Cartas de amor, composiciones musicales... Retazos de historias mínimas que salen a la luz gracias a Prize Papers Project . Muchas ya digitalizadas en prizepapers.de. Comenzando la colaboración con Universidad CEU San Pablo

Esta semana hemos podido conocer más de cerca el Prize Papers Project. Se abren inmensas posibilidades de colaboración y un campo muy atractivo para nuestros investigadores

Muchas gracias a la Cátedra Cátedra Internacional CEU Elcano de Historia y Cultura Naval por la visita a esta embajada Embassy of Spain UK Spain Culture & Science UK para colaborar en el gran proyecto académico de los papeles de presa Prize Papers Project

This week we hosted a Spanish delegation from Cátedra Internacional CEU Elcano Museo Naval to discuss potential avenues of cooperation with the Prize Papers Project Project The National Archives and at the University of Oldenburg. We are thankful for the fruitful discussions and look forward to the next steps

Presenting our teaching and research projects on slavery based on Prize Papers Project Akademienunion at global.rice.edu/pariscenter

Gabrielle Robilliard and myself Dagmar Freist @[email protected] represented the Prize Papers Project at this highly interesting and important conference on Hidden Archives of Capitalism and Slavery in the Indian Ocean
State, Business, Personal Collections at Rice Global Center Paris. Thank you Daniel Domingues

Yesterday, we visited the 'Prize Papers plant' Kew Gardens, grown from 203-year-old seeds once found in an 1803 wallet in the Prize Papers Project. Absolutely amazing that the seeds were still germinating after all these years. Find out more:
kew.org/read-and-watch…

BIG NEWS! Our book Letterlocking is with our awesome colleagues at MIT Press The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social and will be published on 19 November! From 17-19 April, you can get 25% off preorders through Barnes & Noble Barnes & Noble using this code: PREORDER25. Here’s the link: barnesandnoble.com/w/letterlockin…

Archival shouting — Karin Wulf, director and librarian of the John Carter Brown Library and Professor of History, penned this feature for American Historical Association's newsmagazine on 'archival silence' and 'archival shouting' in collections and institutions. historians.org/research-and-p…

Read the fascinating article by our French colleague Myriam BMaguire, Associate Professor of Linguistics Université Sorbonne Nouvelle about her project on 1000 French letters found in the Prize Papers Project The National Archives

En cette #JournéeDeLaFrancophonie , plongeons dans une analyse inédite de 1000 lettres privées (Prize Papers Project) qui nous renseigne sur la #variation diaphasique & diatopique du #français des 17–18e s. Par Myriam Bergeron-Maguire Département Lettres Sorbonne Nouvelle:

🔗 degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

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Tickets for the 25 June training session on High Court of Admiralty records are live! Come along and learn how to navigate this little-used collection of material that covers early modern seafaring, colonialism, trade, atlantic slavery, prize and piracy. eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-records…

Listen to our #podcast interview with Prize Papers Project imaging operator Maria Cardamone (@maria_kardamoon) to find out more about their fascinating approach to capturing the materiality of the finds📸✉️

Tune in here or via your favourite streaming platform:

ghil.ac.uk/publications/p…

We've recently been looking into some intriguing materials from the Faroe Islands in the Prize Papers. The thread below covers some of our unexpected finds – more to come on this later in the year!

A great team effort, a wonderful, moving event with our guests from the Faroe Islands and one of the most amazing finds ever discovered in the Prize Papers. Check out our thread about this amazing collection.