Oliver Finnegan
@oj_finn
Historian of early modern empires, piracy and overseas exchange | Prize Papers Records Specialist @UkNatArchives
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📣 TONIGHT Trinity Long Room Hub, 7pm: #ConservationConversation with partners at PRONI, The National Archives and National Archives, Ireland, online. Moderated by Zoe Reid. Register here if you haven't yet! tcd.ie/trinitylongroo…
On Monday, we welcome Gabrielle Robilliard for the Prize Papers Talks. Paper: Sailors and Their Things: Material culture of ship life in the eighteenth century. 3pm CET (2pm GMT, 9am EST). Register: eventbrite.de/e/the-prize-pa…
Tickets for the 25 June training session on High Court of Admiralty records are live! Come along and learn how to navigate this little-used collection of material that covers early modern seafaring, colonialism, trade, atlantic slavery, prize and piracy. eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-records…
This year, I'm running two #LegalRecords workshops The National Archives all about Early Modern Legal Records. The first is on Common Law and Regional Justice, on Tuesday 18 June. #TNAPAST eventbrite.co.uk/e/early-modern…
650 years ago today on #StGeorgesDay the poet Geoffrey Chaucer was given a rather unusual royal gift, a daily allowance of a pitcher (roughly a gallon) of wine... The original letters patent for the grant are on display The National Archives until the end of the month
Esta semana hemos podido conocer más de cerca el Prize Papers Project. Se abren inmensas posibilidades de colaboración y un campo muy atractivo para nuestros investigadores
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-…
Looking forward to this conference in Dublin next week and to our roundtable on "The Unique Materiality of Letters in the Prize Papers Project". Joining me on stage: Marina Casagrande (Conservator The National Archives) and maria.cardamone (Photographer). Join online: thequeenspost.wordpress.com/conference
38,000 documents. 3 centuries. 1 project. Find out more about how the Dutch Prize Papers project is digitising their collection in this Success Story 👇 eu1.hubs.ly/H09fd-M0 Huygens Instituut - KNAW
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.
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…
Looking forward to representing the @prize_papers project alongside Oliver Finnegan from our partner The National Archives and Gabrielle Robilliard at the 9TH IMHA INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF MARITIME HISTORY in Busan, Korea, August 19-24 #IMHA #history Learn more: imha2024.com
Book now to hear William Dalrymple discuss his new publication, The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World, just a week after its UK release. 📍 Online - Friday, 20 September 2024, 14:00 BST eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-golden-r…