On advance access: "Confiscation as Governance in the Ottoman Empire 1750 - 1839" by @yasinarslantas.bsky.social (Anadolu University) doi.org/10.1093/past...

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Do my #18thc & #BookHistory mutuals know about Compositor, the Univ of Birmingham's database for the history of printers' ornaments? I and the undergrads in When Novels Were New were delighting in some of these at the Houghton this a.m., & that made me recall this site: compositor.bham.ac.uk/about/

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hps.cesee Sunday shortread H-Environment Roundtable Reviews: Anna Mazanik, Sanitizing Moscow: Waste, Animals, and Urban Health in Late Imperial Moscow. ISBN: 9780822967729. URL: networks.h-net.org/s...

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Upcoming #Migration&Mobility Seminar from our friends @ihr.bsky.social on 'Race and the Rent Collector' exploring the changing relationship between housing and migration in modern Britain.

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I. Have. Finished. Coding. All. My. Finger. Rings. 🎉💍 HEADLINES: ~ Of the 30,000 wills in our sample, about 8,000 of them mention rings. ~ For reasons, many more rings than that are actually bequeathed within the wills (chiefly because people bequeath many mourning rings at a time) #EarlyModern 🗃️

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