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Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social · 9h

📢 Free @materialwills.bsky.social event - this Saturday 11 October! 📢

#skystorians #history #earlymodern

The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 9h

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...

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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

📢REMINDER: CEMS SEMINAR TOMORROW📢

Can't wait to hear @emilymayvine.bsky.social discuss her new monograph:

Dr Emily Vine (Exeter), 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London'.

📅Weds 8 Oct, 2.30-4pm.
📍Exeter Uni, Forum Seminar Room 5 / Teams.
#EarlyModern 🗃️

DM me for the link!

This paper will share some key findings from Emily's recently published book, Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London. Early modern London has long been recognised as a centre of religious diversity, yet the role of the home as the setting of religious practice for all faiths has been largely overlooked. In contrast, the book offers the first examination of domestic religion in London during a period of intense religious change, between the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and the Gordon Riots of 1780. It considers both Christian and Jewish practices, comparing the experiences of Catholics, Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews, Huguenots, and conforming and nonconforming Protestants alike. Through its focus on the crowded metropolis as a place where households of different faiths coexisted, this study explores how religious communities operated beyond and in parallel to places of public worship. It demonstrates how families of different faiths experienced childbirth and death, arguing that homes became 'permeable' settings of communal religion at critical moments of the life cycle. By focusing on practices beyond the synagogue, meeting house, or church, this book demonstrates the vitality of collective devotion and kinship throughout the long eighteenth century.

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 6d

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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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 7d

3. Catch up on our latest 'Will of the Month' blog post!

September's post was written by Dylan Cox, a 3rd year Exeter History student 📜

You can catch up on all of our 'Will of the Month' posts - over 20! - on our website 💻

@uoearchhist.bsky.social #history
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

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A 1720 drawing of Bridewell Prison, seen from above, from “The Prospect of Bridewell” from John Strype‘s An Accurate Edition of Stow’s “A Survey of London“ (1720) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridewell_Palace#/media/File:Prospect_of_Bridewell.jpg

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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 7d

2. Read our Autumn Newsletter! 📰

We've recently circulated our latest project update - with details of what we've been up to over the last 6 months! 📜🎨🎵

Download the pdf or plain version from our news page:
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

@uniofexeterhass.bsky.social #skystorians
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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 7d

📢 A round up of our recent news 📢

1. UPCOMING 'WILLS PROJECT' EVENT:

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

📍Exeter Phoenix
📅Sat 11 Oct
🕐13.30

Register here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-an...
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Stories and Songs: Wills as Windows onto Past Lives

A unique performance of history and original music inspired by Tudor, Stuart and Georgian wills.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social · 7d

Catch up on the @materialwills.bsky.social news below 👇

Featuring an upcoming free event in Exeter📜🎵
And links to our latest newsletter and blogposts 📰💻

#history #skystorians #EarlyModern

The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 7d

📢 A round up of our recent news 📢

1. UPCOMING 'WILLS PROJECT' EVENT:

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

📍Exeter Phoenix
📅Sat 11 Oct
🕐13.30

Register here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-an...
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Stories and Songs: Wills as Windows onto Past Lives

A unique performance of history and original music inspired by Tudor, Stuart and Georgian wills.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social · 9d

@ihr.bsky.social and @ies-sas.bsky.social are partnering with @thelondonarchives.bsky.social to run a new series of public lectures, featuring the chance to see the original records first hand. First lecture by @patrickwallis.bsky.social on "Apprenticeship and the Rise of London", Weds 15th October!

SAS and The London Archives: Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500-1800

ies.sas.ac.uk

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Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social · 9d

A FREE @materialwills.bsky.social event in Exeter: A unique performance of history ⌛ and original music 🎵 inspired by early modern wills 📜

Register for your free ticket 👇

#skystorians #history #EarlyModern #Tudor

Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 9d

🎺ANNOUNCEMENT!🎺

STORIES & SONGS: WILLS AS WINDOWS ONTO PAST LIVES

Join Chris Hoban and I at #Exeter Phoenix for a unique performance of history & original music inspired by #Tudor, #Stuart & Georgian wills! 🗃️

FREE! Claim your ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1738865536...

Stories and Songs: Wills as Windows onto Past Lives

A unique performance of history and original music inspired by Tudor, Stuart and Georgian wills.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 9d

🎺ANNOUNCEMENT!🎺

STORIES & SONGS: WILLS AS WINDOWS ONTO PAST LIVES

Join Chris Hoban and I at #Exeter Phoenix for a unique performance of history & original music inspired by #Tudor, #Stuart & Georgian wills! 🗃️

FREE! Claim your ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1738865536...

Stories and Songs: Wills as Windows onto Past Lives

A unique performance of history and original music inspired by Tudor, Stuart and Georgian wills.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 9d

Chris and I are really excited to be part of the FUTURES Festival and to have the chance to perform the wills music in the Phoenix Auditorium, following our sold out event earlier this year.

A box of printed programmes for the event 'An Evening of Stories and Songs: Wills as Windows onto Past Lives', presented by Arts and Culture. Chris Hoban and Laura Sangha. Another box contains 'Complete Song Lyrics' booklets, words by Chris Hoban.

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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 9d

📢 A FREE wills project event - Exeter, 11 October 📢

Project co-investigator @lsangha.bsky.social & Creative Fellow musician Chris Hoban invite you to join them for a unique performance of history and original music inspired by #EarlyModern wills 📜 #history

Register for your free ticket below 👇

Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 9d

🎺ANNOUNCEMENT!🎺

STORIES & SONGS: WILLS AS WINDOWS ONTO PAST LIVES

Join Chris Hoban and I at #Exeter Phoenix for a unique performance of history & original music inspired by #Tudor, #Stuart & Georgian wills! 🗃️

FREE! Claim your ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1738865536...

Stories and Songs: Wills as Windows onto Past Lives

A unique performance of history and original music inspired by Tudor, Stuart and Georgian wills.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social · 9d

New 'Will of the Month' post from @materialwills.bsky.social ! 👇

@uoearchhist.bsky.social @cemsexeter.bsky.social #history #earlymodern #skystorians

The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 9d

📢 IN CASE YOU MISSED IT 📢

September's 'Will of the Month' post is live on our blog 📜

Written by Dylan Cox, a 3rd year Exeter History student, it explores the will of a C17th London gentleman, and his charitable bequests & mourning rings 💍

#skystorians #history

sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

A photograph of a gold mourning ring and a small gold crucifix. Catalogues caption: an Example of a ‘Enamelled gold mourning ring, The hoop with a skull reserved in black enamel inscribed Non hic Sr. N. S. obt 30 June 86, England, date 1686’. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2025 https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O125929/mourning-ring-unknown

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Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social · 12d

The Autumn term card for the IHR 'Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800' seminar is now live - and all our seminars this term are hybrid!

Delighted to be part of the series. #history #skystorians #EarlyModern

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

IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · 13d

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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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 12d

I really liked the fact that Dylan chose to research a 'boring' will from our collection - one with very few personal or sentimental bequests. As you will read, even wills like this contain a lot of rich historical detail.

Bravo Dylan!

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 12d

📢SEPTEMBER WILL OF THE MONTH📢

It's a special one! Written by Exeter undergraduate student Dylan Cox, who undertook work experience with the project team. He explores the will of a London gentleman 👇

#EarlyModern 🗃️ @leverhulme.ac.uk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

A drawing showing a large complex of buildings - tall walls with lots of windows, it looks a bit like a prison. At the top text reads 'The Prospect of Bridewell'.

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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 13d

Dylan reflects on a will that contains mainly financial bequests, and comments on different ‘styles’ of will-making 📜💸

He also reflects on the process of this type of archival research more broadly 📝

Thank you Dylan for sharing your research!

@uoearchhist.bsky.social #skystorians #history
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Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social · 13d

It's a very special 'Will of the Month' post over at @materialwills.bsky.social - transcribed & researched by Dylan Cox, a 3rd year History student @ @uoearchhist.bsky.social

Dylan shares some really nice reflections about the process of researching the will of a C17th London gentleman #EarlyModern

The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 13d

📢 NEW WILL OF THE MONTH POST 📢

We're delighted to share this very special post by Dylan Cox, a 3rd year History student at Exeter. 📜

Dylan has transcribed & researched the will of a London gentleman who made several bequests, including to Bridewell prison 🧵1/2

sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

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Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you!

Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social · 14d

I really enjoyed speaking about my new book with Dr Miranda Melcher for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast 📖

Now available online! 👇📻

newbooksnetwork.com/birth-death-...

@universitypress.cambridge.org @uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

The front cover of the book 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London' - it has a red from cover and the image is from a seventeenth-century woodcut.

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Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social · 16d

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

doi.org

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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 16d

In Case You Missed It: Last week we circulated our Autumn 2025 Newsletter 🍂✉️

Want to catch up on what we've been up to recently? You can now read it over on our website 👇

#history #EarlyModern #skystorians

Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 16d

ICYMI: last week the Wills Project circulated our autumn newsletter, with an update on what we've achieved over the past 6 months or so.

#EarlyModern 🗃️ @leverhulme.ac.uk @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social

Download the pdf or plain version from our news page: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

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American Society of Church History @aschurchhistory.bsky.social · 20d

Today's featured title:

"Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London," by Emily Vine, Cambridge University Press, 2025

@emilymayvine.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org

resolve.cambridge.org/core/books/b...

"Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London," by Emily Vine, Cambridge University Press, 2025 in white text on a blue background

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Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social · 20d

Many thanks for sharing!

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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 20d

We'll be sending out our Autumn 2025 Newsletter tomorrow 🍂✉️
Sign up to our mailing list before then to receive a copy in your inbox! 👇

The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 22d

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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