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Selected Depositions from the Court of the Bishop of Hereford 1597-1601. New online set of church court depositions with images, transcription and translation. Great introduction to these fantastic records which provide such great social history insight. 🗃️ depositions.drc.usask.ca/node/1

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ICYMI: the many-headed monster has just launched a new mini-series on Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England. Over the next month we celebrating the relaunch of British Printed Image to 1700 by publishing guest posts on the theme. 1st post tomorrow (Thurs)!🗃️ manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...

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i firmly believe one of the main messages we should be telling our students about this whole thing is that generative ‘AI’ by definition will never have an original idea, and if you use it, neither will you

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A new mini-series on visual culture in #EarlyModern England on the Many-Headed Monster! @lsangha.bsky.social introduces us to the power of images and a newly redesigned and revived database of printed images from the 16th and 17th centuries: manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...

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📢FEBRUARY WILL OF THE MONTH📢 What happens when you reimagine John Pooke's 1607 will as his life story, complete with love interest & a mysterious character called 'Mother Sibill'? #EarlyModern 🗃️ #Skystorians @leverhulme.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

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DEI run amok at the bookfair

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"Abigail Kimball's law book...1785." Bc I can never visit a library w/ out stopping in Special Collections, bc the brilliant Eric Slauter mentioned this remarkable volume when he was @jcblibrary.bsky.social last month. And bc the history of women and law is so impt. Fr Lapidus Collection. 1/ 🗃️

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With university departmental closures are we seeing the emergence of geographical 'cold spots' for social science/humanities/arts (SHAPE) subjects? We've developed a new beta mapping tool using HESA data to enable you to explore the situation by subject www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

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Great thread. I'm not the only history lecturer who expends significant effort trying to get students to go and find the book they need in the library in order to force the realisation that the books next to and near it -- which they didn't know existed -- are going to help them too.

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Come along next week to hear @nikkic.bsky.social of @bbkhistorical.bsky.social talking about the how people tried to distinguish between truth and misinformation in #EarlyModern news media!

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Archive Request xkcd.com/3052

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got my hatchet out for this one

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This week in Voices of the People at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, we were talking about #EarlyModern riots. We looked a tiny actions like breaking a single fence and big crowds chanting anti-government slogans, and ended up agreeing with EPT: 'The word "riot" is too small to encompass all this.' 🗃️

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Feeling guilty after assigning a chapter to students that I've just noticed cites two (2!) women and about 30 men. Published in 2015 and yet somehow this was missed by the author, editor and reviewers.

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I have a (very small) favour to ask of all you wonderful people! I'm doing a talk at the excellent Good Chemistry Brewing taproom. It would really help to get an idea of what people think about alewives (if anything!). Help a gal out by answering these 3 Qs? 💗 🍻 forms.gle/61jKrVhQsdG2...

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I expect nothing in this story will surprise any of my followers, but it is gratifying to finally see some coverage of the UK university crisis in the national news media. You can share it with your friends and family as a basic intro to the situation: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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So don't worry about cuts in HE. The universities will be fine. Both of them.

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This week in 'Voices of the People' at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, we're talking about my favorite topic: the #PowerOfPetitioning! Can historians use these sources to get at the 'voice' of 'the people'? Or are they just cynical ploys by 'petition mongers' like those below? 🗃️

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📣The latest issue of Cultural & Social History is here! Featuring shrines, social mobility, galleries, 'odious work', child welfare work and popular culture from the 16th to the 20th centuries...📜✨ 👉Read online here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfcs20/2... 🗃️ 16thc 17thc 18thc 19thc 20thc

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The world is on fire and I am sure people are sick of hearing about it, but I worked hard on this and I am proud 🪧 . _Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in the Roman Empire_’s publication day is today! 30% off @yalebooks.bsky.social discount code: Y25SEBST. yalebooks.yale.edu/978030027314...

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We're thrilled to have moved across to BlueSky! 🦋 By way of introduction, we are the Society, Culture & Belief Seminar, 1500-1800. We host papers each term at the Institute of Historical Research (@ihr.bsky.social) in London – all are welcome! Keep an eye out for upcoming events #earlymodern

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'Gender, Commerce, and the Restoration Book Trade: Mapping the Bookscape of Hannah Wolley's The Ladies Directory (1661)' Sara Pennell has a new #OpenAccess article on the opportunities and challenges facing a first-time female 'Authress'! #EarlyModern #WrittenWorlds: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

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'For the first time, there are now more commuter students in the UK...than traditional residential students.' This trend underscores the importance of the BA's Cold Spots data and maps, which you can access for SHAPE disciplines here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/policy-and-r...

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It didn't take a oracle to predict that Trump was going to be bad for all of us, but remember that it is much worse for some. Find the people who are already organised and fighting back, and support them.

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Are we okay today? Sending a smiley bearded man on a jug to you all.

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Big anniversary in Stuart history today. 31 January 1642, the 'Humble Petition of Many Thousand Poore People'. Calls for political reform, and if the House of Lords continues to obstruct it, for supportive peers to join with the Commons in a single assembly.

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It's #RegicideDay! I would recommend celebrating in the customary manner by reading the best defense of tyrannicide yet written. I don't have time to post the whole thing, but here's the most important bit... (1/2)

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How did a local industry affect the course of a witch trial? Nine witches were accused in Great Yarmouth and, as @witchesetc.bsky.social investigates, herring fishing had a part to play... #history #witchcraft #FolkloreThursday #witchtrials #GreatYarmouth medium.com/@Witches7Hun...

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This week in Voices of the People at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, we tried to answer the age-old question: what's the difference between 'news' and 'gossip'? Turns out it's mostly determined by what you've got in your breeches. Pictured: news (left) and gossip (right).🗃️

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In 1647 the city of York unsuccessfully petitioned parliament for a university, warning of the harm of a north south divide and the “ignorance of illiterate men, through whom that sad proverbe is fulfilled upon us: the blinde leade the blinde and both fall into the ditch.”

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My @historytoday.com article about the earliest Barbadian sampler is free to read this week! Check it out here: www.historytoday.com/archive/hist.... I've also written a blog post on the RSN website about the discovery, which you can read here: royal-needlework.org.uk/archive-coll...

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This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?

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A huge congratulations to @erhodes.bsky.social on a wonderful new study of the #PowerOfPetitioning in early modern society: 'Petitioning Mothers in England and Wales, 1660-1720'. It was a privilege to be one of her examiners!

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In-person only, alas, but if you're in London... Thursday, 30 January, 5:30-7pm (booking required)

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In week 2 of my Voices of the People module at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social we talked about song, including libelous rhymes. I was dismayed/delighted not a single student decided to give us their rendition of our primary source, Dirty Doll's Farewell... ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/21247...

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#PowerOfPetitioning! Cool new project on late #medieval to #EarlyModern pardon letters in the Low Countries. pardons.eu

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'Work, Authenticity and Social Identity in #EarlyModern Britain' Submit an abstract by Feb 1st and come along to Warwick on June 10-11th.🗃️ Excited to be speaking alongside @markhailwood.bsky.social, @jwhittle.bsky.social and Steve Hindle! Details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

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This was the most amazing piece of writing, the chance to hear him speak about the research is fantastic. In person only, but if you're in London don't miss it

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