Looking forward to the conference “DEL CORSO Y LOS CORSARIOS” at Universidad CEU San Pablo in Madrid this week, organised by Cátedra Internacional CEU Elcano. I’ll be speaking about the Prize Papers and Global Maritime History. #earlymodern #maritimehistory #history @prizepapers.bsky.social #dsm

Finally, we can share the exciting news: We partnered up with the Naval Documents of the American Revolution (NDAR) project! The NDAR is located at the Center of Digital Editing at the University of Virginia. We are thrilled about this new collaboration and look forward to working with the NDAR!

Inspiring days at the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg: Our international workshop on early modern mobilities brought together global scholars for vibrant talks, lively debates, and new collaborations. Thanks to all who made it a success! #EarlyModern #History #Mobility #MaritimeHistory 🗃️

In 1758, during the Seven Years' War, English privateers captured the Bremen merchant ship Concordia. The subsequent legal battle preserved something remarkable: the ship's complete archive. ⛵️ 1/6

What an absolute treat to see documents from the @prizepapers.bsky.social today, it's just such an immense and exciting collection

A new website w/database on the 1680s Scottish migration to East New Jersey is 'live' #earlymodern #VastEarlyAmerica eastjerseybound.scot

Together with researchers and records specialists of the National Archives and @prizepapers.bsky.social, we facilitated a workshop where we discussed digitisation processes and potentials of digital humanities to engage with the printed appeal papers in record series HCA 45 and PCAP 6.

What an impressive project and a fascinating way to bring early modern maritime history to life!

Concluding a rewarding visit to the @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy with a workshop about the Printed Appeal Papers and fascinating insights into the workflow of our record specialists, conservators, and imaging operators!

At the FOSSGIS Conference in Münster Stefan Fuest and Maximilian Herbers presented various methods for visualising ship routes with uncertain data. Video of the presentation: media.ccc.de/v/fossgis202... #fossgis2025 #DiViAS #AI

Deadline Extension! CEMS Colloquium on Early Modern War Narratives. Send us your abstracts by this Friday (18th)! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen... @emilyrowe1.bsky.social @hsmurphy.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social

PAST Workshop on English High Court of Admiralty Records, 19 June 2025 at the UK National Archives – organised by our very own Dr Oliver Finnegan! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-recor... Looking for more information about the workshop? See the description in the comments below.

Our dear cooperation partners Jana Dambrogio & Daniel Starza Smith have published their opus magnum on letterlocking: 'Letterlocking. The Hidden History of the Letter' by Jana Dambrogio & Daniel Starza Smith with the Unlocking History Research Group (MIT Press). Congratulations!

Our long-standing cooperation partner Tom Truxes has a new book out: 'The Amity Papers, 1690: The Siege of Limerick and Franco-Irish Mercantile Networks' by Tom Truxes and John Shovlin will be published this month by the British Academy and Oxford University Press.

We are expanding the circle of our international partners to include our first Spanish cooperation partner. We are happy to announce that the Prize Papers Project and the Cátedra Internacional CEU Elcano (Elcano International Chair in Naval History and Culture) will work together in the future 🗃️

We are expanding the circle of our international partners to include our first Spanish cooperation partner. We are happy to announce that the Prize Papers Project and the Cátedra Internacional CEU Elcano (Elcano International Chair in Naval History and Culture) will work together in the future 🗃️

We congratulate @annabellelaf.bsky.social on passing her dissertation defence with flying colours. Félicitations à @annabellelaf.bsky.social pour avoir brillamment réussi son examen de doctorat. #earlymodern #maritimehistory #letters 🗃️

🎓 It’s official: I am now a Doctor of History! 🎉 After years of research, archival work, and writing, I have successfully defended my thesis on transatlantic correspondence in the 18th century. A huge thank you to everyone who supported me throughout this journey. 📜⚓

Si estás haciendo un TFG o TFM en historia y necesitas fuentes primarias... ¿por qué no le echas un ojo a los Prize Papers (@prizepapers.bsky.social) ? Hay centenares de cartas personales y documentos de todo tipo de mediados del siglo XVIII (Envíame MD si necesitas ayuda) portal.prizepapers.de

Join Jana Dambrogio & Daniel Starza Smith with the Unlocking History Research Group for the online launch event for the groundbreaking new book "Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter" (MIT Press): Tuesday, March 4, 6pm EST. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/jana-dambr... #earlymodern 🗃️

Join Jana Dambrogio & Daniel Starza Smith with the Unlocking History Research Group for the online launch event for the groundbreaking new book "Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter" (MIT Press): Tuesday, March 4, 6pm EST. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/jana-dambr... #earlymodern 🗃️

Developments in #3D-digitisation pave the way for new approaches to researching museum and archival objects that aren't possible to achieve with conventional 2D methods. In our workshop, experts from the humanities and technical sciences came together to address questions around #materiality.

Looking forward to this! Michael is a brilliant speaker. I really miss the years we shared an office and had such great chats. #MaritimeHistory #CoastalHistory

On Monday, 24 February, we welcome Dr Michael Talbot (University of Greenwich, UK) for the Prize Papers Talks (1pm CET / 12 UK). Paper: Reading Ottoman sources in the Prize Papers. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-prize-... #earlymodern #ottoman #history 🗃️

On Monday, 17 February, we welcome Céline Mounole & @annabellelaf.bsky.social (UPPA, France) for the Prize Papers Talks (1pm). Project BASQEGO: History of the languages of the Basque Country through ego-documents. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-prize-... #earlymodern #basque #linguistic 🗃️

On Monday, 17 February, we welcome Céline Mounole & @annabellelaf.bsky.social (UPPA, France) for the Prize Papers Talks (1pm). Project BASQEGO: History of the languages of the Basque Country through ego-documents. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-prize-... #earlymodern #basque #linguistic 🗃️

The Prize Papers will change the way we see the past. The research possibilities are almost unlimited. Join us for the conclusion of the three-part series “Secrets of the Prize Papers” with insights from @lhaasis.bsky.social and @mouseemperor.bsky.social – pod.link/1460242815 #earlymodern #history 🗃️

The Prize Papers will change the way we see the past. The research possibilities are almost unlimited. Join us for the conclusion of the three-part series “Secrets of the Prize Papers” with insights from @lhaasis.bsky.social and @mouseemperor.bsky.social – pod.link/1460242815 #earlymodern #history 🗃️

Meet our researchers working on the case study “Movement in Space and Time”.

Margaret Hunt's great paper on 'Seventeenth-century Swedish sailors and their personal letters: evidence from the Prize Papers' is now available online - www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/sev... @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social @prizepapers.bsky.social

It was an absolute pleasure to talk about my work with the @prizepapers.bsky.social together with my good friend & long-standing partner in mischief @lhaasis.bsky.social. Many thanks to Drew Ellery, Chloe Lee and the whole @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy "On The Record" team!

On Monday, 10 February, we welcome Margaret Schotte @schottemargaret.bsky.social (York University, Toronto) for the Prize Papers Talks (3pm). Paper: The Carpenter’s Notebook: A Maritime Love Story (France-India-Spain) Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-prize-... #earlymodern #maritimehistory 🗃️

I’ll be sharing evidence of some of my favourite figures from this project— a wealthy young South Asian woman and a poetry-loving carpenter whose paths seem to have crossed at sea. Please join us! (9am EST)

On Monday, 10 February, we welcome Margaret Schotte @schottemargaret.bsky.social (York University, Toronto) for the Prize Papers Talks (3pm). Paper: The Carpenter’s Notebook: A Maritime Love Story (France-India-Spain) Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-prize-... #earlymodern #maritimehistory 🗃️

On Monday, 27 January, we welcome Alejandro Salamanca @desvelandooriente.com (EUI Florence) for the Prize Papers Talks. Paper: Microhistories of Migration - The Agata Galera, a Dutch frigate crossing the Spanish Atlantic. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-prize-... #earlymodern #maritimehistory 🗃️

The Prize Papers contain hundreds of letters that are still sealed. Marc Vermeulen, Head of Heritage Science at The National Archives, explains in the new episode how they were recently able to reconstruct hidden text in these letters – without even opening them! #earlymodern 🗃️ pod.link/1460242815

One of the very cool ways in which heritage scientists at TNA work with researchers to make collections available.

The Prize Papers contain hundreds of letters that are still sealed. Marc Vermeulen, Head of Heritage Science at The National Archives, explains in the new episode how they were recently able to reconstruct hidden text in these letters – without even opening them! #earlymodern 🗃️ pod.link/1460242815

On Monday 27 January, join the book presentation by our researcher Alejandro Salamanca @desvelandooriente.com 👇 📚 #MaritimeHistory #MigrationHistory #skystorians

On Monday, 27 January, we welcome Alejandro Salamanca @desvelandooriente.com (EUI Florence) for the Prize Papers Talks. Paper: Microhistories of Migration - The Agata Galera, a Dutch frigate crossing the Spanish Atlantic. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-prize-... #earlymodern #maritimehistory 🗃️

Imagine being the first person to open an #earlymodern logbook or read a letter written 250 years ago. This is part of the daily work of our conservator Marina Casagrande at The National Archives. Tune in to the 2nd episode of the podcast series "Secrets of the Prize Papers"! 🗃️ pod.link/1460242815

Imagine being the first person to open an #earlymodern logbook or read a letter written 250 years ago. This is part of the daily work of our conservator Marina Casagrande at The National Archives. Tune in to the 2nd episode of the podcast series "Secrets of the Prize Papers"! 🗃️ pod.link/1460242815

On Monday, 20 January, we welcome Dr Wim de Winter (KU Leuven) for the Prize Papers Talks. Paper: Marital Cooperation and Economic Agency of Maritime Women: Evidence from the Eighteenth-Century Southern Netherlands, 1pm CET. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-prize-... #earlymodern #history 🗃️

We found some other #EarlyModern centres that have joined these blue skies recently: @cemskcl.bsky.social @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social and @cesrtours.bsky.social, for instance. Any we missed still? go.bsky.app/LLzFj3b

Today we presented the Prize Papers project at the workshop ‘Digital Research in Oldenburg’. Full house, lively discussion, great initiative! In the picture: our data manager Kristin Langefeld and project manager Frank Marquardt-Schleffler talking about our data portal & @transkribus.bsky.social

New Horizons: Workshop for Emerging Scholars in Maritime History. Looking forward to presenting the @prizepapers.bsky.social & my work in Research & PR management on Tuesday, joined by the wonderful @saracaputo.bsky.social thanks to @slopclothes.bsky.social Info maritimeworkshops.com #earlymodern 🗃️

Ever wondered what it's like to open a historical time capsule? Want to hear the ultimate unboxing story this Christmas? Tune in to the 1st episode of the new podcast series ‘Trade, Loot & Letters’ which explores the Prize Papers at The National Archives: pod.link/1460242815 #earlymodern #history 🗃️

📣 We are hiring! Research Assistant for digital data acquisition and data management (100% position until 31 December 2028) in the Oldenburg team in Germany. Become part of our team and help shape the future of the Prize Papers Project! Deadline: 15 January 2025. #earlymodern #history #DH 🗃️

Playing the Prize Papers! Gemeinsam mit Geschichtsstudierenden der Uni Oldenburg & Expert*innen aus der Brettspiel-Forschung und Entwicklung habe ich dieses Jahr den Prototypen eines Brettspiels zum Kapergerichtsbestand der Prize Papers entwickelt. #Brettspiel #Boardgames @prizepapers.bsky.social 🗃️

We are celebrating our traditional team Christmas party in Oldenburg with our wonderful research students! #Christmas #PrizePapers