Oh, wait, I have one more quibble. This is a general one regarding attitudes from within English/American academia to #AngloDutch work. My edition and translation of the Middle Dutch Brut is in English. It is determinedly aimed at a readership of Anglophone academics. It has, I am pleased to say, now received reviews in two great Anglophone journals: Arthuriana and Speculum. BUT.

Both reviews were commissioned from *Dutch* academics. I do not have an issue with either reviewer: they are each knowledgable specialists.

What I do have an issue with is that whenever review editors in English and American historical disciplines see work that touches on locations/traditions which they do not consider "English", their first thought goes to reviewers whom they do not consider "English" either.

This is exactly the myopia I have been trying to challenge with my research, and yet it is still being replicated in response to my research.

#medieval @medievodons @histodons

Join us as we celebrate the publication of our edited collection Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World, with speakers Su Fang Ng, Ad Putter and Nigel Smith.

Monday 6 March, 8pm GMT.

Register and join at https://www.crowdcast.io/c/anglo-dutch-connections

@histodons @earlymodernmaritimestudies #AngloDutch #earlymodons #SRSlyGood

Book Launch! Join @slevelt, Michael D. Rose & Esther van Raammsdoonk to celebrate the publication of "Anglo-Dutch Connections" with friends, colleagues, well-wishers, frenemies & a few choice members of the curious. 6 March 2023 8.00pm GMT #EarlyModernVirtualEvents #AngloDutch #Amsterdamnable #Histodons #EarlyModonEvents #EarlyModons
https://www.rensoc.org.uk/event/book-launch-anglo-dutch-connections-in-the-early-modern-world/

Book launch! Please join us as we celebrate the publication of our edited collection Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World; including the editors and speakers Su Fang Ng, Ad Putter and Nigel Smith.

Monday 6 March, 8pm GMT. Register and join at https://www.crowdcast.io/c/anglo-dutch-connections

#earlymodons #AngloDutch #SRSlyGood @histodons

#Capitalism at its finest (sarcasm) not only obscene profits, but #Shell claims to be spending 12% of its capital expenditure on renewables, when in fact the real amount is 1.5%!

"Anger as Shell makes ‘obscene’ $40bn in profits - Calls for larger windfall tax after surge in gas prices fuels ‘outrageous’ doubling of profits at #AngloDutch group"

"Shell has prompted anger after annual profits more than doubled to a record of nearly $40bn, boosted by a surge in wholesale gas prices linked to the war in Ukraine and as households struggle to pay huge energy bills.

The oil and gas company posted profits of $9.81bn in the final quarter of last year, compared with $6.4bn a year earlier. That took annual adjusted profits to $39.87bn (£32.2bn) in 2022, far outstripping the $19.3bn notched up in 2021. Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC, said the profits were “obscene” and “an insult to working families”."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/02/shell-profits-2022-surging-oil-prices-gas-ukraine

and this:

"Shell has misleadingly overstated how much it is spending on renewable energy and should be investigated and potentially fined by the US financial regulator, according to a non-profit group which has lodged a complaint against the oil giant.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been urged to act over Shell’s most recent annual report in which it stated 12% of its capital expenditure was funneled into a division called Renewables and Energy Solutions in 2021. The division’s webpage, which is adorned with pictures of wind turbines and solar panels, says it is working to invest in “wind, solar, electric vehicle charging, hydrogen, and more”. However, Global Witness, the activist group that has lodged the new complaint with the SEC, argues that just 1.5% of Shell’s capital expenditure has been used to develop genuine renewables, such as wind and solar, with much of the rest of the division’s resources devoted to gas, which is a fossil fuel."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/feb/01/shell-renwable-energy-spending-sec-global-witness

#Profit #HyperCapitalism #UK #Netherlands #Climate #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels

It has been an exceptional privilege to bring these chapters together and to press; while we aspired to a multi-faceted synthesis of the study of Anglo-Dutch connections in the early modern world, each and every one of our contributors individually presents ground-breaking, important, and captivating work. Read these chapters!

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003049180/anglo-dutch-connections-early-modern-world-sjoerd-levelt-esther-van-raamsdonk-michael-rose #earlymodons #AngloDutch #SRSlyGood @histodons

Design, technology, and production are the subjects of part 7, with chapters by Hentie Louw, Ulrike Kern, and Piet van Cruyningen on Dutch architectural influence in England, Dutch artistic activity in the environment of the Royal Society, and a Dutch engineer in England.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003049180/anglo-dutch-connections-early-modern-world-sjoerd-levelt-esther-van-raamsdonk-michael-rose #earlymodons #AngloDutch #SRSlyGood @histodons

The contributions in part 6 by Silke Muylaert, Gary K. Waite, Michael Rose, and Esther van Raamsdonk focus on religious pluralism and radicalism, treating of the fast and prayer days in the Stranger Churches in England, David Joris (George) and Menasseh ben Israel, and radicalism between England and the Netherlands.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003049180/anglo-dutch-connections-early-modern-world-sjoerd-levelt-esther-van-raamsdonk-michael-rose #earlymodons #AngloDutch #SRSlyGood @histodons

Part 5, on literary and diplomatic exchange, consists of contributions by Alisa van de Haar, Nigel Smith, and Nina Lamal, on the role of a Dutch poet in London in a European poetic network, Dutch and English Libertine poets, and Anglo-Dutch connections in Italy in 1666.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003049180/anglo-dutch-connections-early-modern-world-sjoerd-levelt-esther-van-raamsdonk-michael-rose #earlymodons #AngloDutch #SRSlyGood @histodons

In Part 4 of Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World, I, Hanna de Lange, and Martine van Elk talk about print culture: the role of Dutch type cutters in the early printing of Old English, the printing of John Selden’s Mare clausum on both sides of the North Sea, and the role of female stationers in the Anglo-Dutch book trade.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003049180/anglo-dutch-connections-early-modern-world-sjoerd-levelt-esther-van-raamsdonk-michael-rose #earlymodons #AngloDutch #SRSlyGood @histodons

Part 3 treats of news, letters, and war, in chapters by Gijs Rommelse, Jack Avery, Yann Ryan, and Esther van Raamsdonk, covering the Anglo-Dutch wars, Dutch news about the English Parliament, and Dutchness in the Stuart State Papers.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003049180/anglo-dutch-connections-early-modern-world-sjoerd-levelt-esther-van-raamsdonk-michael-rose #earlymodons #AngloDutch #SRSlyGood @histodons

Part 3 treats of news, letters, and war, in chapters by Gijs Rommelse, Jack Avery, @lievesofgrass and @evraamsdonk, covering the Anglo-Dutch wars, Dutch news about the English Parliament, and Dutchness in the Stuart State Papers.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003049180/anglo-dutch-connections-early-modern-world-sjoerd-levelt-esther-van-raamsdonk-michael-rose #earlymodons #AngloDutch #SRSlyGood @histodons

The chapters of Part 2, by Su Fang Ng, @deborah_hamer, Silvia Espelt-Bombin, Martijn van den Bel, @jellevanlottum, and Lodewijk Petram, address immigration, empire, and colonialism, covering Ambonese accounts of the “Amboyna Massacre”, Anglo-Dutch relations in Batavia and on the Oyapock River, and English seamen employed in the Dutch East India Company.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003049180/anglo-dutch-connections-early-modern-world-sjoerd-levelt-esther-van-raamsdonk-michael-rose #earlymodons #AngloDutch #SRSlyGood @histodons

Part 1 of Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World has chapters by John Gallagher, Alan Moss, Martine Zoeteman-van Pelt, and Ineke Huysman on travel, language and education: English–Dutch conversation manuals, travelogues of Dutch travellers to England, English students in the Netherlands, and the visits to England of Constantijn Huygens over the course of his long and eventful life.

https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003049180/anglo-dutch-connections-early-modern-world-sjoerd-levelt-esther-van-raamsdonk-michael-rose #earlymodons #AngloDutch #SRSlyGood @histodons

Our introduction, surveying the state of the field, our volume's contributions, and the long history of Anglo-Dutch relations before the 17th century, is available by clicking “preview pdf” here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003049180/anglo-dutch-connections-early-modern-world-sjoerd-levelt-esther-van-raamsdonk-michael-rose #earlymodons #AngloDutch #SRSlyGood @histodons

Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World, edited by Esther van Raamsdonk, Michael D. Rose, and me, is available to order now!

In 23 chapters plus an introduction and conclusion, by 27 authors altogether, we present an overview of Anglo-Dutch relations in the early modern period, through a series of case studies in literature, book production, art, architecture, language learning, diplomacy, engineering, religion, philosophy, colonialism, travel, study, and much, much more.

https://www.routledge.com/Anglo-Dutch-Connections-in-the-Early-Modern-World/Levelt-Raamsdonk-Rose/p/book/9780367502331 #earlymodons #AngloDutch #SRSlyGood @histodons

you should hear us purr!

arrived now — our new edited collection, Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World.

https://www.routledge.com/Anglo-Dutch-Connections-in-the-Early-Modern-World/Levelt-Raamsdonk-Rose/p/book/9780367502331# #earlymodons #AngloDutch #SRSlyGood @histodons @SRSRenSoc

The full introduction to our book, Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World, is now available for preview! In the introduction, we preview the chapters of our collection, and give some insight in the long history of Anglo-Dutch contacts before the seventeenth century.

click “preview pdf”: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003049180/anglo-dutch-connections-early-modern-world-sjoerd-levelt-esther-van-raamsdonk-michael-rose?refId=233453b3-1450-4059-8c4b-16b0454e6e71&context=ubx

#earlymodons #SRSlyGood #histodons #AngloDutch @histodons

our work is done. forthcoming in February!

#AngloDutch #earlymodons @histodons

https://www.routledge.com/Anglo-Dutch-Connections-in-the-Early-Modern-World/Levelt-Raamsdonk-Rose/p/book/9780367502331

very final bit toward Anglo-Dutch Connections in the Early Modern World: index proofs!

#AngloDutch #earlymodons