Postdoc and Assistant Lecturer @unimelb on British expats, cultural exchange & news in c17/18 Maghreb #earlymodern #diplomacy #socialhistory #media @MEMOrients

Joined February 2014
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The Incomparable Urania: Part two of @NatCutter 's blog follows the remarkable journey of Edith Stedham's daughter Urania, Tunis-born and London-migrated: memorients.com/articles/the-…
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RT @khalidsyossef: #NewRelease Britain and the Ottoman Maghreb, 1662–1712 Merchants, Consuls, and Cultural Exchange Nat Cutter. Oxford Univ…
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Look what arrived this week!! Advanced author copies of my next book @BloomsburyFashn. 📚 I’m so thrilled to see it in the flesh - 5 years & hundreds of transcribed household bills later! Out in July-August. Preorder link in my bio! #17thc #18thc #earlymodern
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So delighted to see my first book up online with @OxUniPress! Huge thanks to @ANZAMEMS @MEMOrients @ArtsUnimelb. DM or email me for a review copy request form, and ask your uni librarian to buy the book!! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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#twitterstorians Attention medical historians: How would you explain this series of (fatal) symptoms in a merchant letter from the 1680s? 'Consul Erlisman lyes in a very Weake Condition & is Light headed, by fitts, insoemuch that I begin to doubt of his Recovery' (June 1689)
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a Melancholly That Ended not but with his Life. On 12th Decemb:r hee made his Will (April 1690)
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Early-onset dementia? Depression? Epilepsy? He was 54 when he died.
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I am happy to announce the third Travellers in Ottoman Lands, which will take place in Istanbul in Spring 2025! The conference is organized in association with Sabanci University, NIT, ASTENE, and Cornucopia.
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Really excited that my first trade book will be coming out this year with @TheHistoryPress - Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Pirates. You can preorder a copy here: lnk.to/enemiesofallEM
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📘From our February issue! Kate Rivington (@KateRivington) (@MonashUni) on 'Maria Weston Chapman, French Salons, and Transatlantic Abolitionism in the Mid-Nineteenth Century' #Abolition #Slavery #Salons #Informal #Sociability #Social 📜 🔓Read OA here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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#twitterstorians Can anyone recommend a great mapmaker for historical monographs? I'm looking at some simple line-based maps of Algeria, Tunisia and Tripolitania in the late seventeenth-century for my book. Let me know!
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(And – though it shouldn't need to be said – I have money to pay for it!!)
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The gals (drs)
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Historian here. Really disappointed to see a blockbuster movie in 2023 still spreading the discredited claim that Napoleon kept his armies at the end of his sleevies.🧵THREAD👇
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