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Akosua Paries-Osei unpacks the sexualisation of West African adolescence in early modern travel narratives, an aspect of Renaissance race-making with troubling longevity....
📣New blog Monday: check out the MMoR website today for @PariesOsei's blog on Adultification and Sexualisation of West African Girlhood in John Ogilby’s Africa (1670) bit.ly/3FKJwsZ @kingshistory
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The CFP for our closing conference 'Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, 1440-1833' is now live! Deadline for submissions is 14th February, and the conference takes place 15th-17th May 2025. Please share! tinyurl.com/4y9bee66 #earlymodern #histmed @kingshistory
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And here's the CFP weblink (compressed by 'X' in my first post): sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-well/…
Please share the CFP for: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Keynotes are Marcy Norton
@marcy_norton (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti
@saramiglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June
@TheJohnRylands Manchester. Further details: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...
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The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHoSTM) at King's College London invites applications for Hans Rausing Scholarships for MA and PhD studies in the history of science and technology. Deadline: 15th April, 2025. kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy/f…
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CEMS Conference! Rethinking State and Society in Early Modern Britain. Organised by Dr. Jonah Miller (@kingshistory).
December 17th 2024
Sign up: buytickets.at/centreforearly…
December 17th 2024
Sign up: buytickets.at/centreforearly…
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Register: history.ac.uk/events/women-b…
@ihr_history @LauraGowing @DrAlanaGHarris @carmenmangion @ClaireLanghamer @CornelieUsborne @ConorLucey70 @BeingKirst @ElizabethCBiggs @TheSAHGB
@ihr_history @LauraGowing @DrAlanaGHarris @carmenmangion @ClaireLanghamer @CornelieUsborne @ConorLucey70 @BeingKirst @ElizabethCBiggs @TheSAHGB
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Could not be more excited to see former @CemsKcl Jonathan Powell's work on fiction, law, and women's voices in print. The word groundbreaking gets overused, but for me this painstaking research and expansive conceptual innovation was truly revelatory doi.org/10.1093/res/hg…
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Today! Join us @ihr_history
All welcome to hear exciting new work by @DrJulieHardwick - @ihr_history London, and zoom, but come live if you can!
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📢ARTIST CALLOUT📢
For more information and details about how to apply:
buff.ly/47YhzYO
@exeterclio @UniOfExeterHASS @UniofExeterNews @LeverhulmeTrust @artsandculturex @CEMSexeter
For more information and details about how to apply:
buff.ly/47YhzYO
@exeterclio @UniOfExeterHASS @UniofExeterNews @LeverhulmeTrust @artsandculturex @CEMSexeter
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Laura Gowing retweeted
Journalists are meant to speak truth to power. That's our job. But what do you do when that power is your own news org?
This thread (professional suicide note?) is about @guardian & @ObserverUK's future. Because it turns out you can’t believe everything you read on a poster..
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This thread (professional suicide note?) is about @guardian & @ObserverUK's future. Because it turns out you can’t believe everything you read on a poster..
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We’ve opened the call for @BritishAcademy_ /@LeverhulmeTrust Senior Research Fellowships which give established scholars a year away from teaching and administration to complete a significant piece of research thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/ba-lev…
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New fixed-term job in King's CHOSTM/History! Lecturer in the History of Science and the Environment, 1800 - 2000. Further details: kcl.ac.uk/jobs/096146-le…
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All welcome to hear exciting new work by @DrJulieHardwick - @ihr_history London, and zoom, but come live if you can!
Register: history.ac.uk/events/enslave…
@ihr_history @LauraGowing @DrAlanaGHarris @carmenmangion @ClaireLanghamer @CornelieUsborne @DrJulieHardwick
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Laura Gowing retweeted
Come to my workshop on #materiality of #LetterWriting at UCL in November!
Check out the webpage for more:
Check out the webpage for more:
Workshop on visual and material aspects of letter-writing in early modern Britain
22 Nov 9am–4pm @UCL_IAS with @livesandletters
This workshop, organised by @samklai, is designed to boost research in epistolary materiality through knowledge exchange
ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a…
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Fully funded PhD in History! Do check this out. I'm lucky to have amazing History colleagues, & their expertise covers a wide range of topics & regions, from early modern to contemporary.
The History group is offering a funded PhD Studentship to work with any member(s) of the team. If you have an idea for a project please consider applying.
jobs.ac.uk/job/DJT631/phd…
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Laura Gowing retweeted
OK, who had "Sandi Toksvig officiating at the wedding of Bjorn from ABBA" on their bingo card this weekend?
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PUBLISHED: Natalie Zemon Davis’ critical autobiographical essay on politics, activism & the historian's craft & consciousness @HistoricalJnl @cambUP_History
👉🏾doi.org/10.1017/S00182…
It was a real honour to write the foreword.
I am deeply grateful & humbled.
👉🏾doi.org/10.1017/S00182…
It was a real honour to write the foreword.
I am deeply grateful & humbled.
📢Out now on #firstview!
'Experiencing Exclusion: Scholarship after Inquisition' by Natalie Zemon Davis and Stefan Hanß (@StefanHanss) (@UoMSALC)
#History #Politics #Activism #Academia
👉Read online here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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