From the current issue: “Dams and the Deep Earth: The 1967 Koyna Earthquake and Human Agency in the Anthropocene” by Elizabeth Chatterjee and Sachaet Pandey-Geeta Mantraraj (University of Chicago) doi.org/10.1093/past...

New on advance access: "Vernacular development, drought, and US technical assistance in postcolonial Lebanon" by Owain Lawson (Lehigh University) doi.org/10.1093/past...

Welcome to @maggieross95.bsky.social our 7,000th follower on Bluesky

From the current issue “Microhistory as Industrial History: Environment, Sugar Capitalism and Labour in Egypt, 1863–1879” by Adam Mestyan (‪@harvard.edu‬) doi.org/10.1093/past...

"What was at Stake in the Maria Luz Incident"? In this new blog Bill Mihalopolous, explores the key points about the context and ramifications of the court case made in his recent article for the journal, and considers it's resonance into the 21st Century pastandpresent.org.uk/what-was-at-...

From the current issue: “Liberty, the Maria Luz Incident and the Liminal Legal Status of Chinese Indentured Labourers and Japanese Licensed Prostitutes” by Bill Mihalopoulos doi.org/10.1093/past...

Dame Janet Nelson was the first female President @royalhistsoc.org (2000-04) and is the subject of 'Jinty Nelson in Thirteen Articles', also edited by Alice Rio, and published in 'Transactions of the RHS' earlier this year. Available Open Access bit.ly/4nyYx2k #Skystorians

On advance access: "Spanish Pistolerismo and Labour Violence in Post-War Europe, 1917–1923" by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez (University of Lisbon) doi.org/10.1093/past...

Dame Janet L. Nelson (28 March 1942 – 14 October 2024) by Alice Rio (All Souls College, University of Oxford) doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "Economic Change, Silver, and the Plague of 664-687 in England" by @rorynaismith.bsky.social (University of Cambridge) doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "Global Rumours: The Press, Telegraphy and the Boxer War in China, Summer 1900" by Thoralf Klein (@lborouniversity.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

From the current issue: “Liquor Rations and Labour Management in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World” by Christopher M Florio (Hollins University) doi.org/10.1093/past...

Uncover stories of restriction and resilience. In a new collection from Past & Present, scholars highlight how immobility shapes both lives and legacies: oxford.ly/46BpxXI @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social

Quarantine is one of these institutions whose date of creation barely means anything, it took the best part of 3 centuries for the Itlalians to make it work somewhat, interesting to see a similar dynamic at play at the same time across the Algero-Provençal basin!

I should still be frantically preparing to welcome our new first years next week, but instead I'm finishing my week by reading this. And I don't regret it, even though I know I'm going to have to open my laptop on Sunday as a result! #skystorians

A must-read for environmental historians, labour historians, & historians of embodiment, trade, Britain, the Thames, and more. Conceptually ambitious & a really good story with an unexpected & dramatic denouement. #envhist

This sounds excellent. I look forward to reading

Looking forward to reading this!

V happy to share a new OA article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social written with Sim Koole. It’s about dock work, dockside life and the changing river in turn of the century Rotherhithe.

New on advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928" by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

From the current issue “A Chinese Doctor in Eighteenth-Century Naples and the Practice of Pulse Diagnosis” by Henrietta Harrison (‪@pembrokeoxford.bsky.social‬/‪@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social‬) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

We're pleased to be supporting "Fons: Primordal Origins From Myth to Archaeology" At @magdalenecollege.bsky.social 5 - 6 November 2025 Programme and registration: pastandpresent.org.uk/programme-an...

From the current issue: “Inter-Urban Alliances and the Archives of Legitimacy in the Southern Low Countries, 1250–1450” by Ron Mordechai Makleff (Middlebury College) doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "Hegemony, Hunting and Human Trophies in the East Asian War of 1592–1598" by Rebekah Clements (Autonomous University of Barcelona) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "Plague Correspondence, Rumour, and Mistrust in the Late Medieval Crown of Aragon" by Abigail Agresta (George Washington University) doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "The Atmosphere in Spatial History: Digital Evidence and Visual Argument" by Luca Scholz (University of Manchester) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "Ships, Guns and Money: The Logistics of Revolution and Garibaldi’s Campaign of 1860" by Daniel Banks (European University Institute) doi.org/10.1093/past...

On Sydney's Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. An institution when I was young.

On advance access: "Religious Tension and Ethnic Consciousness in the Later Russian Empire" by Thomas Marsden (University of Stirling) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "The Cult of Gay Relics and Queer Medievalism in 1980s Sydney" by Miles Pattenden (Deakin University/ @ox.ac.uk) and Michael Barbezat (Australian Catholic University) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "Failure to Drain: Expert Resistance and Environmental Thought in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic" by @annalunapost.bsky.social (Utrecht) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "Needed but Deplored: Spinners and Singlewomen in Industrial Coventry, c.1490–1525" by Judith M. Bennett (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill/University of Southern California) academic.oup.com/past/advance...

On advance access: "Secularizing Strategies in the Early Middle Ages and the History of Pre-Modern Religion" by Conor O’Brien (University of Oxford) #OpenAccess academic.oup.com/past/advance...

"Trans history enjoys the luxury of disbelief.... Fortunately, this rigour will inevitably come to be shared, as the entanglement of cisness and transness becomes impossible to ignore." Compelling contribution taking Byzantium as case in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social academic.oup.com/past/article...

How the “liberation” of slaves by 19th-century European imperial powers actually resulted in hundreds of thousands of them being held to forced labour…

We were pleased to support the "Tracing the Holocaust Workshop" on historians' use of the International Tracing Service Archive @wienerlibrary.bsky.social on 19th May 2025 Here co-organiser @niamh-hanrahan.bsky.social reflects on the event: pastandpresent.org.uk/tracing-the-...

On advance access: "Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–1920" by Henry B. Lovejoy (University of Colorado, Boulder) doi.org/10.1093/past...

Our latest quarterly e-newsletter has just been sent to subscribers It can be read below, where you can also subscribe if you do not already receive it: open.substack.com/pub/pastpres...

Past & Present No. 268 (August 2025) is now published All articles in the issue can be accessed here: academic.oup.com/past/issue/2... via our publisher @oxfordacademic.bsky.social Or by scrolling down the thread👇

On advance access: "Liquor Rations and Labour Management in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World" by Christopher M. Florio (Hollins University) doi.org/10.1093/past...

Looks fascinating

New on advance access: "Secrecy and sovereignty in the Age of Revolutions" by Katlyn Marie Carter (‪@notredame.bsky.social‬) doi.org/10.1093/past...

On the imperial dimensions of the (inter alia) Belgian Revolution. Must read.

📣 what a great way to start the new term! This paper has been long in the making, and combines years of research from the two of us, but we couldn’t have done it without the support of our research Group, @sechistnetwork.bsky.social 📣

Fascinating article by Nuala Zahedieh about the centrality of canoes in early colonial exploitation 🗃️https://academic.oup.com/past/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pastj/gtaf021/8231030

On advance access: "Fossil Energy and the Ecology of Everyday Life in the Low Countries during the Long Eighteenth Century" by Wout Saelens (University of Antwerp/VUB-University of Brussels) doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "Canoes in the Early English Caribbean: The Role of an Indigenous Technology in Making Mercantilism Work" by Nuala Zahedieh (‪@cam.ac.uk‬) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

On advance access: "The Revolutions that Consolidated Empire: A Reconsideration of 1830" by @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social‬ and Erik de Lange (‪@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social‬) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

I really enjoyed it - such creative, important and inspiring work!

This promises to be fascinating reading!