Lewis Wade 🗃️

A welcome card from the Humboldt Foundation

Very touched to receive this lovely welcome package from the @humboldt-foundation.de. The Foundation (and Germany more broadly) has made me feel very welcome here, and I'm most grateful!

Some of you may recall this post. I thought I'd provide an update on how planning for my analog course is going...

It's been a mix of expected and unexpected, but welcome, surprises --

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A welcome card from the Humboldt Foundation

Very touched to receive this lovely welcome package from the @humboldt-foundation.de. The Foundation (and Germany more broadly) has made me feel very welcome here, and I'm most grateful!

A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Pirates, Plunder, and Enslavement in the World of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695 - Panorama Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...

NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange.

#vastearlyamerica #arthistory

journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...

New poster! Only two weeks until my workshop “Sails, Silk, and Ancient Seas”. I am happy that so many students have taken an interest in ancient Mediterranean and Chinese seafaring. Reviewing their work and helping them refine their posters has taught me a lot about Chinese maritime history as well.

The exterior of St Stephan's church in Mainz on a beautiful winter day

The cloister of St Stephan's church in Mainz on a beautiful winter day

Mainz's unusually large cathedral on a beautiful winter day

A surviving medieval tower from Mainz's city wall on a beautiful winter day

The below-freezing temperatures were entirely worth it for such a beautiful day of sunshine in Mainz

The exterior of St Stephan's church in Mainz on a beautiful winter day

The cloister of St Stephan's church in Mainz on a beautiful winter day

Mainz's unusually large cathedral on a beautiful winter day

A surviving medieval tower from Mainz's city wall on a beautiful winter day

The below-freezing temperatures were entirely worth it for such a beautiful day of sunshine in Mainz

I‘ll also add this article here, which came out earlier this year. it works well as a preview to the book manuscript I am working on.

‘The Imperial Public Sphere: The Press, Publicity, and the Destabilization of the British Empire, c. 1695–1765’

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani forge unlikely bond in the Oval Office US president and New York City’s mayor-elect defy expectations after months of trading barbs

This wasn't "unlikely" – it was very predictable. Mamdani is shrewd and charismatic enough to know how to handle Trump face to face.

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College cats of Oxford Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics. The grey ball ...

Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...

When reading stories like this, I always find myself coming back to (self-)value. Students matter; their learning and development matters. Courses like this tell students they don't matter and that they aren't worth their lecturers' time. The consequences are horrifying and far-reaching.

Ban on veggie ‘burgers’: plant-based products may lose meaty names in UK under EU law Exclusive: Trade agreement means UK is subject to some food labelling rules, with vote on vegetarian food terms this week

Look at all the sovereignty 😍

Mediterraneans?

If you are in Florence on 25 November, join a lecture by Mathieu Grenet on mobility, connectivity, and belonging in the #earlymodern Mediterranean 👉 loom.ly/mWsQzL8

📣 #MigrationHistory #MediterraneanHistory

Ban on veggie ‘burgers’: plant-based products may lose meaty names in UK under EU law Exclusive: Trade agreement means UK is subject to some food labelling rules, with vote on vegetarian food terms this week

Look at all the sovereignty 😍

A Reminder that the Economic History Review now has its own Bluesky account!
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For updates on the latest articles available on Early View, with research on all aspects of economic and social history from around the world and from all periods.

This is the first page of Gul Sen's book chapter "Between Two Spaces: Enslavement and Labor in the Early Modern Ottoman Navy" in the edited volume Comparative and Global Framing of Enslavement, edited by Stephan Conermann, Youval Rotman, Ehud Toledano, and Rachel Zelnick-Abramovitz, pp. 133–166. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023.

❓How did the Ottoman state organize unfree labor - among others: captives, enslaved people, and convicts - to power its early modern navy?

I explore this question in my “Between Two Spaces: Enslavement and Labor in the Early Modern Ottoman Navy.” 1/2

#MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory #OpenAccess

Programs - School of Advanced Study

🎉 All stipendiary IHR Fellowships, Bursaries, & Prizes are now LIVE! 🎉

universityoflondon.smapply.io/prog/lst/

(All of our open competitions start with "IHR" in the title.)

Got a question? Please check the application page & our website for more information.

www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

#skystorians – a colleague is asking for recommendations for reading on the British industrial crisis of the 1970s and early 80s – any recommendations?

#skystorians – a colleague is asking for recommendations for reading on the British industrial crisis of the 1970s and early 80s – any recommendations?

📢📢📢New book forthcoming in the 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800: Cultures of the Sea' book series! Material Culture in the Swedish Navy, c. 1450-1850, edited By Simon Ekström, Niklas Eriksson, Anna Maria Forssberg, Leos Müller will be published 28/4/26 ⚓️⚓️⚓️
routledge.com/Material-Cul...

Plastic Planet | Venus Bivar Stalled negotiations and accelerating accumulation in the global petrochemicals industry

Happy to have written about plastic for @thepolycrisis.bsky.social. Thanks to @70sbachchan.bsky.social for sourcing the excellent graphics. And thanks to @rebecca-altman.bsky.social and @anjakrieger.bsky.social for being my go-to's on all-things plastic.

www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/pla...

Following from my last post, I thought I should share the subject of the talks that have made me animated! I would also like to thank @swwdtp.bsky.social for all their support during my last couple of presentations!

A headline: Scientists have discovered a 'third state' between life and death

"Postdoc in the job market"

Final few hours in beautiful Montreal for #NACBS 2025. It has been a wonderful opportunity to catch up with so many @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social authors and meet new scholars. To any delegates still here, I’m giving away ALL display copies by 1pm today!

A view of the Rhine from the hills on a cloudy day

The Niederwald monument above Rüdesheim am Rhine

The ruins of Ehrenfels castle on the Rhine river

Hiking in the Middle Rhine Valley

SILK-WASHING STREAM In the small courtyard, past the lattice window, the colors of spring deepen. The heavy unrolled curtains sink the room into shadow. Leaning against the railing, I play wordlessly on my jade qin. Clouds from distant caves hasten the dusk. A breeze blows in misty rain. The pear blossoms want to wither. I fear I cannot stop them.

Li Qingzhao (1084-1151), trans. Wendy Chen

A view of the Rhine from the hills on a cloudy day

The Niederwald monument above Rüdesheim am Rhine

The ruins of Ehrenfels castle on the Rhine river

Hiking in the Middle Rhine Valley

A litre of Hefeweizen and a pretzel

Prost!