As of 21 August 2024, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is a fully open-access journal! #skystorians will be able to reach a much wider audience and there are no charges to individual authors for publishing OA. Come and publish with the RHS!
Dr. Bell!!!
“We also write about the haystack, and don’t just treat the past as a pile of needles.’
Me on lessons I’ve learned the hard way about research with digitized newspapers 🗃️
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Now accepting proposals for the 2024 H-Net Teaching Conference. The conference will take place virtually Aug. 19-24. This year's theme is “History, Social Science, and the Humanities: Working in Classrooms and Communities.” Proposals due May 24. CFP linked here: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Table showing cost of items in the 14th C., and the equivalent value in eels. 2 doz. eggs costs 1d, or 6 eels A gallon of the best ale costs 1.25d or 8 eels 1 sheep costs 1s 5d, or 106 eels 1 cow costs 9s 5d, or 706 eels A 2-story cottage costs £2, or 3,000 eels As far as I know, no one was buying cottages with eels. This is more to give you a sense of relative costs. But wouldn't it be interesting if you could buy a house with eels? This chart leaves unanswered the question: "What about the next-best ale?" and suggests and entire spectrum of ale gradations. Which makes good sense, of course. But also, you certainly wouldn't want to spend your eels on inferior ale!
You've probably been wondering: "How many eels is a cottage worth in 14th C. England?"
This is a reasonable question. I get it. And happily, I'm here to help! I included a chart showing this kind of equivalence in an article I wrote for History Extra, but here's an excerpt!
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The first post in the many-headed monster Online Symposium on 'The People and the Law'.
@zoejackson.bsky.social draws on court records to explore what ordinary folk knew about perjury, and what role it played in #EarlyModern communities. 🗃️
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Public history people: check out this call for papers for a special issue of THE PUBLIC HISTORIAN on labor and public history, edited by Andy Urban and Alena Pirok. Good opportunity for a much-needed discussion of these issues. 🗃️
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So thrilled for my amazing colleagues, and thrilled for us all that we get to learn from this find!
"Beard and other archaeologists have now discovered two intact bottles that still had, along with liquid, some of the cherries they contained when they were buried about 250 years ago." 🗃️🌸
Hugest congrats to Dr. @hollygruntner.bsky.social who defended her terrific dissertation fr William & Mary this morning, "From the Ground Up: Practical Gardens and Horticultural Knowledge in Early America!" Dr. Gruntner is working at Mount Vernon on a grant act landscape history this year. Huzzah!!
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Re-upping this fantastic opportunity for community and mentorship with the MHS. Current grad students & recent PhDs can apply. 🗃️
Screengrab from the New York Times Flashback history quiz. Text: "The naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian draws the life cycle of butterflies. Until this era, many people thought insects were spontaneously generated." On the left, one of Merian's drawings of butterflies.
Maria Sybilla Merian is in the @nytimes.com #Flashback quiz today. I first learned about Merian when I was a teaching assistant for #NatalieZemonDavis (NZD) in the early '80s. We should remind ourselves regularly how much of ♀️'s history has only been retrieved in the past few decades.
I'm happy to chat with anyone interested! I can't emphasize enough what a wonderful resource this Program has been (for community, for mentorship, and more) as I've finished my dissertation and begun my post-grad career.
Grad students & recent PhDs (historians 🗃️ & beyond!), I encourage you to apply fr the MHS's Early Career Scholars Committee & Mentorship Program. Members connect w/ other grads, learn abt career paths & access the MHS's many resources. Apps due 3/15: masshistfellowships.slideroom.com#/login/progr...
Last week Dr. Marie Pellisier defended her diss. on food, memory, and historic interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg. 🎉🎉 It was an honor & a joy to advise Marie and this fantastic research. She's now a program officer at Mass Humanities! A taste (haha) of Marie's work is at Gender & History: 🗃️
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr Day, some reflections on Black farmers' role in the Civil Rights movement.
Drs. Monica White & Cynthia Greenlee talk about it here:
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Minnesota has a new flag! Big proponent of flags that are easy to remember, that kids can draw, that don't try to say EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE. Also, the MN-shaped dark blue portion is genius. I'm into it! Thoughts?
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Post and repost Wulf's essay. Let's reclaim the narrative.
My advice for writing History dissertation intros, in the traditional style. 🗃️
#skystorians #writing
Holly branch with green leaves and red berries.
Henri Joseph Redouté Renard, 1812.
American holly tree, Ilex opaca, with its fruit or berries.
Image of Mary Vanderlight Brown's signature.
Our most recent JCB blog post highlights Karin Wulf's recent piece in Common Place journal about finding the Brown brothers' sister in the stacks.
Details here:
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He’s not on Bluesky yet but I wanted to share my friend and cohort member’s first ever peer-reviewed article in the Disability Studies Quarterly. Check out Jasper’s amazing work!
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Watching the firing of the bricks at Colonial Williamsburg. There are 19,000 bricks inside the kiln. 6,000 of these bricks will go to restoring the Bray School building. #ShareCW
I've incorporated suggestions from here & on Mastodon, and my revised graphic on doing historical research is now available for hi-res download. Please feel free to use it with your students! 🗃️
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Looking for someone interested in a short-term copy editing job: fact checking notes, quotes, and translations, and ensuring conformity to our publisher's style guidelines. High level of French proficiency is required. Please share!
The #SHEAR2024 CFP is making the rounds if you’re interesting in submitting a proposal! www.shear.org/call-for-pap...
Some Tuesday validations, via Robert B. Thomas's "Farmer's Almanack" (1818):
"Your house, your barn, your sheds, stables, corn-house, wood-house, and all your possessions denote good husbandry."
Keep it up, #skystorians! 🗃️
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