Richard Ansell
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Historian of 17th- and 18th-century travel at Birkbeck, working on servants and other non-elite travellers. New book on British journeys to Iberia: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/no-country-for-travellers/
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Leverhulme Trust
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· Aug 14
UCL Press
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· Aug 14
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 Europe. Drawing on extensive archival and printed sources left by travellers in the period, Rosemary Sweet and Richard Ansell reveal the unheralded […]
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UCL Press
@uclpress.bsky.social
· Aug 14
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 Europe. Drawing on extensive archival and printed sources left by travellers in the period, Rosemary Sweet and Richard Ansell reveal the unheralded […]
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Mark Williams
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· Jun 18
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Harriet Soper
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· May 28
Buzz Bones - the Original Fidget Spinner
Buzz Bones - the Original Fidget Spinner: For as long as there have been children, there have been toys which make irritating noises.
Originally made from the foot bones of a pig, Buzz Bones make a hu...
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![Screenshot of the title and abstract for: 'A cordwainer’s wife in high politics: a microhistory of Mrs Caute'
Abstract: This article introduces a hitherto unstudied pair of seventeenth-century texts, by the cordwainer’s wife Sarah Caute, which exercised political influence at the highest levels. Caute relates how in 1683–4, whilst in London, she experienced a sudden desire for herself and her six-year-old son Mathew to be baptised by Thomas Ken (1637–1711), who was then the prebend of Winchester (he would soon, in January 1685, be consecrated Bishop of Bath and Wells). Since he was a year old, Caute narrates, Mathew did not speak or walk and suffered ‘violent fitt[s]’ which ‘took him of his leges and his teeth fell out of his head at the roots…till they were all out’. Caute’s story reached the ears of Charles II and James II; thereby, she participated personally and in absentia in elite negotiations of confessional identity. Caute’s texts challenge the notion that non-elite women’s writing is scarce and of limited political interest.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:44em43qq5kem43otrh3vejy5/bafkreiaaohhvegu3drvayykz5zhcwjwuckc54vtc5c6ozid7zh5kfrozsm@jpeg)