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Jane Whittle, Wills Project Principal Investigator The wills project has now successfully transcribed more than 30,000 early modern wills from the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, with at least 5000 f...

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As course closures, shrinking provision and widening regional inequalities threaten the future of UK higher education and research, President of the British Academy, Susan J Smith calls for an immedia...

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Emily Vine This month’s post explores the will of John Adeson, a curate of Caldbeck in Cumbria, who died in 1540. Adeson was directly involved in the turmoil of the Henrician Reformation, and known pr...

The university says it is consulting with colleagues over "limited and specific potential changes".

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The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on the vast kitchen ledgers of two royal households made newly available to research through digiti...

British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar

This month’s post explores the 1725 will of Mary Skelton, a widow of East Greenwich who appeared to have clear ‘favourites’ within her family and divided up her assets accordingly.[1] It’s a document ...