Self promotion alert! My new article is out now. 🤗 If you can’t access through your institutions let me know I have a limited number of free access links for your reading pleasure 🤗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Imperial surveillance of marital distress: the Tute divorce case and the British Raj

Through a close study of Richard and Helen Tute’s divorce experiences (1897–1913), this paper captures the historical nuances of imperial family histories through the lens of marital breakdowns. Sp...

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Nicoline van der Sijs met een zeer verontrustend bericht over het geruisloos verdwijnen van een databank waar alles bij elkaar tientallen jaren aan is gewerkt. neerlandistiek.nl/2026/03/een-...

Een fantoomdatabank

Of de verspilling van wetenschapsgeld en vrijwilligersinzet

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The call for papers for the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) is out! This biyearly conference, hosting around 1500 participants, brings together scholars who explain historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. More information: esshc.iisg.amsterdam/en

The Weary Death / Tired, Pavel Karlovich Wenig, 1915 #TheVictorianBookoftheDead #AlfredHitchcockDay

'Ze had geschreeuwd, zich verzet, nee, ho en stop geroepen.' Promovendus Marlies Couch vertelt over haar driemaal bekroonde afstudeerscriptie over seksueel geweld, saamhorigheid tussen vrouwen onderling en de rol van vroedvrouwen in de rechtspraak in de vroegmoderne tijd 🔗 tinyurl.com/3mnccyn2

Lecture alert 🔔 Forms of homosexual subjecthood were already present before the mass gay persecutions in the Dutch Republic in 1730. This is evident from the dozens of sodomy trials on ships, trading posts and in colonial settlements of the Dutch East India Company. (🧵1/3)

🚨 Workshop “Putting mortality on the map – spatial methods to study the urban mortality transition”, Univ. of Copenhagen, 20–21 Aug 2026. For researchers using or planning spatial approaches in historical mortality. Apply by 1 Feb 2026: madsp@ruc.dk & sanne.muurling@ru.nl

"We hebben decanen, rectoren en collegevoorzitters nodig die zeggen: ‘[...] We hebben eerdere bezuinigingen niet kunnen opvangen door harder te werken, ook niet door onderwijsinnovaties, en we gaan al helemaal niks oplossen met AI.’" www.mareonline.nl/opinie/ga-di...

‘Ga staken! En geef toe dat ons onderwijs achteruitholt’, betoogt natuurkundeprof Tjerk Oosterkamp

Hoe pijnlijk ook: we moeten toegeven dat universiteiten in tien jaar tijd flink zijn verslechterd, vindt Tjerk Oosterkamp. Harder werken helpt niet meer. En juist daarom moeten studenten en docenten d...

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Looking forward Miguel Rodrigues’s presentation! Tomorrow at the @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social

International Institute of Social History@iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social · 8mo ago

We warmly invite you to join the monthly seminar series Micro-Global Histories of Slavery: Sources and Approaches. This time our colleague Miguel Rodrigues will talk about the formation of colonial societies in the West African archipelagos of Cape Verde and São Tomé (16th–17th Century).

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

TOOOOOOOOOOM!!! @tombhamilton.bsky.social! Oh this is brilliant, humongous congratulations. The Natalie Zemon Davis Prize from the @16csociety.bsky.social! 🤩 #NZD4Eva (don't forget her birthday on Saturday, our #EarlyModern feast day)

Hamilton_Book award - Durham University

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#YayArchives

Duke University Press@dukepress.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The Weekly Read is "Archival Irruptions" by @ktgerbs.bsky.social, which traces how British colonial authorities in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans. Read the entire book now, for free! buff.ly/rccy0qL

New #OpenAccess #publication! 🚨 Creole widows were the most long-lived free people in 1780s-1820s St. Eustatius, Dutch #Caribbean - their stability was therefore instrumental in upholding colonialism. @inthesamesea.bsky.social @rm-project.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Stability and survival: Creole widowhood in St. Eustatius, 1780s-1820s

This article articulates the mortality gap between non-Caribbean (foreign) men and Caribbean (Creole) women on the Dutch island of St. Eustatius in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centurie...

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We are looking for a new Chair in Economic, Social and Demographic History! If this sounds like the right fit for you, or for someone in your network, do not hesitate to apply or share this call! www.ru.nl/en/working-a...

Full Professor: Social and Economic History | Radboud University

Do you want to work as a Full Professor: Social and Economic History at the Faculty of Arts? Check our vacancy!

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This workshop explores the intersections between legal and social history for early (Dutch) colonialism. It aims to advance the dialogue with regard to practices of colonial law, slavery, inequality and racialization. For more information: iisg.amsterdam/nl/events/co...

Medio volgend jaar word ik 67. De advertentie voor een nieuwe directeur @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social staat vanaf vandaag online. Zegt het voort! vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterda...

Spot on. Ik verbaasd me ook altijd weer over managers (of collega's) die de privileges van het werken aan de universiteit alleen maar benadrukken alsof we nog in de jaren 70 zitten.

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 11mo ago

"The academic career is framed as a privileged but high-risk venture that ppl knowingly choose to embark on so they must endure the consequences or find a way to cope, thus obscuring deliberate adoption of biz models that [deprioritize] investment in staff + render large sections of the workforce 🗑️"

Hier zeggen ze trouwens niet Dolle Mina maar Dolle Nimma and I think that’s beautiful. #nijmegen

The scariest and most powerful incantation known on the internet ;)

Looking forward talking about “Controlling Contagion” at the Radboud Conference next week, and learning more answers to its key question: “How Did We Lift the Burden?” www.ru.nl/en/about-us/... @oxford-esh.bsky.social @timriswick.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

Keynote “Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from Plague to Covid” | Radboud University

In this keynote lecture, prof. Sheilagh Ogilvie will explain how societies have historically managed epidemics through various social institutions.

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The reason historians don’t now use the term ‘witch hunts’ as a generalised term for the prosecution of people for witchcraft is that it implies witchcraft was always prosecuted in a different way compared to other crimes - it wasn’t

The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · last yr.

The witch hunts of 1400-1780 and today's misinformation crisis have striking parallels. Both were fueled by new media technologies that allowed false information to spread rapidly and widely. buff.ly/6RFALyJ By Julie Walsh @wellesley.edu

"we've eliminated the memory of these diseases." The most powerful argument for making sure #histmed is an element of all curricula!

The Real Truther@therealtruther.bsky.social · 2y ago

Dr. Paul Offit from last week's Roundtable on Vaccines: "The problem is not only that we've largely eliminated these diseases...we've eliminated the memory of these diseases. Parents are now more scared of the safety of vaccines, real or imagined, then the diseases they prevent."

Great to see the video of David Turner's recent talk, 'Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency and Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century' @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social now available online. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... It was a great evening.

Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency and Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century

British History in the Long 18th Century Semianr

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New book out later this year! Courtship, marriage, divorce, Scotland! All the best topics!

A-HA! The plot thickens! Zijne Majesteit heeft Trump hagelslag voorgezet, natuurlijk om hem subtiel te beïnvloeden. Hagelslaggate! Make Holland Great Again! #Hagelslagwins

📣New blog! How can a map of medieval homicides help teach about law, violence and society? @stephemmabrown.bsky.social shows how mapping coroners’ rolls from London, York & Oxford can give new insights into the realities of medieval urban life 📜 Read more: socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exchange...

From Coroners’ Rolls to the Classroom: Engaging Students with the Medieval Murder Map

Dr Stephanie Brown, University of Hull s.brown6@hull.ac.uk @stephemmabrown.bsky.social How can a map of medieval homicides help teach about law, violence and society? In lots of ways, actually. The…

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Fascinating article by the amazing Samantha Sint Nicolaas and colleagues about migrant crime and discrimination in the courts of early modern Holland: academic.oup.com/jsh/article-...

Migrants, Violence, and Discrimination in Early Modern Holland

Abstract. This study examines the experiences of migrants in early modern Dutch cities, focusing on violence and indications of social tensions in criminal

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Vroegmoderne vrouwen: verleden tijd? Allerminst! Tijdens 'Van marge naar middelpunt' blikken onderzoekers (waaronder collega @ninalamal.bsky.social) en erfgoedprofessionals terug én vooruit op vrouwengeschiedenis in erfgoed & wetenschap. 📅 4 juni | 17:00 | SPUI25 Info & aanmelden 👉 buff.ly/b94pHFs

Exciting to see the seven little maps I made for this book about diseases and mortality in 19th and early 20th c Amsterdam in print ✨ (Book recommendation, too! Get your copy now: libris.nl/a/owen-lamme...)

Layers of information in an archival document: - What is said - What is not said - What is alluded to - What is omitted intentionally (and unintentionally) - What is misleading - What is ambiguous - What is highlighted - What is downplayed - What is weaponized - What is unintelligible today ...