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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 2d

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) has recently been updated with 5000+ new references. Discover further details about this update in this On History blog blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/bibl... @brepols.net

Bibliography of British and Irish History October 2025 update - On History

What’s new in BBIH?  The October 2025 update to the Bibliography of British and Irish History adds over 5,000 new publications. The new update includes books, journal articles, book chapters and…

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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 2d

At Bristol Central Library:

Fugitives in the Archive

"Featuring original newspapers, maps, and memoirs by c18th & c19th Black writers, this exhibition assembles the possible lives of these runaways before their bid for freedom."

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Fugitives in the Archive : Exhibition

During the 18th century, British newspapers published advertisements for runaway enslaved people with rewards for their capture; for the hundreds of Black and Asian people brought to Britain through t...

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IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social · 7d

ICYMI 👎
Join us tonight, either at the IHR or online to hear @richardjansell.bsky.social present his paper about servants on the ‘Grand Tour’ in the eighteenth century!

IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social · 14d

Join us next Wednesday (8-10) in person at the IHR or online from 5:30pm to Dr Richard Ansell’s paper ‘Travel Journals and Other Traces of Servants on the Grand Tour’. Register with the following link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Richard outlines the paper here:
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Join Dr Richard Ansell (Birkbeck) for a free online seminar. 5:30-7:30pm London time on Wed. Oct 8 via zoom. “Travel Journals and Other Traces of Servants on the Grand Tour”. From valets to maids, dis...

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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · 10d

We offer #bursaries up to £900 for PhD students, post-graduate researchers and independent scholars engaged in postgraduate-level research in the field of labour history to fund essential archive or library research. Find out more sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...

Bursaries

The Society for the Study of Labour History offers financial support to PhD students, post-graduate researchers and independent scholars engaged in postgraduate-level research, as well as to BA and…

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Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social · 12d

The OUP link won't work any more, but the book is now being distributed by Liverpool University Press, here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Servants Abroad | Home

Travel Journals by British Working People, 1765-1798

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IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social · 14d

Join us next Wednesday (8-10) in person at the IHR or online from 5:30pm to Dr Richard Ansell’s paper ‘Travel Journals and Other Traces of Servants on the Grand Tour’. Register with the following link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Richard outlines the paper here:
www.tiktok.com/@long18thcen...

Join Dr Richard Ansell (Birkbeck) for a free online seminar. 5:30-7:30pm London time on Wed. Oct 8 via zoom. “Travel Journals and Other Traces of Servants on the Grand Tour”. From valets to maids, dis...

TikTok video by Long 18th Century Seminar IHR

www.tiktok.com

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Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social · Aug 17

Thanks - I hope so!

Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social · Aug 17

Thank you - hope you’re doing well!

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Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social · Aug 15

We are grateful to @leverhulme.ac.uk for funding the project, to @uclpress.bsky.social‬ for #OpenAccess publication and to the Marc Fitch Fund for a publication grant

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Richard Ansell @richardjansell.bsky.social · Aug 15

Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thc British travellers to Spain and Portugal, and I'm really happy it's now free to download here: uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun... (hard copies also available!) #skystorians #c18th

No Country for Travellers?

No Country for Travellers? explores the rise and nature of British travel to Spain and Portugal between 1760 and 1820, across a region that is conventionally overlooked in studies of British travel to...

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · Aug 14

Funded by a Leverhulme Research Project Grant, Rosemary Sweet and @richardjansell.bsky.social's new book explores a region that is conventionally overlooked in studies of British travel to Europe. Read now: uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun...

UCL Press @uclpress.bsky.social · Aug 14

Congratulations to Rosemary Sweet and @RichardJAnsell! Their #OpenAccess book No Country for Travellers? published today. Read & download free at: bit.ly/4kJYgIl #TravelWriting #EighteenthCentury #Spain #Portugal

No Country for Travellers?

No Country for Travellers? explores the rise and nature of British travel to Spain and Portugal between 1760 and 1820, across a region that is conventionally overlooked in studies of British travel to Europe. Drawing on extensive archival and printed sources left by travellers in the period, Rosemary Sweet and Richard Ansell reveal the unheralded […]

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UCL Press @uclpress.bsky.social · Aug 14

Congratulations to Rosemary Sweet and @RichardJAnsell! Their #OpenAccess book No Country for Travellers? published today. Read & download free at: bit.ly/4kJYgIl #TravelWriting #EighteenthCentury #Spain #Portugal

No Country for Travellers?

No Country for Travellers? explores the rise and nature of British travel to Spain and Portugal between 1760 and 1820, across a region that is conventionally overlooked in studies of British travel to Europe. Drawing on extensive archival and printed sources left by travellers in the period, Rosemary Sweet and Richard Ansell reveal the unheralded […]

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · Jul 2

Amidst the doom, I'm so excited to be welcoming people to the first annual Medieval and Early Modern Research Day at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social! More than 20 of Birkbeck's staff, students and research fellows will be giving micro-talks about a primary source. www.bbk.ac.uk/research/cen...

Website landing page of the Birkbeck Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Worlds.

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · Jun 18

Attention all #earlymodern #skystorians! The Hakluyt Society is now on BSky. Follow for all things relating to the History of Travel and Exploration

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · Jun 5

Thrilled to say that this is now fully Open Access!

Hopefully now available to any and all interested #earlymodern #skystorians

Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · May 7

New article!

'Seeing Women in the Early English and Dutch East India Companies' is now available as an Advance Article with Historical Research.

It's been years of work, but I'm proud of this one. I hope #earlymodern #skystorians enjoy it!

Some context below:

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Ana Struillou @anastruillou.bsky.social · Jun 3

Thrilled to see this published (free!) in Past&Present - though it unfortunately feels more relevant than ever... @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social
And feeling fortunate to have been able to do this with two of the most talented historians Malika Zehni & Lamin Manneh ❤️
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Immobility

Abstract. Increasingly, since the early years of the twenty-first century, some have questioned the relevance of historians’ ‘fetishization of mobility’ in

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · May 28

Have at last finished the next chapter for my little book on Listening to #EarlyModern Travel Writing. In it I argue that travel writers both constructed and manipulated what I’ve dubbed ‘collective auditory knowledge’ in their representations of foreign lands. 🧵🗃️ (1/4)

Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · Mar 11

Hoping to make some headway on the next chapter tomorrow. That's on 'Embodied Travellers' and hopes to explain the significance of the kinds of sounds that can be found in Samuel Purchas’s Pilgrimes, and the auditory consequences of interactions between Europeans and the wider world. (3/4)

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Harriet Soper @hattiesoper.bsky.social · May 28

3D-print your own medieval toy! Thanks to my amazing collaborators Beth Kimber and @noreenmasud.bsky.social

www.instructables.com/Buzz-Bones-t...

Buzz Bones - the Original Fidget Spinner

Buzz Bones - the Original Fidget Spinner: For as long as there have been children, there have been toys which make irritating noises. Originally made from the foot bones of a pig, Buzz Bones make a hu...

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English at Bristol @bristolunienglish.bsky.social · May 21

No fewer than three members of Bristol’s English Department have found their monographs shortlisted for the University English Book Prize for Outstanding First Manuscript, across the 2023 and 2024 competitions! universityenglish.ac.uk/book-prize/

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · May 7

New article!

'Seeing Women in the Early English and Dutch East India Companies' is now available as an Advance Article with Historical Research.

It's been years of work, but I'm proud of this one. I hope #earlymodern #skystorians enjoy it!

Some context below:

academic.oup.com/histres/adva...

Validate User

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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · Apr 24

We are pleased to share the details for the Annual Gender & History Lecture, which will be given by Dr Onni Gust. Their talk is titled 'Kin: transgender history with and beyond the human'.

May 15, 2025, 15:00 - 16:30 (In person and Online)

Register here 👇

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Poster advertising the 2025 Gender & History Lecture, which will be given by Dr Onni Gust. Information about the date, time and location can be found at the bottom of the poster, along with a QR to scan.

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Apr 22

New in the Jacobite Studies series ✨

The Jacobites and the grand tour by @drjeremyfilet.bsky.social - the first monograph to fully examine the intersecting networks of Jacobites and travellers to the continent.

Published today in partnership with the JST @funkyplaid.bsky.social

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Dr Louise Ryland-Epton @lrylandepton.bsky.social · Apr 9

I have my proof of this beauty! The previously unpublished c17 travel writings of John Walker, edit. by Anthea Jones. Walker travelled England, Scotland, Wales, France & more. It is fab. #17thCenturyTravel

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John Walker's Commonplace Book: A Traveller in the 1670s, edited by Anthea Jones — Hobnob Press

Travelling for pleasure in the 1670s required plenty of stamina. John Walker, a well-to-do country gentleman in his early thirties, rode many miles on horseback through England, Wales and Scotland, an...

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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · Mar 31

Proooooooofs #earlymodern

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