🐏 👨‍👨 @nicolemaceira.bsky.social will join us this week to discuss contrasting depictions of animals and humans in post-Reformation thought, and their importance in the development of the Reformed faith in Scotland.

To mark #Halloween & publication of 'The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England', (now available in print & free online), this blogpost revisits the magiconomy. 🧙🎃 Highlights include a magical service paid for with bacon and pigeons. 🥓🪶 #history ludicrushistories.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...

Very much looking forward to Polly Lowe @polly-lowe.bsky.social speaking this Wednesday on bound labour and Scottish miners in the 18th c. @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social Everyone welcome - either in person or hybrid, but please register at www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Final post in my series on 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England'. It focuses on the heartbeat of the premodern economy.... the harvest. manyheadedmonster.com/2025/10/16/t...

I believe you kids call this an ‘unboxing’…

If you want to know more about our use of handwritten text recognition software (Transkribus) on the wills project, tune in on Zoom next week 👇 All welcome (not just postdocs!). #EarlyModern 🗃️ #DigitalHumanities #HTR #CitizenScience

As the agricultural cycle starts to wind down for the winter, my next post on 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' looks forward to its resumption in the new year, when... ‘Ploughmen go whistling to their toils’ manyheadedmonster.com/2025/10/14/t...

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉 Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e... news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

Another post on 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' - a reminder that work in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was very much a family affair... manyheadedmonster.com/2025/10/09/t...

As you dig out your chunky knitwear from the back of the draw, I know you are wondering: 'How did people prepare for winter 400 years ago?' Read today's post to find out (and whet your appetite for our new book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England) manyheadedmonster.com/2025/10/07/t...

Delighted to see our new book - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England - out now, and open access (free!) doi-org.bris.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/9781...

Who did what in early modern England? New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️ Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Join @magicnotwitches.bsky.social in an exploration of practical magic in English history on 28th October at the Mary Rose Museum! maryrose.org/events/cunni...

We've got a stellar set of speakers this term at @ihr.bsky.social. Come along an immerse yourself in the latest early modern history research! #EarlyModern 🗃️

🎺ANNOUNCEMENT!🎺 STORIES & SONGS: WILLS AS WINDOWS ONTO PAST LIVES Join Chris Hoban and I at #Exeter Phoenix for a unique performance of history & original music inspired by #Tudor, #Stuart & Georgian wills! 🗃️ FREE! Claim your ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1738865536...

Now the contract is signed etc we're very pleased to share this news. Please do follow the below account to keep up to date with what we're doing. #GenderHistory

The leading international journal ‘Gender & History’ (@genderandhistory.bsky.social) has moved to the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, edin.ac/46z9jy5 #History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh #Gender

🤩 Check out the shiny new website of Bristol's world-class Centre for Medieval Studies (@bristolcms.bsky.social), home to over 35 full-time medievalists and over 160 research students and research associates: medievalstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk 🤩 @uobartsmatter.bsky.social #medievalsky #skystorians

Delighted to be able to say that we've been awarded a grant to expand the #GreensleevesProject by recording a selection of #Tudor & #Stuart #music & #song associated with clothing. Huge thanks to the wonderful @continuoconnect.bsky.social for their generosity! #earlymusic #earlymodern

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

We're delighted that our project has been featured in a brand new @zooniverse.bsky.social video! 📽️📼 Researchers @jwhittle.bsky.social @lsangha.bsky.social & @bhamhistory.bsky.social explain what it's all about📜 @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk 🧵1/2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYkN...

Delighted to see this mock up of the front cover of my first book, due to be published later in the Summer with @cambridgeup.bsky.social . It's been several years in the making, and has had input and guidance from so many people - but it nearly exists!

#ShroveTuesday and dancing go together like, well, Shrove Tuesday and pancakes. It's an old tradition - from Roxburgh Castle in 1314, to Sam Pepys and co in London 1660, to kitchens around the UK today. 💃🕺🥞 Enjoy some footloose flipping this #PancakeDay! #medieval #earlymodern #Carnival #dance

Exciting to see our Box Office Bears paper on @antiquityj.bsky.social today! 🎉 How might one know whether an historical site hosted bear-baiting? We look at possibilities based off our work on Bankside & across early modern England, uniting archaeology & archives. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Very excited to be giving the first talk of my new research project this Thursday on the Edinburgh printress Agnes Campbell and her international networks of bookwomen! Come by if you're in Edinburgh or hit me up for the Teams link 👀 (ESTC R183059 & T507272) hca.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

Many thanks to the British Academy for this interview. Really enjoyed talking about my football research and future plans!

Looking forward to giving a talk about football in medieval Scotland tomorrow for @cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social ⚽🏉🏈 Please do come along if you're around Edinburgh and interested! 5:15pm, Teviot Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School Doorway 5: hca.ed.ac.uk/centre-medie...

Jeez, I look away for five minutes and @jwhittle.bsky.social publishes another amazing article on women's work! It's open access in the Economic History Review, and shows women's #EarlyModern economic contribution and the importance of rising landlessness 🗃️ : doi.org/10.1111/ehr....

A song for Ash Wednesday: Orlando Gibbon's setting of George Wither's "Song for the First Day of Lent", 1623 Eleanor Cramer: Soprano Richard De Winter: Bass Robin Jeffrey: Lute Alison Kinder: Bass Viol Tamsin Lewis: Alto www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw4A... #earlymusic #earlymodern #ashwednesday #otd

Valentines Day & Shrove Tuesday are neighbors this year. But their amity runs much deeper. ❤️ Vday's link w/ love was a medieval development likely shaped by demographics of Carnival & Lent. 👰🤵 Marriages were banned in the latter, making Jan & Feb a season of coupling & weddings 1/3 💑

My pop culture in premodern Britain seminar coincided with Shrove Tuesday today. We held a debate about the 'social function' of Carnival- social protest or control? Teams & captains were picked by lottery via King Cake (aka Twelfth-night cake). Victors won pancakes, w/ the captain crowned king