Joel Herman

Family Archives in England, 1650-1838: Manuscripts, Memory, and the Making of History

Very much looking forward to Imogen Peck talking about Family Archives on Wednesday @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social This is a special session at Warwick. All welcome, either in person or online, but please register. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Looking forward to Prof Jenny Shaw (Alabama) speaking at Centre for Early Modern History seminar @tlrhub.bsky.social with the paper title
On Land and at Sea: The Enslaved Childhood of Julius Soubise, 1754–1764 www.tcd.ie/history/rese...

Was lucky enough to make it to the @universitypress.cambridge.org bookshop on Friday - an exercise in self-control if ever there was one.

Seal of Mary Whitshead. RIA GSA/25/1, Deeds of the Guild of St Anne, 9 George I, Item 1 (13 February 1723) - By 1723, the heavy wax seals hanging from the bottom of the parchment have been done away with in favor of an image impressed into several drops of wax poured directly on the document itself. https://virtualtreasury.ie/item/RIA-GSA-25-1

Locating women in the historical archive deepens our understanding of the past.
For #IWD2026 we're sharing records + research highlighting women in the records + their role in History. Starting with this 😀 👇️
Women in the Guild of St Anne - Virtual Treasury
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Captured Consent Cambridge Core - British History after 1450 - Captured Consent

Delighted to find in the mail today my hard copy of Sonia Tycko's 'Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600-1700' -- an outstanding book that warrants a wide readership. www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History, University of Warwick | MEMOs University of Warwick, United Kingdom

Explore our job opportunities focused on the Medieval and Early Modern periods (thread 🧵):

1. Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History, University of Warwick
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Taylor Irish Materialisms

Used reading week to finally finish this excellent book: Colleen Taylor’s Irish Materialisms: The non-human and the making of colonial Ireland, 1690-1830. it uses coins, flax, spinning wheels, mud and pigs(!) to think about material lives of Irish peasants

Thank you so much, Peter!

Two - count 'em - two jobs at UPEI - one in History (specifically aimed at Atlantic Canada) and one in English (which could be Atlantic Canadian!).

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Book launch 1. Leslie James' The Moving Word: How the West African and Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought: this Thursday 4 March, 6pm QMUL Graduate Centre, 7th Floor in conversation with Musab Younis (Oxford)

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, at Birkbeck, University of London, is looking for a talented researcher to join a project focused on expanding our understanding of non elite writers and writing in seventeenth century England. As Postdoctoral Research Associate you will join 'Written Worlds in Seventeenth-Century England', an exciting Leverhulme Trust–funded project. The role is offered on a 13 month, part time (17.5 hours a week) contract with a salary of £22,124 rising to £25,189 per annum (pro-rated £44,247 to £50,379 per annum). In this role, you will carry out dedicated research on non elite textual production, working closely with the Principal Investigator, Professor Sue Wiseman, and the Co Investigator, Dr Brodie Waddell. You will have the opportunity to work extensively with manuscripts and printed sources, visit archives, investigate datasets, develop the project database, and contribute to shaping the project’s scholarly outputs - and you may also be involved in textual editing. As Research Associate, you will focus on one of two thematic strands: 1. Non elite writing produced in the provinces, or 2. Writing produced by non elite women. Further details via link

We are hiring postdoc researchers to join our #WrittenWorlds project at Birkbeck, with Sue Wiseman, @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social, @richardjansell.bsky.social and I.

0.5FTE, 13 months, focus on women's or provincial non-elite writing #EarlyModern 🗃️
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table of contents for Law and History Review's february 2026 special forum/issue, New Legal Histories of the American Revolution

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Out shortly ... our joint special forum with The William and Mary Quarterly:

New Legal Histories of the American Revolution

Contributions by Sarah Barringer Gordon, Mark Valeri, Jess Roney, Don Johnson, Matthew Crow, and William J. Novak

All open access ✅

Links soon!

For #WomensHistoryMonth, check out Lorri Glover's #2025SHA presidential address in the February 2026 JSH:

"Reimagining the American Revolution: Southern Women's Wars for Independence"

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What an achievement! Congrats Brian.

1766 religious census of Ireland is 260 years old today (5 March). Have a look at our brand new map of surviving details from 'Ireland's first census'. 😃

This looks fascinating!

A Great Revolution in Church and State <p><b>The untold story of how church and state were remade in Revolutionary America</b></p><p><i>A Great Revolution in Church and State</i> rewrites t

Dr Alyssa Penick's new book 'A Great Revolution in Church and State' is now available for preorder through @uvapress.bsky.social. Looks like a must-read for #skystorians of the colonial and Revolutionary eras and early republic www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10211/

Join us tomorrow to hear more about Matthew Mason's newest book on slavery and political conflict in the Atlantic world!

On Monday, at 1 PM, we welcome Casey Schmitt to our Ships & Seafaring Talk, where she will present her book "The Predatory Sea", a full-length study of the entangled history of captivity and colonialism using Spanish, French and English archives. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...

Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 - Richmond, Virginia, United States Title: Born-Digital Collections Coordinator #00220 State Role Title: Library Specialist III Hiring Range: $78,000 - $88,000 Pay Band: 5 Agency: The Library of Virginia Location: The Library of Virgini...

Apply to join my team by 3/16!

Be the Library of Virginia's born-digital collections coordinator, leading planning and management of electronic gov/manuscript records. We're looking for a techie archivist type who can help improve access to our born-digital wonders.

$78k-$88k in Richmond VA.

Thanks for sharing!

The Ship Bedford: Atlantic and Archival Crossings in the Long Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar

Really pleased to see the recording of Phillippa Hellawell (TNA) & Liberty Paterson (TNA)'s seminar on The Ship Bedford and the slave trade @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

JOB

Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

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Review article: Marx without Teleology, by Ulrich Plass
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Early Modern Women’s Mobility, Authority, and Agency Across the Spanish Empire, ed. Anne J. Cruz and Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez The early modern period was characterised by significant European expansion—territorial, economic and cultural—that reshaped the known world and laid the f

Ezequiel Borgognoni reviews 'Early Modern Women’s Mobility, Authority, and Agency Across the Spanish Empire', ed. Anne J. Cruz and Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez

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The Winds of History: Life in a Corner of Rural Africa since the Nineteenth Century, by Andreas Zeman This book, based on Andreas Zeman’s dissertation, is a sophisticated micro-historical study based on original source materials collected in and around the

Nathaniel Mathews reviews 'The Winds of History: Life in a Corner of Rural Africa since the Nineteenth Century', by Andreas Zeman

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Illustration is a water colour by Louisa Beaufort, entitled a Connemara net-maker. It shows a lady and gentleman on the quays with nets, water, cobbled, stone, clouded sky. Uploaded to Wikipedia by JaneMaxwell63

#DIBNewLives Born in July 1781 and at a time when women’s intellectual contributions were rarely publicly disseminated, Louisa Beaufort was among the first in Ireland to publish in her own name and to contribute original antiquarian research. www.dib.ie/biography/be...

Assistant Professor in 18th Century Literature at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Discover an exciting academic career path as a Assistant Professor in 18th Century Literature at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

Come and join us!!

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Political scientist Jeanne Zaino calls it democracy's "day two problem": revolutions are exciting. Building and sustaining self-governance is the hard part.

250 years after Common Sense, we're still working on day two

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#Revolution250 #America250 #History #Democracy

This looks fascinating on women's involvement in the production of the news and print. I look forward to reading it.