Chloe Ireton

Europe and the world, 1500-1800, IHR seminar, Mondays, 17:30. 6 October: Margot Finn: At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule 10 November: Sari Nauman: Between Categories: Migration, War, and Refuge in the Early Modern Baltic Sea 17 November Roger Lee Jesus: Colonialism and Land: Rethinking Imperial and Local Agency in the Portuguese Empire in Asia 1 December: Ana Lucia Araujo: Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the Eighteenth Century

FIRST SESSION THIS MONDAY! Join us for "At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule", a paper by @eicathomefinn.bsky.social with comment by @jhowesuk.bsky.social

All welcome in person @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...)

JUST A WEEK FROM NOW! We'll host the marvellous Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social who will speak about "At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule"

6 Oct, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Poster image for "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic. Image of book covers and authors. More information on authors and books at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2025/oct/space-mobility-and-subjecthood-early-modern-history

Join us for a roundtable on "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic, followed by a wine reception at UCL on 29th October 2025. The event is in person and with online transmission. More information: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Slavery & Abolition Special Issue: Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present. Guest Editors: Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Wayne Dooling, and Esteban Salas. Volume 46, Issue 3 of Slavery & Abolition

The September issue of Slavery & Abolition is a Special Issue:

Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present
Guest Editors: Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Wayne Dooling & Esteban Salas

www.tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/c...

Upcoming Seminars @ihreurope1500.bsky.social
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social
Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All welcome!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Europe and the world, 1500-1800, IHR seminar, Mondays, 17:30. 6 October: Margot Finn: At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule 10 November: Sari Nauman: Between Categories: Migration, War, and Refuge in the Early Modern Baltic Sea 17 November Roger Lee Jesus: Colonialism and Land: Rethinking Imperial and Local Agency in the Portuguese Empire in Asia 1 December: Ana Lucia Araujo: Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the Eighteenth Century

NEW PROGRAMME! What an exciting one it is!
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social

Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

WOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS PROGRAMME 🤩
And more excitement to come in 2026 as well.

I often get driven to despair about the health of #earlymodern studies because of how it's deemed 'not useful' and 'unpopular in recruitment' and then I see just how much brilliant and varied work we do despite all that

Lecturer in Irish/British History at King's College London Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Irish/British History on jobs.ac.uk!

We have two jobs at KCL History!

16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...

And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...

(both to start in January 2026)

@uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social @uclhistory.bsky.social @ucl-ias.bsky.social

Poster image for "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic. Image of book covers and authors. More information on authors and books at https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/events/2025/oct/space-mobility-and-subjecthood-early-modern-history

Join us for a roundtable on "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic, followed by a wine reception at UCL on 29th October 2025. The event is in person and with online transmission. More information: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2025)

My review of @chloeireton.bsky.social's impressive debut monograph is out. It was a pleasure reading the book and writing the review, and you all should read it as well!
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KXRFJ...

thank you so much for this review, and for sharing the link! a wonderful gift! Thanks

My Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery is one of the two finalists of the @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social, am lucky and grateful to get this honor in times when the study of the history of slavery is being attacked on all fronts in this country. #slaveryarchive

We are happy to announce the three finalists of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024! The winner will be announced at the end of September. To know more about the three finalists, visit our website www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...

FIVE YEARS of #Slaveryarchive Book Club! More than ever, it's time to read, assign, discuss, share, buy, and gift books that tell the history of slavery in the Americas (and elsewhere) The book club has been doing this for full five years. Join us www.slaveryarchive.com/book-club/20...

Delighted to announce that my new article, "Dialogic Depositions: Finding Black Women’s Presence in Spanish Colonial Legal Records," is here! Thanks to the RQ editors and staff for their assistance and support.

Slavery, Big Data, and the Cultures of Caribbean Ancestral Histories Royal Historical Society public lecture at the University of Aberdeen

If you're in Aberdeen on 17 September don't miss my colleague Professor Matt Smith's lecture on 'Twice Removed: Slavery, Big Data, and the Cultures of Caribbean Ancestral Histories'.

Digital history both opens up new vistas and obscures 'the knotted histories of empire'. #Skystorians

Postdoctoral Fellowships The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.

British Academy postdoctoral fellowships scheme is now open. The deadline is 1 October. Time to get talking with potential host institutions and mentors about planning an application for this year or instead waiting for a future round. (The scheme is annual).

Here is my review of Chloe Ireton's book Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic just published in the Hispanic American Historical Review. Check it out and go get the book! #slaveryarchive

Thank you @araujohistorian.bsky.social for this generous review of Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (Cambridge University Press 2025) that will appear in Hispanic American Historical Review.
doi.org/10.1215/0018...

Chloe L. Ireton, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early ... In 2023, the Nigerian-based artist El Anatsui premiered a three-part installation, Behind the Red Moon, in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern in London. In its materiality, form, and scale, Behind...

My review on @chloeireton.bsky.social new book, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic is out on Ler Historia! Fantastic work and incredible research. journals.openedition.org/lerhistoria/...

“Scholars across disciplines who study the African diaspora, transatlantic slave trade, early modern Iberia and Latin America, legal history, and questions of political identity and belonging will benefit tremendously from Ireton’s acute insights and rigorous research.”
Thank you Nathalie Miraval!

Thank you so much, @nathaliemiraval.bsky.social So honoured to read your careful review of the book an dto hear that you found it useful, and I am so thrilled to learn that El Anatsui's wonderful exhibition resonated with you too! Many thanks for writing this, & thank you for sharing this with me!

Links to Books 2/2:
Julia McClure, Empire of Poverty: The Moral-Political Economy of the Spanish Empire (Oxford, 2024) global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Chloe L. Ireton, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Empire (Cambridge, 2025) cup.org/4gUfaSj

Annual Conferences UKLAH 2025 – University of Liverpool UKLAH Annual Conference 2025Latin American History: Trends, Approaches, and SourcesUniversity of LiverpoolFriday 6 June 2025 The UK Latin American History…

Full Programme: uklah.wordpress.com/events
Links to Books 1/2:
Adolfo Polo y la Borda, Global Servants of the Spanish King: Mobility and Cosmopolitanism in the Early Modern Spanish Empire (Cambridge, 2025) doi.org/10.1017/9781...

On the train to Liverpool for UKLAH 2025 & so looking forward to discussing Adolfo Polo y La Borda and Julia McClure's wonderful new books! Join us for discussion about each other's books & future methodological & theoretical directions in the field. links to books & programme. in thread

Join us for the next #Slaveryarchive Book Club on May 24, 2025, 2:00 PM EST to discuss my new book Slavery and FREEDOM in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (Cambridge University Press, 2025) t.co/8EeXLct6fn

w/ wonderful scholars @araujohistorian.bsky.social & @elotroalex.bsky.social

Visitors To The UK An attempt to capture and disseminate information about earlymodernists visiting the UK.

With plans for the coming academic year being firmed up: non-UK-based #EarlyModern #SkyStorians: let us know when & where you're passing through this little island. Would be lovely to grab a coffee or to get you to present your work where feasible.

Already welcoming people for WOBD2: The Past in Danger in New Haven. As people start trickling in for an intense 2 days of conversations, private and public, we learn of more archives in danger by the hour. But we're not here to bemoan our fate. We're here to mobilize—hearts, minds and hands.