Port Royal, infâme repaire de pirates, a été engloutie par un tremblement de terre au 17e siècle

www.nationalgeographic.fr/histoire/eur...

🗃️ Super excited to share that we’re hiring at the Adams Papers, come work with us! @mhs1791.bsky.social www.masshist.org/admin/upload...

The @liverpooluni.bsky.social has refreshed its Repository – a database which provides details and full-text of world-class University research outputs and electronic theses from across the institution.

👉 news.liverpool.ac.uk/2026/03/04/u...

UN votes to recognise enslavement of Africans as 'gravest crime against humanity' The landmark resolution calls for an apology and contributions to a reparations fund, without specifying an amount.

“The resolution - proposed by Ghana - was adopted with 123 votes in favour and three against - the United States, Israel and Argentina.
Fifty-two countries abstained, including the United Kingdom and European Union member states.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

The First Emancipation: The Forgotten History of Abolition in Revolutionary France by Jeremy D. Popkin

The First Emancipation by Jeremy D. Popkin is a new history of slavery and the French Revolution.

Available April 21 (16 June UK pub).

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#History

Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

International Day for Digital Learning. Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) to learn more about digital histories. It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

Jobs! Three jobs! I am hiring three full-time, three-year postdocs to research the long history of song at Newcastle, from any disciplinary background (within reason), starting 1 October 2026. Spread the news far and wide – all details in the link below...

jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Public History Prize Open We are delighted to announce that nominations have reopened for our annual Public History Prize. The prize is awarded to a postgraduate student or an early career researcher who can demonstrate exc…

📣Public history prize now open!

👉Read here for more information: socialhistory.org.uk/2026/03/13/p...

Journal of Caribbean History | University of the West Indies Press The Journal of Caribbean History (JCH) is a peer reviewed journal produced by the Departments of History, The University of the West Indies, and published by the University of the West Indies Press. T...

IN THE SAME SEA's team and Dr. Joy Lewis have guest-edited the special issue “Small Islands, Proximity and Connection in the Eastern Caribbean” of the Journal of Caribbean History.

See: www.uwipress.com/journals/the...

Thanks to all contributors and the journal’s main editor Kathleen Monteith.

Conference : The Plantation of Ulster

Thanks to all who supported the 'Plantation of Ulster' conference at PRONI on 12 February, associated with the 'People of Plantation Ulster' database project. Recordings of the talks are now available at: www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

#earlymodern

18TH CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY PHD LIGHTNING TALKS CFP

Are you at the start of your PhD? Want to tell an eager and engaged audience about it in 5 mins? We want to hear the best PGR research about 18th Britain at our #LightningTalks event 29 April 2026.

Please see the poster for further information!

The Declaration Around the World: Haiti Historian Dr. Julia Gaffield traces the history of Haitian independence and the country's own unique declaration.

On Jan. 1, 1804, the generals of the Haitian Revolution declared their independence from France.

@juliagaffield.bsky.social writes more about the country’s declaration and how it was different from the U.S. document as explored in our exhibition “The Declaration’s Journey": https://bit.ly/4kztKSj

The Science of Racial Slavery in the British Empire An academic panel featuring Dr. Brittany Merritt Nash, Dr. Elise A. Mitchell, and Dr. Kyle Prochnow Thursday, February 26, 2026 5:30-6:30pm The Bear’s Den Ursinus College Learn how European colonialism and racial slavery shaped understandings of disease, medicine, and science across African, Caribbean, and European populations in the British Empire. Generously funded by a Histories and Legacies of Slavery Grant administered by the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) and funded by the Mellon Foundation. Co-sponsored by African American and Africana Studies, History, and the Melrose Hub for Global Leadership at Ursinus College.

The Science of Racial Slavery in the British Empire

An academic panel featuring Dr. Brittany Merritt Nash, Dr. Elise A. Mitchell, and Dr. Kyle Prochnow

Thursday, February 26, 2026
5:30-6:30pm
The Bear’s Den
Ursinus College

Map from online database linked

Interesting map of ownership of enslaved people - currently dipping into involvement in slave trade in the Irish Sea in the 18th century, especially #Cumbria #blackhistory #history will do a few posts in coming days www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/maps/bri...

Join us to mark International Women's Day with author @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social in conversation with Nasra Elliot (National Museums Liverpool) as they discuss Miranda's new book, 'Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance and Caribbean Slavery'.

www.ticketsource.co.uk/csis/t-vxvxgjd

Looking forward to speaking about one of my favourite families, the Taylors of Coleraine, tomorrow at the first Coleraine Museum Fireside Talk of the year! All online, get in touch for more details.

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Pretty sure one was consulted, definitely was for the album

news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

A’ tilleadh a Lios Mòr a-màireach airson òraid mu Dhùghall MacNeacail agus a’ bhàrdachd aige lìbhrigeadh ann an Ionad Naomh Moluag (Taigh-taisgidh & Comann Eachdraidh an Eilein). #Gàidhlig #Argyll

The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society is now inviting applications for its Open Bursary 2026-7. €2000 to support archival research, symposiums/conferences, or publication expenses associated with original work on eighteenth-century Ireland. More information here: www.ecis.ie/2026/01/05/e...

My department at Florida State is hiring a postdoc in public history! I’m not on the search committee, but please feel free to reach out if you have any questions about the position, the department, FSU, or Tallahassee. 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/jobs/69772/f...

People of the Institute of Historical Research This short video features a selection of portraits taken at the Institute of Historical Research. They are inspired by the characters of the subjects and accompanied…

Join us at our 2-day oral history & digital storytelling course @ihr.bsky.social Explore the benefits of creative expression in the digital storytelling process, culminating in the opportunity to create your very own short video! shorturl.at/VHj0G
vimeo.com/1121186908?f...
@maxinebeuret.bsky.social

Our next seminar is on Mon. 9 Feb. - Niall Whelehan will speak about ‘Radicalism, colonialism and the life of an Irish doctor in Argentina at the fin de siècle’. All welcome www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

Call for papers | Early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation

* Call for papers * PhD Workshop at @kitlv.bsky.social organized by @fatahblack.bsky.social and I: Early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation👇

We welcome PhDs working on early modern Caribbean and Atlantic slavery and emancipation to participate.

www.kitlv.nl/cfp/early-mo...

Call for research papers | Reinterpreting the Caribbean age of revolutions

* Call for research papers * Conference at @kitlv.bsky.social organized by @fatahblack.bsky.social and I: Reinterpreting the Caribbean age of revolutions.

Why were so many of the leaders and participants in so-called slave revolts were not enslaved themselves?

www.kitlv.nl/cfrp/reinter...

my.corehr.com/pls/ulivrecr... New job in Irish Studies

Can the hive mind suggest anyone in Amsterdam willing to go to the IISH and scan some microfilmed price currents for me? They haven't replied and the website says reproductions are paused... Happy to pay, of course!
@ramonanegron.bsky.social @voetnoot.bsky.social @deborahhamer.bsky.social

We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!

Call for Volunteers: Join the Team - Marsh's Library We are looking for outgoing, confident people to join our team of volunteers.

We are looking for outgoing people to join our team of volunteers. We'd like to hear from you if you can spare one morning or one afternoon per week to welcome visitors to our historic library. Find out more here: marshlibrary.ie/call-for-vol...