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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg

@evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social

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Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel at Helsinki (although I live in Sussex, UK). Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. She/her. https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-johanna-holmberg

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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · Mar 14

My Element is out out featuring several #earlymodern mobile lives and open access too. Let me know if you use it in your teaching and if you like it. Woohoo! 🎉 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700

Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700

www.cambridge.org

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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 17h

Went to see the Boxgrove Priory church again today. It is so beautiful. #earlymodern #churchychurch

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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 2d

#earlymodern

Newcastle Uni Special Collections & Archives @ncllibspeccoll.bsky.social · 2d

New on CollectionsCaptured is a wonderfully illustrated set of 17 proof copies of early 17th Century maps, later included in John Speed's 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine'.

All 17 pages can be seen here on CollectionsCaptured: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll...
[Ref. Freinds/JSM]

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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 4d

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

www.unilu.ch/en/universit...

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PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne

Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 1d

...aren't we all, aren't we all?

Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 1d

Thomas Fuller wrote about the final years of John Smith (d. 1631) in his History of the Worthies of England:

'He led his old age in London, where his having a prince's
mind imprisoned in a poor man's purse rendered him to the
contempt of such who were not ingenuous.'

Oh my...

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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 2d

Using too many burn puns at the moment...

Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 2d

Yup, that's it!

Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 2d

...although now had ended up reading on Thomas Harriot's face ulcers, as you do. #researchrabbithole

Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 2d

am glad he survives all the (supposed) bloodletting!

Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 2d

Very interesting that it mentions his 'melancholy humour', all the futile work must have taken its toll on poor Gyfford.

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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 2d

Today I am taking a day off from my article draft (on the pains and torments of John Smith) to do some more research on #earlymodern drugs and medicine in Jamestown. Suitably feeling a bit under the weather....

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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 2d

colonialism - life balance all off...

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 2d

Not drawing any parallels here *ahem*, but in March 1672 William Gyfford was so ill that the Dutch chirurgeon (the English one lacked 'the wherewithall') could do nothing for him 'because his distemper proceeds from trouble ... in regard his industry for the Company'. #earlymodern #skystorians

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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 2d

Oh noes...

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 10d

Ch 1 of Voices of Thunder tells Rose Thurgood’s story. She lived in Colchester, where she and her children were poor to the point of starvation. As a C17th woman writing from this perspective, her voice in the archive is unique. Her account of her life is in manuscript @thejohnrylands.bsky.social

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 10d

Excited about this article (goes straight onto the MA reading list) and helpful thread here pulling out its main interventions.

Congrats & thanks @drbernard.bsky.social! #EarlyModern

Ben Bernard @drbernard.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 New article! I'm excited to share “The sodomy consultant of Paris, 1688–1737,” published this week in French Historical Studies: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo... . A 🧵:

The Sodomy Consultant of Paris | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 10d

Who did what in early modern England?

New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️

Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

This book applies the innovative work-task approach to the history of work, which captures the contribution of all workers and types of work to the early modern economy. Drawing on tens of thousands of court depositions, the authors analyse the individual tasks that made up everyday work for women and men, shedding new light on the gender division of labour, and the ways in which time, space, age and marital status shaped sixteenth and seventeenth-century working life. Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, the book deepens our understanding of the preindustrial economy, and calls for us to rethink not only who did what, but also the implications of these findings for major debates about structural change, the nature and extent of paid work, and what has been lost as well as gained over the past three centuries of economic development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Cover of Whittle, Jane, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, and Taylor Aucoin. The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. of Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 12d

JUST A WEEK FROM NOW! We'll host the marvellous Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social who will speak about "At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule"

6 Oct, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 14d

NEW PROGRAMME! What an exciting one it is!
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social

Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Europe and the world, 1500-1800, IHR seminar, Mondays, 17:30.
6 October: Margot Finn: At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule
10 November: Sari Nauman: Between Categories: Migration, War, and Refuge in the Early Modern Baltic Sea
17 November Roger Lee Jesus: Colonialism and Land: Rethinking Imperial and Local Agency in the Portuguese Empire in Asia
1 December: Ana Lucia Araujo: Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the Eighteenth Century

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Institute of English Studies @ies-sas.bsky.social · Aug 21

📣Two new events in collaboration with @thelondonarchives.bsky.social! 📣

Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500-1800 | 15 Oct | 5.30 - 7.30pm
tinyurl.com/2uayfe7r

From Bones to Books to Blitz Scrap – What London Recycled during the Second World War | 10 Dec | 5.30 - 7.30pm
tinyurl.com/3t2f435p

Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500 - 1800

Join us at The London Archives for an illustrated talk by Professor Patrick Wallis (London School of Economics).

tinyurl.com

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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 17d

Today I wrote a bit of an article - and watched Barefoot in the Park (1967). Fonda and Redford so incredibly cute in this.

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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 19d

For anyone looking to do textmining on EEBO-TCP texts, this is a brilliant resource. #EarlyModern

John Ladd @jrladd.com · 19d

Yes! You can download all of EP’s texts and metadata: earlyprint.org/download/. Our texts on are on Bitbucket instead of GitHub, but they work similarly.

Download

A collaborative effort—centered doubly at Northwestern University and Washington University in St. Louis—to transform the early English print record, from 1473 to the early 1700s, into a linguisticall...

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 19d

AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research.

Run, don’t walk.

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 19d

Notice, #earlymodern #skystorians, the logo at the middle of the photo? The VOC (Dutch East India Company).

All the more reason to reckon with the legacies of these companies and how they integrate (or don't) with shifting ideas of globalisation, integration, capitalism, and national identity.

de Volkskrant @volkskrant.nl · 20d

Onderzoeker over geweld in Den Haag: ‘Extreemrechts gedachtegoed wordt normaal. Dan krijg je dit’

www.volkskrant.nl

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Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social · 19d

Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781...

#earlymodern #economic #history

The Experience of Work in Early Modern England

Cambridge Core - Economic History - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England

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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 19d

Husband finds this method amusing, but at the moment I allow myself all kinds of tricks. I might want to watch The Sting and All the president's men with him (I watched them with my dad so this is in a way paying homage to both dad and Robert Redford).

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