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Mark Hailwood
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Historian of everyday life in England, c.1500-1700 | Bristol Uni | First Gen | Devon & Somerset
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Cosy season is well upon us

Curl up w/ a warm drink & NEW post on CUP's blog:

The #Autumnal Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England

This seasonal celebration of our new book features apples & pears, cider & ale, meat & markets, & the #Christmas milling craze
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Late 17th-century English needlework showing typical labours of the month. Focus shows a woman picking apples in October, and a woman spinning in November. Line graph titled Autumn Sectors shows an indexed monthly distribution of Commerce and Food Processing Tasks where 100 is the monthly average and both Commerce and Food Processing rise during the autumn quarter of October, November and December to an annual height of over 140 in December.
November 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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To mark #Halloween & publication of 'The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England', (now available in print & free online), this blogpost revisits the magiconomy.
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Highlights include a magical service paid for with bacon and pigeons.
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#history
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The Magiconomy of Early Modern England
This post is part of a series marking the print and online Open Access (free) publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, …
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October 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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So pleased to be on the list of American Historical Association prize winners. My book, Female Servants in Early Modern England, was awarded the Morris D. Forkosch Prize in British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history since 1485. Congratulations to all the other awardees!
historians.org American Historical Association @historians.org · Oct 15
The AHA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes, which honor exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects. Congratulations to the 2025 awardees! #AHAPerspectives🗃️
American Historical Association Announces 2025 Prize Winners – AHA
The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Lecturer in Early Modern History, Liverpool Hope University:

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Lecturer in Early Modern History, Liverpool Hope University | MEMOs
Lecturer in Early Modern History
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October 17, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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A missed opportunity on the headline here @wsc.co.uk. ‘Rewilding’, surely?
October 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Got your copies yet? @jwhittle.bsky.social @aucointaylor.bsky.social @hkrobb.bsky.social
markhailwood.bsky.social Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social · Oct 16
I believe you kids call this an ‘unboxing’…
October 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Final post in my series on 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England'. It focuses on the heartbeat of the premodern economy.... the harvest.

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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England IV: Harvesters
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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October 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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I believe you kids call this an ‘unboxing’…
October 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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“Histories of friendship… are a way of multiplying connection; a way of making real, small, and embodied solidarities echo louder down the years.”

I really enjoyed @lauracforster.bsky.social new article on histories of/ friendship/ as methodology 🗃️

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Friends In Deed
In a new article in History Workshop Journal Laura Forster asks: how is history like friendship with the dead? It is easy, she points out, to scorn the idea of making friends with the past, and to …
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October 16, 2025 at 5:23 AM
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If you want to know more about our use of handwritten text recognition software (Transkribus) on the wills project, tune in on Zoom next week 👇

All welcome (not just postdocs!).

#EarlyModern 🗃️ #DigitalHumanities #HTR #CitizenScience
materialwills.bsky.social The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · Oct 14
Project Research Fellows Harry Smith and Emily Vine are looking forward to speaking as part of the Warwick History 'Post-Doc' Club series, next Wed 22 October @ 17.00.

They'll be discussing 'Digitization & Citizen Science'📜💻

Follow this link for Zoom details:
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A poster with a white background and black text, with a blue border at the top of the poster, and photographs of manuscripts. The title of the poster reads Warwick History ‘POST-DOC’ CLUB METHODOLOGIES SERIES. Online Meeting: Weds 22 October at 5pm DIGITIZATION & CITIZEN SCIENCE: Inviting collaborative research to transcribe handwriting. With Harry Smith and Emily Vine of the Material Culture of Wills, 1540-1790 project at the University of Exeter.
October 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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As the agricultural cycle starts to wind down for the winter, my next post on 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' looks forward to its resumption in the new year, when...

‘Ploughmen go whistling to their toils’

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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England III: ‘Ploughmen go whistling to their toils’
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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October 14, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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A career highlight for me to join Chris Hoban and various musicians (a string quartet! a hurdy-gurdy man!) on Saturday to deliver an afternoon of history & music at Exeter Phoenix.

It's so special to be able to share my #EarlyModern research with the public in such a powerful & meaningful way. 📜🎵🎻🗃️
A group of people seated on stage in a line with another standing in front of them singing into a microphone. An audience watches on.
October 13, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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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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October 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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There's still time to grab your ticket for a FREE 'WILLS PROJECT' EVENT

Join @lsangha.bsky.social & musician Chris Hoban this Saturday for a FREE performance of history & music inspired by #EarlyModern wills 📜🎵

📍Exeter Phoenix
📅Sat 11 Oct
🕐13.30

Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-an...
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October 8, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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As you dig out your chunky knitwear from the back of the draw, I know you are wondering: 'How did people prepare for winter 400 years ago?'

Read today's post to find out (and whet your appetite for our new book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England)

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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England I: Winter is Coming
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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October 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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The night is dark and full of terrors! As the days grow shorter+ the darkness creeps in, grab yourself some pilfered firewood, slaughter a sheep, and read more about seasonal work patterns from @markhailwood.bsky.social +others’ new book on experiences of work
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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England I: Winter is Coming
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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October 7, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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Coming soon💨

How has energy shaped a nation?

Electric Wind by @DudleyMarianna.bsky.social is a cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain, from the industrial revolution to the aftermath of war, through energy crises and the changing politics of the late twentieth century💡

Pre-order now!
Promotional image for Electric wind. Book sits in centre of image. The book cover is a digital drawing of rolling blue and green hills with a purple cloudy sky in the background. Wind turbines and trees can be seen dotted along the hills. Text along bottom of image reveals the book's publication date: October 14th 2025.
October 3, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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I'm very excited to be part of the vibrant FUTURES Festival this year, inviting people to get involved with exciting research happening in the South West.

Come along to Exeter Phoenix - you will also be able to see posters belonging to the wills project leader
@jwhittle.bsky.social

Programme 👇
uoearchhist.bsky.social University of Exeter Archaeology and History Department @uoearchhist.bsky.social · Oct 3
Join us at the *free* FUTURES Festival (11–12 Oct Exeter) for inspiring events celebrating history, archaeology, science & culture!

With @lsangha.bsky.social and Chris Hoban live music based on stories from 16-18th century wills🎵 and Laura Evis in the SHArD 3D Lab

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October 3, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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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.
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Delighted to see our new book - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England - out now, and open access (free!)

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October 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781...

#earlymodern #economic #history
The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
Cambridge Core - Economic History - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
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September 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Please help. Please sign & share. I work on a degree programme known as ELCE for mature students who didn't or couldn't do a degree at 18. Bristol uni has decided to close it. Bristol was set up to serve this community & now we are losing our most accessible degree.

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Save our pioneering widening participation undergraduate degree in English Literature and Community Engagement at the University of Bristol
19 August 2025 Dear Evelyn Welch (Vice-Chancellor) cc Judith Squires (Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost), Tansy Jessop (Pro Vice-Chancellor for Education and Students) The School of Humanities has ...
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August 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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The vast majority of UK students attend good to excellent universities that don't have or use the "right" spoons. De-spoon the university.
Mocked for using the wrong spoon: working-class life at top universities
Some students say they have been made to feel alienated on campus. What can institutions do to tackle it?
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August 13, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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And that’s a wrap! Doing a PhD with @markhailwood.bsky.social and Prof. Jane Whittle (with Dr. Tyler Rainford, left, as my PhD brother) was the absolute best. I may not be in academia, but you can bet I’ll still be infiltrating @drinkingstudies.bsky.social anyway 😂❤️
July 18, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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The winners of the BAHS's Joan Thirsk Prize (2025) have been announced. They are:

Charmian Mansell, 'Female Servants in Early Modern England' @oxfordunipress.bsky.social

John Bulaitis, 'The Tithe War in England and Wales, 1881-1936' @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

Congratulations to them both!
July 10, 2025 at 6:37 AM