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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 5d

Arts & Culture Exeter | Creative Fellowship 2025-26: Callout for Artists

Applications are invited from creative practitioners for this year's Arts and Culture Creative Fellowship, which will be hosted by the Gender and Sexuality Collective, and will focus on reimagining th...

www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 10d

🎺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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Kit Barton @kmbarton.bsky.social · 9d

Nothing else like a crisp bright morning!

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 17d

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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Kit Barton @kmbarton.bsky.social · 19d

FOUND HIM. Mr George Henshaw, consul of Genoa. Alongside his body (embalmed and in an iron coffin) he leaves his brother a ring set with sapphire which belonged to their uncle and "all my firearms muskets harquebusses accoutrements & furniture for fowling and hunting"

Kit Barton @kmbarton.bsky.social · 19d

One day I'll learn to make accurate and thorough notes of exactly which reference numbers go with which sources, but until then I'll go swearing scrambling back into the archive chasing an old scribble with no useful identifying information. "George Iron coffin embalm" who are you???

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 29d

**spoiler**

There was a lot to cover but I managed to squeeze in a bit of reflection on the creativity at the heart of the discipline of History too. Enjoy! 👇

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

History and Art / History as Art

Laura Sangha What do you get if you combine a historian, a musician, and 25,000 historic wills? All sorts of fun things! In this post I reflect on what composer, arranger, songwriter and performer Chr...

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Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · Sep 5

📜Call for Papers: Digital Medievalist sponsored sessions International Medieval Congress 2026 (Leeds, UK).

We seek proposals on the following themes:
- 'Large Language Models and Medieval Texts'
- 'Digital Methods and Materiality of Manuscripts'

▶️Full call: tinyurl.com/f82tcrzk
📆21 Sept 2025

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Jess Ayres @drjessayres.bsky.social · Sep 3

Believe it or not, this is a parish register from the seventeenth century that was damaged during a fire! 🔥

Heat causes the collagen fibres in the parchment to denature and shrink and eventually turn to gelatine, which sometimes has a ‘glassy’ appearance.

#EarlyModern #Skystorians

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Kit Barton @kmbarton.bsky.social · Sep 3

Would definitely love one! (& happy to pay the postage)

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Kit Barton @kmbarton.bsky.social · Sep 1

Small win for the beginning of Sept, my new years resolution was to read more fiction books - a habit that fell off as my day-to-day work increasingly became about reading academic stuff. Just finished number 14 and it feels great to finally be telling people "I read that book you recommended!"

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CN Lester 🏳️‍⚧️ @cnlester.bsky.social · Aug 29

An absolute masterclass from UK Quakers on how organisations of all kinds can stand up for the rights and safety of trans people, even post Supreme Court ruling and with all of the EHRC's cruelties:

www.quaker.org.uk/documents/re...

www.quaker.org.uk

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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · Jul 3

CfP for maritimebritain.org Maritime Britain Project c.1550-1750 (led by Prof Craig Lambert, University of Southampton) end of project conference is live. See poster below & register your interest on Eventbrite in attending and/or giving a paper:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maritime-b...
#maritimehistory

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · Aug 29

At every stage I did what the state asked me to, even though it was humiliating, degrading and cruel.
And it kept moving the goalposts, and reneging on the agreements it made, whilst continuing to hold me to them even when they are now mutually contradictory. (12/13)

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Sarah has a suggestion @goatsarah.org · Aug 29

As it's still valid, presumably if I don't keep following it, I am also breaking the law and subject to arrest.
The law of the land simultaneously requires me to be both a man and a woman and if I do either then I am breaking the law and subject to arrest. (11/13)

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Leicestershire VCH Trust @leicsvcht.bsky.social · Aug 27

Loughborough 1678 and an unusual request in a will - That my Body be buried in my Garden (and it may have been, as there's no burial in the parish registers)

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Kit Barton @kmbarton.bsky.social · Aug 27

A triumphant* return to the archives!

(*did not miss my stupidly early train to London, did not get lost on the tube, all my requested documents were available!)

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Kit Barton @kmbarton.bsky.social · Aug 22

A fantastic day out! We're definitely riding the line all the way to Swanage for a chippy tea next time.

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Kit Barton @kmbarton.bsky.social · Aug 22

In previous years we've been camping nearby and simply walked up to Corfe, so imagine our shrieks of delight (very reasonable and mature reaction) when we drove into the carpark and spotted this beauty patiently waiting for us at the platform.

Kit Barton @kmbarton.bsky.social · Aug 22

Quick pitstop at the ever-lovely Corfe Castle on the way home from Dorset to Devon, and a (surprise!) trip on a beautiful 1930s train - the first park and ride I've ever come across serviced by a historic railway.

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Economic History Society @echistsoc.bsky.social · Aug 20

The Call for Papers for this year’s ‪@ehswomcom.bsky.social‬
Workshop: Women & Entrepreneurship: Agency, Experience, and Enterprise. Send in your proposals before the 5th of September, and don’t forget to share the CfP. More information can be found in the QR or at:
ehs.org.uk/event/womens...

Women's Commitee Workshop - Women & Entrepreneurship: Agency, Experience, and Enterprise - Economic History Society

12/12/2025 @ All day - Call for Papers (CFP) Annual Workshop of the Economic History Society Women’s Committee University College London Friday, 12 December 2025 Theme: Women & Entrepreneurship: Agenc...

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heathcliff, but frog @hopcliff.heathcliff.cat · Aug 10

OH NO MY SHEEP OR COW

Painting by Gino d’Achille of the loch Ness monster sliding off the shore to return to rough waters with a sheep (or small calf but probably a sheep) hanging from its mouth. A man in the background has stopped his old timey car to get out and watch.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · Jul 24

GRAND TOTAL! Amazing work, thanks so much to everyone who transrcribed for us this afternoon!

The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · Jul 24

17/🧵 the end of the thread! 🧵

Thanks to everyone who joined us in person and the 68 people that joined us online!

📜 Together we completed 3494 classifications! 📜

Join our mailing list for more information and future events: forms.office.com/e/JbUEq4Za1u

Microsoft Forms

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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · Jul 24

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Next up, project PhD student Kit Barton @kmbarton.bsky.social talking about 'Single women and their wills in early modern England'

A photograph of Kit Barton presenting, standing in front of a large projector screen, in a classroom. Kit is standing at a lecturn on the left hand side of the photograph.

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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · Jul 24

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As well as about the amazing work of the project's creative fellow Devon based musician and composer Chris Hoban, who wrote a brilliant series of songs inspired by wills from the collection, and the creative workshops we were able to hold in conversation with those works! 🎼

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