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Does anyone know of any published work on, or that at least touches on, early modern birthdays?

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A new many-headed monster mini-series on Visual Culture in Early Modern England, you say? To mark the relaunch of British Printed Images to 1700, you say? A post by Adam Morton about visual humour, you say? Sounds like a hoot... manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/27/p...

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📢NEW POST: Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England📢 Today Adam Morton considers what historians should do with the alien and often cruel humour of past ages that he finds in in satirical prints 🗃️ #Skystorians manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/27/p...

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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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📢 New 'Will of the Month' Post! 📢 For February @lsangha.bsky.social uncovers the fascinating story of a London citizen and former prisoner, who examined his conscience when he made his will in 1607 ⏳📜 sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... #history #skystorians #earlymodern @uoearchhist.bsky.social

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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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📢NEW MANY-HEADED MONSTER SERIES📢 Today I introduce 'Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England', a series that celebrates the relaunch of the brilliant 'British Printed Images to 1700' database and showcases historians' use of printed images. 🗃️ #Skystorians manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...

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Change it to 'What did..' and that is basically my one research question.

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Applications for the MA Black Humanities are open @brisblackhums.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social. You can find more information here: www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr... Come join us! Please share widely!

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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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'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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Short piece with @jameskneale.bsky.social & Vallu for Points History summarising (and expanding) arguments we made for @ejcs-journal.bsky.social With some brief family history! The Desi Pub: postcolonial, anti-racist histories of ‘the British pub’ 🔗👇🏽 www.pointshistory.org/post/the-des...

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Excellent, must read summary from Will on the most concerning aspects of AI. It's the first of three posts on the broader topic 👇

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'Taking pleasure seriously: Should alcohol research say more about fun?' | @jamesnicholls.bsky.social and Geoffrey Hunt for @addictionjournal.bsky.social (via @professorpub.bsky.social) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Getting some very cool abstracts in for our next @drinkingstudies.bsky.social Women and Alcohol conference this week. @lucycogan.bsky.social is hosting this one in Dublin so it should be great! Deadline is next week so get your abstract in: www.womenandalcohol.net/2024/10/cfp-...

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📢 NEW 'Will of the Month' post! 📢 🎄 It's time for a Christmassy one! 🎄 December's post looks at the 1786 will 📜of Mary Partridge, who left: - an orchard, but sadly no pear tree 🍐🌳 - some gold rings, but not quite five 💍💍💍💍💍 sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... #skystorians #history #earlymodern

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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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We're counting down to 2025 because in 2025 we get to all meet again! In Bristol this time. Who's joining us there? And are you in our starter pack yet? #RenSoc25 go.bsky.app/DVyFCxt

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Beat Kümin and I are accepting applications for our 4yr M4C fully-funded PhD Studentship for 2025/26 at Uni of Warwick and Warwick County Record Office "Warwickshire Identities: Early Modern Archival Perspectives" Get in touch with me for more info. Full details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

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One for historians/history fans: do you have an example of a comic/graphic novel presentation of research? Or something similar? My favourite is by @sdamussen.bsky.social (linked below). If anyone has any other favourites, I’d love to see 😊 escholarship.org/uc/item/76p7...

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If you pass a tavern, you will twist your leg, warns an Old Polish proverb. But if you enter, you will not leave quickly🍻 My project "Dens Of Despair or Merry Margins? Taverns As A Space Mediating Social Relations In Early Modern Lesser Poland" was awarded a Preludium grant by @ncngovpl.bsky.social

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Social History of Alcohol and Drugs (SHAD) Journal- call for new journal editors: The current editors of SHAD will complete their term of office in spring 2026. Call for proposals from potential candidates - or teams thereof - by January 15th 2025: www.pointshistory.org/post/call-fo....

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We couldn't help noticing the party seems to have moved over here so we thought we'd join in. Follow us for the latest drinking studies news and events (and you can join us for free to receive our regular newsletter).

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I’ve had countless conversations w colleagues about integrating “AI” into pedagogy. Aside from the environmental and human exploitation that goes into powering LLMs, studies are now proving that even using content generators as “guides” actually inhibits and damages human creativity. Like duh????

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Now we’re all settling into this app: the starter packs of #EarlyModern historians for an easy follow — and check the update as some new ones have moved over. 1: go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF 2: go.bsky.app/NQqDFr1 There’s still space in that second one so do wave if you’re around and want in! #SkyStorians

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Proper snow! In Exeter! In November! Thoughts and prayers are with the hydrangea at this time...

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I have created a pack for scholars of the long seventeenth century! If there is anyone I should add or you would like to be added do let me know - apologies for all I missed, hard to keep up these days. Do consider sharing to help enable scholars reconnect & rebuild network(s)! go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq

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@willpooley.bsky.social - told you #AcademicsHaveCats could take off...

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Welcome new followers! I'm a historian of #EarlyModern England at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, currently working on two projects: the #PowerOfPetitioning (petitioning.history.ac.uk) and the #WrittenWorlds of non-elite writers (writtenworlds.org). 🗃️

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Welcome new followers! Here's what I do... I'm a historian of everyday life in 16th and 17th century England, with a particular commitment to history 'from below'. My first book was about pubs and drinking culture: boydellandbrewer.com/978178327154... (1/5)

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📢 TOMORROW: Wills Project Webinar 📢 We're hosting a webinar on Tuesday 12 November at 15.30 to mark the launch of our 'Zooniverse' site ✍️📃 Find out how to join us here: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... @cemsexeter.bsky.social @leverhulme.bsky.social #history #blueskystorians #skystorians

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‘Sometimes the obvious and the banal are paradoxically absent from the archive.’ So what to do? And in particular, who can tell me how many farmers I am missing in my counts? williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2024/10/16/t... 🗃️

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📢THE WILLS PROJECT IS NOW LIVE ON ZOONIVERSE 📢 And now we need your help! www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs... Using cutting edge technology we've generated transcriptions of 25,000 wills, now we need participants to check & correct them 🧵1/ 🗃️ #skystorians #EarlyModern #CitizenScience

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What would it have been like to live in an English village 400 years ago? In a four-part podcast, @markhailwood.bsky.social asks whether everyday life in English villages in the 17th Century was really as uncomfortable and harsh as we generally tend to think... history.org.uk/podcasts/cat...

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Hello historians of BlueSky! I'm developing a Historic England CDP project about how to use static places (e.g. listable structures) to preserve the heritage of communities on the move. Maybe refugees, Gypsy people, Roma people, Traveller people, itinerant workers. Know any potential supervisors?🤞

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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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Deadline fast approaching! Get your proposals in for what promises to be a #SRSlyGood conference #RenSoc25 #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents SRS Biennial Conference, 2-5 Judy 2025, University of Bristol. Abstracts by 27 September 2024 www.rensoc.org.uk/event/srs-11...

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