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

New GLOBALISE newsletter out! In this issue announcements of two new blog posts about the development of our #thesaurus, a 📅 seminar, and new #datasets. We also share a call for interns and job openings for PhD students in a #slavery history project. huygens.email-provider.eu/web/2i18x2fcku…

6/6: That name - 'Dog's Nose' was familiar - and then I realised why: last year I used Ebenezer Church's pattern sheet to write a list poem of clay pipe names, as below - and Dog's Nose is there, starting the third verse!

A rare, for our corpus, but rich example of letter-sharing. What say others? Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence Online (EMCO) Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers Early Modern Letters 'I cannot express how we all rejoiced when it appeared every one taking a peep & impatient till the other had perused it.' A. Robertson to daughter, 1803

In our first ever blog post, I wrote about indirect medical involvement in the slave trade. In our latest, I'm writing about the direct opposite: medical expertise constructed in the crucible of the middle passage, and the social authority its surgeons claim as their due...

I played “Publish or Perish” last night with my lab. It was a blast—it pokes fun at a lot of absurdities of academia. A perfect 👍 game for a lab party! You try to gain as many citations as possible while publishing papers, sabotaging your highly cited peers, and making snarky

Achtung Neuerscheinung! Ende diesen Monats wird mit dem Tagungsband zu Frühneuzeitlichen Schularchitekturen die erste interdisziplinäre und vergleichende Studie zur Thematik überhaupt veröffentlicht. #earlymodernSchoolarchitecture #neuerscheinung

Last week I spoke about materiality approaches in Prize Papers Project at a great workshop on DH methods for exploring Moravian botanical networks organised by the BMBF project Naturforschung und protestantische Mission at TU Dresden and Uni Halle: tu-dresden.de/mn/biologie/bo… #botany

Das Thema Frühneuzeitlicher Schularchitekturen ist ein interdisziplinäres und internationales. Einen ersten Aufschlag dazu bietet der neue Tagungsband in der Reihe der Halleschen Forschungen. Er erscheint Ende diesen Monats.

Far from being stable entities, many written artefacts evolve over time, acquiring #layers. A new #OccasionalPaper takes an analytical perspective on these ‘multilayered’ artefacts and offers helpful terminological distinctions. #OpenAccess csmc.uni-hamburg.de/publications/o…

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…

Du 1er octobre au 2 novembre, le projet CORBAN présente l’exposition "Lettres de la mer, Le Pays basque et le nouveau monde au XVIIIe siècle", au sein du CIAP les Récollets-Errekoletoak. Nous avons soutenu cette exposition et recommandons vivement sa visite.

Elon Musk Actually Elon, a great many people are mistaken in this belief. The trans-Atlantic system of slavery, dominated by Britons for most of the C18, was unprecedented in its scale, its commercial nature, its demographic effects, its effects in instituting racism, and its catalysing

"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen." — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Over the next two days, we will explore a cultural technique that lies at the heart of producing and disseminating written artefacts. Join us online for our two-day workshop on ‘Learning to Write’: uhh.de/csmc-learning-…

📢 CfP | Fifteenth Annual REFORC Conference on #EarlyModern Christianity 🗓️ May 19–21, 2026 | 🏛️University of Wrocław 🔍Theme: Early Modern Christian Materiality ⏰Deadline: Feb 15, 2026 🔗 More info: reforc.com/events/fifteen…