Excellent first day at @braghs.bsky.social conference in Bury Guildhall yesterday. Looking forward to the second day at the @foodmuseumuk.bsky.social Stowmarket.

Looking forward to the @braghs.bsky.social conference and to sharing some thoughts on the great Sir Walter Dundas of that Ilk!

Have just encountered Lucretia Dawling, daughter of a tenant farmer in West Lothian, 1632. I am pretty confident I've never seen that name before in an early modern Scottish source. Anyone?

Today I decided it was time to stick a phrase from LOTR into a chapter I'm writing. Here's hoping it will survive the editing process.

Do Routledge ever employ copy editors? Currently reading this and almost every chapter reads like it went straight from first draft to print.

This is weird, because when Trump destroyed records, the AHA got very upset www.historians.org/news/aha-sta... 🗃️

Job alert: the National Library of Scotland is looking to recruit a permanent, F/T curator of early modern books and other printed material. Please share widely! nls.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

Twins!

Apparently my book, 'Serious Crime in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland', is now available for pre-order! Use discount code NEW30 for 30% off! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-serious...

"Walmart makes the places it operates in poorer than they would be if it had never shown up at all. Sometimes consumer prices are an incomplete, even misleading, signal of economic well-being." Fascinating studies on the broader effects of Walmart: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social

Haven't gotten my hands on any of Annas' own books yet BUT we can reconstruct her book ownership and potential reading habits from other sources #HerBook

Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content. That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂

Beautiful, chilly lunchtime walk with Magnus. Pondering 1690s famine and fasting. Thinking's often so much easier outside.

Excited to be composing my first SPCR footnotes spcr.ac.uk This, just ike RPS, will soon become second nature, but now it has the thrill of walking on freshly fallen snow.

A list of the harvest work done by Bessie Gray on the Dundas Estate, West Lothian, in August 1621. Many thraves, stooks and sheaves of wheat, bere and oats were shorn.