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Nathan Jopling

@joplingn.bsky.social
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PhD Researcher at the University of Birmingham, specialising in the Seventeenth Century English Atlantic, and Piracy 🏴‍☠️

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Sky News @news.sky.com · 24/09/2026
Anti-migrant protester Danny Tommo arrested after boat with emergency worker on damaged in Channel
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Anti-migrant protester Danny Tommo arrested after boat with emergency worker on damaged in Channel
Founder of the anti-migration group Patriot Platform, Daniel Thomas, has been arrested on suspicion of criminal damage with intent to endanger life.
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Nathan Jopling @joplingn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And your commission is...?
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
'Governments must not ignore the social sciences when they marshal researchers to address grand challenges like climate change, biodiversity loss, housing pressures, energy security and social inequality, a new report says...'
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Grand challenges ‘require social science response’
Sustainability issues too often framed as technical challenges, researchers say
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Craig Lambert @medievalmariner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I’m recruiting a Research Fellow in Early Modern Spanish Maritime History to join our ERC-funded Uncharted Maritime Worlds project at the University of Southampton. Please share with anyone who might be interested! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSW249/r...
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Research Fellow (Early Modern Spanish Maritime History) 3497426AR at University of Southampton
An opportunity for an academic position as a Research Fellow (Early Modern Spanish Maritime History) 3497426AR is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openi...
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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
What is Roundhead time, anyhow?
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During the English Civil War, the Puritan "Roundheads" held a hostile view of traditional traditional festivals and holy days, famously passing an ordinance in June 1947 (historically 1647) to abolish Christmas, Easter, and Whitsun. They viewed these holidays as sinful, pagan-derived excuses for drunkenness and disorder rather than times for holy worship.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
The Academy hopes to commission 20 discussion papers. The fee paid to authors for each is £2,500. The deadline is 16 September. Authors can be based anywhere in the world, but must be humans with demonstrable expertise.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Absolutely right. My second book underwent not one but two pretty radical reframings as a result of what I found (and did not find) in the archives.
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QMCBS @qmcbs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Job alert - tenure track position in early/late mod British history & empire at Princeton: apply.interfolio.com/190698
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
so....history?
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Hans Busio @hansbusio.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
There is an instruction (red): "Paint a piece of paper/parchment black with ink/paint and make little holes in it with a needle. You can look safely at the sun through the paper". You can also see other methods like looking at the eclips via a mirroring watersurface.
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Juan José Ponce Vázquez @jjponcevazquez.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The Red Historia Venezuela website has added a collection of indexes and guides for the Venezuela documents within the Archivo General de Indias. A huge undertaking in which @gonzalezsilen.bsky.social has played a very important role. You can find it here: redhistoriave.org/real-audienc...
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Real Audiencia de Caracas – Colección Traslados | Red Historia Venezuela
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Nathan Jopling @joplingn.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
We’re all guilty of it 🫢 Seriously though, congrats!!
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Hot off the press and available open access. #Skystorians
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The Body as Property and the Moral Limits of the Market: Attitudes towards the Sex Trade in Eighteenth-Century England
This article explores understandings and attitudes surrounding the nature of commercial sex and the moral limits of the market in eighteenth-century England. It examines this contested commodificat...
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Nathan Jopling @joplingn.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I'm super happy to say my latest article on Caribbean sinew populations has been published with the International Review of Social History. It is available (open access!) here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Off Grid: The Problem of Early-Eighteenth-Century Caribbean Sinew Populations | International Review of Social History | Cambridge Core
Off Grid: The Problem of Early-Eighteenth-Century Caribbean Sinew Populations
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Nathan Jopling @joplingn.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The face and the way he’s throttling the glove accurately portrays my ‘this could have been an email’ attitude
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Nathan Jopling @joplingn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
We had to send a fax recently and had to scramble through the *entire* university to find a machine.
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Nathan Jopling @joplingn.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Does it say anything about the Post-Doc award? (I can't access the article)
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Nathan Jopling @joplingn.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
My most productive work comes when the supervisor is slacking l….
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Nathan Jopling @joplingn.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This is going high up on my reading list! Congratulations Jonathan!
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Nathan Jopling @joplingn.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Exciting! I eagerly await the contents page
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Nathan Jopling @joplingn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I’ll take number six amongst some excellent work!
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International Maritime History Association @journalmaritime.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Check out our most read articles as of the beginning of May Other articles include Practices and representations of gender: Autochthone women in the Portuguese State of India, 1500s–1600s by Amélia Polónia and Rosa Capelão journals.sagepub.com/action/showM...
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Nathan Jopling @joplingn.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Thanks for sharing this! It’s made my day!
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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

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The idiom "you can't lick a badger twice" means you can't trick or deceive someone a second time after they've been tricked once. It's a warning that if someone has already been deceived, they are unlikely to fall for the same trick again.
Here's a more detailed explanation:
• Licking: "Licking" in this context means to trick or deceive someone.
• Badger: The badger is a wild animal, and the phrase likely originates from the historical sport of badger baiting where dogs were used to harass
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Excited to speak to a joint meeting of Warwick's Global History & Culture and Early Modern & Eighteenth-Century Centres, on Thursday 1 May at 1pm. My first time posing some new historiographical questions about multilingual cities and early modernity. I'm also reliably informed there will be pizza.
warwick.ac.uk
Events Calendar
Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre events at the University of Warwick.
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Nathan Jopling @joplingn.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Withe the academic job market the way it is, some of us might not have the option 😂
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Nathan Jopling @joplingn.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
It is absolutely worth the read!
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Nathan Jopling @joplingn.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
I likewise felt very honoured to be included in this amazing lineup of scholars! Excellent work all-round.
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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
This is both an incredibly niche thing but I think it should be more of a thing. Caffè Nero subscribes to the British Newspaper Archive so it’s all free on their wifi. There. I said it.
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Nathan Jopling @joplingn.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
I love Carla Garcia Pestana's 'Early English Jamaica without Pirates'. The way she sets up the narrative of piracy, only to say 'but the source this is traditionally based on didn't exist' is one of the best historiographical gut-punches which I love to read!
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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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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Best use of the phrase "fit for purpose" I've seen.
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Nathan Jopling @joplingn.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
I’m really looking forward to presenting my thesis work at Warwick in February!
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Naomi Pullin @naomipullin.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Excited to announce a packed programme of events for Warwick's Early Modern and C18 Centre in Spring 2025: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his... #skystorians #earlymodern Talks include @rosamundoates.bsky.social @saracaputo.bsky.social @joplingn.bsky.social @lizegan.bsky.social @imogenknox.bsky.social
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Nathan Jopling @joplingn.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Hi Tom, Could I be added in please?
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 09/12/2024
We've created a Starter Pack of #History societies and groups working to support promote our disciple and historians, in higher education and related professions go.bsky.app/68FsvjY Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians
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Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Hello sky! 👋 I'm Sara, a historian of maritime spaces and communities. I teach, read, and write at the University of Cambridge, UK. I'm interested in the history of maritime labour, migration, mapping, and medicine. I look forward to meeting more of you here! www.hist.cam.ac.uk/people/dr-sa...
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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
#earlymodern 🗃️
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Laura Davulis @davulis.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
There are still a few weeks left in the year (though December is generally a quiet month for book proposals), but it looks like I’m going to close out 2024 with around 80% of total book proposals coming from men, 18% from women, and 2% from persons whose gender was not apparent/obvious.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This quote
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Early modern London multilingualism!
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 11/11/2024
Hi everyone! Welcome if you just joined my feed 👋 I thought I'd just introduce myself. I am Dr. Emma L. Briant, a leading academic expert on information warfare and propaganda in a surveillance age. My work was central in exposing #CambridgeAnalytica and I hope to be your guide through this crazy...
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Carlos Azevedo @carlosazevedo.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The University of Leeds in the UK is offering scholarships for Palestinians from Gaza who have been displaced and are living in a different country (outside of the UK). www.leeds.ac.uk/undergraduat...
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Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship
We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).
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Nathan Jopling @joplingn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
It was my dad's collection of miniature wargaming figuresand the games we played with them and, seperately, the 'Eyewitness Discovery' series of books (especially the one on pirates).
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Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Okay I swear I'll stop posting about the book soon, but here's a direct link to our intro 'Expansion alongside integration: a new history of imperial Europe', which lays out the historiographical and present-day socio-political stakes in detail: doi.org/10.5040/9781...
Cropped screenshot of the title page of our volume intro 'Expansion alongside integration: a new history of imperial Europe', by myself and Bernhard C. Schär.
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Cleo O’Callaghan Yeoman @drcleoocy.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Happy to announce that "Books and Borrowing: Libraries, Books, and Book Circulation", a special issue of Library and Information History (40.3), edited by myself, @mjrsangster.bsky.social, and @maxinebranagh.bsky.social, is now out in the world and ready to read! www.euppublishing.com/toc/lih/40/3.
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Library & Information History: Vol 40, No 3
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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Detailed call for papers with a general description of the conference: Call for Papers
 
The organisers welcome papers that concentrate on the role the Low Countries played in the English book trade from the late 15th to the early 17th century. Contributors will discuss printers and their printing houses, the production and distribution of books, the authors and translators published, the language choices made in original works and translations, as well as the economic, political and religious contexts within which the printers, authors and translators of the time worked. Special attention will be paid to the distribution of the Bible and various forms of new knowledge for both a scholarly and a larger community in England.
The organisers particularly look forward to papers that bring innovative insights from new perspectives and with the help of new methodologies, e.g. transnational history, history of material culture, provenance research, translation studies, history of typographic design, and digital humanities.
 
Please send an abstract of 200 words to
TudorAntwerp@uantwerp.be
by 15 February 2025. Make sure to include your name, affiliation, email address, and a short biography of no more than 50 words.Detailed call for papers with a general description of the conference: Call for Papers
 
The organisers welcome papers that concentrate on the role the Low Countries played in the English book trade from the late 15th to the early 17th century. Contributors will discuss printers and their printing houses, the production and distribution of books, the authors and translators published, the language choices made in original works and translations, as well as the economic, political and religious contexts within which the printers, authors and translators of the time worked. Special attention will be paid to the distribution of the Bible and various forms of new knowledge for both a scholarly and a larger community in England.
The organisers particularly look forward to papers that bring innovative insights from new perspectives and with the help of new methodologies, e.g. transnational history, history of material culture, provenance research, translation studies, history of typographic design, and digital humanities.
 
Please send an abstract of 200 words to
TudorAntwerp@uantwerp.be
by 15 February 2025. Make sure to include your name, affiliation, email address, and a short biography of no more than 50 words.
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Yes, hooray! 🗃️ Top site Medieval and #EarlyModern Orients is here - follow follow follow! @memorients.bsky.social
Screenshot of the landing page of the MEMOs website, with a menu on the left hand side and a map depicting Central Asia and North Africa: the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Empires, al-Andalus and Maghreb are labelled.
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Helen Shin @h-x-s.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
One of my favorite Tom Gauld drawings rebuts that argument, I feel: images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/…
Tom Gauld drawing of person carrying armful of books in front of multiple bookshelves, saying: “It isn’t hoarding if all the books are on shelves”.
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Andrew Popp @andrewpopp.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Enterprise and Society: the International Journal of Business History can now be here @entandsoc.bsky.social - please spread the word (and let's hope it does better in attracting followers than I have!)
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