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Very first sentence is about the knapped artefacts First Nations people here made with ballast stones. Def of interest to archs!

New review article: Nancy J. Jacobs @nancyjjacobs.bsky.social on 'Apartheid, after Apartheid' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

New review article: Archie Brown on 'From Stalin to Gorbachev: The Cold War, ‘New Thinking’, the Balts, and the Soviet Breakup' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

New article! Matthew Evenden @arts.ubc.ca on 'Deptford Stones: London, the River Thames and the Circulation of Ballast in the Age of Sail, c.1750–c.1850' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Deptford Stones: London, the River Thames and the Circulation of Ballast in the Age of Sail, c.1750–c.1850*Abstract. In the Age of Sail, ships required ballast to ensure buoyancy at sea, pulling the vessel down in the water and stabilising it against lateral foracademic.oup.com

Happy to see such a postive review of my book from Archie Brown himself, especially because we usually see Gorbachev from very different perspectives.

To sample 'A History of South Africa' by Thula Simpson, read here ➡️ tinyurl.com/yvz868ej

Sample of "History of South Africa" by Thula SimpsonPeek inside this book and discover another great read.tinyurl.com

We're running a short online survey to inform development of the Curran Index. If you're interested in Victorian periodicals, whether or not you've used the Curran recently, please complete the survey! Survey closes 10th August. Please retweet. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Curran Index User SurveyThanks for being willing to complete this short survey. Whether or not you have used the Curran Index recently (or at all) we are looking for opinions on how the Curran can best be improved and develo...docs.google.com

My fellow historians, which single academic article of yours do you think 'teaches best', i.e. for both staff and students it's doing work that leads to a strong class discussion + students remember it? I am interested in how people see their own work. I'll go first. Hit reply and link your pick!

For me, it's a piece co-authored with @brodiewaddell.bsky.social in the @enghistrev.bsky.social, "Riches and Poverty in English Protestant Culture", which I hope teaches really well in long reformation classes and when thinking about connections between religious sentiment and social conditions.

Volume 139 Issue 600 | The English Historical Review | Oxford AcademicThe oldest journal of historical scholarship in the English-speaking world. Publishes original and exciting research relating to all parts of the world and all forms of historical inquiry from the Cla...academic.oup.com

Here's a review by Tom Hopkins of Kathleen McCrudden Illert's excellent recent book on Sophie de Grouchy--a project whose origins lie in early 2015 when she complained of one of my reading lists (about the 1790s) that there weren't any women on it, so I pointed her towards the "Letters on Sympathy".

'Shaping the Blue Dragon is a welcome addition to the series of books and articles written by Ronald Po on the subject of China’s sustained engagement with the maritime world from the 1360s to the 1820s.' liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Shaping the Blue Dragon | HomeMaritime China in the Ming and Qing Dynastiesliverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

Your periodical reminder that, despite our name, EHR is not a journal of English history and we welcome submissions from all fields, geographies, post-Classical chronologies and subdisciplines! academic.oup.com/ehr/pages/Ab...

AboutFirst published in January 1886, The English Historical Review (EHR) is the oldest journal of historical scholarship in the English-speaking world. It publishesacademic.oup.com

Matthew Hefferan reviews 'Calendar of the Gascon Rolls, I: Reign of Edward II (1317–1327)', ed. Simon J. Harris and Guilhem Pépin academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Calendar of the Gascon Rolls, I: Reign of Edward II (1317–1327), ed. Simon J. Harris and Guilhem PépinThis volume, intended as the first of five, is the outcome of the Gascon Rolls Project. The project, which ran from 2009 to 2019, saw successive teams of hacademic.oup.com

Sucheta Mazumdar reviews 'Shaping the Blue Dragon: Maritime China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties', by Ronald C. Po academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @livunipress.bsky.social

Shaping the Blue Dragon: Maritime China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, by Ronald C. PoShaping the Blue Dragon is a welcome addition to the series of books and articles written by Ronald Po on the subject of China’s sustained engagement withacademic.oup.com

Giuseppe Mandalà reviews 'Dalla ceramica alla storia economica: Il caso di Palermo islamica', by Viva Sacco academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @ef-rome.bsky.social

Dalla ceramica alla storia economica: Il caso di Palermo islamica, by Viva SaccoViva Sacco’s recent volume fits squarely within the renewed historiographical debate inaugurated, among others, by Chris Wickham in The Donkey and the Boatacademic.oup.com

Robert Gildea reviews 'En guerre et en grève: Enquête dans les cités minières britanniques, 1939–1945', by Ariane Mak @arianemak.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... #minerstrikes @ehess.fr

En guerre et en grève: Enquête dans les cités minières britanniques, 1939–1945, by Ariane MakJust as British historians enjoy myth-busting in respect of the French Resistance, pointing out that it was not as heroic, widespread or even French as isacademic.oup.com

Nicholas J Abbott reviews 'Slavery in the Early Mughal World: The Life and Thoughts of Jawhar Aftabachi (1520s–1580s)', by Ali Anooshahr academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @academic.oup.com

Slavery in the Early Mughal World: The Life and Thoughts of Jawhar Aftabachi (1520s–1580s), by Ali AnooshahrWho was Jawhar Aftabachi and what do his life and work tell us about sixteenth-century Mughal India? Scholars of early modern South Asia might once have coacademic.oup.com

Thomas Hopkins reviews 'A Republic of Sympathy: Sophie de Grouchy’s Politics and Philosophy, 1785–1815', by Kathleen McCrudden Illert academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @universitypress.cambridge.org

A Republic of Sympathy: Sophie de Grouchy’s Politics and Philosophy, 1785–1815, by Kathleen McCrudden IllertAs Kathleen McCrudden Illert notes in her introduction to this notable addition to the Ideas in Context series, the thought of Sophie de Grouchy (1763–1822academic.oup.com

Charlotte Nilsson reviews 'Sexism in the City: Women Stockbrokers in Modern Britain', by James Taylor academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @academic.oup.com

Sexism in the City: Women Stockbrokers in Modern Britain, by James TaylorOn a colourised book cover photo from 1973, stockbroker Muriel Wood stands in the middle of the all-male London Stock Exchange trading floor. The capturedacademic.oup.com

Joshua Bennett reviews 'Red Secularism: Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany, 1890–1933', by Todd H. Weir @toddweir.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @universitypress.cambridge.org

Red Secularism: Socialism and Secularist Culture in Germany, 1890–1933, by Todd H. WeirIn Paul Krannhals’s Das organische Weltbild (1928), the Baltic German philosopher distinguished his own right-wing, organicist philosophy from what he callacademic.oup.com