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About Lewis Wade
I am an historian of early modern France, focussing especially on French engagement in global exchanges under Louis XIV. I am a Humboldt Research Fellow at the University of Bamberg, having recently completed a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at Leiden University. My monograph, entitled Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France: Marine Insurance, War and the Atlantic Empire under Louis XIV, awarded the Society for the Study of French History First Book Prize, is available online Open Access and in paperback. I can be found on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/wadehistory.bsky.social.NBN Episodes hosted by Lewis:
October 3, 2026
Lives, Land, and Labour
The "Thombos" are a rather unique collection of eighteenth-century land and population registers detailing the lives lived, lands held, and labour pro…
June 15, 2026
Managing Maritime Risk in Early Modern Europe
Commercial seafaring, both dangerous and with large amounts of capital at stake, was the source of the risk-management institutions that still und…
May 4, 2026
Intimacy and Social (Dis)Order in Dutch Colonial Expansion
Explosive sexual scandals, bitter domestic conflicts, and dramatic changes in fortune. Sex, marriage, and family life were matters of enormous consequ…
February 18, 2026
By Flesh and Toil
From the beginning of the seventeenth century, French colonies and trading posts sprawled across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. In the first pan-impe…