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Tom Hamilton
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Historian of early modern France and Europe; crime, justice, gender, Wars of Religion; co-editor of French History; structuralish 📖📚 ⚖️🌳🏃🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺
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durhamhistory.bsky.social
Congratulations to Rachel Harkes on her book *Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society*, which is based on her Durham PhD thesis – published OA with the @royalhistsoc.org series New Historical Perspectives

uolpress.co.uk/book/forging...

@latemedievalist.bsky.social
Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society - University of London Press
Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society is an ambitious and innovative study of the social, political and religious histories of medieval England and Wales. Using the Palmers’ Guild of Ludlow as a...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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carocallard.bsky.social
Tom Hamilton reçoit le prix Natalie Zemon Davis pour son très très grand livre. Un chef d’œuvre d’anthropologie judiciaire qui éclaire la sortie des guerres de religion: palpitant et virtuose. On ne pouvait rêver mieux pour ce beau prix !
durhamhistory.bsky.social Durham History @durhamhistory.bsky.social · Feb 15
Huge congratulations to @tombhamilton.bsky.social on the launch of his brand new book 'A Widow's Vengeance After the Wars of Religion: Gender & Justice in Renaissance France.' You can order a copy here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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marloavidon.bsky.social
I am thrilled to share my new open-access article on John Evelyn, his wife Mary, eldest daughter Mall and their complex, multifaceted relationship with clothing has been published in @historicaljnl.bsky.social

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The Evelyn Family, the Mundus muliebris, and Conceptualizations of Fashionable Female Dress in Late Seventeenth-Century England | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
The Evelyn Family, the Mundus muliebris, and Conceptualizations of Fashionable Female Dress in Late Seventeenth-Century England
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November 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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pseudo-isidore.bsky.social
Five years, four authors, one book. Out now (fully open access), our new book on local priests in the tenth century 🌟 www.cambridge.org/core/books/l... @jbwaagmeester.bsky.social
Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050
Cambridge Core - European Studies - Local Priests in the Latin West, 900–1050
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November 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
tombhamilton.bsky.social
Two funded PhDs here as part of the Inventing Futures programme at IMEMS! One on the project Utopia in the World and the other on the project Framing Gendered Violence, lead supervisors Richard Scholar and Ita Mac Carthy in Modern Languages and Cultures, details via the link...
imems.bsky.social IMEMS Durham @imems.bsky.social · 13d
📢Fully Funded PhD Opportunities @thetimes University of the Year @durham_uni's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 🎓

durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
October 30, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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imems.bsky.social
📢Fully Funded PhD Opportunities @thetimes University of the Year @durham_uni's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 🎓

durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
October 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
tombhamilton.bsky.social
New article by Chiara Lereda, 'Official tone and private judgement: the comte de Vergennes and the rhetoric of diplomacy in the Russo–Ottoman crisis (1786)' on the structural contradictions of French foreign policy pre-Revolution 🥳🙌💾

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@frenchhistory.bsky.social
Official tone and private judgement: the comte de Vergennes and the rhetoric of diplomacy in the Russo–Ottoman crisis (1786)
Abstract. This article explores the dual diplomatic voice of Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes—Louis XVI’s foreign minister—through two letters sent on 2
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October 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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durhamhistory.bsky.social
New article by Nick McGee in the American Historical Review, 'To Change in China: Late-Qing Naturalizations and their Historical Erasure'

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To Change in China: Late-Qing Naturalizations and their Historical Erasure
Abstract. This article brings together sources from China, the United States, the United Kingdom, and France to explore the rare and fraught cases of Ameri
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October 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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durhamhistory.bsky.social
🎺 Congratulations to Gabby Treglia, it's publication day for her book *Education for Preservation: Examining Native American Education Policy in the New Deal, 1933–1945*! 🎉

kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640737/
Education for Preservation?
A groundbreaking new examination of federal Indian boarding schools in the New Deal era and the threats it posed to Indigenous sovereignty, from the old dang...
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October 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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brodiewaddell.bsky.social
Who did what in early modern England?

New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️

Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
This book applies the innovative work-task approach to the history of work, which captures the contribution of all workers and types of work to the early modern economy. Drawing on tens of thousands of court depositions, the authors analyse the individual tasks that made up everyday work for women and men, shedding new light on the gender division of labour, and the ways in which time, space, age and marital status shaped sixteenth and seventeenth-century working life. Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, the book deepens our understanding of the preindustrial economy, and calls for us to rethink not only who did what, but also the implications of these findings for major debates about structural change, the nature and extent of paid work, and what has been lost as well as gained over the past three centuries of economic development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core. Cover of Whittle, Jane, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, and Taylor Aucoin. The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. of Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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earlymodernjohn.bsky.social
I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Historical Journal Call for Special Issues
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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September 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
tombhamilton.bsky.social
Really fascinating on what drove the significant increase in sodomy prosecutions in early C18 Paris – in large part a nosy lecturer at the Collège Mazarin collaborating with police, not the rise of the absolutist state...
drbernard.bsky.social Ben Bernard @drbernard.bsky.social · Oct 1
🚨 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
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October 1, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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drbernard.bsky.social
🚨 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
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October 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Good to know if unsurprising jobs impact. If you're looking for AI killing, have a look at environmental impact.
AI is not killing jobs, finds new US study
Research shows little evidence the cutting-edge tech such as chatbots is putting people out of work
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October 1, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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gsoh31.bsky.social
New from me: a *free* short version of my Political Quarterly piece on universities... The issue is settled now: the massified and accessible Higher Education system we have spent tens of billions building since the 1970s is coming to an end. (1/2)
politicalquarterly.org.uk/blog/where-n...
Where now for Britain’s Universities?
UK higher education now faces a very bleak future, retreating in the face of little public sympathy and limited political interest.
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September 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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profelainechalus.bsky.social
Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World- King's College London - Department of History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU182/l...
Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London
Explore an exciting academic career as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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September 27, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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willpooley.bsky.social
“Without the ideas+perspective of ECRs… there will be no new generation of scholars to take up ideas and push them in new directions”

@wadehistory.bsky.social on “What can be done?” for the French History Network’s ECR in 2025 series

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6746/

🗃️#FRHistory
Let me be blunt: senior colleagues, institutions and organisations need to act in accordance with the mentality that French history in Britain is on the verge of extinction, because it is. Based on the nature of the job market today, the majority of ECRs in French history are, realistically, looking for permanent positions in European (or possibly global) history or in a particular subdiscipline of history (e.g. political history, economic history, social history, and so on). This puts them in fierce competition with historians studying other countries, all of whom face the same challenges. If ECRs in French history do not manage to secure permanent positions, the entire French history community will suffer: without the ideas and perspective of ECRs, senior scholars will only be able to have conversations with each other, and there will be no new generation of scholars to take up their ideas and push them in new directions. Put another way, senior scholars who do not wish to see their books merely gathering dust in libraries twenty years from now need to be doing whatever they can to support ECRs on the job market.
September 25, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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wadehistory.bsky.social
This is an especially important blogpost, because ECRs know that senior scholars have far too much on their plate already, but the support of senior scholars (or lack thereof) makes a world of difference to the ECR experience.

(My full response follows tomorrow!)
willpooley.bsky.social will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · Sep 24
Treat ECRs like people, prepare ECRs in our fields for other careers, only supervise students if you can really commit. It’s sad this stuff still needs saying.

2nd anon post in ECR in 2025 series on the French History Network asks “What can be done?”

🗃️#FRHistory

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6693/
ECR in 2025: Part Two- What can be done? – SSFH
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September 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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willpooley.bsky.social
Treat ECRs like people, prepare ECRs in our fields for other careers, only supervise students if you can really commit. It’s sad this stuff still needs saying.

2nd anon post in ECR in 2025 series on the French History Network asks “What can be done?”

🗃️#FRHistory

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6693/
ECR in 2025: Part Two- What can be done? – SSFH
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk
September 24, 2025 at 7:33 AM
tombhamilton.bsky.social
New article by Déborah Cohen – 'Denouncing charlatans at the end of the eighteenth century: the politics of constituting a medical public' doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

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Denouncing charlatans at the end of the eighteenth century: the politics of constituting a medical public
Abstract. This article explores the porous boundary between medical and political publics at the end of the eighteenth century, based on letters sent to th
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September 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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laprofmme.bsky.social
I was deeply disappointed by the renovation of the Musée Carnavalet, one of my favorite Parisian museums. The editors of @frenchhistory.bsky.social kindly invited me to explain why.

Mille mercis to @eldrclaire.bsky.social and @tombhamilton.bsky.social for their feedback and tolerance.
An unworldly world museum: the new Musée Carnavalet– Histoire de Paris
When the Musée Carnavalet, the history museum of the city of Paris, closed for renovations in 2016, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo declared that the twin goals o
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September 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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onslies.bsky.social
AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research.

Run, don’t walk.
Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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September 23, 2025 at 7:50 AM
tombhamilton.bsky.social
New in French History: Jennifer Sessions' powerful decolonial critique of the re-opened Musée Carnavalet in Paris doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

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An unworldly world museum: the new Musée Carnavalet– Histoire de Paris
When the Musée Carnavalet, the history museum of the city of Paris, closed for renovations in 2016, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo declared that the twin goals o
doi.org
September 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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hsmurphy.bsky.social
First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate!

#EarlyModern 🗃️
September 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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wadehistory.bsky.social
I know senior scholars have too much on their plates already, but I hope they will give this blogpost (and the ones to follow) a read. The "Early Career state of mind" is very real, and the anonymous ECRs here capture so many of the challenges that it raises
willpooley.bsky.social will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · Sep 17
“Cataclysmically bad”

This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.

1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

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ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH
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September 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM