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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

TV presenter Dr Jonathan Foyle ('Climbing Great Buildings', 'Henry VIII: Patron or Plunderer?') will be speaking at Salisbury Museum on 6 November! On 'Henry III: Palaces, Politics and Piety'. More info and booking details here: salisburymuseum.org.uk/whats-on/ann...

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Annual Clarendon lecture 2025: Henry III: Palaces, Politics and Piety by Dr Jonathan Foyle - The Salisbury Museum

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Wiltshire Buildings Record Study Day, Sat 18 Oct 2025, Corn Exchange, Devizes, on 'The Age of Innovation – Buildings in the 19th Century'. As a historian of #Quakers, it's good to see a talk on Quaker architect Brightwen Binyon (1846-1905). Info: www.wiltshirebuildingsrecord.org.uk/coming-soon/

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Quakers wore their testimony against tithe payments as a proud signifier of their unique identity. But how faithful to the testimony were they in practice? #Quakers

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

My Presidential address to the Friends Historical Society, 'A faithful testimony? Quakers and tithe payments in the mid-18th century', Sat 27 Sept, in the Library at Friends House, London. Also on Zoom; pls contact the Society by 22 Sept. Details: friendshistoricalsociety.org.uk/events/ #Quakers

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Friends Historical SocietyEvents – Friends Historical Society

Friends Historical Soceity: The aim of the FHS is to promote interest in and research into the history of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

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Witch Map Project @witchmapproject.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

📢 Today, we want to share our current map with you! If you notice anything we might have missed, please contact us at witchmapproject@gmail.com along with any sources. In the replies, we will list the criteria for entries as well as a guide to the colour-coding. www.google.com/maps/d/u/1/e...

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Witchcraft memorials public - Google My Maps

Witchcraft memorials public

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Heidelberg Castle. Badly damaged in the wars of the 17th century and by a lightning strike in 1764. By the early 19th century it was in ruins, but those ruins would inspire many Romantic writers, inc. Goethe, Hölderlin and von Eichendorff, as wells as artists inc. Carl Rottmann and Turner.

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

As an armchair folklorist, I am really looking forward to reading this.

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

On the 80th anniversary of VE day, I remember my mother telling me that on VE day 1945, when she was 7 yrs old, she was allowed to stay up after her bedtime to watch an effigy of Hitler being burnt.

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Open access - read online for free. Topics inc. women's reading of religious books, women and news books, women's engagement with notetaking/recording.

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

St Andrew's church, Laverstock, last month. So pretty! (For those not local to the area - it's near Salisbury in Wiltshire.)

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

#17thcentury travel. Another must-have book to add to the growing list...

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Yes, yes, yes! To be published in June. Have pre-ordered copy, and am so looking forward to reading it.

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

'Rebellion, Protest and Subversion in Hampshire'. Spring symposium, Hampshire Field Club Local History Section, 26 April, Winchester. Speakers on protest in MA, Lollards, Quakers, protest in 1790s, local protest in 1831, COs in WW1. Pls book by 28 March. www.hantsfieldclub.org.uk/sections/loc...

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2025 Spring Symposium - Local History Section, Hampshire Field Club & Archaeological Society

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I'm delighted to be speaking at a Hampshire Field Club Symposium in Winchester on 26 April. I'll be talking about Hampshire #Quakers, particularly their active evangelism in the 1650s, and their later subversive non-compliance. Further details: www.hantsfieldclub.org.uk/sections/loc...

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2025 Spring Symposium - Local History Section, Hampshire Field Club & Archaeological Society

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Parliamentary History Journal @parlhistjournal.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

We're thoroughly enjoying 'The Blazing World' by @jonathanhealey.bsky.social So, as we read, we'll be making four of our articles about the 17th century free! The first is Mark Parry's 'William Laud and the Parliamentary Politics of 1628-9' 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... #skystorians

William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, after Anthony van Dyck.
NPG 171.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Laud.jpg

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Dr Louise Ryland-Epton @lrylandepton.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Happy 399th Birthday to John Aubrey!! I am delighted to be collaborating with Chippenham Museum & Kate Bennett on an exhibition to mark Aubrey’s 400th birthday in 2026. To celebrate this milestone, I will also be publishing Aubrey’s Natural History in its entirety for the first time.

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

For historians of religion - this includes several female authors writing on spirituality, etc. Margaret Fell, Anna Trapnel, Joanna Southcott and others.

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Dr. Liz Fischer @lizfischer0.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Super excited to share that my book on network analysis and visualization as a method for book history will be out soon!! It's basically a how-to-start guide for book historians interested in networks 😃 www.arc-humanities.org/978180270268... #dh #bookhistory #firstbook #medievalsky

Cover for a book titled Network Analysis for Book Historians: Digital Labour and Data Visualization Techniques

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I just wanted to share this magnificent Green Man post box topper. Outside the community shop at Avebury, Wiltshire, on 31 January 2025.

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Rachel Pope @prehistorian.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This is the exciting paper drop. New aDNA science out of Dublin. Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset. Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain - Nature

An analysis of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA shows evidence of matrilocal communities in Iron Age Britain.

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

New! History of Alderbury, SE Wiltshire, now online. Latest draft from @wiltshistory.bsky.social researchers.

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

A Valentine's post box topper, Salisbury market place. Photo taken Tuesday 11 February 2025.

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Great news, and if there's a cafe on site, even better!

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The Folklore Podcast @folklorepod.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

PLEASE read this really important message about The Folklore Library and Archive and if you can help follow this link www.gofundme.com/f/keep-the-f... Even if you can't help directly, please forward this message on to everyone you can. These archives are valuable. Thank you.

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

NEW TRAINING SESSION ANNOUNCEMENT: Join us in March to learn more about how to research place-based religious histories beyond the parish church. Everyone is welcome for this free training. www.history.ac.uk/events/resea...

Poster containing training session name, date, location & blurb. All the info available in link included in post.

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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Applications are open for the 2025-27 Past & Present Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social are open Applications close on 31st Jan 2025 Fellows appointed will commence on 1st Oct 2025 and be tenable for 24 months Please share with your network www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

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Past & Present Fellowships

Past & Present Fellowships are available for two years, and open to researchers who have completed a doctorate in history.

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

#MemorialMonday. Charles William Fry, first bandmaster of the Salvation Army. Memorialised, intriguingly, in the cloisters of Salisbury Cathedral.

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British History Online @bho.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Some good #DigitalHistory infrastructure news: After the Bodleian took down their British Book Trade Index interface, they made the data available under an #OpenAccess license; the Grub Street Project has now put it back online: bbti.grubstreetproject.net/index.php #History #BookHistory 🗃️

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British Book Trade Index archive

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Glad to see this collection of essays on the Dutch slave trade on OA.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 09/12/2024

We've created a Starter Pack of #History societies and groups working to support promote our disciple and historians, in higher education and related professions go.bsky.app/68FsvjY Mainly UK but also international, with selected societies from related humanities subjects. Please share #Skystorians

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Books received for Christmas and for my birthday (which was just before Christmas). Many thanks and much love to my husband and son. I am looking forward to reading these in the New Year. (Authors inc: @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social , @charlesesdaile.bsky.social.)

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Article on BBC website about the #17thcentury #HearthTax. Of the counties whose records have been examined for the project, Wiltshire's date back the furthest. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Records for loathed 300-year-old tax reveal 'incredible' details about 17th Century

Wiltshire has some of the earliest records of a tax on fireplaces.

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

As we come to the end of the 400th anniversary year of the birth of George Fox in 1624, a timely reminder that #17thcentury #Quakers were not as opposed to the slave trade as their #18thcentury co-religionists would be. www.quaker.org.uk/blog/george-...

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George Fox 400: Expanding the narrative

Ellie McCarthy examines the part George Fox played in Quaker attitudes towards enslavement.

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

#otd 29 Dec. 1170, Thomas Becket murdered at Canterbury. There's a legend that as a young priest he served at Winterbourne (Wilts.) & said mass at nearby Clarendon Palace . No evidence for this, tho' as Archbishop he visited Clarendon in 1164. More at: www.wiltshirehistory.org/news/legends...

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Legends of Clarendon Palace — Wiltshire Victoria County History

Set on an isolated hillside, far from any village or public road, the ruins of medieval Clarendon Palace are a romantic and atmospheric sight. Once a palace for medieval kings, who came here to enjoy ...

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Nativity scene/postbox topper, on postbox inside Waitrose store, Churchill Way West, Salisbury, Wiltshire. Photo taken by me, 20 December 2024. For @folkloresociety.bsky.social!

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Much to read of interest to read here, and for those who wish to explore the significance of #17thCentury #Ghosts, see Imogen Peck's open access article on 'Edgehill, Naseby, and the Ghosts of the Civil Wars'.

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Very sad news indeed for early modernists, as it showcased #17thCentury.

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Stone Club @stoneclub.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

28% of England’s ancient monuments have no legal public right of access Over 5,500 sites recorded by Historic England are beyond reach of the public, according to new analysis undertaken by the campaign group Right to Roam. stoneclub.rocks/right-to-roam

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INACCESSIBLE ANCIENT SITES — Stone Club

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Draft texts on the history of SE Wiltshire parishes of Landford & Whiteparish now on the VCH website. Many thanks to my @wiltshistory.bsky.social colleagues @johnhchandler.bsky.social, @markforrest.bsky.social, @lrylandepton.bsky.social for advice & encouragement, and to @vchlondon.bsky.social.

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Wiltshire vol. XXI -South East Wiltshire

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Work, Authenticity, & Social Identity in Early Modern Britain @earlymodern2025.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Please share the CFP for our Work, Authenticity, and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain Conference, to take place 10-11 June 2025 at the University of Warwick, with keynote addresses from Steve Hindle, @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social & @brodiewaddell.bsky.social!

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Royal Historical Society's 2024 'Transactions' includes #17thcentury and #18thcentury topics.

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Dr Rosalind Johnson @historyrosalind.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

With articles about Victorian Christmases in Langley Burrell, Wiltshire farm account books, and a 19th c. Whiteparish centenarian who could still read her Bible despite her advanced age and only having one eye.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 02/12/2024

The Royal Historical Society is very pleased to be here, from today, @royalhistsoc.bsky.social We look forward to engaging with you to support and promote History and historians together. The Society is led by Prof Lucy Noakes, who began her Presidency of the RHS on 22 November royalhistsoc.org

Professor Lucy Noakes, President of the Royal Historical Society, gives her Presidential Lecture on 22 November 2024 on taking up the Presidency of the Society. Lucy delivers her lecture before an image of Professor Jinty Nelson, a former President, who died in October and was remembered at the event.

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