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Julie Hardwick

@juliehardwick.bsky.social

Historian | France| Gender| Global Early Modern| Views my own | Writing: An Intimate History of Racial Capitalism in Old Regime France | Sex in an Old Regime City (OUP, 2020). More here: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/jholwell

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Julie Hardwick@juliehardwick.bsky.social · 2d ago

The third round of formal reflection for for Karin and I (along with a lifetime of constantly talking about it)! Please share widely. Please circulate widely to anyone who might be interested. We will be welcoming people who would like to attend and join the dialogue as well as paper givers.

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...

Conference poster for the Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds featuring an image of birds and an image of a nest in a tree as well as the JCB logo and text.
Julie Hardwick@juliehardwick.bsky.social · last mo.

It seems like the day to repost the most unexpected career turn - from a Berks chat w/ Amanda Herbert to writing about Taylor Swift for Time. I know a lot more TS songs now & found TS connoisseurs among many friends to my amusement. Happy Wedding Day! time.com/6971832/the-...

‘The Tortured Poets Department’ Stirs Up the Document Market

Swifties are buying old French documents for mood-boards and more. But this trivializes the importance of the documents.

time.com

Julie Hardwick@juliehardwick.bsky.social · last mo.

Abortion, past and present, as an embodied experience - @erinmaglaque.bsky.social's draws on her new book, Presence: A Hidden History of the Family Body, to reflect on the long history and contemporary experience of abortion . A terrific, teachable intro. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...

‘It is comforting to be haunted’: how attitudes to abortion have changed through the ages

The long read: The abortion debate – the language of life, choice and rights – severs women, and their pain, from history. I don’t want to forget my abortion and I don’t want to forget theirs

theguardian.com

Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers)@lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · last mo.

Please consider submitting something! The next Forum theme is Early Modern Women and Generations (full cfp in the quoted post). Our Forum is a great home for shorter pieces. Submissions are peer-reviewed and accepted manuscripts will appear in the spring 2027 issue. #earlymodern

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal@emwjournal.bsky.social · last mo.

We hope that lots of you will consider submitting a piece for our upcoming forum on early modern women and generations #EarlyModern

The editors of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal invite submissions for the Fall 2027/Volume 22.1 Forum on the topic of Early Modern Women and Generations. In keeping with the Journal’s tradition since its third issue (2008), this Forum will comprise short contributions on a single topic by scholars from a variety of disciplines. For Volume 22.1, we invite contributions on **women and generations in the early modern world**. Papers might include examinations of intergenerational relationships among and between women, how gender shapes the expression of generational knowledge and status, how women preserve and protect the generations ahead of and behind them, how representations of generations are gendered, etc. We particularly encourage submissions that appeal to readers across disciplinary and national boundaries. Articles may cover literature, history, art history, history of science, geography, music, politics, religion, theater, cultural studies, and any region of the early modern world. At least part of our selection process will be focused on assuring geographical, chronological, and disciplinary diversity across the essays ultimately published in this Forum. Submissions are due October 1, 2026 and should be 3,500 words including footnotes; essays should follow the EMW Style Guide (www.journals.uchicago.edu/pb-assets/docs/journals/EMW-style-guide-CMOS18-1735857164913.pdf). Contributions will be peer-reviewed. If you have any questions about whether your proposed forum essay fits the scope of the journal, please contact us at emw@press.uchicago.edu. Please submit contributions at https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/emw/about. See Submissions and Instructions for Authors. For article type, select Forum
Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today's the anniversary of the Nazis executing Marc Bloch. Or, someone who could sit with uncertainty, champion inquiry & trying to understand, and recognise plurality & perplexity. And, in that knowledge, made the choice not to remain passive. Bloch, Historian’s Craft (MUP, 1992), pp. 64, 119, 160.

his comrades address him with a look of amazement. "extraordinary! You don't even seem to mind this awful uncertainty!" My friend could have answered that, despite the popular prejudice, the mental climate of research is not so unsympathetic to ready acceptance of the lottery of fate.Even in action, we are far too prone to judge. It is so easy to denounce. WE are never sufficiently understanding. Whoever differs form us -- a foreigner or a political adversary -- is almost inevitably considered evil. A little more understanding of people would be necessary merely for guidance, in the conflicts which are unavoidable; all the more to prevent them while there is yet time. If history would only renounce its false angelic airs, it would help us to cure this weakness. It includes a vast experience of human diversities, a continuous contact with men. Life, like science, has everything to gain from it, if only these contacts be friendly.This is in all honesty to acknowledge the subordination of the perspectiv to the peculiar angle of the inquiry. Moreover, lt us take care: in history, the fetish of single cause is all too often only the insidious form of search for the responsible person -- hence a value judgment. The judge expresses it as: 'who is right, and who is wrong?' The scholar is content to ask: 'why?' and he accepts the fact that the answer may not be simple. Whether as a prejudice of common sense, a postulate of logicians, or a habit of prosecuting attorneys, the monism of cause can be, for history, only an impediment. History seeks for causal wavetrains and is not afraid, since life shows them to be so, to find them multiple.
Karin Wulf@kawulf.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I’m rarely at a loss for words but today I don’t have many for the enormity and the complexity of Gordon Wood’s legacy - I was inspired by his work even as I agreed with about 1/2 and was often irritated by the rest. RIP. A real one. www.brown.edu/news/2026-06...

Passages: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Brown professor emeritus of history Gordon S. Wood

The prolific and preeminent historian of the American Revolution who taught at Brown for nearly four decades died on Sunday, June 7, at age 92.

brown.edu

Julie Hardwick@juliehardwick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I have to say the spring cygnets are absolutely one of my favorite parts of working at Kew! [Also looking a ship's papers I have looked at TWICE before - this is why these projects take so long .....]

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Julie Hardwick@juliehardwick.bsky.social · 3mo ago

1/2 Help! Do I know anyone who's worked in the Y series on the commissaires' records who could give me some guidance about finding one in 1781? I have the name of the commissaire (Gauthier) and the neighborhood (Montmartre). www.quotidien-genealogie.fr/paris-les-mi...

Comment consulter les minutes des commissaires du Châtelet

Les Archives nationales viennent de mettre en ligne les minutes des commissaires du Châtelet. Qu'est-ce que le Tribunal du Châtelet ? Qui

quotidien-genealogie.fr

Julie Hardwick@juliehardwick.bsky.social · 3mo ago

1/ Such an interesting and for me very rare foray into the 19th century today at an event to mark the erection of a memorial stone for Jeanne Deroin, the great feminist-socialist who fled to West London to avoid prosecution in France, and was buried in an unmarked grave in Margravine cemetery.

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Julie Hardwick@juliehardwick.bsky.social · 3mo ago

When you have been saving something in the archives for an exciting treat, but when you put the order in it says "not available until .... a date six hundred years ahead." I thought it must be an error but then a curator tells you it's because they are digitized -

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Julie Hardwick@juliehardwick.bsky.social · 3mo ago

1/2 Well hello old friend 😍 I like this project very much - but even though it’s my third summer in a row back here after 25+ years in Lyon, it turns out I autopiloted to picking up my Lyon cards before I left home 🤣.

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@deborahhamer.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Dream positions: 3 (!!) PhD placements at the Prize Papers with emphasis on finding students with the following language skills: French, Spanish, Dutch, and Scandinavian languages. (Of course, I emphasize the Dutch language!) www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/professional...

Exploring the Prize Papers, a global early modern archive

Using language skills, examine previously unknown records from the Prize Papers collection and produce descriptions to support digitisation.

nationalarchives.gov.uk

Julie Hardwick@juliehardwick.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My first ever trip to western North Carolina! A gorgeous morning at Wake Forest University where I'm enjoying delightful hospitality and the great faculty here. I'll be floating a new part of my book project at a seminar with them and a lecture later. Lucky to call this my work category.

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