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So excited to share my new article in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social:
"Colonial World-Making and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape of Good Hope" (Open access)
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An abomination of a "sandwich" giving rise to a complex tax question that even HMRC doesn't (yet) seem to care about: this article is a thing of beauty

Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope* Abstract. As the Cape of Good Hope was integrated into early modern colonial world-making projects, it came to be regarded as ‘the western part of the East

New on advance access: "Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope"

by @gianamar97.bsky.social‬ (@uvahumanities.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

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The Confessions of Samuel Pepys by Guy de la Bédoyère review – journal of a predator Newly decoded extracts expose the celebrated 17th-century diarist and naval administrator as a rapacious abuser

The Confessions of Samuel Pepys by Guy de la Bédoyère review – journal of a predator www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Day 218: Moon blue glows that despise / You — idolize you

Federico García Lorca was most cruelly murdered at the prime of his life. This poem in homage to him so powerfully and succinctly captures the intense yearning of the Moon, the enigmatic character of Lorca's play "Blood Wedding".

#MaritimeHistory

One of many things I took away from the World Economic History Congress last week is how much ECRs appreciate having opportunities to review books (and, in turn, having their books reviewed). Just a reminder that @journalmaritime.bsky.social welcomes ECRs as reviewers – see the details below! 👇 🗃️

« Gardarem lo Larzac » : de la dimension occitane de la lutte paysa... Gardarem lo Larzac. Trois mots de langue d’oc devenus emblématiques d’une décennie de lutte pour garder la terre à sa vocation agricole. Un mouvement dont le caractère symbolique était souligné en ...

Does your institution subscribe to 'OpenEdition Freemium for Journals'? If so, could you help me check a PDF page number for my book proofs?

This is the article I'm referencing: journals.openedition.org/lengas/383?l...

All of the above, sadly, but I'm thinking especially about the growing threat of redundancies

I reviewed Chrislayne Alfagali's brilliant _Blacksmiths of Ilamba_ for @rsaorg.bsky.social's Renaissance Quarterly. Highly recommend Alfagali's book to anyone interested in histories of technology and early modern Africa:
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Serious talk: should anybody actually *want* to get a permanent position in British academia right now? Or is a generation of remarkable junior scholars fighting to win the job market lottery, only for the "lucky" few to discover the grand prize is a new form of academic precarity by another name?

MONORAAAAAAAAAIL!

this is widely thought to be because on the current trajectory no one believes there will be any people, culture, or environments to measure in 2029

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I'm still looking for a paper or two to round out a panel on Microhistory in the Era Global History for @rsaorg.bsky.social's 2026 conference in S.F. Send me your proposal asap!
See www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... for details.

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

Amongst my many dreams as an historian is to be interviewed by Philomena Cunk

Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament at The National Archives Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...

Amongst my many dreams as an historian is to be interviewed by Philomena Cunk

The focus is more on economic/legal practices that anticipate/respond to maritime incidents

#MaritimeHistory

A copy of Jake Dyble's "Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe: General Average in Law and Practice in Seventeenth-Century Tuscany"

Delighted to get my hands on a physical copy of @jakedyble.bsky.social's "Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe"! This is an indispensable read for historians of the early modern maritime economy – the nuts and bolts of maritime practices matter so much, as Jake demonstrates

And it will produce the most valuable tulip bulbs ever seen in all of these South Seas

Woman’s memoirs give fascinating insight into life in 17th-century northern England Newly reunited manuscripts by Alice Thornton show how she navigated personal crises during tumultuous events such as the civil war

Alice! Top work @hagenilda.bsky.social @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social @sharonhoward.bsky.social et al!

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This is *so* well written

Day 214: At the heart of this striking article on the complexities of cocoa smuggling lies a simple reality: farmers in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana are not paid enough for the beans they produce.

FEATURED JOB: Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European history) [Tenure-Track] Pomona History Department, Pomona College - California

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#edusky #academicsky #modernhistory

Day 213: After giving four papers in four days, alongside running two sessions, I'm exhausted! But it was lovely to catch up with old friends, make some new ones, and have many great conversations. Here is a summary of my week in Lund in pastries!

Day 213: After giving four papers in four days, alongside running two sessions, I'm exhausted! But it was lovely to catch up with old friends, make some new ones, and have many great conversations. Here is a summary of my week in Lund in pastries!

#WEHC2025 Ellen Nye (@thetimeisnye.bsky.social)‬ is kicking off our (very early!) session on "The Institutional Foundations of Early Modern Ottoman-European Commerce". She is speaking on Ottoman financial instruments and how these adapted to new circumstances

#WEHC2025 Now sitting in on "Technologies and Knowledge on the Move" – looking forward to more discussion on cloth!