Courtney MacPhee

Cover of The Predatory Sea by Casey Schmitt, image with ocean and coastline

It has a cover! I am so excited to have The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean coming out September 2025 with
@pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️

2-day Workshop: Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-Century Barbados and Britain — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720 Organisers: Dr Michael Bennett (University of Sheffield), Dr Misha Ewen (University of Sussex), and Dr Hannah Murphy (MMoR & CEMS, KCL) Barbados is central to the global history of slavery. The ...

Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-century Barbados and Britain. A 2-day workshop 25-26 June in London at KCL. Be there. www.mmor.co.uk/events/carib...

After lots of sleep and a nap today, I’m finally recovering from a GREAT weekend with #PCCBS .

Thrilled that everything went off without a hitch, I got to present some new work in progress, and catch up with old friends 🫶

Got the program proofs for the 50th annual #PCCBS. It was a total delight to design the program and I’m so excited to see everything finally coming together.

The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group - Session 4 The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.

The Queer and Trans Pre-Modern Reading Group is an informal discussion group exploring queer and trans themes in medieval and early modern texts.
Next session is 11 March 2025, 2-3:30pm
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

I once thought that nothing would be as eclectic as Oxford’s Pitt Rivers.

I’ve never been so wrong.

Put my Museum Studies MA to work this morning while visiting the MJT. What a delightful doozy 😵‍💫

Considering emulating some #earlymodern political practice by petitioning BHO to actually use a normal boolean search function.

Yes! I originally was supposed to go to lunch with you and the crew after your Monday Stanford talk but I extended my time here. But I will be around for your Huntington event - very much looking forward!

One Tool of “Critical Thinking” That’s Done More Harm Than Good | Department of History Last week, a high school freshman’s history homework made the news. When Cece Walsh’s public school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, asked her to list “Positive” and “Negative Effects of Imperialism,” she...

Worth reposting I think. history.stanford.edu/news/one-too...

National Covenant The National Covenant was an agreement signed by many people of Scotland during 1638, opposing the proposed Laudian reforms of the Church of Scotland by King Charles I. The king's efforts to impose changes on the church in the 1630s caused widespread protests across Scotland, leading to the organisation of committees to coordinate opposition to the king. Facing royal opposition, its leaders arranged the creation of the National Covenant to bolster the movement by tapping into patriotic fervour. It became widely adopted throughout most of Scotland with supporters henceforth known as Covenanters.

#OTD (Feb 28) in the year 1638: The Scottish National Covenant is signed in Edinburgh. #OTDIH #history 🗃️ #EarlyModern #17thc

Hiding from absolutely gorgeous weather in a gorgeous building this month ☀️

Finally made the hop over - don’t mind the empty profile or the incoming barrage of photos from my time as a fellow at the Huntington Library.