Have really enjoyed reading this collection over the past week or so, which incidentally includes a chapter on Hortense Mancini (not by me btw). Congratulations to the editors and authors 🎉🎉

We have now secured some funds from 18th Century Studies to provide a small number of bursaries to help PGRs and ECRs participate in this event! Send your proposals to [email protected] by 1 June 2024!

Please see this very interesting CfP: New Directions in c18 Travel Writing, edited by Zoe Kinsley, in 'Humanities'. Proposals by the end of the month, articles due by end of October. Bring your most innovative and unconventional projects, this is a great opportunity for those.

This Wednesday I will be giving an online talk about the urban context of #PortraitsofEmpires . How did different types of album owners experience, engage with, and imagine Constantinople? City views, monuments, and drinking parties on the Bosphorus are all on the menu :)

Buzzing to have won this year's Hakluyt Society essay prize!
I've long been fascinated by the Northwest Passage, so this was a great excuse to pair that up with a close analysis of shipboard relationships on long-distance voyages (and concepts of mutiny!).

Flying visit to Helsinki Uni today (lecturing on the varieties of Cultural History). The Library has puzzles for students these days.

'Oh, Wee only permitt younge Henry 30 minutes of folio time everie daye for it corrupts ye minde.'

#IStandWithNadera Queen Mary Palestine Solidarity

@QMUL, I found the pretty location on campus but you’re not looking pretty in your silence about the treatment of our colleague. (As reported in The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…)

🚨New #ArtsWeek Event Alert! 🚨

Anthony Bale, author of A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, and Eva Holmberg, author of Writing Mobile Lives, 1500-1700, will discuss the opportunities and challenges of writing about travel in the past - bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_…

We - and our democracy - need arts and humanities, says The British Academy Julia Black, to 'understand people, the world and – combined with science subjects – tackle the greatest issues of our time.' And universities need a regulator to help protect them.

Had an amazing opening session of my #Microhistories module yesterday at School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck! We spent most of it trying to figure out what a 'microhistory' actually is. Is it just about scale or is it also about the historian's use of creativity and self-reflection?

Iiiiiiiiiit's pub day!! Excited to see The Waiting Game out in the world!