A REMINDER! WILL WORK FOR MONEY! joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo... #MedievalSky #EarlyModern

It’s here! Publication day for my @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social @catholicismsem.bsky.social book. Click here for disgruntled ministers, canny bookwomen, and a world of Catholic print that was more complex and multiconfessional than you could have ever imagined. boydellandbrewer.com/book/print-a...

📢 There's a new 'Will of the Month' post over at @materialwills.bsky.social 📢 📜 It explores the will of a Tudor clergyman who lost all his goods in the Henrician Reformation, but regained his material wealth before death👇 #history #EarlyModern #skystorians @leverhulme.ac.uk @cemsexeter.bsky.social

I'm back: I may be made redundant in September, but right now I am still part of a world leading @leverhulme.ac.uk research project, working with a whip smart group of people using cutting edge AI technology to produce a dataset of of unprecedented scale. I will be focusing on research when I can.

🚨Announcement!🚨 I'm now offering freelance services (archival photography, transcription, bespoke research...) 📜✒️ Please get in touch if you or someone you know has #history research needs in the UK (esp Scotland & northern England) #Medievalsky #Earlymodern #c18th drtayloraucoin.com/freelance-hi...

We are ‘at risk’. Not just me, not just my wonderful colleagues in History, and not just the world-class community of teachers and researchers across the University of Exeter, but all of us who value the humanities. You can support us here: c.org/2cSZVFyhNF #defendexeteruni

Markets, by Joe Saunders. Markets have historically fulfilled a key role in the economic life of Britain with most towns prior to the nineteenth-century existing as market centres. how-to-history.com/2026/06/24/m...

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

Over the coming week, we feature the 8 monographs and 8 articles shortlisted for the Society's 2026 First Book and Early Career Article prizes. Today: 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London', by Emily Vine (Cambridge University Press) bit.ly/3SsnvWo 1/2 #Skystorians

Latest addition to the 2nd Plague Pandemic biblio: "this article ... asks how often women were employed as wage workers in the rural economy of medieval England, how they were paid relative to men, and to what extent change is evident after the Black Death." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨NEW Blogpost🚨 #England plays tonight. #Scotland tomorrow. ⚽ But which team would James VI/I have most favoured in the #WorldCup? 👑 Explore his complicated relationship w/ #football, & its shift from #medieval unlawful game to #earlymodern elite pastime. 👇 drtayloraucoin.com/2026/06/19/j...

Hoping this brings good luck for next week v Brazil ⚽️🤞🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk/news/worlds-...

Happy birthday to James VI & I, whose lesser-know quirks & achievements include: -purchasing two dozen fashionable beaver hats in a single year of his reign -forcing courtiers to find him a Virginian flying squirrel -tearing down tobacco houses near his country estate #AGoldenWorld #earlymodern

🚨NEW Blogpost🚨 For James VI/I's birthday & tonight's #Scotland match: ⚽👑 Did James like #football? Would he have liked the #WorldCup? Where were the first recorded football stands? How did #earlymodern elites come to embrace the sport? Asking the big questions👇 drtayloraucoin.com/2026/06/17/j...

At the weekend I gave a paper at the International Football History Conference #footycon26. I explained how and why the Meadows was so important for the early development of football in Edinburgh, long before association rules came along in the 1870s. www.scottishsporthistory.com/sports-histo...

I'm quoted in this piece on the origin of 'soccer' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A call for ideas about historic Scottish football sites - what would you suggest? www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/new...

✨ Out today! ✨ Happy publication day to #AGoldenWorld @faberbooks.bsky.social 🎉🎉 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-go...

#DisHist FREE to read publication alert! Nice to notice this OA offering from my super colleague, @hexhistory.bsky.social's Riikka Miettinen, is now out in the wild. Definitely one for anyone into disability history or #EarlyModern Europe! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Many congratulations to @emilymayvine.bsky.social whose excellent 'Birth, Death & Domestic Religion in #EarlyModern London' has been shortlisted for the RHS first book prize! 🗃️🥳👏

We are pleased to announce that we now run events and tours, including a series of Spring/Summer tours of London. For more information see here: how-to-history.com/events/

Reminder. There's an early modern pub night for PhDs & ECRs (& others interested at any stage of their careers) held in London every month. To be added to the mailing list, send me a DM. It's an informal welcoming event. We meet at different historic pubs across central London. #earlymodern

📢 NEW WILL OF THE MONTH POST 📢 May's post explores a Greenwich widow's will which exhibits some clear favouritism📜 One son received the bulk of her estate, the other 'one Shilling and no more because of his undutifull behaviour' 🪙 sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... #skystorians #EarlyModern

Archdeacon of Colchester's court, June 1600 👨‍⚖️ Matthew Barker, cobbler of Messing (Essex) was presented for instructing 'children to write & read' while he could neither 'write true orthography' nor 'spell well nor divide the syllables of words as a teacher ought'. ✒️📖 #truecrime #earlymodern #tudor

For anyone looking for an open-access atlas of Scotland before 1707, your ship has come in! books.socantscot.org/digital-book...

Middlesex Sessions of the Peace, April 1627 👨‍⚖️ John Milles of Shepperton committed for 'harbouring...Robert Russe...pursued for stealing of a stag...in the forest of Windsor... 🦌 And for concealing the said Robert in a chimney of his house' #earlymodern #truecrime #history

For a quick blog outlining the article Bob Shoemaker and I have out in Social History on mapping 18th c. crime see socialhistoryblog.com/mapping-the-...

New article 📢 written by Jane Whittle and me - about work and the problems of identifying workers in Medieval England. Open access here: doi.org/10.1080/0304... #history #medievalsky

Gather ye dewdrops while it's May 💦🌼💧🌿 #medieval #earlymodern #history #mayday drtayloraucoin.com/2019/05/02/m...

In a *new* post, I have pulled together the latest data on historians in UK universities and PhDs granted. The results are ... not great. Staff numbers have been mostly shrinking since 2019. PhDs have been roughly flat. 1/3. 🗃️ More info here: manyheadedmonster.com/2026/04/23/h...

🚨NEW Blogpost🚨 #Easter 1598, a three-a-side football match led to controversy, violence, & eventually death. ⛹️‍♂️ Depositions from a #Tudor Star Chamber case reveal what happened that day, & also challenge some preconceptions about #earlymodern football #history. ⚽🏉👇 drtayloraucoin.com/2026/04/22/e...

There's still space on my Summer course. I promise a week of highway robbery, pickpockets, pirates, burglary, murder, execution, & more. It'll be great fun! Crime & Punishment in Early Modern London & the Home Counties | Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of Oxford share.google/sEp55JVrpBtZ...

Really enjoyed writing this one ✏️

Archdeacon of Norwich's court, November 1608 👨‍⚖️ Thomas Deynes of Gunthorpe, Norfolk is charged, among other things 'for running neighing after Richard Mutton's maid...' 🐴 #earlymodern #truecrime

Spotted at the Museu de Arte de São Paulo: Sandra Gamarra Heshiki’s collage of European portraits painted over with Indigenous South American pottery, collapsing longstanding divides between European high art and Indigenous ‘anthropology’ in museums. #earlymodern

Folklore forecasts less desirable #Easter gifts from birds, should you neglect to wear new clothes 🕊️💩 Easter finery traditions solidified during the commercial revolution of #earlymodern England 👗🎩 But have roots in #medieval quarter days & livery 👇 ludicrushistories.wordpress.com/2019/04/29/p...

After our fabulous week long residential workshop in Bath last week, it's proving to be a busy time for the wills project team. We'll be circulating our latest newsletter next week if you want to get up to speed on our progress to date: #EarlyModern 🗃️

Middlesex Sessions of the Peace, March 1632 👨‍⚖️ Edward Clarkson of Westminster, yeoman is charged 'for taking brasse from H 7 tomb' 👑 #earlymodern #truecrime

Delighted that my new article in @historyworkshop.org.uk, co-authored with @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social, is now published! Thanks to all who read and heard earlier versions of this @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded research :) academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-... [track.smtpsendmail.com]

Thoughtful and beautifully-written review of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England in @lrb.co.uk by @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social. It's surreal to see #earlymodern deponents and workers like Lucretia Harward getting their day in the 21st-century sun! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Thanks to @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @aucointaylor.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social (via @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social), for reminding me that my kids are slackers. 🗃️ Lovely discussion of *The Experience of Work in Early Modern England* in the LRB: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Shout out to brilliant photographer Steven Haywood, who has made a video about my work with musician Chris Hoban. Chris and I discuss what we did, and how the experience has influenced our work 👇 #CreativeHistory 🗃️ #EarlyModern @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=foIP...

Our new WP 'combines occupations with work tasks as ways of measuring structural change in the #earlymodern economy'. We highlight significant structural change, industrializing towns and cities, and a much more important service sector than measures based on job titles alone typically capture.

I completely forgot I made this... a big list of English judicial records, 1500 to 1800, published and often online!

To anyone interested in our medieval studies programme, we have some scholarships for international students. Various links to follow in a thread. 1/6 www.lincoln.ac.uk/course/medstdma

🚨NEW Blogpost🚨 We all know about the #OldFirm. But what's the 'oldest firm' in the history of Scottish #football? ⚽🏉 The answer takes us back to #medieval and #earlymodern St Andrews, where university and city invested in an unlawful game. 👇 ludicrushistories.wordpress.com/2026/03/12/t...

#ShroveTuesday football in County Durham has a #medieval pedigree. Thomas Marshall of Wolviston was injured playing on the day in 1380. In 1492 the priory halmote allowed the illegal game to be played in Billingham during Shrovetide. About 10 miles away, Sedgefield still hosts an annual game.

'I would set off, with some sense of what I might be looking for, and see what I stumbled across...' Is going for a walk a valid methodology for a historian? And if so, how much theory do you need to read before you start? Some thoughts in my latest blog post: manyheadedmonster.com/2026/02/10/i...

📢JOYCE YOUINGS MEMORIAL LECTURE📢 Prof. Jane Whittle: Work & gender, status & power: the surprising history of everyday chores in early modern England 🗓️ 28 January, 3pm 📍 Uni of Exeter & Zoom All welcome at this public 🗃️ lecture, register for your place: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-joyce-...