Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social

#CallforApplications 📣 The GHIL awards a number of #scholarships to #postgraduate students, Habilitanden and #postdocs at German universities to enable them to carry out research in Britain. Scholarships are generally awarded for a period of up to three months. 📜 1/3

Are you curious about the potential for archival practices to shape the study of emotion; why there are letters in the English State Papers labelled 'mad'; or how the culture & politics of Elizabethan England shaped people's experience of distress? Find out here! doi.org/10.1017/S008... #earlymodern

Contrasting musical choices for Good Friday!

How did living through a period of violent religious change transform people’s experience of distress? What new light does a history of emotions approach shed on our understanding of the English Reformation? For answers see my new OA article in the JEH! doi.org/10.1017/S002...

📢NEW POST: Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England📢 Today Adam Morton considers what historians should do with the alien and often cruel humour of past ages that he finds in in satirical prints 🗃️ #Skystorians manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/27/p...

📢NEW MANY-HEADED MONSTER SERIES📢 Today I introduce 'Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England', a series that celebrates the relaunch of the brilliant 'British Printed Images to 1700' database and showcases historians' use of printed images. 🗃️ #Skystorians manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...

CONCERT REVIEW | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Overall, the programme was intriguing and brave, and the Birmingham Bach Choir delivered a committed and stylistic performance of these challenging works, for which the whole team should be congratulated. www.davidbartonmusic.co.uk/concert-revi...

New Book coming out! boydellandbrewer.com/978183765166...

Pevsner on Brum: 'There have been no dramatic events in the history of Birmingham, and only a few national heroes. But there has been the constant industry and ingenuity of many people, which has gradually gathered momentum to establish a great city.'

The first in what's likely to become a series of occasional posts with (linguistic rather than architectural) gems from Pevsner's 'Buildings of England'. On Bedworth, Warks: 'A depressing small town. The church, though neutral, is architecturally too good and too solid for it.'!

Merry Christmas everybody, I hope you have a lovely time, whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whoever you are spending it with!

Thrilled that Tara Hamling's and my article 'From Rejection to Reconciliation: Protestantism and the Image in Early Modern England' is now available to view open access on the Journal of British Studies website! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Routledge are having a 25% off sale! You could buy @drjpw.bsky.social and my guide to finding and working with #EarlyModern primary sources 🗃️ www.routledge.com/Understandin...

A rosy-fingered dawn in south east Birmingham this morning!

"The Rabble that Can Write" *NEW* post from @markhailwood.bsky.social giving you a taste of the many, many different ways people left their mark (ha!) in #EarlyModern England: manyheadedmonster.com/2023/11/21/t...

Mark's arrival means all the monster heads are here now, polluting these once blue skies ... #EarlyModern 🗃️ @brodiewaddell.bsky.social @drjpw.bsky.social

Autumn in full swing!