Splendiferous!

Such a pleasure to have a few hour chin wag with colleagues in Archaeology and be reminded of such fundamental inquiries into human behaviour that we share as scholars, leaving aside the institutional spasms inhibiting collaboration. I was an archaeologist; I have many students who are in Arch.

Photo of a grey industrial looking carpet with a darker pattern of wiggly lines that look something heavy pulled through the mud.

The carpet in this exam room looks like they’ve dragged bodies out of the seats and out of the room. Must have been Calculus 101.

Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

Book cover with photo of writer Lillian Smith. Title is An Inconvenient Woman.

Make sure you put this on your reading list. Forthcoming from @kerileighmerritt.bsky.social

Reading Capp on hats reminds me that for a while here the coach of the women’s swim team was a guy named Drinkwater. #NominativeDeterminism

I fell down a rabbit hole* researching Boston's African American window cleaner Thomas Jefferson and discovered that he was prosecuted for stealing a gold watch from a jeweler on the 4th 👏 of 👏 July 👏 1808. Now THAT is going in the book! 🗃️

* it's all rabbit holes, y'all

Fascinating
Mayflower hero was secretly sold into slavery, hidden files reveal

www.thetimes.com/article/1306...

#Bermuda

Job Opportunity!

Iberian Empires at Warwick University

Good grief, even says it on the package label. Why not add an “Attention Identity Thieves” stamp on there too?

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Seems both unnecessary and trouble waiting to happen that an international courier company sends you delivery notification messages indicating the contents of the package - “UK Passports” - in the subject line of the messages…

Not available to international subscribers 😥…

I bet! City of my birth! I look forward to reading the results.

Excellent, congrats!

Postdoctoral Researcher positions in History Se annonsen i sin helhet på engelska nedan.

2 Postdocs for historians of minority nationalisms (all periods): abo.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...

You cowards!

“Ferrous Mulers’ Day Off: Religious Holidays of Rural Ironmonger Suppliers in Early Modern Europe”

You know what? I’ll even give that one away free.

#ConferencePaperTitles #EarlyModern

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Oh, sorry, missed this. You have it now, I take it? Note the correction made in May 2025 issue to "Figure 1: A French Free Emigrant on his way to the Barracoon of M. Régis, 1858, TNA, FO 84/1070, 1858, fo. 126."

Here is the cover of my forthcoming book with University of Arizona Press! Can’t wait to see it in person

We be cooked.

* shakes fist at Atlantic Ocean *

Photo of back deck during snow storm, big Malamute mix is curled up, happy as Larry, covered in snow, while concerned German Shepherd monitors the perimeter.

@drleonj.bsky.social Big Yoda starting to disappear out there. Bloody freak snow storm. #DogsofBluesky

Photo of actor Robert Mitchum.

Robert Mitchum was the heat. Nobody like him. #GoldenAge

I went to the emergency room today as I felt like I was shrinking. They made me sit in the waiting room for hours. Finally I went up to the nurse and said I really needed to see someone soon about my condition. She said: “sir, you’re going to have to be a little patient.”

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You wonder what they thought it might mean when they began. Useful for planning the ritual calendar presumably?