Smuggling Database | davidchansmith

Who was smuggling in 18th century Britain? My refreshed database for prosecutions for smuggling in England and Wales c. 1721-1732 is live with over 4,000 entries. From naval officers to farmers, smuggling was big business. #twitterstorians #earlymod #history
www.davidchansmith.net/smugglingdat...

I’ve been enjoying watching the @aljazeera.com Al Jazeera Untangles series the “Colonizer’s Academy” and am honored to feature in their episode on the Portuguese empire, alongside several others, including dear friend @lbrockey.bsky.social
youtu.be/6ukRESgQUpo?...
#earlymod #skystorians

Looking forward to this conference on corruption in the early modern world starting today, June 5! #history #edusky #EarlyMod 📗 #britishstudies
www.eventbrite.com/e/corruption...

This summer, our Research Colloquium in Early Modern Gender and Cultural History (FU Berlin) dives into Ottoman ornament in Maltese prisons, ruins as textual landscapes, and emotions in the Baltic Crusades.
Want to join the mailing list? Email me: l.wodzicki(at)fu-berlin.de 📨 #Skystorians #earlymod

James VI and I: Kingship, Government and Religion James VI and I: Politics, Government and Religion brings together early career and established scholars with a range of approaches to the reign. Their original, research-based essays on a series of br...

A new study of James VI and I is now available, just in time for the anniversary of the reign's end. Corruption! Religious strife! Devious diplomacy! All in one paperback @routledgehistory.bsky.social @kathrynmarshalek.bsky.social #EarlyMod #history #britishstudies
www.routledge.com/James-VI-and...

A map of Britain and Ireland showing records of the Irish pollan from between 1529-1772. Of the five loughs where pollan are known to live today only one of these has records from the early modern period - Lough Neagh in northern Ireland, although much of the rest of Ireland is striped to show there is no data.

The Arctic cisco, an ice-loving fish of Siberia, Alaska, Canada... and Ireland?! 🐟❄️
In Ireland (NI & ROI) the 'pollan' is an Ice Age relict, adapted to sedentary life in five temperate loughs. My only #earlymod record from Lough Neagh calls it 'insipid food' (mean)📗
Map/ #AtlasofEarlyModernWildlife

Following in the Apostles’ Footsteps: Martyrdom, Mysticism, and Protofeminism in Lucrezia Marinella’s Holocausto d’amore della vergine Santa Giustina (1648) | Renaissance Quarterly | Cambridge Core Following in the Apostles’ Footsteps: Martyrdom, Mysticism, and Protofeminism in Lucrezia Marinella’s Holocausto d’amore della vergine Santa Giustina (1648) - Volume 77 Issue 3

Congratulations to CultPhil Italianist @carlottamoro.bsky.social who has a new article out in Renaissance Quarterly on martyrdom, mysticism, & protofeminism in Lucrezia Marinella's Holocausto d’amore della vergine Santa Giustina (1648)

#womenshistory #earlymod
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Call for Papers - Corruption and Scandal in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800 — CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership In the early modern period, the meanings of scandal and corruption extended beyond our modern understanding of these terms. Concentrating on 1500-1800 - a time of religious, political, and social deve...

#history scholars interested in corruption and polarization, consider attending or applying to present at the June conference in London on Corruption and Scandal in the #earlymod World, www.chase.ac.uk/news-1/call-...

Please spread the word!

Call for Papers PCCBS 2025 – Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies

Early modern British historians! The Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies has announced its CFP for the conference held in lovely Palo Alto/Stanford University. #history #earlymod #britishstudies ‪@thenacbs.bsky.social‬ pccbs.org/2024/09/12/c...

Rethinking Global History | Global history

Rethinking Global History just published and on open access 😀 for #historians and #earlymod. Edited by Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel. Chapters on time, spatiality, quantification etc. provide a current introduction to the #global history field. www.cambridge.org/ca/universit...

Interested in learning about how Jeremy Bentham fought with the Treasury over his Panopticon scheme? A prepublication edited collection of his writings on the subject, "A Picture of the Treasury," is out, www.ucl.ac.uk/bentham-proj... #history #bentham #panopticon #imprisonment #earlymod

Events – Cultures of Philosophy

9 days left to get your proposals in for Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges 📚🔥 (Exeter, 2-4 June 2025)
Deadline: 29 nov

See our website for the #cfp

culturesofphilosophy.exeter.ac.uk/2024/08/05/p...

#earlymod #philosophy #skystorians

Ah - that's why the new follows! (Be warned: I am also sometimes #earlymod)

Fluffy grey and white cat looking startled lying on a cream rug

On the lookout for #earlymod pals who would be interested in putting together a panel for the ASLE conference next summer?

I’m going to be looking at Hester Pulter, “exotic” animals & motherhood
asle.org.uk/events/galwa...

Metropolitan Science Exploring distinctive practices in the artisanal, mercantile, and governmental sites of London, Metropolitan Science offers a new perspective on the development…

It's publication day!

Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge & Practice, c.1600-1800 by me, Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin & Noah Moxham

Decent discount online now (or your library may subscribe to Bloomsbury Publishing) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli...
#histSTM 🗃️📜 #earlymod

#earlymod #histsci exhibition opens at the Winterthur in Delaware! @book-historia.bsky.social's first one here. 😀

What AI can do for historians It turns out that large language models make surprisingly good research assistants for historians. Can the future of AI help reconstruct the past?

Really interesting article today in the Verge about AI and the historical research of my colleague Mark Humphries. My department is launching an AI and the Humanities certificate next year as part of our digital humanities program. #skystorians #18thc #history 🗃️ #EarlyMod

Smuggling Database | davidchansmith

Recognize any people at the eighteenth-century smugglers database? Let me know! We are growing the Dark Markets Observatory as a teaching resource about early mod crime, smuggling and global commerce, and welcome ideas and stories — updates to follow! #EarlyMod #c18th #18thc #history 🗃️#skystorians

Smuggling Database | davidchansmith

The final records of the database of smuggling prosecutions in 1720s Britain are now uploaded in the Dark Markets Observatory. Discover who was smuggling, what happened to them, and sometimes why - criminal gangs, international networks, the wild world of #18thc #smuggling 🗃️ #history #earlymod

History of Science Society is now on Bluesky! 🎉
#histsci 🗃️ #philsci #18thC #19thC #EarlyMod 📗 #envhum #hpbio

Okay #earlymod twitter: I just realised SRS panel abstracts are due, and rather than giving a paper, I was thinking a mixed historiography/theory panel on 'Rethinking The Baroque'. Would any of you be up?

What are your go-to online resrces for MargueriteDeNavarre (Hept) & Boccaccio's Decameron? #Frenchlit #medieval #earlymod #twitterstorians