Joel Herman

The next Historical Network Research conference will be held in Turin, Italy in July 2026, and submissions are now open.

Proposals due December 1. Bursaries available for early career scholars.

This year's theme is "Networks and their Sources." See you there!

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OI Digital Projects Coffeehouse - OIEAHC Begun in winter 2021 as a way of bringing people together virtually while the pandemic kept us apart physically, the OI Coffeehouse has proven a valuable online gathering place for many in the early A...

The @oieahc.bsky.social Digital Projects Coffeehouse Series returns October 14th!

We're kicking things off with @deepthimurali.bsky.social, co-director of Connecting Threads: Fashioning Madras in India and the Caribbean

Sign up now to join the conversation.

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We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians.

Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd

Please let us know if there are gaps.
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The conference is booked out, but you can still register to be placed on a waitlist, as a limited number of tickets may become available early next week. Thank you so much for your interest.

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Many thanks to Patrick Geoghegan for the invitation. The show will also appear as a podcast at the link below after it airs on Sunday.

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@virtualtreasury.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social

Listen in to a discussion about Ireland and the American Revolution on @newstalkfm.bsky.social featuring Patrick Geoghegan, Finola O’Kane, Eliga Gould, and Patrick Griffin. The episode airs this Sunday at 7PM, ahead of our conference next week. It was a privilege to take part in the conversation.

Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference Podcasts Since 2011, more than 200 speakers from a range of disciplines including History, English, Archaeology and Art History, have presented papers at Tudor and Stuart Ireland conferences. Download podcasts...

Podcasts from this year's Tudor and Stuart Ireland conference @ucddublin.bsky.social are now available. Thanks to Mike Liffey @historyhub.bsky.social for making us all sounds so crisp historyhub.ie/tudor-and-st...

Thanks so much!

Many thanks to the editors at the @historicaljnl.bsky.social blog for publishing this short piece, and to @ellasbaraini.bsky.social for her help with it. My recent article, and one of the central ideas of the book manuscript I’m currently working on, in a nutshell.

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Servants Abroad | Home Travel Journals by British Working People, 1765-1798

The OUP link won't work any more, but the book is now being distributed by Liverpool University Press, here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Applications are now open for the 2026-27 predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships with the America in the World Consortium!

Applicants from all disciplines whose research bears directly on American grand strategy, broadly defined, are welcome to apply.

Deadline: December 1

Great opportunity to get supportive feedback!
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Freedom in the Age of Slavery: A History of Free People of Color in Virginia coming to a bookstore near you in May 2026. Available for preorder now. For more info, see www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10193/

Should be excellent:

“Late Heaney”
Nicholas Allen
A personal and lyrical study of Seamus Heaney's work after he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995

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@dedalusdenaries.bsky.social

More information and how to book www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

Panel Discussion: “Global History and Planetary Histories” Planetary Histories seminar- session 1

Global History and Planetary Histories

On 9 October, 17.30 GMT, join the 1st session of the @ihr.bsky.social Planetary Histories seminars, a panel discussion with Emma Rothschild 👉 loom.ly/30DV37s

Organised by our own Glenda Sluga and Giorgio Riello with Andrew Fitzmaurice and Thomas Simpson

Assistant Professor of History (26-02) - HigherEdJobs Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

Come work with me!

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Francis Marion University and the History Department invite applications for a tenure-track historian specializing in American History.

Cover of new Royal Historical Society monograph published on 30 October 2025: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940' by Gareth Roddy

Published this month: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940', by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/48Hkjfu

The next in the Society's 'New Historical Perspectives' book series, available from 30 October: Open Access and paperback print @uolpress.bsky.social #Skystorians

Thomas F. Madden - The Fall of Republics

A History from Ancient Carthage to the American Constitution

À paraître en juin aux Princeton UP

JOB AD: 3 3-year postdocs available at the Bonn Center for Slavery and Dependency Studies (BCDSS) @dependencybonn.de: I can highly recommend it as a place to spend (some of) your postdoc phase -- a deeply interdisciplinary environment with wonderful colleagues. shorturl.at/69hMY

✨Deeply honoured to deliver this year's Annual Digital Lecture at The National Archives! Drawing on our @erc.europa.eu Data Loss project, I'll explore how preservation creates loss in the digital age and what that means for the politics of archives. Nov 20 6pm at Senate House, London. Do join us!

Spain and the American Revolution Examine the role Spain played in the American Revolution, who Spain's major players were, and additional resources to continue learning more.

🇪🇸 What was Spain's role in the American Revolution?

Explore Spain’s influence on the Revolutionary War, meet key Spanish Revolutionary figures, and more with our Revolution Around the World series. #HHM

Spain and the American Revolution: https://bit.ly/3zd4XKv

Dept of History, University of Liverpool - Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships

Interested candidates should identify a potential mentor in the dept & submit an Expression of Interest by 3 Nov. Come & work with me &/or my colleagues! Details here: www.liverpool.ac.uk/humanities-a... #skystorians 🗃️

I'm excited about our upcoming Rothbaum Lectures given by Maggie Blackhawk! Lectures are free and open to the public.

What should I read about French and English economic policy (“mercantilism”) in the second half of the seventeenth-century, particularly regarding (what else?) sugar and tobacco? I’ve read some old and new works, but I’m sure I’m missing many. @wadehistory.bsky.social @roperlou.bsky.social

"A major shift in how we understand colonial growth in the early Caribbean, colonial-Indigenous relations, the origins of slavery in the Caribbean and North America, and the connections between piracy, privateering, and colonization." Greg O'Malley nails it. Congrats @csschmitt.bsky.social!

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 - University of London Press At a time when working-class writing is gaining long-overdue recognition and radical ideas may be more important than ever, this timely collection of eighteen essays examines the powerful intersection...

Out today: British Working-Class and Radical Writing Since 1700 edited by John Goodridge & @adambridgen.bsky.social.

This book is published #OpenAccess, with funding from @acls1919.bsky.social 👏

'Workers, Radicals, Environmentalists and Feminists, Unite!'

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Happy #NationalCoffeeDay! We're celebrating by spotlighting Michelle McDonald's meticulously researched, must-read new book COFFEE NATION, which explores how coffee tied the economic future of the early United States to the wider Atlantic world.

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Cork City Libraries, Cork CL GJ

Professor Gillian O'Brien (https://www.gillianobrien.net/about)

This Fri, 3 October at 2pm — 3rd and final talk in @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy's "Finding Ireland" online series: "Ireland's undiscovered past: the 1800s" from @gillianobrien.bsky.social. More info on how to join here:

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