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permit me to observe that Suriname was not 'exchanged' for New York/New Amsterdam; rather, a restoration of an imperial status quo occurred (cue self-promotion): newamsterdamhistorycenter.org/wp-content/u... @deborahhamer.bsky.social #earlymodern

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History Today@historytoday.com · 5d ago

The Treaty of Breda was signed #OnThisDay in 1667. The short-lived English colony of Willoughbyland, in what is now Suriname, was both verdant and dangerous. In the end, it was exchanged for New York. 🔓 This article is free for 7 days buff.ly/drZGMfd

EThOS platform restored! 'Following restoration work, all metadata records previously available on EThOS have now been restored, along with an additional 14,000 records added since the service was taken offline' - more to come https://www.bl.uk/stories/news/ethos-records-restored

EThOS records restored

We are pleased to share that EThOS (E-Theses Online Service) is now available again following restoration work after the cyber-attack.

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It was lovely to attend the second day of the #EMBIC2026 conference yesterday in London and to catch up with old friends. I received wonderful feedback about my Catherine of Braganza paper (forthcoming in an editee collection). Happy to be firmly among my early modern crew!