Question for the Restorationists: Does anyone know anything about a particular ‘stocking incident’ that happened c. 1671 that was so indecent that it couldn’t be described in a letter or printed in an 19th century volume of correspondence 👀

It's really happening!

A reminder that our first meeting of Lent Term is TONIGHT! You don't want to miss these three wonderful papers!

We are thrilled to share our Lent Termcard 📚 We have some amazing speakers lined up for February and March, so you don't want to miss out - be sure to join our mailing list for further updates and to join us online!

If your New Year's Resolution for 2026 was to submit to the Workshop for the Early Modern Period, you are in luck, as the deadline for our Lent Termcard is this Monday, 5 January! See below for more details!

We hope everyone had a Happy New Year! Like true early modernists, here is our New Year's Gift to you: a reminder that the deadline to submit to the Symposium is THIS Monday, 5 January!

There is only one more week to submit your abstracts for the Late Stuart Court Symposium! We welcome any and all submissions engaging with the politics and culture of the Late Stuart Courts from various interdisciplinary perspectives. See the attached CFP for further details!

The symposium is already shaping up to be a fantastic day of interdisciplinary research - You definitely won't want to miss it!

In case you missed our first announcement, there’s still over a month to submit your abstracts 🪶 We have already received some amazing proposals, and can’t wait to put together a fantastic programme for April!

RIP Samuel Pepys, you would have loved this announcement 🙏 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

That’s me!

In case you’re on the fence about checking out my new article on the Evelyn family and their paradoxical attitudes towards contemporary dress, check out the abstract below! Or maybe I can tempt you with some of the wonderful fashion prints showing some of the wacky styles of the period

I am thrilled to share my new open-access article on John Evelyn, his wife Mary, eldest daughter Mall and their complex, multifaceted relationship with clothing has been published in @historicaljnl.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

We are thrilled to share the CFP for our Symposium, Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714. We hope to bring together a range of interdisciplinary research on this complex and understudied period! #EarlyModern #CfP

Beyond excited for this amazing term card! If you’re interested in attending, but can’t make it to Cambridge, get in touch and I can get you added onto our mailing list for all future Teams links!

You still have a few days left to send in your abstracts!

We are thrilled to share our Michaelmas Term CFP on the theme 'Defining Environments. ' Abstracts are due on 20 September, and we look forward to reading them! Please get in touch if you'd like a plain text version or have any questions.

I manifested this during the #SHSConf2025 pub quiz @louisebell.bsky.social

As always, I had the best time at #SHSConf2025 ❤️ It was an amazing chance to share some of my current research and meet some wonderful scholars! Thank you to all the team at @socialhistsoc.bsky.social for facilitating such an enriching conference!

Final couple of touches to the ol' powerpoint slides for #shsconf2025 tomorrow. Come along to the Early Modern Networks: Work, Leisure, and Consumption strand to take a trip into the maritime with me, alongside print trade and fashion with @marloavidon.bsky.social and @joesaunders1.bsky.social

Had an amazing first day at #SHSConf2025 - Was so caught up in the excitement these were the only pictures I managed to take (whoops), but can confirm the Black Country Living History Museum makes the best conference venue EVER!

I’ve only had a very quick look whilst running to a panel, but how cool a venue is @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social for this year’s @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference?! #SHSConf2025

Fantastic roundtable at the #SHSConf2025 on material culture! Featuring four fabulous speakers - @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social on @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social; @timhitchcock.bsky.social on convict tokens; @anahowie.bsky.social on portraiture & pearl fisheries & Simon Morgan on radical pottery✨

I realize it's been a long time so figured a Life/PhD Update is slightly overdue! In the last couple months I have: - Finished a second journal article - Completely transcribed and quantified several account books into Excel - Read a lot of letters - Clung onto my sanity

I'm really excited to share this fun little piece I wrote for the Society for the History of Children and Youth's Digital Childhoods Blog - I've fallen in love with little shoes and hope you do too! shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/shoes-sh...

It’s been a while since I’ve been online (shamelessly been in the trenches transcribing account books) but you don’t want to miss out on another exciting term of WEMP!

Really thrilled to share the final piece of my Samuel Pepys project. It was a joy to be invited to film in the Pepys Library! Massive thanks to the University Media Team and Magdalene College for making this possible. Check it out on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIyO...

This is almost certainly a Cambridge thing, but I've been asked if I'm named after Christopher Marlowe 3 times in the last 5 days... I must give off Renaissance playwright energy ✍️

We are thrilled to be opening up submissions for blog posts for Easter Term! Get in touch if you have any questions!

Cambridge friends - I'll be presenting my research at the Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar next week on 12 February at 5:15 (in the Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall) I would love to see some familiar faces there, along with anyone interested in the lifecycle and dress!✨

Today’s excuse for a late essay submission… The space bar on their keyboard got stuck. What’s your favorite student excuse?

✨We are thrilled to be extending our call for Committee applications until the 18 February ✨ Read below for more information, or DM us for a plain text version. You can apply using the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please share widely!

It's really me and my Transkribus procrastination against the world.

We are thrilled to release our Lent Term Card and to share the news of our first session next Monday, 3 February! To tune in virtually, be sure to join our mailing list. DM us for more information, and we hope to see you there!

We're kicking off the new term with a bang! Be sure to read this week's fabulous post from Sietske van der Veen 'Imagining Jewish Topographies in Occupied City' Read more on the blog using the link below! doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/01/23/i...

I humbly ask, no beg, for an academic search engine that consolidates major museum collections into a single searchable database🙏

Welcome to the official BlueSky for the Cambridge Doing History in Public Blog - We are a postgraduate run blog attempting to bring accessible and engaging history to the public! You can check out our posts using the link here: doinghistoryinpublic.org

With a new account, it is the perfect time to shamelessly plug the fact that we are recuriting new members to join our wonderful Commitee! Read below to find out more and apply using the link here: forms.gle/YopXm3A55Ac7...

A much needed, and iconic catch up with a fellow late 17th -century material culture enthusiast 😍

Question for the Restoration / Late-Seventeenth century #Skystorians Does anyone have any good reading recommendations on hunting or equestrian culture in England c. 1660-1700, especially under Charles II?

What's this? An extended Deadline? You don't want to miss out! Get your abstracts in by the 13th!

You still have a whole week to get your abstracts in - You don’t want to miss an exciting term of workshops!

We are thrilled to announce our Lent Call for Papers- If you are interested in submitting a 20 min paper on the theme of 'Exchanging Knowledge,' please send us your abstract by 6 January! Read below for more details or DM us for a plain text version.

Thrilled that my review of the lovely @susannah-lw.bsky.social 's edited volume Floral Culture and the Tudor and Stuart Courts is out now in The Court Historian. You can read my review here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Better pictures to come, but have received the coolest early Birth-mukkah (December baby things) gift to date from my parents! This 1673 Copper Farthing features Charles II on the front, and an image of Brittania on the back. Keep reading if you want to know why this makes me so happy

Really excellent scholarship here by @jemmafield.bsky.social Pass it on @womenknowhistory.bsky.social @emwjournal.bsky.social @earlymodhistory.bsky.social #Skystorians #16thC #17thC 📚 🗃

For this week’s #TextileTuesday here’s a rather unusual #17thC embroidered panel depicting David and Sheba - particularly fun are the #raisedwork butterfly on the tree, spider walking across the building and turkey in the right border #Textilehistory

You heard it here first - There is no academic activity more soothing than drawing baselines on Transkribus!

I had the most amazing time sharing some of my research, some more Pepys facts, and advocating for the relevance of visual and material culture! Massive thanks to @kirstiemurray.bsky.social for having me!

So glad to see this starter pack for Early-Career Historians!!! Y’all are at the cutting-edge of the discipline, and I love following your work. 😊 go.bsky.app/95yTEM3