Misha Ewen
@drmishaewen.bsky.social
Historian of gender & colonisation in the early modern British Atlantic world | Assistant Prof at University of Sussex | in Editor at English Historical Review | IG @mishaewen12
My current role ends in October: if anyone needs a temporary tutor in early modern history or as a freelance researcher please do drop me a line! I have over 10 years experience in teaching and a wide practical knowledge of working in archives in the UK and abroad.
My new article on pauper apprenticeship is online and open access! Bound to the soil (Part I): the origins of compulsory apprenticeship schemes in South-West rural England c.1670–1750 doi.org/10.1017/S026...
How can we better approach the histories of Indigenous peoples? Mary Katherine Newman introduces a new History Workshop series which will introduce a range of scholars, educators, and activists and the ways in which they examine Indigenous histories. www.historyworkshop....
Indigenous Historical Practices
Delve into Indigenous history with our History Workshop series, highlighting complex systems of historical knowledge and their significance.
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Great to see that Jake Subryan Richards' book, The Bonds of Freedom: Liberated Africans and the End of the Slave Trade (Yale, London) will be out in the autumn. Publication date 28 October 2025.
The Bonds of Freedom - Yale University Press London
The story of the long fight for freedom of African captives rescued from the illegal slave trade only to be forced back into bondage The Bonds of Freed...
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418 years ago today, Jamestown, Virginia—the first permanent English settlement in North America—was established. You can learn more about this event's importance to English society and early American history in @drmishaewen.bsky.social's book THE VIRGINIA VENTURE: bit.ly/4delPpE
The Virginia Venture – Penn Press
The Virginia Venture is an innovative exploration of how a wider public of women, children, and men across English society contributed to the foundation of t...
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And everyone should go and read it! www.pennpress.org/978151282299...
The Virginia Venture – Penn Press
The Virginia Venture is an innovative exploration of how a wider public of women, children, and men across English society contributed to the foundation of t...
pennpress.org
Misha Ewen@drmishaewen.bsky.social · last yr.14 May 1607: English colonists arrive at Jamestown. In my book The Virginia Venture @pennpress.bsky.social I explored the social history of this colonial project, from an English/transatlantic perspective involving women, the poor, children, institutions #onthisday #Jamestown #Virginia #history
On the anniversary of the colonisation of Jamestown, @historytoday.com have made my article on the “Jamestown Brides” freely available: www.historytoday.com/archive/feat... #onthisday #Jamestown #history #Virginia #women
The Real Wives of Jamestown
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14 May 1607: English colonists arrive at Jamestown. In my book The Virginia Venture @pennpress.bsky.social I explored the social history of this colonial project, from an English/transatlantic perspective involving women, the poor, children, institutions #onthisday #Jamestown #Virginia #history
If you're working in museum collections, digital storytelling, or on projects exploring migration history, join the Migration Network on 20 May 2025, 10:00-12:30 for this online event.
Digital Journeys: Preserving & Sharing Migration Collections
Join us for our first Migration Network event dedicated to exploring collections - funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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I haven’t been able to get into Bluesky yet, maybe still a bit traumatised from X… In the meantime, posting slightly more interesting stuff about my research over on Insta @mishaewen12 ✨
So thrilled that my piece on Barbary Newton, a seventeenth-century enslaving woman is out in the world - part of a WMQ article forum, “Absentee Women Enslavers: Two Case Studies” - paired with Jared Ross Hardesty’s research on the Mackintosh sisters w/ reflections from Zacek, Maskiell & Amussen ✨
*VACANCY* PhD in the study of religion and slavery in the context of Dutch colonialism and its afterlives at KITLV. Deadline: 16 May 2025 👇 vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Leiden-P...
PhD in the study of religion and slavery in the context of Dutch colonialism and its afterlives
PhD in the study of religion and slavery in the context of Dutch colonialism and its afterlives
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Attention #skystorians! Do you work on public history, memory or Tudor history (broadly understood)? @estelleprnq.bsky.social and I are launching a new project on the Break with Rome and want to hear from you 1/2
Can anyone think of any instances when a mother might be deemed 'unnatural' in the period c.1700-1900? I've got the more obvious things like infanticide, but I'm looking to branch out into other subversive female behaviours.
From the creation of lectureships to the closure of postgrad programmes, the last five years represent a tumultuous period within the study of #BlackBritishHistory Join us for a roundtable: Black British History in 2025 🗓️ 6th March ⏰ 17:30 📍 IHR Wolfson Room NB01 www.history.ac.uk/events/black...
A few more days to get abstracts in for this workshop in June, with keynotes from Susan Amussen & Jenny Shaw! www.mmor.co.uk/news/cfp-car...
CFP: Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-Century Barbados and Britain — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720
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Experience the future of the Portico! We’ve got a number of experimental events to support our Reunited project, a £9 million transformation to make the Library more accessible and sustainable. Check out this piece by @mcrwire.bsky.social & join us on this exciting journey! bit.ly/4kfH3GR
The Portico Reunited: Manchester's historic library hosts a captivating experimental events programme this spring
Throughout February and April, The Portico stages a diverse series of events to support its ongoing Reunited Project.
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New episode! This week on BBC You’re Dead To Me we turn our hands to Arctic Exploration and go in search of the deadly Northwest Passage With expert historian @hpsvanessa.bsky.social and comedian @stuartgoldsmith.bsky.social Listen now on BBC SOUNDS www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
ICYMI - I’m running a new online course in April exploring the connected histories of Pendle and Salem witch trials. If that’s your kind of thing, do consider signing up! Details below ⬇️
HistFest@histfest.bsky.social · 2y ago*NEW COURSE* Pendle & Salem: Witchcraft in 17th-Century England and Colonial America Starts: Thurs 17 April Duration: 4-week online course Fee: £40 (+ booking fee) Tutor: Rebecca Rideal Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/pendle-sal...
This is cool! A state school has defeated Eton to reach the finals of the International History Bowl & Bee in Vienna. They’re former winners, and are sending two young teams to compete again They need help with travel costs, can you help these young historians? www.gofundme.com/f/send-the-f...
Donate to Help send the Farnham Heath End History buffs to Vienna !, organised by Farnham Heath End History Department
I am the Head of History at Farnham Heath End and we are fund… Farnham Heath End History Department needs your support for Help send the Farnham Heath End History buffs to Vienna !
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'Multiple Dutch universities have announced reorganisations that are likely to involve layoffs, in the wake of drastic government budget cuts that will amount to about €500 million (£414 million) a year across higher education and research.' 1/2
Layoffs begin at Dutch universities as deep budget cuts bite
Institutions caught in a ‘perfect storm’ owing to reductions in government spending and international student restrictions
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📢NEW MANY-HEADED MONSTER SERIES📢 Today I introduce 'Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England', a series that celebrates the relaunch of the brilliant 'British Printed Images to 1700' database and showcases historians' use of printed images. 🗃️ #Skystorians manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...
It's a new dawn, it's a new day, Vast Early America. Excited to be here.
a sunset sky with a lot of clouds
Alt: Dawn of a new day
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📢WILLS PROJECT PROGRESS 📢 📜353,402 lines transcribed 🙋2,582 volunteers ⌛7,816 hours 23 minutes of work We're staggered by the engagement with our wills. Thank you to every single person who has transcribed a line for us! 👏🙏🙌 #EarlyModern 🗃️ @leverhulme.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social
The Material Culture of Wills Project@materialwills.bsky.social · 2y ago📢 A Zooniverse Progress Update! 📢 We're delighted that (as of last week) 2,582 users (and counting!) have contributed to our Zooniverse site 👩👩👧👦 @zooniverse.bsky.social volunteers have checked 353,402 lines of transcribed text 📜✍️ The total time spent by volunteers is 7,816 hours 23 minutes ⏳ 1/3🧵
Can't get enough MMoR & @kingshistory.bsky.social conferences?? We're thrilled to be associated with "Caribbean Connections", organised by Michael Bennett and @drmishaewen.bsky.social and taking place 25-26 June at King's. See the CfP here.... #EarlyModern 🗃️
Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-Century Barbados and Britain — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720
Organisers: Dr Michael Bennett (University of Sheffield), Dr Misha Ewen (University of Sussex), and Dr Hannah Murphy (MMoR & CEMS, KCL) Barbados is central to the global history of slavery. The ...
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@emleake.bsky.social will be delivering a lecture 6th March titled Decolonization's Discontents, hosted jointly by @rshc.bsky.social , @qmul.ac.uk 's History and IHSS . It will be great, event (and wine reception) free, but do register here: eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Decolonization’s Discontents: a lecture by Elisabeth Leake (Tufts)
Eventbrite - Raphael Samuel History Centre presents Decolonization’s Discontents: a lecture by Elisabeth Leake (Tufts) - Thursday, 6 March 2025 at QMUL Graduate Centre, London, England. Find event and...
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Don't forget to submit your abstract in for our June conference, 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' - speaker expenses will be covered and we have two amazing keynotes in Marcy Norton & Sara Miglietti!
Sasha Handley@sashahandley.bsky.social · 2y agoPlease share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...
12 days until the deadline for our 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' conference so still plenty of time to put something together!
Sleeping Well in the Early Modern World@sleepingwelluom.bsky.social · 2y agoWe're so excited to release the CFP for our upcoming conference on 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. We're able to cover reasonable travel expenses for speakers. More detail at the link below. Deadline for abstract submission: 3rd Feb 2025.
I got to be on my favourite podcast, You’re Dead to Me, and it’s out today! It was such a treat to talk to @gregjenner.bsky.social and Cariad Lloyd about the Arts and Crafts movement. Listen to it here or check it out on @BBCRadio4 tomorrow morning at 10am: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
You're Dead to Me - The Arts and Crafts Movement: William Morris and his circle - BBC Sounds
Join Greg and his guests to learn all about the Victorian Arts and Crafts movement.
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