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Tanner Ogle @twogle.bsky.social · Sep 8

A great opportunity!

Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social · Aug 27

Tickets are now available for ‘Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives’. The conference will take place @tlrhub.bsky.social on the 9-10 October. For booking and more information use the link below.

www.eventbrite.ie/e/ireland-an...

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Tanner Ogle @twogle.bsky.social · Jun 7

Great to be back in my favorite archive @natlibscot.bsky.social

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Tanner Ogle @twogle.bsky.social · Jun 7

Stumbled on Elder's Calhoun in Edinburgh. Good to see @baylorhistory.bsky.social represented on Scottish bookshelves.

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Tanner Ogle @twogle.bsky.social · May 2

I can't recommend this book enough! It provides an invaluable framework for teaching students about the politics of memory throughout U.S. history in an easily digestible format. Plus it's already available in audiobook! @michaelhattem.bsky.social

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The Memory of ’76: The Revolution in American History

The Memory of ’76: The Revolution in American History [Hattem, Michael D.] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Memory of ’76: The Revolution in American History

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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · Apr 30

Get your abstracts in! Tomorrow is the deadline for proposals for 'Ireland and the American Revolution'. The conference will take place @tcddublin.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social on the 9-10 October. We've already had some great proposals and ideas for papers.

Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · Feb 6

CFP: 'Ireland and the American Revolution'. The organisers invite submissions for papers to be presented at a conference held in the Trinity Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin on the 9-10 October 2025. If you are interested submit an abstract of 250 words and a brief bio by the 1 May 2025.

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Apr 22

New in the Jacobite Studies series ✨

The Jacobites and the grand tour by @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social - the first monograph to fully examine the intersecting networks of Jacobites and travellers to the continent.

Published today in partnership with the JST @funkyplaid.bsky.social

#Jacobites

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Wayne E. Lee @milhistlee.bsky.social · Mar 12

I've long wanted to see these. A 1797 box of British infantry companies, designed to teach formation changes to new ensign. A forerunner to gaming? Only 2 surviving copies? This one at Society of Cincinnati library.

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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · Feb 6

CFP: 'Ireland and the American Revolution'. The organisers invite submissions for papers to be presented at a conference held in the Trinity Long Room Hub at Trinity College Dublin on the 9-10 October 2025. If you are interested submit an abstract of 250 words and a brief bio by the 1 May 2025.

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · Jan 31

Date for your diaries: Weds 5 Feb, 6pm, at KCL, London
'The Tory Rising: Insurrection in the Revolutionary South'
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️

For more information and to book your place:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mount-vern...

Mount Vernon and Georgian Papers Programme Lecture 2025

This is a lecture by the Mount Vernon Georgian Papers Programme Fellow Dr T Cole Jones

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Pamela Ahern @pamelaahern.bsky.social · Jan 17

If you won’t be in Stirling this year (or even if you will) please consider submitting to this online component of ECSSS 2025!

ecsssstir2025.bsky.social @ecsssstir2025.bsky.social · Jan 16

The ECSSS 2025 conference at Stirling now has a fantastic bonus episode lined up! We are excited to announce our *online conference* on Scots and the Environment, 24 and 25 June 2025! CFP here:
ecsss.org/upcoming-con...

Upcoming Conferences – Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society

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Melissa N. Morris @ookwow.bsky.social · Jan 24

If you have (or are) a student interested in pursuing grad school in History, the University of Wyoming has a funded MA! We do not require the GRE and applications are due March 1. I am happy to answer any questions. More on applying here: www.uwyo.edu/history/grad...

Applying to M.A. in History

www.uwyo.edu

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Tina Morin @drtinamorin.bsky.social · Jan 23

The CFP for this year's #EighteenthCenturyIrelandSociety conference is now live at www.ecis.ie/annual-confe.... Delighted doesn't seem quite strong enough to convey my feelings at being asked to deliver a keynote!

Screenshot of the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society website with a picture of Ballynahinch Castle, Connemara above an announcement of details of the 2025 conference.

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Tanner Ogle @twogle.bsky.social · Jan 23

Manuscripts come in all sorts of places, including the vellum cover of this 18th C songbook #NationalHandwritingDay 🗃️

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Tanner Ogle @twogle.bsky.social · Jan 18

artsci.tamu.edu/history/upda...

Texas A&M Graduate Students Travel the World to Study History

Graduate students in the History Department at Texas A&M travel the world to do their research. One strength of our program is the generous funding that graduate students receive to travel to archive...

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TheNACBS @thenacbs.bsky.social · Jan 17

The Call for Papers for NACBS 2025 is now open! Join us in Montreal!

www.nacbs.org/call-for-pap...

CFP | NACBS

We will meet in Montreal, Canada from November 14-16, 2025.

www.nacbs.org

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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · Jan 9

From the outbreak of the American War of Independence to the outset of the French Revolution, 1776-1789, the Cavendish Transcripts provide the only first-hand account of the debates of the Irish Parliament. And they are now available on the VRTI platform: virtualtreasury.ie/item/LOC-MSS.... (1/6)

Virtual Treasury

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Tanner Ogle @twogle.bsky.social · Jan 4

A productive day at a lovely archive

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Tanner Ogle @twogle.bsky.social · Jan 4

Finally back on the hunt

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Tanner Ogle @twogle.bsky.social · Dec 28

Great Christmas reading this year! @murrayp.bsky.social @gillianobrien.bsky.social

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Tanner Ogle @twogle.bsky.social · Dec 28

Cannot wait!!!

Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · Dec 28

It’s been a long time coming… so thrilled to share the cover (and Oxford UP website last in 🧵) for my book, _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_, pub date 7.2.25 (but will ship, so they say very enticingly, mid-June. 1/ #VastEarlyAmerica 🗃️

Book cover with various kinds of evidence of family history arrayed around the author and title, the latter is _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_. The kinds of materials include printed texts, manuscripts, a red book (shhhhh that figures largely in the Introduction!), a watercolor family record, Fraktur, gravestone, and a sampler. One repeated text says "born free, born free (etc)"

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Amy Achenbach @amyachenbach.bsky.social · Dec 18

Took my US History since 1877 survey to the Texas Collection earlier this semester.

Here’s what my *non-majors* thought about visiting an archive:

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Tanner Ogle @twogle.bsky.social · Nov 28

Could you please add me as well?

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Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social · Nov 26

My department are hosting The Britain and the World conference, 25-27 June 2025. It ‘is concerned with interactions between Britain&the wider world, past&present,&will highlight the importance of transnational perspectives.’ Come to Liverpool #skyhistorians! britainandtheworld.org/2025 #BATW2025

2025 Conference - Liverpool John Moores University — Britain and the World

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Amy Achenbach @amyachenbach.bsky.social · Nov 19

Can we PLEASE stop asking people to fill out forms for information already in a CV?

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Alex Hutchinson @alexthearchivist.com · Nov 20

I'm working on a starter pack of archive collections in the UK. If you see any archives join Bluesky, could you tag them in the comments below so that I can add them? Ta muchly.

go.bsky.app/DAYWDcd

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