Joel Herman

A News Revolution?: The Imperial Public Sphere and the Destabilization of the British Empire « History# « Cambridge Core Blog The news connects individuals and communities across space at certain moments in time. One need only think back to recent events like the Arab Spring, the Refugee Crisis, or COVID to find striking exa...

And a shorter blog on the article:

‘A News Revolution?: The Imperial Public Sphere and the Destabilization of the British Empire’

www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

I‘ll also add this article here, which came out earlier this year. it works well as a preview to the book manuscript I am working on.

‘The Imperial Public Sphere: The Press, Publicity, and the Destabilization of the British Empire, c. 1695–1765’

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

My colleague Lauren Duval has a new book coming out next month from @uncpress.bsky.social on military occupation and households in the Revolution. Lauren is real smart. Put it in your cart. #HATM

Cover of Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650-1750.

📚 New Book Review!

Ruth-Ellen St. Onge reviews:

Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650-1750, edited by Ann-Marie Hansen and Arthur der Weduwen (Brill, 2024).

Read it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

#BookHistory #Publishing #Enlightenment #BookTrade #Europe

Cannot believe Toy Story is thirty years old?!!

Ah it's lovely to hear that. I've read a lot of her other work, but had somehow missed this article.

Congrats, what an achievement. Looking forward to reading many more essays published by @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social in the years to come.

I had somehow never come across this article from Elizabeth Mancke, 'Early Modern Imperial Governance and the Origins of Canadian Political Culture'. It is brilliant.

www.jstor.org/stable/3232770

For everyone, but especially those of us who waited a little long to start planning a #SHEAR2026 panel [insert "who's got two thumbs..." meme], the program committee has graciously extended the CFP deadline to December 15! shear.org/annual-meeti...

The Course of Human Events <b>How reading the Declaration of Independence as a document of history explains its intended meaning</b><br/><br/> Thomas Jefferson chose his words c

One week to go to publication day for The Course of Human Events: The Declaration of Independence and the Historical Origins of the United States! @uvapress.bsky.social. www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10151/

Europoliticalthought Website of the European Society for the History of Political Thought

CFP: Truth and Un-Truth: Eighth Biennial Conference of the European Society for the History of Political Thought, University of Naples “Federico II”, Naples, Italy, 5-7 October 2026. Deadline for proposals is 15 March 2026. Spread the word! europoliticalthought.wordpress.com #HPT #skystorians

Europoliticalthought Website of the European Society for the History of Political Thought

ESHPT-Brill First-Book Manuscript Prize in the History of Political Thought, deadline: 31 Dec. The winner receives €500 at our conference in Naples in Oct 26 & a chance to publish their book in the Brill Series History of European Political & Constitutional Thought europoliticalthought.wordpress.com

Cover of JECS special issue 48.4 (December 2025), with ToC and network diagram. DOI: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17540208/2025/48/4

At last our special issue, JECS 48.4, is out, all 200+ pages of it! We're very proud of it. Thanks are due to many colleagues, but especially Nuria Yáñez-Bouza for proof-correcting heroics, and the general editor, Emrys Jones, for brilliant support throughout. #18thC #langsky

Hand adjusting a floor plan with handwritten lettering reading 'Pickford Street'.

We’re busy installing a new exhibition read to open on Wednesday 26 November.

‘Cottonopolis: The origins of global Manchester’ explores how 18th century Manchester was transformed into a manufacturing powerhouse and the centre of Britain’s booming cotton industry.

Congrats, it's a great article!

Applications invited for the Society's Centenary PhD Fellowships, 2026-27 - RHS Applications are now invited for the Royal Historical Society’s Centenary PhD Fellowships to support postgraduate historians to complete a doctorate. Two Fellowships, of six months each, are offered f...

Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026-27 Centenary PhD Fellowships for early career historians completing a doctorate bit.ly/48pWB72

Fellowships provide support of £8500 per award for 6 months and are held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians

A New World of Revolutions The hemispheric politics that shaped popular revolutions against European colonial rule

Very happy to share that my book, A New World of Revolutoins, now has a cover and page with @princetonupress.bsky.social. Many thanks to the editorial team for coming up with a great design!

press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Programs - School of Advanced Study

🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉

universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/

(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)

Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.

www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

CALL FOR PAPERS!

Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026).

Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History

The image contains the cover of Schmitt's book (which shows the title, author and a drawing of an island) and the JCB logo.

Join us on Monday, December 1, 2025 at noon for a JCB Reads virtual discussion of The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean by Casey Schmitt.

This event is online only. All are welcome!

Register here! brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

CFP: Order and Disorder in Global Intellectual History

There are a few travel bursaries for those who need it.
👇
fass.sabanciuniv.edu/tr/ISIH

A two-year LABOR HISTORY postdoc @brownhist.bsky.social and @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social

Possible foci: migration/displacement/ human trafficking; automation/technology/processes of global integration; or gender/sexuality/politics of reproductive labor

Please apply!

Cover of Allison Powers’ magnificent book, Arbitrating Empire

New book alert, absolute must-read for anyone interested in the history of US empire and international law:
Allison Powers, Arbitrating Empire: United States Expansion and the Transformation of International Law

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Research Assistant – Neil Davidson Writing Fellowship at University of Glasgow Discover an exciting academic career path as a Research Assistant – Neil Davidson Writing Fellowship at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

Research Assistant – Neil Davidson Writing Fellowship- University of Glasgow - School of Social and Political Sciences #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPM227/r...

Science and Society in the Age of Revolutions! Catch up on this past conference with the videos on the APS YouTube! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoKwLGnyZL4C3gI0L1uu7Vk1hnJTnQ-sw&si=_PSYBmIwCQiGAZZB

And check out other examples of Women's Voices in the Rebellion Papers in our image gallery here: virtualtreasury.ie/image-galler...

The American Revolution Thirteen colonies unite in rebellion, win their independence, and found the United States.

_The American Revolution_ offers a look at how complex and violent — and also inspiring— the American founding was. Getting huge coverage, it may give folks time to digest that complexity as 2026 commences. Premieres tonight + PBS has preview clips of all episodes. www.pbs.org/show/the-ame...

Ruthless by Edmond Smith — the brutal rise of Britain’s industrial power The historian’s splendid account sets out the ideas, inventions and relentless exploitation that drove the nation’s growth from 1660-1800

Thrilled to see Ruthless reviewed in the FT by Linda Colley, and to be placed among the FT's books of the week too! 😊

www.ft.com/content/67c1...

What's the link between colonialism, credit, and the making of European commercial society?

On 20 November, 17:00 CET, join a discussion with Blaise Truong-Loï 👉 loom.ly/COLaZ20

Organised by our Economic History and Ideas Working Group

📣 #FinancialHistory

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