At the end of my first year in the US, in June 2026, I'll also be taking up a one-month fellowship at The Folger Library @folger.edu. Details of my project and all others for the current fellowship year here: www.folger.edu/research/the.... Hoping to meet lots of fellow scholars in DC!

With visas approved and flights booked it's now becoming very real - excited to say that I am starting a new position next month as the Warner Woodring Chair in Early Modern History at The Ohio State University @osuhistory.bsky.social!

I'm really honoured that Royal Justice was awarded the First Book Prize by the RHS. I look back on this project with great fondness. Personally it feels like the perfect way to round out my time at Oxford and @stjohnsox.bsky.social, where all the writing took place. Thank you @royalhistsoc.org!

Over the next three 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 'Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485–1547', by Laura Flannigan bit.ly/4mUavDP 1/2

Laura Flannigan's new book 'Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth' has been shortlisted for the RHS First Book Award! www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/laur...

While I'm on here, I should say: the book prize news coming through was only the second most exciting thing that happened in my life yesterday...

Beyond thrilled and honoured to see my book on the shortlist for this year's @royalhistsoc.org First Book Prize!!! Thanks to the prize panel for this recognition, and congrats to the other shortlisted authors

DATE CHANGE. My workshop on using Equity and Conciliar Court records for research is now on Thursday 10 July 2025. Details and booking info via the link. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-early....

Really delighted with this review!

Looking forward to this workshop organised by @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social in May - where we'll be having a go at staging some less-than-deferential responses to royal documents from sixteenth-century legal records, among other exciting things. Come along!

Good news - my book on kingly justice in the early Tudor period is shortly going to be available in paperback, at the reasonable price of £29.99. Do take a look here if you're interested! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Happy New Year! I for one received a lovely belated Christmas gift in the form of my new article, out now on First View for Continuity and Change. It's even available Open Access for all to read: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

It's been a while since I've posted here, so thought I should re-introduce myself with some updates! Here's a sneak peek at two articles coming soon... the first a long-time project on fifteenth-century dispute narratives finally written up for Continuity and Change:

Dinner ahead of our @thenacbs.bsky.social panel bright and early tomorrow morning! For those in Baltimore join me, @lflannigan17.bsky.social, and Zoe Jackson tomorrow at 8am to learn about local knowledge and use of the law in early modern England! #nacbs23

Morning everyone - my book on royal justice, the Court of Requests, and the early Tudors is out NOW for those with online access! Print publication to follow shortly... www.cambridge.org/core/books/r...

It was great to be part of this legal records event at The National Archives earlier this year - featuring pleadings from the courts of Requests, Chancery, and more!

New year, new home, new social media, new research (?), but same old St John's ❤️