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Congratulations Alison!! 🥂🥂
📚🎉📚 Huge congratulations to CECS member Dr Alison O’Byrne on the publication day of her book, The Art of Walking in London: Representing the Eighteenth-Century City, 1700-1830 from @cambridgeup.bsky.social
‘Elegantly written, well-researched, and highly engaging’ and with a gorgeous cover. #18thC
‘Elegantly written, well-researched, and highly engaging’ and with a gorgeous cover. #18thC
January 23, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Congratulations Alison!! 🥂🥂
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Good morning. It seems the right time to share that my book (preorder available) is about #scientists #transgender #LGBTQ #sexworkers and #women who fought against #Nazi fascism 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🧪🗃️
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
The Intermediaries
The fascinating history of a daring team of sexologists who built the first trans clinic in the shadow of the Third Reich., The Intermediaries, A Weimar Story, Brandy Schillace, 9781324036319
wwnorton.com
January 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Good morning. It seems the right time to share that my book (preorder available) is about #scientists #transgender #LGBTQ #sexworkers and #women who fought against #Nazi fascism 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🧪🗃️
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
wwnorton.com/books/978132...
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So grateful to @avclub.com for featuring Lessons in Magic and Disaster among its most anticipated books (in any genre) of 2025. "Charlie Jane Anders is quickly making a name for herself as one of the brightest modern voices in science fiction." 😳😅🥰
www.avclub.com/most-anticip...
www.avclub.com/most-anticip...
The most anticipated books of 2025
The most anticipated books of 2025
www.avclub.com
January 17, 2025 at 11:06 PM
So grateful to @avclub.com for featuring Lessons in Magic and Disaster among its most anticipated books (in any genre) of 2025. "Charlie Jane Anders is quickly making a name for herself as one of the brightest modern voices in science fiction." 😳😅🥰
www.avclub.com/most-anticip...
www.avclub.com/most-anticip...
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Eeee! Available for pre-order! Tell your library pals!
Our volume, Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture' asks 'what would a neurodivergent critical framework look like in literary studies'?
@annastenning.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/critical-...
Our volume, Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture' asks 'what would a neurodivergent critical framework look like in literary studies'?
@annastenning.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/critical-...
Critical Neurodiversity Studies
Bringing together cutting-edge research on neurodiversity as an evolving theme in Disability Studies and the wider Medical Humanities, this book introduces a ne…
www.bloomsbury.com
January 16, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Eeee! Available for pre-order! Tell your library pals!
Our volume, Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture' asks 'what would a neurodivergent critical framework look like in literary studies'?
@annastenning.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/critical-...
Our volume, Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Divergent Textualities in Literature and Culture' asks 'what would a neurodivergent critical framework look like in literary studies'?
@annastenning.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/critical-...
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Hi everyone - I am a historian of German colonialism, genocide studies, and the Weimar Republic. I am currently writing a book on Germany's imperial afterlife in the wake of WWI. My first book explores how Africans confronted colonial rule in Namibia (1842-1919). I also love Berlin and my cats.
November 19, 2024 at 8:55 AM
Hi everyone - I am a historian of German colonialism, genocide studies, and the Weimar Republic. I am currently writing a book on Germany's imperial afterlife in the wake of WWI. My first book explores how Africans confronted colonial rule in Namibia (1842-1919). I also love Berlin and my cats.
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Book cover reveal!!! So excited to see this 🌟🎉@reaktionbooks.bsky.social
January 9, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Book cover reveal!!! So excited to see this 🌟🎉@reaktionbooks.bsky.social
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Happy to say that my former PhD student, Titas Chakraborty, will publish her first book, *Empire of Labor: How the East India Company Colonized Hired Work*, with @ucpress.bsky.social in March 2025. Check out this brilliant 18c global labor history!
www.ucpress.edu/books/empire...
www.ucpress.edu/books/empire...
December 26, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Happy to say that my former PhD student, Titas Chakraborty, will publish her first book, *Empire of Labor: How the East India Company Colonized Hired Work*, with @ucpress.bsky.social in March 2025. Check out this brilliant 18c global labor history!
www.ucpress.edu/books/empire...
www.ucpress.edu/books/empire...
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Teaching the history of the African diaspora and Atlantic slavery in 2025? Check my book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (@uchicagopress.bsky.social )
Get 30% off by using code UCPNEW at check out press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Get 30% off by using code UCPNEW at check out press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
December 21, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Teaching the history of the African diaspora and Atlantic slavery in 2025? Check my book Humans in Shackles: An Atlantic History of Slavery (@uchicagopress.bsky.social )
Get 30% off by using code UCPNEW at check out press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Get 30% off by using code UCPNEW at check out press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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an extraordinary, imperfect, well-meaning person tried to help people in terrible situations through complicated structures. DEAR MISS PERKINS is not a happy story. But it is relevant for inauguration week when it hits stores 01/21 www.kensingtonbooks.com/978080654317...
January 17, 2025 at 2:07 AM
an extraordinary, imperfect, well-meaning person tried to help people in terrible situations through complicated structures. DEAR MISS PERKINS is not a happy story. But it is relevant for inauguration week when it hits stores 01/21 www.kensingtonbooks.com/978080654317...
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slipping in my own preorder link #aha25 www.kensingtonbooks.com/978080654317...
Dear Miss Perkins
This outstanding, inspiring new narrative of the first woman to serve in a president’s cabinet reveals the full, never-before-told story of her role in sav...
www.kensingtonbooks.com
January 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
slipping in my own preorder link #aha25 www.kensingtonbooks.com/978080654317...
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13) @econroykrutz.bsky.social’s MISSIONARY DIPLOMACY: RELIGION AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS
Somehow tells a very broad, transnational story through the lens of fleshed-out individuals. A wonderful embodiment of the “imperial turn” in American religion.
Somehow tells a very broad, transnational story through the lens of fleshed-out individuals. A wonderful embodiment of the “imperial turn” in American religion.
January 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
13) @econroykrutz.bsky.social’s MISSIONARY DIPLOMACY: RELIGION AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN FOREIGN RELATIONS
Somehow tells a very broad, transnational story through the lens of fleshed-out individuals. A wonderful embodiment of the “imperial turn” in American religion.
Somehow tells a very broad, transnational story through the lens of fleshed-out individuals. A wonderful embodiment of the “imperial turn” in American religion.
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Thanks to my editor, Erika Gaffney, and the amazing team at AUP for their support. Grateful to see my first book as part of the Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures series! Thank you to everyone helping spread the word. #EarlyModern #climatehistory #envhist
#histsci #histmed
#histsci #histmed
New from @amsterdamupress.bsky.social -
Imperialism in Early Modern Spanish Narratives: Excavating the Environmental Conflicts of the Iberian Globalization
by Miguel Ibáñez Aristondo
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
It is the latest addition to the series Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures!
Imperialism in Early Modern Spanish Narratives: Excavating the Environmental Conflicts of the Iberian Globalization
by Miguel Ibáñez Aristondo
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
It is the latest addition to the series Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures!
December 23, 2024 at 12:40 PM
Thanks to my editor, Erika Gaffney, and the amazing team at AUP for their support. Grateful to see my first book as part of the Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures series! Thank you to everyone helping spread the word. #EarlyModern #climatehistory #envhist
#histsci #histmed
#histsci #histmed
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Some months ago, a collection of articles edited by Grzegorz Pac, myself, &Jón Viðar Sigurðsson was published by Brepols. The book is in open access, & can be found here: www.brepols.net/products/IS-....
December 16, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Some months ago, a collection of articles edited by Grzegorz Pac, myself, &Jón Viðar Sigurðsson was published by Brepols. The book is in open access, & can be found here: www.brepols.net/products/IS-....
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After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂
December 17, 2024 at 1:12 PM
After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂
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Happy publication day to #oathbreakers!
Look for it at your local bookstore and if you see it on there, PLEASE post bc a pic and tag me & @lollardfish.bsky.social!
#medievalsky 🗃️
Look for it at your local bookstore and if you see it on there, PLEASE post bc a pic and tag me & @lollardfish.bsky.social!
#medievalsky 🗃️
Oathbreakers
The authors of The Bright Ages return with a real-life Game of Thrones—the story of the Carolingian Civil War, a bloody, protracted battle pitting brother against brother, father against son, that wou...
www.harpercollins.com
December 10, 2024 at 11:25 AM
Happy publication day to #oathbreakers!
Look for it at your local bookstore and if you see it on there, PLEASE post bc a pic and tag me & @lollardfish.bsky.social!
#medievalsky 🗃️
Look for it at your local bookstore and if you see it on there, PLEASE post bc a pic and tag me & @lollardfish.bsky.social!
#medievalsky 🗃️
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Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory is released _today_.
You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers.
muse.jhu.edu/book/123276
You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers.
muse.jhu.edu/book/123276
December 10, 2024 at 1:39 PM
Averting the Digital Dark Age: How Archivists, Librarians, and Technologists Built the Web a Memory is released _today_.
You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers.
muse.jhu.edu/book/123276
You can buy a copy, or, you can read it FOR FREE via Project MUSE. Please spread the news to your colleagues, your friends, your syllabus makers.
muse.jhu.edu/book/123276
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Since Alison isn't in the sky 🦋, I'll share the exciting news that her book "Envisioning the Empress: The Lives and Images of Japanese Imperial Women, 1868–1952" is out now! 🥳 I had the privilege of reading some of this great work in our writing group along the way! www.routledge.com/Envisioning-...
December 11, 2024 at 3:47 AM
Since Alison isn't in the sky 🦋, I'll share the exciting news that her book "Envisioning the Empress: The Lives and Images of Japanese Imperial Women, 1868–1952" is out now! 🥳 I had the privilege of reading some of this great work in our writing group along the way! www.routledge.com/Envisioning-...
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If you wanna reach the historical communities of the blue skies, consider using this established hashtag that reaches out to all fields with historical perspectives:
#skystorians
So, users of #historians #historian #bluestorians #blustorian #history etc, join in and enjoy. Let's boost this posting
#skystorians
So, users of #historians #historian #bluestorians #blustorian #history etc, join in and enjoy. Let's boost this posting
December 7, 2024 at 12:33 PM
If you wanna reach the historical communities of the blue skies, consider using this established hashtag that reaches out to all fields with historical perspectives:
#skystorians
So, users of #historians #historian #bluestorians #blustorian #history etc, join in and enjoy. Let's boost this posting
#skystorians
So, users of #historians #historian #bluestorians #blustorian #history etc, join in and enjoy. Let's boost this posting
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New book on how human institutions have both exacerbated and try to control epidemics. I haven't seen it yet. But seems like it's one to keep an eye out for when it's released in a couple of months: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #EpiSky
Controlling Contagion
How human institutions—markets, states, communities, religions, guilds and families—have helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.
press.princeton.edu
December 8, 2024 at 6:39 AM
New book on how human institutions have both exacerbated and try to control epidemics. I haven't seen it yet. But seems like it's one to keep an eye out for when it's released in a couple of months: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #EpiSky
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{New Book} Female Performance and Spectatorship in a Medieval Nunnery: The "Elevatio" and "Visitatio sepulchri" of Barking Abbey in Practice by Aurélie Blanc medievalsky openaccesssky https://buff.ly/3NRbgwW
November 5, 2024 at 5:00 PM
{New Book} Female Performance and Spectatorship in a Medieval Nunnery: The "Elevatio" and "Visitatio sepulchri" of Barking Abbey in Practice by Aurélie Blanc medievalsky openaccesssky https://buff.ly/3NRbgwW
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Very exciting to see that 'Islands of Place and Space' (2002), the volume I edited in honour of Arne Kruse, is now available in Open Access! 🔓 It's got vikings, history, toponymy, linguistics, literature, and lots more. Do have a look! ⛵📚 🎉
www.ssns.org.uk/monograph/is...
www.ssns.org.uk/monograph/is...
Islands of Place and Space (2022) - Scottish Society for Northern Studies
This volume honours the work of Dr Arne Kruse, bringing together fifteen contributions on the history, linguistics, toponymy, and literature of Scotland, Scandinavia, and beyond, from medieval to mode...
www.ssns.org.uk
November 1, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Very exciting to see that 'Islands of Place and Space' (2002), the volume I edited in honour of Arne Kruse, is now available in Open Access! 🔓 It's got vikings, history, toponymy, linguistics, literature, and lots more. Do have a look! ⛵📚 🎉
www.ssns.org.uk/monograph/is...
www.ssns.org.uk/monograph/is...
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The Society's book series, 'New Historical Perspectives', has just published its 20th title. The series is for early career historians and publishes first monographs and edited collections.
All titles are available Open Access and free to access. More about the 20 titles here bit.ly/3ZixvBr 1/2
All titles are available Open Access and free to access. More about the 20 titles here bit.ly/3ZixvBr 1/2
December 5, 2024 at 10:12 AM
The Society's book series, 'New Historical Perspectives', has just published its 20th title. The series is for early career historians and publishes first monographs and edited collections.
All titles are available Open Access and free to access. More about the 20 titles here bit.ly/3ZixvBr 1/2
All titles are available Open Access and free to access. More about the 20 titles here bit.ly/3ZixvBr 1/2
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BODIES BEYOND BINARIES is now available! Check it out if you’re interested in the entwined histories of race, gender, and colonialism in Asia, including chapters on India, Singapore, the Philippines, and beyond!
lup.nl/publications...
lup.nl/publications...
October 17, 2024 at 10:27 AM
BODIES BEYOND BINARIES is now available! Check it out if you’re interested in the entwined histories of race, gender, and colonialism in Asia, including chapters on India, Singapore, the Philippines, and beyond!
lup.nl/publications...
lup.nl/publications...
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📢 NEW early seventeenth-century wills on Zooniverse! 📢
We've just launched a new batch of wills dating from 1604-1608 📜
You can find these new wills under 'Checking Transcriptions - Master - Seventeenth Century' ✍️⏳
@zooniverse.bsky.social #earlymodern
www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
We've just launched a new batch of wills dating from 1604-1608 📜
You can find these new wills under 'Checking Transcriptions - Master - Seventeenth Century' ✍️⏳
@zooniverse.bsky.social #earlymodern
www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
The Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790 | Zooniverse - People-powered research
Help us transcribe wills from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and reveal how ownership of, and attitudes towards, objects changed in a period of economic transformation
www.zooniverse.org
December 5, 2024 at 10:07 AM
📢 NEW early seventeenth-century wills on Zooniverse! 📢
We've just launched a new batch of wills dating from 1604-1608 📜
You can find these new wills under 'Checking Transcriptions - Master - Seventeenth Century' ✍️⏳
@zooniverse.bsky.social #earlymodern
www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
We've just launched a new batch of wills dating from 1604-1608 📜
You can find these new wills under 'Checking Transcriptions - Master - Seventeenth Century' ✍️⏳
@zooniverse.bsky.social #earlymodern
www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...
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Lustful Appetites is out in the UK! Treat yourself and your loved ones to a sexy, tasty, holiday gift. Recommend reading passages out loud to a special person while sharing bites of something delectable uk.bookshop.org/p/books/lust...
Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex a book by Rachel Hope Cleves.
We take the edible trappings of flirtation for granted: chocolate covered strawberries and romance, oysters on the half shell and desire, the eggplant emoji and a suggestive wink. But why does it feel...
uk.bookshop.org
December 2, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Lustful Appetites is out in the UK! Treat yourself and your loved ones to a sexy, tasty, holiday gift. Recommend reading passages out loud to a special person while sharing bites of something delectable uk.bookshop.org/p/books/lust...