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Karst de Jong
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Historian of the Irish in the Caribbean. Volunteer bookseller.
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royalhistsoc.org
Applications are invited at any time. The next closing dates, for Fellowship and all other categories of membership, are 15 December and 9 March 2026.

We've recently published a new Guide for Fellows and Members of the Society listing the many benefits of belonging to the RHS bit.ly/485xFSn 2/2
Guide for Members - RHS
On 18 November 2025, the Society releases its new Guide for Members to highlight the benefits available to current Fellows and Members. The Guide provides information relating to the following areas o...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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pomuirch.bsky.social
This year’s O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh will be given by Professor @brendankanect.bsky.social of @earlymodirish.bsky.social fame. Brendan is Visiting Leverhulme Professor in Edinburgh in 2025 and 2026.
A poster advertising the O’Donnell Lecture at the University of Edinburgh for 2025. It will be delivered by Professor Brendan Kane at 4.15 on 10 December, in 50 George Square
November 25, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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tlodge60.bsky.social
For any family historian this is an interesting story of one family’s move from Clare to Connecticut. Detailed PhD research and a great example of how successful migration of one generation led to subsequent generations emigrating to the same area.

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Clare to Connecticut: One Family’s Escape from the Great Hunger
Podcast Episode · Transatlantic: An Irish American History Podcast · 17/11/2025 · 52m
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November 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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downham.bsky.social
Each year Liverpool has a Santa Dash. Due to banter between the city’s football teams Liverpool (Red) Everton (Blue) we get Blue Santas running. This year also Green! (P.S. my fave bit is after the run when you see clusters of bad santas hanging outside the pubs, fag in one hand, beer in the other)
November 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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vulgarhistory.bsky.social
The Regency Era in Britain had a lot of heiresses. Some of them inherited money from Caribbean plantations and enslavement.

Our guest Miranda Kaufmann talks about her research on this topic and her book HEIRESSES, today on the podcast. pod.link/1489560920/e...
November 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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irishacw.bsky.social
The new episode of Transatlantic: An Irish American History Podcast is live! In "The Red Branch: Dynamite, Death & Diaspora in 1880s San Francisco" we chat to @mylesdungan.bsky.social‬ about his super new novel, and explore the compelling history that lies behind it: shows.acast.com/transatlanti...
The Red Branch: Dynamite, Death & Diaspora in 1880s San Francisco | Transatlantic: An Irish American History Podcast
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October 13, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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balhnews.bsky.social
Join us next week for a virtual lecture about the new book 'Drax of Drax Hall: How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery.'

Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-d...
S Hutchinson, English: Slave Traffic (1793). Royal Museums Greenwich, PR1979-11 This painting refers to the story of Inkle and Yarico, first published in 1711. In the story, the 'native' woman, Yarico, rescues an Englishman Mr Inkle after a shipwreck. They fall in love and live together in the woods, before a passing ship brings them to Barbados. The picture shows Inkle at the moment that he sells Yarico into slavery. She has just told him that she is pregnant with his child, in the hope that this will make him change his mind. Inkle asks the trader for more money instead. Sentimental stories like this often exposed the cruelties of slavery, and they were used in the growing art and literature of the abolition movement. It is signed by the artist and dated.
October 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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qubhistory.bsky.social
QUB History Seminar tomorrow at 4pm BST
September 25, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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kevinkenny.bsky.social
Looking forward to launching "Rituals of Migration" @nyupress.bsky.social @gihnyu.bsky.social Sept 19, 7pm w/ @irpinaingiro.bsky.social @hidehirota.bsky.social @grainnemcevoy.bsky.social @ciantmcmahon.bsky.social @unlawfulentries.bsky.social @tedsmyth.bsky.social @josephsciorra.bsky.social &co. 🎉🎉🎉
gihnyu.bsky.social Glucksman Ireland House NYU @gihnyu.bsky.social · Sep 15
Join us this Thursday to celebrate the launch of the latest book in the NYU Press Glucksman Irish Diaspora series, Rituals of Migration: Italians and Irish on the Move. We can't wait to see you all at Ireland House this week 🎉 @nyupress.bsky.social @kevinkenny.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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historyatgalway.bsky.social
Helen Hayes-Sweeney and her MA supervisor, Breandán Mac Suibhne, joined the History Show this weekend to discuss their use of the Imirce Collection. Brilliant to hear such fascinating research carried out at MA level! Have a listen here:
www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...
The Imirce Collection of Irish Emigrant Letters
Myles Dungan and guests discuss the Irish emigrant letters in the Imirce Collection at the University of Galway. With Breandán Mac Suibhne, Daniel Carey, Marie-Louise Rouget and Helen Hayes Sweeney.
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September 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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harbottlestores.bsky.social
I'm reading a piece about Foucault where 'plague' has been mistyped as 'plaque', and honestly I'm very much up for reading a lost piece by Foucault on plaque and biopower. #histmed
September 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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downham.bsky.social
Thanks to generosity of donors, this opportunity will be advertised again next year, with paperwork needing to be in place for spring 2026, check back for the next round of applications and spread the word to talented scholars in need of support - www.liverpool.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
University of Liverpool Humanitarian Scholarships for Master's Programmes | Study | University of Liverpool
The University of Liverpool is pleased to offer tuition fee and maintenance support for up to two postgraduate taught students who have sought international protection outside of the UK so they can pr...
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September 8, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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brookenewman.bsky.social
I’m looking forward to digging into an advanced copy of HEIRESSES, the new book by @drmirandakaufmann.bsky.social (out in October!).
A copy of the galley of Heiresses: Marriage, Inheritance, and Slavery in the Caribbean by Miranda Kaufmann
August 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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bsecs.bsky.social
***CALL FOR PROPOSALS***
Routledge Studies in #18thC Cultures & Societies (eds. @profelainechalus.bsky.social & Deborah Simonton) seeks proposals for book-length studies on aspects of British, European, or transnational culture and society c.1680-1850. Full details: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...
New History Book Series Call for Proposals: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth- Century Cultures and Societies - BSECS
Series Editors: Elaine Chalus, University of Liverpool, UK and Deborah Simonton, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Routledge Editor: Max Novick The long eighteenth century sits as a pivotal poin...
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July 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
5 September deadlines for 3 Royal Historical Society programmes: Martin Lynn Scholarship (PhD research) in African History (£1,500); Early Career Fellowships (up to £2,000) and Open Research Support (£500-1,000). #Skystorians
Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: three current programmes - RHS
The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with a closing date of 5 September 2025. For further i...
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July 31, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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alicemarples.bsky.social
ACADEMIC BOOK SALE

I am moving and want to move less books if at all possible...

Please get in touch if you are interested in the following titles (all prices include postage and I am open to offers)
July 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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alanlester.bsky.social
Honoured to be contributing to this conference in memory of my former colleague and friend Trevor Burnard next week. Free to attend for anyone interested in histories of slavery & the Atlantic world (& more) if you register:

www.history.ac.uk/events/power...
Power, Slavery, and Culture in the Trans-Atlantic World: A Conference in Memory of Trevor Burnard
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June 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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monicamedhist.bsky.social
Wow! #Sinners www.aaihs.org/the-sinners-...
The ‘Sinners’ Movie Syllabus - AAIHS
The 'Sinners' Movie Syllabus is a curated educational resource inspired by the 2025 film 'Sinners,' directed by Ryan Coogler. This syllabus delves into the multifaceted historical, cultural, and socia...
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May 1, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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chantalkobel.bsky.social
I'm looking for a research assistant to join me on the SCRÍBHINN project! If you're interested in the Irish legal and medical manuscript tradition and have the relevant experience, do get in touch. See below for more details:
May 2, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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ageofrevolutions.bsky.social
James A. Dun shares a record of 4,428 discrete voyages between Philadelphia and a variety of Dominguan/Haitian ports for scholars to explore. Click for Dun's introduction to the project (with a BONUS StoryMap!) ageofrevolutions.com/2025/04/28/a...
American Trade with Revolutionary Haiti: A Dataset for Public Use
By James A. Dun It was spring 2002 and I was entering what I thought—and hoped and needed to be—the final stages of my dissertation, a study of the ways in which the events that historians have sin…
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April 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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speakerconolly.bsky.social
Excellent letter in the Irish Times reminding us that Irish builders did not build the White House as indicated by the Taoiseach this week. It was build by slaves including those owned by the Irish architect James Hoban.
March 15, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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pbhellawell.bsky.social
PASSAGE is recruiting for two fixed-term posts to join me working on 18thC records of enslavement
1) Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/aZwqn
2) Project Cataloguer (Transatlantic Slavery) shorturl.at/6aSpz
If you have questions, please let me know & please circulate widely!
Collections Researcher (Transatlantic Slavery) at The National Archives
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March 11, 2025 at 11:31 AM