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Crime and Punishment in Early Modern London and the Home Counties Crime and punishment in early modern London and the home counties is a rich area of study. Students will encounter not only the changes in the law across the period, but also the very real human stori...

There's still space on my Summer course. I promise a week of highway robbery, pickpockets, pirates, burglary, murder, execution, & more. It'll be great fun!
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Fatness, Thinness & Embodiment: Interdisciplinary Perspectives This roundtable will initiate interdisciplinary conversations on the topic of fatness, thinness and embodiment.

I'll be speaking about my NEW BOOK 'Body Size in Early Modern Germany' at the roundtable 'Fatness, Thinness & Embodiment: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' next week (28 April) at UCL, and ONLINE, with Dr @psimonetto.bsky.social and Dr Grace Lucas. Sign up below!

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If you or your students research any aspect of British, Irish or British colonial/imperial history (Roman empire to today) and need a tool that will never hallucinate sources, check out the BBIH. It develops research skills rather than repressing them. Instit. & indiv. subscriptions available.

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I'm sick of university security updates making it harder & harder to work in the transient way that working for multiple organisations requires. Why do I have to use a specific browser? Why can't I access some things on LNER WiFi? Why do I need to authenticate myself so many times? Just frustrated!

PAST Early Modern Legal: Online Overview A one-day online introduction to Early Modern Legal records.

On 11 June 2026, I'm running an online intro to early modern legal records, part of The National Archives' Practical Archival Skills Training #TNAPAST workshops. More details can be found via the link. For accompanying on-site workshops, see the below thread www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-early...

Rare painting sparks identity quest by National Portrait Gallery Research is underway to uncover the identity of two teenagers in 17th Century portrait.

This is so cool and I can’t wait to see it on display at the National Portrait Gallery. Really fascinating to see this kind of rare double portrait with male figures.

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When Thomas Ellwood repeatedly flouted his father’s command in 1659 to stay away from the Quakers, his behaviour provoked bitter family quarrels and a beating, until his father eventually found a surprising solution: he confiscated all his son’s hats. Thomas became in effect a prisoner in the house, accepting that it would be unthinkable to go outside without a hat. However strange to us today, this made perfect sense to contemporaries, and such episodes remind us that the multifaceted conventions surrounding dress played an important role in early modern culture. When, where, and how hats were worn, and the gestures in which they featured, conveyed signals about identity and status, could sustain, display, or defy social hierarchies and relationships, and asserted political or religious loyalties.

📣Out now on #firstview

Bernard Capp @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social on 'The Cultural, Social, and Ideological Role of the Hat in Early Modern England'

#Hat #Identity #Social #Clothing #Religion #Family #History 17thc 🎩👒🗃️

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Dealing With the Dead: Early Quaker Burial Practices - Woodbrooke It was in part through their unique beliefs and practices surrounding death that the early Quakers distinguished themselves from other radical dissenting

Where do Quakers “go” when they die? Interested in the cultural histories of death and burial? Join us at Woodbrooke on 28 July 2026 for a fascinating talk by the fabulous @annacusack.bsky.social titled: Dealing with the Dead — Early Quaker Burial Practices

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Portrait of Charles II

Illuminated manuscript with portrait of Charles II

King of bling Charles II flashing a bit of leg on this illuminated King's Bench Plea Roll title rotulet. Saucy. TNA KB 27/1880/2

The Oldest Firm: Institutional Football in Medieval Scotland It’s a historic time for Scottish football: the men’s national team has qualified for the World Cup, ending a near three-decade drought. Scotland’s rugby (football) team has a cha…

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We all know about the #OldFirm. But what's the 'oldest firm' in the history of Scottish #football?
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The answer takes us back to #medieval and #earlymodern St Andrews, where university and city invested in an unlawful game.
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Done some spring cleaning for my London Lives Petitions Project webpages. Dataviz should no longer be broken, checked links, added a few updates. london.sharonhoward.org/llpp/

I completely forgot I made this... a big list of English judicial records, 1500 to 1800, published and often online!

Congratulations 🎉 so excited for you and this!

Body Size in Early Modern Germany Abstract. This book uncovers the significance of body size—of fatness and thinness—in early modern Germany. It explores how early modern people conceived o

So so pleased to see that my book ‘Body Size in Early Modern Germany’ is now available on Oxford Academic ahead of its print publication later this month: academic.oup.com/book/62409

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To mark its online publication, I thought I’d share a bit more about the book and its contents...

In person early modern metals event in London next month with me, @laurenworking.bsky.social, and Lubaaba Al-Azami. Please repost and share widely! And register here -- forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Congratulations Sophie 🎉 wonderful news! You superstar!

Joe Saunders History Here to help with any historical project including genealogy, property history, problem solving, archival photography and writing up research. Joe Saunders History

I am happy to undertake historic research on behalf of organisations of all kinds, including businesses and charities. My experience includes writing histories up for print and digital publication, as well as formal reports for internal use. www.joesaundershistory.co.uk

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️

Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around!
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early modern woodcut of an apothecary stirring a pot, with two customers approaching.

Next Thursday! @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social will be at @ihrscb.bsky.social to talk about 'The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World, 1500-1750: Matter in Multispecies Medicine'

Register here to attend this in-person event at @ihr.bsky.social:
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Tasting History Researching and Experiencing the Development of the Cheese Trade Keynes Library, Gordon Square Tuesday 24 February 2026 1500-1730 This interactive, experiential event will include a discussion with Ned Palmer, author of A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles, and Alasdair McNeill, a Birkbeck doctoral student researching the early modern cheese trade. It will be accompanied by a free tasting of six historic cheeses. Ned will introduce each cheese by placing it in its historical context, and the tastings will be interspersed with a conversation between Ned and Alasdair about the development of the trade and its importance to broader histories of commercialisation, labour relations, and women’s social and economic role. They will also discuss the value, and limits, of experiential food studies. How can the history of cheese – from milking to mongering – illuminate the role of ordinary women and men in their local communities and wider society? How can producing and tasting historic foods help us understand their histories?

‘Tasting History: Researching and Experiencing the Development of the Cheese Trade’, with @cheesetastingco.bsky.social and @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social, hosted by Birkbeck's Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Feb 24th!

Register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Selling Education in England, 1650–1715* Abstract. In the period 1650–1715, a growing consensus emerged that educational culture in England did not meet the needs of the population, and that chang

My new article, 'Selling Education in England, 1650-1715' is now out (open access) in the English Historical Review! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

Only just seen this, such sad news. Clare was always so kind and generous with her time. I am very grateful for her support when I did my own PhD and I spent several years working with her at the National Portrait Gallery where her enthusiasm and love of everything she did shone through.

Hi. Yes I am ☺️

I am so sorry to hear this. I covered for Tom at Essex a couple of times and he was always very generous with his knowledge and materials for teaching.

Women, Food and Power - Joint Session

Excited to be speaking at the IHR Food History seminar on 12 February 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm.

Book a place to hear about cheesemaking and women’s dominance of the dairy in early modern England.

Online via Zoom so no real cheese this time I’m afraid.

Webpage of the Society of Antiquaries of London with text describing the society with image of old text and a drawing of Stonehenge.

Antiquarianism, by Joe Saunders. Antiquarians have served an important part in the study of history over the last few hundred years, and their work has helped the development of the modern historical sciences. how-to-history.com/2026/01/28/a...

First page of Transactions article, 'Remembering Rebellion in the Tudor South West', by Mark Stoyle. Full abstract: "This article explores how the five major rebellions which took place in Devon and Cornwall between 1485 and 1603 were subsequently remembered by the region’s inhabitants. It begins by demonstrating that – although early modern elites generally preferred to say as little as possible about episodes of popular protest once they had been safely suppressed – the revolts which had occurred under the Tudor monarchs went on to be officially memorialised in several South Western communities. The article then moves on to discuss how local gentlefolk looked back on the rebellions, and argues that such individuals tended, in their retrospective accounts, to exaggerate the degree of social radicalism which had been exhibited by the insurgents. Next, the article considers the few scraps of evidence which have survived about popular memories of the protests, and suggests that, while the specific grievances which had motivated the rebels may well have been quite quickly forgotten, the desperate courage with which they had fought – particularly during the Western Rising of 1549 – had continued to be remembered by the ordinary people of the region for decades to come. The fourth and last part of the article looks at ‘modern’ commemoration of the revolts and draws out some general conclusions."

Between 1485 & 1603 Devon and Cornwall experienced 5 major rebellions: how were they remembered regionally, over time and across social divisions? And how are they being commemorated today?

'Remembering Rebellion in the Tudor South West': bit.ly/3YXxbbz: a new TRHS article by Prof Mark Stoyle 1/2

Photo of an English village, showing a lane with terraced white houses to the left of it and a parish church further along.

📢FIRST FEATURED WILL OF 2026📢

'if it shall please God to afflict me before my Death’.

Emily explores the will of Mary Young, who anticipated that she might lose mental or physical capacity at the end.

#EarlyModern 🗃️ @leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social

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