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650 years ago today on #StGeorgesDay the poet Geoffrey Chaucer was given a rather unusual royal gift, a daily allowance of a pitcher (roughly a gallon) of wine... The original letters patent for the grant are on display The National Archives until the end of the month

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

Job opportunity! We are looking for no less than 3 PhD candidates investigating histories of enslavement, slavery and racialization through early modern court records from across the early modern European colonial (French, Portuguese and Spanish empires)👇iisg.amsterdam/en/blog/3-phd-…

38,000 documents. 3 centuries. 1 project. Find out more about how the Dutch Prize Papers project is digitising their collection in this Success Story 👇 eu1.hubs.ly/H09fd-M0 Huygens Instituut - KNAW

We are excited to introduce you to our Prize Papers Opera project in collaboration with composer Jobina Tinnemans, bringing silent ink and paper letters back to life. Follow the opera from sketchbook to stage @jobinatinnemans #prizepapersopera Info: prizepapers.de/prize-papers-o…

We have an exciting one-year post at The National Archives for an 18th century researcher to shape our public engagement programme in the lead up to the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. Please share and get in touch if you have questions! civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?j…

Today is Emancipation Day. It marks the date in August 1834 that slavery was officially abolished throughout the British Empire, when the Slavery Abolition Act 1833 came into force. (1/12)

Book now to hear William Dalrymple discuss his new publication, The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World, just a week after its UK release. 📍 Online - Friday, 20 September 2024, 14:00 BST eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-golden-r…

I’m pleased to share that I have a new peer-reviewed article out now, with the Journal of History about Chesapeake Algonquian nations shaping moral insecurity to colonization in the Virginia Company (1606-1624). Please reach out if you need access. utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.313…

Exciting news! We're advertising for a fully funded doctoral studentship at the University of Oxford and The National Archives to work on Chaucer's thameside life and poetry. Supervised by me and Prof Marion Turner. Details below, please share widely! oocdtp.web.ox.ac.uk/ox-cda-turner-…

🚨 Big news! 🚨 We are thrilled to announce we have won £1.3m from UK Research and Innovation to upgrade our conservation lab facilities and create a centre of excellence for heritage science. But what is heritage science at The National Archives? And why is it important? A thread 🧵 (1/7)

The Prize Papers Talks are back! The Online Lecture Series of the Prize Papers Project. We are happy to invite you to join us during our first talk by Prof. Rebecca Earle on Monday, 1-2 pm CET: The World of Jacob de Pinna, Notary and Culture-Broker. eventbrite.com/e/1067307006989

🌊 Trade, Loot and Letters - a new episode of our podcast 'On The Record' is now out! The first of a 3-part series exploring 'The Prize Papers', offering fascinating insights into global trade, warfare, and people's lives in the Age of Sail. Listen here: pod.link/1460242815/epi…

Our podcast mini-series continues, exploring the scientific techniques & conservation skills needed to assess 4,000 boxes of letters, papers & artefacts from ships captured by the British, 1652 - 1815 Secrets of the Prize Papers: The Science of History 🎧 pod.link/1460242815

We are holding another workshop on High Court of Admiralty records at The National Archives! A full day on 19 June - tickets below. Come along and learn how to find records for the histories of overseas exchange, colonialism and seafaring c.1500-c,1850 eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-records…

Documents bearing witness to the lives of enslaved people in Aruba are now recognized by UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register. These documents are preserved at Aruba's National Archives & National Library, and are accessible at the Internet Archive. Learn more: