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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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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! 🗃️

librarycompany.org/events/fires...

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

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CNN @cnn.com · 4d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 13d

Look what we have here then.

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Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social · 5d

If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 5d

@zackpolanski.bsky.social nails it: "Britain is not broken because of migration. Britain is broken because of inequality. Because of an economy that allows billionaires to hoard wealth while millions struggle to get by. Because of a political class that has lost its nerve and forgotten its purpose."

Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 5d

"I'm here to talk about what others won’t. To tell the truth about what makes our country great and what makes it not so great. While others thrive on creating scapegoats, I am here to tell you a different story."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Migration is Britain’s superpower. Our future depends on embracing that truth, not denying it | Zack Polanski

Labour has lost its nerve. At our party conference this weekend, we’re gathering to set things right, says Green party leader Zack Polanski

www.theguardian.com

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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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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 5d

We have two further Starter Packs, also updated for the new academic year, covering:

> Societies & groups for historians, international go.bsky.app/9T5F1Qc

> UK institutes and research centres for historians go.bsky.app/RbfRrhm

Again, recommendations for additional contacts are welcome 2/2

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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.
#Skystorians 1/2

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · 5d

Please wish me luck attempting to have a research day today in light of the cute to-do list that Past Rachel left me for next week

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · Aug 27

It’s not shitting season though, is it?

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Bobby Lee @bobbylee.bsky.social · Aug 26

White House wants the Castillo de San Marcos National Monument to pretend it wasn’t a prison for Native Americans from the Great Plains
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'A painful legacy': Native history subject to removal at historic Florida site - ICT

Federal government places signage relating to Native imprisonment at Castillo de San Marcos in Florida under review and subject to removal following Trump executive order

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Adam Carlson @admcrlsn.bsky.social · Jul 29

Stay tuned for the release of a brand new, first of its kind, fully independent NYC mayor general election poll from Zenith Research (me) and Public Progress Solutions (Amit Singh Bagga) this afternoon.

More ways to cut the data of this race than you’ve seen in any previous poll.

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · Jul 22

Like the fallout from Brexit all over again: "there is the sticking point that some ingredients just aren’t grown in the U.S., nor do they have a reasonable substitute. There is no domestic cinnamon production to tap into, no American turmeric or coffee or cardamom farm big enough . . . "

Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · Jul 22

"The tariffs disproportionately affect restaurants that rely on foreign ingredients, which are often cuisines that American diners expect to pay less for" This is a common take that I also see in the UK

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · Jul 22

Look, sometimes my work and life interests overlap and there's no helping it www.eater.com/restaurant-n...

Tariffs Are Coming For The Menu

As Trump’s policies fluctuate, restaurants are swapping ingredients and crossing their fingers

www.eater.com

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Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social · Jul 21

For the record/thread: both Bob’s work&History Respawned are *essential* to the fact that we have a field called historical game studies, even if lots of historians still want to pretend it doesn’t exist. He gave me a platform to talk about RDR as a PhD student, and that matters a lot.

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Bob Whitaker @whitakeralmanac.bsky.social · Jul 21

I wrote something new for History Respawned today. It's a review of a new book about Red Dead, but it's really about academic writing and historical game studies as a field. Please read, but also know, I really really really really REALLY didn't want to write this review.

Reviewer 2's Review of Red Dead's History — History Respawned

I promised myself I would never write a negative book review. I promised my PhD advisor I would never write a negative book review. I promised I would always find a silver lining in any piece of aca...

www.historyrespawned.com

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · Jul 15

Yup!

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Joseph M. Adelman @jmadelman.bsky.social · Jul 14

I’m so excited for everything that lies ahead for BFW and Clio Digital Media. Check out our big news!
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Ben Franklin's World @bfworld.bsky.social · Jul 14

🎙️ Big news from Ben Franklin’s World: We’re going independent—again!

Meet Clio Digital Media, our new nonprofit home. Same mission. Greater freedom.

🔗 www.benfranklinsworld.com/d...

#HistoryMatters #History #Skystorians #Podcasts #VastEarlyAmerica

Support Ben Franklin's World

If Ben Franklin's World has ever helped you think more deeply about history—or made you say, “I didn't know that!”—please consider supporting the podcast. Every episode connects you with the people, events, and ideas that shaped early America and our

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · Jul 14

WHY is there an AI summary of my book when the book hasn’t been published and information about it is not yet available on the press website? What fresh hell is this?

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · Jul 10

We often forget the real victims of GenAI.

Like, spare a thought for Inigo Montoya out there now trying to find the six-fingered man who killed his father.

What he once thought was a lone killer is now a massive conspiracy.

a man with long hair and a mustache is saying i must know

ALT: a man with long hair and a mustache is saying i must know

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Jul 10

From the parliamentary report on Iran. Just quickly — does anyone know if the UK has places that teach languages to a high level, and if so, what the government policy on them is?

The committee cites evidence of over-bureaucratic structures within Whitehall and a lack of expertise. One witness told the committee: “If you have people running policy in the Foreign Office who don’t speak a word of Persian then that is a fat lot of good to be honest.”

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · Jul 3

Yes it is July, yes I attended the last exam board of the 2024-25 academic year today, yes if you mention the resit boards I will scream

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Rachel Herrmann @raherrmann.bsky.social · Jul 3

INDIANA JONES AND THE GRADERS OF THE LAST MARK

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