📣 Call for papers: Caring Communities: Rethinking Histories of Care, Class, and Kinship, 1800-present Newcastle University, Thursday 3 - Friday 4 September 2026. Deadine for submissions: Friday 24 April 2026. caringcommunities.co.uk/conference/

Historians of rural Europe! @joshrhodes.bsky.social and I are putting together a session for ESSHC 2027. If this is up your street, we'd love to hear from you! 👇

Historians of rural Europe! @joshrhodes.bsky.social and I are putting together a session for ESSHC 2027. If this is up your street, we'd love to hear from you! 👇

Thinking of publishing a book on women's mobility? We'd love to hear from you! 👇👇

My latest article is out in Rural History on firstview! A case study of a set of mills in Bovey Tracey, Devon, that exemplifies the economic, political, and customary disputes surrounding early modern milling #earlymodern #millhistory www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The new issue of History Today is on sale now. Featuring: the #18thcentury Grand Tour, the Tyndale Bible, the fall of Jerusalem, African princes in the age of slavery, and more. Find out what else is inside the April issue and order it directly from our store at www.historytoday.com/magazine

The EHS is delighted to announce the shortlist for the biennial First Monograph Prize for the best first monograph in Economic and/or Social History published during 2024 and 2025. The shortlisted nominees are: Damian Clavel, Bart Danon, Koji Hirata, Charmian Mansell, Tehila Sasson and Robert Yee.

Such lovely news! 🤩

So pleased to be on the list of American Historical Association prize winners. My book, Female Servants in Early Modern England, was awarded the Morris D. Forkosch Prize in British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history since 1485. Congratulations to all the other awardees!

“Cataclysmically bad” This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised. 1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/ 🗃️

Last chance to book tickets for my virtual talk on medieval murder for Curious Histories: Charity History Talks www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mapping-mu...

Congratulations to Rosemary Sweet and @RichardJAnsell! Their #OpenAccess book No Country for Travellers? published today. Read & download free at: bit.ly/4kJYgIl #TravelWriting #EighteenthCentury #Spain #Portugal

Charmian Mansell's Female Servants in Early Modern England has been awarded the Thirsk Prize for Best Book in British or Irish Rural or Agrarian History by the British Agricultural History Society. 📖 bit.ly/9780197267585 @charmianmansell.bsky.social @britishacademy.bsky.social @braghs.bsky.social

📖 I've got a new chapter out on accounting as a technique of labour management in C18th English capitalist agriculture In this volume of Farm Accounts @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social >>

Over the next few weeks, we're highlighting the 8 articles and 8 books shortlisted for this year's RHS Early Career Article and First Book Prizes. Today we feature 'Female Servants in Early Modern England', bit.ly/43OeABX, by Charmian Mansell 1/2

Such a lovely surprise to have my book shortlisted for this RHS prize! Congratulations, too, to all the other shortlisted authors!

Historians/geographers/archaeologists: I'm looking for books where the historian goes to the places they are writing about as an integral part of the work (think Gange, Frayed Atlantic Edge). Also looking for theory/method about going to places & imagining them in the past. Any suggestions?

📣New blog post alert!📣 Today @charmianmansell.bsky.social gives us 5 reasons why service in the past was not always like Downton Abbey... www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog #skystorians

Great new article on geo-coding British census addresses 👇👇👇

So pleased my article on geo-coding addresses of 121 million + people in British censuses 1851-1911 is now out with Historical Methods! #openaccess - map any census info (ages, occupations, birthplaces etc) by address - link census to other spatial datasets Get the code and data 👇

Check out my talk with @charmianmansell.bsky.social on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Female Servants in Early Modern England. @oxunipress.bsky.social 💙📚 #earlymodern #skystorians #16thc #17thc #history

A couple years ago I put together a little list of yearly fellowships and applications, mostly for early modernists. It includes deadlines, salaries, and requirements. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Hello, new followers! Reposting this recent announcement for those who missed it: New era for the HLQ. Please share widely! If you study the #earlymodern period (c. 1400-1800) in any discipline, we'd love to see what you're working on. www.pennpress.org/journals/jou...

KCL's Centre for Early Modern Studies hasn't made the leap here yet, so sharing a CFP for a conference "Rethinking State and Society" organised by our wonderful colleague Jonah Miller... #EarlyModern 🗃️

Honored and delighted to be joining this conversation next week with Steve Hindle and Charmain about her [@charmianmansell.bsky.social] excellent new book @thenacbs.bsky.social www.nacbs.org/event-detail...

Very pleased to see this post out today, and to share some of my PhD research on perjury in early modern communities.

My book Female Servants in Early Modern England is out now! And it’s open access! Order here (for 30% off enter code AAFLYG6) or download for free 👇 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

If you need me, I’ll be checking these proofs for a couple of days… #earlymodern should be out in March 2024.

📣From our latest issue! Charmian Mansell (@charmianmansell.bsky.social) (@camhistory.bsky.social) on 'Reconstructing the Labour of Care in Early Modern England' #Labour #Care #Economy #Resources #Food #Emotion 🫂 🔓Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🗃️📉📈

The English translation of our book that studies slavery in the history of the Dutch Central Bank (DNB) is now available Open Acces! It can be downloaded here: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... @fatahblack.bsky.social and Lauren Lauret.

History folk! Anyone got any clues what this might be? About the size of a cigarette packet but sadly lacking any identifying branding I can see… #19c 🗃️

Finally made it over here and looking forward to connecting with people. I’m an early modern historian with an almost finished book on female servants 🥳 also: gender and work, early modern mobility/travel and legacies of British slave traders. Hello!