Congratulations to Hayley Negrin, who won the American Society for Environmental History's Leopold-Hidy Prize for best article in Environmental History. The article, 'Return to the Yeokanta/River: Powhatan Women and Environmental Treaty Making in Early America' is free until July 1. Chicago Journals…

a day at the Archive of the Indies on the trail of pearls, emeralds, & English access to Atlantic goods, courtesy of a Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art grant. The surviving iron & wood chest, with its intricate lock mechanism, shows how the Casa de Contratación sought to preserve its secrets.

We are excited that our new #Shakespeare editions are finally published! With brand new contemporary scholarship from leading researchers, they are perfect for both first and longtime readers of the Bard.

Find them here: oxford.ly/3JerQor

h/t Laura Sangha:
Fully funded PhD studentship: Global Commodities in Early Modern Wills
Supervisors: Prof Jane Whittle & Dr Laura Sangha (Archaeology & History, Univ. Exeter).
Deadline: 1 May 2024
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please circulate far and wide!
#materialculture #PhDposition

Reclaiming the Labor of the Enslaved

In 1708 British war ships sunk the Spanish vessel San José, which carried an incredible amount of gold, silver, and emeralds. In 2015, the wreckage was uncovered off of the coast of Colombia and has since been the subject of international

As a board member, I want to encourage international and diverse scholars to submit their work to this great journal.
The award-winning Journal of Women's History is the first journal devoted exclusively to the international field of women's history.
jwomenshistory.org

📢We have just re-advertised our PhD studentship on Global Commodities in #EarlyModern wills📢

The successful student has lots of scope to shape it: this post outlines some themes they might explore. Please share!

#History #PhDChat #twitterstorians

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'Ruderal Poetics: Epic, Empire, and the Tenacity of Weeds': Thursday 18 April 2024, 6pm. Prof Nandini Das reflects on the tenacity of #weeds that share civilised spaces, to #vegetal intrusions that grow in the interstices of #epic and imperial imaginings. tinyurl.com/v6uvmyzk

Here’s more on the tiny piece of 16th century gold I found last week. I think this is an oe, an early type of sequin that was stamped out of a sheet of metal (gold, silver and brass) and sewn onto clothes to add a bit of bling - the Tudors were quite fond of a bit of bling.

Our next research seminar is tomorrow (21 March)! Join us (online or in-person) to welcome Dr Misha Ewen who will present a paper titled ‘Women, colonisation and enslavement in 17th century England and the Caribbean’.
📍BS/104 HRC York, 5.15pm
More info: york.ac.uk/crems/events/2…

In fact, all the Renaissance Elements are free to download for the next week, so go and get the others too! cambridge.org/core/publicati…

Happy to say my Cambridge University Press - History Element 'The Renaissance on the Road' is available for free download again from March 20-27 here: cambridge.org/core/elements/…

happy to have contributed a tiny bit to this with my global Tudors resource, but the whole NPG Schools hub is fab, & useful for all kinds of teaching:
npg.org.uk/schools-hub/il…

Super fascinating to see Philip II and his vicuña linens crop up in a report on 21st century labour and garment-making in Peru. Currently writing something about Elizabethan & Jacobean links to the Andes, and struck by their awareness of vicuña, quipus, & other material culture.

My Cambridge University Press Element, Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700 is out and #OpenAccess let me know if you use it in your teaching! - bit.ly/4chW3QO