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Joel Herman @joelherman.bsky.social · 5d

Many thanks to the editors at the @historicaljnl.bsky.social blog for publishing this short piece, and to @ellasbaraini.bsky.social for her help with it. My recent article, and one of the central ideas of the book manuscript I’m currently working on, in a nutshell.

www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · 5d

Out #OpenAccess on FirstView @lawandhistrev.bsky.social: 'Conspiracy, Crime, and Conflict in the Court of Star Chamber'. #StarChamber

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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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Claire Langhamer @clairelanghamer.bsky.social · 15d

Very much this. The IHR really is open to everyone and this includes our common room and our library as well as our wonderful seminars. All free, all welcome!

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 16d

History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public.

Starting this week:

Events

Stay up to date with the upcoming events organised or hosted by the Institute of Historical Research

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🇨🇦 Katherine D. Watson 🇬🇧 @drkdwatson.bsky.social · 14d

New blog post examines the recent Australian 'mushroom murderer' case in the light of historical patterns - the poison used is pretty unique in the history of crime, but there are plenty of other similarities to note:
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/09/23/p...

Poisoning Crimes and the ‘Mushroom Murderer’: Patterns and Precedents

By Cassie Watson and Carolyn Strange; posted 23 September 2025. The prosecution and sentencing of the Australian ‘Mushroom Murderer’ to life in prison for the poisoning of three relatives and the a…

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Legal History Miscellany @legalmiscellany.bsky.social · 14d

New post by @drkdwatson.bsky.social and Carolyn Strange: "Poisoning Crimes and the ‘Mushroom Murderer’: Patterns and Precedents"
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/09/23/p...

Poisoning Crimes and the ‘Mushroom Murderer’: Patterns and Precedents

By Cassie Watson and Carolyn Strange; posted 23 September 2025. The prosecution and sentencing of the Australian ‘Mushroom Murderer’ to life in prison for the poisoning of three relatives and the a…

legalhistorymiscellany.com

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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · 20d

But for the community of colleagues and students whose energy, insight, creativity, and hard work over these past weeks offered constant reminders of why universities in general and this one in particular can be great? A+ (7/7)

#KeepDalStrong

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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · 20d

By every meaningful metric I can think of, though, the lockout was just an old-fashioned flop and farrago. Grade: F

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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · 20d

Or am I thinking of the wrong clients and KPIs? If we ignore lost tuition and research revenue, the salary savings from this transformational ‘targeted cost-reduction strategy’ might seem a strong point on a CV, to be leveraged to secure bigger contracts for key change leaders. (5/7)

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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · 20d

Igniting the ‘burning platform that unite[s] stakeholders behind fundamental change’? Not in the way the lockout’s proposers might have intended, anyway. (4/7)

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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · 20d

Reputation? We sure have a new ‘brand’, though I’m not sure it counts as a *good* ‘value proposition’. (3/7)

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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · 20d

Presumably not anything related to the interests or well-being of employees or customers (aka ‘faculty’ and ‘students’) nor the quality of the product (‘education’). Definitely not recruitment and retention, previously high on lists of institutional strategic priorities. (2/7)

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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · 20d

The Board-ordered lockout that began Aug 20 has finally ended: classes start on Tues. I’m excited; but I hope that someone is not now trying to concoct a report on the ‘success’ of this innovative tactic in the ‘rebalancing of markets and mission’. By what KPI would they benchmark it? 🧵 (1/7)

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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · 23d

(Image, h/t a post by @chrissgreene.bsky.social, some 23 days ago...)

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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · 23d

Lockout memo: 'If a labour disruption is inevitable, then it’s in Dalhousie University’s best interest to move to that stage now instead of delaying until after the new academic year begins, when the consequences for students would be much more severe.' That stank when issued and stinks more now.

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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · 23d

Here @dalhousie.bsky.social, we should be starting our 3rd week of classes today, but instead, we're still locked out -- a lockout the Board initiated on Aug 20 'to not prolong the uncertainty'. No one can make this make sense, but they can at least make it end. #KeepDalStrong

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Tara Nummedal @tnummedal.bsky.social · 26d

Please circulate - we are hiring in Early Modern European history!

Brown University - Early Modern European History, Brown University | H-Net

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The Royal Society of Canada // La Société royale du Canada @src-rsc.bsky.social · Sep 4

We are proud to introduce the new RSC Fellows & College Members! This exceptional group will be officially inducted into the RSC on Nov 14 at #COEE2025 in Montréal. Register at bit.ly/COEE2025 🎉

Meet the Class of 2025: bit.ly/3JZLfga #rscBRAVOsrc

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 28d

Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians

Image of the cover of a book titled Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions, by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth. The background image is an eighteenth-century ink and watercolor rendition of the harbor of Le Cap in modern Haiti, with three ships and one small boat foregrounded in the bay and a handful of buildings scattered on the shore in the background.

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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · Sep 6

#keepdalstrong

Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · Sep 6

The pattern in Australian, UK and Canadian universities, and a comparison to what happened in urban planning post-WW2

Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ren Thomas has a nice blog discussing Nous Group and Dalhousie @dalfaculty.bsky.social @dalhousieu.bsky.social : renthomas.ca/theres-a-nou...

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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · Sep 6

A good piece here comparing the destruction meted out by such consultants to the short-sighted, ham-fisted levelling of communities by 1940s/50's 'urban renewal' projects: renthomas.ca/theres-a-nou...

There’s a Nous in Dal’s house – Ren Thomas

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Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ren Thomas has a nice blog discussing Nous Group and Dalhousie @dalfaculty.bsky.social @dalhousieu.bsky.social : renthomas.ca/theres-a-nou...

There’s a Nous in Dal’s house – Ren Thomas

renthomas.ca

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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · Sep 5

Thank you!

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Robert Finbow @rfinbow.bsky.social · Sep 5

From our colleague in Law, this is a brilliant dissection of the Board’s doubling down on unfair bargaining tactics in presenting their tepid "offer"

www.reddit.com/r/Dalhousie/...

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Krista Kesselring @kjkesselring.bsky.social · Sep 5

Sympathies. Here, the consultants seem to have had some role in a full lockout of faculty, just before the intended start of term. Classes were supposed to start earlier this week, but here we are.

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