Just a few more spots available to attend the EHS Women’s Commitee Workshop – Women & Entrepreneurship on Friday 12 December at UCL.

Researchers from all over Europe coming to present and workshop new and innovative research on women. Come discuss and please share!

ehs.org.uk/event/womens...

Three more days to get your proposals in for the WomCom Workshop on Women & Entrepreneurship in! See #cfp below (2/2) @echistsoc.bsky.social @ehswomcom.bsky.social

Also, a prime example of female entrepreneurship, in my opinion, is Louise Renée de Kérouaille, who became one of King Charles II's mistresses. In 1681, she extracted £132,000 from the Treasury for her 'Secret Services'. A hussler if you ask me. (1/2)

On the subject of Women & Entrepreneurship, the woman of the week is Peggy Jones. A notorious mudlarker who was immortalised in this print. She utilised her knowledge of the river and its tides to scrape a living together. In her special skirt, she gathered valuables and coal, which she sold. (1/2)

CfP is out! Sign up, share, come visit, very excited about this. Let's get some great female case-studies!

What are the subjects you ask? Which amazing researchers contributed? See below!

It's here, it's happening, it's out! @ramonanegron.bsky.social
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and I present to you as editors a three part volume: West Africa, At Sea and Conflict Management and Discourse. New and exciting research on the Dutch Transatlantic Slave trade!

RIP, this little guy that was squashed in an 18th-century inventory. I'm still feeling a bit squashed myself, but on we go, back to the sources, while wondering what kind of bug this was.

Played around with georeferencing and importing John Rocque’s 1746 map of London, inspired by @locatinglondon. Interface below: @latest.allmaps.org, now on to @nodegoat.net to put my own data in. Cool stuff imho!

Reasonable workload of the day. A cheeky bulk order of Royal African Company records. Just keep flipping

'Found' this, unknown to me, beautiful and interesting painting, by Jurriaen van Streeck, presumably from the 1670s. Described as a still life, but in many ways a portrait. Van Streeck lived and died in Amsterdam. Was this young man part of the established Afro-Dutch community in Amsterdam?

A follow-up in a way from the research I did on this RCT painting. Which recently moved from Kensington Palace, where it was exhibited in public for the first time in the exhibition 'Untold Lives', to Hampton Court Palace.

On my research I wrote a two part blog: www.hrp.org.uk/blog/searchi...

Gem of the archives. Letters annotated with a summary of the response. Thank you, dear sirs. I especially love that the two sets of handwriting almost seem to come from a different century. Both men complained about the quality of the sugar coming off of the plantation L'Esperance in Suriname.

I love how this 18th-century clerk was like, you're gonna make me count shovels? I'll give you a shovel.