markhailwood.bsky.social
Historian of everyday life in England, c.1500-1700 | Bristol Uni | First Gen | Devon & Somerset
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Bob Harris (Oxford) has recently published this: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...
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Who?
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Aww, thanks Aidan!
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I'll be there too! Chairing a panel on 'Alcohol in the Early Modern World'...
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Congratulations Jan, delighted to hear this news!!
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Delighted for you Amy: a brilliant PhD by a brilliant scholar!
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*waves*
Would love to be added! Thanks for setting these up.
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Bernard Capp's book 'When Gossips Meet' has a lot of informal parish communication
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Away from my desk I play village cricket in the summer, and visit non-league football grounds in the winter, so you might get some snaps of those too... (5/5)
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I'm also part of a blogging collective called 'the many-headed monster', which aims to make early modern history accesible to students and a wider audience - lots of useful teaching resources on the blog:
manyheadedmonster.com (4/5)
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Before that I worked on a big collaborative project on women's and men's everyday working lives, and a book on 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' is currently in production...
For more on the project:
formsoflabour.exeter.ac.uk (3/5)
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I'm currently working on a book on everyday life in 17th century villages, focused on my hometown of Portishead (Somerset).
Some related podcasts:
history.org.uk/podcasts/cat... (2/5)
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So **please share widely** to help us find an artist interested in finding out more about historic wills from Tudor, Stuart and Georgian England.
#EarlyModern 🗃️
Full details, and to apply: www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/news/arts-an...
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