Migration and Mobility History
The IHR Migration and Mobility seminar provides a space for historians and scholars from other disciplines to come together to discuss migration and mobility in history.
Really pleased and proud to announce a new @ihr.bsky.social seminar - Migration and Mobility History. We want to cover migration across time and space and speak with colleagues across disciplines. If you're interested in attending/presenting, get in touch: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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๐จCall for Papers: The 18th St Andrews/USTC Book History Conference on 'Print and Education' will take place 18โ20 June 2026.
๐ Further details here: www.ustc.ac.uk/conference
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Application deadline: 12 December 2025
๐ We look forward to receiving your proposals!
#CfP #bookhistory #skystorians
01.07.2025 12:08 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 13 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
How much did I enjoy the "Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern c.1500-1850: Far from Home" conference at Aberystwyth University this week?
I was too absorbed in the fantasticly informative and patient (no question too enthusiastic!) speakers to take any photos until the very end ๐ค๐ญ๐๐ท
14.06.2025 10:42 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Thank you to everyone who came to Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern: Far From Home at Aberystwyth University last week. It was a delight to organise the conference with my amazing colleagues @joeycrozier.bsky.social and @rharman.bsky.social and to hear all your fantastic research
16.06.2025 08:53 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 1
Very privileged to host such a fantastic conference exhibiting a global voice on new perspectives of communication history. Thank you to all of the speakers who joined us, and @heathernicholas.bsky.social and @rharman.bsky.social for all your hard work! Same time next year?
16.06.2025 10:21 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Thrilled to say that this is now fully Open Access!
Hopefully now available to any and all interested #earlymodern #skystorians
05.06.2025 16:14 โ ๐ 60 ๐ 24 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 1
Very excited for the Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern #conference at Aberystwyth, 12-13 June 2025.
For #skystorians interested in joining, please see the form for more information below. Looking forward to seeing yโall next month.
forms.gle/wC5oA5NFJE15...
14.05.2025 10:33 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 7 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 3
The Imperial Public Sphere: The Press, Publicity, and the Destabilization of the British Empire, c. 1695โ1765 | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
The Imperial Public Sphere: The Press, Publicity, and the Destabilization of the British Empire, c. 1695โ1765
My article on the destabilization of the British Empire in the eighteenth century has been published open access in the
@historicaljnl.bsky.social. It brings one of the major arguments of my PhD to print: we need to think about the imperial transformations of the public sphere.
bit.ly/3XXW86z
16.04.2025 09:43 โ ๐ 112 ๐ 32 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 3
โOkay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?โ
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CfP!
With Natasja Peeters, Jasper van der Steen, and Ton van Strien, I am organising the one-day Seventeenth-Century Society's conference on Family, Kinship, and Dynasty in the Early Modern Low Countries on 5 September 2025.
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Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture
18th-century Britain is notorious for corrupt and restrictive politics, when few could vote, bribery and debauchery were commonplace. But it was also an age when modern democracy was being shaped.
For anyone interested in #c18th political or electoral history & for students researching EPQs, special subjects &/or final year dissertations, do check out the wealth of data & information available on our Political Participation
& Electoral Culture (ECPPEC) website #skystorians ๐๏ธecppec.ncl.ac.uk
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Delighted to announce @mrfw17thc.bsky.social as our keynote for keynote for Communication and Exchange this year. Iโm excited to hear more about his exciting research on mobility.
The #cfp is still open! Weโre looking forward to seeing yโall in Aberystwyth in June!
#earlymodern #History.
22.01.2025 16:32 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 14 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2
#Seaside Alphabet #AdventCalendar 1st December.
What better start than #Aberystwyth!
Boomed as a resort C19/early C20 when most seafront buildings & pier were built...And Britainโs longest electric cliff railway, Constitution Hill- where this postcard view is from & where m'profile pic was taken!
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Thank you!
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Great lists, donโt suppose I could get added? :)
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I had an excellent time this week presenting on James Johnston as a person in intelligence at the #NIHC and delighted to cipher on a real enigma machine! Grateful to the organisers at Bletchley Park! #spystorians
23.11.2024 10:20 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Hello #skystorians ๐ good to see so many here!
Iโll leave the annual Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern c.1500 - 1850 #CfP here for folks who are interested.
Come and join us in Aberystwyth, 12 - 13 June 2025. Co-organised with @heathernicholas.bsky.social @rharman.bsky.social
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Researching immigration control in 17C England, and what it tells us about citizenship now and then. Co-convenor @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Centre. Co-Director, Room to Heal, trustee @afrilcharity.bsky.social, Abigail Housing.
Conference on Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World at the University of Exeter ๐๐ก๏ธ 30-31 October 2025
Email us your abstracts and any questions to earlymodernwar@gmail.comโ
Historian of the sixteenth-century Anglo-Scottish frontier. PhD from Durham Universityโฌ (mostly) on the evolution of the early modern state in the English west march, and the relations between march elites and the 'riding surnames'.
Historian of early modern England. Convenor of the IHR Tudor & Stuart Seminar. Live-tweeting the reign of Elizabeth I. New(ish) book on Sir Christopher Hatton: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526159496/
Aspiring early modernist.
Also a musician - Fear of Men and New German Cinema.
Professor of Medieval History, University of Bristol | Books with Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Boydell & Brewer (ร2), Schnell & Steiner, ARC Humanities Press | Manuscript Detectiveโข ๐ต๏ธโโ๏ธ ๐ ๐
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PhD student at Homerton College, Cambridge
(Working) Thesis Title:
'The Varying shore oโ thโ worldโ: Differing purposes of classical exempla in early modern French and English literature'
Cardiff University Alum '19
UCL Alum '20
Historian. Cyclist. Runner. Irishman. Head of Early Modern Records at The National Archives, Kew. Co-I with the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Migrant. Historian. Eater. Co-Editor, Global Food History. Author of No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution; Editor of To Feast on Us as Their Prey: Cannibalism and the Early Modern Atlantic. More: rachelbherrmann.com
BBC award-winning Social Historian โ๏ธ
Death, Wales & Psychiatry ๐ Glamorgan County Lunatic Asylum ๐ง
Workhouses | Poor Law | Lunacy ๐ง
๐ฅBBC History Extra '30 under 30' ๐
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Darganfod y Gorffennol / Discovering the Past
https://glamarchives.gov.uk/
Textile historian๐ชก curator, Royal School of Needlework | research associate, Witney Antiques | host, Sew What? podcast | PhD on early Quaker women's needle, wax, and shellwork | views my own, etc. | she/her
French/Global History 1500-1850
#Emory, Opera, Skiing, Gardening, French shoes, Vote Blue!
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Ohio native bouncing between Atlanta, Paris, & Salt Lake City.
Immune compromised, leukemia 1992, still wear a mask.
Where's the #skiing community?
An EU-funded project bringing AI to the CCIs. Through HAMLET's Hub, artists, creative directors, writers, game developers, and AI experts co-create with tools for adaptive storytelling, dance analysis, 3D assets and more. https://hamlet-project.eu/
developing tools, data, and machine learning methods to discover new bibliographical evidence in early printed books
Associate Professor in Middle Eastern and Global history (Medieval)
Speaker โข Writer โข Reviewer โข Editor โ๏ธ
University webpage: https://www.ntu.ac.uk/staff-profiles/arts-humanities/nicholas-morton
Professor, Head of Doctoral School, SDU, #earlymodernist, witchcraft persecutions, Christian 4., dog person
Prof EM Hist; Letters; Gloves; https://genderingthemuseum.co.uk; Swedish Res Council project on Hist of Separation; Histories of the Unexpected Pod: https://historiesoftheunexpected.com/about-us/; agent: https://www.curtisbrown.co.uk/client/james-daybell