Joel Herman

Thanks for following along. I’m here for all things history. But posting mostly on the history of Ireland, America, Britain, and the wider Atlantic world, 1650-1850.

The NACBS is delighted to announce two new fellowships along with a new grants funding scheme as part of our efforts to preserve and expand British Studies scholarship. More info on the fellowships and grants can be found here: www.nacbs.org/news/new-fel...

What a wonderful conversation! You can re-listen to it on the same link, and we can really recommend doing so! #earlymodern #skystorians

Free to read | Discover a selection of free to read articles from Archivium Hibernicum, and learn more about the Catholic Historical Society of Ireland in this blog post. Read here:

Commonplacing, lameness, disability, printing, massacres, the Tower, the church, landscape and more! #EarlyModern lightning talks for @ihrscb.bsky.social on Nov 12th at the @ihr.bsky.social, with @joesaunders1.bsky.social, @maybeitwasutah.bsky.social and more. Registration link to follow soon.

Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, @jackieeales.bsky.social’s project @canterburyccuni.bsky.social examines the French-speaking immigrant community in Canterbury from 1640 to 1800, mapping how its members integrated into local society. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr...

It's finally here! And straight to paperback for the lucrative Christmas market. Buy Imprisonment for Debt in Early Modern England for all your loved ones here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...

When someone is giving away books and they are books you actually need! Great to pick up these two on eighteenth-century Ireland.

1/2 "Chris Wickham (1950–2026): A Past & Present Virtual Issue" academic.oup.com/past/pages/c...

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📣Out now on #firstview! Sujit Sivasundaram @camhistory.bsky.social with 'Afterword: What Next for Cross-Contextualization?' #History #Science #Global #Collaboration #Roundtable #Discussion #Contextualization 🗃️📜 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢 Our next seminar is scheduled for Tuesday 10 November with Mark Towsey, presenting a paper on: "Eighteenth-Century Libraries Online and the Digital Recovery of British and American Women's Reading and Writing" 🗓️ Tuesday 10 November, 5pm 📍 H/G09, Heslington Hall & Zoom 🔗 bit.ly/4dMO0h9

Booking is now open for the IHR London Group of Historical Geographers next seminar, 27 October. Join us in person or online for 'The many faces of Sans Souci: Black watchmakers in the 17th- and 18th-century Caribbean'. Free. Open to all researchers, students & the public. Please book in advance.

Call for Papers for the 41st Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society on "Women in Long Eighteenth-Century Scotland and Beyond", Sorbonne Université, Paris, 6-9 July 2027. Deadline for submissions: 15 December 2026 ecsss.org/wp-content/u...

The Society will be one of 80+ history & archive groups taking part in History Day 2027 bit.ly/4eLhj3Y - a great opportunity to discover the world of historical research. We look forward to meeting attendees and learning about the work and collections of fellow exhibitors #Skystorians

VRTI warmly welcomes today’s announcement by Taoiseach Micheál Martin and James Lawless, Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, supporting its development as Ireland’s National Platform for Digital History and Heritage from 2027. www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

I couldn’t be happier for a great partner who seamlessly bring together the tactile materiality of archives with digital wizardry!

Wonderful to see this today - a massive win for humanities research in Ireland and its importance in the wider world!

Really great news here for Irish history. Huge congratulations to my @historytcd.bsky.social colleagues @petercrooks.bsky.social and @ciaranwallace.bsky.social for their persistence, determination and vision in driving this

This is the best news!

‘Hume fussed over the elegance and propriety of his prose, and did not view form and presentation merely as aesthetic supplements to the philosophical content of his work.’ Colin Kidd on the philosopher: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

AUTUMN 2026-7 Term Card Kicking off tonight at 5:30pm, we have a full slate of seminar papers planned for this term covering a range of topics across the long eighteenth century. Registration to attend will be available at the following link: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... @ihr.bsky.social

First seminar in person in Oxford tomorrow Tuesday 20 October. See you there!

A new open-access course is available on the RSA website. The Printing Press in Spanish America was developed for English-speaking secondary- and undergraduate-level students. Educators are encouraged to make use of this free resource! Details: www.rsa.org/news/736964/... #RenTwitter #earlymodern

Joint #earlymodern online book launch next Monday, 26 Oct for myself & @rentravailer.bsky.social, hosted by the wonderful @srsrensoc.bsky.social! We've had a few joint reviews so this is finally our chance to say more about the connections between the two books. Please consider joining us online!

PROGRAMME! Papers on Venice & the Ottoman empire by Filippo de Vivo and the history of blindness by Francisco Eissa Barroso, as well as a celebration of and reflection on recent books. Mondays, 17:30 All welcome in person @ihr.bsky.social or on zoom www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #earlymodern

I'm delighted to be part of the organizing committee (with Liz, @tannerallread.bsky.social, Jess Roney, Justin Roberts, Sally Gordon, & @quilldir.bsky.social) for this conference to be held next April in Philly. If you're at all interested in constitutions, broadly construed, check out our CfP:

It’s here and it’s real!!! I’m so excited for @noraslonimsky.bsky.social and I can’t wait to read it next week ahead of our podcast conversation!!!

Just finished Maryam Aslany’s excellent Peasant: Makers of the Modern World. Has a strong emphasis on peasants as practitioners of sustainability and custodians of ecological knowledge from India to Cambodia, from Peru to Ghana. More evidence peasants having a historiographical moment.

BOOK TALK! Delighted to host @rentravailer.bsky.social & @laurenworking.bsky.social in conversation about their fab books which are reconfiguring our understanding of #earlymodern England in a global perspective! Mon 26 Oct, 5pm (UK) free registration: www.crowdcast.io/c/das-working #skystorians

Mark your calendars NACBS is heading to London! The Call for Papers for #nacbs2027 is out now. We will be meeting at Senate House on July 13-16, hosted by @ihr.bsky.social The submission website will open on December 1 and close on January 8. Join us in London! www.nacbs.org/call-for-pap...

We have acquired a number of digital resources to assist with research, providing access to: • 100s of Irish newspaper titles + serials • Full text access to many standard reference works • Records of government + official publication • Digitised books, manuscripts + maps https://ow.ly/Y1Cv50ZUVuR

📢 Local History fans in Armagh! Come hear about the Virtual Treasury + remarkable Armagh records Free public talk Tues 20 Oct 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm. Stories, Landscape & Folklore: Early Investigations of Ireland in the Armagh Robinson Library Collection armaghrobinsonlibrary.co.uk/event/talk-s...

Coming soon.

This #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM2026 we’re highlighting a remarkable story from our Revolution 250 exhibition. Scipio Handley was a free-born Black Loyalist, fisherman, Revolutionary War veteran, and spy. His story took him from revolutionary America to London’s growing early-modern Black community.

At French History we're appointing a new Co-Editor and a new Associate Editor in the history of France and/or the Francophone world in the post-1789 period. Deadline 16 Nov. Do get in touch if you have any questions! Links posted below. 🧐📚📖👋✉️💾✍️🖥️🇫🇷 @frenchhistory.bsky.social academic.oup.com/fh

I first saw the Eiffel Tower as an undergraduate student on a Europe trip. 15 years later I finally made it back.

It was wonderful to hear from the fabulous America 2026 team about this incredibly collaborative project. Was a pleasure to take part in the conference. Very grateful to the organisers and other participants and attendees.

CfP! 🗃️ Marloes Cornelissen Aydemir, @tommasoaga.bsky.social, @jakedyble.bsky.social and I are very excited to be arranging a conference in Istanbul (13–14 May) on Early Modern Euro-Ottoman Exchange. PhD students/ECRs especially welcome! Please share with anyone who might be interested

📢 Applications are officially OPEN! We’re excited to launch our latest round of Fellowships, Prizes, and Bursaries ! Whether you're a early career scholar, or established historian, discover how our funding can support your research, travel, and publications. 🗓️ Apply: buff.ly/2aZE829

There's a 3 year VAP in the history of early modern empires at Vanderbilt apply.interfolio.com/191792 🗃

Applications are open for this year's Brotherton Fellowship @universityofleeds.bsky.social ! This short term postdoctoral fellowship involves working with our amazing Cultural Collections. Deadline 9 November 2026. All details at lahri.leeds.ac.uk/brotherton-f...

Registration for our joint annual seminar with @UCC in Cork is now open. Programme details and link to register are here irishtextssociety.org/seminar.html

Congratulations to Kevin Arlyck (georgetownlaw.bsky.social) whose book The Nation at Sea was awarded the 2026 Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society by the American Historical Association (historians.org). @camhistory.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

Excited to make the journey over to Paris for a conference on ‘The American Revolution, Europe, and the World’. The conference is organised by the AMERICA2026 project. For more information about the project check out their website america2026.eu.