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If interested, please drop me a line with your CV and a paragraph on your research plan. I'll be busy during the first half of March, so please reach out to me sooner rather than later.

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Some photos from our away day. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Each year, our postdocs have been organising a conference at the cross section of their research topic and the lab's priority. You will receive logistic help from the lab and the faculty of economics where I am based. You might also be able to get some internal funding too.

Conference Report【開催報告】「Providence, Propaganda, and Profit in the Early Modern English World」 – 山本浩司研究室

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you'll be able to apply for a room in UT international lodges dedicated to international researchers and postgrads. Tom and Christy can tell you more on these.

Finally, as a host, I have to be able to demonstrate a strong synergy between incoming postdocs and the lab I lead. So it'd be great if you have suggestions on this count. Due to weaker Japanese Yen, the salary will look rather small, but it is good enough to cover basic cost of living in Tokyo, and

We have a lively lab culture with a host of activities. You are expected to contribute actively to this communities. Please see our lab website for more: www.kyamamoto.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/news/

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If you haven't lived or worked in Japan I'd encourage you to get in touch with them as well as it was their first jobs in Japan. You'll be able to apply for funds for visiting conferences and archives.

Here you can find some words from our former members. www.kyamamoto.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/testimonials/ We are currently hosting two international JSPS postdocs @tomaashby.bsky.social and Chrity Wang yijyewang.wixsite.com/christy

Past members’ experiences – 山本浩司研究室

Outline of the scheme can be found here, with a link to the official JSPS guidelines: www.kyamamoto.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/join-us/

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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

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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#NACBS at Montreal has been wonderful. I presented here for the first time. Really useful feedback and stimulating panels across the entire program. The presidential address on J.S. Mill's 'family life' was a real treat. Looking forward to coming back to it again.

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Tom Ashbyトムアシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Today I worked with Adam Smith's copy of Hobbes's "Leviathan" (1651)

The first page of "Of Man" with extensive marginalia

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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

📣John Locke’s Forgotten Manuscript We are thrilled to announce that @davidrarmitage.bsky.social's article on his discovery of a new John Locke manuscript is out now👇 It sheds new light on Locke's practical involvement in political economy & his engagement with Ireland 📜🗃️

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John Locke and Irish Linen Manufacture: A New Manuscript | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core

John Locke and Irish Linen Manufacture: A New Manuscript

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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

東京カレッジGHCでのChie Ikeyaさんのブックトーク、とても面白かった。　InterAsian intimacies across race, religion, and colonialism (2024)についてで、本の一部をご本人が読み上げて解説を加えるというスタイルだった。小説などではよくある手法だけれど、研究書の文脈ではとても新鮮に感じた。

Tom Ashbyトムアシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

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Yesterday I participated at a workshop in a traditional teahouse in the Edo-era Hama-rikyū gardens with scholars from UTokyo & KyotoU. Brilliant range of talks - from 17thC naval contracting & confessional co-existence to a 20thC asylum in Peking & the 1999 introduction of the pill in Japan.

An interior view inside the teahouse overlooking a doorway, corridor, and window

A box involving various elements on Japanese food

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Tom Ashbyトムアシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Today was my first day @utokyoofficial.bsky.social as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow. I am grateful to the @britishacademy.bsky.social for the nomination & to colleagues at the JSPS & UTokyo for supporting my move to Japan, especially @kyamamoto.bsky.social. I am very excited to begin my new work!

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Edmond Smith @edmond-smith.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

The *big thing* I've been finishing is my next book Ruthless, which is coming out in October. It connects the exploitation of land and people across Britain and its empire with scientific and technological innovation to offer a new history of capitalist development. yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

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Ruthless - Yale University Press London

A revelatory new history of Britain’s industrial revolution and the exploitation that enabled it Was Britain’s industrial revolution the result o...

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Some news: in 2026 I'll take over as Editor of Renaissance Studies. It's a journal that means a great deal to me and which occupies a uniquely important position in the interdisciplinary study of the early modern world. With our new Associate Editor, Dr Elizabeth Petcu, I can't wait to get started!

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New editor and associate editor, Renaissance Studies – Society for Renaissance Studies

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Tom Ashbyトムアシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Call! In September we will host "Providence, Propaganda, & Profit in the Early Modern English World" at UTokyo. Keynotes: @annlaurahughes.bsky.social, Shusaku Kanazawa, Keiko Kawawake, & Peter Lake. Deadline: 15 July! See politicaleconomyseminar.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/%... @kyamamoto.bsky.social

The call poster. Follow the link for details.

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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Thanks Eva! I'm currently working on a few things, including London soap boilers and washerwomen and the constitutional crisis, and also on state-interventions on essential work like cooking, washing, heating and food preservation.

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 15/05/2025

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This is really cool:

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tamrakat @tamrakat.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Image of library book display labeled: “It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.” Books on display: • On Tyranny • Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century • 1984 • A Handmaids Tale • Diary of Anne Frank • Parable of The Sower • Fahrenheit 451 • Animal Farm • Brave New World ~TAiLS of a Bookworm

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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

こんにちは！勉強になるとても良い会でしたね！

Kenji Ito 伊藤憲二 @kenjiito.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

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今の世の中が生きづらい原因の一つは、前の世代の人たちが十分に苦情を訴えなかったこと。

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Helen Smith @wordsmith.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

OMG!! The ESTC is back!!!! datb.cerl.org/estc/

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English Short Title Catalogue

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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Hello colleagues! I'll be on sabbatical, and plan to be in London / Amsterdam between October 2025 and September 2026. Please let me know if there are places where I can share my ongoing research / advocacy work with you. I'd love to see if I can come and see my old friends and meet new ones.

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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Thanks Dave!! We are thrilled to get Tom onboard in our team in June! It will be fun.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

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If you're an archivist, librarian, local or family historian, researcher or student of British and/or British & colonial/imperial history (from the Roman era to the present) this introduction to BBIH is worth a look. Google searches are degrading and hallucinating with generative AI; BBIH is not.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 15/04/2025

Expert guidance on using, and getting the most from, the 'Bibliography of British and Irish History', from @ihr.bsky.social. Booking now available. #skystorians

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Laura Ansley @lmansley.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Getting pretty tired of the “future historians will say X about this time.” I promise you, PRESENT historians are saying plenty, and you don’t seem to be listening!

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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

来週の月曜日4時50分から本郷で研究発表をします。テーマは「No more rigid monopoly? チャールズ一世親政期ウェストミンスター石鹸会社再訪、1633-1637」ハイブリッド開催です。 www.cirje.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/wor...

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Research | CIRJE

CIRJE Center for International Research on the Japanese Economy

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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

As of April 11, more than 840 international students and recent graduates at 160 universities and colleges around the US have had their visas revoked by the Trump administration, per @insidehighered.com's count: www.insidehighered.com/news/global/... This is not normal. Refuse to treat it as such.

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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

リーディングクラブ、今年度一回目。

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John Heathershaw @jheathershaw.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Superb analysis from Liz on state capture/kleptocracy in the US and globally. We need to talk about the related concepts of "state capture" (@lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social), "kleptocracy" (@tenaprelec.bsky.social) and "Poligarch" (@balint.bsky.social)! 1/2 www.foreignaffairs.com/world/econom...

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The Economic Consequences of State Capture

Oligarchs are warping markets and corrupting economies around the world.

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Sophie Waring @atinybitwaring.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

10 years after the project finished we have finally found our longitude! All the c.18th seafaring and boardroom drama you could wish for in one expertly written volume! Only £32 from @cambridgeup.bsky.social

A book cover showing a man on a bizarrely styled float in the sea trying to take a measurement with a sextant. Another sailor sits waiting next to him in a small rowing boat. The title of the book is The Board of Longitude: science, innovation and empire, written by a group of authors.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

It's an apt week to remember the South Sea Bubble of 1720. And for anyone thinking of teaching comparative financial crises next year, a reminder of the fab resources and datasets on the Bubble compiled by the Yale School of Management: som.yale.edu/centers/inte...

'Satire on the South Sea Bubble; a man imprisoned behind bars is surrounded by a medley of cards and ballads each of which carries engraved texts; at bottom right is an anamorphosis. For a full descrption see BMSat; later re-issue. 1720 Etching' British Museum 354195001

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Jun Akiba @jun-naibzade.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

論文　from:jun-naibzade.bsky.social と検索すればオスマン帝国史関連の最新論文情報が収集できます。新刊　from:jun-naibzade.bsky.social だと新刊書の情報になります。fromを入れなくても「新刊　osmn」て洋書が、「新刊 osmn」でトルコ語の本が検索できます。いずれも私の勝手な基準で選んでますが、できるだけ網羅的になるようにしています。

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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Oh wow! Thank you so much for these. I'll check them out!

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Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Thanks for drawing my attention this work! I'll check it out!

Koji Yamamoto @kyamamoto.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

The course is taught in English. Thanks in advance!