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Mariella Oakes @marioakes.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Fascinating visit to @harvingtonhall.bsky.social today, eye-opening to think more about the dangers of being Catholic in Elizabethan England and the ingenious hiding places that were engineered for their concealment Beautiful stained glass showing scenes from Thomas More’s life

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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

In Case You Missed It: 📢 TUDOR WILLS NOW ON ZOONIVERSE! 📢 A new milestone for our @zooniverse.bsky.social site - we've uploaded new wills 📃dating 1538-1552. Practice your sixteenth-century palaeography✍️ & read wills made during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward ⏳ #skystorians #history

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Every aspect of UK universities is in crisis. My institution is going to implement a voluntary severance scheme to remove 5% of staff while spending wildly on marketing & "prestige" events. Students can barely afford to live & aren't turning up for class, & many are reliant on AI for their essays.

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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

It's happening: my ERC Consolidator project 🪶#FEATHERS🪶is organising a 3-day international conference on early modern scribal culture & manuscript production at @unileiden.bsky.social on 7-9 May 2025. See Call for Papers (deadline for abstracts 20 Dec): student.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

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Scribes and Inky Fingerprints: Collaborative and Mediated Authorship in Early Modern English Manuscripts - Leiden University

This three-day international conference hosted at Leiden University by the ERC Consolidator-funded FEATHERS project aims to bring together researchers working on early modern scribal culture and manus...

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

My statement on the Assisted Dying Bill.

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Peter McCullough @mcculloughp.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

An absolute archival unit. Containing, inter alia, ladings of cloth sent to Antwerp markets, with ships and masters named (and here two of my very different research projects meet since some of the masters are Lancelot Andrewes' great-grandfathers). (Cambridge U L)

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Mariella Oakes @marioakes.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

This was a fabulous seminar. Lots of interesting work going on in archives across many periods but especially enjoyed hearing about the HRP project on Henry VIII’s building works.

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Yale University Press London 📖 @yalebooks.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

For those captivated by Wolf Hall, this reading list delves into the real histories which inspired the novels and television adaptation. Featuring Eamon Duffy, Lucy Wooding, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Merry Wiesner-Hanks and more yalebooksblog.co.uk/2024/11/15/t... #earlymodern #reformazing #skystorians

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The History Behind Wolf Hall: A Reading List - Yale University Press London Blog

These essential reads delve into the real histories which inspired Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and the acclaimed television adaptation.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

ICYMI: our latest wills project post explores the will of Margaret Nelham, considering not just the content but also the handwriting, layout, spelling, and even the paper it was written on ... sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... #EarlyModern 🗃️

Photo of the top part of a very old will, with lines of text on the left and numbers on the right

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 04/06/2024

An engaged library user of the past ignoring the library rule "Keeping books on the floor is not allowed". #earlymodern #bookhistory #skystorians

A man sitting at a reading desk in an early modern library. On the table are opened books, on the floor are also books. This copperplate print may be found at HAB A 22366 (http://diglib.hab.de/varia/portrait/a-22366/start.htm ).

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Mariella Oakes @marioakes.bsky.social · 24/01/2024

I am slightly late to the party but in aid of National Handwriting Day (which was yesterday) here is my favourite secretary hand ever!

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Brazil's National Museum & FU Minas Gerais' Natural History Museum burned down. Library of Univ Cape Town was affected by wildfire. An archive I worked in flooded, org didn't/couldn't pay for restoration. NY libraries are closing on Sundays. We must fund properly libraries, archives & museums. TFW

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Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

Amazing. After a big day of pushing the anti-semitic Great Replacement fantasy, Elon has decided to... double down and embrace the far right 'white pride' crowd. A very normal and healthy thing for the guy with the world's largest media platform.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 12/11/2023

tag yourself:

Woodcut of three clergy man, one on the left wears different vestments and holds a bible, words above say 'of god'. Centre and right the men hold service books and the words say 'of man' and 'of the devil'.

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David Rogers @drogersuk.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

This strange document travels with me to lots of places around the world and sometimes I get a few minutes to look at it! Thanks to @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social for allowing me to investigate a bit further! I'm making headway, here's my initial findings: emsoundscapes.co.uk/voices-from-...

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Mariella Oakes @marioakes.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

In other news... My dissertation received a distinction and so I am now officially a Master in Early Modern Studies!

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