The prize appeals also cover the transatlantic slave trade. The American ship New Adventure carried 97 enslaved people from Gorée, Senegal to Havana in 1798. It was captured by a British privateer en route and the enslaved people carried to the Bahamas, to be sold as prize /1

Very happy that my article 'Quaker Outcasts and the Creation of Missionary Anglicanism' is now available online in the English Historical Review! Have a read if you are interested in early modern religious networks, Quakerism, entangled history, liminality and/or missionary work.

The Economic History Society is looking for PG students with an interest in econ/social history to serve as Student Ambassadors. This is a great opportunity to represent the EHS & be involved in an international student community. More info: ehs.org.uk/society/studen…

📢 Our next Institute of Historical Research seminar of term will run online on Thursday 24 March. Join us for a wonderful discussion on credit in the Ottoman Empire and Saint-Domingue. Register at the link below! history.ac.uk/events/credit-…

What Can Tunisian History Teach Us About the #OttomanEmpire? Date: Friday, April 1 Time: 12:00 - 2:00 pm Organizer: Sakip Sabanci Center for Turkish Studies & Columbia Global Centers | Istanbul

📢 Last chance to sign up for our Institute of Historical Research seminar on Thursday! Join us for a discussion of "Credit, Risk and Uncertainty". ❗️Registration closes Wednesday at 16:30! Register at the link in the tweet below - all welcome!

Book Launch "The Power of Persuasion. Becoming a Merchant in the 18th Century", Dr Lucas Haasis Prize Papers Project 📚 transcript Verlag 📆28 March 1pm 📯Register below #PrizePapers #letterarchive #microhistory #earlymodern #timecapsules #twitterstorians

In her new book, Helen Pfeifer @krel7 explores the scholarly careers of Arabophone scholars of Mamluk lands following the Ottoman conquest in 1517. The gentlemanly salons played a key role in negotiating Syria and Egypt’s integration into the empire. 👇 ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2022/03/salons…

This account of pirates recruiting in Newport, Rhode Island in the 1690s shows Red Sea piracy as a get-rich-quick-scheme shilled to colonists. After pirates arrived in 1694, rumours were 'that they were bound to go to the Red seas where the money was plenty as stones and sand' /1

¡Ayer recibí las copias de autor de A Dissimulated Trade! Ha sido un verdadero placer trabajar con Brill History en la serie The Atlantic World. I'm very grateful to the editors and reviewers at Brill, and to the many colleagues who have contributed to this work!

Drawing on a range of Arabic and Ottoman Turkish sources, Empire of Salons by @krel7 illustrates the extent to which magnificent gatherings of Ottoman gentlemen contributed to the culture and governance of empire. Get your copy today: hubs.ly/Q017zKZg0 #twitterstorians

Congratulations @WadeHistory! Great to have you join a very fine group of worthy winners of our Doctoral Prize. 🏆maritimehistory.org.uk/prizes-and-fel…

Our next Institute of Historical Research seminar of term will run online on Thursday 19 May. Join us for a wonderful discussion on institutions, ranging from medieval craft guilds to risk transfer in medieval contracts. Register at the link below! history.ac.uk/events/institu…

Gary Richardson, an excellent reference on craft guilds and neo-institutional economics

📢 Last chance to sign up for our Institute of Historical Research seminar on Thursday! Join us for a discussion of "Institutions, Risk and Uncertainty". ❗️Registration closes Wednesday at 16:30! Register at the link in the tweet below - all welcome!

🥳 To finish our Institute of Historical Research seminar series, we are delighted to be hosting Maria Fusaro (Exeter) for a lecture entitled "Historical Analysis and Sustainable Development: The Role of Averages in the Past and in the Future". Register at the link below! history.ac.uk/events/histori…

Last chance to sign up for our final Institute of Historical Research seminar on Thursday! Join us to hear Maria Fusaro (Exeter) speaking on sustainable economic development in the past and in the future. ❗️Registration closes Wednesday at 16:30! Register at the link below - all welcome!

Are you interested in mariners' letters? Sailors, captains, life at sea, maritime labour or simply how people wrote letters while defying the sea? Join us for our online workshop on 14-15 July, 2-6 pm, online, organized with MarineLives Register: /1 eventbrite.com/e/mariner-lett…