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Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social · Jul 14

At the end of my first year in the US, in June 2026, I'll also be taking up a one-month fellowship at The Folger Library @folger.edu. Details of my project and all others for the current fellowship year here: www.folger.edu/research/the.... Hoping to meet lots of fellow scholars in DC!

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Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explore. Jo...

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Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social · Jul 14

Very grateful to OSU for the nice write-up of the book prize news too ☺️

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Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social · Jul 14

With visas approved and flights booked it's now becoming very real - excited to say that I am starting a new position next month as the Warner Woodring Chair in Early Modern History at The Ohio State University @osuhistory.bsky.social!

Congratulations to Laura Flannigan!

Congratulations to Dr. Laura Flannigan on receiving the Royal Historical Society First Book Prize for 2025 for her book, Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547, (Cambridge U...

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Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social · Jul 4

Congratulations to you too! It was great to meet and hear more about your book. So glad we could all be there in person!

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Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social · Jul 3

Thanks Emilie. I got to share in the celebrations with Simon Ditchfield at the party last night too - so nice to have the York support as always!!!

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Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social · Jul 3

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Jul 3

Laura's monograph was praised by the judges as:

"An impressive, conceptually adept and ambitiously argued book ... grounded in extraordinarily deep archival research ... clearly written and structured, as well as being cleverly and convincingly argued.”

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Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social · Jul 3

I'm really honoured that Royal Justice was awarded the First Book Prize by the RHS. I look back on this project with great fondness. Personally it feels like the perfect way to round out my time at Oxford and @stjohnsox.bsky.social, where all the writing took place. Thank you @royalhistsoc.org!

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Jul 3

Winner of the RHS First Book Prize (2025):

'Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547', by Laura Flannigan (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

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Cover for 'Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547', by Laura Flannigan (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Jun 12

Over the next three weeks, we're highlighting the 8 articles and 8 books shortlisted for this year's RHS Early Career Article and First Book Prizes.

Today we feature 'Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485–1547', by Laura Flannigan bit.ly/4mUavDP 1/2

Cover image of 'Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485–1547' by Laura Flannigan

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Faculty of History, University of Oxford @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social · Jun 10

Laura Flannigan's new book 'Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth' has been shortlisted for the RHS First Book Award!

www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/laur...

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Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social · May 29

While I'm on here, I should say: the book prize news coming through was only the second most exciting thing that happened in my life yesterday...

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Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social · May 29

Thanks Cordelia!

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Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social · May 29

Thanks Krista ☺️

Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social · May 29

Thanks Emilie! So excited to be on the list!!

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Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social · May 29

Beyond thrilled and honoured to see my book on the shortlist for this year's @royalhistsoc.org First Book Prize!!! Thanks to the prize panel for this recognition, and congrats to the other shortlisted authors

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · May 29

The shortlist for the Society's 2025 First Book Prize for early career historians is now available bit.ly/4kkm4lW

Eight titles have been selected, following an open call for submissions of books published in 2024. Two winners of the 2025 prize will be announced in July.

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Image of the eight titles shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's First Book Prize for early career historians, 2025.

Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547, by Laura Flannigan (Cambridge University Press)

Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain’s Cerebral Age, by Simeon Koole (University of Chicago Press)

Female Servants in Early Modern England, by Charmian Mansell (British Academy / Oxford University Press)

The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838: Institutions and Trade during the First Globalization, by Juan Jose Rivas Moreno (Palgrave MacMillan)

Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948, by Jules Skotnes-Brown (Johns Hopkins University Press)

The Quislings. The Trials of Norwegian Wartime Collaborators, 1941–1964, by Anika Seemann (Cambridge University Press)

Pistols in St Paul’s: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century, by Fiona Smyth (Manchester University Press)

Desire and Disunity: Christian Communities and Sexual Norms in the Late Antique West, by Ulriika Vihervalli (Liverpool University Press)

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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · May 8

DATE CHANGE. My workshop on using Equity and Conciliar Court records for research is now on Thursday 10 July 2025. Details and booking info via the link. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-early....

PAST Early Modern Legal Records: Equity and Conciliar Courts

Come to The National Archives for this introduction to Early Modern legal records!

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Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social · May 2

...and just in time for the arrival of the newly released paperback edition! 😊

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Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social · May 2

Really delighted with this review!

The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · May 2

Shannon McSheffrey @medievalmcsheff.bsky.social reviews 'Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485–1547', by Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social

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Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485–1547, By Laura Flannigan

Laura Flannigan’s book is that rare bird, a work that is both deeply researched and conceptually expansive and innovative. At its core, this book is a stud

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Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social · Apr 8

Looking forward to this workshop organised by @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social in May - where we'll be having a go at staging some less-than-deferential responses to royal documents from sixteenth-century legal records, among other exciting things. Come along!

Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · Apr 7

fancy a bit of legal history, law and literature, and practice-as-research? come to my
@leverhulme.ac.uk-funded workshop at @sheffieldcems.bsky.social on the 23rd May. featuring libels, process-serving, facsimile documents, lewd remarks and document eating! tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv please share widely!

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Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social · Mar 5

Good news - my book on kingly justice in the early Tudor period is shortly going to be available in paperback, at the reasonable price of £29.99. Do take a look here if you're interested! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

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Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social · Jan 2

This article was a real labour of love; my first real postdoctoral research project, which became a bit of an obsession at times as I tried to track down Pilkington and Catesby in different archives. Very grateful to numerous readers and anonymous reviewers for their help in making sense of it all!

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Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social · Jan 2

Happy New Year! I for one received a lovely belated Christmas gift in the form of my new article, out now on First View for Continuity and Change. It's even available Open Access for all to read: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social · Dec 20

Ahh thanks Liesbeth, glad it was of interest! A great conference overall I thought, and I was very pleased to share a panel with Chloe and Brodie

Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social · Dec 3

And the second my upcoming entry for the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing, on the study of early Tudor letters, life writing, and legal records:

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Dr Laura Flannigan @lflannigan17.bsky.social · Dec 3

It's been a while since I've posted here, so thought I should re-introduce myself with some updates! Here's a sneak peek at two articles coming soon... the first a long-time project on fifteenth-century dispute narratives finally written up for Continuity and Change:

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Dr. Emily Rhodes @erhodes.bsky.social · Nov 10

Dinner ahead of our @thenacbs.bsky.social panel bright and early tomorrow morning! For those in Baltimore join me, @lflannigan17.bsky.social, and Zoe Jackson tomorrow at 8am to learn about local knowledge and use of the law in early modern England! #nacbs23

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