So terrifically pleased for my @kingshistory.bsky.social colleague Alana Harris, whose *extraordinary* work with Horton Cemetery has been shortlisted for an 'Everyday Histories' award. Vote for the Horton, (or even for a different project), but do VOTE www.findmypast.co.uk/c/everyday-h...

Oh man! You couldn’t be in better hands there!!! #earlymodern #histgender #VastEarlyAmerica #Skystorians

John Carter Brown Library@jcblibrary.bsky.social · 2d ago

Call For Proposals: Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds April 15-17, 2027 Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf) Details at: forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...

New work on slavery across the context of Spain and the Netherlands. I've been waiting to read this book since I first came across Ramona's work - counting down the days now! #EarlyModern 🗃️

Ramona Negrón@ramonanegron.bsky.social · yesterday

Excited to see my forthcoming book (PhD dissertation) on @routledgebooks.bsky.social: Silver, Spices, and the Slave Trade. The Coymans Family and Dutch Entrepreneurship in the Spanish Americas (1580-1700). It will be published in December 2026. www.routledge.com/Silver-Spice...

As of 1 August, I'm officially a 'Reader', which is the first time my job description actually describes *me*... I imagine this is how a younger version of my son might feel should be become a fire engine when he grows up.

So delighted to have a physical copy of this. Thanks so much @hsmurphy.bsky.social !!!!

Got my print copy today! Thank you @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social and @hsmurphy.bsky.social Read it in print or online here: academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...

This looks a smashing opportunity #earlymodern @achconference.bsky.social

Hannah Murphy@hsmurphy.bsky.social · 2w ago

Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️

Please share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️

AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago | King's College London

The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War (CRSW) is pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded AHRC doctoral studentship, to be jointly supervised across History and War Studies

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Applications Reopened – Two Fully Funded AHRC PhD Studentship Missed the first round? Applications have now reopened for two fully funded AHRC PhD studentships with the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War at King's College London.

Very excited to announce this, nearly ten years after I first conceived of this project. I've picked up a job and even tenure along the way. The brief hiatus in question was occasioned by a very cute and very time-consuming baby boy 👶 #earlymodern #digitalhumanities 🗃️

Early Modern Digital Itineraries (EMDigIt)@emdigit.bsky.social · 3w ago

After a hiatus, EMDigIt is back with BIG news! 📯 The Core Italian Itinerary dataset is now publicly available as feature layers published on ArcGIS Online. More than 3,700 georeferenced way-points and 6,000 route segments taken from 8 Italian-language itineraries published from 1562-1720.

Exciting to see @tesswingard.bsky.social on bsky, who does fascinating work on social history of medieval trans experience - of interest to many of us #EarlyModern #HistSTM people. Follow! Add her to starter packs! Whatever else you crazy kids do...

Prof. Tess Wingard@tesswingard.bsky.social · 4w ago

(re)introducing myself now that I've crawled back on here: I'm a historian of medieval gender and sexuality, I'm about to start my new role as assistant professor at the university of rochester after two years as a marie skłodowska-curie postdoctoral fellow at trinity college dublin

📣CFP RSA 2027, Philadelphia Two more weeks to apply!!! Scholars of #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture, don't forget to send us your abstracts by Monday, July 20! 👇

infoclio.ch@infoclio.bsky.social · 2mo ago

CfP: Claiming the Exotic: Negotiating Material Difference in the Early Modern World (RSA Panel Proposal) #infoclioevent

Whilst writing about trav(ailing) #earlymodern bodies all summer, I forgot to advertise that my latest article is out in the world. It’s about English travellers’ ahum stomach problems in the Levant (on brand, I knew, I think Kirsty Rolfe once called this draft ‘flux capacitor’…).

excellent contribution of @hsmurphy.bsky.social includes career of Barbadian Thomas Rous (86) prodding aging brain to wonder (but no confirmation yet) about relation to Francis Rous and, thus, Warwick group/Providence Island Co @davidveevers.bsky.social @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social

Past and Present@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · last mo.

1/ "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) doi.org/10.1093/past...

A career and project highlight to see our @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social special issue 'Medicine, Race, and Slavery' appear - the result of workshops, conversation and many, many emails over the past four years. So grateful to the inspiring contributors and the editorial team. #EarlyModern #HistSTM 🗃️

Past and Present@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · last mo.

Our 2026 Supplement (#18) "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" Edited by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) Has now been published by @academic.oup.com academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...

Our 2026 Supplement (#18) "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" Edited by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) Has now been published by @academic.oup.com academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...

GEMENE-ST has encoded thousands of historical contracts and persons related to Mediterranean and Atlantic slavery ca. 1400-1550. It's an ongoing project which will be expanded significantly over the next year. (Full disclosure: I was involved in this!) #medievalsky #earlymodern #digitalhumanities

Arches Project@archesproject.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🗺️ Who Is Using Arches? The GEMENE‑ST project maps the Genoese merchant network (1450–1530) & slave trade across the Mediterranean & the Atlantic, highlighting connections between thousands of historical records. 🔗 Explore the database, hosted by @dhiroma.bsky.social: gemene-st.dhi-roma.it/

Two-year early modern English job, at Oriel College and the Oxford English Faculty, starting October. Happy to field any questions! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

oh permanent full-time pre-1800 job at Limerick! Deadline 14 August -- start of the job in January 2027. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU993/a... #earlymodern #MedievalSky #Skystorians #Jobfairy

Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) at University of Limerick

Apply for the Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

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The latest issue of "Renaissance Studies" is out! Read some perspicacious, exciting and generally magnificent #EarlyModern scholarship assembled into one shiny issue by our erudite editor, @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social 💫 📖 💫 rensoc.org.uk/renaissance-...

Would anyone be interested in being part of a panel for SRS next year that speaks to 'theories of history' #earlymodern

Hannah Murphy@hsmurphy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Looking ahead to what promises to be a landmark gathering next year. It's the *60th anniversary* of @srsrensoc.bsky.social , the conference is taking place at the @warburginstitute.bsky.social, and the theme is explicitly inviting us to move beyond limits... Cannot wait - spread widely!!!!!

Looking ahead to what promises to be a landmark gathering next year. It's the *60th anniversary* of @srsrensoc.bsky.social , the conference is taking place at the @warburginstitute.bsky.social, and the theme is explicitly inviting us to move beyond limits... Cannot wait - spread widely!!!!!

The Warburg Institute@warburginstitute.bsky.social · 3mo ago

*Call for Papers* @srsrensoc.bsky.social has announced its next #conference. 'The Renaissance beyond Borders' frames the #Renaissance as a dynamic, interconnected process that transcends the chrono-geographical limitations of a fixed European moment. Share your paper ➡️ rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie...

Call for papers from my colleagues at the #Rubenshuis: Many (More) Antwerp Hands. Collaborations Across Media, ca. 1500-1750. Submit before 31 July, Conference 22-23 April 2027 in #Antwerp. #ArtHistory hnanews.org/cfp-many-mor...

Thinking and writing about fragments, record keeping, and the processes of selection and deselection behind archival 'silences'....

Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Love the commitment to keeping the fragments. In case anyone wanted an illustration that archives aren't solely about accessing content… characteristically brilliant paper by @hsmurphy.bsky.social on the importance of researching the miscellaneous boxes for what exists outside the scheme

What a week it's been.... Yesterday fresh scholarship from interdisciplinary experts pushed us to think about 'the' #EarlyModern in terms of race, environment, interregional connections, adaptions, eschatology, stop-start technological change and the 'slash' in the early/modern

CEMS KCL@cemskcl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

And, last but not least, our Annual Colloquium will take place on Thursday. This year's theme is 'Periodizing Early/Modernity' and features several panels and a roundtable. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...

Some fun reading for the week

So dramatic! This was such a stimulating and generative event - have been turning over grains, practices, ephemera, voices, silences, and the difficult negotiation between the whispers of interiority and the loudness of structure all weekend...

John Sabapathy@jwwsabapathy.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A super symposium last Friday @stjohnsox.bsky.social for the @enghistrev.bsky.social symposium exploring how historians respond 'when there are no sources'—Nandini Chatterjee here chairing the final panel with (l-r), John Arnold, Miranda Spieler, Jonathan Saha, Tess Wingard & @hsmurphy.bsky.social.

One of a number of *fully-funded* PhD studentships associated with our new Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery and War. I'll be co-supervising with the Centre director, Maeve Ryan: an interdisciplinary collaboration with War Studies. PlHappy to answer questions/offer advice! 🗃️#EarlyModern

Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War@slaveryinwar.bsky.social · 4mo ago

AHRC Studentship: Slavery and the Seven Years’ War within and across the Caribbean Archipelago: www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy...

CfP for our Annual Colloquium! This year's theme is 'Periodising the Early/Modern'. We're looking for abstracts from PGRs/ECRs. Deadline: 7th April Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...

CfP: Periodizing the Early/Modern - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog

Call for Papers for the Annual CEMS Colloquium. This year’s theme is periodizing the early/modern. The CfP deadline is 7th April. The Colloquium will take place on 11th June.

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I completely forgot I made this... a big list of English judicial records, 1500 to 1800, published and often online!

Catherine Fletcher@catherinefletcher.info · 5mo ago

This from @brodiewaddell.bsky.social is a very useful general introduction to some key early modern legal sources.