Reposted by Sharon HowardLisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 16hIls étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière 5177222325
Reposted by Sharon HowardLegal History Miscellany @legalmiscellany.bsky.social · 11hNew post from @kjkesselring.bsky.social on criminal conspiracies and sham-plots in the sixteenth century: "‘Worthy To Be Put in Holinshed’s Chronicle’? Counterfeits, ‘Catholic Conspiracies’, and the Perils of Publicity in Elizabethan England" legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/10/10/w...legalhistorymiscellany.com‘Worthy To Be Put in Holinshed’s Chronicle’? Counterfeits, Catholic Conspiracies, and the Perils of Publicity in Elizabethan EnglandPublic punishment can have unexpected perils: this post tells the stories of two sham-plots in Elizabethan England, in which unscrupulously enterprising people tried to use the law—and government f… 023
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 12hAs someone said in my timeline already, execution as public spectacle and crowd entertainment is an early modern phenomenon, not medieval. 085
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 12hClifford Hall, The Girl with a Cat (1969) artuk.org/discover/art... #Caturday 041
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 12hCats and Their Girls on #Caturday. Mary Beale, Portrait of a Girl with a Cat (c.1680) artuk.org/discover/art... 171
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 09/10/2026It's not t-wit you know, it's t-whooooooo you know, innit. 🦉 030
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 07/10/2026BRAINFART alert. The hat tip should have been @lincolnmullen.com I have no idea how that happened... 000
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Once, a class of history students in the USA got together and sent @oldbaileyonline.bsky.social a big collective thank you note. We pinned it up on the office wall and it stayed there for ages. That sort of thing does happen with digital history resources. 020
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"At the college graduation of one of my kids this past spring, an attendee who had heard that I had been involved with Zotero hugged me, unexpectedly and at length, in appreciation. No one has ever done that for my scholarly writing, or ever will." 120
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The oldest item in my Zotero library dates back to in December 2006 so I guess that makes me a pretty early adopter! But there are only 40-50 items in there before late 2010, which was when I really started using it more intensively. 000
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Zotero 😍😍😍 was 20 years old a couple of days ago. Dan Cohen wrote about its history. newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-sl… (h/t @simonwillison.net)newsletter.dancohen.orgThe Slow Formation of Durable SoftwareHow a group of historians took years to imagine Zotero, the research application that would eventually be used by millions 3187
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It's out, it's done, thank fuck for that. I did a chapter about TEI. 040
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I see Stodard. There's a dot above the first mention that makes it look like there might be an i, but I reckon it's most likely just a random ink spot. 170
Reposted by Sharon HowardRichard Morris @ahistoryinart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026'The Dirty Plate.' (1940) During WW2 Elsie Gledstanes worked as an auxiliary ambulance driver and as a driver for the Women's Legion. During both wars she painted and sketched individual and group portraits of other women active on war duties such as here. 1556
Reposted by Sharon HowardDr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Young woman, looking aside, by Michael Sweerts. 0342
Reposted by Sharon HowardDr Jo Edge 🏴 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 30/09/2026This was published yesterday (no OA yet though, SIGH). So glad and proud to see it out after so much time and hard work, and a particular thanks to @laurenkassell.bsky.social for her exceptionally helpful comments on an early draft of my chapter. #EarlyModern www.routledge.com/Alice-Thornt...routledge.comAlice Thornton’s Books: Reassessing the Life Writings of a Seventeenth-Century WomanThis book is the first dedicated study of Alice Thornton (1626–1707) and her life writings, offering unprecedented insights into how one early modern woman revised and reshaped her life story over 40 ... 23310
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I was just listening to "Mary Provost" in the box set, which is somehow devastating and absurdly funny at the same time. 020
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"not a pub rock label, not a punk label, not a bloke’s label, but a pop label – one that saw pop in its widest sense, something that could be silly and joyful and angry, and sometimes all at the same time" thequietus.com/interviews/str…thequietus.comThe Strange World of… Stiff Records | The QuietusMichael Hann charts the history of fierce British indie Stiff Records via ten singles which show it wasn't just about pub rock 110
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 25/09/2026August was the 50th anniversary of the founding of Stiff Records. What a label. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stiff_Rec…en.wikipedia.orgStiff Records - Wikipedia 120
Reposted by Sharon HowardLeon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Ye is a real thorn in my side 022
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 23/09/2026(This reminds me that there is some Aspall's Cyder Vinegar in my kitchen and every time I see it I get a twytch.) 010
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Wash it down with some Ye Olde English cyder! www.ciderexpert.com/c/ye-olde-engl…ciderexpert.comYe Olde English from Gaymer Cider Company - Cider ExpertYe Olde English made by Gaymer Cider Company in Shepton Mallet, SOM, UK, average CiderExpert rating: 2.9 out of 5. Semi-sweet, and smooth tasting. 120
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Would you like some Ye Olde English Fishe and Chippes? yeoldefishandchips.co.uk (it's possible I just went down a Ye Olde Englishe Googlye Rabbitte Hole)yeoldefishandchips.co.ukWelcomeWelcome 1113
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Do wish people would get their terminology right. Clearly it should be "Ye Olde Englishe", which is an entirely different beast from "Old English". 131
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Great #earlyModern name... complete shitbag person, as it turns out... 060
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Yes, Steventon/Hants is mentioned in several of the cases. 110
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 22/09/2026But possibly my fave Star Chamber name today, which makes several appearances as both plaintiff and defendant, is Pexall Brocas ("a man of very lewd behaviour and disordered course of life") 3153
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 22/09/2026A Star Chamber plaintiff I came across today (though it's so odd I'm wondering if the transcription in the catalogue data is reliable): "Odnell Archpitt". 0102
Reposted by Sharon HowardSharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I made some more choropleth maps of #earlyModern datasets: 16th c Court of Requests, Star Chamber; long 17th c Apprentice petitions, Wills; 18th c Pauper and Vagrant removals. Fun and even a bit thought provoking. inhermindseye.github.io/mindseye/posts…inhermindseye.github.ioMore Early Modern Choropleths – In Her Mind’s EyeCounty maps for six early modern England & Wales datasets 21612
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Part 2 is here and goddammit I want those cat musicians too. www.bonhams.com/auction/3258...bonhams.com 000
Reposted by Sharon HowardSarah Archer @sarcher.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Check out the lots in the Sandy Lerner Cat Collection sale (part 1) at Bonhams, and be dazzled: www.bonhams.com/auction/3258... 46517
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Absolutely boggling at learning that vinyl has become so popular and profitable that there's a market for fakes. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/sep…theguardian.comDeep cuts: how one Londoner’s fake vinyl empire sheds light on ‘industrial scale’ fraudThousands of knock-off records worth a fortune are being seized in the UK by anti-counterfeit police stings 040
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026aka "offcuts" "randomcrap" "wtfwereyouthinking" etc 031
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026No problem, although I don't think I'm really any sort of expert on QS. uni email is sharon.howard at sheffield ac uk. (I don't have DMs turned on here.) 010
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I remember Tenko being incredible TV but I've never rewatched it and I'm not sure whether I want to. It wasn't exactly light entertainment. 110
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I was actually astonished to realise she would have only been in her 50s when she was doing Waiting for God. 100
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026And I forgot to mention Helen Good's fantastic ongoing work on Stac5 waalt.uh.edu/index.php/Eliz… (She used to be on Twitter but I don't think she came over here.)waalt.uh.eduElizabethan Star Chamber Project - Waalt 011
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026BTW, @thegozfather.bsky.social and his colleagues have done great work on the Star Chamber catalogue data and it'd be v cool if that translated into more research in the future. read.uolpress.co.uk/read/star-cham…read.uolpress.co.uk2. The Records of the Court of Star Chamber at The National Archives and Elsewhere | Star Chamber Matters: An Early Modern Court and its Records | Un…Transforming scholarly publications into living digital works. 101
Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I made some more choropleth maps of #earlyModern datasets: 16th c Court of Requests, Star Chamber; long 17th c Apprentice petitions, Wills; 18th c Pauper and Vagrant removals. Fun and even a bit thought provoking. inhermindseye.github.io/mindseye/posts…inhermindseye.github.ioMore Early Modern Choropleths – In Her Mind’s EyeCounty maps for six early modern England & Wales datasets 21612
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