English officials in 1699 worried that Captain Kidd was headed to Darien - TNA CO 152/3, f.111 - useful to consider in the wider context of English fears that France would link trade from the Caribbean-Atlantic to the Pacific also via Panama

Congratulations to the Hakluyt Society Essay Prize winner 2024 Graham Moore & with honourable mentions awarded to Helen Hawken & Samuel Cheney 👏👏👏

I'll be in Florence speaking about a Jacobite plan to reform the Spanish Empire in the 1740s!

Great to be at #JSTFlorence2024 this weekend! The best people and the best subject #Jacobites

🌍Are you a global historian who happens to be based in Scotland? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Come join the burgeoning Scottish Global History Network! 🌎 In Sept, we're hosting a capacity building event Department of Humanities, Uni Strathclyde focused on roundtables & showcasing panels. CFP below! Feel free to DM any questions 🌏.

For anyone interested in the exiled Stuart court after James VIII/III’s death, see my new co-authored article, ‘The Stuarts in Italy, 1766–1807: A Court in Perpetual Pretence’. Find out what happened to his sons, Charles and Henry Stuart. #Jacobite #Stuart tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Pleased to share that my 1st peer-reviewed article, “Contra ius gentium,” is out now Global Intellectual History and features a wide cast of characters arguing about sovereignty and piracy, including pirates, monarchs, merchants, jurists, + more in global contexts. Link: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Putting the finishing touches to a talk I'll be giving as part of a panel with Raúl Alencar titled 'Diásporas, migraciones y conexiones marítimas: los extranjeros en el Perú colonial'. It'll be hosted by the Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos on 19th September!

Pls RT: Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2025 for essays by ECRs in humanities/social sciences on history of travel, exploration & cultural encounter, their effects, or critically engage with the Society's work. 1st prize £1250, 2nd prize £250; deadline 1/3/25 hakluyt.com/hakluyt-societ…

Proofs of my next book went off to the printers - due this autumn. The English version - GLOBAL MONARCHY: ROYAL ENCOUNTERS IN THE IMPERIAL AGE - will be published later next year.

Thoroughly recommend - I had some really valuable feedback from the panel and am looking forward to publishing next year!

In the Jamaica Archives inventories and came across a tailor/haberdasher named Sobieski Strachan who died in 1741 in Kingston (1B/11/3/22, f.10) - currently struggling to think if there’s any other explanation for her name than familial Jacobitism?

This has been a long time in coming and great to see the listing up on Edinburgh University Press for a summer release. Dr. Leith Davis and Kevin have put a ton of hard work corralling all of these great essays from our conference in 2022. Really thankful to be included! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shaping-j…

It's always a pleasure to announce the release of a new JST #JacobiteStudies Virtual Workshop Series programme, & our Spring 2025 roster is no exception. We'll be kicking things off on 11 Mar with a keynote from the inimitable Dr Kelsey Jackson Williams. jdb1745.net/events/jstwork…

New #cfp from the The Journal of Transcultural Studies for a special issue on “Transcultural Histories of Monarchy” - abstracts to be sent to [email protected] by 1st Sept! The essays will explore the ways in which monarchies incorporate “the foreign” into the familiar.

The time is nigh! Another fab programme for the JST Virtual Workshop is up and ready to kick off on Tuesday, 2 Sept. Following the keynote launch, we'll have fortnightly sessions on different aspects of #JacobiteStudies from a wide range of contributors. jdb1745.net/events/jstwork…

A double bill of essay proofs!