Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg
Historian of #earlymodern mobility, cultural encounter, and global travel at Helsinki (although I live in Sussex, UK). Convener: IHR Society, Culture, & Belief, 1500-1800-seminar. She/her. researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/eva-joha…
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- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergJOB ALERT: Lead Curator, Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601-1800) at The British Library - closing date: 18th Feb www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH179/l...
- Anyone else struggling to do any meaningful work whilst witnessing fascism on the rise everywhere? 😢😢😢 (Well at least that Bowino guy got sacked, fuck that guy).
- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergDelighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu. A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies. Sign up to attend! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergWinter Programme 2025-26 for our seminar on Europe & the World @ihr.bsky.social ! Mondays, 17:30 (UK time). Everybody very welcome, in Bloomsbury or on zoom. All info and forms to get the zoom links here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergI spent the summer of 2024 in Leuven on a LECTIO fellowship, and I highly recommend it. Fabulous libraries, delightful town, great colleagues. Plus they put you up in the Beguinage! #earlymodern 🗃️
- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergThe only thing better than having your publication date moved up? Having your publication date moved up to your birthday! Claiming Land, Claiming Water is now due out on March 17th, and the kind folks at @pennpress.bsky.social have gifted us this discount code at www.pennpress.org/978151282925...
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- Checking proofs today! #earlymodern 🗃️
- Scholars of #mobility, #travel, #exploration, #colonialism. Do remind your PhD students and ECRs about the @hakluytsociety.bsky.social annual essay prize! 🗃️We are accepting entries until 1 March. More details here: www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...
- Everyone is circling back I see, so a good moment to advertise that we have just signed a contract with Helsinki University Press for a collection of articles entitled Writing the Self in Pain: Historical Perspectives 🗃️#earlymodern themes included as well! Hopefully out in 2026 #openaccess
- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergAnother exodus from the other site, from the sounds of it? If you're looking for the #EarlyModern gang, we've got three starter packs that compile a bunch of them. I can keep adding to the third, just poke. Here's the OG: go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF 1/3at://did:plc:2xh3ekkjbuyi3e5pbfnakuyt/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3l2ilk674e52f
- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergThis feels like an excellent occasion to mention I'm now co-editor of the Studies in #EarlyModern European History with @sarakbarker.bsky.social & Laura Kounine. Come get those excellent books at 40% off! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/studi... #SkyStorians And sorry.
- HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🎉 To celebrate the start of a new year, we are currently offering 40% OFF EVERY SINGLE BOOK on our website, until 31st January 2026. Head to our website (link in bio) to shop now. #booksky
- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergPROGRAMME FOR THE TERM UP! Exciting papers coming you way, on zoom & @ihr.bsky.social, #EarlyModern #SkyStorians: sacred spaces, epidemics, and corporeality. Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergThe last 2025 issue of the JEMH just dropped, a Special Issue on Environment & Empires. Don’t miss it! #earlymodern #envhist #envhum
- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergAnd a bonus review essay on “The Challenge of Early Modernity” in the new Special Issue of the JEMH on Environment & Empires! #earlymodern #envhist #envhum
- Lastly, we have a review essay by Alan Strathern entitled "India as the World: The Challenge of Early Modernity." brill.com/view/journal...
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- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergSo delighted to see my first book up online with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @anzamems.bsky.social @memorients.bsky.social @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social. DM or email me for a review copy request form, and ask your uni librarian to buy the book!! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergBeautiful little drawing of a waterfowl in the log of the East India Company ship 'Rochester', ca. 1709-12, headed to China, kept by Captain Francis Stane (IOR/L/MAR/B/137B).
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- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergOn 7 December 2025, 10:00-11:00 CET, @mrfw17thc.bsky.social is speaking on "Time Apart in the Early English East India Company" as part of @movedapart.bsky.social's Gendering Global History seminar series. Contact cecilia.lundstrom@hist.lu.se for the Zoom link. #EarlyModern #17thC #skystorians
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- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergMisha’s first monograph, The Virginia Venture: American Colonization and English Society, 1580-1660, was published in 2022. Her current research focuses on the role of women in the development of colonisation and racial slavery in seventeenth-century Barbados.
- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergAfter a PhD in History at UCL, she took up posts at the University of Kent and the University of Manchester, and was a Curator for Inclusive History at Historic Royal Palaces between 2021and 2022.
- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergDr Misha Ewen ( @drmishaewen.bsky.social ) is Assistant Professor in American History at the University of Sussex. She works on histories of gender, slavery, and colonialism in the early modern Atlantic world.
- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna Holmberg... Since there’s a bit of time between now and our next event, we thought we would introduce some of the new convenors who have joined us this year! 🥳 We’ll be introducing one a week until our next event. Dr Emily Vine spoke at our most recent seminar. We'd now like to introduce Dr Misha Ewen!
- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergOur final event of term is happening this Thursday (27 November) Dr Nailya Shamgunova @nailyas.bsky.social on 'English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700'. ✨📚 This talk will be in-person only at the IHR. You can sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
- In case any cultural historians of the body happen to be in Helsinki next week, we are organising a symposium in celebration of the 60th birthday of Anu Korhonen 🗃️#earlymodern #culturalhistory : kalenteri.helsinki.fi/fi-FI/page/6...
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- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergNEW PUBLICATION Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
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- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergJust out of the box! Can't wait to read it! A fantastic dive into early modern drugs #histscie #histmed #earlymodern
- ProQuest is driving me absolutely off the wall this evening....it only lets me read 3 pages of an e-book (before I get an 'authorisation' from my librarian). What infantilising nonsense....
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- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergRight, 'Evelyn's daughter' went on a big American late night show and talked about the Warburg and Renaissance research. So early modern studies are saved, right? RIGHT? We've got impact now and are cool again? (It *is* the most incredible place in the world.)
- Speaking next Tuesday in Cambridge on #earlymodern pain at the early science and medicine seminar series. talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...
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- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergHow was Robert Knox, son of an EIC Captain and captive in Sri Lanka for nineteen years, immediately identified as an outsider aboard ship when it was inspected on his arrival in England in September 1680? His beard was long and old-fashioned. #earlymodern #skystorians
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- Recovering from a wonderful day in London, seeing friends and #earlymodern colleagues by going through Richard Norwood annotations by my fellow editors. By the way, would a reference to someone selling 'strong waters' be a reference to nitric acid or alcohol (or both?). #Norwooding
- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergSelf-promotion warning: @manchesterup.bsky.social will issue paper edition of our essay collection on #earlymodern European overseas empires in Jan '26 for pre-order @ GBP 30 @carrington-farmer.bsky.social manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195791/
- Went to see the Boxgrove Priory church again today. It is so beautiful. #earlymodern #churchychurch
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- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergWant to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne. Do apply and spread the word! www.unilu.ch/en/universit... www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
- Thomas Fuller wrote about the final years of John Smith (d. 1631) in his History of the Worthies of England: 'He led his old age in London, where his having a prince's mind imprisoned in a poor man's purse rendered him to the contempt of such who were not ingenuous.' Oh my...
- Today I am taking a day off from my article draft (on the pains and torments of John Smith) to do some more research on #earlymodern drugs and medicine in Jamestown. Suitably feeling a bit under the weather....
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- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergWho did what in early modern England? New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️ Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
- Reposted by Dr Eva Johanna HolmbergJUST A WEEK FROM NOW! We'll host the marvellous Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social who will speak about "At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule" 6 Oct, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & on zoom (www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...) #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
- NEW PROGRAMME! What an exciting one it is! We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
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