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ERC and University of Copenhagen research project investigating the shared history of the Lesser Antilles, 1650-1850. Website: www.inthesamesea.ku.dk

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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Last minute, look at this exciting possibility! Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Caribe, invites applications for the Summer School A Biocultural Caribbean: Seascapes, Territories, and Other Socio-Ecological Systems 🌎🐚 July 21 - 31, 2026 in San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina 🇨🇴🌺
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Escuela de Verano "Un Caribe biocultural: maritorios, territorios y otros sistemas socioecológicos caribeños"
La Escuela de Verano “Un Caribe Biocultural: Maritorios, Territorios y Sistemas Socioecológicos” es un curso intensivo organizado por la Universidad Nacional de Colombia – Sede Caribe. El programa exp...
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
The team of IN THE SAME SEA is happy to share a dataset about nearly 7,000 enslaved fugitives in Lesser Antilles. Read more at: scholarlypublishingcollective.org/msup/jsdp/ar... Download at: dataverse.harvard.edu/citation?per... Watch at: experience.arcgis.com/experience/2... 🍀🌊🌞
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
IN THE SAME SEA’s @feliciafricke.bsky.social and @heatherfreund.bsky.social together with @silvaperez.bsky.social have published “'Printed for the Proprietress': Women and Printing Families in the Caribbean, 1720s–1860s”, in Early American Studies 🗞️🌊🍀. Open access: doi.org/10.1353/eam.... 🗞️🌊🍀.
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
IN THE SAME SEA's team and Dr. Joy Lewis have guest-edited the special issue “Small Islands, Proximity and Connection in the Eastern Caribbean” of the Journal of Caribbean History. See: www.uwipress.com/journals/the... Thanks to all contributors and the journal’s main editor Kathleen Monteith.
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Journal of Caribbean History | University of the West Indies Press
The Journal of Caribbean History (JCH) is a peer reviewed journal produced by the Departments of History, The University of the West Indies, and published by the University of the West Indies Press. T...
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Ramona Negrón @ramonanegron.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
* Call for papers * PhD Workshop at @kitlv.bsky.social organized by @fatahblack.bsky.social and I: Early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation👇 We welcome PhDs working on early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation to participate. www.kitlv.nl/cfp/early-mo...
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Call for papers | Early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation
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Ramona Negrón @ramonanegron.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
* Call for research papers * Conference at @kitlv.bsky.social organized by @fatahblack.bsky.social and I: Reinterpreting the Caribbean age of revolutions. Why were so many of the leaders and participants in so-called slave revolts were not enslaved themselves? www.kitlv.nl/cfrp/reinter...
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Call for research papers | Reinterpreting the Caribbean age of revolutions
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
IN THE SAME SEA's PI Gunvor Simonsen contributed to a piece in New York Times about the links between the Danish Caribbean and Greenland. Read it here: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/w...
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Exciting opportunity for young scholars interested in researching the Dutch Caribbean 🍀🌊 See this PhD vacancy at the University of Amsterdam: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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Vacancy — PhD Position in Anthropology: JUST ART, Performing Multispecies Justice
<p><span>Are you curious about artistic research and multispecies justice? Are you interested in exploring more-than-human rights in the Dutch Caribbean using theatre and performance as primary research tools? We invite applications for a PhD position within the JUST ART project, focusing on the role of theatre and performance practices in shaping transformative approaches to climate justice. This PhD position offers an interdisciplinary research environment at the intersection of ethnography, theatre and performance studies, and environmental justice.</span></p>
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Former researcher at IN THE SAME SEA, Lucas Marin is co-convener of the seminar series “ÉCRIRE L’HISTOIRE DE LA CARAÏBE” for young scholars. Seminars are open, see the exciting program here:
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Consider sending in an abstract to this important conference about slavery and privacy 🍀 teol.ku.dk/privacy/news...
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Call for Papers - Privacy and Slavery, Past and Present: Academic and Artistic Perspectives on an Urgent Issue
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
We are excited to have Professor Sue Peabody @profpeabs.bsky.social join us for a talk about methods and microhistory. Join us on 20 November 2025, 1-3 PM at UCPH @ucph.bsky.social , South Campus, room 12.3.39.
HUM:Global Talk! with Sue Peabody: Recentering the Subaltern: Microhistory as Method. 
Public Lecture with Professor Sue Peabody, Washington State University, Vancouver.
Time: 20 Nov. 2025, 13:00-15:00
Place: University of Copenhagen, South Campus, room 12.3.39
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
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Support Jamaica – Official Disaster Relief & Recovery Portal
Join hands with the Government of Jamaica. Support national disaster relief, locate shelters, and stay informed on Hurricane Melissa updates.
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Take a look, perhaps it is relevant to you: caribbeanresearch.net/en/early-car...
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Early Career Conference 2026 – socare
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
ITSS 🌊 had a wonderful experience at the 56th Annual Conference of The Association of Caribbean Historians in Trinidad🍃
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Racialized Motherhood @rm-project.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Welcome to the Racialized Motherhood page! 🦋 You can read about our project goals in this interview with PI @silvaperez.bsky.social - dff.dk/en/our-funde...
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Next week @feliciafricke.bsky.social will leave the ITSS🌊 team! 😥 She has been an important part of the project, making key contributions to #history in the #Caribbean. Luckily it's not goodbye though 😊 You can read a message from her here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/a-messa...
Felicia begins her keynote speech at the Reuvensdagen in Hoorn, the Netherlands, November 2023. She is wearing a blue dress and standing at a white lectern. In front of the lectern is a bouquet of red, orange, and purple flowers and green leaves. Behind her is the first slide of her presentation. The title reads "Archaeology, Ethics, and Society: Exploring Slavery in the Dutch Colonial Context".
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Voetnoot -Mark Ponte @voetnoot.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
'Slavery and The Dutch State: Dutch Colonial Slavery and Its Afterlives', the English translation of "Staat en slavernij: het Nederlandse koloniale slavernijverleden en zijn doorwerkingen' is now available. #openaccess www.jstor.org/stable/jj.27...
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Slavery and The Dutch State: Dutch Colonial Slavery and Its Afterlives on JSTOR
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jaymeric.bsky.social @jaymeric.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Early Global Caribbean: Conference 3: Materialities Date/Time Friday, April 11, 2025–Saturday, April 12, 2025 10:00 am PDT – 4:30 pm PDT www.1718.ucla.edu/locations/wi...
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
ITSS🌊 PhD Fellow Rasmus Christensen is organising a graduate seminar in early modern #Caribbean #history! 🥳 Send in your application by May 1, 2025 📨 More info can be found here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/graduat...
Original painting; courtesy, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection (B1981.25.76). Available from the Slavery Images website. The painting shows a busy Caribbean marketplace with wooden buildings and the sea in the background.
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Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) @dlocaribbean.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Do you teach courses in Caribbean studies? Contribute your teaching materials to dLOC's collection of open educational resources and receive a stipend of $2,000 or $5,000. We are accepting proposals until Monday, April 14!
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
ITSS🌊 Postdoctoral Fellow @feliciafricke.bsky.social has written a short blog post about free women's bad language and the idea of the colonial gentleman in early nineteenth century St. Eustatius, Dutch #Caribbean! 🪶 Read more here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/blog/curse-w...
The documents examined include a letter from Mary Sadler to her brother Christopher, whom she addresses as "Villinous Kitt at the whores Shop."
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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Cfp for a very interesting workshop Atlantic/Baltic #earlymodern #maritimehistory @profmurdoch.bsky.social @adamgeorgie.bsky.social @jorisvdt.bsky.social @inthesamesea.bsky.social royalhistsoc.org/calendar/mig...
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Mighty Ocean – Inland Sea. Connections and Comparisons between the Atlantic and the Baltic, c. 1450-1850 – CALL FOR PAPERS | RHS
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Calling #ECRs in #History! 🥳 You can apply to attend the workshop 'From Insurance to Chartered Companies: New developments in the history of business, slavery, and colonialism' at IISH in #Amsterdam! Deadline is April 29, 2025 📨 Email IISH for more information 😊
From Insurance to Chartered Companies: New developments in the history of business, slavery, and colonialism. Organization: Eva Seuntjens, IISH/Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; Bart van Holsteijn, ISSH/University of Gothenburg. Workshop abstract: Recent years have seen the proliferation of projects dealing with topics that broadly fit the category of business history of slavery and colonialism. [...] We intend to organize a workshop for early-career researchers to explore new perspectives on business history in relation to the histories of slavery and colonialism. This workshop will provide extensive peer discussion and feedback from senior experts in the field field. The workshop aims to encourage and strengthen ties among early-career researchers in the field of business history. The event will be hosted by the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam on Thursday and Friday 20-21 November, 2025.
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
ITSS🌊 Postdoc @feliciafricke.bsky.social was in Snekkersten this week for the University of Copenhagen (UCPH) School of #Archaeology retreat - a great place to learn and meet colleagues 🤗 Find out more here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/itss-po...
A projector screen shows the introductory slide for a PowerPoint presentation, which shows a picture of a pale stone building against a blue sky. The presentation is entitled "Workshop at School of Archaeology, March 25, Snekkersten". On the left hand side of the screen, the wall in partially obscured by the big green leaves of a potted tree.
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Fully funded PhD #Studentship on "Reimagining #Caribbean Collections: Unveiling Histories of Identity and Wellbeing through Material Culture" available at the University of #Cambridge - apply by 30th April 📨 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50737/
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PhD Studentship - Reimagining Caribbean Collections: Unveiling Histories of Identity and Wellbeing through Material Culture - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
PhD Studentship - Reimagining Caribbean Collections: Unveiling Histories of Identity and Wellbeing through Material Culture in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge.
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Oliver Antczak @oliverantczak.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
New PhD opportunity focusing on Caribbean Collections in Cambridge (at the MAA)! Fully funded! More information: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50737/ Deadline: April 30th I'm looking forward to welcoming a Caribbean colleague here! Please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or doubts.
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Dr Eve Hayes @evehayes123.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Calling all postdocs & scholars in the Caribbean! The Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies (YPCCS), University of Warwick is offering a Visiting Fellowship 2025/26. The Fellowship covers return travel & accommodation up to £4,000. warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/ccs/
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Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies - University of Warwick
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Apply for a #postdoc fellowship in #maritime #history at Trier University! Deadline 1st April 📨See: transmare.uni-trier.de
2 postdoctoral start-up fellowships in early modern maritime history for 8 months (2125 euros per month) that provide support to write a grant application, mentoring provided by the university's Grant Office and the chair holder, Prof. Dr. Damien Tricoire. Trier University has a major center of maritime history, TRANSMARE. We expect: a PhD in a relevant field, an innovative research project idea, a good command of English, willingness to learn German, willingness to integrate at TRANSMARE. Please send a letter of motivation, a CV, a list of publications, and a 2 page project description to tricoire@uni-trier.de by 1st April 2025.
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Dr. Felicia Fricke @feliciafricke.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Great news for #Caribbean #students! ✨ @uniofbradford.bsky.social is offering a scholarship for MSc courses in #archaeology #osteology or #forensics for 2025/6. Students from #Anguilla #BVI #CaymanIslands #Montserrat and #TurksandCaicos are eligible to apply! 📑 www.bradford.ac.uk/scholarships...
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Archaeological and Forensic Sciences Endowed Scholarship (2025/26) - Scholarship
Apply for Archaeological and Forensic Sciences Endowed Scholarship (2025/26). Available to postgraduate taught students.
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
ITSS🌊 Postdoc @heatherfreund.bsky.social has published an open access article in 'Slavery & Abolition' - she writes about Black Rangers and the routes enslaved people took to seek freedom in 19th century #Grenada. Read more here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/new-pub...
Map edited by the author using Gavin Smith, ‘Map of the Island of Grenada Divided into Parishes and Including a Plan of The Harbor of St. George. Taken from an Actual Survey Made by Gavin Smith in the Year 1801.’ Courtesy of the Map Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Richard Calis @richardcalis.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
*Job Claxon*: we're hiring a Postdoc to research the Colonial History of the Botanic Gardens at Universiteit Utrecht. www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #skystorians #jobs #histofscience #colonialhistory #botanicalgardens
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Postdoctoral Researcher: Colonial History of Botanic Gardens
Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
A new #PhD thesis at @au.dk explores #Denmark 's colonial legacy on the #Caribbean island of St. Croix, USVI - read more about Dr. Pardis Zahedi's work here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/new-doc...
Aerial view of St. Croix - the sun is low and casts golden light across green and brown hills.
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
ITSS🌊 PI @gunvorsimonsen.bsky.social recently returned from a research trip to archives and libraries in #Martinique and #Dominica - in this blog post, you can read about the working life of a #historian in the #Caribbean 📚🌎 inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/pi-gunv...
Small boats known as 'yoles' (or in Danish, 'joller') along the Martinican shoreline, 2025, photo: G. Simonsen.
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
If you are interested in #Caribbean – #Arctic connections, watch this video with Dr. Asta Mønsted! news.berkeley.edu/2025/02/13/a...
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Asta Mønsted, a specialist in prehistoric archaeology, reveals Greenland through the Inuit oral tradition - Berkeley News
The UC Berkeley assistant professor prioritizes Indigenous knowledge and narratives, seeking to integrate them with scholarly theories and methods.
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The Coalition for Caribbean Archaeological Heritage (CoCAH) now has a website! 🥳 Developed during workshops in 2023 and 2024, this network supports #Caribbean and #ECR scholars and practitioners. You can read about it here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/new-web...
A graphic with a dark blue background, covered in organically shaped overlapping circles in bright blue, autumnal orange, brownish red, duck egg blue, and pale cream. A cream-coloured box in the centre of the graphic includes the Coalition for Caribbean Archaeological Heritage (CoCAH)'s logo, which is presented in a rounded, friendly font. Beneath this, the URL of the website can be found: www.cocah.net
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Brilliant ITSS🌊 student assistant Kamma Strøm has interviewed #historian @dexnell.bsky.social! You can read his thoughtful reflections on his career and on the interconnected Greater Southern #Caribbean here: 🌎 inthesamesea.ku.dk/blog/intervi...
Dexnell smiles slightly and looks into the camera, with his head tilted a little to one side. He is wearing glasses, a plaid shirt and a grey jacket, and he is outside under a tree, so you can see bark and leaves in the background.
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
HUM:Global at the University of Copenhagen introduces our very own @gunvorsimonsen.bsky.social! ✨ Read her reflections about #Caribbean #history here: www.linkedin.com/pulse/introd...
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Introducing Gunvor Simonsen
Part of the Human Faces of HUM:Global Series Associate Professor Gunvor Simonsen is a historian of the Atlantic world at The Saxo Institute, Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen. She has ...
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
We are excited to announce that ITSS🌊 PI @gunvorsimonsen.bsky.social has received funding from @carlsbergfondet.dk for the 'Mapping Freedom' project setting up essential research infrastructure in the former Danish West Indies 🌎 - read more here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/itss-pi...
Mapping Freedom will use the registers of travelers arriving and departing from St. Thomas (pictured). As can be seen from this ledger covering 1841, travelers arriving in St. Thomas March that year came from Saba, St. Croix, Puerto Rico, Spanish Town, S. Domingo, St. Lucia, Margarita, Dominica, and St. Kitts, among others (courtesy of the Danish National Archives open access digitized Caribbean collection, https://arkivalieronline.rigsarkivet.dk/da/billedviser?epid=17241205#209845,39561260National)
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Check out Graham Moore's Book Review of Cultural Representations of Piracy in England, Spain and the Caribbean: Travelers, Traders, and Traitors, 1570 to 1604 by Mariana-Cecilia Velázquez via the following link - doi.org/10.1177/0843...
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Book Review: Cultural Representations of Piracy in England, Spain and the Caribbean: Travelers, Traders, and Traitors, 1570 to 1604 by Mariana-Cecilia Velázquez - Graham Moore, 2025
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Interested in a career in history and librarianship? We have a fantastic opportunity to come and work as a Trainee Library Assistant in the IHR Wohl Library @ihrlibrary.bsky.social . 2 posts available starting in September 2025 for 1 year. Apply by 31st January 2025.
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Graduate Trainee Library Assistant - Institute of Historical Research:London Senate House
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
The ITSS🌊 team is sad to say goodbye to Heather Freund 😢 She has been a key part of the project, making amazing contributions to the study of #history in the #Caribbean, and we look forward to future collaborations! You can read a message from her here: inthesamesea.ku.dk/news/a-messa...
Heather Freund presenting at the Association of Caribbean Historians conference in Santa Marta, Colombia, May 2024. Heather is wearing a bright blue top and a dark blue cardigan and stands behind a black lectern and microphone. Heather is speaking and looking out at the audience. Behind her is a white wall and three flags, including that of Colombia (yellow, blue, and red).
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
ITSS🌊 affiliate Lucas Marin has written a great French-language blog post about long-distance #sailors in #Martinique at the end of the Ancien Régime! Read it here 👀⛵️ inthesamesea.ku.dk/blog/lexprie...
Le fort royal dans l'isle de la Martinique vu du mouillage, Nicolas Ozanne, 1780, Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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In The Same Sea @inthesamesea.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Welcome to the IN THE SAME SEA Bluesky account! 🤗 Follow us for project updates and random historical findings from the eastern #Caribbean ✒️🌎
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