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Deborah Steinberger's book 'Women’s Stories in Le Mercure Galant (1672-1710)' attends to how a newspaper not only validated the private struggles of women but also used "women’s fiction" to spread modern ideas about women's agency. Read a free preview ➡️aup.nl/en/book/978946…

We have a PROGRAMME!!! Would you look at that exciting range of topics! What a thrilling autumn. Everybody very welcome to join in person Institute of Historical Research, or sign up to get the Zoom link. history.ac.uk/seminars/europ… #earlymodern #twitterstorians #earlymodernevents #EMLondon

We are very excited to be welcoming Julie Hardwick/[email protected] to KCL in two weeks' time! Julie will be joining us for a small workshop on Slavery and Intimate Violence in Early Modern Europe. Check out our website for more details tinyurl.com/57vyz3ke

another one for the palaeography hivemind, this time english... "W Gastineau [?????] 4 Br[eck]nock Terrace

I’m delighted that my first article has finally been published in The Historical Journal 🌸 This research started during Covid when I spotted some unusually flowery references in a fashion merchant’s bills at the Bibliothèque de l'INHA. It’s blossomed into my whole PhD topic! bit.ly/4duBK1R

I'm on BBC Radio 4's The Long View at 9am tomorrow morning, talking to Jonathan Freedland and guests Tom Symonds & Madeleine Sumption about small boats and cross-channel migration from the sixteenth century to the present day. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…

Call for Papers: Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges. Conference to be held @uniofexeter in June 2025. Submissions due November 29, 2024. ow.ly/Majx50Tt51z #RenTwitter #earlymodern

First day of a new job/project, & I'm finally going back to this gorgeous manuscript by Esther Inglis to think about Huguenot women's material culture & gift-giving practices ✒️ . Obsessed with Inglis' peaked hat...

Wonderful evening at LambethPalaceLibrary last night hearing Philippa Tudor talk about the Huguenot collections. Personal favourite was a list of donors to Huguenot refugees including a blacksmith who gave four pence. (One picture has gone technicolour which sums up the vivacity of the talk!)

The Migration Museum is hiring a Collections Researcher! Join us in developing a ‘dispersed collection’ around migration themes as we prepare for our new permanent home ✨ This is an outstanding opportunity for a researcher with significant experience working with museum

🚨🏴‍☠️ CFP for the Problem of Piracy IV at University of Exeter on 19-20 June 2025. Papers welcome on any aspect of piracy or maritime predation occurring across the world from the ancient to the modern. Proposal deadline: 20 December 2024 Proposal form: forms.gle/2AucShDqT5vHK5… 🏴‍☠️🚨

Scottish Poetry Reprint 12, Jamie Reid Baxter's essay on Esther Inglis's Octonaries, with the first printed text co-ed with Georgianna Ziegler, is now out, ahead of Oct 19-20 conference Esther Inglis 2024 Centre for Research Collections amazon.com/dp/B0DJGHD4F3/

We are delighted to announce our first annual Translation Prize! Details below; see semfs.org.uk/translation-pr… to copy-paste the text. Deadline 15th November for the £300 prize!

Helena Taylor, Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France. Oxford University Press, 2024. Congrats to both authors!!

Want to know more about sex in the eighteenth-century metropolis? Of course you do! Luckily Julie Peakman is giving an online talk about Libertine London this Wednesday 9 Oct at 6pm. See you there! foundlingmuseum.org.uk/event/libertin…

Two weeks ago, I was barred from bringing my child to an academic conference networking event and dinner. So I did what any self-respecting academic would do and wrote about it. Grateful to Times Higher Education for the opportunity to engage in this impt debate. timeshighereducation.com/opinion/what-p…

how's this for research impact? last november, I began research into a pair of shoe buckles in the collection - now, that work forms part of a brand new activity Brunel Museum allowing visitors to explore social class in 19C England through dress history thebrunelmuseum.com/events/event/t…

Merci à la radio belge et à Laurent Dehossay d'avoir pris le temps de discuter de la galanterie dans l'émission "Un jour dans l'histoire" pour donner une profondeur de champ à cette notion: auvio.rtbf.be/media/un-jour-…

Got to see this gorgeous painting of the Mancini sitters undertaking a palm reading today. It’s currently in storage but hopefully a candidate for display in the near future 🔮

More Good News! The winner of SSEMWG's 2024 Essay/Article Award goes to: Cathy McClive and Lisa Smith, “Women at the Center: Medical Entrepreneurialism and ‘La grande médecine’ in Eighteenth-Century Lyon.” French History 38 (2024): 1-27.