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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

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 7d

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 · 6d

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 · 7d

🚨 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

read.dukeupress.edu

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 6d

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 · 9d

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 · 11d

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 · 13d

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 · 15d

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

John Ladd @jrladd.com · 15d

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 · 15d

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 · 16d

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 · 16d

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 · 16d

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 · 16d

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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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 16d

...and for 'piece of work' you can read one email responded to, one set of minor corrections to an article, or some days just general being able to breathe in and out. Today I think I want to watch either Ordinary People or Barefoot in the Park. www.esquire.com/entertainmen...

The 25 Greatest Robert Redford Movies

In memory of the late movie star, we collected the best movies featuring (or directed by) the one Hollywood titan who truly qualifies to be considered a man, a myth, and a legend all at once.

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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 16d

I have come up with a new working method. One piece of work done equals one classic Robert Redford film that I am allowed to watch. So far have watched The Way We Were, Three Days of the Condor, The Natural, and Out of Africa (tbh that one I had seen several times, esp. the hair washing scene).

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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 27d

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 27d

Well, some good news:

I've the honour of being awarded one of the Royal Historical Society's Funded Book Workshop awards for this year!

The book is a cultural history of the early English East India Company, tentatively called 'The Uneasy World'. #earlymodern #skystorians

Society awards 2025-26 grants for teaching, book development and doctoral research - RHS

The Royal Historical Society has recently awarded the following grants and fellowships for the coming academic year. These schemes form part of the Society's research funding which annually makes avai...

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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 28d

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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 28d

Tbf my colleagues have been really lovely and accommodating and I have warned them not to expect much from me. I did have to abandon two big grant applications for now, just didn’t have the capacity. But there will always be new ones…

Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 28d

I think I will now crawl back under the duvet…

Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · 28d

Had first work-meeting today after dad’s passing. Due to Uni of Hel current moodle-shenanigans couldn’t get in our zoom until a savvy colleague sent me the link. Due to being away all the programmes and iOS all needed updating whilst the Microsoft Authenticator app was also giving me evils…🫠

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · Aug 21

Great opportunity for recent graduate #skystorians with the Hakluyt Society Essay Prize!

Please pass on to anyone you might think interested.

#earlymodern

Hakluyt Society @hakluytsociety.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2026 - submissions now welcome, closing date 31 March 2026
www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...

The Hakluyt Society annual essay prize for graduate students

The Hakluyt Society awards an annual essay prize of up to a total of £1,000. The competition is open to any registered or recent graduate students

www.hakluyt.com

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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · Aug 20

This is just to say that be patient if I don't respond quickly at this time.

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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · Aug 20

My dad died unexpectedly on Saturday last week, on Tove Jansson’s birthday, the day of Finnish art. He left behind grieving loved ones and an enormous amount of opera and classical music records. Feeling pretty grim, dealing with all the death-admin back home in Finland with my sister and mum 💔

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Hakluyt Society @hakluytsociety.bsky.social · Aug 18

Now available at www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...
Dr Zoltán Biedermann Hakluyt Society Annual Lecture 2025
‘Indigenous voices in the literature of travel and exploration’

Hakluyt Society Annual Lectures

Video presentation of the Annual Lectures of the Hakluyt Society

www.hakluyt.com

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

Our annual essay prize is open, DL 31 March 2026. This year I have the pleasure of chairing the committee. #skystorians #earlymodern 🗃️ do advertise to your ECR and grad student friends.

Hakluyt Society @hakluytsociety.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2026 - submissions now welcome, closing date 31 March 2026
www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...

The Hakluyt Society annual essay prize for graduate students

The Hakluyt Society awards an annual essay prize of up to a total of £1,000. The competition is open to any registered or recent graduate students

www.hakluyt.com

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Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg @evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social · Aug 18

First laughter today 😂