Joel Herman
@joelherman.bsky.social
Research Fellow @virtualtreasury.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social, Houses of Parliament | Historian of the press, publicity, and popular political action in Ireland, America, Britain, and the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
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Joel Herman
@joelherman.bsky.social
· Nov 7
Thanks for following along. I’m here for all things history. But posting mostly on the history of Ireland, America, Britain, and the wider Atlantic world, 1650-1850.
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#WomenInRebellion We hope you've enjoyed this series (curated by our colleague @timvrti.bsky.social)! These voices — from courtrooms, safehouses, prison cells, and family rooms — reveal women as actors, witnesses, and narrators in the 1798 Rebellion.
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
#WomenInRebellion We hope you've enjoyed this series (curated by our colleague @timvrti.bsky.social)! These voices — from courtrooms, safehouses, prison cells, and family rooms — reveal women as actors, witnesses, and narrators in the 1798 Rebellion.
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You can read more in our new image gallery: Women’s Voices in the Rebellion Papers virtualtreasury.ie/image-galler...
Virtual Treasury
Virtual Treasury
virtualtreasury.ie
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
You can read more in our new image gallery: Women’s Voices in the Rebellion Papers virtualtreasury.ie/image-galler...
Looking forward to speaking at the History Research Seminar at Maynooth tomorrow. I'll be talking about 'the news' and how its disruptive qualities are anything but new. The context will be the British Empire, particularly Ireland and America. Very grateful to conveners for the invitation.
A great lineup for this semester's Department of History Research Seminar in Maynooth. This is open to all so do join us and please share widely.
November 26, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Looking forward to speaking at the History Research Seminar at Maynooth tomorrow. I'll be talking about 'the news' and how its disruptive qualities are anything but new. The context will be the British Empire, particularly Ireland and America. Very grateful to conveners for the invitation.
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If you missed Catriona Kennedy's talk yesterday on 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere in the age of revolution', a recording is now available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-dV...
Irish Studies Seminar: Catriona Kennedy
YouTube video by QUB Irish Studies
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM
If you missed Catriona Kennedy's talk yesterday on 'Women, politics, and the Irish public sphere in the age of revolution', a recording is now available at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-dV...
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I can’t say enough how fantastic the programme staff are at the Visiting Scholars Programme @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. If you don’t know about this wonderful programme, read more here: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
🚨 Deadline is this Friday 30 Nov, still time to apply.
🚨 Deadline is this Friday 30 Nov, still time to apply.
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I can’t say enough how fantastic the programme staff are at the Visiting Scholars Programme @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. If you don’t know about this wonderful programme, read more here: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
🚨 Deadline is this Friday 30 Nov, still time to apply.
🚨 Deadline is this Friday 30 Nov, still time to apply.
This looks fascinating!
This year’s O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh will be given by Professor @brendankanect.bsky.social of @earlymodirish.bsky.social fame. Brendan is Visiting Leverhulme Professor in Edinburgh in 2025 and 2026.
November 25, 2025 at 10:45 AM
This looks fascinating!
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This year’s O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh will be given by Professor @brendankanect.bsky.social of @earlymodirish.bsky.social fame. Brendan is Visiting Leverhulme Professor in Edinburgh in 2025 and 2026.
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
This year’s O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh will be given by Professor @brendankanect.bsky.social of @earlymodirish.bsky.social fame. Brendan is Visiting Leverhulme Professor in Edinburgh in 2025 and 2026.
Highlighting these one last time:
A keynote from Prof. Eliga Gould, 'Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in America, Ireland, and Britain, 1778-1783’.
Brings up an interesting counterfactual: What if America had gone the way of Ireland and remained within empire?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4F...
A keynote from Prof. Eliga Gould, 'Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in America, Ireland, and Britain, 1778-1783’.
Brings up an interesting counterfactual: What if America had gone the way of Ireland and remained within empire?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4F...
Ireland and the American Revolution Keynote Address | Prof Eliga Gould
YouTube video by Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities
www.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Highlighting these one last time:
A keynote from Prof. Eliga Gould, 'Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in America, Ireland, and Britain, 1778-1783’.
Brings up an interesting counterfactual: What if America had gone the way of Ireland and remained within empire?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4F...
A keynote from Prof. Eliga Gould, 'Lord Carlisle’s Union: Making Peace in America, Ireland, and Britain, 1778-1783’.
Brings up an interesting counterfactual: What if America had gone the way of Ireland and remained within empire?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv4F...
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From the ould book: Orangeism and Ribbonism. (there's a freebie sample chapter here: wordwellbooks.com/index.php?ro... )
AT THE RISING OF THE MOON
AT THE RISING OF THE MOON
wordwellbooks.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:41 AM
From the ould book: Orangeism and Ribbonism. (there's a freebie sample chapter here: wordwellbooks.com/index.php?ro... )
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As part of the @cemslimerick.bsky.social Winter School at Univeristy of Limerick next Tuesday and Wednesday, you're welcome to Jason Harris's keynote on 'Manuscript publication in the seventeenth century: questions and approaches'. 5.15pm.
November 24, 2025 at 10:17 AM
As part of the @cemslimerick.bsky.social Winter School at Univeristy of Limerick next Tuesday and Wednesday, you're welcome to Jason Harris's keynote on 'Manuscript publication in the seventeenth century: questions and approaches'. 5.15pm.
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CFP: 5th Venice Multidisciplinary World Conference on Republics and Republicanism. June 26-28, 2026. Venice International University.
The conference is open to all work on republicanism, but with special focus on 'Power, Freedom and Oligarchy'.
Deadline: December 30
www.univiu.org/campus-servi...
The conference is open to all work on republicanism, but with special focus on 'Power, Freedom and Oligarchy'.
Deadline: December 30
www.univiu.org/campus-servi...
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
CFP: 5th Venice Multidisciplinary World Conference on Republics and Republicanism. June 26-28, 2026. Venice International University.
The conference is open to all work on republicanism, but with special focus on 'Power, Freedom and Oligarchy'.
Deadline: December 30
www.univiu.org/campus-servi...
The conference is open to all work on republicanism, but with special focus on 'Power, Freedom and Oligarchy'.
Deadline: December 30
www.univiu.org/campus-servi...
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@svenbeckert.bsky.social’s new global history of capitalism — looks great👇 www.penguin.co.uk/books/295668...
Capitalism
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others, how we organise our politics. Sven Beckert situat...
www.penguin.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
@svenbeckert.bsky.social’s new global history of capitalism — looks great👇 www.penguin.co.uk/books/295668...
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THIS FRIDAY! Come and hear the fabulous @ebenbow.bsky.social about #LowCountries Merchants in and around London: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods
FRI 28 Nov, 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians
FRI 28 Nov, 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians
November 24, 2025 at 1:32 PM
THIS FRIDAY! Come and hear the fabulous @ebenbow.bsky.social about #LowCountries Merchants in and around London: Specialising in the Trade of Everyday Goods
FRI 28 Nov, 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians
FRI 28 Nov, 17:30, @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link): www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #MedievalSky #EarlyModern #Skystorians
A good news humanities story. Yes, please.
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
A good news humanities story. Yes, please.
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
"The humanities really are a resource — a confidence for living in our times.” Dean Sara Guyer on the modern utility of humanities degrees
This interview originally appeared on the Division of Arts
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
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I'm so grateful our project, "Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana," was funded! @dianapaton.bsky.social, Linsey McMillan, @juanitacox.bsky.social, @pbhellawell.bsky.social, Estherine Adams, and Jamie McLaughlin
www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
Project to map enslaved people’s testimony | News | The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh historians will investigate slavery and the law in British Guiana, now Guyana, in a new three year-long project.
www.ed.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I'm so grateful our project, "Voices in Slavery's Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana," was funded! @dianapaton.bsky.social, Linsey McMillan, @juanitacox.bsky.social, @pbhellawell.bsky.social, Estherine Adams, and Jamie McLaughlin
www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
www.ed.ac.uk/news/project...
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And we are hiring! We have been incredibly lucky to get this funding and are very grateful for the opportunity to work on this. Please circulate to people who would be interested in applying. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:48 AM
And we are hiring! We have been incredibly lucky to get this funding and are very grateful for the opportunity to work on this. Please circulate to people who would be interested in applying. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
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‘Centuries of printing preceded Gutenberg. As White is careful to describe, Gutenberg was born nine hundred years after printed texts were first produced in China by rubbing paper onto inked, carved woodblocks.’
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social):
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social):
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth · Slice It Up: Gutenberg’s Great Invention
Gutenberg remains unknowable: an implied but not a felt presence. This is true for all but a small number of 15th-...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
‘Centuries of printing preceded Gutenberg. As White is careful to describe, Gutenberg was born nine hundred years after printed texts were first produced in China by rubbing paper onto inked, carved woodblocks.’
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social):
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Smyth (@adamwithbooks.bsky.social):
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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CFP📢Ecosystems of the Mind: Resources for Reconstructing Early Modern Intellectual Life
🌍Germany 📅21–23 May 2026
⏰Deadline : 1 December 2025
🔗Info: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
🌍Germany 📅21–23 May 2026
⏰Deadline : 1 December 2025
🔗Info: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 AM
CFP📢Ecosystems of the Mind: Resources for Reconstructing Early Modern Intellectual Life
🌍Germany 📅21–23 May 2026
⏰Deadline : 1 December 2025
🔗Info: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
🌍Germany 📅21–23 May 2026
⏰Deadline : 1 December 2025
🔗Info: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...
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Come along to the @ihr.bsky.social on Thursday to hear @nailyas.bsky.social talk about her 'Global Libraries' project!
Our final event of term is happening this Thursday (27 November) Dr Nailya Shamgunova @nailyas.bsky.social on 'English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700'. ✨📚 This talk will be in-person only at the IHR. You can sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700
This talk introduces the UKRI-funded Future Leaders project, The Global Library project.
www.history.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Come along to the @ihr.bsky.social on Thursday to hear @nailyas.bsky.social talk about her 'Global Libraries' project!
Just some light reading to put on the Christmas list…
November 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Just some light reading to put on the Christmas list…
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My colleague Lauren Duval has a new book coming out next month from @uncpress.bsky.social on military occupation and households in the Revolution. Lauren is real smart. Put it in your cart. #HATM
November 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
My colleague Lauren Duval has a new book coming out next month from @uncpress.bsky.social on military occupation and households in the Revolution. Lauren is real smart. Put it in your cart. #HATM
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📚 New Book Review!
Ruth-Ellen St. Onge reviews:
Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650-1750, edited by Ann-Marie Hansen and Arthur der Weduwen (Brill, 2024).
Read it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
#BookHistory #Publishing #Enlightenment #BookTrade #Europe
Ruth-Ellen St. Onge reviews:
Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650-1750, edited by Ann-Marie Hansen and Arthur der Weduwen (Brill, 2024).
Read it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
#BookHistory #Publishing #Enlightenment #BookTrade #Europe
November 20, 2025 at 4:50 PM
📚 New Book Review!
Ruth-Ellen St. Onge reviews:
Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650-1750, edited by Ann-Marie Hansen and Arthur der Weduwen (Brill, 2024).
Read it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
#BookHistory #Publishing #Enlightenment #BookTrade #Europe
Ruth-Ellen St. Onge reviews:
Publishers, Censors and Collectors in the European Book Trade, 1650-1750, edited by Ann-Marie Hansen and Arthur der Weduwen (Brill, 2024).
Read it here: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
#BookHistory #Publishing #Enlightenment #BookTrade #Europe
Congrats, what an achievement. Looking forward to reading many more essays published by @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social in the years to come.
We published our first essay 10 years ago today on @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. It was based on a side idea I had for my dissertation that would explore news of Franklin’s death around the revolutionary Atlantic. ageofrevolutions.com/2015/11/21/f...
“Franklin is Dead”: Celebrity, Genius, and Religion in the Age of Revolutions
By Bryan A. Banks On June 11, 1790, an emotionally wrought Mirabeau took to the rostrum of the National Constituent Assembly after numerous days away suffering from ophthalmia to announce Benjamin …
ageofrevolutions.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Congrats, what an achievement. Looking forward to reading many more essays published by @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social in the years to come.
I had somehow never come across this article from Elizabeth Mancke, 'Early Modern Imperial Governance and the Origins of Canadian Political Culture'. It is brilliant.
www.jstor.org/stable/3232770
www.jstor.org/stable/3232770
Early Modern Imperial Governance and the Origins of Canadian Political Culture on JSTOR
Elizabeth Mancke, Early Modern Imperial Governance and the Origins of Canadian Political Culture, Canadian Journal of Political Science / Revue canadienne de science politique, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Mar., 1...
www.jstor.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I had somehow never come across this article from Elizabeth Mancke, 'Early Modern Imperial Governance and the Origins of Canadian Political Culture'. It is brilliant.
www.jstor.org/stable/3232770
www.jstor.org/stable/3232770