* ha ha ha ha * The year is 1503, and this jester is laughing at you from his woodcut, reader!

Excited to see Sonia Tycko's book rethinking early modern consent and contract labour is now available. This is an important intervention for histories of coerced labour. 'Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600–1700'

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...

Behold King's Lynn [TNA E 122/181/39]

📢 In Case You Missed It! 📢 We've been busy - catch up with our latest 'Project Progress Update' Blog Post 👇 sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... Find our more about our recent milestones, and the building of our project database 💻📜 @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk #skystorians

We're now welcoming abstracts for our 2026 conference, on the theme of 'Violence in the Medieval and Early Modern North'! The deadline is 15 January.

In "Energy, Ecology and Gender in the Middle-Class Home of the Eighteenth-Century Low Countries," Wout Saelens examines the impact of fossil fuel usage on housewives and maidservants who bore the burden of new discomforts accompanying this new energy regime 🗃️ #envhist doi.org/10.3828/whpe...

The @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference will be at Lancaster in July. Call for papers just released. I'll put putting together a proposal, so hope to see some of you there! #EarlyModern 🗃️ Details here: socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...

Bígí linn | Join us for the 2025 Paul Walsh Memorial Lecture, the final Early Irish research seminar this year, Thursday 4 December at 17:00, Room 2.31 IONTAS. *Law and Narrative in Fifteenth-Century Petitions to the Irish Parliament* Dr Sparky Booker (Trinity College Dublin) Fáilte roimh chách!

Last week, VOICES PI Professor Jane Ohlmeyer delivered a lecture at the Institute of Historical Research entitled: 'Making a living in early modern Dublin: Women and work'. Find out more at the link below: @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social

Pudding season approaches; #Thanksgiving is here. Closing my seasonal series of posts marking the publication of our new book, I revisit a case where food takes the plate Featuring industrious duckwives, wisemen & gossiping quarrymen #earlymodern ludicrushistories.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/t....

New article from Ellen Paterson on how petitioners 'evoked and confronted the parliamentary past' in their economic disputes is the tumultuous years preceding the outbreak of civil war.🗃️ #OpenAccess #PowerOfPetitioning Read it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

NEW PUBLICATION Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...

Cosy season is well upon us Curl up w/ a warm drink & NEW post on CUP's blog: The #Autumnal Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England This seasonal celebration of our new book features apples & pears, cider & ale, meat & markets, & the #Christmas milling craze cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/the-...

I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

This episode of the MERL's podcast is amazing. It made me want to read @timjerrome.bsky.social 's book but I don't think it's written yet. And they've got someone on talking about folklore tomorrow for Halloween.

A spooky blog post from Taylor on the magiconomy and all the miraculous and magical work performed in early modern England.

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...

Join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar on 4 November (12:00 GMT on Zoom) to celebrate the winning entry for the 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History and to learn about gender and lottery rhymes in the medieval/early-modern low countries ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues...

📢TODAY📢 Tune in to hear @bhamhistory.bsky.social and @emilymayvine.bsky.social discuss our unique methodology 👇 Weds 22 Oct, 5pm Zoom #EarlyModern 🗃️ #DigitalHumanities @cemsexeter.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social @dhlabexeter.bsky.social

Deadline extended to 1 Nov. Please share with UGs interested in #legalhistory or #womeninlaw. Don't have to be studying legal history, topic is open. Chance to connect with Selden's Sister, who also run PG mentoring scheme. £100 in Hart Publishing vouches up for grabs!

So excited to finally have hold of the book!

New book by our editor Roey Sweet and Richard Ansell!

Great news!! My special issue on Writing for Third Parties: Commercial Manuscript Production in the Late Middle Ages (Queeste, @amsterdamupress.bsky.social) is now available in open access. Looking much forward to your reactions! www.aup-online.com/content/jour...

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...

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...

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...

2. Read our Autumn Newsletter! 📰 We've recently circulated our latest project update - with details of what we've been up to over the last 6 months! 📜🎨🎵 Download the pdf or plain version from our news page: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social #skystorians 🧵2/3

3. Catch up on our latest 'Will of the Month' blog post! September's post was written by Dylan Cox, a 3rd year Exeter History student 📜 You can catch up on all of our 'Will of the Month' posts - over 20! - on our website 💻 @uoearchhist.bsky.social #history sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... 🧵3/3

SSMLL are delighted to announce the opening of our Call for Papers for the 2026 Day Conference, Medieval Wales, which will be held at Cardiff University 25-26 April, 2026. Proposals should be submitted to Dr David Callander ([email protected]) by 30 November.

#HistoryJob - just a reminder that our colleagues in VCH Herefordshire are looking for *two* contributing editors to bring their first #BigRedBook for over 100 years to fruition. Details in the link, applications close on 10 October.

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