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Job opportunity! We are looking for no less than 3 PhD candidates investigating histories of enslavement, slavery and racialization through early modern court records from across the early modern European colonial (French, Portuguese and Spanish empires)👇iisg.amsterdam/en/blog/3-phd-…

Last year Zoë Jackson, Emily Rhodes, Charmian Mansell ([email protected]), Lucy M. Kaufman, Angela Muir and I hit the NACBS in twinned panels exploring early modern legal recs for encounters with law. Some thoughts from our papers will be appearing at the link below, intro'd by Mark Hailwood!

🚨 JOB 🚨

Departmental Lecturer in Early Modern History Oxford History Christ Church

See below for details ⬇️
history.ox.ac.uk/event/departme…

We're kicking off our #GHIL Summer Lecture Series next Tuesday with a Double Lecture by Hannah Murphy (King's History) and Sarah-Maria Schober (@sm_schober,Universität Zürich) on 'Artisanal Race-Making in Early Modern Germany'!

Join us in person or virtually: ghil.ac.uk/events/lecture…!

Pleased to have been appointed to the board of The Historian magazine (Historical Assoc) with particular oversight for local history. I'd be interested to hear proposals for short pieces on your local history research. history.org.uk/publications/c…

Who was using the Court of Chancery during the civil wars and interregnum (1640-1660)? What sort of cases were brought? Want to find out? Applications now open for a funded PhD studentship supervised my DAF and myself. More details via the link. jobs.ac.uk/job/DHI022/ahr…

Sophie Smith (University College, Oxford (Univ)) asks about the role of intellectual history in perpetuating the prejudices faced by women in philosophy in the London Review of Books

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

#CfA #KFG #Religion and #Urbanity still open: urbrel.hypotheses.org/9930 Universität Erfurt

Much easier to draw a badger than a unicorn. (Peacham, Graphice, 1612) 🦡🦄🦡🦄🦡🦄

‘Contemporaries were convinced that the problem of atheism was both pervasive and growing. As Thomas Nashe put it, “there is no Sect now in England so scattered as Atheisme.”’

Alexandra Walsham on early modern godlessness: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

translating sixteenth-century tuscan cow names