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Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press. https://academic.oup.com/pasthttps://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3mk5fdgc7rk2iOn advance access: "Bodies, Tides, Timber, and the Global History of London’s Docks, 1860–1928" by Simeon Koole (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) and @benmechen.bsky.social (@uclhistory.bsky.social) #OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf02523 Apr 2026 06:33 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk5fdgc7rk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3mk2x2k23uk2kFrom the current issue: "Orality, State Power, and the Labour of Policing in Colonial Bengal, c.1850–1947" by Partha Pratim Shil (@stanford.edu) #OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf00522 Apr 2026 07:12 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk2x2k23uk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3mjyifhofe22pOn advance access: "Secrecy and sovereignty in the Age of Revolutions" by Katlyn Marie Carter (‪@notredame.bsky.social‬) https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf02421 Apr 2026 07:44 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjyifhofe22phttps://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3mjvykr4vrs2lOn advance access: "Fossil Energy and the Ecology of Everyday Life in the Low Countries during the Long Eighteenth Century" by Wout Saelens (University of Antwerp/VUB-University of Brussels) https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf01720 Apr 2026 07:56 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjvykr4vrs2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3mjod4oyhbs2rOn advance access: "Canoes in the Early English Caribbean: The Role of an Indigenous Technology in Making Mercantilism Work" by Nuala Zahedieh (‪@camhistory.bsky.social) #OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf02117 Apr 2026 06:43 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjod4oyhbs2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3mjmhgk6xc223New on advance access "The Unmixing of Populations in Wartime Algeria, 1954–1962" by Laura Robson (@yale.edu) https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtag01616 Apr 2026 12:55 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjmhgk6xc223https://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3mjjdk53rv22cFrom the current issue "Global Rumours: The Press, Telegraphy and the Boxer War in China, Summer 1900" by Thoralf Klein (@lborouniversity.bsky.social) #OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtae04715 Apr 2026 07:07 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjjdk53rv22chttps://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3mjj6mvblu22cWe are pleased to be supporting the "Mexico in Algiers, Rabat in Bahia: Rethinking Interactions Between the Iberian Atlantic and the Magreb" workshop Taking place 22 May 2026 @cemskcl.bsky.social For programme and registration see: https://pastandpresent.org.uk/registration-and-programme-for-the-mexico-in-algiers-rabat-in-bahia-rethinking-interactions-between-the-iberian-atlantic-and-the-maghrib-workshop/15 Apr 2026 05:40 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjj6mvblu22chttps://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3mjh43dhs6s2pOn advance access: "The Revolutions that Consolidated Empire: A Reconsideration of 1830" by @beatricedegraaf.bsky.social and Erik de Lange (‪@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social‬) #OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf01614 Apr 2026 09:49 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjh43dhs6s2phttps://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3mjeb3hmvws2mOn advance access: "Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope" by @gianamar97.bsky.social (@uvahumanities.bsky.social) #OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf01813 Apr 2026 06:40 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjeb3hmvws2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3mj4qpnhres2qOn advance access: "The Making and Unmaking of Religious Toleration in Spanish Manila, 1571-1755" by Adrian Masters (University of Trier) #OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf02010 Apr 2026 06:59 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj4qpnhres2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3mj27okfb7c2dOn advance access: "Housing and the Peripheralisation of Race Politics in Britain, 1948-1977" by @chrhilli.bsky.social (@sydney.edu.au) #OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf01909 Apr 2026 06:48 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj27okfb7c2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3miv5xg6ff22sFrom the current issue: "Ships, Guns and Money: The Logistics of Revolution and Garibaldi’s Campaign of 1860" by @danielobanche.bsky.social (Scuola Superiore Meridionale Naples) https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtae04407 Apr 2026 06:34 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3miv5xg6ff22shttps://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3migc2o66uc2sOn advance access: "The purposeful workhouse of England's Old Poor Law" by Susannah Ottaway (Carleton College) https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf01301 Apr 2026 08:38 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3migc2o66uc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3mig7enyw2s2sWe were pleased to support: "Studying Non-elites in the Medieval Caucasus" at Vrije Universiteit Brussel on 13 - 14 March 2026 Here James Baillie (Austrian Academy of Sciences) shares his reflections on the event: https://pastandpresent.org.uk/studying-non-elites-in-the-medieval-caucasus-reflections/01 Apr 2026 07:50 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mig7enyw2s2shttps://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3midk6wljs226On advance access: "Begging and lower-class giving in late Imperial Russia" by Felix Cowan (@utoronto.ca) and Sarah Badcock (@uonhumanities.bsky.social) #OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtag01531 Mar 2026 06:25 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3midk6wljs226https://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3mib4gikv6222On advance access: "Out of the Rubble of the Second World War: Post-War Reconstruction in China" by ‪Toby Lincoln (University of Leicester) #OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf00730 Mar 2026 07:14 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mib4gikv6222https://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3mhzmapfphk2qWe're pleased to be supporting the "Death and Bereavement in Early Modern Britain, 1520-1689" Conference @standrewshist.bsky.social on 26 - 27 June 2026 For programme and registration details please see below: https://pastandpresent.org.uk/programme-and-registriation-for-the-death-and-bereavement-in-early-modern-britain-1520-1689-conference/27 Mar 2026 07:35 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhzmapfphk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3mhzl2ksprc2qOn advance access: "Making sugar out of opium: A narco-plantation regime in early modern Southeast Asia" by Guanmian Xu (Peking University) and Shohei Okubo (Ryukoku University) https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf01527 Mar 2026 07:14 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhzl2ksprc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3mhy5mkjsqc2qWe are pleased to be supporting the "Modern British History and the 'Environmental Turn'" worshop at Lincoln College, University of Oxford @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social) on 16 - 17 September 2026 See call for papers (closes 15 May 2026) below: https://pastandpresent.org.uk/call-for-papers-modern-british-history-and-the-environmental-turn/26 Mar 2026 17:41 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhy5mkjsqc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3mhx4nmau7s2kOn advance access: "Lordship in the Later Middle Ages: A Round Table Discussion" Ft: Frederik Buylaert, Sandro Carocci, Thijs Lambrecht, Christian D Liddy, Alice Rio Tristan W Sharp, Alice Taylor, Chris Wickham #OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf01126 Mar 2026 07:51 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhx4nmau7s2khttps://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3mhuna7d7mc27From the current issue: "Technological Unemployment in the British Industrial Revolution: The Destruction of Hand-Spinning" by Benjamin Schneider (Oslo Metropolitan University) https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtae04925 Mar 2026 08:10 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhuna7d7mc27https://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3mhswcja7mc2bOn advance access: "Reckoning and Economic Life in Late Medieval England" by @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social (@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social / @orieloxford.bsky.social) #OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf01024 Mar 2026 15:47 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhswcja7mc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3mhpkk73uas2mWe're pleased to be supporting the “Speech/less in the Early Modern World” Workshop 23 - 24 April 2026 @camhistory.bsky.social Registration free but places limited (register by 12 April 2026). Venue Emmanuel College Cambridge See programme and registration: https://pastandpresent.org.uk/programme-and-registration-for-the-speech-less-in-the-early-modern-world-workshop/23 Mar 2026 07:38 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhpkk73uas2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3mhpjaeqtfs2mOn advance access: "Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain" by Karolina Hutková (@ox.ac.uk/LSE), Ernesto Dal Bó (UC, Berkeley, Lukas Leucht and Noam Yuchtman (@ox.ac.uk) #OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf00923 Mar 2026 07:15 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhpjaeqtfs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/pastpresentsoc.bsky.social/post/3mhijdjizsc2fFrom the current issue: "Hegemony, Hunting and Human Trophies in the East Asian War of 1592–1598" by Rebekah Clements (Autonomous University of Barcelona) #OpenAccess https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtae04520 Mar 2026 12:28 +0000at://did:plc:ngyfd4txahdnu3rirrfqsuil/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhijdjizsc2f