Lewis Wade 🗃️
@wadehistory.bsky.social
Incoming Humboldt fellow at Bamberg | Historian of early modern French global commerce - political/economic/social/maritime history 🇫🇷🌍🏳️🌈 | Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France out now - download for free http://t.ly/NMc17
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Lewis Wade 🗃️
@wadehistory.bsky.social
· Nov 10
To (re)introduce myself, I'm an historian of global French commerce under Louis XIV. My works below are all free to download!
Book on commerce, risk and absolutism: t.ly/NMc17
Female agency in Atlantic colonialism: t.ly/VNM4-
Power and sovereignty under Louis XIV: t.ly/v2vfH
#MaritimeHistory 🗃️
Book on commerce, risk and absolutism: t.ly/NMc17
Female agency in Atlantic colonialism: t.ly/VNM4-
Power and sovereignty under Louis XIV: t.ly/v2vfH
#MaritimeHistory 🗃️
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This is admittedly rather out of date now, but in this blogpost I discuss the wonderful experience I had presenting my research to the Association of Business Historians in 2023 for the Coleman Prize session. Thanks to the EHS for its support, and all recent PhDs should give the Prize a look!
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This is admittedly rather out of date now, but in this blogpost I discuss the wonderful experience I had presenting my research to the Association of Business Historians in 2023 for the Coleman Prize session. Thanks to the EHS for its support, and all recent PhDs should give the Prize a look!
Reposted by Lewis Wade 🗃️
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
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Now on the Long Run: 'The price of privilege: understanding absolutism and Atlantic commerce under the Sun King of France'
Lewis Wade (Leiden) presents their research which won the 2023 Association of Business Historians Coleman Prize & was based upon an EHS Research Fund for Graduate Students grant
Lewis Wade (Leiden) presents their research which won the 2023 Association of Business Historians Coleman Prize & was based upon an EHS Research Fund for Graduate Students grant
November 10, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Now on the Long Run: 'The price of privilege: understanding absolutism and Atlantic commerce under the Sun King of France'
Lewis Wade (Leiden) presents their research which won the 2023 Association of Business Historians Coleman Prize & was based upon an EHS Research Fund for Graduate Students grant
Lewis Wade (Leiden) presents their research which won the 2023 Association of Business Historians Coleman Prize & was based upon an EHS Research Fund for Graduate Students grant
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Thought for the day:
On Bluesky, it's "nice" to "Like", but it's (more) effective to Repost. Be effective. (You can also be nice).
On Bluesky, it's "nice" to "Like", but it's (more) effective to Repost. Be effective. (You can also be nice).
November 10, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Thought for the day:
On Bluesky, it's "nice" to "Like", but it's (more) effective to Repost. Be effective. (You can also be nice).
On Bluesky, it's "nice" to "Like", but it's (more) effective to Repost. Be effective. (You can also be nice).
This is admittedly rather out of date now, but in this blogpost I discuss the wonderful experience I had presenting my research to the Association of Business Historians in 2023 for the Coleman Prize session. Thanks to the EHS for its support, and all recent PhDs should give the Prize a look!
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This is admittedly rather out of date now, but in this blogpost I discuss the wonderful experience I had presenting my research to the Association of Business Historians in 2023 for the Coleman Prize session. Thanks to the EHS for its support, and all recent PhDs should give the Prize a look!
Reposted by Lewis Wade 🗃️
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen.
Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.
Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.
November 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen.
Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.
Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.
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Since we’re in the mood for strict accuracy in broadcast news, worth noting that a rival channel had a pundit - unchallenged - say asylum seekers in hotels committed 44% of sexual offences in one county, seemingly because she cannot understand basic maths.
A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
November 9, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Since we’re in the mood for strict accuracy in broadcast news, worth noting that a rival channel had a pundit - unchallenged - say asylum seekers in hotels committed 44% of sexual offences in one county, seemingly because she cannot understand basic maths.
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Can any Dutch speakers help me out with an indexing query please? Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen - does he get listed under Jacob or Cornelisz?
November 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Can any Dutch speakers help me out with an indexing query please? Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen - does he get listed under Jacob or Cornelisz?
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I am beyond thrilled that my @universitypress.cambridge.org book, Music & Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, has won the 2025 Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society for the best book written by "a scholar past the early stages of their career" 🙏♥️ #AMSMT25
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I am beyond thrilled that my @universitypress.cambridge.org book, Music & Musicians in Late Mughal India: Histories of the Ephemeral, has won the 2025 Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society for the best book written by "a scholar past the early stages of their career" 🙏♥️ #AMSMT25
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sprout season!
every person that i served this ridiculously easy gratin yesterday asked me for the recipe. www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/crea...
every person that i served this ridiculously easy gratin yesterday asked me for the recipe. www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/crea...
Creamy brussels sprout gratin with walnuts
This creamy brussels sprout gratin recipe is guaranteed to convert sprout resisters into fans. An easy Christmas side dish for 6.
www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 AM
sprout season!
every person that i served this ridiculously easy gratin yesterday asked me for the recipe. www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/crea...
every person that i served this ridiculously easy gratin yesterday asked me for the recipe. www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/crea...
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
I know a great many, including so many on here. If I'm entirely honest, they're what's keeping me in academia (and they're the people keeping academia afloat more broadly).
Right, enough of James Watson - who's a senior academic you've met who's been an utter delight?
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
I'll go first: Jocelyn Bell Burnell
November 8, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I know a great many, including so many on here. If I'm entirely honest, they're what's keeping me in academia (and they're the people keeping academia afloat more broadly).
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Our #microbiome is us. We are holobionts, as Lynn Margulis understood.
Thinking must be ecological, for every complex being is an ecology, as well as living in one.
#microbiotoxicity, the threat of damage to microbes, has to be on regulatory agendas
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thinking must be ecological, for every complex being is an ecology, as well as living in one.
#microbiotoxicity, the threat of damage to microbes, has to be on regulatory agendas
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The nature extinction crisis is mirrored by one in our own bodies. Both have huge implications for health
Modern life is waging a war against ecosystems around us and inside us. Keeping our own microbes healthy is another reason to demand action to preserve the natural world
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Our #microbiome is us. We are holobionts, as Lynn Margulis understood.
Thinking must be ecological, for every complex being is an ecology, as well as living in one.
#microbiotoxicity, the threat of damage to microbes, has to be on regulatory agendas
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Thinking must be ecological, for every complex being is an ecology, as well as living in one.
#microbiotoxicity, the threat of damage to microbes, has to be on regulatory agendas
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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The first week of learning a new language is always really challenging, but Frankfurt has made me feel very welcome so far!
November 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The first week of learning a new language is always really challenging, but Frankfurt has made me feel very welcome so far!
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For those who are interested in intellectual history and early modern Ottoman world: Don't miss this extraordinary book by Marinos Sariyannis!
Published open access today!🎉
#OttomanHistory #EarlyModern
Published open access today!🎉
#OttomanHistory #EarlyModern
My latest book, on open access!
Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url: academic.oup.com/book/61617
Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire url: academic.oup.com/book/61617
Ottomans and the Supernatural: Nature and the Limits of Knowledge in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Abstract. Man is part of nature, we say, and perhaps for most of us nature includes all that exists (at least in a tangible way—i.e. if we want to exclude
academic.oup.com
November 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
For those who are interested in intellectual history and early modern Ottoman world: Don't miss this extraordinary book by Marinos Sariyannis!
Published open access today!🎉
#OttomanHistory #EarlyModern
Published open access today!🎉
#OttomanHistory #EarlyModern
The first week of learning a new language is always really challenging, but Frankfurt has made me feel very welcome so far!
November 6, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The first week of learning a new language is always really challenging, but Frankfurt has made me feel very welcome so far!
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Next Thursday (13 Nov), I'll talk about early modern southern Africa's framing as the "Western Part of the East Indies"
@leidenhumanities.bsky.social
universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
I'll speak about future directions from this paper: doi.org/10.1093/past...
@leidenhumanities.bsky.social
universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
I'll speak about future directions from this paper: doi.org/10.1093/past...
The Western Part of the East Indies: Colonial Worldmaking and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape Colony
Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
universiteitleiden.nl
November 5, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Next Thursday (13 Nov), I'll talk about early modern southern Africa's framing as the "Western Part of the East Indies"
@leidenhumanities.bsky.social
universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
I'll speak about future directions from this paper: doi.org/10.1093/past...
@leidenhumanities.bsky.social
universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
I'll speak about future directions from this paper: doi.org/10.1093/past...
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TOOOOOOOOOOM!!! @tombhamilton.bsky.social! Oh this is brilliant, humongous congratulations. The Natalie Zemon Davis Prize from the @16csociety.bsky.social! 🤩
#NZD4Eva (don't forget her birthday on Saturday, our #EarlyModern feast day)
#NZD4Eva (don't forget her birthday on Saturday, our #EarlyModern feast day)
Hamilton_Book award - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
November 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
TOOOOOOOOOOM!!! @tombhamilton.bsky.social! Oh this is brilliant, humongous congratulations. The Natalie Zemon Davis Prize from the @16csociety.bsky.social! 🤩
#NZD4Eva (don't forget her birthday on Saturday, our #EarlyModern feast day)
#NZD4Eva (don't forget her birthday on Saturday, our #EarlyModern feast day)
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Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️
October 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️
I can only read this with Pomeranz's arguments on the Great Divergence in mind, and appreciate the irony.
Europe and the curse of geography
A lack of rare earths is just one way in which nature disadvantages the continent
www.ft.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:30 PM
I can only read this with Pomeranz's arguments on the Great Divergence in mind, and appreciate the irony.
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Couldn't find the original meme so I had to bake up a new version from scratch
October 31, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Couldn't find the original meme so I had to bake up a new version from scratch
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what a week. 2 more job rejections on my already a decade covering list of failed applications to stay within academia. the time to say goodbye is in sight.
October 31, 2025 at 10:23 AM
what a week. 2 more job rejections on my already a decade covering list of failed applications to stay within academia. the time to say goodbye is in sight.
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We are thrilled to share the CFP for our Symposium, Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714. We hope to bring together a range of interdisciplinary research on this complex and understudied period! #EarlyModern #CfP
October 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
We are thrilled to share the CFP for our Symposium, Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714. We hope to bring together a range of interdisciplinary research on this complex and understudied period! #EarlyModern #CfP