Chloe Ireton
@chloeireton.bsky.social
Historian / writer / university lecturer.
Author of 'Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic' (CUP, 2024) https://cambridge.org/core_title/gb/613004
& lecturer @uclhistory
Author of 'Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic' (CUP, 2024) https://cambridge.org/core_title/gb/613004
& lecturer @uclhistory
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Chloe Ireton
@chloeireton.bsky.social
· Nov 28
✍️Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic
💭 An intellectual history exploring how free & enslaved Black people in the early Atlantic conceptualized & contested ideas about slavery & freedom
🕰️Out on Dec 5th '24
🤫 already available online: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
💭 An intellectual history exploring how free & enslaved Black people in the early Atlantic conceptualized & contested ideas about slavery & freedom
🕰️Out on Dec 5th '24
🤫 already available online: www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...
This term card is on 🔥🔥🔥
📍📍The London History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar📍📍
⌛️Seminars are hybrid and take place in-person in London & Zoom, 5:30-7:00pm (GMT).⌛️
📲To sign up to our mailing list for the seminar, please email discourseonanticolonialism@hotmail.com
📍📍The London History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar📍📍
⌛️Seminars are hybrid and take place in-person in London & Zoom, 5:30-7:00pm (GMT).⌛️
📲To sign up to our mailing list for the seminar, please email discourseonanticolonialism@hotmail.com
November 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This term card is on 🔥🔥🔥
📍📍The London History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar📍📍
⌛️Seminars are hybrid and take place in-person in London & Zoom, 5:30-7:00pm (GMT).⌛️
📲To sign up to our mailing list for the seminar, please email discourseonanticolonialism@hotmail.com
📍📍The London History of Anticolonial Political Thought Seminar📍📍
⌛️Seminars are hybrid and take place in-person in London & Zoom, 5:30-7:00pm (GMT).⌛️
📲To sign up to our mailing list for the seminar, please email discourseonanticolonialism@hotmail.com
Reposted by Chloe Ireton
🎓 Holden Lecture 2025
📜 Tickets and trifles: ephemeral print in Restoration England
🗓️ Thurs 30 Oct, 6pm
📍 Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, London
Join Prof. Jason Peacey as he reveals how fleeting print shaped Restoration history.
👉 Learn more & book: shorturl.at/EEKa1
📜 Tickets and trifles: ephemeral print in Restoration England
🗓️ Thurs 30 Oct, 6pm
📍 Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, London
Join Prof. Jason Peacey as he reveals how fleeting print shaped Restoration history.
👉 Learn more & book: shorturl.at/EEKa1
Holden Lecture: Tickets and trifles: ephemeral print and Restoration England
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October 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🎓 Holden Lecture 2025
📜 Tickets and trifles: ephemeral print in Restoration England
🗓️ Thurs 30 Oct, 6pm
📍 Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, London
Join Prof. Jason Peacey as he reveals how fleeting print shaped Restoration history.
👉 Learn more & book: shorturl.at/EEKa1
📜 Tickets and trifles: ephemeral print in Restoration England
🗓️ Thurs 30 Oct, 6pm
📍 Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, London
Join Prof. Jason Peacey as he reveals how fleeting print shaped Restoration history.
👉 Learn more & book: shorturl.at/EEKa1
Reposted by Chloe Ireton
HYBRID: Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History
29 Oct 5:30–7:30 pm
A roundtable with authors of new books on histories of the Spanish Atlantic: Bethan Fisk, @chloeireton.bsky.social, Adolfo Polo y la Borda, Julia McClure and Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
29 Oct 5:30–7:30 pm
A roundtable with authors of new books on histories of the Spanish Atlantic: Bethan Fisk, @chloeireton.bsky.social, Adolfo Polo y la Borda, Julia McClure and Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History
A roundtable with authors of new books on histories of the Spanish Atlantic, featuring Bethan Fisk, Chloe L. Ireton, Adolfo Polo y la Borda, Julia McClure and Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez. Respondent, Jorg...
www.ucl.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 2:36 PM
HYBRID: Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History
29 Oct 5:30–7:30 pm
A roundtable with authors of new books on histories of the Spanish Atlantic: Bethan Fisk, @chloeireton.bsky.social, Adolfo Polo y la Borda, Julia McClure and Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
29 Oct 5:30–7:30 pm
A roundtable with authors of new books on histories of the Spanish Atlantic: Bethan Fisk, @chloeireton.bsky.social, Adolfo Polo y la Borda, Julia McClure and Santiago Muñoz Arbeláez.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Reposted by Chloe Ireton
If you’re in London on 29 October, make sure you don’t miss this celebration of Iberian history books!
Just a reminder of this event later this month, taking place in person and on zoom. Don't forget to register!
Join us for a roundtable on "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic, followed by a wine reception at UCL on 29th October 2025. The event is in person and with online transmission. More information: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
October 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
If you’re in London on 29 October, make sure you don’t miss this celebration of Iberian history books!
Just a reminder of this event later this month, taking place in person and on zoom. Don't forget to register!
Join us for a roundtable on "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic, followed by a wine reception at UCL on 29th October 2025. The event is in person and with online transmission. More information: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
October 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Just a reminder of this event later this month, taking place in person and on zoom. Don't forget to register!
Reposted by Chloe Ireton
FIRST SESSION THIS MONDAY! Join us for "At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule", a paper by @eicathomefinn.bsky.social with comment by @jhowesuk.bsky.social
All welcome in person @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...)
All welcome in person @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...)
October 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
FIRST SESSION THIS MONDAY! Join us for "At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule", a paper by @eicathomefinn.bsky.social with comment by @jhowesuk.bsky.social
All welcome in person @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...)
All welcome in person @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (register for link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...)
Reposted by Chloe Ireton
JUST A WEEK FROM NOW! We'll host the marvellous Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social who will speak about "At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule"
6 Oct, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
6 Oct, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
NEW PROGRAMME! What an exciting one it is!
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social
Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social
Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
September 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
JUST A WEEK FROM NOW! We'll host the marvellous Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social who will speak about "At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule"
6 Oct, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
6 Oct, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
Reposted by Chloe Ireton
Join us for a roundtable on "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic, followed by a wine reception at UCL on 29th October 2025. The event is in person and with online transmission. More information: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
September 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Join us for a roundtable on "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic, followed by a wine reception at UCL on 29th October 2025. The event is in person and with online transmission. More information: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Reposted by Chloe Ireton
The September issue of Slavery & Abolition is a Special Issue:
Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present
Guest Editors: Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Wayne Dooling & Esteban Salas
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/c...
Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present
Guest Editors: Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Wayne Dooling & Esteban Salas
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/c...
Slavery & Abolition
Special Issue: Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present. Guest Editors: Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Wayne Dooling, and Esteban Salas. Volume 46, Issue 3 of Slavery & Abolition
www.tandfonline.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:12 AM
The September issue of Slavery & Abolition is a Special Issue:
Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present
Guest Editors: Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Wayne Dooling & Esteban Salas
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/c...
Resistance to Slavery in Africa: Past and Present
Guest Editors: Marie Rodet, Lotte Pelckmans, Wayne Dooling & Esteban Salas
www.tandfonline.com/toc/fsla20/c...
Upcoming Seminars @ihreurope1500.bsky.social
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social
Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All welcome!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social
Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All welcome!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
NEW PROGRAMME! What an exciting one it is!
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social
Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social
Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
September 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Upcoming Seminars @ihreurope1500.bsky.social
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social
Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All welcome!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social
Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All welcome!
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
Reposted by Chloe Ireton
NEW PROGRAMME! What an exciting one it is!
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social
Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social
Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
September 27, 2025 at 9:55 AM
NEW PROGRAMME! What an exciting one it is!
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social
Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social
Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
Reposted by Chloe Ireton
WOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS PROGRAMME 🤩
And more excitement to come in 2026 as well.
I often get driven to despair about the health of #earlymodern studies because of how it's deemed 'not useful' and 'unpopular in recruitment' and then I see just how much brilliant and varied work we do despite all that
And more excitement to come in 2026 as well.
I often get driven to despair about the health of #earlymodern studies because of how it's deemed 'not useful' and 'unpopular in recruitment' and then I see just how much brilliant and varied work we do despite all that
NEW PROGRAMME! What an exciting one it is!
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social
Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social
Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
September 27, 2025 at 11:03 AM
WOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS PROGRAMME 🤩
And more excitement to come in 2026 as well.
I often get driven to despair about the health of #earlymodern studies because of how it's deemed 'not useful' and 'unpopular in recruitment' and then I see just how much brilliant and varied work we do despite all that
And more excitement to come in 2026 as well.
I often get driven to despair about the health of #earlymodern studies because of how it's deemed 'not useful' and 'unpopular in recruitment' and then I see just how much brilliant and varied work we do despite all that
Reposted by Chloe Ireton
We have two jobs at KCL History!
16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...
And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...
(both to start in January 2026)
16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...
And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...
(both to start in January 2026)
Lecturer in Irish/British History at King's College London
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Lecturer in Irish/British History on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
September 23, 2025 at 7:22 AM
We have two jobs at KCL History!
16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...
And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...
(both to start in January 2026)
16-month post in Modern Irish and/or British History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU178/l...
And 5-year post in Early Modern Europe & The World: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...
(both to start in January 2026)
Join us for a roundtable on "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic, followed by a wine reception at UCL on 29th October 2025. The event is in person and with online transmission. More information: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
September 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Join us for a roundtable on "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic, followed by a wine reception at UCL on 29th October 2025. The event is in person and with online transmission. More information: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
September 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Join us for a roundtable on "Space, Mobility, and Subjecthood in Early Modern History” with historians working on the Spanish Atlantic, followed by a wine reception at UCL on 29th October 2025. The event is in person and with online transmission. More information: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Reposted by Chloe Ireton
My review of @chloeireton.bsky.social's impressive debut monograph is out. It was a pleasure reading the book and writing the review, and you all should read it as well!
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KXRFJ...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KXRFJ...
Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic
Published in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies (Vol. 46, No. 3, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
September 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
My review of @chloeireton.bsky.social's impressive debut monograph is out. It was a pleasure reading the book and writing the review, and you all should read it as well!
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KXRFJ...
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KXRFJ...
Reposted by Chloe Ireton
My Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery is one of the two finalists of the @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social, am lucky and grateful to get this honor in times when the study of the history of slavery is being attacked on all fronts in this country. #slaveryarchive
September 9, 2025 at 9:09 PM
My Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery is one of the two finalists of the @maahstonebookaward.bsky.social, am lucky and grateful to get this honor in times when the study of the history of slavery is being attacked on all fronts in this country. #slaveryarchive
Reposted by Chloe Ireton
We are happy to announce the three finalists of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024! The winner will be announced at the end of September. To know more about the three finalists, visit our website www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...
September 9, 2025 at 9:41 AM
We are happy to announce the three finalists of the #Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024! The winner will be announced at the end of September. To know more about the three finalists, visit our website www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...
Reposted by Chloe Ireton
FIVE YEARS of #Slaveryarchive Book Club! More than ever, it's time to read, assign, discuss, share, buy, and gift books that tell the history of slavery in the Americas (and elsewhere) The book club has been doing this for full five years. Join us www.slaveryarchive.com/book-club/20...
September 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
FIVE YEARS of #Slaveryarchive Book Club! More than ever, it's time to read, assign, discuss, share, buy, and gift books that tell the history of slavery in the Americas (and elsewhere) The book club has been doing this for full five years. Join us www.slaveryarchive.com/book-club/20...
Reposted by Chloe Ireton
Delighted to announce that my new article, "Dialogic Depositions: Finding Black Women’s Presence in Spanish Colonial Legal Records," is here! Thanks to the RQ editors and staff for their assistance and support.
We are thrilled to announce that the Summer 2025 issue of Renaissance Quarterly (vol. 78.2) has been published online. Take a look: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #RenTwitter #earlymodern #Renaissance @universitypress.cambridge.org
August 5, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Delighted to announce that my new article, "Dialogic Depositions: Finding Black Women’s Presence in Spanish Colonial Legal Records," is here! Thanks to the RQ editors and staff for their assistance and support.
Reposted by Chloe Ireton
If you're in Aberdeen on 17 September don't miss my colleague Professor Matt Smith's lecture on 'Twice Removed: Slavery, Big Data, and the Cultures of Caribbean Ancestral Histories'.
Digital history both opens up new vistas and obscures 'the knotted histories of empire'. #Skystorians
Digital history both opens up new vistas and obscures 'the knotted histories of empire'. #Skystorians
Slavery, Big Data, and the Cultures of Caribbean Ancestral Histories
Royal Historical Society public lecture at the University of Aberdeen
www.eventbrite.co.uk
July 31, 2025 at 9:23 AM
If you're in Aberdeen on 17 September don't miss my colleague Professor Matt Smith's lecture on 'Twice Removed: Slavery, Big Data, and the Cultures of Caribbean Ancestral Histories'.
Digital history both opens up new vistas and obscures 'the knotted histories of empire'. #Skystorians
Digital history both opens up new vistas and obscures 'the knotted histories of empire'. #Skystorians
Reposted by Chloe Ireton
British Academy postdoctoral fellowships scheme is now open. The deadline is 1 October. Time to get talking with potential host institutions and mentors about planning an application for this year or instead waiting for a future round. (The scheme is annual).
Postdoctoral Fellowships
The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
July 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
British Academy postdoctoral fellowships scheme is now open. The deadline is 1 October. Time to get talking with potential host institutions and mentors about planning an application for this year or instead waiting for a future round. (The scheme is annual).
Reposted by Chloe Ireton
Here is my review of Chloe Ireton's book Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic just published in the Hispanic American Historical Review. Check it out and go get the book! #slaveryarchive
July 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Here is my review of Chloe Ireton's book Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic just published in the Hispanic American Historical Review. Check it out and go get the book! #slaveryarchive
Thank you @araujohistorian.bsky.social for this generous review of Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (Cambridge University Press 2025) that will appear in Hispanic American Historical Review.
doi.org/10.1215/0018...
doi.org/10.1215/0018...
Here is my review of Chloe Ireton's book Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic just published in the Hispanic American Historical Review. Check it out and go get the book! #slaveryarchive
July 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Thank you @araujohistorian.bsky.social for this generous review of Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic (Cambridge University Press 2025) that will appear in Hispanic American Historical Review.
doi.org/10.1215/0018...
doi.org/10.1215/0018...
Reposted by Chloe Ireton
My review on @chloeireton.bsky.social new book, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic is out on Ler Historia! Fantastic work and incredible research. journals.openedition.org/lerhistoria/...
Chloe L. Ireton, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early ...
In 2023, the Nigerian-based artist El Anatsui premiered a three-part installation, Behind the Red Moon, in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern in London. In its materiality, form, and scale, Behind...
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June 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
My review on @chloeireton.bsky.social new book, Slavery and Freedom in Black Thought in the Early Spanish Atlantic is out on Ler Historia! Fantastic work and incredible research. journals.openedition.org/lerhistoria/...