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The Court of Requests express (REQspress) trundles on. Item descriptions for proceedings in REQ 2/176 now live. discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/r/C...

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'The alternative plan was approved by the university’s court on 29 April, and the institution will now consider work on a range of non-staff cost reductions'. Reconfiguration of academic units and PS, revised estates policy, very little detail, quite big claims. Plus ça change?

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In the image it says this was on the 'six and twentieth day of April' but on the main side of the settlement, in which the men agree to give Thornton's daughters money as their father had sold them some of the land which was to be theirs, the date is given as the 29th April. #EarlyModern 🗃️

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This is probably the strangest (and also the fiercest) article I've ever written, out now in History Workshop Journal. And it's available open access! academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

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🔊 Just one month left to nominate your work - or work you love - for the 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History, the annual prize that celebrates the best of digital history internationally ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-... #dhist

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If you're an archivist, librarian, local or family historian, researcher or student of British and/or British & colonial/imperial history (from the Roman era to the present) this introduction to BBIH is worth a look. Google searches are degrading and hallucinating with generative AI; BBIH is not.

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We are now approaching 4,000 formally announced university redundancies in the UK since January alone. The real situation is far worse than that, and will also accelerate going forwards. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...

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In the 1680s and 1690s Thornton wrote to Abstrupus Danby asking him to repay money that she had spent on his family in the 1660s when he was a child. By the later period, her family was in debt whereas Danby was doing very well for himself. Thornton mentions this debt in her will written in 1705. 🗃️

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If this sounds intriguing, & learning how women historians helped shape the study and writing of history in the early 20th century is interesting, come along to @ihr.bsky.social on 15 May to hear the wonderful @amalexathorn.bsky.social explore some of the many stories about these remarkable women. 🗃️

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Charles II had his coronation #OTD 23 April 1661 at Westminster Abbey. If you're interested in how this event was remembered by Alice Thornton, living in North #Yorkshire, then @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social has written a blog post on that: thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2... #EarlyModern 🗃️

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Cooey! You can get my book in hardback, and a whole lot of other great books @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social, at 60% off with code BB600 right now till 5 May! boydellandbrewer.com/978178327512...

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Teaching cover post for a medievalist here at UCD next year 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMU439/t...

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A rare pre-Reformation survival, a #medieval choir stall from Lincluden Collegiate Church nr Dumfries 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 is now in NMS. This #misericord has a serpent with webbed claws. #Dendrochronology on the stall by Baillie revealed old growth native Scottish oak dated 1467 used, a rarity by then. #Woodensday

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If you want some palaeography goodness, medieval female literacy, and a touch of digital humanities, @etreharne.bsky.social and mine Medieval Networks of Memory: Writing the Mortuary Roll in Thirteenth-Century Britain is now out. Really excited for this one! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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📜Our digitised #MedievalManuscripts have moved from LUP’s Manifold to the UoL’s Digital Heritage Lab: digitalheritagelab.liverpool.ac.uk/medieval-man... Explore a Book of Hours, antiphoner, seafaring chart, and our copy of Piers Plowman - all comparable with manuscripts internationally using #IIIF.

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Teaching the #earlymodern. First session is tomorrow at 14:00! Join us online to discuss building early modern syllabi with Dr. Richard Oosterhoff. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/teach...

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@jwomenshistory.bsky.social welcomes applications for 2025 Scholars Research Grants to support travel, research, or writing in women's and gender history. Deadline 23 May 25. 🗃️ See jwomenshistory.org/announcements/ for more information. Please repost.

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For the other side of the story see www.dib.ie/biography/wa... which discusses the O'Brennans, who had been dispossessed of Idough, which became the Castlecomer estate, in 1635 and were still contesting this in the courts at the time of Thornton's letter. #EarlyModern 🗃️

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Alice Thornton recounts this reconciliation, just before brother George's death on #Easter Monday, in the final pages of Book 1. This material was added later - much of the Book was written c.1669 - as she also recorded brother Christopher's death in 1686 fourteen pages earlier. #EarlyModern 📜 📚 🗃️

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@drbeldavis.bsky.social, the author of "Conceiving Histories," joined BBC Woman's Hour to share fascinating stories about the history of conception. She talks using frogs for pregnancy tests, phantom pregnancies, & the brief fashion for looking pregnant even if you weren’t. Segment begins at 46:45:

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Cheeseboard origins uncovered in Leeds University manuscript. Early modern Suffolk cheese getting some harsh treatment once again. Defoe thought it ‘the worst cheese in England’ and even Pepys’ servants turned their noses up at it. Just rude.

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Many of you know I've been working on the La sfera project with scores of friends for about 5 years. We were thrilled to receive support to bring it to a larger public, and crushed when we lost it when it was nearly 70% complete. We are now seeking donations to finish it www.sferaproject.org/donate

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This is what it comes down to in terms of how we actually function in society: not “what is a woman?”, but “how do you know I’m a woman?” Nobody has ever asked to inspect my gametes or chromosomes. Presentation is literally all anyone is going on.

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CfP from University of Edinburgh: Workshop on Emotions and Scottish History. Deadline: 21 May 2025.

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Bat Appreciation Day - it has to be done. Watch bats dancing in a goth nightclub. m.youtube.com/watch?v=bS6K...

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17 April 1660 #OTD Alice Thornton’s 6th child, William, was born and baptised. Thornton was staying at her Aunt Norton’s house (St Nicholas, Richmond). St Nicholas is the oldest continuously inhabited house in Richmond, Yorks. #EarlyModern #Yorkshire 🗃️

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Sooner or later, one of three things is going to happen. Universities can find money at home, or they can find it abroad. But if they don’t find it, some are going under. In defence of international students.

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As a historian of eugenics, I can tell you that the "taxes" thing is straight up from sterilization eugenics. Not only that, it represents an even more extreme form of early 20thC. eugenics that I study: euthanasia eugenics. They are tax burdens therefore they shouldn't exist. 1/2

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One of the worst effects of successive govts' rhetoric on Higher Ed is that it's 'training for a job'. So 18yos get themselves (and are pressured) onto narrow technical courses. Yet employers are crying out for ppl who can read, think, write, speak! I've never met an employer who said different.

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🚨 #Medievalsky news you can use! 🚨 It turns out the PIMS journal _Mediaeval Studies_ vols. from 1939-2006 are available to download for free at archive.org/details/Medi... !

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We've made this article from @cash4questions.bsky.social free to read, as it is proving very popular. University funding crisis: How to stay serene when wellbeing sessions are offered. "Beware employers bearing yoga mats..." www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-funding-k...

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Registration for Material Scotland: Stana Nenadic Memorial Conference is now open! Full details can be found here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/material-s...

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The recent cancellation of NEH funds has hit the wonderful resource that is the Medieval English Text Series (METS) @urochester.bsky.social, a free online resource that 1000s use for teaching & research. Please consider making a donation if you can, and please share! metseditions.org/donate

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From other letters we know that Robert Thornton, who died in 1692, was in considerable debt by 1688 and in 1689 he was working as a chaplain on a naval ship. #EarlyModern 🗃️

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You see, this is the death spiral. You can't cut your way out of trouble. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-staf...

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How is the crisis in higher education impacting history and historians in the UK? Lucy Noakes on the scale of cuts and closures, and how the Royal Historical Society (@royalhistsoc.org) can advocate for our discipline. www.historyworkshop....

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'a parish register is to be understood not narrowly as a list of vital events, but expansively as a record of parish memories' Ian Atherton has a new #OpenAccess article on #EarlyModern parish registers, attending to their archival and social context. #WrittenWorlds 🗃️ doi.org/10.1080/0268...

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We’ve extended the deadline to submit an abstract for our colloquium on early modern war narratives! Please share widely and send us your abstracts! #earlymodern #history

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Assistant Professor in the History of the Medieval Mediterranean World Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ287/a...

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Monet’s Stepdaughter Painted Breathtaking Impressionist Masterpieces. They’re Finally Getting the Attention They Deserve by Eli Wizevich for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/m...

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The book I co-edited with @mariacannon.bsky.social, Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z, is out OPEN ACCESS today! uolpress.co.uk/book/adultho... Our fantastic contributors cover topics from spiritual maturity in the C16th to C20th disability activism #skystorians 🗃️

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Why is the government and the news so indifferent to the meltdown happening in UK #HigherEd right now? Our universities are the envy of the world. Yet we are at risk of losing a generation of academics and damaging the sector beyond repair.

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It's all fun and games until … "Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC #ChatGPT is "burning through energy", and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries." www.bbc.com/news/article...

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“Close reading is a physical practice that involves the optical or tactile and cognitive act of reading texts attentively…These [repeated acts]qualify us to carry out an interpretation of the text.” A piece for all cultural historians to savor+set for students! 🗃️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Great thread about my local National Trust property!

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This case - about a period of time not covered in Thornton’s 4 extant Books - was a bit of a favourite with project postdocs @sharonhoward.bsky.social and @hagenilda.bsky.social.

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