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

Here’s the print reveal of my Spanish Tragedy linocut, where I’m genuinely surprised it worked. VERY satisfying! The carving is very fiddly and takes a long time, and while you’re in progress you think it’ll look terrible. Just another necessary lesson in trusting the process.

This is great! I had a crack at the Thomas Nashe woodcut a while ago using a block of plywood. The end product looked just like the original after about 4 trillion impressions

Please do spread the word about the @srsrensoc.bsky.social Scholars of Colour MA Scholarship Awards -- two pots of £4,000 each, and an optional mentoring opportunity. I've very much enjoyed being a mentor to a fantastic scholar through this scheme!

London Revisited: The Medieval Capital Podcast Episode · Close Readings · 23 March · 1h 29m

On our Close Readings subscription podcast: Rosemary Hill and Matthew Davies, professor of urban history at Birkbeck, trace the story of London through the multiple invasions that took it from a field of ruins to a busy medieval capital. Listen to an extract:

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5 Mar 1600: Reniaulme de Ascanius #London bookseller of Venetian origin buried St Ann Blackfriars #otd Leading importer of foreign books to #London who was permitted to bring in Catholic books for use by the learned. #Booktrade (Bashereyre, St Ann's yard, 2008)

Does anyone happen to have access to Brill's Italian Reformation Online resource? They've digitised this manuscript (the libro di memorie of Vincenzo Burlamachi) and I'd love to see it! primarysources.brillonline.com/browse/itali...

Has anyone come across this woodcut before? It may have belonged to Abel Jeffes at some point but not entirely sure. EBBA isn't working for me so any help would be much appreciated!

This is very helpful, thank you.

Certainly could be, although the line work is still very clear so I don't think it would have seen much use.

(All context that would have been useful but I was too excited to explain myself properly).

Thanks, Liam. It looks early, but it comes from a single leaf of a text (A discourse of the miserable captivitie of an Englishman named Richard Hasleton) printed by Abel Jeffes in the 1590s. However, this leaf doesn't match the other surviving states, so it may be earlier or slightly later!

Thanks, both!

Has anyone come across this woodcut before? It may have belonged to Abel Jeffes at some point but not entirely sure. EBBA isn't working for me so any help would be much appreciated!

The Theewes Claviorgan | Theewes, Lodewyk | V&A Explore The Collections Claviorgan, 1579, English, Lodewyk Theewes

I was writing the other day about a document that mentions the Antwerp-born Londoner Lodewijk Theeuws, but I hadn't realised that a claviorgan he built in 1579 still exists at the V&A, and that it's the earliest surviving keyboard instrument made in Britain. collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O60635/...

Huge congrats!!

Thanks, John! His name is Stephen Frizonfield (?) and pops up around the 1590s, first as collector, then as constable. I'll DM the refs.

Looking forward to reading more. You probably already know that there was a Florentine constable of St Botolph w/o Bishopsgate in the late 1590s!

Public History in Global Perspective Where should public history sit within the matrix of global, international, (trans-)national, and more local histories? Since its emergence in the 1970s, Public History has typically been read as comm...

🔊 Very pleased our book about public history is out and gold open access: Public History in Global Perspective
Inquiry, Exchange and Practice. @ciaranon.bsky.social @geolug.bsky.social @richardlegay.bsky.social
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Come and work with me! The National Archives are looking for an Early Modern Parliamentary Records Specialist. More details available via the link. www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/index.cg...

Yes, I was thinking about ads pinned up on posts or something similar. Basically I'm looking at a whole group of landlords and tenants who don't seem to have any direct connection (church, livery company, etc.)

Both good questions. As for the first, this kind of ephemera tend not to survive (I'm thinking paper advertisements pinned to posts in the manner of playbills)... Second is a good shout -- I'll keep digging!

Almost certainly, but I'm wondering if there was a more formal way to advertise pre-newsbooks 🤔

You're very welcome! It was great fun.

A seventeenth-century illustration of two unarmoured fencers fighting with two-handed swords.

'Masters of Defence: Fencers and Fencing in England, c. 1400-1600'

Next Friday evening, at 7pm UK time, I’ll be talking about my research for the German Federation for Historical Fencing.
You can join the talk here:
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I was also unconvinced by the time I submitted 😂

I wrote my undergraduate dissertation on Robert Greene as the first literary celebrity. Can't say it went down that well.

Perhaps a silly question but does anyone know how landlords advertised rental properties in sixteenth-century London?

I've been away so very late to this but I can confirm that the Founders are a great bunch and the food/wine top-notch.