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Susannah Crockford @suscrockford.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Save the humanities at the University of Hertfordshire. Existential cuts to the humanities are a sector wide problem: c.org/n9hYvWfVCJ

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Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire

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Lewis Wade 🗃️ @wadehistory.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

🗃️ CfP for a really cool workshop next year in Dresden! PhD students and postdocs warmly welcomed

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Workshop

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Felicia Gottmann 📚🌻🇪🇺 @fgottmann.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Finally got @svenbeckert.bsky.social ’s latest. It’s huge in many ways. A book you can win any argument with. Not just because it’s a brilliant global history of capitalism (though it is). Also because, should all else fail, you can hit your opponent over the head with it & instantly knock them out.

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Andrew Mueller @andrewmueller.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Remember to be wary, as today is the only day of the year that incorrect or misleading information is posted on the internet.

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Felicia Gottmann 📚🌻🇪🇺 @fgottmann.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Can the hive mind can help me with a question on #earlymodern commercial culture in #India? In my research I identified (or rather failed to) four individuals who Prussians East India Company servants had dealings with during their time in 1750s Bengal. Can anybody help me find out more about them?

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Felicia Gottmann 📚🌻🇪🇺 @fgottmann.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

One of our main outputs from our www.migration-innovation.org project is now available in open access!

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Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales @annales.ehess.fr · 03/02/2026

À lire également sur @cairninfo.bsky.social 👉 shs.cairn.info/revue-annale...

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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

An open letter to @theguardian.com about their article last week about the Crown’s Silence, requesting that the Black scholar of Caribbean heritage who did the years of archival research behind this claim, and published it in 1979, Roger Norman Buckley, be acknowledged as the source of this reveal:

OPEN LETTER TO THE GUARDIAN
Dear Editors,
We write in reference to a recent article published in the UK online edition of The Guardian on Friday, 23 January 2026, which carried the following misleading headline: "British crown was world's largest buyer of enslaved people by 1807, book reveals."
The article in question, by Chris Osuh, showcases a new book by Dr. Brooke Newman, The Crown's
Silence: The Hidden History of Slavery and the British Monarchy (Harper Collins, 2026). But Newman's book is not the original source of that claim. That claim derives from earlier scholarship, the painstaking archival work of a Black historian of Caribbean heritage: the late Roger Norman Buckley.
It is unfortunate that the silencing of his original scholarship appears in the profiling of a book advertised as uncovering silences. While it is great to see public attention brought to the history of the Crown's involvement in slavery through the new book and its profiling in The Guardian, the headline compromises The Guardian's efforts to address the legacies of slavery generally and its own institutional links when it extracts and reframes earlier work by a Black scholar as a revelation new to this book.
The relevant passage in The Crown's Silence draws on original scholarship by Roger Norman
Buckley in Slaves in Red Coats: The British West India Regiments, 1795-1815 (1979). Dr. Brooke Newman repeats Buckley's figures, which she cites (referencing page 55 of Buckley's book, see attached) while changing his "British government" to "Crown." She then converts his careful "perhaps the largest individual buyer" to a more conclusive claim, changing his "British government" to "king" but without citing Buckley for that claim which is on page 56 of his book (see attached) and which, uncited in Newman's book, is the Guardian headline.
There is room for popular histories that rely largely on the secondary scholarship of other historians. But other historians have not been silent.

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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Looking for a postdoc opportunity outside the UK/US? I'm happy to support up to two JSPS postdoc applicants for the coming round for two-year posts starting from Sep./Oct. 2026 onwards at UTokyo. The application to be submitted before the end of March. 1/n

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

AMENDED PROGRAMME! But with good news: we'd love to welcome you to *four* sessions this term, not three! Join us @ihr.bsky.social on Mondays at 17:30, or on zoom (sign up for the link here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

IHR programme for the Europe & the World Seminar
12 January: Yahya Nurgat: The Politics of Sacred Space in the Early Modern Islamicate World: The Shrines of Karbala and Najaf
16 February: Frederica Gigante on "Enslaved Networks: Muslim Lives and the Movement of Knowledge and Things in the Early Modern Mediterranean"
9 March: Sheilagh Ogilvie: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid
23 March: Pablo Gómez: The Early Atlantic Slave Trade and the Invention of Modern Corporeality

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Felicia Gottmann 📚🌻🇪🇺 @fgottmann.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Our project’s PhD student just passed his viva with his brilliant thesis on Skilled Migrants in the Glass Industry. Many thanks to examiners Will Ashworth & Neil Murphy & to fantastic 2nd supervisor @drjenniferaston.bsky.social. Congratulations Oliver!! www.migration-innovation.org/news/congrat...

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Congratulations, Dr. Gunning! — Migration, Adaption, Innovation

Today Oliver successfully passed his viva (subject to minor corrections). Oliver’s PhD “Skilled Migrants in the Glass Industry: Northern Britain 1674-1845” is one of our project’s major outputs

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