Read the fascinating article by our French colleague Myriam BMaguire, Associate Professor of Linguistics Université Sorbonne Nouvelle about her project on 1000 French letters found in the Prize Papers Project The National Archives

Yesterday, we visited the "Prize Papers plant" Kew Gardens, grown from 203-year-old seeds once found in an 1803 wallet in the Prize Papers Project. Absolutely amazing that the seeds were still germinating after all these years. Find out more: kew.org/read-and-watch…

Gabrielle Robilliard and myself Dagmar Freist @[email protected] represented the Prize Papers Project at this highly interesting and important conference on Hidden Archives of Capitalism and Slavery in the Indian Ocean State, Business, Personal Collections at Rice Global Center Paris. Thank you Daniel Domingues

This week we hosted a Spanish delegation from Cátedra Internacional CEU Elcano Museo Naval to discuss potential avenues of cooperation with the Prize Papers Project Project The National Archives and at the University of Oldenburg. We are thankful for the fruitful discussions and look forward to the next steps

New GLOBALISE newsletter out! In this issue announcements of two new blog posts about the development of our #thesaurus, a 📅 seminar, and new #datasets. We also share a call for interns and job openings for PhD students in a #slavery history project. huygens.email-provider.eu/web/2i18x2fcku…

6/6: That name - 'Dog's Nose' was familiar - and then I realised why: last year I used Ebenezer Church's pattern sheet to write a list poem of clay pipe names, as below - and Dog's Nose is there, starting the third verse!

Postdoctoral position! I have a vacancy for a four-year postdoc in my ERC project PRESERVARE, starting 1 February 2025 (date negotiable). Please spread the word and contact me for more information if you’re interested. vacatures.knaw.nl/job/Amsterdam-…

A rare, for our corpus, but rich example of letter-sharing. What say others? Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence Online (EMCO) Unlocking The Mary Hamilton Papers Early Modern Letters 'I cannot express how we all rejoiced when it appeared every one taking a peep & impatient till the other had perused it.' A. Robertson to daughter, 1803

In our first ever blog post, I wrote about indirect medical involvement in the slave trade. In our latest, I'm writing about the direct opposite: medical expertise constructed in the crucible of the middle passage, and the social authority its surgeons claim as their due...

I played “Publish or Perish” last night with my lab. It was a blast—it pokes fun at a lot of absurdities of academia. A perfect 👍 game for a lab party! You try to gain as many citations as possible while publishing papers, sabotaging your highly cited peers, and making snarky

Last week, we presented our Prize Papers Project materiality approach at the ‘New Directions in the Materiality of Letter-Writing’ conference University College Dublin. Many thanks to Helen Newsome-Chandler & Danielle Clarke 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🚲 for a great and important event and for being great hosts!

COLONIZING CONDIMENTS: our (me & Julia Fine & Jack Bouchard) new article on the #earlymodern making (& re-making) of ketchup, mango pickle, piccalilli, and chile sauce is now up Global Food History & is open access, free to all. 🍅🫛🌶️🥭 doi.org/10.1080/205495…

Achtung Neuerscheinung! Ende diesen Monats wird mit dem Tagungsband zu Frühneuzeitlichen Schularchitekturen die erste interdisziplinäre und vergleichende Studie zur Thematik überhaupt veröffentlicht. #earlymodernSchoolarchitecture #neuerscheinung

Last week I spoke about materiality approaches in Prize Papers Project at a great workshop on DH methods for exploring Moravian botanical networks organised by the BMBF project Naturforschung und protestantische Mission at TU Dresden and Uni Halle: tu-dresden.de/mn/biologie/bo… #botany

Das Thema Frühneuzeitlicher Schularchitekturen ist ein interdisziplinäres und internationales. Einen ersten Aufschlag dazu bietet der neue Tagungsband in der Reihe der Halleschen Forschungen. Er erscheint Ende diesen Monats.

Far from being stable entities, many written artefacts evolve over time, acquiring #layers. A new #OccasionalPaper takes an analytical perspective on these ‘multilayered’ artefacts and offers helpful terminological distinctions. #OpenAccess csmc.uni-hamburg.de/publications/o…

Looking forward to representing the Prize Papers Project Project alongside Amanda Bevan The National Archives and our fantastic panellists at the OIEAHC 27th Annual Conference, "Vast Early America: A Transcontinental Conversation," next week in Poitiers. Join us on Thursday, 20 June 2-4pm.

Ein volles Haus, viel Interesse & ein sehr anregendes Gespräch über ein relevantes Spiel. Ich danke für die Einladung zu diesem besonderen Event. Einen kleinen Beitrag zu diesem Projekt zu leisten bedeutet mir sehr viel #erinnerungskultur #geschichte #geschichtsunterricht

We are excited to introduce you to our Prize Papers Opera project in collaboration with composer Jobina Tinnemans, bringing silent ink and paper letters back to life. Follow the opera from sketchbook to stage jobinatinnemans #prizepapersopera Info: prizepapers.de/prize-papers-o…

International Conference: The Early Modern Period in Games | Die Frühe Neuzeit in Spielen, 12-14 September at Oldenburg University, Germany & online. Keynotes by Maxime Durand Ubisoft and Josh Sawyer Obsidian Programme: l.uol.de/games-conferen… Register here: [email protected]