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Julie Hardwick

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Historian | France| Gender| Global Early Modern| Views my own | Writing: An Intimate History of Racial Capitalism in Old Regime France | Sex in an Old Regime City (OUP, 2020). More here: liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/facu…

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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We 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.
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Reminder - closing date for proposals is October 1!
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I 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.
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I 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...
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Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic
Early 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...
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
CFP heads up! www.ssemwg.org/attending-to...
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Attending to EMW 2027 CFP — Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Some 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...
detail of a green shawl embriodered in many colors of thread, showing soldiers on foot and on horseback, with the words, ""Fiercely they fought the brave invaders for the filthy devils were doomed to death — meanwhile rejoiced the peacefull folk."detail of a green embroidered shawl labeled "Le Châle de Ravensbrück" showing ships on the ocean, battles, and a fortification in the center
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I 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...
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The royal crown branded on enslaved Africans: Britain’s monarchy and the slave trade
From Elizabeth I’s backing of early voyages to royal investment in trafficking companies, generations of monarchs were central to Britain’s slave trade
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
On 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.
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The Archaeological Treasures That Survived 9/11
Nearly a million artifacts spanning four centuries of New York history were stored at the World Trade Center. These are the stories they told.
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Brief 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.
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An Intimate History of Racial Capitalism in a French Slave Port City
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Rachel Midura @rmidura.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Anyone 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 🗃️
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The moon doing his #solareclipse thing, looking slighty pissed to be honest on this Dutch broadside from 1654...
a detail of a dutch broadside: published in Amsterdam on the solar eclipse of 12 August 1654 (Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, RP-P-OB-81.827).
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The 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.
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Chloe Ireton @chloeireton.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
UK: @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...
This is a poster for a discount code:

UK: @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
 https://www.waterstones.com/book/plotting-for-freedom/chloe-l-ireton/9781805266778
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It 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-...
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‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Stirs Up the Document Market
Swifties are buying old French documents for mood-boards and more. But this trivializes the importance of the documents.
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Abortion, 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...
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‘It is comforting to be haunted’: how attitudes to abortion have changed through the ages
The 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
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
France 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...
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🔴 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...
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Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Please 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
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Absolutely 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...
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Thank you for the field inspiration, CG! www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/b...
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Carlo Ginzburg, Who Told the History of the Obscure, Dies at 87
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
GRWM, 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-...
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Get Ready With Me!
Makeup tutorials and other Atlantic phenomena in Louis XIV's France
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 16/06/2024
Today'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.
his comrades address him with a look of amazement. "extraordinary! You don't even seem to mind this awful uncertainty!" My friend could have answered that, despite the popular prejudice, the mental climate of research is not so unsympathetic to ready acceptance of the lottery of fate.Even in action, we are far too prone to judge. It is so easy to denounce. WE are never sufficiently understanding. Whoever differs form us -- a foreigner or a political adversary -- is almost inevitably considered evil. A little more understanding of people would be necessary merely for guidance, in the conflicts which are unavoidable; all the more to prevent them while there is yet time. If history would only renounce its false angelic airs, it would help us to cure this weakness. It includes a vast experience of human diversities, a continuous contact with men. Life, like science, has everything to gain from it, if only these contacts be friendly.This is in all honesty to acknowledge the subordination of the perspectiv to the peculiar angle of the inquiry. Moreover, lt us take care: in history, the fetish of single cause is all too often only the insidious form of search for the responsible person -- hence a value judgment. The judge expresses it as: 'who is right, and who is wrong?' The scholar is content to ask: 'why?' and he accepts the fact that the answer may not be simple. Whether as a prejudice of common sense, a postulate of logicians, or a habit of prosecuting attorneys, the monism of cause can be, for history, only an impediment. History seeks for causal wavetrains and is not afraid, since life shows them to be so, to find them multiple.
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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The 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! 😊
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Renaissance Society of America
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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
As 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...
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
The earliest days of French colonization from @brettrushforth.bsky.social (and Chris Hodson) and their important new book: substack.com/@frenchatlan...
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Beyond 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...
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I’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...
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Passages: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Brown professor emeritus of history Gordon S. Wood
The prolific and preeminent historian of the American Revolution who taught at Brown for nearly four decades died on Sunday, June 7, at age 92.
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
An 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...
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I 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 .....]
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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
On 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...
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PAST Early Modern Legal: Online Overview
A one-day online introduction to Early Modern Legal records.
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
1/2 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...
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Comment consulter les minutes des commissaires du Châtelet
Les Archives nationales viennent de mettre en ligne les minutes des commissaires du Châtelet. Qu'est-ce que le Tribunal du Châtelet ? Qui
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Today! I am so delighted to be celebrating and discussing Mel's new book.
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
1/ 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.
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Anyone 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:-)
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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
THIS 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
programme Europe and the world: 
18 May: By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire with Mélanie Lamotte (Duke), as well as Lenny Hodges (Durham) and Julie Hardwick (Univerdsity of Texas at Austin).
1 June: The Guinea Trade and English Imperial Formation, 1624-1664 with Lou Roper
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
UPDATE: about 20 minutes after, the curator came to tell me he had asked the staff to bring the boxes out for me. YEAH!
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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 -
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
1/2 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 🤣.
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Jenny Shaw @profjennyshaw.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Huge 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...
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The Women of Rendezvous with Jenny Shaw I Revolutions in Retrospect
YouTube video by Primary Source Media
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deborahhamer.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Dream 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...
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Exploring the Prize Papers, a global early modern archive
Using language skills, examine previously unknown records from the Prize Papers collection and produce descriptions to support digitisation.
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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
also in the 17C
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
My 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.
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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-memoriam
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In Memoriam — SFHS
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
So delighted to see our professional society recognizing this important book!
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Gad Heuman @gadheuman.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
The 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...
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Slavery & Abolition
Volume 47, Issue 1 of Slavery & Abolition
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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Keen 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
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Bryan Banks @bryanbanksphd.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
One 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...
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Author'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
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Julie Hardwick @juliehardwick.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
1/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...
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H-France Forum: Volume 21 (2026) – H-France
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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Check 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...
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Lessons in pluralism from a 17th-century African town | Aeon Essays
The 17th-century town Cacheu was a hub of West African and European cultures, languages and beliefs (and run by women)
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Jeroen Puttevils @jeroenputtevils.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This 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.
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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
It 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.
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