Julie Hardwick
@juliehardwick.bsky.social
Historian | France| Gender| Global Early Modern| Views my own | Writing: An Intimate History of Racial Capitalism in Old Regime France | Sex in an Old Regime City (OUP, 2020).
More here: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/jholwell
More here: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/jholwell
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1/2 At the airport at 3:45 for a 6 am flight (thank you gov shutdown!) but - nevertheless - I'm looking forward to my first ever visit to Princeton for a talk to the History Department today - about enslaved apprentices among other things in Nantes.
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Shop selected titles with 40% OFF as part of our Christmas Sale promotion for a limited time only.
Whether it's sport, folklore, music or Jane Austen you're after there's a book here for everyone on your list: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/11...
December 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Who doesn't love a good academic press sale!
I am so delighted to see @charmianmansell.bsky.social's excellent book be recognized with two big book prized this autumn. A must read for early modernists in so many fields.
So pleased to be on the list of American Historical Association prize winners. My book, Female Servants in Early Modern England, was awarded the Morris D. Forkosch Prize in British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history since 1485. Congratulations to all the other awardees!
The AHA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes, which honor exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects. Congratulations to the 2025 awardees! #AHAPerspectives🗃️
December 1, 2025 at 11:09 AM
I am so delighted to see @charmianmansell.bsky.social's excellent book be recognized with two big book prized this autumn. A must read for early modernists in so many fields.
Archives among other things this week. Always my favorite work days! Are any of you here at Kew this week? #PrizePapers
November 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Archives among other things this week. Always my favorite work days! Are any of you here at Kew this week? #PrizePapers
Happy 10th birthday to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. Kudos to everyone who has worked on it and here's to the next decade!
We published our first essay 10 years ago today on @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. It was based on a side idea I had for my dissertation that would explore news of Franklin’s death around the revolutionary Atlantic. ageofrevolutions.com/2015/11/21/f...
“Franklin is Dead”: Celebrity, Genius, and Religion in the Age of Revolutions
By Bryan A. Banks On June 11, 1790, an emotionally wrought Mirabeau took to the rostrum of the National Constituent Assembly after numerous days away suffering from ophthalmia to announce Benjamin …
ageofrevolutions.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Happy 10th birthday to @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social. Kudos to everyone who has worked on it and here's to the next decade!
1/n Belatedly (for which I blame all the things this semester), I am celebrating Karin Wulf's wonderful, important, and gorgeous new book. So long in the making and so excellent. Order it and read it now if you haven't yet! 😍
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
1/n Belatedly (for which I blame all the things this semester), I am celebrating Karin Wulf's wonderful, important, and gorgeous new book. So long in the making and so excellent. Order it and read it now if you haven't yet! 😍
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if you would like to read about early modern hammocks, it's publication day for the article the brilliant @marcynorton.bsky.social and I wrote about them! (open access)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Towards a history of the hammock: An Indigenous technology in the Atlantic world - postmedieval
When Europeans arrived in the Western Hemisphere beginning in the fifteenth century, they learned that Indigenous groups across the Caribbean and South America valued few technologies as much as the h...
link.springer.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
if you would like to read about early modern hammocks, it's publication day for the article the brilliant @marcynorton.bsky.social and I wrote about them! (open access)
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
1/2 At the airport at 3:45 for a 6 am flight (thank you gov shutdown!) but - nevertheless - I'm looking forward to my first ever visit to Princeton for a talk to the History Department today - about enslaved apprentices among other things in Nantes.
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
1/2 At the airport at 3:45 for a 6 am flight (thank you gov shutdown!) but - nevertheless - I'm looking forward to my first ever visit to Princeton for a talk to the History Department today - about enslaved apprentices among other things in Nantes.
This is so interesting to me for line of work reasons, but I have also walked around many fields around there so who knows how close I might have been! I hope they raise the money.
www.britishmuseum.org/tudor-heart-...
www.britishmuseum.org/tudor-heart-...
The Tudor Heart appeal
The pendant offers a glimpse into Henry VIII's early court. Help us raise £3.5 million by April 2026 to secure this treasure for the nation.
www.britishmuseum.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This is so interesting to me for line of work reasons, but I have also walked around many fields around there so who knows how close I might have been! I hope they raise the money.
www.britishmuseum.org/tudor-heart-...
www.britishmuseum.org/tudor-heart-...
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Announcing a brand new series launching this #Halloween 👻
Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place.
Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen
Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place.
Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen
October 31, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Announcing a brand new series launching this #Halloween 👻
Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place.
Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen
Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place.
Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen
Super new series at @manchesterup.bsky.social - perfectly launched today!
Exciting Halloween news for scholars of things that go bump in the night:
Our new interdisciplinary series is here from @manchesterup.bsky.social! The series seeks proposals that examine the supernatural (broadly conceived) in innovative ways. Please get in touch if you have ideas or questions!
Our new interdisciplinary series is here from @manchesterup.bsky.social! The series seeks proposals that examine the supernatural (broadly conceived) in innovative ways. Please get in touch if you have ideas or questions!
Announcing a brand new series launching this #Halloween 👻
Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place.
Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen
Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place.
Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen
October 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Super new series at @manchesterup.bsky.social - perfectly launched today!
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You can get my book for 50% off!
Here's a SCARILY good deal! 👻 🎃 Now through Halloween (10/31/25), all titles are 50% OFF including our newest books just published. Use code "Spooky50" at checkout!
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#halloweensale #booksale
October 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
You can get my book for 50% off!
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Please help SAVE TAYLORS BUTTONS, Maureen Rose's legendary shop in Cleveland St. They will shut in November forever unless they can pay their rent arrears from the Covid lockdowns:
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/taylorsbut...
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/taylorsbut...
October 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Please help SAVE TAYLORS BUTTONS, Maureen Rose's legendary shop in Cleveland St. They will shut in November forever unless they can pay their rent arrears from the Covid lockdowns:
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/taylorsbut...
crowdfunder.co.uk/p/taylorsbut...
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A 3D ship model of the Bremen ship CONCORDIA – captured 1758 – is currently in development in close cooperation with Oliver Urrea from Flinders University. The model is based on historical documents from the @prizepapers.bsky.social as well as historical ship models.
#earlymodern #maritimehistory 🗃️
#earlymodern #maritimehistory 🗃️
May 16, 2025 at 4:33 AM
A 3D ship model of the Bremen ship CONCORDIA – captured 1758 – is currently in development in close cooperation with Oliver Urrea from Flinders University. The model is based on historical documents from the @prizepapers.bsky.social as well as historical ship models.
#earlymodern #maritimehistory 🗃️
#earlymodern #maritimehistory 🗃️
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Francisco Ortiz, originally from Santoña, was appointed as shipmaster of the Fort de Nantes by the Spanish charterer, Francisco Sánchez de Madrid. His personal archive, comprising more than 500 documents, reveals many details about his personal life and his social relationships.
October 28, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Francisco Ortiz, originally from Santoña, was appointed as shipmaster of the Fort de Nantes by the Spanish charterer, Francisco Sánchez de Madrid. His personal archive, comprising more than 500 documents, reveals many details about his personal life and his social relationships.
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The issue at stake in 1686 was whether the king was bound by the law.
How are we back here again?
How are we back here again?
In The New Republic, historian Holly Brewer compares the Court's decision to Godden v. Hales, a 1686 case affirming that James II was above the law – which was only repudiated when James II was overthrown in the Glorious Revolution. newrepublic.com/article/1833...
March 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The issue at stake in 1686 was whether the king was bound by the law.
How are we back here again?
How are we back here again?
Fantastic new work by @drbernard.bsky.social - on the sexual policing side hustles of a humanist in 17th-c higher education, and its relationship to absolutism and much else.
🚨 New article! I'm excited to share “The sodomy consultant of Paris, 1688–1737,” published this week in French Historical Studies: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo... . A 🧵:
The Sodomy Consultant of Paris | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
October 1, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Fantastic new work by @drbernard.bsky.social - on the sexual policing side hustles of a humanist in 17th-c higher education, and its relationship to absolutism and much else.
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Oriane Guiziou-Lamour’s latest piece, “Sex Under the Guillotine”, dives into the intimate lives of women imprisoned during the French Revolution. Through powerful archival insights, she reveals how sexuality, punishment, and power collided behind prison walls. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/09/08/s...
Sex under the Guillotine: Women, Prison, and the French Revolution
By Oriane Guiziou-Lamour For the last few years, France has seen a growing interest in rediscovering women authors from the modern period, whose works were either lost or purposefully erased from l…
ageofrevolutions.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Oriane Guiziou-Lamour’s latest piece, “Sex Under the Guillotine”, dives into the intimate lives of women imprisoned during the French Revolution. Through powerful archival insights, she reveals how sexuality, punishment, and power collided behind prison walls. ageofrevolutions.com/2025/09/08/s...
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Nothing makes the morning better than page proofs! @cindyermus.bsky.social @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social
September 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Nothing makes the morning better than page proofs! @cindyermus.bsky.social @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social
If you are Academia [edu] platform, now might be a good time to delete your account
September 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If you are Academia [edu] platform, now might be a good time to delete your account
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One feature of the combo vilification/ obsession w higher ed is that a bunch of people experience college as young adults. Maybe again as parents. They don’t know higher ed as a complex and diverse sector, mostly don’t think of the research. It’s this frozen intensely social / some learning moment.
September 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
One feature of the combo vilification/ obsession w higher ed is that a bunch of people experience college as young adults. Maybe again as parents. They don’t know higher ed as a complex and diverse sector, mostly don’t think of the research. It’s this frozen intensely social / some learning moment.
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The stunning Georgian interior of St Deiniol’s, Worthenbury has a complete set of original 18th-century box pews, an elegant triple-decker pulpit, and a grand west gallery.
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September 13, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The stunning Georgian interior of St Deiniol’s, Worthenbury has a complete set of original 18th-century box pews, an elegant triple-decker pulpit, and a grand west gallery.
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More of this please.
Just witnessed the nicest 'I have more of a comment than a question: an older man who, in a very genuine and not patronising way, told a panel of young ECRs (all women) that he was blown away by the quality of their work and their presentation of it. You love to see it. And he was dead right
September 13, 2025 at 1:32 PM
More of this please.
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Proofs are here!! 🖋️📚 @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Proofs are here!! 🖋️📚 @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social
RIP Margaret Rossiter, a true pionner in women's history, and an important thread from @histoftech.bsky.social
“In the late 1960s, Dr. Rossiter was working on her Ph.D. at Yale, when a comment from one of her male professors puzzled her. Who, she had asked, were the women in science? There were none, he said. Another professor mumbled something about Marie Curie being the exception.”🙃
Here's a #GiftLink for those who want to read the full NYT obit of historian of science & gender, Margaret Rossiter. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/29/s... #histSTM 🧪🗃️
August 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
RIP Margaret Rossiter, a true pionner in women's history, and an important thread from @histoftech.bsky.social
Delighted to see Sex in an Old Regime City reviewed here very generously with John Christopoulos on Abortion in EM Italy and Karen Harvey on the Imposteress Rabbit Breeder (Mary Toft - one of my favorites) by @ninakushner.bsky.social
🗃️Open-Access Alert #3: The ENTIRE Spring 2024 Issue of the JWH is open access. See Bonnie G. Smith's remembrance of Natalie Z. Davis, articles by Mytheli Sreenivas, Iris Berger, Michelle Arrow, Mary Louise Roberts, Tamika Nunley, María Martín Gómez, and Frances Luttikhuizen: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52077
Project MUSE - Journal of Women's History-Volume 36, Number 1, Spring 2024
muse.jhu.edu
August 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Delighted to see Sex in an Old Regime City reviewed here very generously with John Christopoulos on Abortion in EM Italy and Karen Harvey on the Imposteress Rabbit Breeder (Mary Toft - one of my favorites) by @ninakushner.bsky.social