Myself, Dr Edmond Smith and Andrew James look at the history and fallacious thinking behind the UK's 'science and technology superpower' rhetoric in light of geopolitics in this comment piece for RUSI
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Beautiful day in Manchester with History Department students and Dr Edmond Smith looking at historic textiles under the microscope the Whitworth to understand responses to globalisation.

Really excited that my first trade book will be coming out this year with The History Press - Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Pirates. You can preorder a copy here: lnk.to/enemiesofallEM

On Thursday (4-5pm) I'm running the first of a series of online workshops on economic cultures. Each session will bring together academic research with business practitioners to think about what shapes our behaviour and how we make decisions.

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News Post: The Department of History at the University of Manchester invites applications for a Research Associate in Early Modern Global History (Trade Diaspora Focus) to work with Dr Edmond Smith on the ERC-selected, UKRI-funded project INTRECCI.

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If you want some distraction from royal conspiracies and zooming on royal pictures, my article is out on the latest issue of The Historical Journal!

Job Klaxon!!! 12 permanent jobs in the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London.
A full dozen jobs, so do read down the whole list to find something of interest and share widely in your networks.
Digital Humanities 🐘 @[email protected] King's Arts & Humanities #digitalhumanities
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Such a thrill that this is now in the wild! It’s been a delight, as ever, working with Dr Sophie H Jones and I’m hugely grateful to Arts and Humanities Research Council, the The British Academy and @BrillPublishing for their support 🌼📚🥂

So great to see this now in print! Such an honour to have worked with Liverpool University Press. The final product benefited immensely from their input, plus that of thesis supervisors Will Ashworth, Siobhan Talbott and Aashish Velkar.

Already received several interesting abstracts for the workshop ‘The Connected World: New Perspectives in Global Economic History.’ Do keep them coming! Thank you to those who have submitted, we will respond shortly after the submission deadline. Details ⬇️

The brilliant Lisa Hellman is looking for a researcher to join her at Lund University to work on her great 'Moved Apart' project about global mobility, agency and emotions. Korean or Japanese language skills required.

Details here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo…

I'm very much looking forward to taking part in this event in June. The global focus and linkages across different approaches to economic and industrial development should make it very interesting. CFP still open until the end of Feb.

JOB ALERT: a 3.5 year postdoctoral position to join the 'Communicating the Law in Europe, 1500-1750' project at University of St Andrews St Andrews History. Deadline for applications 13 February, starting date Sep '24. Full details: vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/45…

FUNDED PHD: Four years of AHRC funding for a project on the suppression of the underground press in Restoration England, in collaboration with the Stationers' Company. Please pass on to any interested MA students or grads.
jobs.ac.uk/job/DEW494/ahr…