Women of London, and a countrywoman (with chicken), their costumes carefully recorded in 1574 by Lucas de Heere from Gent. His day is today.

Early Modern name of the day: Ezeckiell Cakebread 🙌

This is such a wonderful love letter to the gorgeous archive we have the privilege of caring for at @nenature.bsky.social ✨ Well done @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Archive Monday: love these ink drawings from MS Tanner 118 in the Bodleian. Skeleton representing death with various scenes of a moralistic nature. Dress suggests late Elizabethan / early Jacobean. Scenes include royal court, hunting, duelling, trade/banking, religious/political persecution.

Trade card of Richard Middleton, coffin maker and undertaker - 19th century.

I’m actually super proud of this little project. The transactions are such a fab resource not just for natural history but for the social and cultural history of the north east! Do have a browse! ✨

Introducing the newly digitised Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumbria! Today we proudly unveil the digitised Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumbria, starting with all 19th-century volumes from 1831 to 1899. Find out more at: www.nhsn.org.uk/transactions...

Would you like to improve your creative writing skills, but need a spark of inspiration? Join us for a flash fiction workshop where NHSN's unique collections provide the creative fuel. Learn how to craft compelling, concise stories that bring the past to life. Book here: bit.ly/nhsnflashfic...

🌸🌿 Celebrate Blossom Week with Us! 🌿🌸 Join us during the Festival of Blossom and learn the timeless art of hand-wiring flowers in our Flower Crown workshop led by local expert florist Jules Fleur. 🌷 Limited spaces, book now to reserve your spot at bit.ly/nhsnflowercrown

#ArchiveFoodAndDrink Looking for Easter bakes inspiration? Flick through Jane Loraine's 17th century recipe book which contains approx 620 culinary & medicinal recipes, including spice-cake, curd loaf & cheesecakes collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll... #Archive30 @arascot.bsky.social

for anyone who missed it the first time, my AHR article is now open access (yay!) academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...

Can you help? One of our Bequest students is working with our Civil War Tracts (early published items relating to the English Civil War). She's came across the note at the bottom of page, we think it might be a date (21 Sept 1646), but is it? Ref. Bradshaw 942.062 LET

📣New on the blog: How Covid impacted our relationship with nature. As we mark five years since the first lockdown, we reflect on how the natural world helped us cope with the unprecedented uncertainty. Read the full stories here: www.nhsn.org.uk/how-covid-im... 🌳💚

C17th century food bank - the bread cupboard provided under the terms of the 1638 will of John Sayer, yeoman, in the porch of St Mary's Church, Woodbridge, Suffolk. Bread was provided into the 1970s; the charity continues to assist poor people.

Delighted to announce that I passed my viva yesterday with minor corrections! ✨ A big thank you goes to my lovely examiners @SocialHistoryOx and Amanda Herbert for being so kind and giving such thoughtful feedback! Time for cake! 🍰

📢 New 'Will of the Month' Post! 📢 For February @lsangha.bsky.social uncovers the fascinating story of a London citizen and former prisoner, who examined his conscience when he made his will in 1607 ⏳📜 sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... #history #skystorians #earlymodern @uoearchhist.bsky.social

'Whoso will a gardener be Here he may both hear and see Every time of the year and of the moon And how the craft shall be done…' For #MichaelhouseMonday, we are highlighting a 15th-century manuscript poem which describes the practice of gardening in the period when Michaelhouse was operating. 🧵

These quotes are drawn from stories shared in a recent workshop as part of 'Nature’s Cure in Time of Need', a Heritage Lottery Funded project capturing how nature supports us in challenging times. Do you have a story about how the natural world has helped you? Submit yours here: ow.ly/yIr450V5cH8

Morning all! I'm preparing for my viva in a couple of weeks, would anyone have any advice or tips? Thank you in advance! ✨

You've heard of the Pitmen Painters, but what about the Pitmen Naturalists!? In a new series of blogs, NHSN Archive and Library volunteer Maureen Flisher explores the lives and work of some unsung pioneers of natural history in the North East. Read the first instalment here: ow.ly/MpFM50V1Xo5

VERY SHORT DEADLINE (Feb. 26) for a FANTASTIC opportunity for a student to do a fully funded PhD with the amazing Elaine Leong on "Translating Monstrosity: Constructions of Difference in Early Modern England and France" Full details here. Please pass on or repost! www.lahp.ac.uk/prospective-...

New on CollectionsCaptured is poet Vincenza Holland's notebook from 1988, containing drafts relating to #poetry and short stories, as well as personal notes #discover. See the full digitised item online collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll... #poetrylovers

Has nature helped you through a challenging time? We want to hear from you! Join us for a cuppa at Land of Oak and Iron on Mon 17 Feb The stories you submit will form a new collection in NHSN's North East Nature Archive housed here in the Great North Museum: Hancock 🏛️ Register: ow.ly/RNib50UUVLj

My article being used in seminars fills my little heart with so much joy 🥹 thank you @profclaire.bsky.social!

This week in Voices of the People at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, we tried to answer the age-old question: what's the difference between 'news' and 'gossip'? Turns out it's mostly determined by what you've got in your breeches. Pictured: news (left) and gossip (right).🗃️

The poem 'The Temple of Fame' written by 18th century poet Alexander Pope, includes a handwritten poem addressing Martha Blount. We don't know if their relationship was romantic but the inscription is intimate. Find this and more in the Provenance exhib, L2 Philip Robinson Library

it's another totally normal day in the countryside

The #PowerOfPetitioning bibliography is an invaluable resource for early modernists - I can’t tell you how thrilled I am to have my article included on the list! ✨

New deposit bought with a grant from The Friends of the Nations' Libraries. 10 volumes of minutes of The Merchants and Taylors Company of Morpeth 1608-1708. The Company was one of seven guilds that formed the town council. They were responsible for making decisions affecting the town. #archives

Many of you will be listening to Charlotte's fake Welsh accent and thinking "I wonder if anyone's written on histories of accent and pronunciation in the early modern period?" Well, you're in luck! muse.jhu.edu/article/7229...

Can’t quite describe how lovely it is to have been selected as a runner up in the W&A Working Class Writers’ Prize! I’d had my doubts about whether or not I should keep going with my little plague novel - but after this I’ll most certainly be giving it a go! ✨

Some of my favourite ever sources here ✨ thank you @historians.org for the opportunity to share them!

A wonderful opportunity to undertake funded PhD research with one of the most supportive and interesting scholars I know.... #EarlyModern 🗃️

My very first article has been published in the American Historical Review! ✨ In it I've transcribed a handful of petitions that help us to understand how people began to piece their lives back together following an outbreak of plague 👇 academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...