Graham Moore
@mooregraham.bsky.social
Sometimes pirate, othertimes historian. Records Specialist (Early Modern Parliament) at The National Archives UK. Views own &c Curator of REVOLUTION 250 exhibition - now OPEN at The National Archives!
#OnThisDay in 1776, Jonas Phillips tried to spread the news of American independence to Europe. But a British ship intercepted his message. After 250 years tucked away at the National Archives in the UK, his letter and Declaration broadside have returned to Philadelphia. 📜: bit.ly/3MYjbIm
Absolute Units returns! We're back with the @uniofreading.bsky.social's Tom Oliver and Marzia Briel, talking about how we can rethink and rebuild humanity's relationship with nature. Listen wherever you get your podcasts! merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Absolute Units podcast - The Museum of English Rural Life
Come for the big sheep. Stay for the history of rural England and its people.
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Who held the power during an arrest in early modern England? @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social explores how bystanders could uphold or undermine the power of the state.
Being an Audience to Arrest
Lucy Clarke examines the arrest in early modern England, reconstructing how bystanders could legitimise or challenge the power of the state.
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The Polly, seized in July 1776, looked like an ordinary merchant ship hauling oil, candles and flour. In truth, she carried a secret mission: passenger William Hodge held orders to buy muskets, gunpowder and warships for Congress—papers he threw overboard moments before capture #skystorians #history
'"This is pure mentality," he said.' Actually, as cultural historians will instantly have picked up, Thomas Tuchel was making a sophisticated reference here to the concept of mentalité. If England wants to beat Argentina, the coaching team needs to be augmented with a cultural historian pronto.
World Cup 2026: Tuchel fumes at 'lucky' and 'sloppy' England - but Jude Bellingham defends players
England head coach Thomas Tuchel is praised by former England players for saying his players "got lucky" in World Cup quarter-final win over Norway - but match-winner Jude Bellingham disagrees.
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Glasgow is hiring a lecturer in medieval history (c.800-1500) on an open-ended basis. We are a lovely bunch in the medieval area, would be great to have a new colleague! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSF052/l...
Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) at University of Glasgow
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Medieval History (Research & Teaching Track) on jobs.ac.uk!
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One of my fave things in York Minster: a medieval wren stalking a spider. It reminds me that history isn't only kings and battles. Someone, centuries ago, found joy in the same things we still notice today. It's a reminder of how much we have in common over our differences.
delighted to feature on History Hit's new film about the American Revolution, alongside documents from our Revolution 250 exhibition. Dan and I talk about everything from the US Declaration of Independence to an item colleagues and I affectionately call 'The Giant 18th-Century Spreadsheet'.
American Revolution: Declarations of War and Independence
The year 2026 marks a monumental milestone in global history: the 250th anniversary of the United States Declaration of Independence. To commemorate...
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Ahead of our upcoming exhibition Becoming America: how science shaped a nation, supported by Griffin Catalyst, our latest blog post explores the scientific thinking that underpinned the Declaration of Independence: https://bit.ly/4eKhgGk
On 3-4 July 1776, as Philadelphia finalised the Declaration of Independence, four American merchant ships were seized off Cape Henlopen, Delaware by the British, and taken to New York Bay. Papers from the Adrian, Fidelity, and Peggy were likely lost. More soon on the Polly's secret mission
New from The Natural History Museum -- The Other 250, a counter-atlas which "shows how place-names shape past and present struggles over land, power, and belonging, and holds the histories that official commemoration works to sanitize or suppress." wordsaremonuments.org/the-other-250/
The Other 250 - Words Are Monuments
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Rare find at the National Archives UK: earlier this year, the volunteer Michael Scurr at TNA discovered one of the earliest prints of the US Declaration of Independence in the Royal Navy Captains’ letters collection and can be linked to our collection as it travelled on the American privateer Dalton
Finding a new copy of the US Declaration of Independence
In May 2026, a volunteer working on a cataloguing project at The National Archives made an astonishing discovery.
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But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Declaration was made in the land of Exeter.
Graham Moore@mooregraham.bsky.social · last mo.we have some fun 4 July news over at The National Archives! a new copy of the US Declaration of Independence, with an amazing story behind it (privateers! printers! prisoners!) - but also, a find that shows the power and importance of our volunteering and cataloguing projects.
thanks for visiting, Katrina - it’s so great to hear you enjoyed it!! (the Anglo-Mohawk agreement here is one of my favourites from our item selection)
Katrina Navickas@katrinanavickas.bsky.social · last mo.At the American Revolution exhibition at TNA. It's great. Something so powerful seeing the materiality of ink on vellum of documents that actually changed everything and have massive legacy for today. #Long18thC
big thanks to BBC R4’s Today programme for having me on to talk about this (find me on catch-up, around 08.45am!)
Graham Moore@mooregraham.bsky.social · last mo.we have some fun 4 July news over at The National Archives! a new copy of the US Declaration of Independence, with an amazing story behind it (privateers! printers! prisoners!) - but also, a find that shows the power and importance of our volunteering and cataloguing projects.
we have some fun 4 July news over at The National Archives! a new copy of the US Declaration of Independence, with an amazing story behind it (privateers! printers! prisoners!) - but also, a find that shows the power and importance of our volunteering and cataloguing projects.
‘Vanishingly rare’ copy of US Declaration of Independence found by volunteer in UK archives
One of 11 surviving copies of ‘Exeter printing’ and only one known outside US was taken from American privateer ship
theguardian.com
Now That’s What I Call A Roundtable (on the Amistad no less!) (I’m also there, but on a different table. feasibly a quadrilateral table. many shapes of table are available, at a variety of furniture stores that may/not be Swedish. table humour aside this is a GREAT issue)
Lou Roper@roperlou.bsky.social · last mo.delighted to announce new Journal of Early American History w/articles by @mooregraham.bsky.social @mariekeulen.bsky.social and 'heavyweight' roundtable w/ @thehistoriann.bsky.social @lhistorienne.bsky.social @csschmitt.bsky.social brill.com/view/journal... #earlymodern
The Prize Papers Project announces a new collaboration with Capstan Games. Together with the German Maritime Museum and the Gamelab Oldenburg, we explore the Age of Sail by linking archival research with historically grounded game development for the game Ahoy #maritimehistory #earlymodern #history
Great new job as Professor of Early Modern Irish History at Dublin City University advertised today. universityvacancies.com/dublin-city-...
Professor in Early Modern Irish History | University Vacancies Ireland
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📣 Call for Applications 📣 History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe. This is a part-time, paid role. Application deadline: 7 August 2026. Please share widely!
Call for Applications: Editorial Fellowship at History Workshop, 2026
History Workshop is seeking to appoint one Editorial Fellow in 2026, with specialism in pre-1800 CE history from any part of the globe.
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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...
At Chalke History Festival today, talking about ‘Revolution 250’ with my colleague and co-curator Sean Cunningham. (Weird moment as, exactly 10 years ago in VERY different weather, I was part if the volunteer team at this same festival!) Thanks to everyone who braved the heat to hear us today!
Studied at Exeter for my BA/MA (History & Classics depts). Top of the line teaching and research, interlinked. Exeter remains one of the most productive UK universities in my own fields (early modern, social, maritime history). If Humanities here is up for cuts then what university is NOT at risk?
Lewis Wade 🗃️@wadehistory.bsky.social · last mo.🚨 PLEASE SHARE WIDELY 🚨 If you are an Exeter alumnus, and wish to express your horror at the proposed cuts to the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, please sign the Google Doc petition below. Not an alumnus? You can still help by signing the Exeter UCU petition at c.org/msXfsb2g5b 🗃️
🚨 PLEASE SHARE WIDELY 🚨 If you are an Exeter alumnus, and wish to express your horror at the proposed cuts to the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, please sign the Google Doc petition below. Not an alumnus? You can still help by signing the Exeter UCU petition at c.org/msXfsb2g5b 🗃️
Alumni petition against the cuts to the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
Any Exeter alumni who wish for their names to be added to the petition below should please complete the form at this link: https://forms.gle/SpdYvmmsCaJbmZft6. If you are not an alumnus, but still wis...
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TODAY: the first day of our exhibition, ‘REVOLUTION 250’. It tells the story of the American Revolution through the British archive. We also look beyond the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration to encompass further stories, including Indigenous nations and Black Loyalists.
Markets, by Joe Saunders. Markets have historically fulfilled a key role in the economic life of Britain with most towns prior to the nineteenth-century existing as market centres. how-to-history.com/2026/06/24/m...
Markets
Joe Saunders Markets have historically fulfilled a key role in the economic life of Britain with most towns prior to the nineteenth-century existing as market centres. These markets provided regula…
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1768: Fort Stanwix, NY. The British and the Haudenosaunee Confederacy were negotiating the final portion of a new boundary line that would extend colonial settlement west into Indigenous nations' territory. The line was supposed to bring peace to North America. Instead, it heralded a Revolution.
