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-…
New blog post 📢📢 MEMOs team member @NatCutter gives us the true and gripping tale of an Englishwoman in Ottoman Tunis, Edith Stedham. Part Two next week! memorients.com/articles/edit…
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!
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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)
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.
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
The British expatriate communities of the early modern Magreb are the subject of today's MEMOries blog post from our long standing team member Nat Cutter- enjoy!memorients.com/articles/the-…
#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!
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👇