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New on the London Review of Books blog: Project PI Jane Whittle and Research Fellow Harry Smith respond to The Ministry of Justice's consultation on the 'Storage and retention of original will documents' lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/febr…

Funded PhD opportunity with the wonderful Suzanna Ivanic 🇺🇦 I stand with Ukraine AND ME!!! Are you interested in craft, making, knowledge and belief? Do you know someone who could be? #earlymodern #twitterstorians please spread the word.... komldsp.org.uk/projects/craft…

Amazing questions and awesome vibes from the great @emmamerkling.bsky.social and Christine Slobogin! Can’t wait to listen to future episodes of the Drawing Blood Podcast and learn more about gender, history, art, and material culture!

We are back with a new series of blogs! First up is Ana Struillou's 'Connecting slavery and medicine across the Mediterranean: Isabel de la Cruz and berberisco healers in seventeenth-century Madrid', now live on our website here rb.gy/cv4jzk King's History Ana Struillou

Returning from #EHS2024 where we presented our paper "Exploring Women's Work in Early Modern Rural Italy: Insights from the Republic of Venice". A big thank you to everyone who attended, fellow session participants, and for the insightful comments.

17 April 6pm in Vienna: SCARCE @scarcerc research project kick-off. Presentations by scholars in preindustrial mining: Tina Asmussen tinasmussen.bsky.social, Sebastian Felten Sebastian Felten @sebastianfelten.bsky.social, Peter Konečný Peter Konecny. scarce.univie.ac.at/kick-off/ #extractivism #mininghistory #MedievalTwitter

A nourishing and refreshing feast! What a fantastic opportunity it was to discuss mineral resources with Sebastian Felten @sebastianfelten.bsky.social and his magnificent team! Thanks to tinasmussen.bsky.social and Peter Konečný for leading the way! Keep an eye out for @scarcerc and Vienna over the next 5 yrs 👀⚒️🌱

*So* excited for this week's colloquium jointly sponsored by @DependencyBonn & Gender & History on "Gendered Segregation and Gendering Segregation", organised by Julia Hillner, Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Lisa Hellman & myself: We have a fantastic line up! 🌟🥳 dependency.uni-bonn.de/en/events/gend…

A necessary and timely reading on campus protest and free speech👇🏻Huge thanks to ⁦⁦Amia Srinivasan⁩ for this! lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

New article! Guy Gelter offers a summary of #publichealth practices for #prendustrial #Europe, with a focus on rural #mining communities. Public #prophylactics included: nutrition, settlement #zoning, ventilation, protective wear, and piety. rosa.uniroma1.it/rosa01/medicin… #histmed

The premodern world held possibilities and imagined futures: the physical and metaphysical systems that were actively built and contested then continue to inform the world in the present. Read our statement on the value of Renaissance & Premodern Studies: rensoc.org.uk/statement-on-t…

Calling all Ren & early mod. historians working on mapping, drawing, administration - Davide Martino and I are organizing a panel, "Governing by design: administrative cartography in the early modern world" for #RSA2025 in Boston. Please apply by 07/28! rsa.org/forms/FormResp…

🚨Colloquium registration open🚨 Our 4-year Australian Research Council funded project focuses on Preindustrial Public Health across various groups around the world. This colloquium is a showcase of 2 years of hard work. Registration FREE: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

I am very excited to present my book, on October 21, with Pieter Judson and Lucy Riall in Vienna at the IHB_OeAW! Find all the details here ⤵️

Delighted to have received the hard copies of my monograph, based on my PhD dissertation! A rewarding journey from research to publication.

“It is likely that after this Nobel more young economists will follow Acemoglu [..] That’s good! More, please! Stop by the history department. Grab a book. But you gotta make sure you read the whole thing.” Thanks ⁦Brendan Greeley⁩ ⁦via ⁦Financial Times⁩ ft.com/content/1e2584…

Fashionably late in reporting that on July 1st I joined the Department of Social and Economic History Universität Wien with a FWF grant. Very happy to work w/ smart and wonderful colleagues! Today’s office view felt like the perfect occasion to share the news! 🍁🍂

🚨Job Klaxon🚨 1 PhD position for 3 years a the German Mining Museum Bochum in the interdisciplinary DFG/AHRC funded project "Toxic Heritage: Socio-natural Landscapes of Extraction and Pollution in the Harz and Cornwall". More details: karriere.bergbaumuseum.de/jobposting/26b…. Please share!

Thrilled to see this out in Isis Journal! It tells the (timely) story of the #knowledge hierarchies embedded in #mineral exploration by examining the interplay between #books, #experts, and untrained #officials in #Renaissance #Tuscany. More here 👇 shorturl.at/8p7rG