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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time.

The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesiasticus, set out to discover the financial state of the Church'.

National project launched to rediscover Henry VIII’s long-forgotten ‘Tudor Domesday Book’

A nationwide survey commissioned by Henry VIII on the property and wealth of 16th century England and Wales is to be made publicly accessible for the first time. The survey, known as the Valor Ecclesi...

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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:

memorients.com/articles/tan...

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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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 2d

Not gonna lie: I'm so stressed by the state of the world that my eye is twitching. Disasters are on my mind, so let me leave you with this...

The menu booklet for what would be the final lunch onboard the Titanic.

A menu from the Titanic dated April 14, 1912. Among the many items it lists are fillets of brill, grilled mutton chops, and apple meringue.

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! 😊

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you!

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 2d

Any further than Eastham and the Liverpool Correspondent starts dispatching passive-aggressive carrier pigeons, demanding I declare allegiance to the Mersey ⚓️

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you! Glad to be joining the team! :)

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Dr Samuel McLean @canadianerrant.bsky.social · 5d

In the next couple of weeks, we have more posts coming. Another from Decklan Wilkerson, we will be welcoming @noorhashmi.bsky.social to @globalmarhist.bsky.social staff, and we're going to be starting to have some of the first Academic Process & Digital Humanities posts

CFP: 'Academic Processes and Digital Humanities' - Global Maritime History

GlobalMaritimeHistory welcomes proposals for our new series ‘Academic Processes and Digital Humanities’. We are looking for people to talk about the processes (especially technical processes) that the...

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 7d

Thanks for this!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13d

“.. I absolutely couldn’t care less what he [Trump] thinks about me … He’s the living personification of what the 25th Amendment and impeachment were for. If Congress had any guts, he’d be consigned to the trash heap of history.”

@time.com
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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 13d

"These are the facts of American history. They are not distortions, nor is displaying this information at national parks ideologically motivated. These and similar facts explain much about our nation." slate.com/news-and-pol...

Trump Is Trying to Memory-Hole One of the Most Important Historical Images of Slavery

Virtually every historian of the Civil War knows that slavery was the moving force for secession which led to the Civil War.

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Manuel Barcia @mbarcia24.bsky.social · 14d

@yalebooks.bsky.social have outdone themselves with the cover of my new book. Out in January for anyone interested.

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World History Encyclopedia @worldhistory.org · 19d

🏴‍☠️ Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day!

#InternationalTalkLikeAPirateDay #Pirates #History #Historical #Piracy

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Economic History Society @echistsoc.bsky.social · 21d

Now on the Long Run: 'The Barbados Census of 1679 and the Legacies of Slavery in Early Modern England'.
In this post Michael Bennett (Sheffield) & Misha Ewen (Sussex) introduce their research, which was financially supported by a Carnevali Small Research Grant.
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The Barbados Census of 1679 and the Legacies of Slavery in Early Modern England - Economic History Society

This blog post is based on a grant awarded to Dr Michael Bennett of the University of Sheffield and Dr Misha Ewen, now of the University of Sussex, by the Economic History Society through the Carneval...

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 26d

"writing what you don’t know is made up of research, speculation, and imagination. I wrestled with the incomplete – and possibly inaccurate – facts presented in my poem." — Christine Wu.

I love this piece on writing into 'shadow histories' in complex families, using multiple ways of knowing.

English PEN @englishpen.bsky.social · 26d

'These imaginaries float between fact and speculation, uncorroborated stories pieced together from bits and pieces that approximate and become a personal history.'

In #PENTransmissions, Christine Wu on reimagining family history. w/ @pencanada.bsky.social.
pentransmissions.com/2025/09/12/s...

Shadow Histories: Writing What You Don’t Know

Christine Wu on reimagining family history.

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Carmel Bones @carmelbones.bsky.social · Apr 22

Calling all #historyteachers excited to 🚀 this new for 2026 GCSE AQA Historic Environment! can’t wait to welcome 🙏 you to the first performance! 🎭 please retweet & spread the word! 🤗 scholarship @tracyborman.bsky.social 🙌🏻🥳

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 27d

DM please, thanks. I look forward to hearing from you!

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · Aug 28

Hi everyone!

I am beginning my search for prospective PhD supervisors for a September 2026 start. If you specialise in Caribbean slavery and/or the East India Company, and are interested in supervising my doctoral research, I would be delighted to hear from you! #Skystorians #AcademicSky

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Noor Hashmi (she/her) @noorhashmi.bsky.social · 29d

Hi, please drop me a message. I would be delighted to have a discussion about what you are looking for :)

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 29d

Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians

Image of the cover of a book titled Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions, by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth. The background image is an eighteenth-century ink and watercolor rendition of the harbor of Le Cap in modern Haiti, with three ships and one small boat foregrounded in the bay and a handful of buildings scattered on the shore in the background.

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 29d

Yet another blow for people who think the history of slavery is over *there*, and the history of industrialisation over *there*, and the history of poverty over *there*, and the history of wealth over *there*, and their job is to keep them as far apart as possible…

Workhouses in England and Wales linked to transatlantic slave trade, study suggests

Report highlights how British workhouses were funded and supported by those who profited from slave economy

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · Sep 8

How the “liberation” of slaves by 19th-century European imperial powers actually resulted in hundreds of thousands of them being held to forced labour…

Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · Sep 8

On advance access: "Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–1920"

by Henry B. Lovejoy (University of Colorado, Boulder)

doi.org/10.1093/past...

Conceptualizing ‘Liberated Africans’ and Slave Trade Abolition: Government Schemes to Indenture Enslaved People Captured from Slavery, 1800–1920*

Abstract. A new survey of ‘Liberated Africans’ exposes how global calculations of involuntary African indentured labour after 1800 have been significantly

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Sep 4

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok"

Well, have you consulted a historian who says ‘it’s a bit more complicated than that’ and gives you an overly detailed narrative of the last 800 years?

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Sara Caputo @saracaputo.bsky.social · Sep 4

Paperback day!

Cover of book 'Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel'. Ship and map on blue background.

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