Congratulations, Héctor. Fantastic news!

Labour relations and the persistence of servitude in Seventeenth-Century Charcas (present-day Bolivia) This study investigates the enduring presence of serfdom-like servicios personales imposed on indigenous populations in seventeenth-century Charcas, present-day Bolivia. Due to its characteristics,...

New open access article by the Centre for Empire Studies, Universität Münster associated researcher Raquel Gil Montero on Labour Relations and the Persistence of Servitude in Seventeenth Century Charcas doi.org/10.1080/0268...

Este viernes, únanse a nosotros en París para charlar sobre las "fronteras conectadas" de la Monarquía hispánica en el Nuevo Reino de Granada y Charcas en el siglo XVI

The remarkable power of... paperwork?

The Radical Spanish Empire is a new, groundbreaking history of political struggle in the Spanish New World—

A world where commoners and elites alike challenged the social order through paper politics.

Keep reading: bit.ly/46CYw73

On Monday, at 1 PM, we welcome Casey Schmitt to our Ships & Seafaring Talk, where she will present her book "The Predatory Sea", a full-length study of the entangled history of captivity and colonialism using Spanish, French and English archives. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/ships-seaf...

Green-blue-grey blocky soundwaves on background. Centred in black serif lettering “Sonance”, with “journal of early modern sound studies” underneath.

👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.

Looks really fun, but sadly, it's only for the duration of the project...

This is just amazing! Love it!

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:

We're back! Building on the success of our inaugural conference last year, we are delighted to announce its return with the new theme: Beyond the Battlefield🗡️

The conference will take place at the University of Exeter on 2-3 September. Deadline for abstracts is 22 May.

Please circulate widely!

A great loss. Have very fond memories of my time as a post doc in IAS.

My proofs have arrived and #AGoldenWorld is now available to preorder! How did Indigenous peoples and knowledge enter into Tudor & Stuart art, literature, and fashion – and at what cost?

uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-go...

#earlymodern #Tudors

For excellent history podcasts try

“The Medieval Podcast“ by @5minmedievalist.bsky.social -Danièle Cybulskie

“Gone Medieval” by @goingmedieval.bsky.social -Eleanor Janega

“Betwixt the Sheets” by @k8lister.bsky.social -Kate Lister

BBC Radio 4’s “In Our Time”

The @historyextra.bsky.social podcast

Since AI collects and classifies the data, it will start assuming that my area of interest is diplomatic history, when it is much wider than that... this is just a small example of the issues surrounding the use of AI...

Have just noticed that Google is offering an inaccurate AI summary of my first monograph. I never referred to the expeditions that I cover as diplomatic. Neither did I use the term Statist to define the late 16th century Catholic Monarchy. Assumption and oversimplification do not work.

📢 Open Call: Thijssen-Schoute Fellowship 2027
Are you an early career reseracher working on the history of science, art & ideas, with a focus on the 17th century & the Dutch Republic?
Apply before 15 May '26
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@mariekehendriksen.bsky.social @irenevanrenswoude.bsky.social

After months of back-and-forth drafting, & over 10,000 words of dialogue, I am delighted that this discussion article co-authored with Quentin Skinner (@qmul.bsky.social) is now published @global-ih.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

This podcast developed from a five-part series of articles recently published in the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal.

1. 'Locating Geological Agency in a ‘Small’ Early Modern Anthropocene' by @ellydezateux.bsky.social

François Soyer, "Imperfect Sodomy: The Lisbon Inquisition and the Repression of Heterosexual Anal Intercourse in Portugal, 1580–1800." Journal of the History of Sexuality 35, no. 1 (2026), pp. 1-27. muse.jhu.edu/pub/15/artic...

A volume of essays I edited some years ago on news in #earlymodern Europe is now available open access 📖
Featuring chapters by @lenaliapi.bsky.social, @emmawhipday.bsky.social, among others!
brill.com/edcollbook-o...

Front cover of Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England by Elly Robson Dezateux.

Blurb of Violent Waters: How were environments and politics remade by sovereigns, floods, mapmakers, migrants, rioters, and writers during wetland improvement projects in early modern England? Violent Waters examines flagship ventures which promised to transform unruly fenland fringes into orderly terrain at the heart of national power and productivity. In practice, these projects sparked constitutional controversy, new floods, and huge riots. The first state-led project in Hatfield Level brought local, national, and transnational interests into contact and conflict for almost a century. Elly Robson Dezateux traces the environmental politics that emerged as water and land were constructed and contested, both mentally and materially. These disputes pivoted on urgent questions about risk and justice, which became entangled in civil war conflict and exposed the limits of central authority and technology. Ultimately, improvement was destabilised by a lack of legitimacy and the dynamism of local custom as a method of environmental management and collective action. Wetland communities, as much as improvers and sovereigns, remade the terrain of politics and the future of the fens.

Violent Waters: Environmental Politics in Early Modern England is out now with Cambridge University Press: www.cambridge.org/core/books/v...

This watery, riotous book has been more than a decade in the making, and I'm delighted to see it out in the world to live its own life!

Deadline: 28 Feb

The Society is now running its annual #bookprize, primarily aimed at early career researchers.

The prize will be awarded for the best first monograph on the history of Christianity published during the previous calendar year.

ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/2026-book-pr... #ECR

Call for (post-PhD) historians and cultural scholars for the pod! We have a specific wishlist of scholarship we’re looking to add to the lineup:
- ancient & medieval history
and/or
- histories of anywhere other than the US and UK, preferably outside Europe

Pitches to: podcast@thisguysucked.com
🤗🤗🤗

Felices de compartir esta convocatoria. Happy for sharing this call for a fellowship!

Four footprints, two languages, one tile hn. sattiieis. detfri segnatted. plavtad herennis. amica signauit. qando. a- ponebamus. tegila(m)   Detfri of Hn. Sattis signed with a footprint. Amica of Herens signed when we were laying out…

Katherine McDonald’s truly marvelous “Four footprints, two languages, one tile”deserves your time: “Two slaves, working in conditions that were no doubt very difficult, taking a little time to mess about as friends and enjoy each other’s company.” katherinemcdonald.net/2016/01/14/f...

Law and Litigation in the reign of Elizabeth I: new descriptions, new perspectives

Booking is now open for my @tudorstuartseminar.bsky.social talk on 16 February, examining Elizabethan Law and Litigation in light of the new catalogue descriptions available on The National Archives online catalogue. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Apply now for Bucerius History Scholarship at the Central European University in Vienna    Are you passionate about history, interested in pursuing a Master’s degree, and speak fluent English? Then… |... Apply now for Bucerius History Scholarship at the Central European University in Vienna    Are you passionate about history, interested in pursuing a Master’s degree, and speak fluent English? Then se...

The Gerd Bucerius Scholarship, funded by ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS in partnership with CEU, supports outstanding MA students in Historical Studies.

The scholarship includes:
1️⃣ 100% tuition waiver
2️⃣ monthly stipend
3️⃣ one-time research allowance of € 1.000

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The History of Cartography, “the Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever Undertaken,” Is Free Online “Cartography was not born full-fledged as a science or even an art,” wrote map historian Lloyd Brown in 1949. “It evolved slowly and painfully from obscure origins.” Many ancient maps made no attempt ...

The History of Cartography, “the Most Ambitious Overview of Map Making Ever Undertaken,” Is Free Online

📌Rappel 📍Séminaire #GRHEN : grhen.ehess.fr/%F0%9F%93%8D 2025-2026 : "Pratiques environnementales des sociétés médiévales et modernes" Mickaël Wilmart et Raphaël Morera
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@ehess.fr .@cnrsshs.bsky.social @crh.ehess.fr