#CFP: "Cattle Commodification in Global History: Capitalism, Science and Empire". International Workshop, Ghent University, 3-5 June 2026.

Deadline for abstracts: 23 January 2026

Info: cattlefrontiers.eu/workshop-cat...

#envhum #envhist #agriculture #environment #hstm #histsci

I have a new article in the Journal of Early Modern History about the Jesuits and their role as agents of the Inquisition in Angola.

It is now available as an advance article: brill.com/view/journal...

African Economic History publishes scholarly essays in English, French, and Portuguese on the economic history of African societies from precolonial times to the present.

Send us your work!

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All Protocol Observed

Welcome to Issue 209 of The Continent

The war in Sudan is more than numbers and labels — it’s a war about everything. Five Sudanese writers share stories from the ground, revealing its real contours and what it’s truly about.

Get your copy here: bit.ly/TC_209

I reviewed Chrislayne Alfagali's brilliant _Blacksmiths of Ilamba_ for @rsaorg.bsky.social's Renaissance Quarterly. Highly recommend Alfagali's book to anyone interested in histories of technology and early modern Africa:
doi.org/10.1017/rqx....

Acabar com a FCT. Eu receava que as coisas fossem piorar, mas isto é o descalabro. A FCT tem muitos problemas, certo, mas ainda faz algo pela Ciência em Portugal e permite que algo se faça pela Ciência. Agora, Ciência vai ser só Engenharias e ciências ditas exatas? E o resto da sociedade? Asqueroso.

‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’

Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action.

Online early from our next issue.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Join us! We are advertising two part-time, paid Editorial Fellowships at History Workshop in 2025-27.

Our fellowships support early career historians to develop expertise in public, radical and digital history & to gain experience of working in an editorial team.
www.historyworkshop....

Don't get me wrong, I'm a ball of fears and frustrations -- am currently writing a book, after all -- but I reject attempts to frame historians' dislike of LLMs as fear/anxiety about their own skills, and not as a concern about what doing history -- the method, the ethos -- is.

Despite a few critical remarks, Germany’s stance on Israel hasn’t changed. From Gaza to Tehran, its backing of war and genocide continues. Read the full article on my Substack.
hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/germanys-p...