Joe Cozens
@joecozens.bsky.social
Historian of protest, smuggling, and the British state, 1700-1850.
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Joe Cozens
@joecozens.bsky.social
· Jan 7
Smuggling gangs and coastal policing in 19th-century England
Following the Napoleonic Wars, smuggling became a major concern for the British government.
beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk
Check out my recently live webpage on smuggling gangs and coastal policing based on research with original docs at the National Archives.
#19thc
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#19thc
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The National Archives are hiring a Poor Law Research Assistant (39k for 2 years) working on Paul Carter's AHRC project on poverty/welfare in Wales, 1834-1930. Deadline 16 Dec.
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
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December 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The National Archives are hiring a Poor Law Research Assistant (39k for 2 years) working on Paul Carter's AHRC project on poverty/welfare in Wales, 1834-1930. Deadline 16 Dec.
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi...
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Thanks to @long18thsem.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social for hosting my talk on the convergence of medical and maternal approaches to childcare in Georgian England. A vibrant forum with a really engaged audience. Pleased the recording is now live for anyone interested.
Really pleased to see that Helen Esfandiary's excellent talk last week to @long18thsem.bsky.social is now available on the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
‘Such a silly fellow I fear his making some mistake’: The convergence of medical and maternal approaches to domestic childcare in Georgian England
British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar Session
www.history.ac.uk
December 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Thanks to @long18thsem.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social for hosting my talk on the convergence of medical and maternal approaches to childcare in Georgian England. A vibrant forum with a really engaged audience. Pleased the recording is now live for anyone interested.
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Join us tomorrow (Wednesday) either in person at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London or on Zoom from wherever you are. Free and open to the public. Registration information in the link below.
Next Wednesday 3-12 we are holding a joint seminar with @histparl.bsky.social! Join us at 17:30 at the @ihr.bsky.social or online via zoom to hear Dr Helen Wilson discuss ‘Black & Political: Black Political Participation in Britain, 1750-1850’.
Register now! 👎
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Register now! 👎
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Black and Political: Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850
Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
www.history.ac.uk
December 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Join us tomorrow (Wednesday) either in person at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London or on Zoom from wherever you are. Free and open to the public. Registration information in the link below.
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THUMBING: a Nottingham phrase, used to describe that species of intimidation practised by masters on their servants when the latter are compelled to vote as their employers please.
(Halliwell'd Dictionary, 1847)
#politics #history #Elections #England
(Halliwell'd Dictionary, 1847)
#politics #history #Elections #England
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 AM
THUMBING: a Nottingham phrase, used to describe that species of intimidation practised by masters on their servants when the latter are compelled to vote as their employers please.
(Halliwell'd Dictionary, 1847)
#politics #history #Elections #England
(Halliwell'd Dictionary, 1847)
#politics #history #Elections #England
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Helen Esfandiary giving a great paper on elite maternal authority over the care of children in the context of the professional medical market place in the 18th c. @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Helen Esfandiary giving a great paper on elite maternal authority over the care of children in the context of the professional medical market place in the 18th c. @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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Chartist rising in Newport #OnThisDay 1839 ends in the death of 22 “rioters” #Chartism #C19th #History
November 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Chartist rising in Newport #OnThisDay 1839 ends in the death of 22 “rioters” #Chartism #C19th #History
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Pretty extraordinary story here
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show - BBC News
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Pretty extraordinary story here
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
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This is interesting on eBay. A petition from a group of older school students and their teacher in favour of the Ten Hours Bill (?)presented(?) by Feargus O’Connor
#Chartism
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#Chartism
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October 26, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is interesting on eBay. A petition from a group of older school students and their teacher in favour of the Ten Hours Bill (?)presented(?) by Feargus O’Connor
#Chartism
ebay.us/m/BkU9ue
#Chartism
ebay.us/m/BkU9ue
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It's here!
Get your copy at reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
Get your copy at reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
October 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
It's here!
Get your copy at reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
Get your copy at reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
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📚 New book by our #NRS member
Callum Easton's compelling first book, 'The 1797 Naval Mutinies and Popular Protest in Britain: Negotiation through Collective Action', has been published by Palgrave Macmillan: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
#navyhistory#navalhistory #navalrecords #18thcentury
Callum Easton's compelling first book, 'The 1797 Naval Mutinies and Popular Protest in Britain: Negotiation through Collective Action', has been published by Palgrave Macmillan: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
#navyhistory#navalhistory #navalrecords #18thcentury
The 1797 Naval Mutinies and Popular Protest in Britain
This book offers a holistic re-evaluation of the Royal Navy mutinies at Spithead and the Nore in 1797, and their significance for British society.
link.springer.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
📚 New book by our #NRS member
Callum Easton's compelling first book, 'The 1797 Naval Mutinies and Popular Protest in Britain: Negotiation through Collective Action', has been published by Palgrave Macmillan: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
#navyhistory#navalhistory #navalrecords #18thcentury
Callum Easton's compelling first book, 'The 1797 Naval Mutinies and Popular Protest in Britain: Negotiation through Collective Action', has been published by Palgrave Macmillan: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
#navyhistory#navalhistory #navalrecords #18thcentury
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National Army Museum identifies portrait of Black Waterloo veteran:
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
#Hstory #BlackHistory 🗃️
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#Hstory #BlackHistory 🗃️
London museum identifies black Waterloo veteran in rare 1821 painting
‘Honourable’ bandsman Thomas James will feature in display at National Army Museum highlighting service of black soldiers in Napoleonic wars
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:39 AM
National Army Museum identifies portrait of Black Waterloo veteran:
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
#Hstory #BlackHistory 🗃️
www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
#Hstory #BlackHistory 🗃️
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I'm really looking forward to sharing my findings about debates surrounding the Scottish Coal miners. Make sure to come along!
Next Wednesday 22-10 starting at 5:30pm Dr Polly Lowe will present her paper ‘Bound Labour, Narratives of Nationhood, and the Rhetoric of Slavery: Liberty, Identity, and Scottish Coal-Miners in the Long Eighteenth Century’. Join us in person at the IHR or online!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Bound Labour, Narratives of Nationhood, and the Rhetoric of Slavery: Liberty, Identity, and Scottish Coal-Miners in the Long Eighteenth Century
www.history.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I'm really looking forward to sharing my findings about debates surrounding the Scottish Coal miners. Make sure to come along!
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Radical MP, newspaper proprietor and Lord Mayor of London, champion of a free press and self-styled 'Friend of Liberty', John Wilkes was born 300 years ago today...
#Happybirthday
#Wilkesandliberty #HistParl
#Happybirthday
#Wilkesandliberty #HistParl
October 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Radical MP, newspaper proprietor and Lord Mayor of London, champion of a free press and self-styled 'Friend of Liberty', John Wilkes was born 300 years ago today...
#Happybirthday
#Wilkesandliberty #HistParl
#Happybirthday
#Wilkesandliberty #HistParl
Today we visited The National Archives for a workshop organised by @joecozens.bsky.social and our own @martinspychal.bsky.social on Peter McLagan, Scotland's first Black MP. We looked at original documents relating to McLagan's life & had some great discussions about future directions for research.
October 16, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Today we visited The National Archives for a workshop organised by @joecozens.bsky.social and our own @martinspychal.bsky.social on Peter McLagan, Scotland's first Black MP. We looked at original documents relating to McLagan's life & had some great discussions about future directions for research.
October 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Today we visited The National Archives for a workshop organised by @joecozens.bsky.social and our own @martinspychal.bsky.social on Peter McLagan, Scotland's first Black MP. We looked at original documents relating to McLagan's life & had some great discussions about future directions for research.
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Hand-printing was a very damp affair. Lung-rot was one of the occupational hazards. And boulders.
As late as the 1880s, printers were still twice as likely to die from TB as other trades...
www.jstor.org/stable/25564...
As late as the 1880s, printers were still twice as likely to die from TB as other trades...
www.jstor.org/stable/25564...
September 23, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Hand-printing was a very damp affair. Lung-rot was one of the occupational hazards. And boulders.
As late as the 1880s, printers were still twice as likely to die from TB as other trades...
www.jstor.org/stable/25564...
As late as the 1880s, printers were still twice as likely to die from TB as other trades...
www.jstor.org/stable/25564...
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Next week (24 Sept) I'm speaking at the @long18thsem.bsky.social on the English court cases relating to the Chevalier d'Eon, and whether they really made a legal judgment of d'Eon's sex (they did not, but don't you want to find out what was actually going on). www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
A Question of Sex? Assessing Lord Mansfield’s “judgment” on the sex of the Chevalier d’Eon
www.history.ac.uk
September 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Next week (24 Sept) I'm speaking at the @long18thsem.bsky.social on the English court cases relating to the Chevalier d'Eon, and whether they really made a legal judgment of d'Eon's sex (they did not, but don't you want to find out what was actually going on). www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Fascinated that In Our Time is one of the BBC’s most popular podcasts among under 35s. The young people demand three academics and a peer discussing Demosthenes, apparently. And they’re right to do so.
September 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Fascinated that In Our Time is one of the BBC’s most popular podcasts among under 35s. The young people demand three academics and a peer discussing Demosthenes, apparently. And they’re right to do so.
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Returning to my favourite institutional home this academic year as an @ihr.bsky.social Research Fellow. Thank you to the wonderful team at the IHR for your ongoing support.
I’m no longer affiliated with Goldsmiths, so please contact me at [email protected] going forwards.
I’m no longer affiliated with Goldsmiths, so please contact me at [email protected] going forwards.
September 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Returning to my favourite institutional home this academic year as an @ihr.bsky.social Research Fellow. Thank you to the wonderful team at the IHR for your ongoing support.
I’m no longer affiliated with Goldsmiths, so please contact me at [email protected] going forwards.
I’m no longer affiliated with Goldsmiths, so please contact me at [email protected] going forwards.
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Really looking forward to visiting Koblenz in a few weeks, where I’ll be presenting my work on the rise and fall of the written proposal of marriage
September 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Really looking forward to visiting Koblenz in a few weeks, where I’ll be presenting my work on the rise and fall of the written proposal of marriage
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Studying a #LabourHistory topic for your dissertation or teaching someone who is? We offer dissertation bursaries up to £500 for undergraduate (final year) and taught Masters students sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...
September 6, 2024 at 8:49 AM
Studying a #LabourHistory topic for your dissertation or teaching someone who is? We offer dissertation bursaries up to £500 for undergraduate (final year) and taught Masters students sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...
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A final bump for this. Closing date is Sunday, 31 August
We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...
Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament at The National Archives
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August 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
A final bump for this. Closing date is Sunday, 31 August
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We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...
Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament at The National Archives
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
www.jobs.ac.uk
August 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
We're recruiting for a new role in the Early Modern team at TNA to help us integrate the Parliamentary Archives. I'm looking for someone with an expertise in pre-modern Westminster Parliament so we can join the executive, legislative and judicial collections www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...
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Tickets now available for ‘Ireland and the American Revolution’. A conference organized by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland in partnership with the @tlrhub.bsky.social. For booking and more information use the link below. Full programme coming in September.
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August 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Tickets now available for ‘Ireland and the American Revolution’. A conference organized by the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland in partnership with the @tlrhub.bsky.social. For booking and more information use the link below. Full programme coming in September.
www.eventbrite.ie/e/ireland-an...
www.eventbrite.ie/e/ireland-an...