Can someone recommend an independent researcher that can visit an archive in New Haven, CT? I really need someone ASAP. I would prefer someone experienced, but in theory anyone that can read these city names and dates in cursive could be fine. It should take 4-6 hours. 🗃️

Today I have discovered that I find watching luge weirdly relaxing, downhill skiing is terrifying (but might be fun to try?) and I do not understand curling in the slightest. The joy of the Olympics is always seeing the sheer range of sports and athletes at their best.

This is why there are very very few Dark Academia books that I’m actually willing to read.

This is bleakly comic: six times when Parliament has agreed the need for a major programme of works to the Palace of Westminster, and yet we'll need another vote in 2026 and then a further vote in mid 2030.

In fun preparation for my new job (starting April), I'm reading the Sarah Cauldwell murder mystery set on Jersey. Oh to be an academic in the way that Hilary Tamar in this book gets to be an academic - the old PRO in Chancery Lane, no emails and telexes are new, solving crimes rather than the REF.

If you want to escape from thinking about current crisis by thinking about past crises 🤔, Paul Dryburgh and I are giving a @ihr.bsky.social seminar paper on Friday 13 February. Come for embezzlement scandals, stay for Paul's thoughts on the Mortimer family. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Hey, so I have a book that now exists and that you can purchase (apparently the code BB135 on the boydell webpage will get you a 35% discount) or more realistically recommend to your library! 😅 (Please don't mind the fact that I'm like a month late promoting this here...)

It's my last day on @virtualtreasury.bsky.social so please indulge me being sentimental about the last five years working with the amazing team. They generously welcomed me into the fold of Irish historians and were enormous fun as we tackled the mammoth task of archival reconstruction.

So much wrong with the history in this amicus brief (as the OP here knows). Birthright citizenship *was* medieval law in that children of aliens born in England were English. And being married to an English person exempted you from taxation. My receipts here: www.nacbs.org/post/medieva...

JOB ALERT: Lead Curator, Modern Archives & Manuscripts (1601-1800) at The British Library - closing date: 18th Feb www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQH179/l...

Anyway, good news! Open-ended lectureship in early medieval history at KCL. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...

I had great fun bringing together material from @virtualtreasury.bsky.social with the England's immigrants database to look at people immigrating to and between England and Ireland in the middle ages.

This might be an unpopular opinion but what this baby seal is doing is very special to me, personally.

I am still looking for the public's help as I complete this project. I am particularly interested in finding diaries and letters written at the time of the fire. Even if they don't directly reference the fire, they are still of use. It's likely that these letters still exists in drawers, boxes etc

📣 We’re hiring! The History of Parliament are seeking a Research Fellow for our House of Lords 1660-1832 project. @georgianlords.bsky.social We’re looking for a historian with a PhD in 18thC British political or cultural history to join our expert team. 🔗 Details below: #AcademicJobs #HistoryJobs

If anyone needs reminding of how migration is always been part of human history, here, have just one nice example. The English government started to tax immigrants in the 1330s as a significant source of revenue and the records are freely available online at www.englandsimmigrants.com

I may still be 90% chocolate and other holiday treats, and the Christmas tree may need to come down this evening, but am back on my Irish medieval government and records nonsense today. So far, I have one abbreviation that is stymieing me and a bunch of minor edits done.

In case any one else needs a break from everything in the news, BBC iPlayer has a wonderful David Attenborough show on Wild London, about urban wildlife. As I'm constantly dodging foxes and live near one of the peregrine falcon pairs, it was great to see this city's animals in close up.

Pre-Christmas lunch snacks are out while cooking happens and Juno wants them all. Merry Christmas to those celebrating!

In #TinyJoys today, I’ve run a very nice parkrun in the frosty mist, picked up books for presents and now am enjoying a hot chocolate before meeting up with a friend.

I’m jumping off a bit here but this is something that always grinds me about how people treat history. Lots of people are history hobbyists, and that’s great! It is different from being a Professional Historian. Passion does not equal skills and expertise.

I think one of the reasons why people don't take the study of the humanities seriously is they think being a history buff = being a historian and reading a lot = being a literature scholar because there's still so little public understanding of what methodologies in those fields actually look like

This reference to 'cultures that don't respect women' betrays gross ignorance of British (including) English women's history whether medieval, early modern, modern or contemporary. 1/3 #Skystorians

Depressingly true, despite its antecedents being the stalwart work of Rees Davies et al. So much "British" history around.

Maps showing 1766 religious census returns received at House of Lords, in response to their 15 March call for census details, and the surviving details from the census. 83% national coverage in 1766; 63% survival of details, in some form. Significant losses. Significant recovery.

As the end of the #TNAConnections week for @virtualtreasury.bsky.social, it's lovely to be able to see all the UK National Archives' big-ticket collections for Irish history - including some Gaelic history - from medieval to modern in one place. www.virtualtreasury.ie/news/tnaconn...

Next semester is already looking quite busy with RA work, part time teaching and ploughing on with my book. But if you have transcription or archival (London/SE area) needs please do drop me a line. My rates are now on my webpage. #MedievalSky #EarlyModern joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo...

I'm very proud of the work we did on this medieval gold seam in collaboration with TNA. Not only can you use this material for financial and economic history, there are so many tantalising glimpses of people's lives and relationships on the island. #TNAConnections

A privilege to be involved in this project working closely with Paul Dryburgh. Lots of valuable material here, make sure to check it out! @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy

JGI Seedcorn follow-on funding 2023-25 blog post now available! 📰 'Irish Financial Records from the Reign of Edward I: What Applying Data Science Techniques Can Reveal' Blog post by Mike Jones and Brendan Smith @mikej1971.bsky.social Read more now: tinyurl.com/y2zdd9vm

We are now up to 98,000 (!) names recovered from the lost censuses of Ireland. We have found people from every county - and the detective work continues… 👀📜🔎 Search for your family between 1766 and 1891 on our Population Portal www.virtualtreasury.ie/portals/popu... Spread the word ! 😀📢

I’ve just been drinking wine, watching the football and telling a very nice member of the public that actually we don’t wear gloves when handling old documents in archives. One person at a time this myth will finally die…

I’m so pleased I ventured out of my medieval comfort zone tonight to hear @helenesfandiary.bsky.social’s amazing talk about mothers and medicine in the eighteenth century. Lots to think about in relation to childcare, medicine and gender.

As a more-than #TinyJoys this afternoon, we took the fluffies to their favourite woods and Juno ran free with Gus for the first time in over four months. I didn't get a photo because I couldn't look away to grab my phone. The hip replacement surgery and all the recovery was worth it for that.

The weather in London may be vile and I may be on the fourth line of this never ending Latin sentence, but I’ve got coffee and cake in the lovely RADA cafe to make it all better.

Um. I have various writing deadlines looming at me this week/month, and I have just been to the shop to get chocolate-covered ginger, which has replaced my uni self-bribe of chocolate raisins.

Much needed and hopefully will lead to very exciting projects! Tight deadline, unfortunately.

Today I get to keep going on an exciting translation, read about relics and liturgical items in late medieval Ireland, and try not to give myself a headache because I've broken my glasses like an idiot.

Currently my mental state is being gently propped up by a hot chocolate shaker, seven-year old hiking shoes, and the autumn colours in the grey weather.

Published today: 'Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society. The Palmers' Guild of Ludlow', by Rachael Harkes bit.ly/49CIDzC Rachael's new book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series. It's now available free Open Access & paperback print @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2

I enjoyed chairing the brilliant @satisfactory20.bsky.social for her seminar yesterday, which featured the fascinating history of this 'suffragette chain' and lots more. Thanks for a great paper Mari!

What was life really like before vaccines? The story of what happened to 8-year old George Williams in August 1852 gives us a glimpse. open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

It was a pleasure to collaborate with Paul Dryburgh (TNA, UK) on this blog on the fascinating life of H.S Sweetman. More to come so watch this space! @historytcd.bsky.social @virtualtreasury.bsky.social www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

I can't decide whose head in early modern England would explode the most watching this video.

I kind of loathe the 'not your grandma's knitting' shit, AND the 'see it's not just silly woman stuff' push, because I think actually what we need to do is to accept that traditionally feminine crafts are actually very complicated and skilled, rather than divorce them from femininity to accept that.

The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University seeks applicants at the rank of Assistant Professor (tenure-track) whose scholarship focuses on histories of medieval (ca. 500s-1400s) European art and architecture in the world. apply.interfolio.com/174923

Does anyone in #MedievalSky have easy access to this article by any chance? I can't get TCD's new search to cough up Taylor & Francis articles for some reason. Tanner, "Lord High Almoners and Sub-Almoners 1100-1957" in the Journal of the British Archaelogical Association

Next Tuesday the Medieval Manuscripts Seminar is online. Kate Gerry will be sharing her work on the Guthlac Roll. Book 👇 ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research. Reposts welcomed.

Reason 1 million why the NHS is precious, imperfect, but precious. I too have had excellent US healthcare but massively skewed the finances of my parents' insurance by being a very ill neonate. The NHS has looked after me very well while I've lived in the UK *and* costs everyone less.