In "The Two Quilengues and the Baculamento Taxation System," @soashistory.bsky.social's Esteban Salas traces the entanglements of two African chiefdoms with the expansion of Portuguese colonialism, slavery and taxation in 18th c Angola.
Read the #openaccess article here: muse.jhu.edu/article/986544
Our new issue 53.2 is out🥳 We will be highlighting the articles and celebrating the authors in our upcoming posts!!!
ACORDO ENTRE FBN E ARQUIVO NACIONAL DE ANGOLA ABRIRÁ DOCUMENTOS HISTÓRICOS AO PÚBLICO. MANUSCRITOS DOS SÉCULOS XVII AO XX SERÃO DISPONIBILIZADOS POR MEIO DO PROJETO RESGATE BARÃO DO RIO BRANCO.
Saiba mais: www.gov.br/bn/pt-br/cen...
This issue contains a chilling account of the latest disaster at Rubaya Mine in DRC:
Ombeni*, a survivor of previous Rubaya landslides, said the site had become a burial ground. “Some bosses don’t want the victims to be pulled out of the rubble for fear of having to pay for their funerals”
Bloemfontein!
Book launch at UoFS for my book on the history of the #Lesotho Highlands Water Project!
2 March.
Hope to see you there! Virtual link here if you need it:
journals.ufs.ac.za/index.php/jc...
I wrote about enslaved people in Hamburg, flight attempts, and the city's free-soil law of 1837. It's an open-access publication: 🗃️
#CFP: "Cattle Commodification in Global History: Capitalism, Science and Empire". International Workshop, Ghent University, 3-5 June 2026.
Deadline for abstracts: 23 January 2026
Info: cattlefrontiers.eu/workshop-cat...
#envhum #envhist #agriculture #environment #hstm #histsci
I have a new article in the Journal of Early Modern History about the Jesuits and their role as agents of the Inquisition in Angola.
It is now available as an advance article: brill.com/view/journal...
African Economic History publishes scholarly essays in English, French, and Portuguese on the economic history of African societies from precolonial times to the present.
Send us your work!
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This cover of The Continent (16 August 2025, Issue 209) has a headline that reads: “The war about everything in Sudan” in dark grey text on the left side. The artwork filling most of the page is an abstract, cubist-style drawing of a human face made up of many geometric patterns and shapes. The face is black and grey with sections of checkerboard, stripes, and intricate line designs. The lips are deep red. The figure has two large pointed ear-like shapes on top of the head, long dark arms raised upward on either side, and several eyes scattered within the fragmented face design. At the top, the page “The Continent” is printed in large, dark blue letters with a small red circle (like a sun) above the head in the middle. A gold strip runs along the top edge with the text: African Journalism | 16 August 2025 | Issue 209. The artist is Khalid Shatta.
All Protocol Observed
Welcome to Issue 209 of The Continent
The war in Sudan is more than numbers and labels — it’s a war about everything. Five Sudanese writers share stories from the ground, revealing its real contours and what it’s truly about.
Get your copy here: bit.ly/TC_209
I reviewed Chrislayne Alfagali's brilliant _Blacksmiths of Ilamba_ for @rsaorg.bsky.social's Renaissance Quarterly. Highly recommend Alfagali's book to anyone interested in histories of technology and early modern Africa:
doi.org/10.1017/rqx....
Acabar com a FCT. Eu receava que as coisas fossem piorar, mas isto é o descalabro. A FCT tem muitos problemas, certo, mas ainda faz algo pela Ciência em Portugal e permite que algo se faça pela Ciência. Agora, Ciência vai ser só Engenharias e ciências ditas exatas? E o resto da sociedade? Asqueroso.
‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action.
Online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.
Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm a ball of fears and frustrations -- am currently writing a book, after all -- but I reject attempts to frame historians' dislike of LLMs as fear/anxiety about their own skills, and not as a concern about what doing history -- the method, the ethos -- is.
