Jenny Shaw

Jenny Shaw

@profjennyshaw.bsky.social

Historian in Roll Tide country. (Almost always) all things early modern Caribbean. Currently foraying into the late eighteenth century while working on THE DUCHESS AND THE DANDY. She/her. Always 🇮🇪🇬🇧 Currently🇺🇸 Views are my own etc.

6,148 Followers 1,011 Following 605 Posts Joined Sep 2023
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Awww, thanks, Anne 🙏🏻😍

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70% OFF The Women of Rendezvous: A Transatlantic Story of Family and Slavery The Women of Rendezvous is a dramatic transatlantic story about five women who birthed children by the same prominent Barbados politician and enslaver. Two of the women were his wives, two he enslaved...

THE WOMEN OF RENDEZVOUS audiobook, read by the amazing Heni Zoutomou, is one year old. To celebrate, audiobooks.com are offering 70% off (+ 2 more books for free!). Only $6 - deal is good until 31st March! 🗃️
@sonyabonczek.bsky.social
@uncpress.bsky.social
www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

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a woman with curly hair and glasses is saying `` i think you 're totally amazing '' . Alt: a woman (Andrea) with curly hair and glasses is saying ``i think you 're totally amazing'' on the incomparable 1990s juggernaut Beverly Hills 90210

Brilliant! 🤩

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2 weeks ago

Two of my absolutely favorite book things together: @sonyabonczek.bsky.social and @draftingthepast.bsky.social Match made in heaven! 🗃️

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2 weeks ago

Thanks for creating the list in the first place - great stuff! 😊

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2 weeks ago

The @jcblibrary.bsky.social has an amazing collection of digitized early modern images that are free! And the system is extremely easy to use!

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2 months ago
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Encyclopédie noire If you peer closely into the bookstores, salons, and diplomatic circles of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world, Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry...

Lots of great recs on this list, so I’ll add Sara Johnson’s ENCYCLOPÉDIE NOIRE which is a methodological tour de force and an astonishingly compelling read:

uncpress.org/978146967691...

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3 months ago

Great listen - bonus pen chat was an unexpected delight!

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4 months ago

OMG, congratulations @melkatrey.bsky.social !!!!!!!!! So deserved!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳

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4 months ago

🤩

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4 months ago
A green metal insulated mug with the logo for the Drafting the Past Podcast sitting on a white counter

Hot juice in the @draftingthepast.bsky.social insulated travel cup to get through this election night #Mamdani #onceaNewYorker…
(and do yourselves a favour and go listen to the podcast while you wait for the results to come in) 🗃️

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5 months ago

Congratulations, Randy! 🥳

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5 months ago

Oh wow! (this is what happens when you try and take a sabbatical from social media while on sabbatical...)

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5 months ago

Thank you @slaveryarchive.bsky.social! This is very unexpected - I had no idea!

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5 months ago

Thank you Lou, I had no idea! (sabbatical-ing from social media while on sabbatical...)

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5 months ago

Thank you, Alyssa!
(I'm trying to take a sabbatical from social media while on sabbatical, but then I miss very kind posts like this one...)

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6 months ago

They do! The cover is 🔥
(I'm going to make sure that the extra goes to a good home 😊)

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6 months ago

I love this reframing! 😭

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6 months ago
Casey Schmidt’s book, THE PREDATORY SEA, resting on a brown wooden table

@csschmitt.bsky.social - it’s here, and it’s gorgeous! Looking forward to getting stuck in. Congratulations! 🥳
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6 months ago
Two copies of Kim Hall’s fabulous book THE SWEET TASTE OF EMPIRE on a white table with part of a green Xmas cactus visible in the background

So, @profkfh.bsky.social,
this is what happens when you preorder, forgot you preordered, and preorder again! Twice as nice 😆
@pennpress.bsky.social

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6 months ago

This will be soooooo good! 🗃️

Pre-order available now
www.dukeupress.edu/archival-irr...

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6 months ago

Amazing!!! So many congratulations!!! 🥳🥳🥳

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6 months ago
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Home - The University of North Carolina Press

Huge sale! @uncpress.bsky.social is letting their amazing catalogue go for 50% off to celebrate their new website. But don’t dither - it’s 48 hours only! You can get all kinds of great books including THE WOMEN OF RENDEZVOUS at half price with code 01NEWSITE50 🗃️

uncpress.org

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6 months ago

The same thing happened to me! It was probably only a few days until I got mine, but it felt like FOREVER 😆

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6 months ago

Ummm of course!

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6 months ago
Kim F. Hall’s book, THE SWEET TASTE OF EMPIRE, sitting on a wooden table partly on top of a purple, yellow, blue, and white table runner

@profkfh.bsky.social look what finally arrived - I cannot wait to dig in!!! 🤩

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7 months ago

Who could possibly have predicted this?

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7 months ago
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This is actually happening! 😊 The Predatory Sea featured alongside some great titles, like Jordan Smith's The Invention of Rum. Thank you, @pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️

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7 months ago

Oh amazing! Thank you!

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