Who was smuggling in 18th century Britain? My refreshed database for prosecutions for smuggling in England and Wales c. 1721-1732 is live with over 4,000 entries. From naval officers to farmers, smuggling was big business. #twitterstorians #earlymod #history
www.davidchansmith.net/smugglingdat...
www.davidchansmith.net/smugglingdat...
Smuggling Database | davidchansmith
www.davidchansmith.net
March 6, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Who was smuggling in 18th century Britain? My refreshed database for prosecutions for smuggling in England and Wales c. 1721-1732 is live with over 4,000 entries. From naval officers to farmers, smuggling was big business. #twitterstorians #earlymod #history
www.davidchansmith.net/smugglingdat...
www.davidchansmith.net/smugglingdat...
The final records of the database of smuggling prosecutions in 1720s Britain are now uploaded in the Dark Markets Observatory. Discover who was smuggling, what happened to them, and sometimes why - criminal gangs, international networks, the wild world of #18thc #smuggling 🗃️ #history #earlymod
Smuggling Database | davidchansmith
www.davidchansmith.net
November 10, 2023 at 3:21 AM
The final records of the database of smuggling prosecutions in 1720s Britain are now uploaded in the Dark Markets Observatory. Discover who was smuggling, what happened to them, and sometimes why - criminal gangs, international networks, the wild world of #18thc #smuggling 🗃️ #history #earlymod
I’ve been enjoying watching the @aljazeera.com Al Jazeera Untangles series the “Colonizer’s Academy” and am honored to feature in their episode on the Portuguese empire, alongside several others, including dear friend @lbrockey.bsky.social
youtu.be/6ukRESgQUpo?...
#earlymod #skystorians
youtu.be/6ukRESgQUpo?...
#earlymod #skystorians
The Portuguese Empire’s formula: Slave trade, faith and ports | Al Jazeera Untangles
YouTube video by Al Jazeera English
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January 15, 2026 at 12:36 PM
I’ve been enjoying watching the @aljazeera.com Al Jazeera Untangles series the “Colonizer’s Academy” and am honored to feature in their episode on the Portuguese empire, alongside several others, including dear friend @lbrockey.bsky.social
youtu.be/6ukRESgQUpo?...
#earlymod #skystorians
youtu.be/6ukRESgQUpo?...
#earlymod #skystorians
#earlymod #histsci exhibition opens at the Winterthur in Delaware! @book-historia.bsky.social's first one here. 😀
I haven’t had time to talk about this because I’ve been so busy working on it, but my FIRST Winterthur exhibition goes in tomorrow!!! “That Pleasing Art: Color in Theory & Practice” highlights library items that tell the story of the science and magic of the rainbow 🌈
September 17, 2024 at 12:46 PM
#earlymod #histsci exhibition opens at the Winterthur in Delaware! @book-historia.bsky.social's first one here. 😀
It's publication day!
Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge & Practice, c.1600-1800 by me, Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin & Noah Moxham
Decent discount online now (or your library may subscribe to Bloomsbury Publishing) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli...
#histSTM 🗃️📜 #earlymod
Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge & Practice, c.1600-1800 by me, Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin & Noah Moxham
Decent discount online now (or your library may subscribe to Bloomsbury Publishing) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli...
#histSTM 🗃️📜 #earlymod
Metropolitan Science
Exploring distinctive practices in the artisanal, mercantile, and governmental sites of London, Metropolitan Science offers a new perspective on the development…
www.bloomsbury.com
September 19, 2024 at 11:19 AM
It's publication day!
Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge & Practice, c.1600-1800 by me, Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin & Noah Moxham
Decent discount online now (or your library may subscribe to Bloomsbury Publishing) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli...
#histSTM 🗃️📜 #earlymod
Metropolitan Science: London Sites & Cultures of Knowledge & Practice, c.1600-1800 by me, Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin & Noah Moxham
Decent discount online now (or your library may subscribe to Bloomsbury Publishing) www.bloomsbury.com/uk/metropoli...
#histSTM 🗃️📜 #earlymod
We earlymod econhis types have a program for this term at the @ihr.bsky.social 😀 www.history.ac.uk/seminars/eco...
Economic and Social History of the Early Modern World
www.history.ac.uk
May 2, 2025 at 4:54 PM
We earlymod econhis types have a program for this term at the @ihr.bsky.social 😀 www.history.ac.uk/seminars/eco...
Ah - that's why the new follows! (Be warned: I am also sometimes #earlymod)
I've started a starter pack for academics and organizations focused on the #19th century! I'm sure I have missed many, many people (I was trying to get this started quickly) — comment below if you want to be added.
go.bsky.app/6ZkJ592
go.bsky.app/6ZkJ592
November 8, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Ah - that's why the new follows! (Be warned: I am also sometimes #earlymod)
This summer, our Research Colloquium in Early Modern Gender and Cultural History (FU Berlin) dives into Ottoman ornament in Maltese prisons, ruins as textual landscapes, and emotions in the Baltic Crusades.
Want to join the mailing list? Email me: l.wodzicki(at)fu-berlin.de 📨 #Skystorians #earlymod
Want to join the mailing list? Email me: l.wodzicki(at)fu-berlin.de 📨 #Skystorians #earlymod
April 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
This summer, our Research Colloquium in Early Modern Gender and Cultural History (FU Berlin) dives into Ottoman ornament in Maltese prisons, ruins as textual landscapes, and emotions in the Baltic Crusades.
Want to join the mailing list? Email me: l.wodzicki(at)fu-berlin.de 📨 #Skystorians #earlymod
Want to join the mailing list? Email me: l.wodzicki(at)fu-berlin.de 📨 #Skystorians #earlymod
The Arctic cisco, an ice-loving fish of Siberia, Alaska, Canada... and Ireland?! 🐟❄️
In Ireland (NI & ROI) the 'pollan' is an Ice Age relict, adapted to sedentary life in five temperate loughs. My only #earlymod record from Lough Neagh calls it 'insipid food' (mean)📗
Map/ #AtlasofEarlyModernWildlife
In Ireland (NI & ROI) the 'pollan' is an Ice Age relict, adapted to sedentary life in five temperate loughs. My only #earlymod record from Lough Neagh calls it 'insipid food' (mean)📗
Map/ #AtlasofEarlyModernWildlife
April 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The Arctic cisco, an ice-loving fish of Siberia, Alaska, Canada... and Ireland?! 🐟❄️
In Ireland (NI & ROI) the 'pollan' is an Ice Age relict, adapted to sedentary life in five temperate loughs. My only #earlymod record from Lough Neagh calls it 'insipid food' (mean)📗
Map/ #AtlasofEarlyModernWildlife
In Ireland (NI & ROI) the 'pollan' is an Ice Age relict, adapted to sedentary life in five temperate loughs. My only #earlymod record from Lough Neagh calls it 'insipid food' (mean)📗
Map/ #AtlasofEarlyModernWildlife
Looking forward to this conference on corruption in the early modern world starting today, June 5! #history #edusky #EarlyMod 📗 #britishstudies
www.eventbrite.com/e/corruption...
www.eventbrite.com/e/corruption...
June 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Looking forward to this conference on corruption in the early modern world starting today, June 5! #history #edusky #EarlyMod 📗 #britishstudies
www.eventbrite.com/e/corruption...
www.eventbrite.com/e/corruption...
A new study of James VI and I is now available, just in time for the anniversary of the reign's end. Corruption! Religious strife! Devious diplomacy! All in one paperback @routledgehistory.bsky.social @kathrynmarshalek.bsky.social #EarlyMod #history #britishstudies
www.routledge.com/James-VI-and...
www.routledge.com/James-VI-and...
James VI and I: Kingship, Government and Religion
James VI and I: Politics, Government and Religion brings together early career and established scholars with a range of approaches to the reign. Their original, research-based essays on a series of br...
www.routledge.com
April 8, 2025 at 2:11 PM
A new study of James VI and I is now available, just in time for the anniversary of the reign's end. Corruption! Religious strife! Devious diplomacy! All in one paperback @routledgehistory.bsky.social @kathrynmarshalek.bsky.social #EarlyMod #history #britishstudies
www.routledge.com/James-VI-and...
www.routledge.com/James-VI-and...
Rethinking Global History just published and on open access 😀 for #historians and #earlymod. Edited by Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel. Chapters on time, spatiality, quantification etc. provide a current introduction to the #global history field. www.cambridge.org/ca/universit...
Rethinking Global History | Global history
www.cambridge.org
December 6, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Rethinking Global History just published and on open access 😀 for #historians and #earlymod. Edited by Stefanie Gänger and Jürgen Osterhammel. Chapters on time, spatiality, quantification etc. provide a current introduction to the #global history field. www.cambridge.org/ca/universit...
Recognize any people at the eighteenth-century smugglers database? Let me know! We are growing the Dark Markets Observatory as a teaching resource about early mod crime, smuggling and global commerce, and welcome ideas and stories — updates to follow! #EarlyMod #c18th #18thc #history 🗃️#skystorians
Smuggling Database | davidchansmith
www.davidchansmith.net
November 10, 2023 at 5:58 PM
Congratulations to CultPhil Italianist @carlottamoro.bsky.social who has a new article out in Renaissance Quarterly on martyrdom, mysticism, & protofeminism in Lucrezia Marinella's Holocausto d’amore della vergine Santa Giustina (1648)
#womenshistory #earlymod
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#womenshistory #earlymod
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Following in the Apostles’ Footsteps: Martyrdom, Mysticism, and Protofeminism in Lucrezia Marinella’s Holocausto d’amore della vergine Santa Giustina (1648) | Renaissance Quarterly | Cambridge Core
Following in the Apostles’ Footsteps: Martyrdom, Mysticism, and Protofeminism in Lucrezia Marinella’s Holocausto d’amore della vergine Santa Giustina (1648) - Volume 77 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
March 6, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Congratulations to CultPhil Italianist @carlottamoro.bsky.social who has a new article out in Renaissance Quarterly on martyrdom, mysticism, & protofeminism in Lucrezia Marinella's Holocausto d’amore della vergine Santa Giustina (1648)
#womenshistory #earlymod
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#womenshistory #earlymod
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
9 days left to get your proposals in for Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges 📚🔥 (Exeter, 2-4 June 2025)
Deadline: 29 nov
See our website for the #cfp
culturesofphilosophy.exeter.ac.uk/2024/08/05/p...
#earlymod #philosophy #skystorians
Deadline: 29 nov
See our website for the #cfp
culturesofphilosophy.exeter.ac.uk/2024/08/05/p...
#earlymod #philosophy #skystorians
Events – Cultures of Philosophy
culturesofphilosophy.exeter.ac.uk
November 20, 2024 at 10:37 AM
9 days left to get your proposals in for Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges 📚🔥 (Exeter, 2-4 June 2025)
Deadline: 29 nov
See our website for the #cfp
culturesofphilosophy.exeter.ac.uk/2024/08/05/p...
#earlymod #philosophy #skystorians
Deadline: 29 nov
See our website for the #cfp
culturesofphilosophy.exeter.ac.uk/2024/08/05/p...
#earlymod #philosophy #skystorians
Really interesting article today in the Verge about AI and the historical research of my colleague Mark Humphries. My department is launching an AI and the Humanities certificate next year as part of our digital humanities program. #skystorians #18thc #history 🗃️ #EarlyMod
What AI can do for historians
It turns out that large language models make surprisingly good research assistants for historians. Can the future of AI help reconstruct the past?
www.theverge.com
February 15, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Really interesting article today in the Verge about AI and the historical research of my colleague Mark Humphries. My department is launching an AI and the Humanities certificate next year as part of our digital humanities program. #skystorians #18thc #history 🗃️ #EarlyMod
But can you imagine what would happen to study of early modern literature without "Shakespeare"? I'm no fan of single-author research whatsoever but this is the ideological matrix earlymod lit people are required to engage with to earn money &c
April 23, 2025 at 9:44 AM
But can you imagine what would happen to study of early modern literature without "Shakespeare"? I'm no fan of single-author research whatsoever but this is the ideological matrix earlymod lit people are required to engage with to earn money &c
Interested in learning about how Jeremy Bentham fought with the Treasury over his Panopticon scheme? A prepublication edited collection of his writings on the subject, "A Picture of the Treasury," is out, www.ucl.ac.uk/bentham-proj... #history #bentham #panopticon #imprisonment #earlymod
www.ucl.ac.uk
December 5, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Interested in learning about how Jeremy Bentham fought with the Treasury over his Panopticon scheme? A prepublication edited collection of his writings on the subject, "A Picture of the Treasury," is out, www.ucl.ac.uk/bentham-proj... #history #bentham #panopticon #imprisonment #earlymod
On the lookout for #earlymod pals who would be interested in putting together a panel for the ASLE conference next summer?
I’m going to be looking at Hester Pulter, “exotic” animals & motherhood
asle.org.uk/events/galwa...
I’m going to be looking at Hester Pulter, “exotic” animals & motherhood
asle.org.uk/events/galwa...
October 25, 2024 at 9:27 AM
On the lookout for #earlymod pals who would be interested in putting together a panel for the ASLE conference next summer?
I’m going to be looking at Hester Pulter, “exotic” animals & motherhood
asle.org.uk/events/galwa...
I’m going to be looking at Hester Pulter, “exotic” animals & motherhood
asle.org.uk/events/galwa...
#history scholars interested in corruption and polarization, consider attending or applying to present at the June conference in London on Corruption and Scandal in the #earlymod World, www.chase.ac.uk/news-1/call-...
Please spread the word!
Please spread the word!
Call for Papers - Corruption and Scandal in the Early Modern World, 1500-1800 — CHASE Doctoral Training Partnership
In the early modern period, the meanings of scandal and corruption extended beyond our modern understanding of these terms. Concentrating on 1500-1800 - a time of religious, political, and social deve...
www.chase.ac.uk
December 22, 2024 at 4:03 PM
#history scholars interested in corruption and polarization, consider attending or applying to present at the June conference in London on Corruption and Scandal in the #earlymod World, www.chase.ac.uk/news-1/call-...
Please spread the word!
Please spread the word!
We all seem to agree that the boundary btwn Old English & Mid was the Norman conquest, Mid & EarlyMod is probably basically printing press?
September 5, 2016 at 10:28 PM
We all seem to agree that the boundary btwn Old English & Mid was the Norman conquest, Mid & EarlyMod is probably basically printing press?
Okay #earlymod twitter: I just realised SRS panel abstracts are due, and rather than giving a paper, I was thinking a mixed historiography/theory panel on 'Rethinking The Baroque'. Would any of you be up?
December 3, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Okay #earlymod twitter: I just realised SRS panel abstracts are due, and rather than giving a paper, I was thinking a mixed historiography/theory panel on 'Rethinking The Baroque'. Would any of you be up?
Early modern British historians! The Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies has announced its CFP for the conference held in lovely Palo Alto/Stanford University. #history #earlymod #britishstudies @thenacbs.bsky.social pccbs.org/2024/09/12/c...
Call for Papers PCCBS 2025 – Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
pccbs.org
December 19, 2024 at 3:11 PM
Early modern British historians! The Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies has announced its CFP for the conference held in lovely Palo Alto/Stanford University. #history #earlymod #britishstudies @thenacbs.bsky.social pccbs.org/2024/09/12/c...
Fab panel on myth & medieval earlymod female authrship by @LivRenWoman S.Marnette C.Bateman, chaired by @MirandaHGriffin - a joy! #sfs2015
November 14, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Fab panel on myth & medieval earlymod female authrship by @LivRenWoman S.Marnette C.Bateman, chaired by @MirandaHGriffin - a joy! #sfs2015