Delighted to announce the Thomas Gray Archive Spring 2025 update. Read all about our recent work at the #ThomasGrayArchive:
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**Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain**
“_This article shows that fiscal capacity was not created only by government bureaucracies: the ‘company-state at home’ model presented here complements the narrative of the ‘fiscal-military state’ by showing that much fiscal revenue from trade was realized through the action of the English East India Company (EIC). Lacking the capacity to enact exhaustive laws, carry out complex calculations, or effectively manage a large bureaucracy, the English state relied on the administrative capacity of the EIC to collect customs on the East Indies trade._”
Karolina Hutková, Ernesto Dal Bó, Lukas Leucht, Noam Yuchtman, Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Past & Present, 2025;, gtaf009, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtaf009.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #India #EastIndiaCompany #C18th #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons
**‘The British are coming’ and the outbreak of hostilities during the American Revolutionary War**
“_During the summer of 1776, they defined their objective as total separation and declared independence. Yet declaring independence was very different to actually achieving it. King George III’s government, under Prime Minister Frederick, Lord North regarded their actions as no more than insurrection and remained determined to crush them._”
#History #Histodon #HIstodons #C18th #UK #UnitedKingdom #USA #US #UnitedStates @histodon @histodons
The National Archives blog · 'The British are coming' and the outbreak of hostilities during the American Revolutionary War - The National Archives blog250 years ago this month the American War of Independence broke out amidst the sleepy farmlands of eastern Massachusetts.
Many thanks to the program committee and organizers, and to the @asecsoffice executive for a fantastic #ASECS2025!
Delighted to be at days 3 and 4 of #ASECS2025! Looking forward to papers on #ThomasGray, the 'low-brow' 18th c., #DigitalScholarship we should be using, the global 18th c., and #DigitalTools for the exchange of ideas.
asecs.org2025 Annual Meeting Program – ASECS
Excited to attend the second half of the ASECS 2025 annual meeting this week! Always happy to discuss ideas for digital scholarship—feel free to start a conversation.
Conference website:
https://asecs.org/meetings/asecs-2025-annual-meeting/
asecs.orgASECS 2025 Annual Meeting – ASECS
Excited to attend the @asecsoffice 2025 annual meeting this week! Always happy to hear about ongoing digital projects or ideas for new ones. Let’s connect—feel free to DM me if you’re around.
Conference website: https://asecs.org/meetings/asecs-2025-annual-meeting/
asecs.orgASECS 2025 Annual Meeting – ASECS
**Trade map of the West Indies and North America, 1741**
#Image attribution: Henry Overton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_new_and_correct_map_of_the_trading_part_of_the_West_Indies.png.
#Map #Cartography #History #Histodon #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Spain #Europe #NorthAmerica #WestIndies #Caribbean #Trade #C18th #18thCentury @histodon @histodons
We have added facsimiles of Mary Collier's #Poems on Several Occasions (1762) and Ambrose Philips' #Pastorals (1708, in Dryden's Poetical Miscellanies), to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive.
Update on the "#Elegy in translation"-project phase II (1806-1850): 55 early #c19 #translations in 12 #languages (Armenian, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovene, Spanish, and Welsh):
Updated my list of databases and biographical dictionaries of c18th British people:
https://anterotesis.com/wordpress/historical-resources/prosopographical-databases/
If you know of others, please inform me!
Anterotesis · Prosopographical DatabasesThese are databases or dictionaries organized around individual people, covering Britain in the long eighteenth century. BBTI: British Book Trade Index, covering people working in this sector up to…
Delighted to announce the Winter 2024/25 update to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive, with poems by Isaac Bickerstaff, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dibdin, and Richard B. Sheridan, and a new poets' map visualization.
**A map of East and West Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana : with the islands of Cuba, Bahama, and the countries surrounding the Gulf of Mexico, with the tract of the Spanish galleons, and of our fleets thro' the Straits of Florida, from the best authorities (1781)**
#Image attribution: Bew, John; Lodge, John, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_map_of_East_and_West_Florida,_Georgia,_and_Louisiana_-_with_the_islands_of_Cuba,_Bahama,_and_the_countries_surrounding_the_Gulf_of_Mexico,_with_the_tract_of_the_Spanish_galleons,_and_of_our_fleets_LOC_79691140.jpg
Big shout-out to the fabulous panel on Eighteenth-Century Poetry at #BSECS2025! Insightful discussions and inspiring perspectives on Fergusson's lasting legacy, the social context of Duck's masterpiece, and Blake's post-human vision.
Off to Pembroke College, Oxford, for three days of #BSECS2025. Fabulous academic programme, friends and colleagues, wine and entertainment.
If you're working on a digital project or have ideas to share, I’d be thrilled to chat!
Excited to attend the BSECS 2025 annual conference this week! Always happy to hear about ongoing digital projects or ideas for new ones. Let’s connect—come say hi or DM me if you’re around.
Conference website: https://www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/annual-conference/
Happy 308th birthday, Thomas Gray!
Explore Gray's life and works at the #ThomasGrayArchive: https://thomasgray.org
Thomas Gray in the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive: https://eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/authors/pers00039.shtml
#c18th #poetry #dh #c18dh #otd #btd #onthisday #18thC
Franco-American Maps of the Revolution
Posted by: Carissa Pastuch
"This remarkable collection eponymously named the “Jean-Baptiste-Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, papers, 1777–94,” is comprised of correspondence, histories, papers, and maps that belonged to the commander-in-chief of the French expeditionary army (1780–82) during the American Revolution—French General Rochambeau (1725–1807)."
https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2024/11/franco-american-maps/
#Map #Maps #Cartography #C18th #18thCentury #History #Histodon #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America @histodon @histodons
Thrilled to be working on the 2nd phase of CatCor (Correspondence of Catherine the Great) funded by
@nehgov. This phase will employ an online editing environment, produce an RDF/LOD representation of the correspondence, and add analytical tools.
