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Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Last year, I made my first research trip to the NRS for a project I'm developing on early modern rights of way, with funding from the @royalhistsoc.org's David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People. In this blog, I present some (very) early thoughts on this research.

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Finding Early Modern Rights of Way in the National Records of Scotland | Historical Transactions

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Olivia Formby @oliviaformby.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

📣Call for Papers 📣 I am delighted to announce that 'Speech/less in the Early Modern World' will be held 23 April 2026 at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. Please share far and wide and do consider submitting a proposal! 🙊 Link to PDF version: bit.ly/4lZz80R

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Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I was so pleased to learn of my election as an Associate Fellow of @royalhistsoc.org, continuing my membership beyond my PhD.

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Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

A week late but (still) reflecting on a wonderful 3 days at my first @socialhistsoc.bsky.social ‪‪conference. So much fascinating social history research, provoking conversations across time periods/topics, with setting of @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social as an added bonus #SHSConf2025

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Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Seconding all of this - thank you to the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social for the opportunity to present some of my new research, and to everyone who stayed to attend our panel as the very last session of the conference!

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Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The FEATHERS conference in Leiden last week was absolutely fantastic, full of excellent papers and truly interdisciplinary conversation. Thank you to the FEATHERS team for organising, and for giving me the opportunity to participate!

A tree-lined canal with colourful flowers in the foreground and a bridge in the distance.

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Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Submitted my hardbound thesis yesterday, which means I am #PhDone!

Smiling woman stands in front of big yellow doors holding a blue book (her hardbound PhD thesis)!

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Work, Authenticity, & Social Identity in Early Modern Britain @earlymodern2025.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Please share the CFP for our Work, Authenticity, and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain Conference, to take place 10-11 June 2025 at the University of Warwick, with keynote addresses from Steve Hindle, @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social & @brodiewaddell.bsky.social!

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Dr Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Ok, I've started a crime history starter pack, hmu to be added! go.bsky.app/BaHNGzw

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

GOOD NEWS for the discipline: there are *many* #earlymodern historians. Bad news: we couldn't all squeeze into one pack. So here's the second, do follow all the wonderful researchers in this one as well: go.bsky.app/NQqDFr1 #skystorians

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Tom Ashbyトムアシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

I have created a starter pack for scholars of the long seventeenth century! I will be adding to it; do comment or message if you would like to be added - & share! go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq

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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

I'm starting a pack for Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers working on any aspect of Historical Studies! go.bsky.app/95yTEM3

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Given the X-odus (see what we did there? A true fire bird): which other #earlymodern centres have arrived here already? We've got a starter pack for easy following, but keen to hear about more: go.bsky.app/LLzFj3b #skystorians

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

With the twitter exodus: welcome, and here are some #earlymodern historians posting about early modern stuff (though I should update it now it’s more than 50 in those things) go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF

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Ted Vallance @tedvallance.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

CFP below for Oaths and Oath-Taking in Historical Perspective: Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire, 1700 to the Present, 7 March 2025, Northumbria University in Newcastle. Keynote from me but don't let that put you off!

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Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · 02/10/2024

Some version of this post had been running through my head for most of the last year now, so it's great to finally share this piece - in which I try to make the case for looking to early modern England to better understand our current (AI-infused) era. doinghistoryinpublic.org/2024/10/01/s...

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Searching for Authenticity: Parallels between Early Modern England and the Age of AI

By Zoë Jackson (Twitter: @ZoeMJackson1, Bluesky: @zoejackson.bsky.social) If you teach, or work in a public-facing role, or indeed have any online or social media presence at all, you wil…

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

The premodern world held possibilities and imagined futures: the physical and metaphysical systems that were actively built and contested then continue to inform the world in the present. Read our statement on the value of Renaissance & Premodern Studies: www.rensoc.org.uk/statement-on...

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Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

'The evidence we have of most minority or marginalised groups in the past is always fragmentary...[that] does not mean we should relegate these histories to obscurity' *new* @drangelamuir.bsky.social on the history of the Jewish community in 18thC South Wales manyheadedmonster.com/2024/05/28/l...

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Locating Jews in Eighteenth-Century Wales: Case Studies from the Welsh Court of Sessions

This post is part of our 'The People and the Law' Online Symposium, a series exploring early modern English - and now Welsh - legal sources. Angela Muir is Lecturer in Social and Cultural History and ...

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 14/05/2024

"The idea of the pre-industrial self-contained village – in which movement in and out was limited – looms large." Read @charmianmansell.bsky.social's *new* post on how the great piles of #EarlyModern legal records can bust the myth of everyday immobility 🗃️ : manyheadedmonster.com/2024/05/14/e...

‘The Traveller’ in John Amos Comenius, Orbis Sensualium Pictus (1658)

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Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

'In 1565 Strangers accounted for no more than 1% of the population of Norwich... less than a decade later 1-in-3 inhabitants was an immigrant.' Lucy Kaufman's new 'People and the Law' post on how an Elizabethan city dealt with a major wave of immigration: manyheadedmonster.com/2024/05/07/a...

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A Laboratory of Immigration: Elizabethan Norwich

This post is part of our 'The People and the Law' Online Symposium, a series exploring early modern English legal sources. Lucy Kaufman is Assistant Professor of Early Modern British History at the Un...

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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

How and where did people learn how to litigate in early modern England? Great new post from Laura Flanigan on the improvised and hoarded legal knowledge found in the scrappy “personal notebooks of estate administrators, rural gentry, and urban merchants” manyheadedmonster.com/2024/04/30/c... 🗃️

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Commonplace Legal Knowledge in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century England

This post is part of our 'The People and the Law' Online Symposium, a series exploring early modern English legal sources. Laura Flannigan is a Junior Research Fellow at St John’s College, Oxford Univ...

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Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · 23/04/2024

Very pleased to see this post out today, and to share some of my PhD research on perjury in early modern communities.

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Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Exciting to see this symposium launched - participating in the @thenacbs.bsky.social panels from which it emerged was one of my highlights of last year!

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