Julie Hardwick
@juliehardwick.bsky.social
Historian | France| Gender| Global Early Modern| Views my own | Writing: An Intimate History of Racial Capitalism in Old Regime France | Sex in an Old Regime City (OUP, 2020).
More here: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/jholwell
More here: https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/history/faculty/jholwell
5/ And a delightful sticker which is now on my laptop along with one from the Tokyo Disney (the two being linked with some work of fictive genealogy 😍) and
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
5/ And a delightful sticker which is now on my laptop along with one from the Tokyo Disney (the two being linked with some work of fictive genealogy 😍) and
3/n This book even came with the cleverest swag - the coolest little folded bookmark which I am going to post in the comments. Karin is always raising the bar for all of us in so many ways 😍.
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
3/n This book even came with the cleverest swag - the coolest little folded bookmark which I am going to post in the comments. Karin is always raising the bar for all of us in so many ways 😍.
1/n Belatedly (for which I blame all the things this semester), I am celebrating Karin Wulf's wonderful, important, and gorgeous new book. So long in the making and so excellent. Order it and read it now if you haven't yet! 😍
November 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
1/n Belatedly (for which I blame all the things this semester), I am celebrating Karin Wulf's wonderful, important, and gorgeous new book. So long in the making and so excellent. Order it and read it now if you haven't yet! 😍
Hello! Yes I do - here's the other page. Feel free to email me!
November 8, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Hello! Yes I do - here's the other page. Feel free to email me!
1/2 At the airport at 3:45 for a 6 am flight (thank you gov shutdown!) but - nevertheless - I'm looking forward to my first ever visit to Princeton for a talk to the History Department today - about enslaved apprentices among other things in Nantes.
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
1/2 At the airport at 3:45 for a 6 am flight (thank you gov shutdown!) but - nevertheless - I'm looking forward to my first ever visit to Princeton for a talk to the History Department today - about enslaved apprentices among other things in Nantes.
If you are Academia [edu] platform, now might be a good time to delete your account
September 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
If you are Academia [edu] platform, now might be a good time to delete your account
1/2 A brief celebration with Miranda Spieler of her amazing new book, Slaves in Paris - run to order it now if you haven't yet. It's a true banger and a major field changer.
I did not blurb it (see the lovely blurbs) but I endorse it so enthusiastically! Many congratulations to Miranda
I did not blurb it (see the lovely blurbs) but I endorse it so enthusiastically! Many congratulations to Miranda
June 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
1/2 A brief celebration with Miranda Spieler of her amazing new book, Slaves in Paris - run to order it now if you haven't yet. It's a true banger and a major field changer.
I did not blurb it (see the lovely blurbs) but I endorse it so enthusiastically! Many congratulations to Miranda
I did not blurb it (see the lovely blurbs) but I endorse it so enthusiastically! Many congratulations to Miranda
Life in the #archives. A poisoning case two days in a row! A 15 hour day driving over 300 miles round trip to Quimper for the Archives Départementales du Finisterre. Took 325 photos (!). Followed by a big bowl of fantastic moules and a wonderful late afternoon swimming and sunning ❤️
June 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Life in the #archives. A poisoning case two days in a row! A 15 hour day driving over 300 miles round trip to Quimper for the Archives Départementales du Finisterre. Took 325 photos (!). Followed by a big bowl of fantastic moules and a wonderful late afternoon swimming and sunning ❤️
1/2 Two nuns, a priest and a poisoning on 1781. The Ursulines you never knew ... Could be a movie!
But really some very interesting and rare material - and so much of it - about the inner workings of a convent (so much loss of convent records due to the events of the Revolution of course).
But really some very interesting and rare material - and so much of it - about the inner workings of a convent (so much loss of convent records due to the events of the Revolution of course).
June 23, 2025 at 7:34 PM
1/2 Two nuns, a priest and a poisoning on 1781. The Ursulines you never knew ... Could be a movie!
But really some very interesting and rare material - and so much of it - about the inner workings of a convent (so much loss of convent records due to the events of the Revolution of course).
But really some very interesting and rare material - and so much of it - about the inner workings of a convent (so much loss of convent records due to the events of the Revolution of course).
Delighted to be in Geneva (first time!) for a fascinating workshop organized by Loraine Chappuis & Stéphanie Sourbrier at the University of Geneva. I'd never thought of my current project in terms of this historiography so I appreciate their lovely invitation & I'm looking forward to learning a lot!
June 17, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Delighted to be in Geneva (first time!) for a fascinating workshop organized by Loraine Chappuis & Stéphanie Sourbrier at the University of Geneva. I'd never thought of my current project in terms of this historiography so I appreciate their lovely invitation & I'm looking forward to learning a lot!
3) A small and a large metal can - with the papers that were in them!
May 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
3) A small and a large metal can - with the papers that were in them!
2/ A small and a large leather pocket book - with the papers that were in them!
May 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
2/ A small and a large leather pocket book - with the papers that were in them!
1/ Cool day in the archives today - 😍❤️ The Prize Papers!
Mid-18th century material culture gone wild:-)
A canvas bag - and the papers that were in it!
Mid-18th century material culture gone wild:-)
A canvas bag - and the papers that were in it!
May 21, 2025 at 2:24 PM
1/ Cool day in the archives today - 😍❤️ The Prize Papers!
Mid-18th century material culture gone wild:-)
A canvas bag - and the papers that were in it!
Mid-18th century material culture gone wild:-)
A canvas bag - and the papers that were in it!
I'm honored to at the University of Glasgow next Wednesday for the Center for Gender History's annual Global Gender History public lecture to talk about the 18th-century migration stories of "Charlotte from the nation of Senegal" and other enslaved and free black women from West Africa to Nantes.
May 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I'm honored to at the University of Glasgow next Wednesday for the Center for Gender History's annual Global Gender History public lecture to talk about the 18th-century migration stories of "Charlotte from the nation of Senegal" and other enslaved and free black women from West Africa to Nantes.
Delighted to see this excellent new book from Ben Jackson out this week from the Gender in History series at @manchesterup.bsky.social. Historians of the 18thc, Britain, or masclinity or material culture, here's one for you!
April 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Delighted to see this excellent new book from Ben Jackson out this week from the Gender in History series at @manchesterup.bsky.social. Historians of the 18thc, Britain, or masclinity or material culture, here's one for you!
Congratulations @maryfissell.bsky.social !
April 4, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Congratulations @maryfissell.bsky.social !
French historians - is anyone/anyone you know working at the AD Ille et Vilaine now or soon? Or have you worked there or know anyone who has? I have a question that someone might be able to save me a lot of time with. [I know I can email the archivists - for various reasons I'm trying here first]
March 30, 2025 at 6:58 PM
French historians - is anyone/anyone you know working at the AD Ille et Vilaine now or soon? Or have you worked there or know anyone who has? I have a question that someone might be able to save me a lot of time with. [I know I can email the archivists - for various reasons I'm trying here first]
4/ Young men went there from France hoping to profit from slavery of course as he surely had hoped to ....
February 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
4/ Young men went there from France hoping to profit from slavery of course as he surely had hoped to ....
3/ His note was tucked into a letter to her from a legal agent announcing his death and giving details of the estate she and their sister would inherit (most debts....). She never received it of course because the ship it was sent on was captured and it's in the Prize Papers.
February 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
3/ His note was tucked into a letter to her from a legal agent announcing his death and giving details of the estate she and their sister would inherit (most debts....). She never received it of course because the ship it was sent on was captured and it's in the Prize Papers.
2/ of the brother who is the must invested in your happiness... I have given you so much evidence of that during my life You will still know that after my Death.
La Touche (his name name) who was your brother".
La Touche (his name name) who was your brother".
February 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
2/ of the brother who is the must invested in your happiness... I have given you so much evidence of that during my life You will still know that after my Death.
La Touche (his name name) who was your brother".
La Touche (his name name) who was your brother".
1/ A siblings archival fragment with a heart for Valentines day.
A 1778 deathbed note with a heart from a Nantes brother in Saint Domingue to his sister in Nantes for Valentines Day. He wrote "Delightful, lovely and very dear sister, The last goodbyes ...
A 1778 deathbed note with a heart from a Nantes brother in Saint Domingue to his sister in Nantes for Valentines Day. He wrote "Delightful, lovely and very dear sister, The last goodbyes ...
February 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
1/ A siblings archival fragment with a heart for Valentines day.
A 1778 deathbed note with a heart from a Nantes brother in Saint Domingue to his sister in Nantes for Valentines Day. He wrote "Delightful, lovely and very dear sister, The last goodbyes ...
A 1778 deathbed note with a heart from a Nantes brother in Saint Domingue to his sister in Nantes for Valentines Day. He wrote "Delightful, lovely and very dear sister, The last goodbyes ...
Delighted to again be on the prize committee for the Natalie Zemon Davis book awards, started last year by the @16csociety.bsky.social Two awards are made - a first book & a subsequent book. This is a wonderful way to honor Natalie's legacy. Please share widely!
February 3, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Delighted to again be on the prize committee for the Natalie Zemon Davis book awards, started last year by the @16csociety.bsky.social Two awards are made - a first book & a subsequent book. This is a wonderful way to honor Natalie's legacy. Please share widely!
Do people answer questions here like on twitter???
If so #legalhistory people, did Parlement judges have to come to unanimous decisions or could majority decision prevail? Did they vote? (Showing I never work on those courts)
@mpbreen21.bsky.social ? @tombhamilton.bsky.social ? Others?
If so #legalhistory people, did Parlement judges have to come to unanimous decisions or could majority decision prevail? Did they vote? (Showing I never work on those courts)
@mpbreen21.bsky.social ? @tombhamilton.bsky.social ? Others?
January 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Do people answer questions here like on twitter???
If so #legalhistory people, did Parlement judges have to come to unanimous decisions or could majority decision prevail? Did they vote? (Showing I never work on those courts)
@mpbreen21.bsky.social ? @tombhamilton.bsky.social ? Others?
If so #legalhistory people, did Parlement judges have to come to unanimous decisions or could majority decision prevail? Did they vote? (Showing I never work on those courts)
@mpbreen21.bsky.social ? @tombhamilton.bsky.social ? Others?
Terrific Global 1776 call for papers - Hong Kong in Spring 1776 with travel support available.
December 10, 2024 at 1:38 PM
Terrific Global 1776 call for papers - Hong Kong in Spring 1776 with travel support available.