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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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Our project blog is BACK. Our new series focuses on #EarlyModern health experiences of enslaved and free members of the African diaspora. With thanks to Lexie Cook for our first post... www.mmor.co.uk/blog/sealing...

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Before I went off to get my masters degree, I had coffee with my undergraduate advisor, and I remember her telling me: “Just remember, don’t let theory overpower your work to the detriment of the real people you’re studying.” I think about that a lot, not just in writing, but in life.

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Glad we're moving away from the fascist forum, but our follower number on this website is still half of what it is on the other one. Can you all increase the number a bit to help make #EarlyModern scholarship visible?

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For those many, many of you newly here (very exciting, a little overwhelming!), I'd love to offer my project's blog on medicine, race-making, and slavery as teaching resource, research inspiration, and testament to an exciting community of new and established scholars #EarlyModern

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This week on the podcast, Dr @carolinesequin.bsky.social joins us to discuss the intersection of racial politics & sex. She's the author of a new book, Desiring Whiteness: A Racial History of Prostitution in France & Colonial Senegal, 1848–1950. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/inf...

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University history lecturers spend much of the first year survey courses unravelling students' conviction that a source is useless because "it is bias (sic)". No, the bias or perspective is precisely what we're interested in.

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1/ A siblings archival fragment with a heart for Valentines day. A 1778 deathbed note with a heart from a Nantes brother in Saint Domingue to his sister in Nantes for Valentines Day. He wrote "Delightful, lovely and very dear sister, The last goodbyes ...

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Happy Valentines Day - with a reality check ❤️

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VERY SHORT DEADLINE (Feb. 26) for a FANTASTIC opportunity for a student to do a fully funded PhD with the amazing Elaine Leong on "Translating Monstrosity: Constructions of Difference in Early Modern England and France" Full details here. Please pass on or repost! www.lahp.ac.uk/prospective-...

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[16th century annotator tries to tell a joke] Dude on the left: "have ser" Lady in the middle: "mo balles anon ser" Dude: "the ballys be hard get and aged" (CUL Ee.2.15 f81)

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Margaret Hunt's great paper on 'Seventeenth-century Swedish sailors and their personal letters: evidence from the Prize Papers' is now available online - www.history.ac.uk/podcasts/sev... @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social @prizepapers.bsky.social

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I missed this excellent news last month@. So well deserved - @wadehistory.bsky.social's work is so great and this important book is available open access for a double win.

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NEW✨ Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery by @araujohistorian.bsky.social @howard.edu @uchicagopress.bsky.social. #Review by Jodie Matthews. #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM

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@jmgossard.bsky.social and Holly white are the new editors of the J of the History of Childhood - a great choices for your children's history pieces.

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@jmgossard.bsky.social is here! And this led me to her recent AHA Perspectives piece about a wonderful assignment about teaching with AI in her @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social course. #pedagogy

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For Black History Month, I will post a daily primary source about a Black resident of 18th-century Massachusetts. 1. Miss Betty Cooper, who was considered male by her enslavers, but was “well known” enough that they did not publish any physical description when she self-emancipated in 1771.

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On display at The National Archives (UK) this month (Feb 2025), a set of letters allegedly written by the Chevalier d'Eon and brought into court as part of King's Bench proceedings in November 1776. I wrote a short piece about the letters here. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

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Thanks to a very helpful archivist at @ANOM_officiel last week, I was able to track the original destination to which files pertaining to the veterans' cards for colonial subjects were "repatriated" some time after independence. A lot have been sent to Aix and catalogued since.

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Delighted to again be on the prize committee for the Natalie Zemon Davis book awards, started last year by the @16csociety.bsky.social Two awards are made - a first book & a subsequent book. This is a wonderful way to honor Natalie's legacy. Please share widely!

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Do people answer questions here like on twitter??? If so #legalhistory people, did Parlement judges have to come to unanimous decisions or could majority decision prevail? Did they vote? (Showing I never work on those courts) @mpbreen21.bsky.social ? @tombhamilton.bsky.social ? Others?

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Historian's Stories by Ana Lucia Araujo araujohistorian.substack.com?r=1hyhhd&utm...

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My occasional reminder that I'm one of the editors for Manchester UP's Gender in History series w/ @migrationhistorian.bsky.social, Lynn Abrams &@cordeliabeattie.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/gende...

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More than a few people have commented that my recent pieces on Geo Wash (as leader and enslaver) and J Marshall & J Adams (as party leaders planning party matters over dinner) aren't "helpful." Suggesting I'm proposing a false equivalency between political extremist now, and flawed founders. No. 1/

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“Among those speaking against the measure was the group’s president-elect, Suzanne Marchand, a historian of modern Europe at Louisiana State University, who will take office next year. Marchand, reached by email, declined to comment.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/a...

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Book cover reveal!!! So excited to see this 🌟🎉@reaktionbooks.bsky.social

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❤️😍😂 TBH WTF is usually my first thought when I open my all too many photos at home after a research trip ... but I love the idea of these immediate visual queues as a quick prelude to tagging and transcribing.

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I love this approach to exploring "law mindedness" or legal literacy whatever we might prefer as a term among ordinary people. #legalhistory (do hashtags even work here?!)

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More cheerfully, I start 2025 astonished that the wildest aspect of my 2024 was that I now not only know who Taylor Swift's boyfriend is but I have an opinion about him! Thanks to Amanda Herbert for this unexpected ride from French notarial records to Travis Kelce via Time. time.com/6971832/the-...

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My apprehensions have dampened my new year optimism, but I am thrilled to see this piece still 1 of the top 10 most read of the year on @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social I should write a PS - the pill was the key to a sexual revolution & even then so many continuities because patriarchy continues ...

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HURRAH!

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Brilliant, important article by @sarabutler.bsky.social - subtitle could be why modern US judges haven't got a clue ... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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FYI Historians of women's reproductive health. [Is there a group or starter pack for us here?] ProPublica is also the only media group consistently staying on this.

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