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Museum of the American Revolution @amrevmuseum.bsky.social · 6h

In Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire, historian Eliga Gould reinterprets the Revolutionary era not just as a domestic struggle for independence, but as a quest for legitimacy on the global stage.

#ReadtheRevolution: https://bit.ly/4mWCnG9

Among the Powers of the Earth

Read an excerpt from Eliga H. Gould's book, Among the Powers of the Earth.

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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 9h

Really looking forward to your talk!

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Henry Snow @henrysnow.bsky.social · 1d

My colleague Jack Bouchard's book Terra Nova is out today! It's about early 16th-century mariners and the seasonal fishery around present-day Newfoundland, and its place within the Atlantic World. I cannot wait to read it

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Terra Nova

A bottom-up story of the fishworkers, whalers, First Nations, merchantwomen, oceans, and animals who together made a new colonial world in the early Atlantic...

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Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies @abdnriiss.bsky.social · 2d

We have more exciting things lined up this semester. The New Voices in Irish and Scottish Studies webinar series is back and has a stellar line-up of emerging researchers. To attend simply contact Dr Sharp at the address on the poster:

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 1d

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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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 1d

📢NEW MANY HEADED MONSTER POST📢

A series of posts to celebrate the publication of a really important new study of work in #EarlyModern England, by Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, Taylor Aucoin.

Just off to fetch a 'burden of wood'. 🪵🪵🪵🪵🪵 🗃️

Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social · 1d

As you dig out your chunky knitwear from the back of the draw, I know you are wondering: 'How did people prepare for winter 400 years ago?'

Read today's post to find out (and whet your appetite for our new book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England)

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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England I: Winter is Coming

This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…

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Casey Schmitt @csschmitt.bsky.social · 1d

If you're bored tonight around 7pm EST, join Jessica Chopin Roney and I for a conversation about The Predatory Sea! 🗃️

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Fireside Chat- The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking and Captivity in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 1d

Join us on 8 Oct for Collecting Ireland’s History, a lecture for the Dublin Festival of History in collaboration with @virtualtreasury.bsky.social

Explore 700 years of Irish manuscript collecting.

Book your tickets now: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 2d

As the History Representative for ACIS, I have the distinct privilege to chair the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book. If you, or someone you know, has a book copyrighted in 2025 in Irish Studies please do consider submitting! Details here. 🗃️ #speirgorm

Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann

Don Murphy, husband of ACIS Past President Maureen Murphy, was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and died in New York on March 2, 1986. He received his bachelor of electrical engineering degree and his…

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Peter Gray @petergray47.bsky.social · 2d

Doing a WSC talk for ‘Reclaim the Enlightenment’ Belfast on Wednesday evening at 6pm if anyone’s interested reclaimtheenlightenment.net

Home 2025

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Megan King @drmeganking.bsky.social · 2d

📢Call for papers!

Benjamin Franklin House is hosting a conference, “Remember the ladies”: Women and Revolution, in London in May 2026!

Details are available here: benjaminfranklinhouse.org/event/spring...

If you have any questions, please email me at [email protected].

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The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · 2d

📣New HJ blog!

Joel Herman (@joelherman.bsky.social) explores how news both connected and divided people across the eighteenth-century British Empire📰

#History #Newspapers #Journalism #PublicSphere 18thc 🗃️

👉Read online here: www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

A News Revolution?: The Imperial Public Sphere and the Destabilization of the British Empire « History# « Cambridge Core Blog

The news connects individuals and communities across space at certain moments in time. One need only think back to recent events like the Arab Spring, the Refugee Crisis, or COVID to find striking exa...

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · 2d

Today's MEMOries archived blog post from guest contributor L.H. Roper (@roperlou.bsky.social) takes a look at Tangier and the problems it posed for the English crown:

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Tangier: Morocco and the Limits of Empire in the Reign of Charles II | MEMOs

Perhaps counterintuitively in imperial terms, Tangier’s prospects suffered from its unique institutional position.

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scott b. weingart @scottbot.bsky.social · 4d

The next Historical Network Research conference will be held in Turin, Italy in July 2026, and submissions are now open.

Proposals due December 1. Bursaries available for early career scholars.

This year's theme is "Networks and their Sources." See you there!

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HNR2026: The Historical Network Research Conference 2026 (Turin, Italy) - Sciencesconf.org

Call for Papers – Historical Network Research Conference 2026

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Jim Ambuske @jimambuske.bsky.social · 5d

The @oieahc.bsky.social Digital Projects Coffeehouse Series returns October 14th!

We're kicking things off with @deepthimurali.bsky.social, co-director of Connecting Threads: Fashioning Madras in India and the Caribbean

Sign up now to join the conversation.

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OI Digital Projects Coffeehouse - OIEAHC

Begun in winter 2021 as a way of bringing people together virtually while the pandemic kept us apart physically, the OI Coffeehouse has proven a valuable online gathering place for many in the early A...

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 5d

We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians.

Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd

Please let us know if there are gaps.
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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 5d

The conference is booked out, but you can still register to be placed on a waitlist, as a limited number of tickets may become available early next week. Thank you so much for your interest.

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Ireland and the American Revolution

250th Anniversary perspectives

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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 5d

Many thanks to Patrick Geoghegan for the invitation. The show will also appear as a podcast at the link below after it airs on Sunday.

www.newstalk.com/shows/talkin...

@virtualtreasury.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social

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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 5d

Listen in to a discussion about Ireland and the American Revolution on @newstalkfm.bsky.social featuring Patrick Geoghegan, Finola O’Kane, Eliga Gould, and Patrick Griffin. The episode airs this Sunday at 7PM, ahead of our conference next week. It was a privilege to take part in the conversation.

Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 22d

Excited to release the conference programme for 'Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives'. There are only a few tickets left, so if you would like to attend I would suggest getting one as soon as possible. Attendance is free but booking is essential.

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Neil Johnston @nejohnst.bsky.social · 6d

Podcasts from this year's Tudor and Stuart Ireland conference @ucddublin.bsky.social are now available. Thanks to Mike Liffey @historyhub.bsky.social for making us all sounds so crisp historyhub.ie/tudor-and-st...

Tudor and Stuart Ireland Conference Podcasts

Since 2011, more than 200 speakers from a range of disciplines including History, English, Archaeology and Art History, have presented papers at Tudor and Stuart Ireland conferences. Download podcasts...

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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks so much!

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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 6d

Many thanks to the editors at the @historicaljnl.bsky.social blog for publishing this short piece, and to @ellasbaraini.bsky.social for her help with it. My recent article, and one of the central ideas of the book manuscript I’m currently working on, in a nutshell.

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Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social · 6d

The OUP link won't work any more, but the book is now being distributed by Liverpool University Press, here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Servants Abroad | Home

Travel Journals by British Working People, 1765-1798

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Susie Colbourn @susancolbourn.net · 6d

Applications are now open for the 2026-27 predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships with the America in the World Consortium!

Applicants from all disciplines whose research bears directly on American grand strategy, broadly defined, are welcome to apply.

Deadline: December 1

AWC Pre- and Post- Doctoral Fellowships 2025-2026

The America in the World Consortium at Duke University, Johns Hopkins SAIS, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Florida seeks applications from current Ph.D. students for its Pred...

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 6d

Great opportunity to get supportive feedback!
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Call for Papers – The Library Company of Philadelphia

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