Gabrielle Robilliard
@gabyrobilliard.bsky.social
Historian of early modern food (especially tea and coffee), intoxicants, medicine, material culture, religion (German Pietism), maritime and global history. Also currently researching sailors‘ stuff.
Postdoc, Prize Papers Project, Oldenburg University
Postdoc, Prize Papers Project, Oldenburg University
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State Library of Victoria faces job cuts as staff accuse management of pursuing ‘digital vanity projects’
State Library of Victoria faces job cuts as staff accuse management of pursuing ‘digital vanity projects’
Under the plan, 39 jobs would be lost and the public-facing workforce of reference librarians would be cut from 25 staff to 10
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State Library of Victoria staff have accused management of undermining the 171-year-old institution’s core purposes in favour of flashy tourist-oriented “digital vanity projects” in a proposed restructure.
Under the plan, 39 jobs would be lost and the public-facing workforce of reference librarians would be cut from 25 staff to 10, while many publicly accessible computers would be removed. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 PM
State Library of Victoria faces job cuts as staff accuse management of pursuing ‘digital vanity projects’
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The State Library of Victoria is facing massive cuts to its expert librarian workforce - the people who make the library such a great and popular resource for researchers, schoolkids, students and the general public. You can sign this petition against cuts to this analogue treasure.
The State Library of Victoria is facing massive cuts to its expert librarian workforce - the people who make the library such a great and popular resource for researchers, schoolkids, students and the general public. You can sign this petition against cuts to this analogue treasure.
Sign the Petition
Save the State Library of Victoria!
c.org
December 1, 2025 at 7:51 AM
c.org/Z2v6f9y5xY
The State Library of Victoria is facing massive cuts to its expert librarian workforce - the people who make the library such a great and popular resource for researchers, schoolkids, students and the general public. You can sign this petition against cuts to this analogue treasure.
The State Library of Victoria is facing massive cuts to its expert librarian workforce - the people who make the library such a great and popular resource for researchers, schoolkids, students and the general public. You can sign this petition against cuts to this analogue treasure.
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Katja Lang, contemporary German artist who focuses on stillness and spaces #WomensArt #December
December 1, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Katja Lang, contemporary German artist who focuses on stillness and spaces #WomensArt #December
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NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange.
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...
A Trail of Coins from Yemen to New York: Pirates, Plunder, and Enslavement in the World of Margrieta van Varick, ca. 1695 - Panorama
Panorama is a peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication dedicated to American art and visual culture (broadly defined). The journal is intended to provide a high-caliber international forum for d...
journalpanorama.org
November 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
NEW ARTICLE: Yemeni coins trace relations between pirates, merchants, and enslavers that traversed the North American, Arabian, & Madagascar coasts in the 1690s and shed light on colonial material exchange.
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...
#vastearlyamerica #arthistory
journalpanorama.org/article/a-tr...
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An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
Cloth and Complicity: Seth Rockman on Plantations, Textiles, and the Art of Weaving - Public Books
“But I had found a set of instructions in the archives of one of New England's leading manufacturers of low-end woollen cloth for enslaved wearers.”
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November 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
An interview with a historian who set out to weave a textile of the type that would have been sold to plantations for use by enslaved people, using period equipment.
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
www.publicbooks.org/cloth-and-co...
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Consider sending in an abstract to this important conference about slavery and privacy 🍀
teol.ku.dk/privacy/news...
teol.ku.dk/privacy/news...
Call for Papers - Privacy and Slavery, Past and Present: Academic and Artistic Perspectives on an Urgent Issue
teol.ku.dk
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Consider sending in an abstract to this important conference about slavery and privacy 🍀
teol.ku.dk/privacy/news...
teol.ku.dk/privacy/news...
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The Autumn 2025 issue of The Recipes Project is live! This issue, GLOBALIZING EARLY MODERN RECIPES, was co-edited by Lavinia Gambini, Lucy Havard, & Amanda Herbert.
recipes.hypotheses.org
recipes.hypotheses.org
Autumn 2025
GLOBALIZING EARLY MODERN RECIPES INTRODUCTION By Lavinia Gambini, Lucy Havard, and Amanda E. Herbert, Editors The early modern globalization of food and medicine was also a globalization of recipes. A...
recipes.hypotheses.org
October 30, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The Autumn 2025 issue of The Recipes Project is live! This issue, GLOBALIZING EARLY MODERN RECIPES, was co-edited by Lavinia Gambini, Lucy Havard, & Amanda Herbert.
recipes.hypotheses.org
recipes.hypotheses.org
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The Lord’s Prayer written on a scrap of paper pinned to a page at the start of a recipe book (Joanna Sudell 1688, Clark Library UCLA)
October 17, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The Lord’s Prayer written on a scrap of paper pinned to a page at the start of a recipe book (Joanna Sudell 1688, Clark Library UCLA)
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Die Hamburger Adressbücher jetzt mit Volltextsuche!
Direkt nach Namen, Straßen oder Firmen suchen – im ges. Bestand: Hamburger Adressbuch (1787–1966), Altonaer Adressb. (1802–1938), Bergedorfer Adressb. (1880–1938), dazu Vorläufer aus d. 18. Jh. + weitere für HH relevante Adress- & Fernsprechbücher.
Direkt nach Namen, Straßen oder Firmen suchen – im ges. Bestand: Hamburger Adressbuch (1787–1966), Altonaer Adressb. (1802–1938), Bergedorfer Adressb. (1880–1938), dazu Vorläufer aus d. 18. Jh. + weitere für HH relevante Adress- & Fernsprechbücher.
Die Hamburger Adressbücher – jetzt mit Volltextsuche
Seit 2010 stellt die Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg die Hamburger Adressbücher online zur Verfügung. Das Angebot gehörte zu den ersten digitalisierten Beständen unseres Hauses – und ist…
blog.sub.uni-hamburg.de
October 1, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Die Hamburger Adressbücher jetzt mit Volltextsuche!
Direkt nach Namen, Straßen oder Firmen suchen – im ges. Bestand: Hamburger Adressbuch (1787–1966), Altonaer Adressb. (1802–1938), Bergedorfer Adressb. (1880–1938), dazu Vorläufer aus d. 18. Jh. + weitere für HH relevante Adress- & Fernsprechbücher.
Direkt nach Namen, Straßen oder Firmen suchen – im ges. Bestand: Hamburger Adressbuch (1787–1966), Altonaer Adressb. (1802–1938), Bergedorfer Adressb. (1880–1938), dazu Vorläufer aus d. 18. Jh. + weitere für HH relevante Adress- & Fernsprechbücher.
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Today we are highlighting L. Sasha Gora's new book, Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada ( @uoftpress.bsky.social 2025)
niche-canada.org/2025/09/29/n...
#envhist #foodhistory #envhum #indigenous
niche-canada.org/2025/09/29/n...
#envhist #foodhistory #envhum #indigenous
September 29, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Today we are highlighting L. Sasha Gora's new book, Culinary Claims: Indigenous Restaurant Politics in Canada ( @uoftpress.bsky.social 2025)
niche-canada.org/2025/09/29/n...
#envhist #foodhistory #envhum #indigenous
niche-canada.org/2025/09/29/n...
#envhist #foodhistory #envhum #indigenous
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A must-read for environmental historians, labour historians, & historians of embodiment, trade, Britain, the Thames, and more.
Conceptually ambitious & a really good story with an unexpected & dramatic denouement.
#envhist
Conceptually ambitious & a really good story with an unexpected & dramatic denouement.
#envhist
New on advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928"
by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social)
#OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1093/past...
Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928*
Abstract. This article examines changes in the bodies and environment of labourers carrying timber imported into London’s docks in the 1860s to the 1920s t
doi.org
September 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
A must-read for environmental historians, labour historians, & historians of embodiment, trade, Britain, the Thames, and more.
Conceptually ambitious & a really good story with an unexpected & dramatic denouement.
#envhist
Conceptually ambitious & a really good story with an unexpected & dramatic denouement.
#envhist
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Here’s something I wrote that touches on mistakes/failures: niche-canada.org/2022/08/30/w...
Writing About Climate Change, Whaling, and Conflict in the Seventeenth Century Arctic
Dagomar Degroot recounts the journey that led to his recent article "Blood and Bone, Tears and Oil"
niche-canada.org
September 25, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Here’s something I wrote that touches on mistakes/failures: niche-canada.org/2022/08/30/w...
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Making things in Global Asia
🗺️ Explore the new online exhibition by our @erc.europa.eu project CAPASIA 👉 loom.ly/ig-EXQY
The exhibit highlights the overlooked, but nonetheless worldmaking, role of Asian manufacturing in the global history of #earlymodern capitalism
🌐 #onlineexhibition #capitalism
🗺️ Explore the new online exhibition by our @erc.europa.eu project CAPASIA 👉 loom.ly/ig-EXQY
The exhibit highlights the overlooked, but nonetheless worldmaking, role of Asian manufacturing in the global history of #earlymodern capitalism
🌐 #onlineexhibition #capitalism
Making Things in Global Asia Exhibition
Long before Asia became the epicentre of global manufacturing at the end of the twentieth century, it was home to sophisticated cultures of production in the early modern period (1500-1800). This rich...
loom.ly
September 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Making things in Global Asia
🗺️ Explore the new online exhibition by our @erc.europa.eu project CAPASIA 👉 loom.ly/ig-EXQY
The exhibit highlights the overlooked, but nonetheless worldmaking, role of Asian manufacturing in the global history of #earlymodern capitalism
🌐 #onlineexhibition #capitalism
🗺️ Explore the new online exhibition by our @erc.europa.eu project CAPASIA 👉 loom.ly/ig-EXQY
The exhibit highlights the overlooked, but nonetheless worldmaking, role of Asian manufacturing in the global history of #earlymodern capitalism
🌐 #onlineexhibition #capitalism
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The Word made Flesh is out today! I've not seen it in the flesh myself yet, but this is a happy day after many years of work.
#EarlyModern #medhist #histmed #bodyhistory
#EarlyModern #medhist #histmed #bodyhistory
September 23, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The Word made Flesh is out today! I've not seen it in the flesh myself yet, but this is a happy day after many years of work.
#EarlyModern #medhist #histmed #bodyhistory
#EarlyModern #medhist #histmed #bodyhistory
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I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Historical Journal Call for Special Issues
Welcome to Cambridge Core
www.cambridge.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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✂️ Kürzungen an Hochschulen gehen auf Kosten der Beschäftigten, der Studierenden, der Wissenschaft — & unserer Demokratie. Den Preis dafür zahlt unsere Gesellschaft als Ganzes. Das ist heute sehr deutlich geworden in der Sendung.
Zum Nachhören! ⬇️
#IchBinHanna
www.deutschlandfunk.de/wie-viele-ku...
Zum Nachhören! ⬇️
#IchBinHanna
www.deutschlandfunk.de/wie-viele-ku...
September 20, 2025 at 5:39 PM
✂️ Kürzungen an Hochschulen gehen auf Kosten der Beschäftigten, der Studierenden, der Wissenschaft — & unserer Demokratie. Den Preis dafür zahlt unsere Gesellschaft als Ganzes. Das ist heute sehr deutlich geworden in der Sendung.
Zum Nachhören! ⬇️
#IchBinHanna
www.deutschlandfunk.de/wie-viele-ku...
Zum Nachhören! ⬇️
#IchBinHanna
www.deutschlandfunk.de/wie-viele-ku...
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Passend zum gestrigen Panel "Alkohol - Macht - Leistung" von @mareenheying.bsky.social, @lisbethmatzer.bsky.social und Sina Fabian steht am Stand von Campus der Sammelband "Gefährlicher Genuss", betreut von @juetzhd.bsky.social und gefördert von uns #histotag25
www.historikertag.de/Bonn2025/pro...
www.historikertag.de/Bonn2025/pro...
September 18, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Passend zum gestrigen Panel "Alkohol - Macht - Leistung" von @mareenheying.bsky.social, @lisbethmatzer.bsky.social und Sina Fabian steht am Stand von Campus der Sammelband "Gefährlicher Genuss", betreut von @juetzhd.bsky.social und gefördert von uns #histotag25
www.historikertag.de/Bonn2025/pro...
www.historikertag.de/Bonn2025/pro...
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
This just still worked for me, so give it a shot, if you are not planning to sign yourself over to Academia.ed u’s new terms and conditions 👎👎👎
After you log in, instead of clicking to accept the terms, edit the URL (or open a new tab) to go directly to www.academia.edu/settings which (at least currently) is not giving the pop-up to accept the new terms. At the bottom of that page, you can delete your account.
September 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
This just still worked for me, so give it a shot, if you are not planning to sign yourself over to Academia.ed u’s new terms and conditions 👎👎👎
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September 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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🎺📖 Happy to say that The Word made Flesh now is available for pre-order (also in slightly more affordable paperback)! 🎺📖
#earlymodern #medhist #histmed #skystorians
www.routledge.com/The-Word-Mad...
#earlymodern #medhist #histmed #skystorians
www.routledge.com/The-Word-Mad...
The Word Made Flesh: Lutheran Bodies, 1600 –1720
From children’s visions of angels to the cancerous belly of a king, this book shows how the body was at the centre of religious experience in seventeenth-century Lutheran culture. It explores what it ...
www.routledge.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
🎺📖 Happy to say that The Word made Flesh now is available for pre-order (also in slightly more affordable paperback)! 🎺📖
#earlymodern #medhist #histmed #skystorians
www.routledge.com/The-Word-Mad...
#earlymodern #medhist #histmed #skystorians
www.routledge.com/The-Word-Mad...
Search the database to see if your book/article/whatever is there and sign up!
Here’s the link to file claims in the Anthropic case: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...
Anthropic Authors’ Rights Class Action – Author Contact Page – Lieff Cabraser
www.lieffcabraser.com
August 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Search the database to see if your book/article/whatever is there and sign up!
What a resource! Early modern maritime historians check this out … seafarers of the Dutch West Indian Company 17thC #maritimehistory #sailors #earlymodern
De gegevens van duizenden WIC-opvarenden zijn nu online te doorzoeken #wicopvarenden wic-opvarenden.dekok.xyz/browse
August 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
What a resource! Early modern maritime historians check this out … seafarers of the Dutch West Indian Company 17thC #maritimehistory #sailors #earlymodern
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Mareike Witkowski untersucht in unserem neuesten Blogbeitrag eine besonders prekäre Berufsgruppe und ihre Gewalterfahrungen am Arbeitsplatz: Hausangestellte. Verbale und körperliche Gewalt galten häufig als legitim und blieben oft folgenlos. Mehr erfahrt ihr hier:
Gewalt gegen Dienstmdächen
„Nicht viel dabei“ – Die Verharmlosung von Gewalt am Arbeitsplatz Privathaushalt im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
www.fes.de
August 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Mareike Witkowski untersucht in unserem neuesten Blogbeitrag eine besonders prekäre Berufsgruppe und ihre Gewalterfahrungen am Arbeitsplatz: Hausangestellte. Verbale und körperliche Gewalt galten häufig als legitim und blieben oft folgenlos. Mehr erfahrt ihr hier:
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Eine Wut-Rede von Prof. Andreas Wirsching im aktuellen Heft von Forschung & Lehre - sehr lesenswert (aber auch zum verzweifeln)
„Die „Befreiung" von universitären Verpflichtungen in Lehre und Verwaltung dient dem Einkauf von Zeit für die „eigentliche" Arbeit der Professorinnen und Professoren“
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„Die „Befreiung" von universitären Verpflichtungen in Lehre und Verwaltung dient dem Einkauf von Zeit für die „eigentliche" Arbeit der Professorinnen und Professoren“
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August 22, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Eine Wut-Rede von Prof. Andreas Wirsching im aktuellen Heft von Forschung & Lehre - sehr lesenswert (aber auch zum verzweifeln)
„Die „Befreiung" von universitären Verpflichtungen in Lehre und Verwaltung dient dem Einkauf von Zeit für die „eigentliche" Arbeit der Professorinnen und Professoren“
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„Die „Befreiung" von universitären Verpflichtungen in Lehre und Verwaltung dient dem Einkauf von Zeit für die „eigentliche" Arbeit der Professorinnen und Professoren“
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