Member News

Michelle D. Brock recently published Plagues of the Heart: Crisis and covenanting in a seventeenth-century Scottish town with Manchester University Press

Dane Kennedy's latest work Mungo Park's Ghost was recently reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement. He also appeared on the Time to Eat the Dogs podcast to discuss the book. 

Erin Fetterly's book Women Who Kill: A History of Britain's Most Dangerous Women is out today!! Pick up your copy here.

The NACBS is sad to learn of the passing of Judith A. Allen. You can read a reflection from the Organization of American Historians here. 

Nicholas Rogers recently published Maritime Bristol in the Slave-Trade Era (Boydell Press, Woodbridge, UK, 2024).

Lisa Cody's article, "'Marriage is No Protection for Crime': Coverture, Sex, and Marital Rape in Eighteenth-Century England," was awarded the 2024 American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies James L. Clifford Prize. Press release available here.

Leslie Howsam's new book Eliza Orme's Ambitions: Politics and the Law in Victorian London is about a little-known feminist leader who studied law in the 1870s and 80s, earning an LL.B. She was excluded from formal practice but worked as a conveyancer, engaged in Home Rule politics, and headed up a subcommittee of the 1892 Royal Commission on Labour. It is now available open access.

The Lewis Walpole Library is delighted to announce the following recipients of Fellowships and Travel Grants for 2024-25. You can read the list of awardees here.

Reflections on British Royalty: Mass Observation and the Monarchy, 1937-2022, edited by Jennifer Purcell and Fiona Courage, is now available through Bloomsbury Academic Press.

Erin Fetterly's latest article on the History With Jackson blog discusses the curious and intriguing world of early modern medicinal ingredients.

Congratulations to NACBS members Rachel Weil and Christopher Bischof for receiving NEH Grants! Rachel will use the grant for research and writing leading to a book exploring the nature of imprisonment in England from 1550 to 1800. Christopher will use the grant for research and writing leading to a book on post-slavery social and economic policies in the British West Indies, 1823 to 1865.

Agents of European overseas empires: Private colonisers, 1450-1800, edited by L.H. Roper (@roperlou@bsky.social), Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber, Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, and Agnes Delahaye is now available through Manchester University Press.