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Hello. My name is Lucas Haasis. I am a postdoc & the research coordinator of the UK-German #PrizePapers Project (www.prizepapers.de). I am also a lecturer of #EarlyModern History at Oldenburg University. My research focusses on #18thcentury #letters, mercantile culture of the 18th century, #praxeological approaches, global #microhistory.
I like: #teaching #writing #cooperation #games and #organising events.
I don't like: envy, elbowing, resentment, egoism and Elon Musk.
@LHaasis Happy to be here with you, Lucas!
@LHaasis Hey Lucas! Stumbled across your intro - my wife and I own an 18th century home a block away from the shore of the Delaware River in Philadelphia, and have excavated 7 privies full of 18th century goodies, made locally, but also in England, Germany, the Netherlands, Jingdezhen, etc. We've got a podcast called The Boghouse that goes into the history of the people who lived here (and the merchants that owned the building), and we post supplemental photos over here: https://www.instagram.com/theboghousepodcast/
@Leviathant Hi Matt! Oh wow! I will have to check this out! Do you know where the merchants originally came from and what they traded in? I suppose with porcelain? Looking forward to listening to the podcast
@LHaasis The original owner of the property, Benjamin Mifflin, a Quaker who sailed to the colony with William Penn - Google "Mifflin & Massey" and you'll see there are surviving ledgers and all kinds of goodies relevant to your interests.
It was on the edge of one of the oldest shipyards in America at the time (the West Shipyard), so a series of coopers, tailors, blacksmiths occupied the building while it was owned by a baker-turned-cloth merchant, a Welsh Quaker named Daniel Williams
@LHaasis Also of interest: during our excavations on our property and the property next door, we found several discard pieces of ceramics locally produced at the short-lived Bonnin and Morris factory (itself an interesting story re: trade and manufacturing), as well as kiln furniture, wasters, and potters ribs - made of actual shaved ribs, sort of an "aha!" moment for some contemporary potters we've met with - "I always wondered why the tool I used was called a rib, guess it's obvious"
@LHaasis One of the first things I found in the construction detritus that convinced me that we might be standing on something special was a punch bowl (probably made in Liverpool) that would have said "Success to Trade and Navigation" had we been able to find the rest of it. We knew the building was old (for America), but mention of navigation in an artifact sort of placed it in a different era than we'd initially thought!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/mormolyke/27881008762/in/album-72157670401046105/