributors (!!!) doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... 🗃️

1/ A shout out to seriously the most stunning article I have read perhaps ever - Erin Maglaque's in the December @Journalofmoder. I was one of the readers for this piece, and I even wrote in my report that it was such an intense read that I had to go for a walk afterwards to calm down.

Not working again today - just an "Error code 500 request failed" message.

I am so looking forward to discussing Mel's much awaited book with @lrhodges.bsky.social in May - and celebrating it there with Mel and any of you who would like to come along. So many thanks to @onslies.bsky.social for organizing this.

Fascinating!

Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians

I couldn't be happier, or more honored, that the first issue of the redesigned and reimagined HLQ will feature the work of the Somali American artist Ebony Iman Dallas. Like much of her work, 𝘉𝘓𝘈𝘊𝘒𝘰𝘶𝘵: 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 puts past and present in vital conversation. #earlymodern #skystorians

Look out for @sarahabendall.bsky.social's fascinating new book - drawing on super archival research and at the nexus of labor history, women's history, fashion history, and yes royal women

"The Baltic world and Nordic region have never figured prominently in the historiography of medieval & early modern Europe." My 1 semester at Uppsala was a reality check about the scale of this marginalization! This book by @adamgeorgie.bsky.social looks like a welcome part of the correction.

Who doesn't love a good academic press sale!

I am so delighted to see @charmianmansell.bsky.social's excellent book be recognized with two big book prized this autumn. A must read for early modernists in so many fields.

Archives among other things this week. Always my favorite work days! Are any of you here at Kew this week? #PrizePapers

Happy 10th birthday to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. Kudos to everyone who has worked on it and here's to the next decade!

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! 😍

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.