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eilishgregory.bsky.social @eilishgregory.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

My current role ends in October: if anyone needs a temporary tutor in early modern history or as a freelance researcher please do drop me a line! I have over 10 years experience in teaching and a wide practical knowledge of working in archives in the UK and abroad.

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James Fisher @jamdanfish.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

My new article on pauper apprenticeship is online and open access! Bound to the soil (Part I): the origins of compulsory apprenticeship schemes in South-West rural England c.1670–1750 doi.org/10.1017/S026...

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History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · 20/05/2025

How can we better approach the histories of Indigenous peoples? Mary Katherine Newman introduces a new History Workshop series which will introduce a range of scholars, educators, and activists and the ways in which they examine Indigenous histories. www.historyworkshop....

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Indigenous Historical Practices

Delve into Indigenous history with our History Workshop series, highlighting complex systems of historical knowledge and their significance.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Great to see that Jake Subryan Richards' book, The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade (Yale, London) will be out in the autumn. Publication date 28 October 2025.

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The Bonds of Freedom - Yale University Press London

The story of the long fight for freedom of African captives rescued from the illegal slave trade only to be forced back into bondage The Bonds of Freed...

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Penn Press @pennpress.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

418 years ago today, Jamestown, Virginia—the first permanent English settlement in North America—was established. You can learn more about this event's importance to English society and early American history in @drmishaewen.bsky.social's book THE VIRGINIA VENTURE: bit.ly/4delPpE

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The Virginia Venture – Penn Press

The Virginia Venture is an innovative exploration of how a wider public of women, children, and men across English society contributed to the foundation of t...

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Misha Ewen @drmishaewen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

On the anniversary of the colonisation of Jamestown, @historytoday.com have made my article on the “Jamestown Brides” freely available: www.historytoday.com/archive/feat... #onthisday #Jamestown #history #Virginia #women

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The Real Wives of Jamestown

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Misha Ewen @drmishaewen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

14 May 1607: English colonists arrive at Jamestown. In my book The Virginia Venture @pennpress.bsky.social I explored the social history of this colonial project, from an English/transatlantic perspective involving women, the poor, children, institutions #onthisday #Jamestown #Virginia #history

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

If you're working in museum collections, digital storytelling, or on projects exploring migration history, join the Migration Network on 20 May 2025, 10:00-12:30 for this online event.

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Digital Journeys: Preserving & Sharing Migration Collections

Join us for our first Migration Network event dedicated to exploring collections - funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

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Misha Ewen @drmishaewen.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I haven’t been able to get into Bluesky yet, maybe still a bit traumatised from X… In the meantime, posting slightly more interesting stuff about my research over on Insta @mishaewen12 ✨

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Misha Ewen @drmishaewen.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

So thrilled that my piece on Barbary Newton, a seventeenth-century enslaving woman is out in the world - part of a WMQ article forum, “Absentee Women Enslavers: Two Case Studies” - paired with Jared Ross Hardesty’s research on the Mackintosh sisters w/ reflections from Zacek, Maskiell & Amussen ✨

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Ramona Negrón @ramonanegron.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

*VACANCY* PhD in the study of religion and slavery in the context of Dutch colonialism and its afterlives at KITLV. Deadline: 16 May 2025 👇 vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Leiden-P...

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PhD in the study of religion and slavery in the context of Dutch colonialism and its afterlives

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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 19/03/2025

Attention #skystorians! Do you work on public history, memory or Tudor history (broadly understood)? @estelleprnq.bsky.social and I are launching a new project on the Break with Rome and want to hear from you 1/2

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Claire Turner @claireturner.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Can anyone think of any instances when a mother might be deemed 'unnatural' in the period c.1700-1900? I've got the more obvious things like infanticide, but I'm looking to branch out into other subversive female behaviours.

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Olivia Wyatt @oliviawyatt1999.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

From the creation of lectureships to the closure of postgrad programmes, the last five years represent a tumultuous period within the study of #BlackBritishHistory Join us for a roundtable: Black British History in 2025 🗓️ 6th March ⏰ 17:30 📍 IHR Wolfson Room NB01 www.history.ac.uk/events/black...

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Misha Ewen @drmishaewen.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

A few more days to get abstracts in for this workshop in June, with keynotes from Susan Amussen & Jenny Shaw! www.mmor.co.uk/news/cfp-car...

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CFP: Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-Century Barbados and Britain — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720

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The Portico Library @porticolibrary.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Experience the future of the Portico! We’ve got a number of experimental events to support our Reunited project, a £9 million transformation to make the Library more accessible and sustainable. Check out this piece by @mcrwire.bsky.social & join us on this exciting journey! bit.ly/4kfH3GR

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The Portico Reunited: Manchester's historic library hosts a captivating experimental events programme this spring

Throughout February and April, The Portico stages a diverse series of events to support its ongoing Reunited Project.

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

New episode! This week on BBC You’re Dead To Me we turn our hands to Arctic Exploration and go in search of the deadly Northwest Passage With expert historian @hpsvanessa.bsky.social and comedian @stuartgoldsmith.bsky.social Listen now on BBC SOUNDS www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Photo of Stu Goldsmith in pink t-shirt, Dr Vanessa Heggie in black and white striped dress and red cardigan, and Greg Jenner in maroon knitwear. They’re all smiling in front of the BBC You’re Dead To Me podcast artwork on a TV screen

Greg Jenner is joined by Dr Vanessa Heggie and comedian Stu Goldsmith to learn all about the perilous history of Arctic exploration. From the fifteenth to twentieth centuries, Europeans searched for the Northwest Passage, a supposed seaway between the Atlantic and Pacific through the Arctic Ocean. Indigenous groups had been traversing the passage for centuries, using small skin boats and dog sleds, but from 1497, European expeditions were launched to find and claim it. Most of these ended in failure, with explorers either returning home empty handed or not returning at all.
Some even got completely lost, arriving in Hawaii or North Carolina rather than Canada! In 1845, the most famous Arctic expedition, led by Sir John Franklin, was launched. Within a few months, his two ships, the Erebus and the Terror, with their crew of 129 souls, had vanished.

It was not until 1906 that a Norwegian team, led by Roald Amundsen, finally navigated the passage. This episode explores the often fatal quest for the Northwest Passage, charting the various expeditions that tried and failed to find and traverse it, uncovering the men who lost their lives looking for it, and asking why Europeans were so keen to explore such a hostile region of the world. And we unravel the mystery of just what happened to John Franklin and his men out there on the ice.

If you're a fan of intrepid explorers, mysterious historical disappearances and the history of scientific advancement, you'll love our episode on Arctic Exploration.

You're Dead To Me is the comedy podcast that takes history seriously. Every episode, Greg Jenner brings together the best names in history and comedy to learn and laugh about the past.
Hosted by: Greg Jenner
Research by: Matt Ryan
Written by: Matt Ryan, Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow, Emma Nagouse, and Greg
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Produced by: Emmie Rose Price-Goodfellow and Greg Jenner
Audio Producer: Steve Hankey
Production Coordinator: Ben Hollands
Senior Producer: Emma Nagouse
Executive Editor: James Cook

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Rebecca Rideal @rebeccarideal.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

ICYMI - I’m running a new online course in April exploring the connected histories of Pendle and Salem witch trials. If that’s your kind of thing, do consider signing up! Details below ⬇️

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This is cool! A state school has defeated Eton to reach the finals of the International History Bowl & Bee in Vienna. They’re former winners, and are sending two young teams to compete again They need help with travel costs, can you help these young historians? www.gofundme.com/f/send-the-f...

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Donate to Help send the Farnham Heath End History buffs to Vienna !, organised by Farnham Heath End History Department

I am the Head of History at Farnham Heath End and we are fund… Farnham Heath End History Department needs your support for Help send the Farnham Heath End History buffs to Vienna !

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

'Multiple Dutch universities have announced reorganisations that are likely to involve layoffs, in the wake of drastic government budget cuts that will amount to about €500 million (£414 million) a year across higher education and research.' 1/2

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Layoffs begin at Dutch universities as deep budget cuts bite

Institutions caught in a ‘perfect storm’ owing to reductions in government spending and international student restrictions

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

📢NEW MANY-HEADED MONSTER SERIES📢 Today I introduce 'Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England', a series that celebrates the relaunch of the brilliant 'British Printed Images to 1700' database and showcases historians' use of printed images. 🗃️ #Skystorians manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...

Screenshot of the front page of British Printed Images to 1700. Printed images border the screen on both sides, in the centre is the website title and various links: About, Search, Resources, Research.

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OIEAHC (Omohundro Institute) @oieahc.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

It's a new dawn, it's a new day, Vast Early America. Excited to be here.

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a sunset sky with a lot of clouds

Alt: Dawn of a new day

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

📢WILLS PROJECT PROGRESS 📢 📜353,402 lines transcribed 🙋2,582 volunteers ⌛7,816 hours 23 minutes of work We're staggered by the engagement with our wills. Thank you to every single person who has transcribed a line for us! 👏🙏🙌 #EarlyModern 🗃️ @leverhulme.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

@emleake.bsky.social will be delivering a lecture 6th March titled Decolonization's Discontents, hosted jointly by @rshc.bsky.social , @qmul.ac.uk 's History and IHSS . It will be great, event (and wine reception) free, but do register here: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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Decolonization’s Discontents: a lecture by Elisabeth Leake (Tufts)

Eventbrite - Raphael Samuel History Centre presents Decolonization’s Discontents: a lecture by Elisabeth Leake (Tufts) - Thursday, 6 March 2025 at QMUL Graduate Centre, London, England. Find event and...

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Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Don't forget to submit your abstract in for our June conference, 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' - speaker expenses will be covered and we have two amazing keynotes in Marcy Norton & Sara Miglietti!

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Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

12 days until the deadline for our 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' conference so still plenty of time to put something together!

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Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I got to be on my favourite podcast, You’re Dead to Me, and it’s out today! It was such a treat to talk to @gregjenner.bsky.social and Cariad Lloyd about the Arts and Crafts movement. Listen to it here or check it out on @BBCRadio4 tomorrow morning at 10am: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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You're Dead to Me - The Arts and Crafts Movement: William Morris and his circle - BBC Sounds

Join Greg and his guests to learn all about the Victorian Arts and Crafts movement.

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Looks like a great event in Edinburgh in March: ‘Collecting Environmental Change’ 🗃️

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Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 10/01/2025

Comparisons between paper and digitised wills (central to this week's MoJ statement) are also the subject of a recent 'Transactions of the RHS' article. 'Material and Digital Archives: the Case of Wills' considers how format informs use and interpretation, for pre-1858 documents bit.ly/3DMb6W7

First page of the Transactions comment article entitled 'Material and Digital Archives: the Case of Wills'.

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Misha Ewen @drmishaewen.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I will post about this properly tomorrow, including sharing a piece written by Dr Tara Inniss at UWI, but if you care about Caribbean history & heritage please read, sign & share.

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Maud Anne Bracke @maudannebracke.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

We're recruiting! Join History at the University of Glasgow (the best History dept in Scotland and one of the best in the UK) as a lecturer (permanent post, research and teaching) in Asian history 1500-2000. Please share with suitable candidates. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

#HistoryLab+, @ihr.bsky.social's network for #ECRs, is recruiting! Calling #Skystorians from any Humanities discipline keen to support their peers & develop their own skills & professional connections ...&, of course, to join a committee of AMAZING people! 👉🧵& tinyurl.com/53twjemw for details!

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a person is standing on a sidewalk with the words `` join us '' written on it .

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Camille Cordier @camcord.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Hi #VastEarlyAmerica historians! Does anyone know who first invented the ticket system to control the movement of enslaved people? Was it the Spanish or the Portuguese? If so, where and when? This could be a good topic to explore the circulation of policing techniques between empires.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 07/01/2025

We invite submissions for the Society's 2025 First Book and Early Career Article prizes, to recognise historical scholarship, by early career historians, published in 2024. Closing date 31 January. Details of author eligibility, and how to submit your first book or an article: bit.ly/4i9180F

Image of open book advertising the Royal Historical Society's First Book and Early Career Article prizes, 2025. Applications now invited. Closing date 31 January 2025.

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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

“Rather than mourn the past through land acknowledgments, institutions should expand these more practical efforts and work with modern Native nations as true partners.” Impt though headline doesn’t do justice to @kathleenduval.bsky.social incisive & sensitive piece! 🗃️ www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/o...

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Opinion | Enough With the Land Acknowledgments

Instead of proclaiming performative acknowledgments of Native peoples, institutions should establish strong relationships with Native nations.

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Misha Ewen @drmishaewen.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Happy New Year! ✨ Have an article that you’re thinking of submitting this year? As the newest editor of the @enghistrev.bsky.social, I’d love to read your submissions. We publish global histories from c. 400 CE to the present day & we especially encourage submissions from underrepresented groups.

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Hey historians! Any recommendations for readings on passes being issued to foreign sailors by English governors in the 17th century Caribbean? Not privateering licenses but passes to allow a foreign (in this case Spanish) sailor to leave an island (in this case Nevis). Please and thank you! 🗃️

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Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

What if we rethink design as a crucial part of medicine and care? 🏥 Dr @victoriabates.bsky.social considers how good design can make a difference to our healthcare spaces in her @ukri.org project Watch the full video to find out more 👉 bit.ly/40XWMU1 @uobrishistory.bsky.social

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Hannah Murphy @hsmurphy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Today!!! Join us for this sure-to-be incendiary seminar by @erinmaglaque.bsky.social with a response by John Henderson - online or in person. You can email us for a link if you haven't signed up!

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC), part of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University, offers a variety of residential research fellowships. #skystorians 🗃️ macmillan.yale.edu/glc/fellowsh...

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