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Tom Hamilton

@tombhamilton.bsky.social
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Historian of early modern France and Europe based in Durham; crime, justice, gender, Wars of Religion; co-editor of French History; structuralish 📖📚 ⚖️🌳🏃🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇺

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Exciting new special issue just released (in French) from @criminocorpus.bsky.social on Magic, divination and justice, covering a range of periods and examples. I think they keep these issues “open” so you can submit work to be added later, too! #hextag 🗃️ journals.openedition.org/criminocorpu...
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Magie, divination, astrologie et justice, de l’Antiquité à nos jour...
Revue en ligne dédiée à l’histoire de la justice, des crimes et des peines. Lancée en 2005, Criminocorpus hypermédia est une revue plurilingue intégrée à la plateforme Criminocorpus. Online scholar...
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Richard Bell @richardbell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My new book, Imprisonment in Early Modern England: Politics, Debt and the Origins of a Carceral Society, is (sort of) out now! Currently available online for anyone with institutional access: www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
Book cover of Richard Thomas Bell, Imprisonment in Early Modern England: Politics, Debt and the Origins of a Carceral Society
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
New article in French History by Fabienne Henryot, 'Writing, publishing and creating a personal mythology in an age of confessional controversies: the career of Claude Pithoys (1587–1676)' 📖📚⛪🇫🇷💾🧐🙌 doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... @ihrim.bsky.social @enssib.bsky.social @frenchhistory.bsky.social
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Michèle Plott @micheleplott.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
excellent, excellent review article by @aiross.bsky.social, hot off the press from French History!
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
@eldrclaire.bsky.social OMG the September rentrée issue is available on 1 September...
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Brought here with hard editorial graft from @eldrclaire.bsky.social @jeanneologist.bsky.social @lrhodges.bsky.social @willpooley.bsky.social and a dozen or more anonymous peer reviewers! 🙌
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Review article: the history of sexuality in modern France, by Andrew Israel Ross, doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
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Review article: the history of sexuality in modern France
Sometimes, when I explain that my research expertise lies in the history of sexuality in modern France, the follow-up is some version of a question: ‘so I
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The impact of the Indochinese and Algerian Wars on the French scouting movement, 1945–1962, by Aaron Clift, doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
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The impact of the Indochinese and Algerian Wars on the French scouting movement, 1945–1962
Abstract. This article examines the impact of the Indochinese and Algerian Wars of Independence on the French scouting movement. Historically, the ties bet
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
La liberté de récolter: seaweed, conflict and citizenship in coastal communities in Brittany during the Third Republic, by Chloé Duteil, doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... @chloeduteil.bsky.social
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La liberté de récolter: seaweed, conflict and citizenship in coastal communities in Brittany during the Third Republic
Abstract. In Brittany, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, seaweed was more than just a fundamental element of coastal ecologies. It sust
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
French prisoner-of-war sociability in Hampshire during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, by Katherine Astbury and Abigail Coppins doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... – the published version of a keynote lecture to the SSFH annual conference by @100days1815.bsky.social
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French prisoner-of-war sociability in Hampshire during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Abstract. Daniel Gordon in his monograph on Citizens without Sovereignty explored how, in eighteenth-century France, sociability enabled those without powe
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Official tone and private judgement: the comte de Vergennes and the rhetoric of diplomacy in the Russo–Ottoman crisis (1786), by Chiara Lerede, doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
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Official tone and private judgement: the comte de Vergennes and the rhetoric of diplomacy in the Russo–Ottoman crisis (1786)
Abstract. This article explores the dual diplomatic voice of Charles Gravier, comte de Vergennes—Louis XVI’s foreign minister—through two letters sent on 2
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
How to keep a newspaper afloat: the role of paid advertisement in the establishment of an early modern Huguenot Press, 1671–1701, by Panagiotis Georgakakis, doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... – with lots of charts!
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How to keep a newspaper afloat: the role of paid advertisement in the establishment of an early modern Huguenot Press, 1671–1701
Abstract. This article examines the role of paid advertisements in the establishment of French-language newspapers edited by Huguenot refugees in the Dutch
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The latest issue of French History is now online with five new research articles – from newspapers to seaweed and scouting... –, a review article on the history of sexuality in modern France, and a bundle of book reviews 💾🧐🇫🇷📸🖥️🌿👋 @frenchhistory.bsky.social
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
These are massive registers though and could take quite a while if you don't have a specific date or range – depends on your Venetian's claim I suppose, which is v interesting...
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
But this would be place to look, above all the continuation of the subseries in 1 B titled Les arrêts rendus par la Grand Chambre et la chambre des Enquêtes – I'd expect Grand Chambre for this sort of thing
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Oh wow thanks @juliehardwick.bsky.social I had no idea these registers had been digitised. This is an amazing resource. A shame though for @rmidura.bsky.social that the digitization stops at the end of the sixteenth century
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Catherine Fletcher @catherinefletcher.info · 04/08/2026
Very short notice (deadline 18 August) but we're advertising a 0.5fte lectureship in public history for next year. Covers my 3rd year undergraduate course on public history of Rome (ancient to modern) plus some MA public history teaching.
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Lecturer in Public History and Heritage - (9363) | Manchester Metropolitan University Careers
All about Manchester Metropolitan - an exciting, modern university in the heart of one of the UK's great student cities.
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Update now with the BSHS announcement... bshs.org.uk/singer-prize...
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The BSHS Singer Prize 2026 Winners – BSHS – The British Society for the History of Science
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Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social · 29/07/2026
Reading articles on the amounts HE has spent in APCs over the last 5-10 years, and slowly watching my blood pressure rise. Millions upon millions, on something WE CAN ABSOLUTELY DO OURSELVES FOR A FRACTION OF THE COST - what universities couldn't do with that kind of money now... 😠 And breathe...
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 02/07/2026
John Latham-Sprinkle's book, 'The North Caucasian Kingdom of Alania, 850-1240' is described by the judges as 'a masterly study which shows how historical analysis can be brought to bear even when source material is largely absent or fragmentary.' 3/4
Cover image of of John Latham-Sprinkle's book The North Caucasian Kingdom of Alania, 850-1240 (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 02/07/2026
Yesterday evening, the Society was delighted to announce the winners of its 2026 First Book and Early Career prizes: bit.ly/44HbAH2 Many congratulations to the winners of the 2026 RHS First Book Prize: Dr Kiran Mehta and Dr John Latham-Sprinkle 1/4 #Skystorians
Images of book covers for Kiran Mehta's book 'To Detain or To Punish: Magistrates and the Making of the London Prison System, 1750-1840' (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025) and John Latham-Sprinkle's 'The North Caucasian Kingdom of Alania, 850-1240' (Cambridge University Press) with text First Book Prize

WINNERS, 2026

Kiran Mehta &
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Elly Robson Dezateux @ellydezateux.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Come join our friendly team to do radical history online. History Workshop is recruiting one editorial fellowship this year, with specialism in pre-1800 history in any part of the globe.
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
And the previous winner was Lewis Wade for *Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France: Marine Insurance, War and the Atlantic Empire under Louis XIV* 🎊🥂👑 boydellandbrewer.com/book/privile...
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Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France
Analyses the rise and fall of Louis XIV's marine insurance institutions in Paris, which were central to the monarchy's efforts to stimulate economic growth.
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Last year's winner was Talitha Ilacqua for *Inventing the modern region: Basque identity and the French nation-state* 👏🥳🎉 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526169259/
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Manchester University Press - Inventing the modern region
Inventing the modern region - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Inventing the modern region by Talitha Ilacqua
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Full details here and simple submission process here: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/prizes/ssfh-... @frenchhistory.bsky.social
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SSFH Book Prize – SSFH
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Still time to submit your book to the Society for the Study of French Book Prize! By 31 July 2026 📖📚🇫🇷 for 'an author based in the UK and Ireland, on a topic related to the history of France and the Francophone world in its broadest global context, which is the author’s first sole book publication'
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Past and Present @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Our 2026 Supplement (#18) "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" Edited by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) Has now been published by @academic.oup.com academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...
Cover of the 18th Past & Present history journal suppment "Medicine, Race and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600-1850" edited by Hannah Murphy. It is in the journal's standard colours of red and grey with text providing key bibliographic information in white. Most of the lower half of the cover is taken up by a historical pen drawing likely from a medical handbook of various surgical and other medical instruments
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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Colleagues at Exeter have asked me to circulate this petition as widely as possible: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is a brilliant collection, that delivers a series of blows against any remaining simplistic notions of the “Enlightenment” being a movement of outsiders, or of censorship collapsing before a tidal-wave of dissent.
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
And among the book reviews Micah Alpaugh on *The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France By Robert Darnton Get access Arrow The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France* By Robert Darnton doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
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The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France By Robert Darnton
Accepting a French academic invitation to autocritique his seminal 1971 article ‘The high Enlightenment and the low-life of literature in pre-revolutionary
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Smuggling in volumes: policing and the myth of the book-smuggler in late ancien régime France by Simon Burrows doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
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Smuggling in volumes: policing and the myth of the book-smuggler in late ancien régime France
Abstract. Ever since publication of Jean-Paul Belin’s Le Commerce des livres prohibés à Paris, 1750–1789 (1913), the regulation of the late ancien régime F
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville and his path from philosopher to revolutionary by Damien Tricoire doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
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Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville and his path from philosopher to revolutionary
Abstract. Historiography has placed great emphasis on the improvised nature of the French Revolution, but a small minority of people worked purposefully to
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Patronage, politics and pamphlets: the prince de Conti and the authors under his protection, 1736–1776 by Simon Dagenais doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
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Patronage, politics and pamphlets: the prince de Conti and the authors under his protection, 1736–1776
Abstract. Louis-François de Bourbon, prince of Conti, played a central role in French politics during the second half of Louis XV’s reign. An adviser to th
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
‘The quintessence of her flattery’: libel, publicity and noble patronage in the writings of Madame Du Noyer by Miranda Kam doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
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‘The quintessence of her flattery’: libel, publicity and noble patronage in the writings of Madame Du Noyer
Abstract. A French Protestant refugee in the Dutch Republic, Anne-Marguerite Du Noyer published the Lettres historiques et galantes, her Mémoires, the Nouv
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Political control of the media in eighteenth-century France: printers, royal bureaucracy and aristocratic patrons by Jane McLeod doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...
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Political control of the media in eighteenth-century France: printers, royal bureaucracy and aristocratic patrons
Abstract. While historians have investigated many aspects of late eighteenth-century Bourbon censorship, they have not explored the evolving practice—well
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The latest issue of French History is guest edited by Damien Tricoire on the theme of 'Court society and the politics of print in the eighteenth century' doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... @frenchhistory.bsky.social
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Introduction: court society and the politics of print in the eighteenth century
Abstract. Promoting a political agenda and attacking the reputation of rivals were essential tools in the power struggles at the French court during the an
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Charles West @pseudo-isidore.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
An academic tribute to Rosamond McKitterick, published by Reti Medievali. www.rm.unina.it?p=554
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Rosamond McKitterick (1949-2026) – Reti Medievali
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Durham University @durham.ac.uk · 19/06/2026
What happens when archival research meets lived experience? After the birth of her son, @erinmaglaque.bsky.social @durhamhistory.bsky.social began exploring how women’s bodies have been understood across history. Her new book uncovers hidden histories of the female body. 👉 bit.ly/4vhyG2y
A black and white sketch drawing showing two women in long dresses and wearing bonnets, sitting in chairs and talking while sewing. Text on the image reads "From archive to experience - exploring the hidden histories of the female body."
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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The second is entitled "Execution and Martyrdom in the Early Modern World": www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe... The idea behind these four sessions would be to explore what historians of religion and crime can learn from each other. The deadline is 24 July. Please get in touch! 😊
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Jan Machielsen @janmachielsen.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
As the @rsaorg.bsky.social 's Religion discipline rep, I'm excited to share two #earlymodern #CfP for #RenSA27. The first, coorganised with Amanda Scott, is entitled "Banishment and Exile in the Early Modern World": www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Job Opportunity! Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) University of Limerick - School of History and Geography www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU993/a...
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Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) at University of Limerick
Discover Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Career Development Fellow in French & Francophone Studies (2 years) at Durham University 'we are especially interested to receive applications from those with specialisms in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries' Deadline 21 June, start Sept 2026 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRS327/c... @imems.bsky.social
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Career Development Fellow in French & Francophone Studies at Durham University
Apply now for the Career Development Fellow in French & Francophone Studies role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Hmm somehow that link isn't working but just click 'pdf' or directly on any of the chapters via the main book page here: academic.oup.com/book/62521
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Remembering the Wars of Religion: Conflict and Coexistence in Early Modern France
Abstract. Remembering the Wars of Religion examines the painful legacy of civil war, focusing on memories of violence and victimhood after the French Wars
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
If you click the link above to the book you can read each chapter online without need for a login, or most simply the full pdf is here: watermark02.silverchair.com/workid-ukac0...
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IMEMS Durham @imems.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
📢 Job Opportunity at @durham.ac.uk Bridging Fellow in Early Modern Italian Studies: durham.taleo.net/careersectio... IMEMS seeks to appoint a Bridging Fellow with research interests in the field of early modern Italian studies to the Inventing Futures research programme @languagesdurham.bsky.social
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Bridging Fellow in Early Modern Italian Studies
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
thoroughly enjoying reading through this new special issue of the the journal of #earlymodern history, which critically reflects on the meaning of early modernity, what it stands for, whether it is inherently eurocentric, and whether multiple views on this are compatible brill.com/view/journal... 🗃️
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 13/05/2026
Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the possibility – however unlikely – of survival.
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What a list of Black Death survivors reveals about the way people recovered from plague
Despite the deadliness of the disease, it was possible to recover from plague, and medieval chroniclers mention the possibility – however unlikely – of survival.
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Grace Owen @graceowen.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
New article 📢 written by Jane Whittle and me - about work and the problems of identifying workers in Medieval England. Open access here: doi.org/10.1080/0304... #history #medievalsky
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Women's Wage Labour in Rural England, c. 1250-c. 1450: Identifying the Known Unknowns in Manorial Accounts
Rodney Hilton’s observations about women’s work recorded in manorial accounts underpin Tine De Moor and Jan Luiten van Zanden’s influential argument that paid work for women expanded significantly ...
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
And the book is Open Access so here it is... Remembering the Wars of Religion: Conflict and Coexistence in Early Modern France academic.oup.com/book/62521
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Remembering the Wars of Religion: Conflict and Coexistence in Early Modern France
Abstract. Remembering the Wars of Religion examines the painful legacy of civil war, focusing on memories of violence and victimhood after the French Wars
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Full details of the book launch here: www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
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Remembering the Wars of Religion - Durham University
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