Rachel Herrmann
@raherrmann.bsky.social
Migrant. Historian. Eater. Co-Editor, Global Food History. Author of No Useless Mouth: Waging War and Fighting Hunger in the American Revolution; Editor of To Feast on Us as Their Prey: Cannibalism and the Early Modern Atlantic. More: rachelbherrmann.com
Pinned
Yesterday I submitted the proofs for Claiming Land, Claiming Water: Borders and the People Who Crossed Them in the Early Modern Atlantic. This volume I’m editing with Jessica Roney is out next spring with @pennpress.bsky.social, but here’s a peek now at our table of contents!
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November 26, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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*pinches bridge of nose* Rachel explain to me again how the university funding model works
i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday
November 23, 2025 at 10:59 PM
*pinches bridge of nose* Rachel explain to me again how the university funding model works
"El libre comercio era una pieza esencial en su cosmovisión feminista de un mundo sin guerras ni escasez: había alimentos suficientes para todos, siempre que se distribuyeran libre y equitativamente."
Entrevisto en @eldiario.es a @mwpalen.bsky.social, cuyo libro «Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World» (@princetonupress.bsky.social), reconstruye cómo las izquierdas han lidiado históricamente con el libre comercio, con todos sus límites y tensiones. www.eldiario.es/internaciona...
"La guerra comercial abre la oportunidad para que la izquierda redescubra el potencial del libre comercio"
Frente a la idea dominante que lo identifica con el colonialismo y el neoliberalismo, el historiador Marc-William Palen reconstruye en su libro 'Pax Economica' la idea del librecambismo como proyecto ...
www.eldiario.es
November 24, 2025 at 10:09 AM
"El libre comercio era una pieza esencial en su cosmovisión feminista de un mundo sin guerras ni escasez: había alimentos suficientes para todos, siempre que se distribuyeran libre y equitativamente."
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Ah yes Leicester, a tip-top History UoA in REF2021 currently eviscerating it’s History provision (among other subjects). Have they also won the THE irony of the year award?
#THEAwards Research Project of the Year: Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences goes to the University of Leicester for an interdisciplinary study, led by Dr Sarah Inskip, which uncovered the long-term health impacts of tobacco use in historical populations. Leicester’s second win tonight! 🤩
November 13, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Ah yes Leicester, a tip-top History UoA in REF2021 currently eviscerating it’s History provision (among other subjects). Have they also won the THE irony of the year award?
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The 250th is finally getting fully weird: which potato chip flavors best exemplify freedom, liberty, and unity? The BBQ flavors are "LIBERTY," the cheesy flavors are "FREEDOM," and the spicy flavors are "UNITY." What screams FREEDOM more than "cheesy crab dip?" www.phillyvoice.com/herrs-chip-c...
Herr's holds chip contest for America's 250th birthday, featuring flavors that embody freedom, liberty and unity
Voting will be open from now until Dec. 10 and the winners of the three categories will be on the shelves starting June 2026.
www.phillyvoice.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The 250th is finally getting fully weird: which potato chip flavors best exemplify freedom, liberty, and unity? The BBQ flavors are "LIBERTY," the cheesy flavors are "FREEDOM," and the spicy flavors are "UNITY." What screams FREEDOM more than "cheesy crab dip?" www.phillyvoice.com/herrs-chip-c...
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So grateful to have received the Elise M. Boulding Prize from the Peace History Society for Pax Economica. What a tremendous honor!
@princetonupress.bsky.social
@princetonupress.bsky.social
📚 News from the world of peace and economic history ☮️ Dr Marc-William Palen’s Pax 'Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World' has just received the Elise M. Boulding Prize in Peace History🏆 for groundbreaking work that rethinks how free trade once carried hopes for ending empire and war🌍
November 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
So grateful to have received the Elise M. Boulding Prize from the Peace History Society for Pax Economica. What a tremendous honor!
@princetonupress.bsky.social
@princetonupress.bsky.social
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Mamdani is going to implement Sriracha law. Everyone will have to slather hot sauce on their scrambled eggs
Mamdani is going to implement My Sharona law. Everyone will have to create songs with undeniable rock beats.
Mamdani is going to implement Shari Lewis law.
Everyone will be required to stick their fist up a lamb's a
Excuse me, there's someone at the door.
Everyone will be required to stick their fist up a lamb's a
Excuse me, there's someone at the door.
November 9, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Mamdani is going to implement Sriracha law. Everyone will have to slather hot sauce on their scrambled eggs
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Today my wife of five years passed the Life in the UK test, featuring lots of questions about British life that I as a native-born citizen would've struggled to answer. Next, a fourth and final application to the Home Office to be made to continue our life together costing £3,029.
November 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Today my wife of five years passed the Life in the UK test, featuring lots of questions about British life that I as a native-born citizen would've struggled to answer. Next, a fourth and final application to the Home Office to be made to continue our life together costing £3,029.
What’s everyone making this weekend? I have gone very carby with the Smitten Kitchen sour cream and cheese biscuits, and ropa vieja and plantain empanadas
November 9, 2025 at 2:48 PM
What’s everyone making this weekend? I have gone very carby with the Smitten Kitchen sour cream and cheese biscuits, and ropa vieja and plantain empanadas
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Justice KBJ is a brilliant strategist. She is working the rules to compel timely review of the stay in the SNAP case by both the Circuit Court and by the Supreme Court. This is why knowing which SCOTUS justice has supervision of the Circuit you file in is essential.
www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
www.reuters.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Justice KBJ is a brilliant strategist. She is working the rules to compel timely review of the stay in the SNAP case by both the Circuit Court and by the Supreme Court. This is why knowing which SCOTUS justice has supervision of the Circuit you file in is essential.
www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...
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This. Especially because I believe that writing is thinking (for me). I don’t want to lose that.
What people do not do, they often lose the ability to do. Which is sometimes fine! In my own life, I don’t have any great need to know how to do some of the math I once learned. But I don’t want to forget how to write.
November 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
This. Especially because I believe that writing is thinking (for me). I don’t want to lose that.
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A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
Writing Game Histories
This book offers an accessible introduction to the dynamic intersection between history and games, and the flourishing discipline of Historical Game Studies. Fr…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
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So honored to be the Keynote Speaker at the Peace History Society Biennial Conference at @berrycollege.bsky.social
www.peacehistorysociety.org/phs2025/.
Seems like a good time to get out of town & think about peace. Join us!
www.peacehistorysociety.org/phs2025/.
Seems like a good time to get out of town & think about peace. Join us!
October 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
So honored to be the Keynote Speaker at the Peace History Society Biennial Conference at @berrycollege.bsky.social
www.peacehistorysociety.org/phs2025/.
Seems like a good time to get out of town & think about peace. Join us!
www.peacehistorysociety.org/phs2025/.
Seems like a good time to get out of town & think about peace. Join us!
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At the Windmill Hill market a few days ago I admitted that I had a pickle and condiment problem in my fridge. This food historian is pretty jazzed to find out that really, I have been archiving
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
At the Windmill Hill market a few days ago I admitted that I had a pickle and condiment problem in my fridge. This food historian is pretty jazzed to find out that really, I have been archiving
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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Pax Economica is now out in paperback!
Now with a shiny new back cover.
Big thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social for making this happen.
Now with a shiny new back cover.
Big thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social for making this happen.
November 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Pax Economica is now out in paperback!
Now with a shiny new back cover.
Big thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social for making this happen.
Now with a shiny new back cover.
Big thanks to @princetonupress.bsky.social for making this happen.
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“Tariff authority has rested squarely with the legislative branch since the nation’s founding...”
Honored to join this brief by @democracyprof.bsky.social @earlymodjustice.bsky.social @lessig.bsky.social and others for today’s tariff case @democracyforward.org
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Honored to join this brief by @democracyprof.bsky.social @earlymodjustice.bsky.social @lessig.bsky.social and others for today’s tariff case @democracyforward.org
democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
democracyforward.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
“Tariff authority has rested squarely with the legislative branch since the nation’s founding...”
Honored to join this brief by @democracyprof.bsky.social @earlymodjustice.bsky.social @lessig.bsky.social and others for today’s tariff case @democracyforward.org
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Honored to join this brief by @democracyprof.bsky.social @earlymodjustice.bsky.social @lessig.bsky.social and others for today’s tariff case @democracyforward.org
democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
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'Academic futures are never secure. They're not even futures.'
Or something.
Or something.
“Four years ago, we suffered an earlier redundancy programme that we were told would secure the future of the university. That clearly was not true."
#UKHE
www.leicester.news/university-o...
#UKHE
www.leicester.news/university-o...
University of Leicester moves forward with plans to cut 150 jobs
A 'large number of staff' across several schools could be impacted
www.leicester.news
November 5, 2025 at 8:06 AM
'Academic futures are never secure. They're not even futures.'
Or something.
Or something.
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Everyone is hope scrolling now
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Everyone is hope scrolling now
Not gonna lie, waking up to Mamdani’s win in Reading Week is a million times better than waking up last year and going to campus to weep before lecturing on Andrew Jackson
November 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Not gonna lie, waking up to Mamdani’s win in Reading Week is a million times better than waking up last year and going to campus to weep before lecturing on Andrew Jackson
This Friday end of Week 4, I am grateful to Paz Purrmann for his support on edits and emails
October 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
This Friday end of Week 4, I am grateful to Paz Purrmann for his support on edits and emails
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Among the many horrors of this, it's worth noting from a UKHE perspective that in the event (cough) that a person on ILR should be axed by their institution and find a temporary job at another UKHE institution at a salary lower than this income bar, they would have ILR revoked.
The Conservatives have drafted the legislation.
ANY one of the conditions being met leads to ILR being revoked.
If annual income falls below £38,700 for six months (for any reason at all)
The Secretary of State would also have the powers add whatever further conditions they want.
ANY one of the conditions being met leads to ILR being revoked.
If annual income falls below £38,700 for six months (for any reason at all)
The Secretary of State would also have the powers add whatever further conditions they want.
October 22, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Among the many horrors of this, it's worth noting from a UKHE perspective that in the event (cough) that a person on ILR should be axed by their institution and find a temporary job at another UKHE institution at a salary lower than this income bar, they would have ILR revoked.
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Deadline to apply is December 12, 2025
So if you are a student who has recently completed, or is slated to complete, your undergraduate studies at a British University, do check it out 🎉
And if you are an academic who knows of any students who might be interested, do please share 😊
So if you are a student who has recently completed, or is slated to complete, your undergraduate studies at a British University, do check it out 🎉
And if you are an academic who knows of any students who might be interested, do please share 😊
An unrivaled opportunity to study in the ‘show me’ state:
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...
Kinder-BrANCH MA Fellowship — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
www.branch.org.uk
October 22, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Deadline to apply is December 12, 2025
So if you are a student who has recently completed, or is slated to complete, your undergraduate studies at a British University, do check it out 🎉
And if you are an academic who knows of any students who might be interested, do please share 😊
So if you are a student who has recently completed, or is slated to complete, your undergraduate studies at a British University, do check it out 🎉
And if you are an academic who knows of any students who might be interested, do please share 😊
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An unrivaled opportunity to study in the ‘show me’ state:
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...
Kinder-BrANCH MA Fellowship — British American Nineteenth Century Historians
www.branch.org.uk
October 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
An unrivaled opportunity to study in the ‘show me’ state:
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...
Thanks to the generosity of the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, BrANCH is once again pleased to offer a fully-funded place on their MA program in Atlantic History and Politics for 2026-27!
www.branch.org.uk/kinderbranch...