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Hannah Robb

@hkrobb.bsky.social
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Historian of everyday commerce, credit and debt in late medieval and early modern England. Lecturer early modern history The University of Manchester. ‘Written Worlds’, Birkbeck. ‘Forms of Labour’, Exeter. Church courts and chronicles.

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Rachel Winchcombe @rachelwinchers.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
What really happened during Jamestown’s Starving Time? In this episode, I help explore one of the most infamous crises in early American history. #academicsky #materialculture #history #earlymodern shows.acast.com/not-just-the...
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Jamestown: From Colony to Cannibalism | Not Just the Tudors
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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
My new post: 'Grand Juries and Star Chamber’s Haunting Spectre' legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/07/17/g...
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Grand Juries and Star Chamber’s Haunting Spectre
With curbs on trial juries now proposed in the UK, this post looks back to the part played by their now defunct counterpart, the grand jury.
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Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Is it coming home? No. But for centuries football, home and identity have been closely entwined, as @aucointaylor.bsky.social reveals in this fab new blog post... manyheadedmonster.com/2026/07/17/b...
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Becoming Home: Football and Geographic Identity in Early Modern Britain
This summer’s football World Cup has prompted lots of talk of ‘historic’ matches and rivalries that have played out over decades, but the game’s history – and its conn…
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 15/07/2026
In addition to today's data on staffing in UK HE, @britishacademy.bsky.social has produced several briefings, including one on the very significant decline in early career academics, 2012-24: bit.ly/4wGBTcl History has seen a 32% decline in early career staff numbers since 2012/13 #Skystorians 1/2
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Mapping SHAPE academic staff briefing:
Pathways for early career
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academics are in decline
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 10/07/2026
Applications are also invited for the Society's Associate Fellowship bit.ly/4vnZVb0 Associate Fellows include early career historians (post PhD) and history-related professionals in fields such as archives, museums, public history and schools education. Closing dates 27 July & 5 Oct #Skystorians
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Apply for Associate Fellowship - RHS
Closing dates for next applications: Mondays 27 July and 5 October 2026   Associate Fellowship recognises the contribution made by a wide range of historical researchers and advocates for History with...
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Lou Roper @roperlou.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
please pardon 'piggybacking' @onslies.bsky.social but our 'French Connection' volume is #earlymodern #ICYMI @manchesterup.bsky.social 50% sale ends this week (only 15 quid/$22.50) manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/978152616733...
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Manchester University Press - Agents of European overseas empires
Agents of European overseas empires - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Agents of European overseas empires by Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber
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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Want money to study medieval and early modern cultures in the city with England's oldest cathedral? Then you have a week in which to apply for one of the MA scholarships @memsunikent.bsky.social: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear... Complete the simple application process by next Monday, 13th July.
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PhD and MA Funding - Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies - Research at Kent
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 06/07/2026
A reminder: this Friday (10 July) is the closing date for applications for the Society's Funded Book Workshop Grants, 2026-27 bit.ly/4vfL6av Grants fund a day workshop for historians writing a 2nd or 3rd monograph, to discuss their project and manuscript with up to 6 specialist readers #Skystorians
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Hannah Robb @hkrobb.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
After three days at the Social History Society Conference what better way to spend the Saturday with the kids @gregjenner.bsky.social
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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
New article has just been published OA @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social ! Lots of archival work in here tracing the the women who ran “Indian houses” in #17thc London. Including one woman who may have helped plot the Glorious Revolution!! #earlymodern www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
🚨Announcement!🚨 I'm now offering freelance services (archival photography, transcription, bespoke research...) 📜✒️ Please get in touch if you or someone you know has #history research needs in the UK (esp Scotland & northern England) #Medievalsky #Earlymodern #c18th drtayloraucoin.com/freelance-hi...
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Freelance Historical Research
As a professional historian based in the UK I offer a number of research services: Archival Photography Travel to archives and record offices to photograph documents and transfer them securely. Geo…
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Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
🚨NEW Blogpost🚨 #England plays tonight. #Scotland tomorrow. ⚽ But which team would James VI/I have most favoured in the #WorldCup? 👑 Explore his complicated relationship w/ #football, & its shift from #medieval unlawful game to #earlymodern elite pastime. 👇 drtayloraucoin.com/2026/06/19/j...
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James VI and I: Football Fan or Foe?
Today (19 June) marks the 460th birthday of James VI of Scotland and I of England, the first monarch to unite Great Britain under one crown. He’s had a big year: 2025 was the 400th anniversar…
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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I'm very excited to see Gwen Seabourne (@gwenseabourne.bsky.social) and Joanna McCunn's Insiders and Outsiders in the History of Law now available to pre-order. Featuring new research by me on the Chevalier d'Eon uolpress.co.uk/book/insider...
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Insiders and Outsiders in the History of Law - University of London Press
Writing the history of law involves choices: whose stories are to be told, and how? Traditionally, legal history has focused on influential ‘insiders’ like judges, lawyers and legislators, and on stud...
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Along with almost all of my colleagues in history, this afternoon I got an email telling me that I am at risk of redundancy. It looks like the University of Exeter sent this email to the vast majority of people in Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty. Bit hard to breath right now.
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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
* ha ha ha ha * The year is 1503, and this jester is laughing at you from his woodcut, reader!
A jester laughing in a woodcut from 1503. The woodcut features a text: ha ha ha ha.
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James Fisher @jamdanfish.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Excited to see Sonia Tycko's book rethinking early modern consent and contract labour is now available. This is an important intervention for histories of coerced labour. 'Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600–1700'
Front cover for book titled 'Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600–1700' by Sonia Tycko, with an image of an indenture
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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Thanks to @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @aucointaylor.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social (via @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social), for reminding me that my kids are slackers. 🗃️ Lovely discussion of *The Experience of Work in Early Modern England* in the LRB: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Eliot Benbow @ebenbow.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Behold King's Lynn [TNA E 122/181/39]
Parchment bag with long handle containing a 15th century searchers account for King's Lynn (or Bishop's Lynn as it would have been) TNA E 122/181/39. The bag contains a textual inscription describing the account and a modern call archival catalogue number.
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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
📢 In Case You Missed It! 📢 We've been busy - catch up with our latest 'Project Progress Update' Blog Post 👇 sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... Find our more about our recent milestones, and the building of our project database 💻📜 @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk #skystorians
A screenshot of a working version of the project database. The cells of the datasheet are grey, with the top row highlighted blue. The datasheet shows lists of testator names, their occupation, location and archive reference.
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Aberdeen Medieval and Early Modern Conference @amaemconference.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
We're now welcoming abstracts for our 2026 conference, on the theme of 'Violence in the Medieval and Early Modern North'! The deadline is 15 January.
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Environment and History, White Horse Press @eandhwhp.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
In "Energy, Ecology and Gender in the Middle-Class Home of the Eighteenth-Century Low Countries," Wout Saelens examines the impact of fossil fuel usage on housewives and maidservants who bore the burden of new discomforts accompanying this new energy regime 🗃️ #envhist doi.org/10.3828/whpe...
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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference will be at Lancaster in July. Call for papers just released. I'll put putting together a proposal, so hope to see some of you there! #EarlyModern 🗃️ Details here: socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
A Significant Milestone

The Social History Society was founded at Lancaster University in 1976 and held a conference that year on the theme of ‘Elites in Society’.

The SHS was the brainchild of Harold Perkin (the first Professor of Social History in Britain), who quietly promoted a form of social history that looked beyond class based analyses. Alongside a regular newsletter, the society’s conference was the glue that bound together its increasingly diverse membership.

As the SHS’s conferences grew, they moved from a focus on a single theme to a programme that incorporated different strands of social history. The SHS conference is now one of the largest gatherings of social historians in Britain, and incorporates work that spans time, space and various historical approaches. There are few conferences that are as diverse or as open to new ideas.

From the outset, the SHS has sought to offer a constructive space for postgraduate historians to present and gain feedback on their work. The society still prides itself on giving postgraduates the same platform as more established colleagues.

Thankfully, however, some things have changed. The first SHS conferences were held in the depths of winter (according to late founder member Eric Evans, this was because no other conference was foolhardy enough to organise events at that time of year so they could guarantee and audience). Since 2018, the conference has adopted a summer timetable, allowing outdoor events including walking tours and an unforgettable night at the Black Country Living Museum’s 1950s fairground.

We are delighted to be returning to our roots at Lancaster to celebrate our 50th anniversary.
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Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh OMN | School of Celtic Studies MU @ceilteachomn.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Bígí linn | Join us for the 2025 Paul Walsh Memorial Lecture, the final Early Irish research seminar this year, Thursday 4 December at 17:00, Room 2.31 IONTAS. *Law and Narrative in Fifteenth-Century Petitions to the Irish Parliament* Dr Sparky Booker (Trinity College Dublin) Fáilte roimh chách!
*Law and Narrative in Fifteenth-Century Petitions to the Irish Parliament* Dr Sparky Booker - 4 December 2025 2.31 Iontas Maynooth University
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VOICES OF WOMEN IN EARLY MODERN IRELAND @voicestcd.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Last week, VOICES PI Professor Jane Ohlmeyer delivered a lecture at the Institute of Historical Research entitled: 'Making a living in early modern Dublin: Women and work'. Find out more at the link below: @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social
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Institute of Historical Research Lecture: Making a living in early modern Dublin: Women and work  - VOICES
On November the 20th, VOICES PI, Professor Jane Ohlmeyer delivered a lecture at the Institute of Historical research entitled:  Making a living in early modern Dublin: women and work  https://www.hist...
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Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Pudding season approaches; #Thanksgiving is here. Closing my seasonal series of posts marking the publication of our new book, I revisit a case where food takes the plate Featuring industrious duckwives, wisemen & gossiping quarrymen #earlymodern ludicrushistories.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/t....
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The Pudding Pinching Heifer Heisters
New blogpost written for the Forms of Labour Project exploring everyday life and work in early modern England through the depositions of a Lancashire quarter sessions court case. Featuring an indus…
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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
New article from Ellen Paterson on how petitioners 'evoked and confronted the parliamentary past' in their economic disputes is the tumultuous years preceding the outbreak of civil war.🗃️ #OpenAccess #PowerOfPetitioning Read it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Screenshot of Ellen Paterson's new article: 'Contemporary Parliamentary History and Petitioners in the Long Parliament, c. 1640–1642'
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Stefan Hanß @stefanhanss.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
NEW PUBLICATION Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
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The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance
Abstract. Collaborations between the humanities and sciences allow for novel insights into the material world of Renaissance recipe cultures, and in partic
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Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Cosy season is well upon us Curl up w/ a warm drink & NEW post on CUP's blog: The #Autumnal Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England This seasonal celebration of our new book features apples & pears, cider & ale, meat & markets, & the #Christmas milling craze cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/the-...
Late 17th-century English needlework showing typical labours of the month. Focus shows a woman picking apples in October, and a woman spinning in November.Line graph titled Autumn Sectors shows an indexed monthly distribution of Commerce and Food Processing Tasks where 100 is the monthly average and both Commerce and Food Processing rise during the autumn quarter of October, November and December to an annual height of over 140 in December.
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Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...
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Coroners' Inquests | In Her Mind's Eye
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Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
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Graham Walmsley 🎲 @grahamwalmsley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
This episode of the MERL's podcast is amazing. It made me want to read @timjerrome.bsky.social 's book but I don't think it's written yet. And they've got someone on talking about folklore tomorrow for Halloween.
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Hannah Robb @hkrobb.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
A spooky blog post from Taylor on the magiconomy and all the miraculous and magical work performed in early modern England.
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Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
To mark #Halloween & publication of 'The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England', (now available in print & free online), this blogpost revisits the magiconomy. 🧙🎃 Highlights include a magical service paid for with bacon and pigeons. 🥓🪶 #history ludicrushistories.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...
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The Magiconomy of Early Modern England
This post is part of a series marking the print and online Open Access (free) publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, …
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James Baker @jwbaker.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar on 4 November (12:00 GMT on Zoom) to celebrate the winning entry for the 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History and to learn about gender and lottery rhymes in the medieval/early-modern low countries ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues...
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Tuesday 4 November 2025 - Deswarte Prize Seminar - Marly Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Sara Budts, and Jeroen Puttevils (University of Antwerp): (Fe)male Voices on Stage: Finding Patterns in Lottery Rhym...
This seminar is 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/96338659032 later posted to our YouTube channel. Session chair: James Baker. This seminar will celebrate the winning entry for ...
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
📢TODAY📢 Tune in to hear @bhamhistory.bsky.social and @emilymayvine.bsky.social discuss our unique methodology 👇 Weds 22 Oct, 5pm Zoom #EarlyModern 🗃️ #DigitalHumanities @cemsexeter.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social @dhlabexeter.bsky.social
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Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Deadline extended to 1 Nov. Please share with UGs interested in #legalhistory or #womeninlaw. Don't have to be studying legal history, topic is open. Chance to connect with Selden's Sister, who also run PG mentoring scheme. £100 in Hart Publishing vouches up for grabs!
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Hannah Robb @hkrobb.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
So excited to finally have hold of the book!
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Urban History @urbanhistory.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
New book by our editor Roey Sweet and Richard Ansell!
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Patricia Stoop @dr-patriciastoop.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Great news!! My special issue on Writing for Third Parties: Commercial Manuscript Production in the Late Middle Ages (Queeste, @amsterdamupress.bsky.social) is now available in open access. Looking much forward to your reactions! www.aup-online.com/content/jour...
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Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Another post on 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' - a reminder that work in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was very much a family affair... manyheadedmonster.com/2025/10/09/t...
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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England II: Family Fortunes
This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉 Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e... news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
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A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history
New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...
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Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Delighted to see our new book - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England - out now, and open access (free!) doi-org.bris.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/9781...
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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
2. Read our Autumn Newsletter! 📰 We've recently circulated our latest project update - with details of what we've been up to over the last 6 months! 📜🎨🎵 Download the pdf or plain version from our news page: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social #skystorians 🧵2/3
A newsletter - mainly consisting of text, with some photos of a workshop in the bottom corner. A newsletter - mainly consisting of text, with some photos of a print workshop and some images of the prints that were made.
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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
3. Catch up on our latest 'Will of the Month' blog post! September's post was written by Dylan Cox, a 3rd year Exeter History student 📜 You can catch up on all of our 'Will of the Month' posts - over 20! - on our website 💻 @uoearchhist.bsky.social #history sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... 🧵3/3
A 1720 drawing of Bridewell Prison, seen from above, from “The Prospect of Bridewell” from John Strype‘s An Accurate Edition of Stow’s “A Survey of London“ (1720) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridewell_Palace#/media/File:Prospect_of_Bridewell.jpg
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Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures @mediumaevum.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
SSMLL are delighted to announce the opening of our Call for Papers for the 2026 Day Conference, Medieval Wales, which will be held at Cardiff University 25-26 April, 2026. Proposals should be submitted to Dr David Callander (callanderd@cardiff.ac.uk) by 30 November.
Cardiff University and the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature are pleased to announce a multi-disciplinary conference on medieval Wales, to be held at Cardiff University on the 25th and 26th of April 2026. The conference will provide a space for discussion and collaboration between scholars of all disciplinary backgrounds interested in medieval Wales. The conference programme will include the Medium Ævum annual lecture, which will be delivered by Professor Helen Fulton (University of Bristol). The Henry Loyn Memorial Lecture will be held on the evening of the 24th of April, and will be delivered by Professor John Hines (Cardiff University). 

We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations representing any specialization that sheds light on medieval Wales. We shall particularly welcome papers that discuss encounters between different languages and traditions and their consequences. Proposals are welcome from speakers at all career stages and papers can be delivered in English or Welsh. Proposals should include a title and an abstract (100–200 words) and should be submitted to Dr David Callander (callanderd@cardiff.ac.uk) by 30 November.
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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
#HistoryJob - just a reminder that our colleagues in VCH Herefordshire are looking for *two* contributing editors to bring their first #BigRedBook for over 100 years to fruition. Details in the link, applications close on 10 October.
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Contributing Editors at The Herefordshire Victoria County History Trust
Apply for the Contributing Editors role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
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Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781... #earlymodern #economic #history
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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
Cambridge Core - Economic History - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
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