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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 1d

Just to say that teachers do an incredibly difficult job, with all the right intentions, and can be the defining influence on a young person's life. They are the exact opposite of poisoners because good teaching provides the antidote to so many dangers

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Nigel Farage says UK teachers are ‘poisoning our kids’ and predicts strikes as PM

Exclusive: Reform UK leader, speaking at event for private US college, also claimed the ‘Marxist left’ controls education Nigel Farage has predicted teachers would go on strike within weeks of a Reform UK government, and accused them of “poisoning our kids” by telling them that black children are victims and white children oppressors. The Reform UK leader set out his view on British schools in an event for a private US Christian college in Michigan, claiming the “Marxist left” was “now in control of our education system”. Continue reading...

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gordonwells.bsky.social @gordonwells.bsky.social · 1d

Melvyn ordered coffee!

John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Jul 2

Tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 9am on BBC Radio 4 — In Our Time discusses civility with Teresa Bejan (@tmbejan.bsky.social), Phil Withington, and me! Listen live or after broadcast at the link below.

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Civility: talking with those who disagree with you

On the value of keeping conversations going with opponents, from the Reformation onwards

www.bbc.co.uk

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 15d

We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

To attend, please register at the event of your choice here. If you have signed up but suddenly find yourself unable to make it, you can relinquish your spot by emailing: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk. If you would like to attend in-person and the event reads as fully booked, please do drop by anyway as we can always find some extra chairs!

Thursday 16 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford), Turbulence and the German Peasants’ War of 1524-6
Please register here if you would like to attend.
Hybrid. Online-via Zoom & Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House

Thursday 30 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
Emily Vine (University of Exeter), Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London
Please register here if you would like to attend.
Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House

Thursday 27 November, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm
Nailya Shamgunova (University of East Anglia), ‘English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700’
Please register here if you would like to attend.
Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 1d

I don't get to live as much of my life through Irish as I'd like but I can say with pride that in nearly four decades I've yet to have to say it

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 1d

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

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Have the enormous Wolf Leslau grammar but going to try and get the simpler version and his dictionary too. Found amharicabc website and an Android app (plus Quizlet drills) helpful for learning fidel, which is still a work in progress

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Dipping in and out of things including Appleyard's Colloquial Amharic, but have found a teacher who makes or adapts a lot of his own and finding them really useful. On the podcast side have found Amharic Academy (by my teacher) good, and Bereka Buna for grammar review.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 1d

In my very first early modern Dutch lesson I learnt the phrase "we beat them to death with sticks". Today I'm learning the gerundive in Amharic, and hoping not to have much use for the sample sentence አንቀው ገደሉት, "they killed him by strangling".

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Christine Kooi @christinekooi.bsky.social · 3d

And an excellent article it is, too. Well done, John!

John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 4d

Delighted to see the open access publication of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms -- a superb volume featuring artists, poets, scholars, and a short essay by me on Dutch- and French-speaking women in 16th-century London telling their stories of migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...

Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms – punctum books

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 3d

Bless you Christine, that's very kind! I wrote it absolutely yonks ago (in deep lockdown, pre-kids if I remember rightly) and when getting proofs had to be quite firm with myself and not change everything to reflect where my thinking and the work is now. So pleased you enjoyed it!

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 4d

Delighted to see the open access publication of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms -- a superb volume featuring artists, poets, scholars, and a short essay by me on Dutch- and French-speaking women in 16th-century London telling their stories of migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...

Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms – punctum books

punctumbooks.com

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 4d

A lot of talk about emotion in the archive recently, and I get it. This morning I've been brought nearly to tears by trying to unpick the history of a Flemish family where the grandfather, father, and son all have exactly the same name.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 4d

Delighted to see the open access publication of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms -- a superb volume featuring artists, poets, scholars, and a short essay by me on Dutch- and French-speaking women in 16th-century London telling their stories of migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...

Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms – punctum books

punctumbooks.com

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 4d

Not to where I am currently, I'm afraid! But sorted now.

John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you so much Steven! I saw you had a copy but know how busy you are and didn't want to ask...

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 5d

Without seeing the book it's not possible to know how much or which bits I need to have scanned, unfortunately, and I'm not sure full-book scans are on offer?

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 5d

So a book I need to see — Albert Schouteet, De klerken van de Vierschaar te Brugge met inventaris van hun protocollen (Brugge, 1973) — seems only to exist in a couple of libraries in Belgium and the Netherlands. If it's near you and you could take some pictures, I'll happily pay for your time!

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 7d

Really is amazing how good the tech is getting these days.

A prompt from my phone's Google Photos app, reading "New memory for you: Nature's bouquet". The image is of a bunch of flowers on a fresh grave.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 8d

But that said, I've just found a footnote where I hypothesised that one of the books I'm looking at might have been owned by someone who died seventeen years before it was published. Which, you know, maybe we can blame the pint.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 8d

The last time I worked on the footnotes for this essay about multilingual reading in @marshslibrary.bsky.social, it was over a summer evening post-library pint of Guinness in Fallon's. Hard not to think that was a pretty ideal way to do it.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 19d

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Historical Journal Call for Special Issues

Welcome to Cambridge Core

www.cambridge.org

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 9d

'The affected staff, in the schools of foreign languages, history, religion and music, have been warned the university cannot rule out compulsory redundancy.'

Almost 200 Cardiff University staff left in limbo as they face losing jobs

Cardiff University confirmed it cannot rule out compulsory redundancies as it also apologised to students for problems with a new timetabling system as the academic year begins

www.walesonline.co.uk

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 9d

This took some googling to work out but now I am indeed dubiously honoured!

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 9d

A delight to examine Dr Commons's superb PhD -- strongly recommend her Historical Research article and other forthcoming publications to anyone interested in histories of migration and law in the early modern period!

Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social · 11d

On a personal and slightly self-aggrandizing note, will be pleased to introduce this banging lineup for the first time officially as *Dr* Commons. Many thanks to @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social and Phil Withington for examining me with such care, and Anthony Milton for being a superlative supervisor

Ben Gidley @bengidley.bsky.social · 11d

reminder we’re kicking off tomorrow
5:30- 7:30pm Hybrid/IHR

@profpanayi.bsky.social & @kabcommons.bsky.social will open, then I’ll will speak on history & social studies; @marcloureiro.bsky.social on history & law; and Natalya Din-Kariuki on history & literature.

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Prof Tracey Hill @tracelarkhall.bsky.social · 12d

A Bohemian spotted in London, 1641 @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social

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