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Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Our book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England has turned one. They grow up so fast! 🎂 This blogpost marks the publication anniversary with a brisk walk through the labours & fruits of #earlymodern #autumn 🍎🍺🐂👇 drtayloraucoin.com/2025/11/20/t... #history

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The Autumnal Experience of Work in 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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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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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:
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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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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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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

Image of book with accompanying text: "The Society's Funded Book Workshop Grants support historians, currently working on a second or third major research project, and which will lead to publication of a monograph. The Book Workshops enable an author to bring together fellow scholars to discuss and develop the manuscript of a scholarly monograph."

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Hannah Robb @hkrobb.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

And yes it was a great chat today- Arthur especially loved it, though sparked a long chat about the fall of Roman Empire!

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Hannah Robb @hkrobb.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Yes look forward to hear how you get on with the smiths, would love to see how your chapter comes on.

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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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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...

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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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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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London Lives

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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

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Hannah Robb @hkrobb.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I was prepared for the order to be cancelled and was instead pleasantly surprised, not quite sure what I’m going to do with 7 copies!

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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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Hannah Robb @hkrobb.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Eagerly awaiting my CUP delivery this week but WhSmith delivered the goods- though now listed as out of stock since I nabbed them at the bargain price of 16.99!

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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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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

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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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