Last week, I was delighted to launch the PASSAGE International Research Mobility Programme at the British High Commission in Jamaica. The programme will distribute £450 000 across 15 projects in Barbados, Cameroon, Ghana, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/caribbe...

Next week Wednesday 11 February we are delighted to have @pbhellawell.bsky.social & @libertypaterson.bsky.social present their paper titled 'The Ship Bedford: Atlantic and Archival Crossings in the Long Eighteenth-Century Slave Trade'. Join us either in person at the IHR or online from 17:30

Very happy that my article on the ackee tree in Jamaica is out! Thanks to @treeseeker.bsky.social and @planthums-uk.bsky.social for editing this excellent special issue. www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/article/v...

Plant Perspectives Journal@plantperspectives.bsky.social · 10mo ago

The latest issue is out: Tree Cultures and the Arboreal Humanities, guest edited by @rbgkew.bsky.social's Caroline Cornish & Christina Hourigan Featuring research articles on arboreal biographies, poetics of place, resistance & more; poetry, and book reviews 🌲🌳 🔗: www.whp-journals.co.uk/PP/

Kicking off our fantastic line up with a showcase of new research! Get in touch if you are a postgraduate or early career researcher who would like to introduce their work to the field. 📍 Hybrid: N304, IHR, Senate House, WC1E 7HU and Online 📅 Thursday 16th October, 2025 ⏰ 17:30 🔗 bit.ly/3INwCfO

I'll be hosting an online event on encountering extinction in the archives with @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social as part of The National Archives' Research Routes series. Come along to hear about researching animal histories in the archive! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/extinction...

Extinction and hope: Navigating animal encounters in the archive

What hope can be found in encounters with animals in archival documents?

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When someone claims that AI can just read all digitized history and discover new things, they should be required to catalog one of the many boxes full of random 17th century papers left over from a chancery case.

Not quite sure how I only just heard about this @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy project led by @pbhellawell.bsky.social but I AM VERY EXCITED about it!

Philippa Hellawell @pbhellawell.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm very pleased to share news of a new project I am leading at The National Archives. PASSAGE combines archival research on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people with an international programme that centres the research of West African & Caribbean scholars. Read more here: shorturl.at/XLyC8

On the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade, I am reflecting on my recent trip to Ghana, where I had the privilege to visit Cape Coast Castle, a place I had encountered countless times, but only through records at The National Archives.

Current programmes, for which applications are invited, include the Society's Martin Lynn Scholarship in African History. The Scholarship (£1500) is for a PhD student to undertake research on the history of Africa. Further details: bit.ly/3ssb3c0. Closing date 5 September 2025 #Skystorians

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · last yr.

The Royal Historical Society currently invites applications for 4 funding programmes to support historical research: bit.ly/4kHaOQH Grants are open to historians across a range of career stages and professional backgrounds. Applications between July and September 2025 #Skystorians

God, this is dreamy. Three months in Italy to do pre- or postdoctoral archival work!

Nicholas Scott Baker@renhistorian.bsky.social · last yr.

The Medici Archive Project is offering 12 short-term fellowships for pre-doc students and postdoc candidates, working on fields related to early modern Italy (preferably with a specific emphasis on Tuscan or Medici history). Deadline: 15 June. www.medici.org/fellowships/

REMINDER: We offer bursaries of up to £500 per head to support UK-based postgraduate and early career researchers to arrange panels on London-related topics for academic conferences. See here for further details on how to apply (please repost to help spread the word!)

Conference Panel Bursary | The London Journal

The London Journal is eager to support early career scholars present their work on London at conferences and publish articles based on this work. To that end, the Journal is pleased to annouce a conference panel bursary.

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The *big thing* I've been finishing is my next book Ruthless, which is coming out in October. It connects the exploitation of land and people across Britain and its empire with scientific and technological innovation to offer a new history of capitalist development. yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Ruthless - Yale University Press London

A revelatory new history of Britain’s industrial revolution and the exploitation that enabled it Was Britain’s industrial revolution the result o...

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PASSAGE is recruiting for two fixed-term posts to join me working on 18thC records of enslavement 1) Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/aZwqn 2) Project Cataloguer (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/6aSpz If you have questions, please let me know & please circulate widely!

Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) at The National Archives

Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

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We are hiring at St John's! We have an opening for an Early Career Librarian post, 3 year fixed term, salary £27,786, and as part of the role the College will pay the successful candidate's fees and give them day release to undertake a Masters' degree in Librarianship. www.joh.cam.ac.uk/vacancies

📣 NEW COURSE MEET THE TON: THE REAL HISTORY OF FASHIONABLE SOCIETY IN GEORGIAN LONDON A new four-week course with academic, author and historical advisor Professor Hannah Greig Starts: Thurs 29 May Course Fee: £40 (+booking fee) Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meet-the-t...

📣 Calling early modernists 📣 3 x 4-year jobs at Durham in French, History, & Italian!! Also 3 x PhDs. All working under the banner of 'Inventing Futures' in a wonderful department. Apply / spread the word.... www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

I'm very pleased to share news of a new project I am leading at The National Archives. PASSAGE combines archival research on the transatlantic trade of enslaved people with an international programme that centres the research of West African & Caribbean scholars. Read more here: shorturl.at/XLyC8

Major grant to fund research into the history of transatlantic slavery - The National Archives

The National Archives has been awarded a £1 million grant by Lloyd’s Register Foundation for a new, collaborative research programme on the history of the transatlantic trade in enslaved people. PASSA...

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Please 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...

Early Career Ocean History Scholars! Please take a look at (& share!) the call for the 2025 ICHO Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History: oceansciencehistory.com/2025/01/06/c...

CFP Announcement: 2025 Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize in Ocean History

The DHST Commission on the History of Oceanography (ICHO) announces the annual Jacqueline Carpine-Lancre Early Career Scholars Prize for outstanding papers addressing some aspect of ocean history, …

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New Horizons: Workshop for Emerging Scholars in Maritime History. Looking forward to presenting the @prizepapers.bsky.social & my work in Research & PR management on Tuesday, joined by the wonderful @saracaputo.bsky.social thanks to @slopclothes.bsky.social Info maritimeworkshops.com #earlymodern 🗃️

📢📢📢 Hakluyt Society ECR Essay Prize 2025 📢📢📢 Essays (6k-8k) are invited by ECRs on the history of travel, exploration, cultural encounter or their effects, or that critically engage with the work of the Society. 1st prize £1250 & 2nd prize £250. * Enter by 1/3/25 * www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...

A terrific column on why all or even a substantial portion of archives will never be digitized and why writing serious books will continue to take years, involve analog work, stay material, deserve funds and institutional respect. contingentmagazine.org/2019/03/25/m...

Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?

Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?

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#histmed Postdoc at University of Edinburgh School of Law. Post is for a historian of medicine, esp. one interested in the history of emotions and/or the law. Modern (1750-present) focus. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Funding available to cover childcare costs to attend this event. If you know someone with young children who is working to publish some historical research, please share this with them.

Adam Crymble@adamcrymble.bsky.social · 2y ago

🎓An ECR with a piece of 18th c. history writing that could use feedback from 'critical friends'? Join us at UCL on 19 Feb to get targeted feedback on your paper, and give the same to others. Full details on applying at the link below. Please share. adamcrymble.org/cfp-18th-cen...

Can anyone recommend any good project management software for managing research projects? Complete novice here, so the easier, the better!

Just listened to a fascinating paper by Dr Neil Johnston (The National Archives UK, Head of Early Modern Records) on ‘Securing Ireland, 1660–1685: State Intelligence in the reign of Charles II’. A great start to the ‘Spying on Hibernia’ Symposium.

Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland@virtualtreasury.bsky.social · 2y ago

Spying on Hibernia: Intelligence Gathering in Ireland, 1660-1900 Psssst! Check out the great line-up at this fascinating symposium tomorrow (Thursday, November 28) in PRONI, Belfast 🤫🧐🔎 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spying-on-...

Are you a PhD student at a UK/Irish uni, or are you within 3 yrs of award? Did you publish your first academic journal article this year (2024)? Please consider applying for the RHS Early Career Article Prize. Nominations open Mon 2 Dec 24 and close Fri 31 Jan 25: royalhistsoc.org/prizes/royal... 🗃️

Call for Papers! The British Commission for #MaritimeHistory will hold their 30th annual New Researchers conference at Hull in April 2025. It has THE BEST supportive environment for new scholars (also including independent) I've ever been to. www.maritimehistory.org.uk/news/items/c...

Just heard about this excellent mentoring initiative from the Early Modern Scholars of Color Network, in partnership with The Society for Renaissance Studies - more info and sign up links here: www.emsoc.co.uk/mentorship

Mentoring Scheme — EMSOC

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Any Atlantic History starter packs out there? I also haven't seen any for Global History. If you have, please point me in the right direction.