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Dr Zoë Jackson

@zoejackson.bsky.social

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Social history, law, memory, and the landscape (in various permutations) in early modern Britain. PhD on early modern memory and perjury from Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. she/her

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Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Olivia Formby @oliviaformby.bsky.social · Aug 4

📣Call for Papers 📣

I am delighted to announce that 'Speech/less in the Early Modern World' will be held 23 April 2026 at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.

Please share far and wide and do consider submitting a proposal! 🙊

Link to PDF version: bit.ly/4lZz80R

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Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thank you!

Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · Jul 21

On a related note, I am very excited (and grateful) for the award of a David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People, which will allow me to pursue some research on a new project on ‘Remembering Rights of Way in Early Modern Britain’!

royalhistsoc.org/research_fun...

David Berry Fellowship in the History of Scotland and the Scottish People | RHS

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Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · Jul 21

I was so pleased to learn of my election as an Associate Fellow of @royalhistsoc.org, continuing my membership beyond my PhD.

Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Jul 19

This week we welcomed 233 new Fellows and Members to @royalhistsoc.org.

They join the Society after election at the latest meeting of the Society's Council bit.ly/3GQAQSW

Applications for Fellowship and Membership are welcome at any time: next closing dates 11 August and 13 October #Skystorians

HEADER IMAGE: Album of Tournaments and Parades in Nuremberg, German, Nuremberg, late 16th–mid-17th century, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York, public domain. and top of article announcing new elections to the Royal Historical Society on 18 July 2025.

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Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · Jul 15

A week late but (still) reflecting on a wonderful 3 days at my first @socialhistsoc.bsky.social ‪‪conference. So much fascinating social history research, provoking conversations across time periods/topics, with setting of @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social as an added bonus #SHSConf2025

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Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · Jul 15

Seconding all of this - thank you to the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social for the opportunity to present some of my new research, and to everyone who stayed to attend our panel as the very last session of the conference!

K Colette Hill 🇨🇦 @k-colette-hill.bsky.social · Jul 9

Thank you to all who came out for our last panel on the last day. Such good discussions and many thanks to @zoejackson.bsky.social and our chair Leo Shipp for the generous and thoughtful discussion afterward. It was a great wrap up to #SHSConf2025

Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · May 12

The FEATHERS conference in Leiden last week was absolutely fantastic, full of excellent papers and truly interdisciplinary conversation. Thank you to the FEATHERS team for organising, and for giving me the opportunity to participate!

A tree-lined canal with colourful flowers in the foreground and a bridge in the distance.

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Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · Feb 3

Thank you, Mark!

Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · Jan 9

Congrats!!

Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · Dec 14

Thank you!

Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · Dec 14

Thank you!

Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · Dec 14

Thank you, Charmian!

Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · Dec 13

Thank you!

Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · Dec 13

Submitted my hardbound thesis yesterday, which means I am #PhDone!

Smiling woman stands in front of big yellow doors holding a blue book (her hardbound PhD thesis)!

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Work, Authenticity, & Social Identity in Early Modern Britain @earlymodern2025.bsky.social · Dec 11

Please share the CFP for our Work, Authenticity, and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain Conference, to take place 10-11 June 2025 at the University of Warwick, with keynote addresses from Steve Hindle, @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social & @brodiewaddell.bsky.social!

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Sophie Michell @sophiemhistory.bsky.social · Nov 11

Ok, I've started a crime history starter pack, hmu to be added!

go.bsky.app/BaHNGzw

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Nov 9

GOOD NEWS for the discipline: there are *many* #earlymodern historians. Bad news: we couldn't all squeeze into one pack. So here's the second, do follow all the wonderful researchers in this one as well: go.bsky.app/NQqDFr1 #skystorians

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Tom Ashbyトム ∙ アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · Nov 9

I have created a starter pack for scholars of the long seventeenth century! I will be adding to it; do comment or message if you would like to be added - & share!

go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq

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Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · Nov 9

Thank you!

Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · Nov 9

Could I please be added, if there is space?

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Dr Zoë Jackson @zoejackson.bsky.social · Nov 8

Thank you!

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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · Nov 8

I'm starting a pack for Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers working on any aspect of Historical Studies!

go.bsky.app/95yTEM3

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Nov 8

Given the X-odus (see what we did there? A true fire bird): which other #earlymodern centres have arrived here already?

We've got a starter pack for easy following, but keen to hear about more: go.bsky.app/LLzFj3b
#skystorians

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · Nov 7

With the twitter exodus: welcome, and here are some #earlymodern historians posting about early modern stuff (though I should update it now it’s more than 50 in those things) go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF

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