Joel Herman

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JOB ALERT 📜📚

Librarian & executive director of Yale’s Lewis Walpole Library (Farmington, CT)

•Research center for 18th-century Britain
•You’d report to the fabulous Michelle Light

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I'm hiring! 🏛️

This is a VA-based, hybrid 3-year position for a historian working on digital projects related to religious history. We'll also be hiring a historian working on onsite programming and training related to religious history.

Feel free to reach out! www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

An image with a red banner on top with the text, in white: HLQ | an early modern studies journal. Below is the text: 'The Mysteries of Apalache': Tall Tales and Lost Worlds in the Early American South. Owen Stanwood. ABSTRACT: In 1658, Charles de Rochefort published a description of Apalache, an Indigenous polity located in southeastern North America that had welcomed French and English refugees. Usually dismissed as a tall tale, Rochefort’s account has never been thoroughly analyzed. The story demonstrates how Europeans in the early period of colonization understood America as a place of wonder and inspiration. In addition, one can learn how information (and misinformation) traveled across the Atlantic. Rochefort probably patched his tale together from various oral sources, including some that came from Indigenous Americans. As a result, Rochefort revealed a lost world of stories and shows the myriad ways Europeans tried to make sense of America.

Charles de Rochefort, a Protestant refugee, imagined a Native American utopia called Apalache. Stanwood uncovers the networks of knowledge, rumor, and storytelling that produced this fantastic--but not entirely fictional--place. #earlymodern #hlq

Want to work for @britishacademy.bsky.social? We are hiring several roles at the moment including 3 policy roles at different levels, a Deputy Head of Research Funding and several more. We are a lovely place to work. Take a look
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/about/jobs/

Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England

Our next event is happening next week! Sue Wiseman, Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social and Michael Powell Davies will be discussing "Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England" ✒️📖✨ Sign-up here (in-person and online) Thursday 5 March, 5.30 pm www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

YouTube video by The John Carter Brown Library Journalism and History When History Is News: A Panel Discussion

The JCB is closed due to the recent storm, but there is still lots happening behind the scenes!

If you missed Tuesday's discussion featuring JCB Director Karin Wulf, Laurent Dubois (U of Virginia), Nicole Hemmer (Vanderbilt U), and Martha Jones (Johns Hopkins U), watch it here: youtu.be/0Y8Xc3O55K4

Today sees the beginning of a two-day conference hosted by @thehuntington.bsky.social, organised by Dr Vanessa Wilkie and IMEMS member Dr Amanda Herbert, 'United Queendom: Legacies of Gendered Power in the Early Modern British World'. 👑

Jefferson on Race: A Reader by Thomas Jefferson, edited by Annette Gordon-Reed. From The New York Times–bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello, a groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson’s writings on race that every American should read.

A groundbreaking collection of Thomas Jefferson’s writings on race that every American should read.

Jefferson on Race, edited by @agordonreed.bsky.social, arrives March 31 (26 May UK pub).

Learn more & preorder yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#History #ThomasJefferson

Journal of Caribbean History | University of the West Indies Press The Journal of Caribbean History (JCH) is a peer reviewed journal produced by the Departments of History, The University of the West Indies, and published by the University of the West Indies Press. T...

Co-editors @gunvorsimonsen.bsky.social, Joy Lewis, Rasmus Christensen, and I have recently published a special issue of the Journal of #Caribbean #History! 🎉 Article topics include migration, trade networks, commons, marronnage, slavery law, and indentureship: www.uwipress.com/journals/the...

Conference : The Plantation of Ulster

Thanks to all who supported the 'Plantation of Ulster' conference at PRONI on 12 February, associated with the 'People of Plantation Ulster' database project. Recordings of the talks are now available at: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

Parliamentary History Click on the title to browse this journal

The 2026 special issue, edited by Naomi Lloyd-Jones is now live! The issue is the product of a 2023 conference at @durhamhistory.bsky.social discussing collective action and the politics of organisation in Britain and Ireland in the long nineteenth-century:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1750...

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on a fabulous collection.

A selection of books form the Fagel Collection

TCD Library is recruiting a Senior Bibliographer to help catalogue the Fagel Collection! This is a fabulous professional opportunity to work on one of Europe's great early modern private libraries. Closing 10 March at noon. Full details available at www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies

S-USIH 2026 CFP: Intellectual Historians’ Toolkits: Methods, Theories, Practices | Society for US Intellectual History Society for U.S. Intellectual History Call for Proposals The 2026 S-USIH Annual Conference will be held in Madison, Wisconsin, on November 12-14, 2026, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Mad...

The 2026 S-USIH Annual Conference will be held in Madison, Wisconsin, on November 12-14, 2026, on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The theme is “Intellectual Historians’ Toolkits: Methods, Theories, Practices.” Check out the CFP. s-usih.org/2026/02/s-us...

The Irish in America's Indian Wars: A Dark History | Irish History Podcast

I joined Fin on the Irish History Podcast to discuss my Yankee Pensioners in Ireland Interactive Map. We focused in on those Irish involved in the wars against Native Americans and later on what the database tells us about the lives of women in 19th century Ireland: shows.acast.com/irishhistory...

Seeking the High Ground with Matthew Mason | NACBS Join NACBS to celebrate the publication of Matthew Mason’s recent book Seeking the High Ground: Slavery and Political Conflict in the British Atlantic World. Eliga Gould will join Matthew in discussio...

📢Book event!

Join us online next Thursday to hear more about Matthew Mason’s newest book, Seeking the High Ground: Slavery and Political Conflict in the British Atlantic World

📅Thus March 5
⏰12pm EST/ 9am PST / 5pm GMT
Free and open to the public

RSVP: www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

Our new exhibition The English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyond is now open!

Co-curated by Karen Attar (SHL) and @michaelwdurrant.bsky.social (IES, SAS) the display celebrates the 550th anniversary of William Caxton’s first printing press!

https://virtualtreasury.ie/item/NAI-PRIV-M-5036-A-9 Handwritten copy of the Irish House of Lords resolution on 5 march 1766 ordering the 1766 Religious Census to be taken. Source: National Archives, Ireland, PRIV/M/5036A, p. 13.

https://www.virtualtreasury.ie/gold-seams/1766-religious-census The homepage for the 1766 Religious Census on the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. Every surviving copy census records from over a dozen archives are gathered together and fully searchable here.

Countdown to the 260th anniversary of Ireland's first census. 🕰️ 7️⃣
5 March 1766 the Irish House of Lords orders a census of all householders noting 'which are protestants and which are Papists' (Catholics).
They gave only 61 days to cover the whole country!
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Latin American Studies Association Nineteenth Century Section presents In Press: forthcoming books in nineteenth- century Latin America, a virtual conversation with Víctor Goldgel-Carball, author of Racial Doubt: Slavery, Passing, and the Emergence of Black Writing in Cuba and Arturo Chang, author of A New World of Revolutions: Popular Imaginations and Movements Across the Americas, forthcoming June 2026. Free and virtual event

Tomorrow (Feb 27) at 12:00pm EST, the @lasabluesky.bsky.social Nineteenth Century Section hosts a free, virtual event with Arturo Chang, author of A New World of Revolutions, exploring the hemispheric politics that shaped popular revolutions against European colonial rule.

Register: buff.ly/AWl11Jc

The Huguenot Bursary for Historical Research 2026 The purpose of the award is to facilitate the research of the recipient, for example to cover research trips etc.

The Huguenot Bursary is now live ! A bursary of £4,000 is available to scholars at any career stage. It is intended to support a period of archival research leading to a publication or completion of a doctoral thesis. More info: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

Can we get some gold bars from anonymous donors to fix the humanities funding crisis??

Join us soon for ‘The Silences of Christopher Hill’ with Mike Braddick (University of Oxford)
5 March, 4.30, Birkbeck, London
Book here SilencesChristopherHill.eventbrite.co.uk
@bbkhistorical.bsky.social
@qmul.bsky.social

VRTI will be posting some information about the 1766 religious census returns over the next few days (260th 🎂 approaching). Keep an 👁️out. We'll be revealing some hidden gems 💎 among the surviving returns.

Wonderful to see that we have already started receiving abstracts for our upcoming conference this summer.

If you are an early modernist studying violence from any discipline, do consider this opportunity to share your research with our network, and please help us spread the news! ⬇️

Will democracy survive as a 21st-century form of government, or are we watching it slide towards bankruptcy?

On 11 March, David Runciman (@ppfideas.bsky.social), Lyse Doucet, Thant Myint-U and Christopher Clark will discuss the slow death of democracy.

Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/londo...

In the Margins: Writing Non-Elite Lives in the Long Eighteenth Century with Professor Abigail Williams | King's College London Professor Abigail Williams explores the reading practices of non-elites in long eighteenth-century Britain.

📖 On 18 March, Professor Abigail Williams explores how we might use the material traces of past non-elite readers to better understand the relationship between literacy and selfhood in early modern England.

🔗 Register ⬇️
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@kingsenglish.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social

Deadline tomorrow! Send in your expressions of interest.

Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England Who wrote in early modern England? What did they write and why did they write it? How did their writing fit into the wider worlds that they inhabited? In this talk, Sue Wiseman, Brodie Waddell and Michael Powell Davies – all from Birkbeck University of London – will address these questions by introducing their ongoing Leverhulme-funded collaborative project on non-elite writers in England from c.1570 to 1730. Our research explores the writing practices of people below the level of the gentry and clergy, considering their biographical contexts, their motivations and their contributions to written culture. In addition to giving a bird’s eye view of the sorts of writers and texts we are studying, each of the three speakers will discuss a couple of specific examples of particular writers, including the notebooks of a midland villager, the spiritual diary a London wigmaker, and the confessions of a condemned widow.

'Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England'

Sue Wiseman, Michael Powell-Davies and I will be introducing our five-year collaborative project at the @ihr.bsky.social on Thursday, March 5th. Hope to see you there!

Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

‘Not voting at all’: the election of an imprisoned MP in 1769 - The History of Parliament 2024 represents the 250th anniversary of John Wilkes’s re-election for Middlesex and election as Lord Mayor of London. It was by any measure a remarkable

With by-elections and the state of the current electoral system in the news, another chance to consider one of the most famous sets of by-elections in the 18th century, when John Wilkes was re-elected multiple times for Middlesex, even though he was in gaol:
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