Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 11h

I've probably seen thousands of apprentice indentures at this point; although they are often of a muchness, there are wonderful details & differences sometimes, such as this little guy with his sheafs of wheat standing on the arms of the Brewers' Co. (indenture of Case Billingsley, bd 1713/fd 1721)

10

Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 1d

/slams “add to thesis bibliography” button/

Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2d

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...

news.exeter.ac.uk

12

Reposted by Beth DeBold

Hallie Rubenhold @hallierubenhold.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely love this post. Another example why we need to study history from the bottom up, not necessarily top down.

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 2d

In @thetimes.com letters page today

5 63 210

Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 1d

Who here remembers manuscripts? Kids these days with their newfangled, impression-based copying technologies don’t know what it was like when you could only read Sherlock’s discourse on judgement if you chased an angry goose every morning so you could copy your friend’s

3

Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 1d

There is some floppy haired man with RP on instagram making it sound as though the entire world went from telling stories around the fire to the printing press overnight and truly I am so tired of this

1 4

Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 2d

“if”

1

Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 2d

As an alum this is incredibly concerning to me.

Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 2d

Breaking: We’ve talked to multiple individuals who have confirmed that UNC-CH is merging SILS (library and information science) and SDSS (data science and society). Announcement will be tomorrow morning. Faculty were not consulted.

3

Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 4d

Recently had a similar situation where multiple cousins, sons, and brothers in a family were all named James and I experienced a swell of anti-Jacobite feeling

6

Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 8d

Can we look forward to a new four-footed employee at Plantin Moretus? 👀🐱

1 5

Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 11d

“Auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.”

They make a desolation, and they call it peace.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11d

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

4

Reposted by Beth DeBold

Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 12d

Oh, I was also double-paying into the system by paying into NI through my paychecks and also paying an immigration surcharge to access health care, while having an state-issued immigrant ID card which said 'NO ACCESS TO PUBLIC FUNDS'

Katherine Weikert @kateweikert.bsky.social · 12d

Under Labour's plan, I wouldn't qualify for my ILR because I spent the first five years on my work visa in a new career, where I spent most of my time [checks notes] educating young adults.

BBC News - Mahmood to demand migrants earn right to settled status
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Shabana Mahmood to demand migrants earn right to settled status

New tests will include learning English to a high standard, paying National Insurance and not claiming benefits.

www.bbc.com

3 23 60

Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 14d

(I did not make the sign but I am seriously considering it)

2

Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 14d

Having a cold while being a 17th centuryist in the middle of writing one’s thesis during the rise of fascism means having fever dreams about making protest signs featuring a clergyman who went to jail in Newbury in 1643

1 11

Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 22d

YESSSS two of my favourites!!!

2

Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 22d

Natalie Zemon Davis

2 2 37

Reposted by Beth DeBold

BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 22d

THERE IS STILL TIME TO SUBMIT YOUR PAPER PROPOSAL FOR #BSECS2026!

The deadline is MONDAY 22 SEPTEMBER and there will be no more extensions!

Come & share your research with us @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026. It's a lovely way to start the new year!
#skystorians #18thC #academicsky 🗃️

1 6 11

Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 26d

The best article/book/thesis is one that is done

1

Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 28d

The Zone of Interest illustrates this very well. Insisting that nazis and other people who do and did great evil are cartoonish monsters without any humanity is comforting (if they’re monsters it means we could never do those things!), but it’s a dangerous fiction.

meliss-AAAH! @mel.bzky.team · 28d

the thing about nazis is theyre perfectly capable of empathy. theyre not bogeymen crawling from the dark under your bed. theyre not a different species. the fact that you believe otherwise is why you keep getting stumped by "actually this guy had a dog and a family"

2

Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 28d

More neighbourhood moggies from tonight’s run (stripey now knows i give scritches so they come running!)

9

Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 28d

I miss sunshine biscuit kitchen in chapel hill every day

1 1

Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 29d

If someone had told me in 2005 that twenty years later there would be deeply twisted political ideology like QAnon or people being radicalised by communities formed around a strange cartoon frog with multi-layered historical contexts I would have simply refused to believe them

2 4

Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 29d

The extremely thin, nearly non-existent silver lining to /gestures/ all of this is that I will no longer encounter disbelief when I discuss the fifth monarchists, dung in medicine, or witchcraft hysteria in EME to students because it’s all more sane and believable than what some people believe today

1 6

Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 29d

Had a great time at the York Book Fair, including accidentally trying to purchase an item a seller had purchased for themselves and spending enough that my credit card company thought it was fraud! But got a great set of “A-Z” guides to London to start mapping apprentices:

1 11

Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 29d

Any thoughts re: your ladies, @earlymodernmurray.bsky.social?

2

Reposted by Beth DeBold

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · Sep 11

The evil that men do lives after them

39 1.7K 5.8K