Koji Yamamoto
@kyamamoto.bsky.social
Historian. Taming Capitalism before its Triumph https://ur0.jp/Bd0QL Stereotypes and Stereotyping in E.M. England https://ur0.jp/DliJo
Research Unit for Business in Context https://ur0.jp/6w9gs
Now working on washerwomen in London before the Civil Wars
Research Unit for Business in Context https://ur0.jp/6w9gs
Now working on washerwomen in London before the Civil Wars
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Koji Yamamoto
@kyamamoto.bsky.social
· May 12
Hello colleagues! I'll be on sabbatical, and plan to be in London / Amsterdam between October 2025 and September 2026. Please let me know if there are places where I can share my ongoing research / advocacy work with you. I'd love to see if I can come and see my old friends and meet new ones.
#NACBS at Montreal has been wonderful. I presented here for the first time. Really useful feedback and stimulating panels across the entire program. The presidential address on J.S. Mill's 'family life' was a real treat. Looking forward to coming back to it again.
November 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
#NACBS at Montreal has been wonderful. I presented here for the first time. Really useful feedback and stimulating panels across the entire program. The presidential address on J.S. Mill's 'family life' was a real treat. Looking forward to coming back to it again.
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Today I worked with Adam Smith's copy of Hobbes's "Leviathan" (1651)
October 22, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Today I worked with Adam Smith's copy of Hobbes's "Leviathan" (1651)
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📣John Locke’s Forgotten Manuscript
We are thrilled to announce that @davidrarmitage.bsky.social's
article on his discovery of a new John Locke manuscript is out now👇
It sheds new light on Locke's practical involvement in political economy & his engagement with Ireland 📜🗃️
We are thrilled to announce that @davidrarmitage.bsky.social's
article on his discovery of a new John Locke manuscript is out now👇
It sheds new light on Locke's practical involvement in political economy & his engagement with Ireland 📜🗃️
John Locke and Irish Linen Manufacture: A New Manuscript | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
John Locke and Irish Linen Manufacture: A New Manuscript
www.cambridge.org
August 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM
📣John Locke’s Forgotten Manuscript
We are thrilled to announce that @davidrarmitage.bsky.social's
article on his discovery of a new John Locke manuscript is out now👇
It sheds new light on Locke's practical involvement in political economy & his engagement with Ireland 📜🗃️
We are thrilled to announce that @davidrarmitage.bsky.social's
article on his discovery of a new John Locke manuscript is out now👇
It sheds new light on Locke's practical involvement in political economy & his engagement with Ireland 📜🗃️
東京カレッジGHCでのChie Ikeyaさんのブックトーク、とても面白かった。 InterAsian intimacies across race, religion, and colonialism (2024)についてで、本の一部をご本人が読み上げて解説を加えるというスタイルだった。小説などではよくある手法だけれど、研究書の文脈ではとても新鮮に感じた。
June 26, 2025 at 5:36 AM
東京カレッジGHCでのChie Ikeyaさんのブックトーク、とても面白かった。 InterAsian intimacies across race, religion, and colonialism (2024)についてで、本の一部をご本人が読み上げて解説を加えるというスタイルだった。小説などではよくある手法だけれど、研究書の文脈ではとても新鮮に感じた。
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Yesterday I participated at a workshop in a traditional teahouse in the Edo-era Hama-rikyū gardens with scholars from UTokyo & KyotoU. Brilliant range of talks - from 17thC naval contracting & confessional co-existence to a 20thC asylum in Peking & the 1999 introduction of the pill in Japan.
June 11, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Yesterday I participated at a workshop in a traditional teahouse in the Edo-era Hama-rikyū gardens with scholars from UTokyo & KyotoU. Brilliant range of talks - from 17thC naval contracting & confessional co-existence to a 20thC asylum in Peking & the 1999 introduction of the pill in Japan.
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Today was my first day @utokyoofficial.bsky.social as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow. I am grateful to the @britishacademy.bsky.social for the nomination & to colleagues at the JSPS & UTokyo for supporting my move to Japan, especially @kyamamoto.bsky.social. I am very excited to begin my new work!
June 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Today was my first day @utokyoofficial.bsky.social as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow. I am grateful to the @britishacademy.bsky.social for the nomination & to colleagues at the JSPS & UTokyo for supporting my move to Japan, especially @kyamamoto.bsky.social. I am very excited to begin my new work!
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The *big thing* I've been finishing is my next book Ruthless, which is coming out in October. It connects the exploitation of land and people across Britain and its empire with scientific and technological innovation to offer a new history of capitalist development.
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Ruthless - Yale University Press London
A revelatory new history of Britain’s industrial revolution and the exploitation that enabled it Was Britain’s industrial revolution the result o...
yalebooks.co.uk
May 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
The *big thing* I've been finishing is my next book Ruthless, which is coming out in October. It connects the exploitation of land and people across Britain and its empire with scientific and technological innovation to offer a new history of capitalist development.
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
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Some news: in 2026 I'll take over as Editor of Renaissance Studies. It's a journal that means a great deal to me and which occupies a uniquely important position in the interdisciplinary study of the early modern world. With our new Associate Editor, Dr Elizabeth Petcu, I can't wait to get started!
New editor and associate editor, Renaissance Studies – Society for Renaissance Studies
www.rensoc.org.uk
May 22, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Some news: in 2026 I'll take over as Editor of Renaissance Studies. It's a journal that means a great deal to me and which occupies a uniquely important position in the interdisciplinary study of the early modern world. With our new Associate Editor, Dr Elizabeth Petcu, I can't wait to get started!
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Call! In September we will host "Providence, Propaganda, & Profit in the Early Modern English World" at UTokyo. Keynotes: @annlaurahughes.bsky.social, Shusaku Kanazawa, Keiko Kawawake, & Peter Lake. Deadline: 15 July!
See politicaleconomyseminar.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/%... @kyamamoto.bsky.social
See politicaleconomyseminar.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/%... @kyamamoto.bsky.social
May 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Call! In September we will host "Providence, Propaganda, & Profit in the Early Modern English World" at UTokyo. Keynotes: @annlaurahughes.bsky.social, Shusaku Kanazawa, Keiko Kawawake, & Peter Lake. Deadline: 15 July!
See politicaleconomyseminar.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/%... @kyamamoto.bsky.social
See politicaleconomyseminar.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/%... @kyamamoto.bsky.social
Thanks Eva! I'm currently working on a few things, including London soap boilers and washerwomen and the constitutional crisis, and also on state-interventions on essential work like cooking, washing, heating and food preservation.
ooh that's interesting Koji. We need to think about next year's programme for the IHR Society, Culture, and Belief, 1500-1800-seminar soon, so would love to know more about what you are working on at the moment.
May 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Thanks Eva! I'm currently working on a few things, including London soap boilers and washerwomen and the constitutional crisis, and also on state-interventions on essential work like cooking, washing, heating and food preservation.
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This is really cool:
Congratulations to medievalist Prof David Carpenter for making this marvelous discovery. A previously believed copy of the Magna Carta is, in fact, genuine! Read more here: www.bbc.com/news/article...
May 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This is really cool:
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Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
May 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Image of library book display labeled:
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”
Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World
~TAiLS of a Bookworm
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今の世の中が生きづらい原因の一つは、前の世代の人たちが十分に苦情を訴えなかったこと。
May 12, 2025 at 9:44 AM
今の世の中が生きづらい原因の一つは、前の世代の人たちが十分に苦情を訴えなかったこと。
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Hello colleagues! I'll be on sabbatical, and plan to be in London / Amsterdam between October 2025 and September 2026. Please let me know if there are places where I can share my ongoing research / advocacy work with you. I'd love to see if I can come and see my old friends and meet new ones.
May 12, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Hello colleagues! I'll be on sabbatical, and plan to be in London / Amsterdam between October 2025 and September 2026. Please let me know if there are places where I can share my ongoing research / advocacy work with you. I'd love to see if I can come and see my old friends and meet new ones.
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If you're an archivist, librarian, local or family historian, researcher or student of British and/or British & colonial/imperial history (from the Roman era to the present) this introduction to BBIH is worth a look. Google searches are degrading and hallucinating with generative AI; BBIH is not.
Expert guidance on using, and getting the most from, the 'Bibliography of British and Irish History', from @ihr.bsky.social. Booking now available. #skystorians
Join us and @brepols.bsky.social for a webinar introducing the new Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) interface.
Date: Monday 28 April 2025
Time: 17:00 (Brussels) / 11:00 (Eastern Time, USA) / 16:00 (London, UK)
Duration: 15 minutes, followed by a Q&A
More info: bit.ly/BBIHwebinar
Date: Monday 28 April 2025
Time: 17:00 (Brussels) / 11:00 (Eastern Time, USA) / 16:00 (London, UK)
Duration: 15 minutes, followed by a Q&A
More info: bit.ly/BBIHwebinar
April 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
If you're an archivist, librarian, local or family historian, researcher or student of British and/or British & colonial/imperial history (from the Roman era to the present) this introduction to BBIH is worth a look. Google searches are degrading and hallucinating with generative AI; BBIH is not.
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Expert guidance on using, and getting the most from, the 'Bibliography of British and Irish History', from @ihr.bsky.social. Booking now available. #skystorians
Join us and @brepols.bsky.social for a webinar introducing the new Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) interface.
Date: Monday 28 April 2025
Time: 17:00 (Brussels) / 11:00 (Eastern Time, USA) / 16:00 (London, UK)
Duration: 15 minutes, followed by a Q&A
More info: bit.ly/BBIHwebinar
Date: Monday 28 April 2025
Time: 17:00 (Brussels) / 11:00 (Eastern Time, USA) / 16:00 (London, UK)
Duration: 15 minutes, followed by a Q&A
More info: bit.ly/BBIHwebinar
April 15, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Expert guidance on using, and getting the most from, the 'Bibliography of British and Irish History', from @ihr.bsky.social. Booking now available. #skystorians
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Getting pretty tired of the “future historians will say X about this time.”
I promise you, PRESENT historians are saying plenty, and you don’t seem to be listening!
I promise you, PRESENT historians are saying plenty, and you don’t seem to be listening!
April 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Getting pretty tired of the “future historians will say X about this time.”
I promise you, PRESENT historians are saying plenty, and you don’t seem to be listening!
I promise you, PRESENT historians are saying plenty, and you don’t seem to be listening!
来週の月曜日4時50分から本郷で研究発表をします。テーマは「No more rigid monopoly? チャールズ一世親政期ウェストミンスター石鹸会社再訪、1633-1637」
ハイブリッド開催です。
www.cirje.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/wor...
ハイブリッド開催です。
www.cirje.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/wor...
Research | CIRJE
CIRJE Center for International Research on the Japanese Economy
www.cirje.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp
April 24, 2025 at 3:59 AM
来週の月曜日4時50分から本郷で研究発表をします。テーマは「No more rigid monopoly? チャールズ一世親政期ウェストミンスター石鹸会社再訪、1633-1637」
ハイブリッド開催です。
www.cirje.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/wor...
ハイブリッド開催です。
www.cirje.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/research/wor...
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As of April 11, more than 840 international students and recent graduates at 160 universities and colleges around the US have had their visas revoked by the Trump administration, per @insidehighered.com's count: www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
This is not normal. Refuse to treat it as such.
This is not normal. Refuse to treat it as such.
April 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
As of April 11, more than 840 international students and recent graduates at 160 universities and colleges around the US have had their visas revoked by the Trump administration, per @insidehighered.com's count: www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...
This is not normal. Refuse to treat it as such.
This is not normal. Refuse to treat it as such.
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Superb analysis from Liz on state capture/kleptocracy in the US and globally.
We need to talk about the related concepts of "state capture" (@lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social), "kleptocracy" (@tenaprelec.bsky.social) and "Poligarch" (@balint.bsky.social)! 1/2
www.foreignaffairs.com/world/econom...
We need to talk about the related concepts of "state capture" (@lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social), "kleptocracy" (@tenaprelec.bsky.social) and "Poligarch" (@balint.bsky.social)! 1/2
www.foreignaffairs.com/world/econom...
The Economic Consequences of State Capture
Oligarchs are warping markets and corrupting economies around the world.
www.foreignaffairs.com
April 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Superb analysis from Liz on state capture/kleptocracy in the US and globally.
We need to talk about the related concepts of "state capture" (@lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social), "kleptocracy" (@tenaprelec.bsky.social) and "Poligarch" (@balint.bsky.social)! 1/2
www.foreignaffairs.com/world/econom...
We need to talk about the related concepts of "state capture" (@lizdavidbarrett.bsky.social), "kleptocracy" (@tenaprelec.bsky.social) and "Poligarch" (@balint.bsky.social)! 1/2
www.foreignaffairs.com/world/econom...
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10 years after the project finished we have finally found our longitude!
All the c.18th seafaring and boardroom drama you could wish for in one expertly written volume!
Only £32 from @cambridgeup.bsky.social
All the c.18th seafaring and boardroom drama you could wish for in one expertly written volume!
Only £32 from @cambridgeup.bsky.social
April 8, 2025 at 1:48 PM
10 years after the project finished we have finally found our longitude!
All the c.18th seafaring and boardroom drama you could wish for in one expertly written volume!
Only £32 from @cambridgeup.bsky.social
All the c.18th seafaring and boardroom drama you could wish for in one expertly written volume!
Only £32 from @cambridgeup.bsky.social
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A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.