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Churches Conservation Trust @visitchurches.bsky.social · 1d

What could the next 50 years look like for churches? Join policy makers, funders, heritage professionals and community leaders on 21 Oct at the V&A Museum in London
to find out.

⏰Time: 10:45am-1pm & 2:30pm-5pm

🎟️ Tickets: vam.ac.uk/event/4KVGa4...

#GreatExpectationsForChurches

A colourful image of a stained-glass window with three human figures. A figure in a blue robe with yellow halo is kneeling in front of two old men with long beards and head-wraps. One of the old men is pointing to a passage in a book on his lap. Pieces of glass in the faces of all three figures are missing due to vandalism.

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Elizabeth Tingle @profliztingle.bsky.social · 1d

Great news. A new edition and full translation will be very welcome. Searchable online like Domesday Book is so important (I love that site opendomesday.org)

Home | Domesday Book

The first online copy of Domesday Book of 1086: search for your town or village in Domesday Book, find population and tax records, and see the original Domesday folios free online

opendomesday.org

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Stef Espeel @stefespeel.bsky.social · 3d

New book publication ❗ 📖

Last month, my first monograph was published by the Académie royale de Belgique.

It is a slightly reworked version of my PhD, focusing on the grain prices and the grain economy of 14th-C Flanders 🌿

#medievalsky #graineconomy #MiddleAges

For the contents, see below 👇

Prices and Crises

academie-editions.be

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Dr Matt Pope @mattpope.bsky.social · 2d

Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem

Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Society for French Historical Studies @sfhs.bsky.social · 2d

New issue of FHS is out now! Policing and State Power in France and the French Empire: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

Volume 48 Issue 3 | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press

read.dukeupress.edu

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Elizabeth Tingle @profliztingle.bsky.social · 5d

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT.
Good luck with the project.

NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 5d

obligatory sturgeon mention content

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 7d

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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Church Monuments Society @churchmonuments.bsky.social · 7d

all reports for the AGM now available to download at churchmonumentssociety.org/events/2025-... (along with details of the Study Day which is open to all - Chandos Mausoleum, Handel's organ and more)

2025 Annual General Meeting and Study Day – Church Monuments Society

churchmonumentssociety.org

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Church Monuments Society @churchmonuments.bsky.social · 11d

Only a week to go for our study day and AGM at St Lawrence, Edgware churchmonumentssociety.org/events/2025-...
AGM is members only but all are welcome to the rest - explore church, churchyard and the gorgeous Chandos mausoleum with expert guides, and hear the organ that Handel actually played.

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Church Monuments Society @churchmonuments.bsky.social · 15d

Final details for our study day and AGM at St Lawrence Edgware at churchmonumentssociety.org/events/2025-.... Explore the gorgeous Chandos mausoleum, hear the organ that Handel actually played. AGM is members only but the study day is free to all.

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Elizabeth Tingle @profliztingle.bsky.social · 15d

Ah, ‘fermeture exceptionnelle’ of the Nantes municipal archives, became the slogan of my PhD research. Hand-written, cellotaped to the door on an ad hoc basis during the 2 months I worked there! 1985. The archive was and still is on the rue d’enfer.

Happy days!

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Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social · 27d

Why was behind the impetus to develop parochial buildings in the #medieval period so strong? Dr Meg Bernstein investigates this, particularly in reference the addition of north and/or south aisles to an existing church, in her blogpost for us:

eccleshistsoc.wordpress.com/2017/05/01/w...

Witnessing the Medieval English Parish Church

Since taking up a research fellowship at a single-subject institution last year, I’ve perhaps become a little too comfortable in my material-oriented art historical world. The Ecclesiastical Histor…

eccleshistsoc.wordpress.com

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Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social · 21d

📢 Applications are now open for our Winter Meeting on 10 January (online)! Deadline: 31 October 2025

Don’t miss the chance to connect, share ideas, and kick off 2026 with fresh inspiration.

Apply now 👉 ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-me...

#Skystorians

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Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social · 16d

Lambeth Palace Library will be holding a careers open day for anyone considering their future career trajectory. This is your chance to find out what the staff do in their day-to-day work, and how to enter these professions.

www.lambethpalacelibrary.info

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Ecclesiastical History Society @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social · 22d

In this month's blogpost, Dr Emily Betz writes about anti-Quaker propaganda.

Using the language of #medicine, opponents of #Quaker beliefs attempted to paint them as mentally unstable, their understandings of faith less spiritual revelations than medical complications.

wp.me/p7o0HV-qm #medhist

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Jackie Eales @jackieeales.bsky.social · 19d

Just tried the free Transkribus site with poor results. Is the paid subscription any better for 17th century handwriting? What about 19th century wills?

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Prayticipate @prayticipate.bsky.social · 19d

Our new website is live!! Hurrah! 🎉 we will share all upcoming COST action events, calls for papers for relevant events, and news about available grants and opportunities. Do share widely with any Prayer Studies scholars/ Historians of Religion who might be interested! prayticipate.eu

PRAYTICIPATE – COST Action CA23143 – Participation through Prayer in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World

Know More Image Caption Half of a Prayer Bead with the Prayer of the Rosary, early 16th century, Netherlandish; Boxwood, silver; 3 × 0.6 cm, Sculpture-Miniature

prayticipate.eu

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PiedFly.Net @piedflynet.bsky.social · 20d

Fully funded PhD with me, @uniexecec.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social working on insectivorous bird declines - hopefully esp. House martin www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Elizabeth Tingle @profliztingle.bsky.social · 19d

@churchmonuments.bsky.social might know….

Dr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social · 19d

Trying to search for info on the use of headstones and footstones in Sussex, and all I get are business websites trying to sell a headstone to me. Not yet, people!!! Can anyone share info with me about these, and when they became popular? Photo is from Seaford's St. Leonard's Churchyard.

Photo of three graves in a row, with large headstones and small footnotes, joined together by a vertical centre piece. The stones are too weathered to read names or dates.

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Elizabeth Tingle @profliztingle.bsky.social · 19d

Craig Harline.

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Andy Whiting @awdorset.bsky.social · 25d

The country seems angry and full of hatred, the sky is dark and full of rain, so I think I’ll pop on some jazz, have an ale and read about the fascinating archaeology of Cranborne Chase this evening.

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Cat Rees @catrees.bsky.social · 25d

Exhibition link for people interested in visiting www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/whatson/muse...

Treasure: History Unearthed

From Bronze Age gold and Viking silver to hoards of coins, discover Treasure unearthed in this new exhibition.Revealing personal stories and global connections, Treasure: History Unearthed features th...

www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 26d

Trying to convince my large adult son to take a bath today

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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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Elizabeth Tingle @profliztingle.bsky.social · Aug 26

I’m with Diarmaid - Bede is the Best!

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