Get yourself a sledge and find a hill somewhere!
27.01.2026 13:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@fgottmann.bsky.social
Global Historian of early modern Europe. PI UKRI FLF βMigration, Adaptation, Innovation, 1500-1800β. East India Companies, Capitalism, Global Trade, Enlightenment, Political Economy. Trying to be a half decent human being. Sometimes. Starting tomorrow.
Get yourself a sledge and find a hill somewhere!
27.01.2026 13:44 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I donβt know actually, I should check.
Sheβs just amazing. Give her my regards when you see/speak to her!
I know the feeling. Theyβre clearly having a bad hair day.
27.01.2026 13:40 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0But of course! (Sorry for the bad picture quality)
27.01.2026 13:39 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0Claudia Schuster is their Curator of Shipping and Navigation. Sheβs incredibly nice. AND she managed to get the voice of KΓ€ptn BlaubΓ€r for their simulator where you can steer a sailing ship to port. Lifetime achievement.
27.01.2026 13:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0The Deutsches Technik Museum used to have a piece that showed you how much space each enslaved person would have had onboard. You could try to crawl in. It was visceral.
27.01.2026 13:24 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Ooooh, if you want some super cool drawings and doodles of fish and even a sea monster wearing a crown from a 1750s shipβs diary of an Emden to Canton voyage, send me a message. They are so fun!
27.01.2026 13:21 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0IHR programme for the Europe & the World Seminar 12 January: Yahya Nurgat: The Politics of Sacred Space in the Early Modern Islamicate World: The Shrines of Karbala and Najaf 16 February: Frederica Gigante on "Enslaved Networks: Muslim Lives and the Movement of Knowledge and Things in the Early Modern Mediterranean" 9 March: Sheilagh Ogilvie: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid 23 March: Pablo GΓ³mez: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality
AMENDED PROGRAMME! But with good news: we'd love to welcome you to *four* sessions this term, not three!
Join us @ihr.bsky.social on Mondays at 17:30, or on zoom (sign up for the link here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
You were eight months ahead of me - and years ahead in productivity!
So impressed (and happy) to see all youβve achieved since we last saw each other. Congratulations!!
Our projectβs PhD student just passed his viva with his brilliant thesis on Skilled Migrants in the Glass Industry. Many thanks to examiners Will Ashworth & Neil Murphy & to fantastic 2nd supervisor @drjenniferaston.bsky.social. Congratulations Oliver!! www.migration-innovation.org/news/congrat...
21.01.2026 21:43 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A few years late means nothing to a historian! So if you want to find out about our really exciting ongoing global history project, please check www.migration-innovation.org
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