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What ethical responsibilities do we bear when we write about war? This is one of the questions we’re posing in our June colloquium on early modern war narratives. CFP here and the deadline is 11th April! Please share widely and consider submitting an abstract! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen...

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1 week until New Researchers in Maritime History Conference at Hull History Centre - 11-12 April 2025 - looking forward to hearing exciting new perspectives & representing SNR ⚓⚓⚓ www.maritimehistory.org.uk/new-research... 🎟️ still available

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First visit and great fun at SS Great Britain with @plymuni.bsky.social History field trip today -

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History as a university subject for all is in deep peril. By the end of this Parliament you might need a row of A*s to study it, in just a handful of elite institutions. Is that what you really want?

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Today on the blog: @franceswolfreston.bsky.social discusses a lovely little bible with red velvet binding and an inscription by a woman dated 1652 earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/t... #EarlyModern #HerBook

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Register now for New Researchers in Maritime History Conference 11-12 April. The British Commission for Maritime History is delighted to invite you to explore Hull and network with other maritime enthusiasts, historians and scholars. www.maritimehistory.org.uk/new-research... #maritime #history

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The Amsterdam Maritime Museum has just announced a round of fellowships for PhD holders, PhD candidates, and Master students to conduct research in their collections. It's a fantastic museum with very rich collections, and also Amsterdam... www.hetscheepvaartmuseum.com/collection/r...

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Always great to speak about all things 1640s - maritime, civil war and south west - related at the Salcombe History Society AGM this evening

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#CfP deadline is coming up, 29 March! Conference online via Zoom, 4-5 September 2025 🗃️

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Re-upping this for the weekend crowd.

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If you are in Plymouth next Tuesday 25 March come along to @plymuni.bsky.social for the Christopher Durston Memorial Lecture by Prof Catherine Richardson on ‘Middling Culture’ in Early Modern England. Full details here: www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/mid...

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Essay Competition Alert! Early Career Scholars, inc. podtgrads - An opportunity to submit a short essay to the @northernstudies.bsky.social prize committee. www.ssns.org.uk/magnusson-pr... #Skystorians @insuhi.bsky.social @uhihistory.bsky.social @uhiarchaeology.bsky.social @aberjack.bsky.social

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It’s a shame Widey Court in Plymouth has not survived with its Civil War history including a visit from King Charles I during the siege

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In honour of the day and the hard work of women in the past here are some of the poor women from Portsmouth who were employed ‘in the Picking of Ocum’ for the Navy who petitioned to not lose the work in 1699 #navalhistory

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📣New (extra) blog post alert!📣 To mark International Women's Day, we have a special post from Amy Erickson on the history of female entrepreneurs. Women in business aren’t newcomers – they’re part of a long legacy. www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog #skystorians #IWD

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Did you know there was a precursor of the famous Putney Debates of 1647? Another great episode of The World Turned Upside Down, with Andrew Hopper and John Morrill discuss the Saffron Walden debates and the Army’s revolt against Parliament www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/podcast/revo...

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Just a few days left to submit an entry for Hakluyt Society ECR Essay Prize! Worth doing - 1st prize is £1250 & in the 2024 competition, there were only 10 entries (though they were all high quality) ... for details of how to enter (by 1/3/25) see www.hakluyt.com/category/hak... & Good luck! ⚓🏆⚓🏆⚓🏆

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22 Feb 1643: Queen Henrietta Maria lands at Bridlington Bay #otd with arms for royalists, escorted to #York by the Duke of #Newcastle (NT Penrhyn/BM/NPG)

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22 Feb 1689: Samuel Pepys' last day at the Admiralty Office - one day before his 56th birthday #otd (NPG)

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Listen to @plymprivateer.bsky.social discuss how women engaged with the navy of the 1640s and '50s, from travelling as wives or refugees; providing supplies and services; and even disguising themselves as men to become crew members www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/podcast/wome...

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The Society is a membership organisation for professional historians. This includes historians in business, law, medical and other depts in Higher Education, as well as professional historians in sectors such as archives or heritage. For more on membership categories and joining us bit.ly/45lOzr0

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A visit to the National Maritime Museum with our 1st year history students @plymuni.bsky.social never disappoints- saw some fascinating archives, museum items and artworks #maritimehistory

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Look what I found in Greenwich

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On the @plymuni History field trip and lovely to have a chance to visit All Hollows by the Tower with its great 17th C and Maritime History -1644 note on the birth of William Penn son of Captain Penn and note on burial of William Laud

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The Uncharted movie is on @channel4.bsky.social tonight, the film where they think you can lift a wooden sailing ship with a helicopter. Trust us, that's not possible.

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You can here my ramblings on all things maritime and the Civil Wars here

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On the latest The World Turned Upside Down, Elaine Murphy traces the chronology of the English civil wars at sea, and how the period proved critically important in the evolution of Britain into a global naval power and the creation of the empire www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/podcast/crom...

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This is rather cool- the 3 volumes of The Letters, Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell are nominated for The Richard L. Greaves Prize 2025 by the International John Bunyan Society johnbunyansociety.org/2025/02/11/t...

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This years Christopher Durston Memorial Lecture hosted by the History Dept @plymuni.bsky.social will be by Prof Catherine Richardson from UEA who will be speaking about ‘Middling Culture’ in Early Modern England on 25 March at 19.00. AlFull details and sign up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/middling-cul…

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Final reminder - you only have until 5pm this evening to submit your abstract. Please do submit, we'd love to hear about your amazing research.

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A mother, Margaret Bursie, writes to the College of War in Sweden (1667) in Swedish asking that her son may leave his post to visit Scotland and learn about his heritage. She signs off in #Scots "god bles Ȝoūr Lordship & pray Ȝoūr Lordship pity [me]" #DailyDoc #17thC #EarlyModern #Linguistics

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Submissions are now open for the Irish Historical Studies First Book Prize 2024 - for an academic book on an Irish / Irish Diasporic historical subject published by an Irish resident in 2024 as their first scholarly book #IrishHistory. Closes 1 March. usihs36.com/2025/02/03/i...

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Calling all arts, humanities and social sciences early-career researchers! 📢 Applications are now open for a collections-based fellowship to explore sustainability and the environment through our collections. Apply by 7 January 2025: bit.ly/BLSustainabi...

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I’m reading extracts from the journal of the Rev Thomas Pocock chaplain of the Ranelagh in 1704 - he recounts how he and some others went on shore and 1 of them ‘was affronted by a butcher, upon which he dismounted and can’d him lustyly’ #navalhistory

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CFP - Women's History Association of Ireland 35th annual conf May 23-24, Carlow College St Patrick's Women's Experiences Matter: Women & Loss from the Medieval thru the Ages Deadline for submissions: Feb 7 More info: womenshistoryassociation.com/2025-whai-co...

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For the day that’s in it

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Hello again (even more) new followers! Lovely to see so many people joining and (I hope) interested in #earlymodern history. In the spirit of sharing more ideas and what I'm working on, here's a blog post about 'perishables' in the East India Company archives. blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/history-at-c...

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Some Fridays you just need a figurehead or two in your life

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In this post, Trill looks at Thornton's engagement with Eikon Basilike. #EarlyModern #HerBook

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🙌Funded PhD Opportunity!🙌 Please do share widely. The DCU School of History and Geography is currently advertising paid PhD opportunities esp in Medieval Ireland, the history of Irish towns and cities, legal history and women’s and gender history www.dcu.ie/historygeogr...

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#NavalHistory Registration is open for the Naval Dockyards Society 29th annual conference, 'Dockyard and Shipyard Support for the Battle of the Atlantic in the Second World War', Sat 5 April at the University of Greenwich's Maritime campus. navaldockyards.org/conferences/

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26 Jan 1661: Oliver Cromwell's body removed #otd from Westminster Abbey to behind an inn in #Holborn, then taken on to Tyburn for a ritual post-mortem execution.

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