Fantastic to have given my paper entitled ‘Peacebuilding Through Spatial Imagination: Abel Jouan and the Royal Tour of France (1564–1566)’ at the ‘Building Peace’ conference here within the Transitional Justice group here at Groningen

A great first day of the ‘Building Peace’ conference of the Transitional Conference here at Groningen. Fascinating talks about ideas and actors of peace and justice, and how lessons of the 1970s can be applied to the early modern period. More talks tomorrow, including my talk first thing…

I was finally able to attend my Durham PhD congregation last week. I have so many people to thank. I thank my Durham supervisors @tombhamilton.bsky.social and Graeme Small, and Susanne Rau from Erfurt for all the help and support over the years 👨🏼‍🎓

Great to have visited Esslingen the other day. Not only was it extremely charming, but it happened to be the main case study for one of my favourite books of early modern urban history #earlymodern #urbanhistory

Celebrated an early Thanksgiving in Tübingen this weekend 🍂