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Its Miscellany Monday! Here's Kesselring, "Gaol Fever Stories," (2020): legalhistorymiscellany.com/2020/04/28/g...

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Want to read about the summary trial and execution of thieves caught red-handed in medieval England? Check out my new article in the Journal of Legal History. If you don't have access to it, contact me through Bluesky chat & I'll send you a link with free access. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.....

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Fiona Griffiths' book on the priests who served female monastic communities is now open access online: doi.org/10.58117/M4H...

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New article! A.T. Brown @durhamhistory.bsky.social on Enclosure Riots on the Commons: Memory and Conflict at Lytham Priory, 1200–1540 academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

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'Meticulous archival research,' #Spycraft 'is one of the most important contributions to the ordinary history of intelligence that has begun to emerge in scholarship. But [it] also questions the way in which history is written', 'a must-read for anyone interested in historiography & intelligence'. 🙌

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Congratulations to Tony T and his colleagues in the Communities of Liberation project at London’s Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archive. They are doing great work, and I am delighted to have been able to help. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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Critical edition of the latin text by Karl Strecker (1951) in the MGH series Poetae: www.dmgh.de/mgh_poetae_6_1/index.htm

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Lecturer in Ancient History University of Leeds #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMA796/l...

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My new post is up! Weird and Wonderful: The Mixed Cultural Heritage of England’s Common Law legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/02/20/w... via @legalmiscellany

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AHA staff have testified before state legislatures and boards of education in support of the teaching of #HonestHistory. “You cannot censor your way to great schools,” testified senior program analyst Julia Brookins before Texas SBOE. #FreedomToLearn 🗃️

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Its Miscellany Monday! Here's Kesselring, "Can You Steal a Peacock? Animals in Early Modern Law" (2020) (This is one of my faves!): legalhistorymiscellany.com/2020/04/22/c...

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Assistant Professor in Early Modern History (2425_HIS_01)- Durham University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLW082/a... #skystorians 🗃️

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Erasure, cont’d… (via FB) www.jta.org/2025/02/12/p...

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Todays article is up and this time it’s all about the change of heart Brits had to face in #WW1 when it came to the French… After nigh on 1000yrs at each others’ throats, how did the Poilu look… When one art-based publication set out to try and sell Britain’s new ally to the people in 1916?

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Very Dutch 17C skating #SuperbOwls @fakehistoryhunt.bsky.social

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Great job coming up at the University of Manchester. You get to work in the fabulous John Rylands Library with some equally fabulous people! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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We're excited to announce a special online seminar featuring Distinguished Professor Emerita Merry Wiesner-Hanks, discussing her new book Women and the Reformations. 13 February 2025 via Zoom, 7pm GMT (1 hour). #womenshistory #skystorians /1

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{New Book} Negotiating Childlessness in the Middle Ages: Stories of Desired, Refused, and Regretted Parenthood by Regina Toepfer #open access https://www.arc-humanities.org/9781802702446/negotiating-childlessness-in-the-middle-ages/

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Another corker of an article has appeared in Early Medieval England and its Neighbours: Rebecca Thomas on 'The Naming of the Welsh in the Early Middle Ages'. Open Access too! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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I have questions about Christ's abdominal region here

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Its Miscellany Monday! Here's Cynthia Neville, "King Henry of Scotland's Pardon of the Early of Argyll, March 1566" (2020): legalhistorymiscellany.com/2020/04/08/k...

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This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

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We would LOVE to hear about your #premodern #body research and share it with a global audience through our monthly online speaker series! If you're interested, please send a 250 word abstract and short bio to [email protected] #EarlyModern #Medieval #SkyStorians #HistorySky #WhatsHistory

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Its Miscellany Monday! Here's Cassie Watson and Laura Sellers, "Animal Victims of Crime," (2020): legalhistorymiscellany.com/2020/03/27/a...

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📣 We're Hiring: Head of #SpecialCollections Responsible for leading and overseeing the management of a major department of the @nlireland.bsky.social as well as contributing to its strategic planning and overall management. ⭐ Info + apply: www.nli.ie/about-us/wor... 📆 #Apply by: 3pm, 7 March 2025

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We're hiring! The Bodleian are looking for a Public Engagement Officer. This is an exciting role based in the Weston Library, with the opportunity to make a real impact on visitors and the community, working with the Bodleian’s historic collections. For more information: tinyurl.com/48uuw625.

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Paging @sarahweinman.bsky.social and also 🤨in medieval historian and oh I can think about something other than 💔🤬😢❤️‍🩹 for one beat. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/w...

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In my article, "White Coats, White Hoods: The Medical Politics of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920s America," I document how the Colorado Klan, run by physicians, fired a slate of medical & public health officials to replace them with Klan members. This is the playbook. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35125351/

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President Claudia Sheinbaum has proposed a compromise name for the Gulf of Mexico.

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Our edited collection is out and we have a very exciting book launch planned for 13 February! Sign up here to attend online or in person: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1106423846...

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De l'intérêt de laisser la parole à de vrais historiens pour décrypter le geste de Musk. Encore une fois, Chapoutot est très clair. youtu.be/QBHG6k-cIMQ?...

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So it's hard to believe, but it has been 10 years (!) since my first scientific publication - on the cultural success of bloodletting with @hugoreasoning.bsky.social and Nicolas Claidière. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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📢16th-CENTURY WILLS HAVE ARRIVED!📢 You can now help us transcribe wills from the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI on our Zooniverse site. I found money being left for the marriage of poor maidens dwelling with honest men - what will you find? www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs... #EarlyModern 🗃️

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Proofs (w/ pagination) now available for my 2025 article, “Rethinking ‘Brahmanization’ and Caste Politics in Late Ancient South Asia: A Study of Outcaste Buddhist Subalternity” with #CSSAAME @dukepress.bsky.social Download article here: tinyurl.com/2p8ycf6d #monasticsubalterngovernmentalities

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Professor Chloë Kennedy has been awarded funding from the Leverhulme Trust for a new research project titled ‘A History of Hurt Feelings and the Law’. The project aims to understand which – and whose – emotions have received legal protection and for what reasons. Read more: edin.ac/4gWtIRQ

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#medievalsky

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"Study what you want, because the disciplines are just different lenses on the same human problems.” www.chronicle.com/article/the-... Don’t miss this brilliant piece by @carlsonics.bsky.social and Ned Laff. @hopkinspress.bsky.social

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This Saturday, January 25 at 7 pm, Professor of Musicology and Medieval Studies John Haines presents a lecture preceding Sequentia's Gregorius – The Holy Sinner. torontoconsort.org/the-2024-202...

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The @imc-leeds.bsky.social programme is out! I'll be presenting a paper on sodomy and the late medieval English Church courts as part of the National Archives' sessions. Looking forward to seeing you all in Leeds this summer! imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2025/pre...

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At long last my Marie Curie postdoctoral work on Origen's psalm homilies has been published online as of last week (as an 'advanced article') in Vigiliae Christianae! A project that began in 2019, saw the birth of two children, and an international move... brill.com/view/journal...

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Its Miscellany Monday! Here's Butler, "Hearing and Speaking the Law in Medieval England" (2020): legalhistorymiscellany.com/2020/02/21/h...

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Interested in pursuing a PhD in comparative politics (institutions, behaviour, representation, parties)? We have a four-year position at our department, with great conditions, lots of freedom and a reasonable teaching load. Get in touch if you have questions! jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

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Miscellany Monday is back! Here's Anna Boeles Rowland and Chanelle Delameillieure, "What's Love Got to Do with It? Marriage in Late Medieval England and the Low Countries," (2020): legalhistorymiscellany.com/2020/02/14/w...

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LegalHistoryMiscellany.com, a collaborative academic blog run with @sarabutler.bsky.social and @drkdwatson.bsky.social (and hosting guest posts from others), now has a handle here: @legalmiscellany.bsky.social. Give us a follow! #skystorians

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When is someone going to write the biography of John Fyneux, the chief justice of the court of king's bench in the late 15th century who seems to have been at the heart of so many fundamental changes within the English legal system? Just a suggestion.

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