Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781... #earlymodern #economic #history

Please help. Please sign & share. I work on a degree programme known as ELCE for mature students who didn't or couldn't do a degree at 18. Bristol uni has decided to close it. Bristol was set up to serve this community & now we are losing our most accessible degree. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

The vast majority of UK students attend good to excellent universities that don't have or use the "right" spoons. De-spoon the university.

And that’s a wrap! Doing a PhD with @markhailwood.bsky.social and Prof. Jane Whittle (with Dr. Tyler Rainford, left, as my PhD brother) was the absolute best. I may not be in academia, but you can bet I’ll still be infiltrating @drinkingstudies.bsky.social anyway 😂❤️

The winners of the BAHS's Joan Thirsk Prize (2025) have been announced. They are: Charmian Mansell, 'Female Servants in Early Modern England' @oxfordunipress.bsky.social John Bulaitis, 'The Tithe War in England and Wales, 1881-1936' @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social Congratulations to them both!

Do you know what I find works really well for cleaning my glasses? Nothing.

Wow - so many people already signed up for our Wills Project Transcribathon later this month! 🙏 If you drop by you can transcribe some lines & help make 25,000 English wills more accessible for all. In person & online, join us here: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com #EarlyModern 🗃️ #Palaeography

Myself & @jwhittle.bsky.social have been collaborating with the Gender & Work project at Uppsala for a decade now: so we're very excited to have a collaborative article comparing the gender division of labour in early modern Sweden and England: www-cambridge-org.bris.idm.oclc.org/core/journal...

Today!

Campop blog #48: Are Mrs and Miss, for married/unmarried women, relics of a patriarchal system? Amy Erickson explains that Mrs used to denote a woman of status irrespective of marital status. Read the blog for the history of Miss! @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/05...

We are pleased to share the details for the Annual Gender & History Lecture, which will be given by Dr Onni Gust. Their talk is titled 'Kin: transgender history with and beyond the human'. May 15, 2025, 15:00 - 16:30 (In person and Online) Register here 👇 ticketpass.org/event/ELMPHJ...

Delighted to announce the first three events in our re-launched 'Think While You Drink' series. Based in pubs in Bristol, free and open to all, come and join us for some interesting and fun talks this spring/summer. Sign up for the first event here: fb.me/e/2uqWTYz3s

Delighted to be collaborating with @britbeerwriters.bsky.social for this online event with @culturalclare.bsky.social @professorpub.bsky.social @thurnellreadsoc.bsky.social and Dr Rob Deakin, chaired by @philmellows.bsky.social www.beerguild.co.uk/news/new-gui...

fancy a bit of legal history, law and literature, and practice-as-research? come to my @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded workshop at @sheffieldcems.bsky.social on the 23rd May. featuring libels, process-serving, facsimile documents, lewd remarks and document eating! tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv please share widely!

Thanks to my department for combining my and my colleague's Leverhulme Trust teaching buy out into an almost full time (0.9) 1 year post 👇 - Application deadline 16th April #EarlyModern 🗃️ 1/ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML369/l...

MPs realising in real time just how utterly dire things are is a welcome development. I do want to highlight that many MPs seem to think them asking universities not to fire people or declaring "jobs must be protected" has any effect right now, whatsoever, on what those universities are doing.

ok this is SO cool, adding immediately to the "to read" file. 🐻

Excellent stuff from Adam Morton on teaching History through images - starting my classes with an 'image of the week' has had a similarly positive effect on student discussions. manyheadedmonster.com/2025/03/18/t...

📢NEW VISUAL CULTURE POST📢 The monster mini-series wraps up with Adam Morton on teaching with #EarlyModern printed images. Can they spark discussion in a way other sources don't? #Skytorians 🗃️ manyheadedmonster.com/2025/03/18/t...

📢NEW VISUAL CULTURE/MONSTER POST📢 Malcolm Jones tracks the uses & abuses of a particular printed image (bet you will never guess what's under the flap!) 👇 🗃️ #Skystorians #MaterialCulture #EarlyModern manyheadedmonster.com/2025/03/11/c...

Does anyone know of any published work on, or that at least touches on, early modern birthdays?

A new many-headed monster mini-series on Visual Culture in Early Modern England, you say? To mark the relaunch of British Printed Images to 1700, you say? A post by Adam Morton about visual humour, you say? Sounds like a hoot... manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/27/p...

📢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...

ICYMI: the many-headed monster has just launched a new mini-series on Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England. Over the next month we celebrating the relaunch of British Printed Image to 1700 by publishing guest posts on the theme. 1st post tomorrow (Thurs)!🗃️ manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...

📢 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

A *new* mini-series on visual culture in #EarlyModern England on the Many-Headed Monster! @lsangha.bsky.social introduces us to the power of images and a newly redesigned and revived database of printed images from the 16th and 17th centuries: manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...

📢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...

Change it to 'What did..' and that is basically my one research question.

Applications for the MA Black Humanities are open @brisblackhums.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social. You can find more information here: www.bristol.ac.uk/study/postgr... Come join us! Please share widely!

I have a (very small) favour to ask of all you wonderful people! I'm doing a talk at the excellent Good Chemistry Brewing taproom. It would really help to get an idea of what people think about alewives (if anything!). Help a gal out by answering these 3 Qs? 💗 🍻 forms.gle/61jKrVhQsdG2...

'Work, Authenticity and Social Identity in #EarlyModern Britain' Submit an abstract by Feb 1st and come along to Warwick on June 10-11th.🗃️ Excited to be speaking alongside @markhailwood.bsky.social, @jwhittle.bsky.social and Steve Hindle! Details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

Short piece with @jameskneale.bsky.social & Vallu for Points History summarising (and expanding) arguments we made for @ejcs-journal.bsky.social With some brief family history! The Desi Pub: postcolonial, anti-racist histories of ‘the British pub’ 🔗👇🏽 www.pointshistory.org/post/the-des...

Excellent, must read summary from Will on the most concerning aspects of AI. It's the first of three posts on the broader topic 👇

'Taking pleasure seriously: Should alcohol research say more about fun?' | @jamesnicholls.bsky.social and Geoffrey Hunt for @addictionjournal.bsky.social (via @professorpub.bsky.social) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Getting some very cool abstracts in for our next @drinkingstudies.bsky.social Women and Alcohol conference this week. @lucycogan.bsky.social is hosting this one in Dublin so it should be great! Deadline is next week so get your abstract in: www.womenandalcohol.net/2024/10/cfp-...

📢 NEW 'Will of the Month' post! 📢 🎄 It's time for a Christmassy one! 🎄 December's post looks at the 1786 will 📜of Mary Partridge, who left: - an orchard, but sadly no pear tree 🍐🌳 - some gold rings, but not quite five 💍💍💍💍💍 sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... #skystorians #history #earlymodern

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!

We're counting down to 2025 because in 2025 we get to all meet again! In Bristol this time. Who's joining us there? And are you in our starter pack yet? #RenSoc25 go.bsky.app/DVyFCxt

Beat Kümin and I are accepting applications for our 4yr M4C fully-funded PhD Studentship for 2025/26 at Uni of Warwick and Warwick County Record Office "Warwickshire Identities: Early Modern Archival Perspectives" Get in touch with me for more info. Full details here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

One for historians/history fans: do you have an example of a comic/graphic novel presentation of research? Or something similar? My favourite is by @sdamussen.bsky.social (linked below). If anyone has any other favourites, I’d love to see 😊 escholarship.org/uc/item/76p7...

If you pass a tavern, you will twist your leg, warns an Old Polish proverb. But if you enter, you will not leave quickly🍻 My project "Dens Of Despair or Merry Margins? Taverns As A Space Mediating Social Relations In Early Modern Lesser Poland" was awarded a Preludium grant by @ncngovpl.bsky.social

Social History of Alcohol and Drugs (SHAD) Journal- call for new journal editors: The current editors of SHAD will complete their term of office in spring 2026. Call for proposals from potential candidates - or teams thereof - by January 15th 2025: www.pointshistory.org/post/call-fo....

We couldn't help noticing the party seems to have moved over here so we thought we'd join in. Follow us for the latest drinking studies news and events (and you can join us for free to receive our regular newsletter).

I’ve had countless conversations w colleagues about integrating “AI” into pedagogy. Aside from the environmental and human exploitation that goes into powering LLMs, studies are now proving that even using content generators as “guides” actually inhibits and damages human creativity. Like duh????

Now we’re all settling into this app: the starter packs of #EarlyModern historians for an easy follow — and check the update as some new ones have moved over. 1: go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF 2: go.bsky.app/NQqDFr1 There’s still space in that second one so do wave if you’re around and want in! #SkyStorians

Proper snow! In Exeter! In November! Thoughts and prayers are with the hydrangea at this time...

I have created a pack for scholars of the long seventeenth century! If there is anyone I should add or you would like to be added do let me know - apologies for all I missed, hard to keep up these days. Do consider sharing to help enable scholars reconnect & rebuild network(s)! go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq

@willpooley.bsky.social - told you #AcademicsHaveCats could take off...

Welcome new followers! I'm a historian of #EarlyModern England at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, currently working on two projects: the #PowerOfPetitioning (petitioning.history.ac.uk) and the #WrittenWorlds of non-elite writers (writtenworlds.org). 🗃️

Welcome new followers! Here's what I do... I'm a historian of everyday life in 16th and 17th century England, with a particular commitment to history 'from below'. My first book was about pubs and drinking culture: boydellandbrewer.com/978178327154... (1/5)