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Come and work with me! The National Archives are looking for an Early Modern Parliamentary Records Specialist. More details available via the link. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...
01.08.2025 12:18 — 👍 13 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 0
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03.07.2025 15:32 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Cover for 'Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547', by Laura Flannigan (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
Winner of the RHS First Book Prize (2025):
'Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547', by Laura Flannigan (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
bit.ly/4nwi4kj 1/2 #Skystorians
03.07.2025 14:10 — 👍 81 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 4
Looks like this would be the mastodon (Mammut americanum) found at Big Bone Lick in 1755.
(I don’t have institutional access to read the whole chapter but there ya go)
www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt...
26.06.2025 08:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Surely one should be allowed to simply chance it…
24.06.2025 16:24 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I do need to write it up… something on pirate exit strategies, perhaps.
‘Piracy, And How To Get Away With It!’ (colon, Serious Title)
24.06.2025 16:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The National Archives is full of old fossils.
No, not the staff/visitors - I mean this report of mastodon remains found along the Ohio River, included as a brief annotation in this map of lands ceded in 1768 Fort Stanwix treaty.
Either that or a REALLY big bison.
#MastodonPosting
CO 700/Virginia18
24.06.2025 16:09 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Option available in periphery - SW counties, then colonial Ireland, then colonial Americas - where it also provided boost to economy and promoted trade links back towards metropole (who cracked down when the practice became politically insufferable).
24.06.2025 15:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Mutually beneficial to all parties where it minimised risk; pirates could re-enter legit society; victims avoid unreliable ‘dual process’ for restitution in HCA; vice-admiralty enjoys profiting, and also selling plunder on to other merchants.
24.06.2025 15:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
You certainly may!
TLDR, evidence of out-of-court ‘composition’ settlements where pirates returned a portion of their plunder to victims, via a mediating [v-adm] official who also took a cut, in return for a ‘dispatch’ passport and hopefully a pardon.
24.06.2025 15:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
I ordered something recently that got delivered to a special ‘mould shelf’, so if I drop off the face of the earth/a new pandemic begins, you’ll know what happened
06.06.2025 19:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
what box was this 👀
06.06.2025 18:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
In Which the Aladdin's Cave of HCA Series Papers Lures @thiagokrause.bsky.social 🤣 @mooregraham.bsky.social @prizepapers.bsky.social I look forward to your report!
06.06.2025 15:30 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
my only problem here is ‘half a dozen of interest’… what do you mean, you aren’t distracted by almost all of them??
(likewise keen to see what you find @thiagokrause.bsky.social - don’t think I’ve been through this particular HCA 13! particularly anything touching jurisdiction and process)
06.06.2025 18:13 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Colonialism, Governance, and Fisheries: Perspectives from Lake Malawi | The Journal of African History | Cambridge Core
Colonialism, Governance, and Fisheries: Perspectives from Lake Malawi - Volume 66
‼️🐠 Our short “History Matters” piece — “Colonialism, Governance, and Fisheries: Perspectives from Lake Malawi” just published OA in The Journal of African History!
doi.org/10.1017/S002...
A lengthier piece expanding on fisheries surveys & colonial development in L. Malawi coming soon in Isis… 🐠‼️
23.05.2025 10:05 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
📣 Amazing PhD opportunity with Dr Hannah Young at the University of Greenwich:
‘De-colonising Maritime Greenwich: Confronting histories and legacies of empire, c. 1694-2025.’
Fully-funded!! Spread the word to prospective applicants!
#PhD #postgraduate
www.gre.ac.uk/__data/asset...
28.04.2025 12:28 — 👍 112 🔁 101 💬 0 📌 2
Francis Drake fans (?) rejoice, because this book is for you!
New review of M-C Velázquez’s ‘Cultural Representations of Piracy’ (2023) in IJMH. The book does great stuff with both English and Spanish sources, arguing that cultural ideas of piracy stabilised by the end of the 16th-C.
03.04.2025 14:42 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
New MA Scholarship in Maritime History @ueahistory.bsky.social starting in 2025, funded by the generosity of @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social alumni Dominic Christian. ⚓⚓⚓
For details and eligibility see: lnkd.in/dVgNZqYX
Apply by 2/5/2025.
02.04.2025 06:12 — 👍 9 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
enjoying this devious polar bear today, in John Seller’s Atlas Maritimus (1698)
[TNA, FO 925/4111]
17.03.2025 16:51 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This looks to be a fantastic #CoastalHistory talk for anyone near London!
13.03.2025 10:05 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) at The National Archives
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
PASSAGE is recruiting for two fixed-term posts to join me working on 18thC records of enslavement
1) Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/aZwqn
2) Project Cataloguer (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/6aSpz
If you have questions, please let me know & please circulate widely!
11.03.2025 11:31 — 👍 89 🔁 99 💬 2 📌 2
this pigeon is also going to The National Archives today
03.03.2025 09:16 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Major grant to fund research into the history of transatlantic slavery - The National Archives
The National Archives has been awarded a £1 million grant by Lloyd’s Register Foundation for a new, collaborative research programme on the history of the transatlantic trade in enslaved people. PASSA...
I'm very pleased to share news of a new project I am leading at The National Archives. PASSAGE combines archival research on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people with an international programme that centres the research of West African & Caribbean scholars.
Read more here: shorturl.at/XLyC8
26.02.2025 11:40 — 👍 244 🔁 105 💬 15 📌 5
Many thanks Claire and Rohan - it was a true pleasure to have the opportunity to discuss the work with you both!
(And to reiterate my own thanks to Richard and @thegozfather.bsky.social, as well as all other supervisors, friends, & faculty, for their support!)
12.02.2025 09:26 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Historian. Cyclist. Runner. Irishman. Head of Early Modern Records at The National Archives, Kew. Co-I with the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland
Worcester College Oxford / Uni Reading History Professor. Research & teaching European Reformations, history of belief, celibacy, superstition, witchcraft & magic, animals, religion and the natural world.
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Conference on Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World at the University of Exeter 📜🗡️ 30-31 October 2025
Email us your abstracts and any questions to earlymodernwar@gmail.com⚓
Senior Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at Brunel University of London
Historian of law, society, and politics in medieval and Tudor England at The Ohio State University | Alumna of the universities of York and Cambridge | Research and publications -> https://history.osu.edu/people/flannigan.15
Historian of globalisation, capitalism and economic cultures | Professor at The University of Manchester | Director of the Centre for Economic Cultures
Black dogs, orange cats, and manuscripts. Professor @ USC. I write about African American life in early national and antebellum Boston.
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Historian of armies, empire, espionage, maps & cricket.
London & lutruwita/Tasmania | Born on the traditional lands of the Palawa/Pakana people.
Historian of prisoners across the British maritime world, and boaty things.
Currently a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow @leverhulme.ac.uk @liverpooluni.bsky.social
PhD on Prison Hulks- contact via website: http://www.anna-mckay.com/
Research Fellow @virtualtreasury.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social, Houses of Parliament | Historian of the press, publicity, and popular political action in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Northumbrian in the Netherlands | Writes about connections between Britain and its North Sea neighbours
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Associate Professor in the History of Strategy and International Law at the University of Lincoln. Director of the Maritime Studies Centre
Book: Balancing Strategy
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Librarian at The National Archives (UK) | E-Resources | Rare Books | Views my own.
Legal historian @UofELawSchool; attorney; Medieval and Early Modern Scotland, Roman law.
PhD candidate studying early modern English history at the University of Calgary. Working on the intersection of property law and social status in the 17th century.
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Naval historian. Associate Professor at US Naval War College. Views own. New book with Paul Kennedy: Planning for War at Sea: 400 Years of Great Power Competition.
