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Was #EarlyModern England a monarchy, an oligarchy or a democracy? This week in Voices of the People at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, we debated the extent of popular participation in governance, from the royal palace to rural parishes, and I very nearly lost my head.

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This week in Voices of the People at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, we were talking about #EarlyModern riots. We looked a tiny actions like breaking a single fence and big crowds chanting anti-government slogans, and ended up agreeing with EPT: 'The word "riot" is too small to encompass all this.' 🗃️

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Come along next week to hear @nikkic.bsky.social of @bbkhistorical.bsky.social talking about the how people tried to distinguish between truth and misinformation in #EarlyModern news media!

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Come and hear ‘Decolonization’s Discontents: Unfinished Revolutions in the Age of Independence’, from Dr Elisabeth Leake 6 March 2025, London E1 Book here DecolonizationsDiscontents.eventbrite.co.uk @qmul.bsky.social @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social @emleake.bsky.social

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Coming soon- my essay film on Victorian art-workman David Parr. @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

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Really looking forward to tomorrow's class on Religious and economic life at Palmyra. We’re building on readings by @ehseland.bsky.social on the Caravan Trade, and Rubina Raja on religious objects. Yes, there will be camels.

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We recently had the pleasure of @sandrinekott.bsky.social's company at Birkbeck - and now I'm thrilled that her new edited book is out in the Bloomsbury Histories of Internationalism series, open access & free to download www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do... @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

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Decolonization’s Discontents: Unfinished Revolutions in the Age of Independence Elisabeth Leake (Tufts) Thurs 6 March 2025, London E1, followed by a reception DecolonizationsDiscontents.eventbrite.co.uk @qmul.bsky.social @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social @emleake.bsky.social

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Have you read Amitav Ghosh’s 'The Great Derangement'? Or Peter Frankopan’s 'The Earth Transformed'? Discuss with us at RSHC on Tuesday 25 Feb, 6.00 pm, London WC1 Free but registration is essential. Find information here www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... qmul.bsky.social @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

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Another reminder - and correction - that this is tomorrow (TUESDAY not Thursday). Really looking forward to it! If anyone would like to join online, please let @jessicareinisch.bsky.social know, & thanks again to Jessica and Birkbeck's Centre for the Study of Internationalism for hosting us!

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The Leo Baeck Institute London, in collaboration with @bbkhistorical.bsky.social and @wienerlibrary.bsky.social, announces the Call for Papers for the Eighth International Multidisciplinary Conference on Survivors of Nazi Persecution. www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2024/11...

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Really looking forward to this conversation with @sulinlewis.bsky.social, @jamesamark.bsky.social, @tanyaharmer.bsky.social, @riakapoor.bsky.social & Leslie James about this excellent book. If anyone wants to join online, please let me know. @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

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This week in 'Voices of the People' at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, we're talking about my favorite topic: the #PowerOfPetitioning! Can historians use these sources to get at the 'voice' of 'the people'? Or are they just cynical ploys by 'petition mongers' like those below? 🗃️

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Tonight my Palmyra students from @bbkhistorical.bsky.social are in for a treat: a visit to @joliheroics.bsky.social and the Wood Archive, to see some of Borra's original drawings, and other gems!

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TODAY!!

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This week in Voices of the People at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, we tried to answer the age-old question: what's the difference between 'news' and 'gossip'? Turns out it's mostly determined by what you've got in your breeches. Pictured: news (left) and gossip (right).🗃️

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Join us & @bisa-bkk.bsky.social for the Holocaust Memorial Lecture on the 29 January at Birkbeck, University of London. This years lecture 'The making of child Holocaust survivors' will be presented by Rebecca Clifford (Durham University). Register now to attend: www.history.ac.uk/events/holoc...

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Antisemitism is a stain on UK society. Current responses to tackling the problem are not working, and we urgently need a new approach to both thinking about and combating antisemitism – says a new report out today. Read the report here: ow.ly/LEp550UFjVP. A thread.

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👇 @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @julialaite.bsky.social @wjhurst.bsky.social @taniabranigan.bsky.social

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In week 2 of my Voices of the People module at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social we talked about song, including libelous rhymes. I was dismayed/delighted not a single student decided to give us their rendition of our primary source, Dirty Doll's Farewell... ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/21247...

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Unsere neue Ausgabe #Auschwitz ist online! Mit Beiträgen von L. Brett, N. Wachsmann @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, Chr. Zühlke, @chr-kuchler.bsky.social, P. Cywiński @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social, A. Doßmann @uni-jena.de u. V. Knigge. Morgen im "Parlament"! #Auschwitz80 www.bpb.de/shop/zeitsch...

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What an invigorating first week of 'The Voices of the People 1500-1800' at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social! We talked about who were 'the people' and what was a 'voice' in #EarlyModern England. So, whose voice can we 'hear' in The Ranters Declaration (1650)? 🗃️

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👇 I spent 3 months in London in 2023 hosted by @bbkhistorical.bsky.social supported by @leverhulme.bsky.social as a visiting prof, looking forward to upcoming trip giving me a chance to see again lots of people I enjoyed talking with then—& meeting new people interested in Hong Kong &/or Orwell

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Our Center for Museum Cultures, together with @bisa-bkk.bsky.social and the V&A have organised an event 'Restitution, Repair and the Memory Wars' 4 February from 6:30pm. Tickets are free but you must book: www.vam.ac.uk/event/jwGPQk...

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What a week it has been. There is much to worry about, and reckon with, but I share the joy, and hope, of Syrian friends and colleagues that this will be a turning point for the better. This morning, images of Dura-Europos, post-Assad, reached me.

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If you'd like a large dose of new work on the social history of the state, I think you can still register for this event at KCL tomorrow, where I'll be speaking about 'Writing to the State: The Production of Petitions in Early Modern England': www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

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Yesterday was the final class for Early Modern World at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social. Spent much of it talking about legacies of the #EarlyModern period. Lots of big ideas but my favorite suggestion was Lloyd's of London, started in a London coffeehouse in 1688, today £52 billion in premiums...

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We've created a Starter Pack of #History societies and groups working to support promote our disciple and historians, in higher education and related professions go.bsky.app/68FsvjY Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians

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On Monday, Nikolaus Wachsmann @bbkhistorical.bsky.social will speak in our colloquium on the history of the Auschwitz death camp. As always, we will start at 4.15pm @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social : t.ly/3Wxnh

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This week is, I think, the last chance to sign up if you'd like to learn about 'The Voices of the People, 1500-1800' via a stand-alone 11-week module at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social. Details below or just contact me if you have any questions.

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Conrgats, @enghistrev.bsky.social, on your 600th issue! Nice to see our own Prof. Jan Rüger offering his reflections

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It's graduation season @bbkhistorical.bsky.social! Many congratulations to my lovely and v brainy sister-in-law Dr Frances Wedgwood who now also has an MA in Medical Humanities!

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It was so wonderful to see so many of our students cross the stage at graduation in Senate House yesterday! Congrats to all our brilliant grads!

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Are you researching sexual abuse or violence? Are you a PhD student or early career researcher in the Arts & Humanities? Our Spring workshops @bbkhistorical.bsky.social will explore creative writing as a tool to process the harms we encounter in our work. #HistMed #VAWG #16DaysofActivism

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Interested in Dipesh Chakrabarty’s ‘The Climate of History in a Planetary Age’ or Katheryn Yusoff’s ‘A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None’ ? Environment and History reading group Starts 6 Dec, London Free & open to all www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... @qmul.bsky.social @bbkhistorical.bsky.social

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The Voices of the People, 1500-1800 My shiny new #EarlyModern module launches in January at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social! 🗃️ Still a few spots available for anyone who wants to take it as a stand-alone MA credit-bearing module: www.bbk.ac.uk/courses/2024...

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Night at the museum! On Friday night, Prof Jen Baird's Roman archaeology students were treated to a visit to the study room of the Department of Greece and Rome at the British Museum

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Be sure to catch @jessicareinisch.bsky.social introducing our new AHRC grant on 'Rethinking Internationalism' - we're bringing together scholars who are pushing beyond the top-down, state-focused historiographies of internationalism!

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Next week’s Centre for the Study of Internationalism seminar by Jessica Reinisch has been moved to 5 December, 1-2pm (still at 10 Gower St) to avoid clashing with the UCU Rally

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An innovative curating module at Birkbeck is giving students exciting opportunities to learn from leading figures in the art world, with visits to high-profile exhibitions and cutting-edge digital curation techniques. Read more: www.bbk.ac.uk/news/birkbec...

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tangential to my research on OT reception/representation in medieval #Armenia but too astounding to ignore, this depiction of the Tree of Jesse from 14th c Vayots Dzor Matenadaran 206, fol. 258v

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Yesterday, I introduced my Public History class to the phenomenon that is Canada Heritage Minutes, as part of a session on the state and public history education. I asked them to design their own British Heritage Minute. What would be yours? www.historicacanada.ca/productions/...

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Incredible new book by acclaimed historian Hilary Sapire: 'British Royal Visits & Black Loyalism in C20th Southern Africa', revealing the perspectives of Black citizens. Great xmas present! See link.springer.com/book/10.1007... @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @brodiewaddell.bsky.social

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On Thursday 21st November we will host 'In Conversation with Professor Robert Aldrich', Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney, and Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College with Drs Hilary Sapire and Sean Brady

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