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Newcastle Uni Special Collections & Archives @ncllibspeccoll.bsky.social · 16h

New on CollectionsCaptured is a wonderfully illustrated set of 17 proof copies of early 17th Century maps, later included in John Speed's 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine'.

All 17 pages can be seen here on CollectionsCaptured: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll...
[Ref. Freinds/JSM]

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19h

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social · 21h

Another post on 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' - a reminder that work in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was very much a family affair...

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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England II: Family Fortunes

This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 6d

Fun little culinary history about kofta kebabs in 1660 in England. Making me quite hungry.

Also not a bad recipe! Veal, nutmeg, onion, fried in patties.

Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 6d

Would anyone like to take a guess at the word before “kebob”? Which predates OED - ms is 1660

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Tom Pattison @tpattison.bsky.social · 6d

Brilliant to see this continuing to get coverage and hopefully momentum will continue to real change. Exciting also to see the brilliant @willbaileywatson.bsky.social's amazing Meanwhile Elsewhere being used - it absolutely revolutionized History homework for me.

www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Why are women missing from school history?

The extent to which history lessons ignore female figures has been revealed by new research. Here, teachers share the changes they are making to address this gender imbalance

www.tes.com

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 15d

Look what we have here then.

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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 5d

Lovely pub. Great history, also it's community owned and they keep a nice range of ales.

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 7d

Who did what in early modern England?

New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️

Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

This book applies the innovative work-task approach to the history of work, which captures the contribution of all workers and types of work to the early modern economy. Drawing on tens of thousands of court depositions, the authors analyse the individual tasks that made up everyday work for women and men, shedding new light on the gender division of labour, and the ways in which time, space, age and marital status shaped sixteenth and seventeenth-century working life. Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, the book deepens our understanding of the preindustrial economy, and calls for us to rethink not only who did what, but also the implications of these findings for major debates about structural change, the nature and extent of paid work, and what has been lost as well as gained over the past three centuries of economic development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Cover of Whittle, Jane, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, and Taylor Aucoin. The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. of Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.

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Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social · 6d

If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 8d

I'm hugely honoured and very excited to be giving this year's Historical Research #Lecture at @ihr.bsky.social, on 'Can popular #history be radical? Historical research and writing for the #public'. Tuesday 4 November, all welcome. More info in AltText. Book here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

In this lecture, Catherine Clarke will re-visit the question of what makes history radical, asking what kind of radical history we need in our public life and contemporary context today. In particular, she’ll explore ways in which popular history – trade publishing for a wide public audience – has the capacity to be radical, drawing on experiences and examples from her own new book A History of England in 25 Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, September 2025). Catherine’s lecture will move towards a manifesto for how research-led, scholarship-driven popular history can and does make necessary, vital public interventions – from opening inclusive conversations and confronting the rise of AI, to modelling radical empathy and imagination.

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 8d

RHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants.

Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI

Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes - RHS

The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 5 December 2025 onwards. For f...

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Society for One-Place Studies @oneplacestudies.bsky.social · 8d

Unique And Curious: A Visit To Dennis Severs’ House on the Living London History website provides a richly illustrated account of a fascinating property dating back to 1724 and described as “somewhere between a house museum and an immersive experience”. #HouseHistory #OnePlaceWednesday

Unique And Curious: A Visit To Dennis Severs' House - Living London History

Walk along Norton Folgate from Liverpool Street Station and you are largely surrounded by modern office blocks, many of which have gone up in just the last couple of years. Turn right however down the...

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Wolfson History Prize @wolfsonhistory.bsky.social · 9d

We're excited to reveal the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 shortlist, celebrating the finest historical non-fiction works from the past year.

Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors! 👏📚

www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/2025-wolfson...

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IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 14d

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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The Family History Society of Cheshire 🌾🌳 @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social · 15d

THIS is a fabulous website

The #Chester Consistory Court

Archive of cause papers from the oldest complete ecclesiastical courtroom in #England

Find out more about this amazing free database 👉 www.chestercausepapers.org.uk

To search 👉 www.chestercausepapers.org.uk/directory

#Cheshire

Chester Consistory Court - Cause Papers Archive

Searchable archive of cause papers from Chester Consistory Court - the oldest complete ecclesiastical courtroom in England.

www.chestercausepapers.org.uk

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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 16d

Nice to see the 1579 Godolphin Report on the Isles of Scilly, which I transcribed for a client, used in his Poetry Nation Review article. My favourite part, 'The auncient rents I know not but if any were paid they were but puffyns or like small value'. www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/writ...

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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 19d

Looking forward to a second weekend of heritage exploration through the excellent Heritage Open Days / Open House Festival for those in London. 🗃️ www.heritageopendays.org.uk / programme.openhouse.org.uk

19th century Great Hall, Lincoln's Inn, London. Grand open space with wooden ceiling and stained class windows in Tudor-esq style.

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 22d

National Ploughing Championships, 16th century style! From Sebastian Munster's 'Cosmographiae Universalis', printed in 1554.

Woodcut showing a man ploughing a field with an elephant. The woodcut is surrounded by Latin text.

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Neil M Kennedy @nmkennedy.bsky.social · 23d

Wampum beads excavated this summer season at Ferryland, a very early 17thC settlement under an hour drive along coast west of St John’s. Amazing site for preservation of stone structures and evidence of wide Atlantic trade networks. #EarlyModern #Archaeology

'Extremely unusual' discovery of wampum beads in Ferryland believed to be province's first | CBC News

One Memorial University graduate student came across seven wampum while digging at the Colony of Avalon earlier this summer — and one archaeologist says the discovery changes what we know about life a...

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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 23d

In the next few days we'll be circulating our Autumn 2025 project newsletter! 🍂✉️

To receive a copy and find out what we've been up to over the last few months, make sure you're signed up to our mailing list: forms.office.com/e/JbUEq4Za1u

@leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social #history

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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 24d

Sorry, I mean I just use it for a basic graphical visualisation of sets of relationships. There is a scaling tool to show the relative magnitude of nodes as well.

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Victoria County History @vch-home.bsky.social · 24d

Join us online on 24 Sept to celebrate the 250th VCH Big Red Book!

Founded in 1899, @vchlondon.bsky.social is writing the #history of every place in #England, with partners across the country. We'll also celebrate #LocalHistory, #communityhistory & #place based history more widely. All welcome!

https://www.history.ac.uk/news-events/events/celebrating-local-place-based-history-westmorland-250th-vch-big-red-book#:~:text=Event%20information%3E&text=In%20September%202025%2C%20the%20UK's,and%20community%20history%20more%20widely.

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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 25d

For translating data about many interpersonal relationships into a network visualisation.

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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · 28d

I have talked about Gephi in a talk Jane so perhaps. Would quite like a second big screen for it! For some quick and easy network visualisation Dai you can use Palladio hdlab.stanford.edu/palladio/

Home

hdlab.stanford.edu

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Ancestral Enquiries - Tony Smith 🌳 @ancestralenq.bsky.social · 28d

Card reader to 'tap & donate' installed at Bootham Bar, York to encourage the public to donate towards the maintenance of the city walls which cost £600,000 per year. 👇
BBC News - York city walls launches 'tap and donate' scheme for upkeep - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

York city walls launches 'tap and donate' scheme for upkeep

The donation point at Bootham Bar accepts up to £10 towards maintaining York's famous walkways.

www.bbc.co.uk

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