I passed my viva with minor corrections! A huge thank you to my examiners @janmachielsen.bsky.social and @profelainechalus.bsky.social for such a positive and constructive experience!

Submitted the thesis! Now to rest

We're pleased to announce the programme for the 2025 Spooky History Conference! We have 3 fantastic panels full of spooky papers. Sign up for the conference here: forms.gle/Rn7vSGs1xxqn...

Our Call for Papers is open! If you are working on anything spooky get in touch! This is a fun, informal conference for anyone studying anything “spooky” in history or a related field and the perfect way to spend Halloween 🎃 🗃️ #skystorians #academicsky #HexTag

It's spooky time! Elizabeth and I cannot wait to read all the fantastic abstracts!

I enjoy living in a village. I do not enjoy walking 45 mins for a doctors appointment when the farmers have just manured the fields

On which ... what are you favourite online collections of early modern letters, diaries/life-writing, and other 'personal documents'? #EarlyModern 🗃️

Had a lovely chat with my supervisor, it's finally hitting me just how much work I have done! The end is in sight!

📢Handwritten Text Recognition model klaxon📢 Want to give automated transcription a try? See below 👇 #EarlyModern 🗃️

Listening to research proposal presentations today and feeing inspired by all the new research going on!

Let’s gooooooo!

Hey England can we stop going down to the wire my heart can’t deal with extra time

Still looking for submissions for the @rsaorg.bsky.social panel "Living with Demons: Emotions, Encounters, Experiences". Any #earlymodern #hextag peeps please do get in touch? Fwiw, Stuart Clark personally endorsed the abstract. 😅 www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

Brilliant round table to end the magic and witchcraft conference!

Day 2! 🧙‍♀️

1 month into The Thing About Salem podcast, & we're thrilled with the opportunity to tell this rich, complex story week by week. From Salem's "witch cake", to judges experimenting with poppets in court proceedings. Read about it: aboutsalem.com/we-are-just-...

Ready and raring for the York Magic and Witchcraft Conference! 3 days talking about all things witchcraft!

A great Friday read. 🗃️ #Pride #TransHistory

I've had my first meetings with my new Master's students this week, and it's so nice to hear their motivations for their research projects! It's really helping me get through the last stretch of my PhD

He's ready for pride month :') #cats

Travelling to Liverpool for my final ever PGR conference! Theses conferences are always a great opportunity to see the variety of research done in the history department (and an opportunity to socialise!)

OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn

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Can’t wait to ramble about cute (read demonic) animals like this guy!

Got a nasty dark scan too? You could try ...

Trans rights are human rights

I do love an excuse to waffle about witchcraft! Join me next friday with Historical Perspectives!

Join us this Friday, April 18 at 3pm for our next seminar! Chandini Jaswal talks through their research on Panāh-i Din Daran: The Story of the Forgotten Mughal Capital Dīnpanāh. Don’t miss out, sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/works-in-p...

It’s 7 pages adobe, I don’t think I need an ai summary

my HORRIFYING cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books

Back home after the #rsa2025 and a wonderful week in Boston! It wouldn’t have been complete with out a visit to Salem too! Thanks @toujoursbizarre.bsky.social for being the best travel buddy!

What a wonderful discussion about witchcraft to round off the RSA! Now to have a nap and a drink or two

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

The what is next for witchcraft studies? Roundtable was such a positive discussion!

Between me, @ehxlibris.bsky.social, and @undomielise.bsky.social, we have created our own #RSA2025 and #Shax2025 bingo after discussing it during dinner. Download and enjoy! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Hoping to keep the positivity of todays witchcraft roundtable in our panel tomorrow!

I had a brilliant time rambling about witchcraft with Sarah and Joshua! Thank you for having me!

Last week, I had a great time talking about all things witchcraft with the End Witch Hunts Podcast! It was a wonderful excuse to discuss two of my favourite English witchcraft cases, and show the best magistrate's signature I've ever seen!

Most of the time I really enjoy my research, other days I discover incomplete transcriptions, and the only person I have to blame is past me😟

A rare example of Cistercians prosecuting witchcraft (15th c): new piece from Maxime Gelly-Perbellini on Criminology Corpus journals.openedition.org/criminocorpu... 🗃️ #hextag

Nothing like a power cut to create the perfect ambience for thesis writing!

Dear fellow historians: I recently asked my undergraduate students what sparked their interest in studying history. Two of them mentioned the film Titanic! Now I'm curious (and will let them know): What sparked your interest in studying #history?