Mikael Alm

A photo from above of papers fanned out on a table, with individual piles paper-clipped together. A pair of reading glasses are resting on top.

So much proofs, so many, many cross-references (note to past me: no one wants to see all possible pp. 000). Tomorrow we Adobe.

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A photograph showing a copy of a book, "Slaves in Paris", on a brown wooden desk.

Just finished Miranda Spieler's "Slaves in Paris: Hidden Lives and Fugitive Histories". Beautifully written, deeply scholarly, and quite devastating in parts. #C18

Call for applications: The Royal Swedish Academy of History, Letters and Antiquities is offering fellowships to young scholars and civil servants for projects dealing with the special collections at the Swedish National Heritage Board. Apply by 30 August 2025. www.raa.se/rettig

Hello #Katowice! Blissed to be at the #SAGA2025 conference, always a special forum for #OldNorseStudies #ScandinavianStudies

In 1764, while discussing female authors one critic suggested that the views of ‘the liberal’ were normative. But what did it mean to be a ‘liberal’ at this time? This article examines the ‘liberal and enlightened’ patterns of thought popularized by reviewers who belonged to the network of friends and acquaintances of the founders of the Monthly Review, the dissenters Ralph Griffiths and William Rose. Opposing different forms of ‘tyranny’, or authoritarianism, critics promoted ‘liberal and rational’ political principles and a social morality comprising the values of open-mindedness, reason, toleration, and ‘equity’ or justice as fairness. Focusing in particular on issues relating to gender, this article shows how conceptions of the ‘liberal spirit’ informed accounts of women’s capabilities, of their ‘genius’ and rationality. By the 1780s, the language of ‘liberal sentiments’ had spread within print culture, appearing in the New Annual Register, founded by Andrew Kippis, a leading critic at the Monthly, and in the work of political and social theorists such as Major John Cartwright or James Mackintosh. Yet, defeating stereotypical notions of gender could be complicated even for men who aspired to a place within the elite of the ‘enlightened’ or ‘liberal and philosophical’.

📣Out now on #firstview!

Valerie Wainwright (Independent Scholar) on '‘Liberal’ Virtues and Values, Women’s ‘Genius’, and the British Literary Reviews, c. 1750–1795'

#Enlightenment #Politics #Reason #Rationality 18thc 🗃️

👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Gudrun? Eller var det en annan?

Planning on going to EAUH 2026 in Barcelona? We are organising a session on:

Infrastruggles and citizenship: Urban public services, 1840–1940

Consider proposing a paper for session 56. Details at www.eauhbarcelona2026.eu

#eauh26 #urbanhistory #welfare

En hand som håller upp en bok. Titeln är KVINNORIKET - historien om kvinnor i Sverige under tusen år Författare Sara Backman Prytz

Idag är det två veckor tills min bok släpps!

Jag skriver ju mycket i jobbet, men det är det typ ingen som läser om det inte är obligatorisk kurslitteratur?

Men nu?! Nu ska folk läsa av egen fri vilja! Ovanligt och lite nervöst.

Reading Samuel Pepys's Shorthand: an online talk and workshop Find out how Pepys kept his secret diary and have a go at reading the shorthand he wrote it in for yourself!

📣 Still a few places left for my free online event on Samuel Pepys’s diary and shorthand. Saturday 2 August at 6pm BST.
(Registration closes Friday evening)

tinyurl.com/shorthandAug

Slavery, Big Data, and the Cultures of Caribbean Ancestral Histories Royal Historical Society public lecture at the University of Aberdeen

If you're in Aberdeen on 17 September don't miss my colleague Professor Matt Smith's lecture on 'Twice Removed: Slavery, Big Data, and the Cultures of Caribbean Ancestral Histories'.

Digital history both opens up new vistas and obscures 'the knotted histories of empire'. #Skystorians

It doesn’t get much more dystopian than the carnage that followed in the wake of the climate disaster of 6th century Scandinavia. It was so bad that it’s even thought to have left a mark in the mythology—
#wyrdwednesday
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The programme for our new biennial conference, held at the University of Leicester from 4th to 5th September 2025 is now available: urbanhistorygroup.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

A bad day at the printing press, London 1660.
lib-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Record/fbfb3...

Suggestions for interesting work on gaps, losses, silences in the early modern archive - at a documentary rather than a structural level ideally. There’s a huge body of amazing work on the omissions
& occlusions of the archive but I’m looking for something that engages with detail

The CCS' James Kelly's article 'Women’s Agency, Discernment, and Choice in the English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800' has been published open access in @historicaljnl.bsky.social #firstview #nuntastic #skystorians #CathHist #history #Catholicism Read here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

From the Archive: Transferring Embroidery Designs – in the 18th Century (1000 words). www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/tr...

Hello, quite new here, so introducing myself 👋 I’m a historian of #BlackBritishHistory @icws-sas.bsky.social, living in North Wales. My first book was #BlackTudors and my new one #Heiresses, is about nine British women who inherited enslaved people and plantations in the Caribbean.

To Detain or to Punish Join us at The London Archives as Dr Kiran Mehta introduces her new book exploring the penal landscape of 18th century London.

A reminder to book in to hear me talk about London’s prisons (1750-1850) on 3 September at @thelondonarchives.bsky.social
(Link below)
www.thelondonarchives.org/whats-on/to-...

#skystorians #prisonhistory #archives

The title page of a print can be seen. The image is upside-down. the print was titled "An dem mit Inn- und Euserlichen Gaben besonders befündlichen Herrn Elien Rudelien, würdig belorberten Poeten unnd trefflich geübten Ritter von Ehrengrün", and can be found in Dresden at the SLUB: https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/94703/1#

Mistakes were made in #earlymodern print shops. However, such #misprints, as they were called, rarely survived in our collections. Here you see a misprint from 1642 Germany. The image was printed upside down, and the proof-reader crossed the print to make sure this is not to be used. #bookhistory

New History Book Series Call for Proposals: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth- Century Cultures and Societies - BSECS Series Editors: Elaine Chalus, University of Liverpool, UK and Deborah Simonton, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Routledge Editor: Max Novick The long eighteenth century sits as a pivotal poin...

***CALL FOR PROPOSALS***
Routledge Studies in #18thC Cultures & Societies (eds. @profelainechalus.bsky.social & Deborah Simonton) seeks proposals for book-length studies on aspects of British, European, or transnational culture and society c.1680-1850. Full details: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...

Universitetets många röster har tystnat | Moa Lindqvist När Sveriges lärosäten talar med en röst går inte bara den språkliga mångfalden förlorad. Det gör också universitetets förmåga att vara en plats för kritik och intellektuell debatt.

Måsteläsning för alla med intresse för svensk högre utbildning!

Photo of an old library with wooden shelving and a balcony.

We are looking forward to welcoming over 300 delegates in person and online, as we host the international ‘Discovering Collections Discovering Communities’ Conference from tomorrow/this week.

The Urban History Group has launched a new regular blog series to coincide with the return of their conference

Here are my thoughts on researching the history of housing crises during an era of housing crisis, as well as the key role of the UHG in these discussions of the urban past and present

book cover of Thor Rydin's The Works and Times of Johan Huizinga: Writing History in the Age of Collapse. The image is of a marble sculpture of an old woman comforting a young woman who is crying on her lap. The old woman is sitting, the young woman is half lying on the floor, half hidden in the lap of the old woman.

I've enjoyed reading this this weekend: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...: a reading of Huizinga's writing from his sense of loss (of wife, eldest child, heritage, certainty) & its impact on the value he ascribed to doing history.

Interview @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social: open.spotify.com/episode/3ICA...

Workshop - Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany are seeking proposals on the topic 'Power Couples? Collaborations and work and home, c. 1750-1914'.

Interested? Please email sven.jaros@geschichte.uni-hall.de and z.thomas@bham.ac.uk with a 250 word proposal by 1st September 2025

Cover of "The Medieval Chronicle," Volume 17, Issue 1 (2025), featuring a medieval illumination of Jean Gerson writing at a desk, wearing a red robe. The 15th-century illustration comes from a French manuscript held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, and is also known from editions of "The Imitation of Christ" by Thomas à Kempis. In the background, yellow and blue book spines from the "Library of the Written Word" series by Brill are visible on a bookshelf.

Table of contents of "The Medieval Chronicle," Volume 17, Issue 1 (2025). It includes: Publisher’s Note by Kate Hammond (p. 1) Editors’ Introduction: "Continuity and Change" by Cristian Bratu and Alison Williams Lewin (p. 3) Articles: "Guillaume Cretin and the Rewriting of the Grandes Chroniques de France: Merging History, Politics and Poetry" by Antoine Brix and Ellen Delvallée (p. 5) "The Chronicle of Michael of Carynthia (Early Sixteenth Century): History, Biography, and Observant Identity" by Florin Leonte (p. 37) "Perdre la Normandie dans les chroniques anglaises à la fin du Moyen Âge" by Elisa Mantienne and Amicie Pélissié du Rausas (p. 72) "Mother of Mercy, Is This the End of Thomas? Villains to Heroes: The Transformative Power of Crusade" by Carol Sweetenham (p. 98)

Delighted to receive our office copy of the new journal "The Medieval Chronicle" – very happy with its fresh look!
Issue 17.2 will be hitting the shelves in the autumn.
Check out the journal here: brill.com/view/journal...
#medievalhistory #MedievalSky

I'm quite glad he didn't burn that letter.

August, 1775. Sisterly advice about how to turn a family connection ("Washington's wife's first husband was your second cousin") to advantage. With a comment about genealogy manuscripts. #VernacularGenealogy karinwulf.com/tidbits/mode...

Workshop: 'Power Couples? Collaborations at Work and at Home, c. 1750-1914’ - CALL FOR PAPERS - RHS Workshop | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany | 11-13 May 2026 ‘Power Couples? Collaborations at work and at home, c. 1750-1914’  Call for Papers, deadline - 1 September 2025 In recent...

This looks fantastic! Very tempted indeed.
>> Workshop: ‘Power Couples? Collaborations at Work and at Home, c. 1750-1914’ – CALL FOR PAPERS - due 1 Sept. #skystorians 🗃️ Thanks to @georgianlords.bsky.social for the heads-up!

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