Delighted everyone found this sculpture as delightful as me! Tombs, monuments & funerals are something I will be writing about as part of my wills research project - I wonder what insights 25,000 English wills will bring? 🪦⚰️📜🗃️ All the info on the project here: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

After a woman is prevented from entering Westminster Abbey because of her Wind in the Willow sweatshirt, today I ask, would yours make it in? Today I worry my Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Nuthatch could prove controversial www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Another stunning entry in the Effigy Bottoms Championship, as I am now referring to it

👌👀👗

Brain Bunny

Intaglio-telle.

I think drapery becomes a very particular form of display for a sculptor - a kind of problem solving - esp when there's the opportunity for a contrast between a ruff (stiff, regular) & skirts (potential for the evocation of an actual body, volume, mass, gravity, which you don't get with a ruff!)

Tagliatelle

anyway just off to the shop to buy a Viennetta

Alas, she died after falling headfirst into a massive brain coral. Bit on the nose, that.

It’s giving endoplasmic reticulum

alarmed coral reef

Reminds me of the big ribbons of toffee you see coming off a factory conveyor belt.

👗fabric? 🧠brain? 🍄hen of the woods? 🦠endoplasmic reticulum? 🍦Viennetta?? what do you see?

slightly obsessed about the end of this lady's effigy tomb with the voluminous folds of her dress and petite heeled shoes

thanks for putting it on my TL, reminded me of one of the best academic presentations I've ever attended (so many deep and profound historical connections, and also comedy skits and singing) bsky.app/profile/calm...

This is dangerously compelling! Top work @hltn.bsky.social!

The CFP for the Society of Reformation Studies' Annual Conference has been released! The theme is 'Lay Relgion in the Reformation' but topics outside this are very welcome. Please share! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lay-religi... #churchhistory #skystorians #nuntastic #earlymodern #history #theology

interesting material culture thread

i met the most remarkable swamp cypress

Ah yes Leicester, a tip-top History UoA in REF2021 currently eviscerating it’s History provision (among other subjects). Have they also won the THE irony of the year award?

Voters want both: homes built and wildlife protected. MPs should listen to the public, not a false "nature vs growth" narrative. If nature loses at this stage, it will be because they chose not to protect it. Tell your MP to back nature: action.rspb.org.uk/page/180990/... 📢

Many thanks to Public Engagement with Research at Exeter for featuring us prominently in their write up of the FUTURES festival 👇 @uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social sites.exeter.ac.uk/per/2025/11/...

For months, ministers have been pushing a false choice between nature and growth. Now, new research shows just how out of touch they are. With data from More In Common, it's time to set the record straight. 👇

Preparing today's lecture on Tudor rebellions - at some point in the past I highlighted these places on a slide about Kett's rebellion. But ... why???

So grateful to have received the Elise M. Boulding Prize from the Peace History Society for Pax Economica. What a tremendous honor! @princetonupress.bsky.social

#Historians, mark your calendars! Our 2026 Summer Conference will be held on 13-15 July at @royalholloway.bsky.social. The Call for Papers will open in January 2026. #churchhistory #Skystorians #cfp

Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10

When you don't know who to leave your money to, you can always make the Virgin Mary your heir! #earlymodern

shout out to the silliest cat

Very valuable thread on the impact of UKHE cuts and what we stand to lose through them. I worked closely with the case study cited and wrote the Environment Template for that UoA. We have all of us been in scope for redundancy since January. Where does that leave such important research?

Martock is a really interesting place - and the church especially so), we touch on some of that interest in our Somerset volume 4 (available @bho.bsky.social). The vault and chest tomb reflect a period of concentrated prosperity for the village/townlet very obvious in its streetscape. [cont.]

‪Events next week include: Criticality in Academic Writing Introduction to EndNote Understanding/using feedback Business School Library Research Drop-ins GenAI under the microscope AI & Ethics Statistical Analysis Skills Drop-Ins & Library Research Cafés See more & book: bit.ly/ExeterUniLibEvent

Great news! This is out: Opening the black box of EEBO academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...

Very much looking forward to Kate Gibson's paper on Wednesday - DM me if you would like the Teams link. #EarlyModern 🗃️👇

updating my lecture on popular protest and the weapons of the weak

coast path day, i am alive again

Wes Streeting's comments on the racism experienced by health workers reminds me of the research by colleagues here at Manchester on the crucial role that immigrants have played since the inception of the NHS. doi.org/10.1258/jrsm...

how _is_ the epic rebuild next door going i hear you ask? Well, it's month 11 and yes, the gaffer is still going strong! 🏚️🏚️🏚️

The National Archives' contribution to #wdpd2025 www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blogs/digita...

This is the first recording of any of Chris Hoban's wills inspired music! For lucky people in Devon, Chris will be performing ALL the wills songs at Topsham Folk Club on 18 January, with support from Miranda Sykes. Grab your ticket now 👇 #Exeter #Devon 🗃️ #Events wegottickets.com/event/680386

Alice Walter's will might be familiar if you read our project blog, as it was our Will of the Month in October 2024. Read @emilymayvine.bsky.social's post, and see a transcription of the whole will here: #EarlyModern 🗃️ sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

📜WILLS ON THE RADIO!📜 The brilliant Chris Hoban was on local radio talking about the wills project and playing some songs! This one is perhaps my favourite: based on the will of London widow Alice Walter, proved September 1665. TNA PROB 11/317/428. #EarlyModern 🗃️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXwB...

Apart from all the bells and whistles on the site itself, some users may like to know that the London Lives bibliography has been Zoterified (so it's searchable etc): www.zotero.org/groups/45875...

In 19th C Exeter, Guy Fawkes Day was a major occasion. The festivities centred on a huge bonfire in front of the Cathedral 🔥 During this fiery festival it was traditional to allow the youth special freedom to celebrate. Fireworks, burning tar barrels & injuries were a feature of this riotous night.

📜WILLS ON THE RADIO!📜 The brilliant Chris Hoban was on local radio talking about the wills project and playing some songs! This one is perhaps my favourite: based on the will of London widow Alice Walter, proved September 1665. TNA PROB 11/317/428. #EarlyModern 🗃️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXwB...

On this day in 1605 a Catholic soldier named Guy Fawkes was arrested in an undercroft below the House of Lords. Many people know about the infamous gunpowder plot, but here's a blog post about the broader Catholic community at the time. manyheadedmonster.com/2014/11/03/g... #EarlyModern 🗃️

sometimes I wonder what did academics do in the time before composing and sending hundreds of emails a day