Kristie Patricia Flannery
@thehistoriann.bsky.social
Historian of the global Spanish empire living and working on Wurundjeri country. Author of Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World (2024).
Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day! As a pirate historian, it is my duty to provide expert advice that will sharpen the historical accuracy of your pirate play. theconversation.com/pirates-were...
Pirates were far more diverse than Blackbeard. And they didn’t say ‘arrr’, matey
Talk Like A Pirate Day is one of the internet’s favourite holidays. But who were these infamous seafarers and how did they really talk?
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The ARC has changed its generative AI policy, for both applicants and assessors ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub... The basic deal is summarised 👇 Full policy ▶️ www.arc.gov.au/publications...
Thinking about Oceans as archives has been deeply rewarding for me, a historian trained to work in traditional colonial archives, collections of written texts collide compiled by agents of empire. I invite you to ponder the archival ocean with us.
Here's a report from Jenny Sinclair @jsresearchpro.bsky.social on the low success rate for DECRAs this week, driven by high demand and low Government funding for early career researchers in Australia. [Free article in @resprofnews.bsky.social]
Low success rate in early career grants ‘deeply disappointing’ - Research Professional News
“Decay continues” as Australian Research Council’s Decra scheme announces 13.1 per cent success rate
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He’s not wrong, the former Science Minister* *In the same Party as the current one! (From Guardian Australia “live”)
Check my new essay "The deepest South: Slavery in Latin America, on a huge scale, was different from that in the United States. Why don’t we know this history?" just published in @aeon.co Many thanks to historian Sam Haselby, who beautifully edited it #slaveryarchive aeon.co/essays/way-d...
SPOILER. Proof pages of my review of The Heretic of Cacheu by Toby Green to be published in Slavery & Abolition. Curious about the book? Join Toby, @elotroalex.bsky.social and myself at the #Slaveryarchive book club this SAT 2:00 PM EST to discuss the book. Register ⬇️ us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Congratulations to @thehistoriann.bsky.social, whose book PIRACY AND THE MAKING OF THE SPANISH PACIFIC WORLD has won the Bolton-Johnson Prize for best book in English on Latin American history, granted by @clahistorians.bsky.social! bit.ly/3KGDV9M
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World – Penn Press
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World offers a new interpretation of Spanish colonial rule in the Philippine islands. Drawing on the rich archiv...
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As Chair of the 2025 @clahistorians.bsky.social Bolton-Johnson Prize I congratulate historians Brooke Larson & @thehistoriann.bsky.social CO-WINNERS with The Lettered Indian and Piracy & the Making of the Spanish Pacific World. Was a pleasure to work with jurors Jonathan Ablard & Kaysha Corinealdi
If you're a writer that's currently thinking "What am I doing with my life? How did I get here?" just know that Peter Benchley partly wrote the novel JAWS in a converted chicken coop at his in-laws' house.
So happy that Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World made the shortlist for the NSW’s History Awards. My book is in great company - huge honour. www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/nsw-h...
I’m recruiting a PhD student to work with me in Melbourne on the history of empire in Micronesia and the Pacific. We are offering a full scholarship, Australian and international students can apply. More info here, please reach out if you are interested www.acu.edu.au/research-and...
Pacific powers: Imperial competition and cooperation in Micronesia
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Grateful for Prof Ponce Vázquez’s review of my book in The Americas.
Juan José Ponce Vázquez@jjponcevazquez.bsky.social · last yr.My review of @thehistoriann.bsky.social 's book is out today. To no one's surprise, it's a fabulous book, and you should read it if you are interested in the Pacific world, Spanish colonization, the Philippines, and/or piracy. doi.org/10.1017/tam....
📢 Just announced! The programme & booking is now live for our Annual Conference 2025. 🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections. 🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h... #WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage
“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.” — A. Whitney Griswold
Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did? It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.
Hey, who's up for a #RemoteRetreatAUS ??? I need to get some writing DONE, and I need my peeps! Paging my regulars: @kbneal.bsky.social @thehistoriann.bsky.social @nikolasorr.bsky.social @justjenerally.bsky.social @nonsequitania.bsky.social @mlcseah.bsky.social
“Eliminating federal funding for the humanities saves next to no money, but it will cost … something precious: one of the few federal institutions whose whole purpose is to foster community and thoughtful discussion across the polarities that increasingly divide … us” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...
Opinion | Why DOGE Slashed the National Endowment for the Humanities
Eliminating federal funding for the humanities saves next to no money, but it will cost the American people something precious.
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Every historian’s dream is to find an archival treasure
Elizabeth Boyle@thecelticist.bsky.social · last yr."The 15th-century Arma Christi was found in a shoebox filled with leaflets from the 1980s at Bar Convent, by Dr Hannah Thomas, while she was cataloguing the religious order's collection." www.bbc.com/news/article...
Looking forward to discussing pirates and the Spanish Empire in the Pacific at this hybrid event in Hong Kong next week. I’ll be joining online.
In 2022, historian Dr Kristie Flannery @thehistoriann.bsky.social received a Humanities Travelling Fellowship to access rare documents in Spain and the Philippines. Her research considers the influence of slavery, and the wider Spanish empire, on the Asia-Pacific region today: bit.ly/4kSyRN7
Slavery in the Philippines may have influenced Australian history
Slavery and practices of unfree labour changed the political economy and culture of the Philippines—and may have influenced Australia.
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Catching up on Not Just the Tudors and delighted to hear the brilliant @thehistoriann.bsky.social discussing piracy and the Spanish Pacific with @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social . More early modern #Pacifichistory, please! 🗃️ open.spotify.com/episode/75hT...
Pirates of the Pacific & the Spanish Empire
Not Just the Tudors · Episode
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For audiobook fans! The audio edition of my book Pirates and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World is on sale for less than a buck. Great deal! Now you can was the dishes / work out/ doze off while listening.
Grateful to Nino Vallen for reviewing my book in the latest issue of the Hispanic American Historical Review. read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article...
Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World
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GLH. Now online! @pedrogargui.bsky.social (@univmalaga.bsky.social, 2024) reviews "Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World"(@pennpress.bsky.social, 2024) by @thehistoriann.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Global Intellectual History@global-ih.bsky.social · 2y agoNow online! @pedrogargui.bsky.social (@univmalaga.bsky.social, 2024) reviews "Piracy and the Making of the Spanish Pacific World"(@pennpress.bsky.social, 2024) by @thehistoriann.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Those who think Assad's demise inevitably spells disaster for Syria's Christians should read this @newlinesmag.bsky.social essay by Tony Homsy, a Jesuit priest and the director of the Jesuit Cultural Forum in Homs, reflecting on the dawn of a new era in his country. newlinesmag.com/first-person...
Christmas in Homs
A Jesuit priest reflects on the upheaval in Syria
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