Absolutely!

I wonder what "student placement" means here. Does it mean unpaid internship basically? It's a terrific opportunity for students who have funding if that's the case and their funding alllows.

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.

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!)
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What a treat to jump on here and read this, Paul. I am so glad your students enjoyed it.

And also the closest in miles:-)

also in the 17C

Just read the Guardian version of this story - and had the exact same thought ie the same situation here I am sure. The lack of ethics ....

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.

So hard for Orest, John - 70 years! If you feel like sending him a note, he would be very appreciative.

@sfhs.bsky.social

In Memoriam — SFHS

@profchrisadams.bsky.social and I remember two remarkable scholars, Elborg Forster and Patricia Ranum, "faculty wives" who never held formal positions but their generative scholarship made contributions to the field of French history. www.societyforfrenchhistoricalstudies.net/in-memoriam

So delighted to see our professional society recognizing this important book!

How kind, Judith!

The Marshs are on Blue Sky!

Slavery & Abolition Volume 47, Issue 1 of Slavery & Abolition

The March issue of Slavery & Abolition contains a Forum on "Human Commodification". The Guest Editors are Tawny Paul, Andrew Apter, and Craig Koslofsky. It is available at: www.tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/c...

Keen to listen! And if this tastes of more: come and listen to a conversation about it @ihreurope1500.bsky.social & the French Seminar @ihr.bsky.social with Mélanie Lamotte, @juliehardwick.bsky.social, and @lrhodges.bsky.social. Bound to be fascinating!

18 May, 17:30 (UK Time), in person & online

Author's Corner with Bryan A. Banks and Cindy Ermus, editors of THE GLOBAL AGE OF REVOLUTIONS <p>Today, we are happy to bring you our conversation with Bryan A. Banks and Cindy Ermus, editors of <em>The Global Age of Revolutions: A History from

One of the toughest obstacles to this volume was selecting which pieces from @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social to include. There are so many great essays. The volume is meant to be read alongside the website! www.upress.virginia.edu/author-corne...

I should have written "methodology"! I think there's absolutely a value to understanding the shape of the land etc even if it's much transformed in the inbetween times.

Oh I love this methodology so much!

Slaves in Paris — Harvard University Press A pioneering biographical study of enslaved people and their struggle for freedom in prerevolutionary Paris, by an award-winning historian of France and the French Empire.In the decades leading up to ...

2/2 With Marie Houllemare, Antoine Lilti and Sasha Turner.
(Not sure why the nice thumbnail for the forum that popped up when I put the link in isn't showing! I hope when you click it, it will be! Here's the link to the book with thumbnail at any rate
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1/n Absolutely my honor & please to be part of this forum about Miranda Spieler's amazing new book, Slaves in Paris - an instant classic. Such an important intervention in French & European history as well as the history of Black Europe & Atlantic history.
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Check Toby Green's beautiful essay on @aeon.co, edited by dear Sam Haselby, essay draws on Toby's new magnificent book The Heretic of Cacheu. For reading and listening, and to be shared widely in these difficult times we live in #slaveryarchive #Africanhistory #Africa aeon.co/essays/lesso...

So sorry I didn't tag you, Erin - when I looked for your blue sky name, it didn't come up. And congratulations again!

This article is the best I have read so far this year and I think it will keep that award until the end of the year. It is a hard, painful read, but so well described and flipping the historiographical table. It keeps me thinking about what a sustained comparison with Protestant regions would bring.

It was a pleasure to participate in this roundtable about a remarkable book. We find things to critique because that's the exercise, but what an achievement by the editors and all 260+ contributors.

To summarize, the landscape of academia, just like the rest of the global political economy, is marked by a huge fracture engendered by colonialism that continues to operate as well as mutate. This book observes it and attempts to address it, but it is not in itself sufficient repair. We hope that it will act as a preliminary point d'étape in what remains an incomplete process of trying to produce a genuinely global form of knowledge that can help us navigate our shared, divided, burning world.

Brilliant round table online ahead of print from @frenchhistory.bsky.social on “Colonisations: notre histoire”, a history in reverse of France and empire, written by 268 contributors (!!!)

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Oh I think it would, Laura. Let me do that right away.

Reproductive Unfreedom and Structural Violence in Early Modern Catholic Europe* | The Journal of Modern History: Vol 97, No 4 Abstract This article argues that reproductive unfreedom was a form of structural violence that significantly constrained poor women’s and children’s lives across early modern Catholic Europe. Reprodu...

3/ Everybody read it! @chicagojournals.bsky.social @durhamhistory.bsky.social
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2/. I would have said I know a lot about this topic & have thought about it seriously for a long time, but Erin's reframing - bringing black feminist scholarship to early modern history - is staggering. I am always a huge fan of her work but the intensity of the writing and the import...