Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026We have extended our call for proposals one more day until the end of the day today due to some tech snaffus with the submission link yesterday. 031
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Reminder - closing date for proposals is October 1! 010
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I am excited to read this new book by @romain-facchini.bsky.social - great subject:-) So much fabulous work is coming out of the Marseilles archives in these last few years. 193
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I just read this terrific collection of essays on early modern maternity around the Spanish Atlantic edited by Emily Colbert Cairns and Nieves Romero-Diaz - very fresh and interesting work here of wide interest. Kudos! www.routledge.com/Early-Modern...routledge.comEarly Modern Maternities in the Iberian AtlanticEarly Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic is the first volume to emphasize women’s personal experiences and their life trajectories as mothers within the Peninsula and across the Atlantic. Alth... 1123
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026CFP heads up! www.ssemwg.org/attending-to...ssemwg.orgAttending to EMW 2027 CFP — Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender 142
Reposted by Julie HardwickCaitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Some of you who are excited about the Bayeux Tapestry might be interested in the Châle de Ravensbrück, an embroidered scarf made by a nun named Mère Marie who died in the concentration camp in 1945. www.pagesorthodoxes.net/mere-marie-r... 14412
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I woke up to find Nick Radburn on the front of the Guardian this morning! This is such important evidence of the intentionality of a wide range of people in the violence of the slave trade. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...theguardian.comThe royal crown branded on enslaved Africans: Britain’s monarchy and the slave tradeFrom Elizabeth I’s backing of early voyages to royal investment in trafficking companies, generations of monarchs were central to Britain’s slave trade 032
Reposted by Julie HardwickCaitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026On 9/11, hundreds of boxes of historical artifacts from New York's African Burial Ground and Five Points were in Sherrill Wilson's research lab at 6 World Trade Center. While most of the African Burial Ground artifacts were later recovered, the Five Points artifacts (~850,000) were destroyed.nationalgeographic.comThe Archaeological Treasures That Survived 9/11Nearly a million artifacts spanning four centuries of New York history were stored at the World Trade Center. These are the stories they told. 316457
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Brief life update: we have decamped to Madison where I am delighted & honored to be a Solmsen Fellow this year at the Institute for Research in the Humanities : irh.wisc.edu/staff/hardwi... We rented our house, sold our 2nd car, & filled a car top carrier with supplies. Book writing here I come.irh.wisc.eduHardwick, JulieAn Intimate History of Racial Capitalism in a French Slave Port City 2100
Reposted by Julie HardwickRachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Anyone here familiar with the parliamentary archives of Toulouse? I have a peeved Venetian who claims he entered some letters into the parliamentary registers/archives in 1613. Guessing this would now be in the Departmental Archives of Haute-Garonne, but am totally unfamiliar with 🇫🇷 #earlymodern 🗃️ 2128
Reposted by Julie HardwickDaniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026The moon doing his #solareclipse thing, looking slighty pissed to be honest on this Dutch broadside from 1654... 835084
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 04/08/2026The third round of formal reflection for for Karin and I (along with a lifetime of constantly talking about it)! Please share widely. Please circulate widely to anyone who might be interested. We will be welcoming people who would like to attend and join the dialogue as well as paper givers. 22114
Reposted by Julie HardwickChloe Ireton @chloeireton.bsky.social · 21/07/2026UK: @waterstones.bsky.social bookshop is running a summer promotion for pre-orders on my book Plotting for Freedom, soon to be published by @hurstpublishers.bsky.social There is a 25% discount from today until 25 July with the code "SUMMER 26" #WPreorder www.waterstones.com/book/plottin... 032
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 03/07/2026It seems like the day to repost the most unexpected career turn - from a Berks chat w/ Amanda Herbert to writing about Taylor Swift for Time. I know a lot more TS songs now & found TS connoisseurs among many friends to my amusement. Happy Wedding Day! time.com/6971832/the-...time.com‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Stirs Up the Document MarketSwifties are buying old French documents for mood-boards and more. But this trivializes the importance of the documents. 030
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Abortion, past and present, as an embodied experience - @erinmaglaque.bsky.social's draws on her new book, Presence: A Hidden History of the Family Body, to reflect on the long history and contemporary experience of abortion . A terrific, teachable intro. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...theguardian.com‘It is comforting to be haunted’: how attitudes to abortion have changed through the agesThe long read: The abortion debate – the language of life, choice and rights – severs women, and their pain, from history. I don’t want to forget my abortion and I don’t want to forget theirs 173
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 27/06/2026France welcomes the great historian, Marc Bloch, executed by the Nazis and his wife to the Pantheon. What a glorious doffing of the national cap here. We salute you, sir. x.com/lci/status/2...x.comLCI (@LCI) on X🔴 L'hommage de la nation à Marc et Simonne Bloch au Panthéon ➡️ La Marseillaise est entonnée par le Chœur de l’Armée française et la Maîtrise de Radio France, entourés d’élèves, d’étudiants, d’ensei... 280
Reposted by Julie HardwickElizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Please consider submitting something! The next Forum theme is Early Modern Women and Generations (full cfp in the quoted post). Our Forum is a great home for shorter pieces. Submissions are peer-reviewed and accepted manuscripts will appear in the spring 2027 issue. #earlymodern 01614
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Absolutely delighted to come to home to find @sarahabendall.bsky.social's wonderful, important (and gorgeous inside and out!) new book. It will be released next month but see more about it and pre-orders below: sarahabendall.com/2026/06/14/t... 1368
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Thank you for the field inspiration, CG! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/b...nytimes.comCarlo Ginzburg, Who Told the History of the Obscure, Dies at 87 080
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 16/06/2026GRWM, 17th-c make up and empire version!🤣 Such a clever and fascinating piece - so teachable! [From the ongoing short treats from Chris and @brettrushforth.bsky.social's endlessl interesting new book] frenchatlantic.substack.com/p/get-ready-...frenchatlantic.substack.comGet Ready With Me!Makeup tutorials and other Atlantic phenomena in Louis XIV's France 051
Reposted by Julie HardwickLiesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 16/06/2024Today's the anniversary of the Nazis executing Marc Bloch. Or, someone who could sit with uncertainty, champion inquiry & trying to understand, and recognise plurality & perplexity. And, in that knowledge, made the choice not to remain passive. Bloch, Historian’s Craft (MUP, 1992), pp. 64, 119, 160. 5357133
Reposted by Julie HardwickJan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026The second is entitled "Execution and Martyrdom in the Early Modern World": www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... The idea behind these four sessions would be to explore what historians of religion and crime can learn from each other. The deadline is 24 July. Please get in touch! 😊rsa.orgRenaissance Society of America 0103
Reposted by Julie HardwickJan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026As the @rsaorg.bsky.social 's Religion discipline rep, I'm excited to share two #earlymodern #CfP for #RenSA27. The first, coorganised with Amanda Scott, is entitled "Banishment and Exile in the Early Modern World": www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...rsa.orgRenaissance Society of America 1139
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 09/06/2026The earliest days of French colonization from @brettrushforth.bsky.social (and Chris Hodson) and their important new book: substack.com/@frenchatlan...substack.comBeyond the Ocean (@frenchatlantic)“Petit Dieppe was probably real: a small, semi-permanent merchant settlement on an estuary island at the mouth of the Timbo River. It doesn’t change much to know this small detail. But the drive to so... 080
Reposted by Julie HardwickKarin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 08/06/2026I’m rarely at a loss for words but today I don’t have many for the enormity and the complexity of Gordon Wood’s legacy - I was inspired by his work even as I agreed with about 1/2 and was often irritated by the rest. RIP. A real one. www.brown.edu/news/2026-06...brown.eduPassages: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Brown professor emeritus of history Gordon S. WoodThe prolific and preeminent historian of the American Revolution who taught at Brown for nearly four decades died on Sunday, June 7, at age 92. 436362
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 04/06/2026An absolutely excellent piece on the long life (and now death in some but not other ways) of the Code Noir from @brettrushforth.bsky.social - follow this Substack too which is tied to Brett and @Chris Hudson's important new book, Beyond the Ocean: global.oup.com/academic/pro...global.oup.com 130
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I have to say the spring cygnets are absolutely one of my favorite parts of working at Kew! [Also looking a ship's papers I have looked at TWICE before - this is why these projects take so long .....] 090
Reposted by Julie HardwickDaniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 12/04/2026On 11 June 2026, I'm running an online intro to early modern legal records, part of The National Archives' Practical Archival Skills Training #TNAPAST workshops. More details can be found via the link. For accompanying on-site workshops, see the below thread www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-early...eventbrite.co.ukPAST Early Modern Legal: Online OverviewA one-day online introduction to Early Modern Legal records. 18969
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 19/05/20261/2 Help! Do I know anyone who's worked in the Y series on the commissaires' records who could give me some guidance about finding one in 1781? I have the name of the commissaire (Gauthier) and the neighborhood (Montmartre). www.quotidien-genealogie.fr/paris-les-mi...quotidien-genealogie.frComment consulter les minutes des commissaires du ChâteletLes Archives nationales viennent de mettre en ligne les minutes des commissaires du Châtelet. Qu'est-ce que le Tribunal du Châtelet ? Qui 3913
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Today! I am so delighted to be celebrating and discussing Mel's new book. 092
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 15/05/20261/ Such an interesting and for me very rare foray into the 19th century today at an event to mark the erection of a memorial stone for Jeanne Deroin, the great feminist-socialist who fled to West London to avoid prosecution in France, and was buried in an unmarked grave in Margravine cemetery. 1102
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Anyone going to be at Kew in the next month? I'd love to see you if so. Be in touch! Yes I'm still reading the Prize Papers - until the end of time apparently:-) 031
Reposted by Julie HardwickEurope & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 11/05/2026THIS TERM's PROGRAMME! Join us for 2 exciting events with Mélanie Lamotte, @lrhodges.bsky.social, @juliehardwick.bsky.social, and @roperlou.bsky.social Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social Everybody welcome, in person or online--register for the zoom link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern 13125
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 07/05/2026UPDATE: about 20 minutes after, the curator came to tell me he had asked the staff to bring the boxes out for me. YEAH! 0100
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 07/05/2026 When you have been saving something in the archives for an exciting treat, but when you put the order in it says "not available until .... a date six hundred years ahead." I thought it must be an error but then a curator tells you it's because they are digitized - 162
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 27/04/20261/2 Well hello old friend 😍 I like this project very much - but even though it’s my third summer in a row back here after 25+ years in Lyon, it turns out I autopiloted to picking up my Lyon cards before I left home 🤣. 1121
Reposted by Julie HardwickJenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Huge thanks to @lynnprobbins.bsky.social for the great conversation and the whole REVOLUTIONS IN RETROSPECT team for putting the final product together. It was such fun! 🗃️ cc. @sonyabonczek.bsky.social; @uncpress.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPvS...youtube.comThe Women of Rendezvous with Jenny Shaw I Revolutions in RetrospectYouTube video by Primary Source Media 31911
Reposted by Julie Hardwickdeborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Dream positions: 3 (!!) PhD placements at the Prize Papers with emphasis on finding students with the following language skills: French, Spanish, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages. (Of course, I emphasize the Dutch language!) www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...nationalarchives.gov.ukExploring the Prize Papers, a global early modern archiveUsing language skills, examine previously unknown records from the Prize Papers collection and produce descriptions to support digitisation. 39685
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 06/04/2026My first ever trip to western North Carolina! A gorgeous morning at Wake Forest University where I'm enjoying delightful hospitality and the great faculty here. I'll be floating a new part of my book project at a seminar with them and a lecture later. Lucky to call this my work category. 071
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 27/03/2026@profchrisadams.bsky.social and I remember two remarkable scholars, Elborg Forster and Patricia Ranum, "faculty wives" who never held formal positions but their generative scholarship made contributions to the field of French history. www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/in-memoriamsocietyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.netIn Memoriam — SFHS 22714
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 12/03/2026So delighted to see our professional society recognizing this important book! 080
Reposted by Julie HardwickGad Heuman @gadheuman.bsky.social · 23/02/2026The March issue of Slavery & Abolition contains a Forum on "Human Commodification". The Guest Editors are Tawny Paul, Andrew Apter, and Craig Koslofsky. It is available at: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/c...tandfonline.comSlavery & AbolitionVolume 47, Issue 1 of Slavery & Abolition 021
Reposted by Julie HardwickLiesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 18/02/2026Keen to listen! And if this tastes of more: come and listen to a conversation about it @ihreurope1500.bsky.social & the French Seminar @ihr.bsky.social with Mélanie Lamotte, @juliehardwick.bsky.social, and @lrhodges.bsky.social. Bound to be fascinating! 18 May, 17:30 (UK Time), in person & online 0107
Reposted by Julie HardwickBryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · 17/02/2026One of the toughest obstacles to this volume was selecting which pieces from @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social to include. There are so many great essays. The volume is meant to be read alongside the website! www.upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...upress.virginia.eduAuthor's Corner with Bryan A. Banks and Cindy Ermus, editors of THE GLOBAL AGE OF REVOLUTIONS<p>Today, we are happy to bring you our conversation with Bryan A. Banks and Cindy Ermus, editors of <em>The Global Age of Revolutions: A History from 11811
Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 02/02/20261/n Absolutely my honor & please to be part of this forum about Miranda Spieler's amazing new book, Slaves in Paris - an instant classic. Such an important intervention in French & European history as well as the history of Black Europe & Atlantic history. h-france.net/h-france-for...h-france.netH-France Forum: Volume 21 (2026) – H-France 184
Reposted by Julie HardwickAna Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Check Toby Green's beautiful essay on @aeon.co, edited by dear Sam Haselby, essay draws on Toby's new magnificent book The Heretic of Cacheu. For reading and listening, and to be shared widely in these difficult times we live in #slaveryarchive #Africanhistory #Africa aeon.co/essays/lesso...aeon.coLessons in pluralism from a 17th-century African town | Aeon EssaysThe 17th-century town Cacheu was a hub of West African and European cultures, languages and beliefs (and run by women) 0104
Reposted by Julie HardwickJeroen Puttevils @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social · 16/01/2026This article is the best I have read so far this year and I think it will keep that award until the end of the year. It is a hard, painful read, but so well described and flipping the historiographical table. It keeps me thinking about what a sustained comparison with Protestant regions would bring. 033
Reposted by Julie HardwickBrett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 14/01/2026It was a pleasure to participate in this roundtable about a remarkable book. We find things to critique because that's the exercise, but what an achievement by the editors and all 260+ contributors. 082