Dr Gillian Williamson
@georgianfun.bsky.social
18th-century British history especially reading, Gentleman’s Magazine and periodicals, life in lodgings
Looking forward to hearing @mazinggrace.bsky.social talk about gardening and reading at @thegibsonlibrary.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Looking forward to hearing @mazinggrace.bsky.social talk about gardening and reading at @thegibsonlibrary.bsky.social
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I have kindly been invited to talk about gardening and reading at the Gibson Library in Saffron Walden! Come along (for free!) at 19.30 on 10 Dec to hear about #earlymodern plants, print & marginalia (+ Gabriel Harvey’s compulsive underlining of mentions of saffron). gibsonlibrary.org.uk/news.html
Gibson Library
gibsonlibrary.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I have kindly been invited to talk about gardening and reading at the Gibson Library in Saffron Walden! Come along (for free!) at 19.30 on 10 Dec to hear about #earlymodern plants, print & marginalia (+ Gabriel Harvey’s compulsive underlining of mentions of saffron). gibsonlibrary.org.uk/news.html
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Great to see the programme for the @long18thsem.bsky.social for next term @ihrlibrary.bsky.social . You can register to attend either in person or online here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
December 10, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Great to see the programme for the @long18thsem.bsky.social for next term @ihrlibrary.bsky.social . You can register to attend either in person or online here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database.
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
We built a database of 290,000 English medieval soldiers – here’s what it reveals
We created the database in order to challenge assumptions about the lack of professionalism of everyday soldiers.
theconversation.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:17 AM
A blast from my past - the Medieval Soldier database takes nearly 300,000 military service records from 1369-1453 and makes them available as a searchable database.
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
An invaluable resource for understanding medieval warfare, society and the English medieval state. Learn more in the link. 🗃️
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Thanks to @long18thsem.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social for hosting my talk on the convergence of medical and maternal approaches to childcare in Georgian England. A vibrant forum with a really engaged audience. Pleased the recording is now live for anyone interested.
Really pleased to see that Helen Esfandiary's excellent talk last week to @long18thsem.bsky.social is now available on the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
‘Such a silly fellow I fear his making some mistake’: The convergence of medical and maternal approaches to domestic childcare in Georgian England
British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar Session
www.history.ac.uk
December 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Thanks to @long18thsem.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social for hosting my talk on the convergence of medical and maternal approaches to childcare in Georgian England. A vibrant forum with a really engaged audience. Pleased the recording is now live for anyone interested.
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The Royal Historical Society is a membership organisation of 7000+ historians, UK and RoW. We welcome historians to join us at any time: our next closing date is 15 December.
We offer membership categories for all kinds of historians and at all stages of research: bit.ly/46V8WOQ #Skystorians 1/2
We offer membership categories for all kinds of historians and at all stages of research: bit.ly/46V8WOQ #Skystorians 1/2
November 29, 2025 at 9:26 AM
The Royal Historical Society is a membership organisation of 7000+ historians, UK and RoW. We welcome historians to join us at any time: our next closing date is 15 December.
We offer membership categories for all kinds of historians and at all stages of research: bit.ly/46V8WOQ #Skystorians 1/2
We offer membership categories for all kinds of historians and at all stages of research: bit.ly/46V8WOQ #Skystorians 1/2
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Join us next Wednesday 19 Nov from 5:30pm either online or in Room 828 of the Institute of Education to hear @helenesfandiary.bsky.social present her paper on ‘The convergence of medical and maternal approaches to domestic childcare in Georgian England’
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
‘Such a silly fellow I fear his making some mistake’: The convergence of medical and maternal approaches to domestic childcare in Georgian England
www.history.ac.uk
November 14, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Join us next Wednesday 19 Nov from 5:30pm either online or in Room 828 of the Institute of Education to hear @helenesfandiary.bsky.social present her paper on ‘The convergence of medical and maternal approaches to domestic childcare in Georgian England’
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Yes! Institutions prescribed, but the nursery decided...
I’ll be unpacking how Georgian mothers redefined medical expertise – transforming teething crises & worm remedies into demonstrations of domestic authority.
@ihr.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social
@ihrwomen.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
I’ll be unpacking how Georgian mothers redefined medical expertise – transforming teething crises & worm remedies into demonstrations of domestic authority.
@ihr.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social
@ihrwomen.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Yes! Institutions prescribed, but the nursery decided...
I’ll be unpacking how Georgian mothers redefined medical expertise – transforming teething crises & worm remedies into demonstrations of domestic authority.
@ihr.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social
@ihrwomen.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
I’ll be unpacking how Georgian mothers redefined medical expertise – transforming teething crises & worm remedies into demonstrations of domestic authority.
@ihr.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social
@ihrwomen.bsky.social
@sshmedicine.bsky.social
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📢Funding announcement! Applications for our bursary are now open (deadline 15 December 2025). £750 for ECRs, indie scholars or PhD students working on any aspect of women's studies in the period 1558 to 1837. Full details available on our website:
womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/
#funding #ECR #PhD
womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/
#funding #ECR #PhD
WSG Bursary Scheme
Applications for 2025-2026 open on 1 November 2025 WSG is offering a bursary of £750 to an early career researcher*, independent scholar or PhD student who is a member of the WSG. The bursary is in…
womensstudiesgroup.org
November 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
📢Funding announcement! Applications for our bursary are now open (deadline 15 December 2025). £750 for ECRs, indie scholars or PhD students working on any aspect of women's studies in the period 1558 to 1837. Full details available on our website:
womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/
#funding #ECR #PhD
womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/
#funding #ECR #PhD
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Here are three wonderfully preserved Roman shoes that were discovered at Bar Hill Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland in the early 1900s. Shoes made for men, women and children have been found there, reminding us that frontier zones were not an exclusively military environment. #FindsFriday
October 10, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Here are three wonderfully preserved Roman shoes that were discovered at Bar Hill Roman fort on the Antonine Wall in Scotland in the early 1900s. Shoes made for men, women and children have been found there, reminding us that frontier zones were not an exclusively military environment. #FindsFriday
Please ignore my X account!
I haven’t looked at it in a while as the whole site is such a cess pit
And in any case my account has been hacked, I’m locked out and X refuse to do anything about it
I haven’t looked at it in a while as the whole site is such a cess pit
And in any case my account has been hacked, I’m locked out and X refuse to do anything about it
October 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Please ignore my X account!
I haven’t looked at it in a while as the whole site is such a cess pit
And in any case my account has been hacked, I’m locked out and X refuse to do anything about it
I haven’t looked at it in a while as the whole site is such a cess pit
And in any case my account has been hacked, I’m locked out and X refuse to do anything about it
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📣 Job Klaxon: come work with me at UCL on the Information in Society Programme!
🔹 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🔹 Full time, open ended contract
🔹 London
🔹 £54,931
Closes 8 September.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
🔹 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🔹 Full time, open ended contract
🔹 London
🔹 £54,931
Closes 8 September.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
August 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
📣 Job Klaxon: come work with me at UCL on the Information in Society Programme!
🔹 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🔹 Full time, open ended contract
🔹 London
🔹 £54,931
Closes 8 September.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
🔹 Lecturer (Teaching) Publishing, Knowledge Production, Platforms and Society
🔹 Full time, open ended contract
🔹 London
🔹 £54,931
Closes 8 September.
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thc British travellers to Spain and Portugal, and I'm really happy it's now free to download here: uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun... (hard copies also available!) #skystorians #c18th
No Country for Travellers?
No Country for Travellers? explores the rise and nature of British travel to Spain and Portugal between 1760 and 1820, across a region that is conventionally overlooked in studies of British travel to...
uclpress.co.uk
August 15, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thc British travellers to Spain and Portugal, and I'm really happy it's now free to download here: uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun... (hard copies also available!) #skystorians #c18th
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I have updated my website! Now with section on consultancy. If you are looking for some consultancy/workshops/facilitation on communication anxiety within your workplace, group, students, please get in contact. Also available for media on the topic too. rachelabynoth.wixsite.com/misshistorian
Home | Rachel Bynoth
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July 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I have updated my website! Now with section on consultancy. If you are looking for some consultancy/workshops/facilitation on communication anxiety within your workplace, group, students, please get in contact. Also available for media on the topic too. rachelabynoth.wixsite.com/misshistorian
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Places still available to attend the BSECS PGR/ECR conference online 30-31st July 2025. The programme has been finalised and you can see the amazing papers in store across the two days - all for just £10! Details to register here: forms.gle/VMZgsW6JRAdc...
July 17, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Places still available to attend the BSECS PGR/ECR conference online 30-31st July 2025. The programme has been finalised and you can see the amazing papers in store across the two days - all for just £10! Details to register here: forms.gle/VMZgsW6JRAdc...
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@joecozens.bsky.social, one of our seminar convenors, has just had an article published by @histparl.bsky.social discussing his research into John Lewis, a Black sailor who was arrested during the 1828 Weymouth by-election.
historyofparliament.com/2025/06/24/j...
historyofparliament.com/2025/06/24/j...
John Lewis: A Black Sailor at the 1828 Weymouth By-Election - The History of Parliament
In this guest article Dr Joe Cozens discusses his research into John Lewis, a Black sailor who was arrested during the 1828 Weymouth by-election. Dr Cozens is
historyofparliament.com
June 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
@joecozens.bsky.social, one of our seminar convenors, has just had an article published by @histparl.bsky.social discussing his research into John Lewis, a Black sailor who was arrested during the 1828 Weymouth by-election.
historyofparliament.com/2025/06/24/j...
historyofparliament.com/2025/06/24/j...
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SHAPE job #culturalSector
Black Cultural Archives is hiring a new Managing Director.
£70k p.a.
jobs.theguardian.com/job/9628071/...
Black Cultural Archives is hiring a new Managing Director.
£70k p.a.
jobs.theguardian.com/job/9628071/...
Managing Director, Black Cultural Archives - South London job with Black Cultural Archives | 9628071
This is a rare and exciting opportunity to lead one of the UK’s most culturally significant institutions into its next chapter.
jobs.theguardian.com
June 23, 2025 at 7:53 AM
SHAPE job #culturalSector
Black Cultural Archives is hiring a new Managing Director.
£70k p.a.
jobs.theguardian.com/job/9628071/...
Black Cultural Archives is hiring a new Managing Director.
£70k p.a.
jobs.theguardian.com/job/9628071/...
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Last year in the lead up to the 2024 general election, we turned our attention to 18th c. elections and electioneering in our Georgian Elections Project!
You can revisit our articles, exploring how our electoral system functioned 300 years ago here: historyofparliament.com/category/sec...
You can revisit our articles, exploring how our electoral system functioned 300 years ago here: historyofparliament.com/category/sec...
Georgian Elections Project - The History of Parliament
Today the nation will be casting their votes in the 2024 General Election with most constituencies declaring their results in the early hours of the morning. However, as Dr Robin Eagles explains in…
historyofparliament.com
June 23, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Last year in the lead up to the 2024 general election, we turned our attention to 18th c. elections and electioneering in our Georgian Elections Project!
You can revisit our articles, exploring how our electoral system functioned 300 years ago here: historyofparliament.com/category/sec...
You can revisit our articles, exploring how our electoral system functioned 300 years ago here: historyofparliament.com/category/sec...
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Tattered Pages Discovered in Storage Reveal an Enslaved Man's Daring Bid for Freedom—and His Second Life at Sea share.google/VZHDnXwwXgHz...
Tattered Pages Discovered in Storage Reveal an Enslaved Man's Daring Bid for Freedom—and His Second Life at Sea
Historians are investigating the haunting handwritten manuscript, which chronicles Thomas White's escape from slavery in Maryland and adventures around the world nearly 200 years ago
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June 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Tattered Pages Discovered in Storage Reveal an Enslaved Man's Daring Bid for Freedom—and His Second Life at Sea share.google/VZHDnXwwXgHz...
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Join us next Wednesday (25/6) 5:30-7:30 in person at the IHR and online for our final seminar of 2024-5 to hear David Turner ( Swansea University) present his paper ‘Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency & Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century’
@ihr.bsky.social
shorturl.at/hMRGz
@ihr.bsky.social
shorturl.at/hMRGz
Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency and Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century
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June 19, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Join us next Wednesday (25/6) 5:30-7:30 in person at the IHR and online for our final seminar of 2024-5 to hear David Turner ( Swansea University) present his paper ‘Histories of Resistance: Disability, Agency & Embodiment in the Long Eighteenth Century’
@ihr.bsky.social
shorturl.at/hMRGz
@ihr.bsky.social
shorturl.at/hMRGz
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The Royal Historical Society is a fellowship of professional historians. We welcome applications from historians working in education and many other sectors.
Fellows make original contributions to historical understanding through research, public history and heritage bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians
Fellows make original contributions to historical understanding through research, public history and heritage bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians
June 19, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The Royal Historical Society is a fellowship of professional historians. We welcome applications from historians working in education and many other sectors.
Fellows make original contributions to historical understanding through research, public history and heritage bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians
Fellows make original contributions to historical understanding through research, public history and heritage bit.ly/4iOu51g #Skystorians
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📢 We’re thrilled to announce that we have up to 4 student bursary awards for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York for 2025-26. Deadline to apply is 31 July. Please share widely! www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... #18thcentury #18thC
Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies bursaries - Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York
Thanks to funding from an external donor, we offer up to four bursaries towards fees for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies.
www.york.ac.uk
June 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
📢 We’re thrilled to announce that we have up to 4 student bursary awards for the MA in Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York for 2025-26. Deadline to apply is 31 July. Please share widely! www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... #18thcentury #18thC
Here's a link to my blog piece on finding Black voters in the 18th-century archive:
ecppec.ncl.ac.uk/features/bla...
With thanks to ECPPEC (Eighteenth-Century
Political Participation & Electoral Culture ecppec.ncl.ac.uk)
ecppec.ncl.ac.uk/features/bla...
With thanks to ECPPEC (Eighteenth-Century
Political Participation & Electoral Culture ecppec.ncl.ac.uk)
Black Voters in the Archive
Historical Black voters have generally been found by knowing of the existence of a named, reasonably prosperous Black individual, preferably with some locational detail, and then searching for them in...
ecppec.ncl.ac.uk
June 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Here's a link to my blog piece on finding Black voters in the 18th-century archive:
ecppec.ncl.ac.uk/features/bla...
With thanks to ECPPEC (Eighteenth-Century
Political Participation & Electoral Culture ecppec.ncl.ac.uk)
ecppec.ncl.ac.uk/features/bla...
With thanks to ECPPEC (Eighteenth-Century
Political Participation & Electoral Culture ecppec.ncl.ac.uk)
Is it just me? (BBC East of England weekly quiz)
June 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Is it just me? (BBC East of England weekly quiz)