How did Ottoman Muslims finance trade with Western Europe in the early modern period? In my new article, I illustrate the little-known role of Islamic trusts (cash-waqfs) in providing credit to 16th-century Sarajevo merchants trading with Venice. brill.com/view/journals/…

Postdoc position available at the University of Copenhagen: "Radical Pietism in Northern Europe: Social Protest on the Verge of Modernity, 1690-1750" See more: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige… #Twitterstorians #EarlyModern

1/ Trevor was 1 of our oldest friends. He had "a remarkable talent for friendship" as this lovely obit says. I told him this spring that cheerful outreach shaped our lives - he showed my spouse around as a prospective student of Jack Greene at JHU in 1985 theguardian.com/books/2024/aug…

'Peonies' by Japanese painter Kiyohara Yukinobu (1643-1682) #WomensArt

🌊🌍 It's publication day! ⛵️⛴️ profilebooks.com/work/tracks-on… Profile Books

And it's LIVE!!! With our new Swatch Search, you can explore our collection of #textiles swatches (and a few larger items), either by historic textile name (if they were labeled) or by attributes like color, pattern, process, weave structure, and fiber. dutchtextiletrade.org/projects/swatc…

Historians love to say they are “taking [topic x] seriously.” I’d read a take on the virtues of “taking [topic x] unseriously” i.e. what do we habitually assume is more important than it is.

Extremely random: does anyone know how I could calculate how long it took to get to places by carriage in the 17th century? Specifically, I'm interested in how long it would take to get from St Albans to St James by the Marlboroughs in the 1690s...

Excited to share the final programme for the 'Catholicism in Transit: Exploring Mobility and Exchange in the Early Modern World' workshop! An excellent line up of speakers from around the world. Please share with anyone who might be interested!

Who needs money and job security when you can receive a periodic wellness email reminding you to stretch

It was my pleasure to review John McAleer's book! A valuable contribution to maritime/social history and the history of travel, offering lots of food for thought for future work on the EIC.

📚 Excited to share my first book: 'On the Backs of Others.' It examines the people and animals that made explorers' journeys possible. Get 30% off with the link below! 👇 combinedacademic.co.uk/notify-me-when… #History #Exploration #OnTheBacksOfOthers #Discount

So delighted to see my book's first review in print! Thank you, Lenny Hodges, for a lovely, thoughtful engagement with the book!

Don't forget the heretics. A humble tribute to the heterodox economics #hetecon community whose role in the fight against the high priests of economics must be acknowledged. Letter: Future will be shaped by the heresies of heterodox economics - on.ft.com/4gd1suh via Financial Times

Warming up for next week, with INU Champollion, Laboratoire Framespa, Institut universitaire de France (IUF), Paul Duvivier, Sylvain Lloret, Costanza Lugnani, and more!

Read my review of ' May We be Spared to Meet on Earth: Letters of the Lost Franklin Arctic Expedition' edited by Russell Potter et al. in the 'International Journal of Maritime History.' It's a great book! doi.org/10.1177/084387…

C’est un livre commencé en novembre 2015. Neuf années d’enquête, de doutes et de travail. Survivre sort aujourd’hui en librairie : j’y parle de la vie en condition d’incertitude radicale, quand on ne peut plus se fier ni aux gens, ni aux choses, ni à l’espace, ni à la langue.

academia is so brutal to ECRs. my current job ends this month & my email is vanishing that same day, which is causing havoc with the journal portals where Ive got articles submitted / accepted / in production. mayb Im naive, but is it rlly that hard to give us a few months grace?