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Northern History @northernhistory.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

One month until the 1 May deadline for the Gordon Forster Essay Prize. Open to postgraduate students & ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should be between 7000-10000 words inc. footnotes. Please repost! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Gordon Forster Essay Prize

Published in Northern History (Vol. 62, No. 1-2, 2025)

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Abby Hammond (she/her) @absham.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Love this image of the "Newcastle Cloak", a punishment for 'common drunkards' in the seventeenth century, from John Sykes' "Local records" (1833). Even he asked, "why has this punishment been laid aside?" Some excellent Friday night content possible here, so I concur.

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Northern History @northernhistory.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Gordon Forster Essay Prize 2026 Deadline: 1 May 2026 Open to postgraduate students and ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should fit within the journal’s aims & scope, and be between 7000-10000 words (inc. footnotes). Please repost.

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Adam Dixon @adam-dixon.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Was great to present at Cambridge's Economic and Social History Workshop with @absham.bsky.social on (In)Visible Infrastructures and gendered perspectives on economic and social life on Tyneside.

(In)Visible Infrastructure: Three Centuries of Women's Social and Economic Participation in Tyneside

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Grave Concerns @graveconcernsblog.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Death, in two parts. Another post in our Royal Funeral series, but this time with a brief interlude from one of Britain's most kingly-non-kings. Yes, it's Oliver Cromwell! Read it here: hammonda.substack.com/p/15-royal-f... & don't forget to subscribe, so the posts go straight to your email!

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Grave Concerns @graveconcernsblog.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Our new post, "#1 Royal Funerals Series: Charles I", is now live! You can read it here: hammonda.substack.com/p/1-royal-fu...

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Emily Brand @emilybrand.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Tugging further on this fascinating historical thread... This painting shows Sir Harry Harper with a favourite horse, Furiband, and an unnamed groom, c. 1774: could this be a portrait of "Jockey Jack"? I certainly hope so! #18c

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Grave Concerns @graveconcernsblog.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Our new “Royal Funerals” series begins in 1649, with the execution of Charles I. Whilst the moments that led up to this event are well known in the British psyche, instead we ask: what happened to Charles post-mortem? Explore this legacy in our post tomorrow! (c) Parliamentary Art Collection

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Grave Concerns @graveconcernsblog.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

🪦 Where are the dead? My latest post examines how the Victorian burial crisis led to sweeping reforms that moved the dead from churchyards to suburban cemeteries, and why we're facing the same challenges today. #skystorians #graves #death #substack

Reads as 'The Great British Burial Shake-Up': Out of sight, out of mind? with an image of Victorians at a graveyard.

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Abby Hammond (she/her) @absham.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

March 22, 1726. Ordinance from the Society of Saddlers of Newcastle-upon-Tyne... "No brother shall come into the meeting of the company in his night-gown, on pain to forfeit 1s". ❌ No pyjamas allowed! ❌

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two stuffed bananas wearing striped pajamas with the numbers b11 and b12 on them

ALT: two stuffed bananas wearing striped pajamas with the numbers b11 and b12 on them

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Abby Hammond (she/her) @absham.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

I launched a blog to post some of my musings that don't quite fit into my PhD thesis... Really excited to share stories from the North East and beyond on early modern graves and death culture!

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Grave Concerns @graveconcernsblog.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Histories of death, dying and memorials? Yes, please! Subscribe to the blog today for weekly posts, straight to your e-mail. hammonda.substack.com?r=4xl2h4&utm...

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Grave Concerns | Abby | Substack

Histories of life and death. Click to read Grave Concerns, by Abby, a Substack publication. Launched 5 minutes ago.

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Abby Hammond (she/her) @absham.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Today we launched the North East Funerary Heritage Group at Newcastle Cathedral to explore, preserve & promote regional funerary heritage. Great panel & workshops mapped knowledge, skills & burial sites. Grateful to Anna Walsh, Ray Hayes & Myra Giesen. Visit: blogs.ncl.ac.uk/nefhg/

Screen with the various workshops on inside Newcastle Cathedral

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Abby Hammond (she/her) @absham.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Have you signed up to attend the North East Funerary Heritage Group's launch event on the 23rd of July? You have until the 18th to do so! blogs.ncl.ac.uk/nefhg/2025/0... #heritage #monuments #graves #gravestones

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NEFHG Launch Deadline Set for Friday, 18 July – North East Funerary Heritage Group

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Abby Hammond (she/her) @absham.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

What a scene of udder chaos! Milk maid melee in Soho, 1805. Never a dull moment when using the British Newspaper Archives for research! 🐄

Newspaper article: "On Friday, a scene, highly diverting to a number of spectators, took place in Greek-street, Soho. Two Welch milk girls, who had previously quarrelled in a cow-keeper's yard at Pancras, on the subject of adulterating the milk sold to their customers, happened to meet rather by surprise, and after bestowing a variety of coarse compliments on each other, the Cambrian spirit infused into the parties burst forth, they upset each other's pails, and commenced a pugilistic contest, which was sustained with equal courage and dexterity for near 15 minute, when victory declared in favour of Griddy Powel, who not only vanquished her opponent but left the humble habiliments of the latter in rags and tatters, distended by the wind. The victor, who resides in Grafton-street, had opposed the general custom of the milk-carriers; namely, to add five threads, or pints of water, to a gallon of milk, honestly contenting herself with three threads, which raised a violent murmuring among the whole fraternity of the pail, many of whom ill used her, particularly her last antagonist, whom she severely punished for the unconscionable imposition practised on the public."

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Abby Hammond (she/her) @absham.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

My little project. Up until the end of May!

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Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence Online (EMCO) @montaguletters.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

🚨Internship alert!📷An exciting opportunity for a PhD student or Early Career Researcher to work as a research intern for EMCO this summer. The EMCO internship programme focuses on transcribing the letters written by Montagu to her friend, Elizabeth Carter.

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Abby Hammond (she/her) @absham.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Never a good day at the office when it collapses in on itself! #PhD

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Ian Walsh @ianwalensis.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

What a fantastic PhD project: "Phd Studentship : Early women solicitors in England and Wales 1919-1939 (Lady Cruickshank Studentship) Queen Mary University of London - Department of Law" www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLM390/p...

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Phd Studentship : Early women solicitors in England and Wales 1919-1939 (Lady Cruickshank Studentship) at Queen Mary University of London

Find a Phd Studentship : Early women solicitors in England and Wales 1919-1939 (Lady Cruickshank Studentship) on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board in higher education. Click to view more!

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Abby Hammond (she/her) @absham.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Highly recommend this internship, having completed it last year!

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Abby Hammond (she/her) @absham.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Just about decompressed from #BSECS2025... Feeling lucky to have been on a panel with these guys and to have had some time to explore Oxford. Back in Newcastle now, researching more female coal mine owners, and more!

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