It's possible, but it's a fair amount of labour to track job ads because jobs.ac.uk doesn't give people access to their data and the listings expire, so you'd need to be keeping a live spreadsheet throughout the whole year. Here's the results from 10 years ago: manyheadedmonster.com/2016/04/11/j...
Last chance to sign up for this event on Friday. We already have more than 90 people signed up to attend, but I'd love to see a hundred of you there!
15 minutes; no questions; government got the blame; my department to have 60% of us sacked. Apparently sacking us will lead to a ‘new, improved’ curriculum. No voluntary scheme, straight to selection and legal minimum redundancy payment.
Final thought - if this is how they treat the best-performing REF unit of assessment at the university, nobody is safe.
Looks like the UK government has decided that this is actual policy, rather than a bad joke?
Sadly no more than a sentence in my current draft article. He's an interesting case of unconventional 'writers' for hire, but not quite within scope. Will email the photos.
The ERO catalogue has a fairly extensive summary of the examination including some direct quotes: www.essexarchivesonline.co.uk/result_detai... I've got photos of the exam if you'd like!
Very stylish indeed - thanks, Sarah!
Wonderful! As it happens he was making fake passports for soldiers, so the military styling seems very fitting.
A dandy forging passports for a rough group of soldiers wandering the Essex countrysides...
Quite curious to know what 'a payre of venesyans of canvas cutt' are. I'm hoping some wonderfully flamboyant Venetian-style pantaloons, but perhaps a proper #EarlyModern clothing expert can enlighten me.
Photograph of manuscript from the Essex Record Office, Q/SR 113/39.
Delighted to encounter in the archives this unexpected Elizabethan...
Kytte Myller 'a pedlar, whoe is a maker of Passportes and goeth apparelled in a Spanyshe lether Jerkynne with longe cutts and a payre of venesyans of canvas cutt', selling his services at Chelmsford Fair on Mayday 1590. 🗃️
Elaborate title to a plan of Glasgow Green and nearby coal workings (1828). At least it doesn't contain any Comic Sans.
I know lithographers who use consistent typefaces, and they're all cowards.
At the event we'll be hearing from @lsangha.bsky.social, @lauracking.bsky.social, Paul Carter (TNA), @ruthslatter.bsky.social, @isabellajackson.bsky.social, Grace Huxford (Bristol), @lucynoakes1.bsky.social, @beckierutherford.bsky.social & Naomi Tadmor (Lancaster), all at the @ihr.bsky.social!
No worries, we've had nearly 100 sign ups so should be a full house!
EARLY MODERN HAT TROUBLE
(there is a bit in my phd thesis somewhere about men knocking each other's brains out because somebody disrespected their hat)
Screenshot of the Introduction to the Chester City Hearth Tax webpage. Link to the page in the text of the post.
1,360 households in the 'Cittie of Chester' in 1664 now transcribed on the Hearth Tax Digital site. Read the intro here: gams.uni-graz.at/o:htx.chstr/...
And read the returns for all the households here, fully #OpenAccess: gams.uni-graz.at/o:htx.chstr
#EarlyModern 🗃️
There's a Holy Grail African swallow joke in there somewhere...
A little thread on early modern immigration control. Feat. a 'commission for strangers' among other experiments... In 16thC and 17thC common law, subjects had access to both 'legal' protection and 'natural' protection by virtue of birth in the monarch's dominions ("in allegiance").
Really pleased to share my (open access!) article on immigration control in early modern England, feat. rights-bearing subjects, rightsless migrants, and experiments in immigration control
Bookings open! It's going to be a fabulous event!
It's happening all over the post-92 bit of the sector. Moves are afoot in places not making headlines yet and the cover excuse is the TPS pension. The question now is will organised labour react and will this get the urgency it demands from academics in USS?
Cover of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
If this seems like your sort of thing, you can read the whole thing for free #OpenAccess here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
Thanks to @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @aucointaylor.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social (via @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social), for reminding me that my kids are slackers. 🗃️
Lovely discussion of *The Experience of Work in Early Modern England* in the LRB:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Samuel Pepys had significant professional and social connections to transatlantic slavery in the years covered by his diary and afterwards, mediated by his involvement with two English slave-trading companies – the Royal African Company and the Company of Royal Adventurers trading to Africa. He also owned and sold at least two enslaved people in London in the 1670s and 1680s. This article uses previously neglected manuscript evidence to reassess Pepys’s involvement in enslavement and his status as an enslaver. It emphasizes three themes: the relationship between Pepys’s official connections to the African companies and his private ownership of enslaved people; the development of his involvement in slavery within his extensive social and professional networks; and Pepys’s own agency in curating his official and personal archives to shape and limit our knowledge of his slave ownership. In doing so, it considers how the consciously expressed professional and ethical priorities of administrators and slave-owners like Pepys shaped the complex archival traces of slavery in England and erased the experiences and voices of enslaved people.
📣Out now on #firstview
Michael Edwards @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social on 'Samuel Pepys, the African Companies, and the Archives of Slavery, 1660–1689'
#Archives #Letters #Diary #History 17thc 🗃️
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
At the event we'll be hearing from @lsangha.bsky.social, @lauracking.bsky.social, Paul Carter (TNA), @ruthslatter.bsky.social, @isabellajackson.bsky.social, Grace Huxford (Bristol), @lucynoakes1.bsky.social, @beckierutherford.bsky.social & Naomi Tadmor (Lancaster), all at the @ihr.bsky.social!
Festival of Social History To celebrate 50 years of the Social History Society, we’ve teamed up with the Institute of Historical Research to host a Social History Festival! The festival will feature two expert discussion panels, a series of interactive stalls (where you will be able to try your hand at historical zine-making and find out about some fascinating projects run by our members), tours of Senate House, an extended lunch for discussion and interaction, a drinks reception, and an evening keynote lecture. We warmly welcome history enthusiasts of whatever stripe. Booking details are at the bottom of this page.
Next month the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social is hosting a Festival of Social History! Come one, come all! 🗃️
Experts! Projects! Zines! Lunch! Wine!
socialhistory.org.uk/events/festi...
We're hosting a whole afternoon discussing 'whose middle ages?' at Birkbeck on Friday. Hope to see you there!
It’s been out a while now, but Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thcentury British travel to Spain and Portugal that is free to download here!
uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun...
This is the second major publication from the #WrittenWorlds project, following Laura Seymour's article on 'A cordwainer’s wife in high politics: a microhistory of Mrs Caute', which examines another unexpected seventeenth-century writer and unconventional text: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....