The EHS is delighted to announce the shortlist for the biennial First Monograph Prize for the best first monograph in Economic and/or Social History published during 2024 and 2025.
The shortlisted nominees are:
Damian Clavel, Bart Danon, Koji Hirata, Charmian Mansell, Tehila Sasson and Robert Yee.
Thank you!
Thanks Mark - but wait, are people getting trophies? I haven’t had any!
Thank you Lauren!
Thanks Laura! Hope you’re well!
Thank you so much!
Such lovely news! 🤩
Thanks Callan!
Thank you so much!
Thanks Jasmine!
Thanks Emily!
So pleased to be on the list of American Historical Association prize winners. My book, Female Servants in Early Modern England, was awarded the Morris D. Forkosch Prize in British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history since 1485. Congratulations to all the other awardees!
“Cataclysmically bad”
This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.
1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:
frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/
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Last chance to book tickets for my virtual talk on medieval murder for Curious Histories: Charity History Talks
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mapping-mu...
Congratulations to Rosemary Sweet and @RichardJAnsell! Their #OpenAccess book No Country for Travellers? published today. Read & download free at: bit.ly/4kJYgIl #TravelWriting #EighteenthCentury #Spain #Portugal
Female Servants in Early Modern England by Charmian Mansell book cover with additional text reading "Thirsk Prize Winner: Best Book in British or Irish Rural or Agrarian History 2025"
Charmian Mansell's Female Servants in Early Modern England has been awarded the Thirsk Prize for Best Book in British or Irish Rural or Agrarian History by the British Agricultural History Society.
📖 bit.ly/9780197267585
@charmianmansell.bsky.social
@britishacademy.bsky.social
@braghs.bsky.social
Congratulations Emily!
This is so lovely to hear @drsheeha.bsky.social Thank you so much!
Front cover of book: title Farm Accounts in Rural Europe c.1700-1914
Contents page
First page of chapter 2 by James D Fisher titled Accounting for Labour on Capitalist Farms in Eighteenth-Century England
📖 I've got a new chapter out on accounting as a technique of labour management in C18th English capitalist agriculture
In this volume of Farm Accounts @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social >>
Front cover of Charmian Mansell's book, 'Female Servants in Early Modern England'.
Over the next few weeks, we're highlighting the 8 articles and 8 books shortlisted for this year's RHS Early Career Article and First Book Prizes.
Today we feature 'Female Servants in Early Modern England', bit.ly/43OeABX, by Charmian Mansell 1/2
Such a lovely surprise to have my book shortlisted for this RHS prize! Congratulations, too, to all the other shortlisted authors!
Historians/geographers/archaeologists: I'm looking for books where the historian goes to the places they are writing about as an integral part of the work (think Gange, Frayed Atlantic Edge). Also looking for theory/method about going to places & imagining them in the past. Any suggestions?
📣New blog post alert!📣
Today @charmianmansell.bsky.social gives us 5 reasons why service in the past was not always like Downton Abbey...
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog
#skystorians
Great new article on geo-coding British census addresses 👇👇👇
Map of London in 1901 showing percentage of people born overseas by street.
So pleased my article on geo-coding addresses of 121 million + people in British censuses 1851-1911 is now out with Historical Methods! #openaccess
- map any census info (ages, occupations, birthplaces etc) by address
- link census to other spatial datasets
Get the code and data 👇
Congratulations Zoë!
Check out my talk with @charmianmansell.bsky.social on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Female Servants in Early Modern England. @oxunipress.bsky.social 💙📚 #earlymodern #skystorians #16thc #17thc #history
A couple years ago I put together a little list of yearly fellowships and applications, mostly for early modernists. It includes deadlines, salaries, and requirements. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
A flyer advertising a call for submissions for the Huntington Library Quarterly. The Text reads: The Huntington Library Quarterly (HLQ) is a peer-reviewed journal featuring original research and new perspectives on the early modern period, broadly defined (c. 1400–1800). Its content reflects an early modern world that was connected and cosmopolitan, with diverse communities and cultures increasingly linked by the circulation of people, ideas, social practices, and material objects in ways that transcend disciplinary and geographic boundaries. We invite submissions that draw on the sources, methods, and theoretical frameworks of literature, art, history, science, medicine, material culture, music, performance, and critical cultural studies, with a preference for scholarship that is broadly legible across disciplines. HLQ’s historical focus on Britain and its American colonies has been dramatically expanded to embrace broader and more diverse fields of inquiry, including scholarship rooted in continental Europe, the African Diaspora, and the Indigenous Americas, as well as their intersections with Mediterranean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean worlds. The Huntington Library Quarterly (HLQ) invites article submissions for two featured issues that will mark the journal’s new direction. Submissions received before 15 January 2025 will be evaluated for the first of these issues, to be published in September 2025. Submissions received before 15 March 2025 will be evaluated for the second of these issues, to be published in December 2025.
Hello, new followers! Reposting this recent announcement for those who missed it: New era for the HLQ. Please share widely! If you study the #earlymodern period (c. 1400-1800) in any discipline, we'd love to see what you're working on. www.pennpress.org/journals/jou...
