Really looking forward to being part of this Locating Loss conference in May, speaking on a roundtable about my new project on slavery and infertility. @niamhroisin.bsky.social 's project is brilliant, bringing together historians, health professionals and others to consider spaces of loss.

The problem when I graduated was that there were 200 modern British history PhDs putting in applications for every job, you had to apply for like 50 jobs to get one, and a fair few people left academia before they did. That was unpleasant in its own way, but it wasn’t a death spiral like it is now.

‘I Felt All This’ | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Some really excellent work forthcoming from CUP. www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Thanks for sharing David!!

Still one more month to apply for our new grant for under-represented early career scholars. All details below. @universitypress.cambridge.org

Photo of Jessica Roney in a blue sweater holding a copy of our book. Pretzel, the cat, is in background right, with his white-gloved paw extended in an elegant pose.

Photo of Rachel Herrmann in a blue shell holding a copy of our book. Paz Purrmann stands at left, looking at Rachel/the book/his bag of food. Paz is white with seal pointing and his fluffy gray tail is elevated with interest

Table of contents featuring Rachel Herrmann and Jessica Choppin Roney, Edward Gray, Christian Koot, Alex Zukas, John Morton, and Paul Musselwhite

Second page of the table of contents featuring Kim Gruenwald, Karen Rann, Charles Prior, Chad McCutchen and Jennifer Monroe McCutchen, Rachel Herrmann, Harvey Amani Whitfield and Sarah Chute, and Samuel Truett

Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic arrived at the houses of Pretzel and Paz Purrmann this week, and their humans (Jessica Roney, and me) were pretty jazzed @pennpress.bsky.social

British American Nineteenth American Historians (BrANCH) BrANCH, the association of British American Nineteen Century Historians, is a UK-based group of historians interested in US history across the long nineteenth-century.

Thrilled/nervous to be taking over as Chair of BrANCH (@branchuk.bsky.social) from October. Emily has left some enormous shoes to fill (figuratively...), but this is the first organization I joined back in the mists of PhD time, and it's an enormous honor to step up here. www.branch.org.uk

Congrats Joe!!

Thank you! I hope it's a useful contribution!

'I Felt All This' has a cover, and CUP have done such a wonderful job! Keep an eye out - it's being published in June.

‘I Felt All This’ Cambridge Core - American Studies - ‘I Felt All This’

Excited to see my book, 'I Felt All This': Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum US South, is up on CUP's website - coming out in July 2026! www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

I was lucky enough to work in the Department of American Studies at Nottingham for a year, and as Emily says, it is a dynamic and welcoming community providing students with a really important alternative to a history degree. Please sign this!

‘She Died from Grief’: Trauma and Emotion in Information Wanted Advertisements This article examines formerly enslaved people’s use of Information Wanted advertisements to reconnect with lost family after the American Civil War. This article argues that physical reunification...

Over the next few weeks, we're highlighting the 8 articles and 8 books shortlisted for this year's RHS Early Career Article and First Book Prizes.

Today it's Katherine Burns, ‘‘She died from grief’: Trauma and Emotion in Information Wanted Advertisements’, Slavery & Abolition' bit.ly/3HDuOVZ 1/2

Of course!!

The book explores how enslaved people formed their own, gendered emotional frameworks to both refuse and survive the institution of slavery. It also considers how enslaved and formerly enslaved people spoke to different aspects of their emotional worlds in written, oral and visual testimony.

I'm incredibly excited to announce that I have signed a contract with CUP for my book, provisionally titled 'Testimonies of Emotion: Enslaved People's Emotional Lives in the Antebellum South', which will hopefully be out next year!

Thanks David!

An exciting book delivery today!

It’s that time of the year again! Please do get your students to apply for our exciting (and fully funded 😱) Kinder-BrANCH MA in Atlantic History and Politics! 👇

Thankyou!

Thanks Teresa! So glad that it’s being published in book form - hopefully you’ll receive your copy soon!

So glad your article is in the collection, Hannah - such an important intervention. Fingers crossed you’ll receive your copy soon!

I'm discussing my work tomorrow at the RAI. Please join us!

Thanks, Erin! Hopefully your copy will be will you soon!

Thanks Katie!

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Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World This book explores the history of slavery in the Atlantic World through the lens of emotion. Combining methods from the history of emotions with those from slavery studies often for the first time, th...

Excited that our edited collection 'Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World' has been published today in book form by Routledge! Thanks to my co-editor Emily West and all the amazing contributors. www.routledge.com/Slavery-and-...

Come and join us at the AHRS tomorrow at 4pm!

Roll Away The Stone: African American Gospel Music 1930-1965

Join AHRS tonight to hear Harvey G Cohen (KCL) speak about his work titled: 'Roll Away The Stone: African American Gospel Music 1930-1965.' 4pm at the RAI. Details here: www.rai.ox.ac.uk/event/roll-a...

Looking forward to giving a paper at University of York next Wednesday - please join us!