In case you've missed it, all Oxfordshire Record Society volumes up to Vol.71 (2017) are now *free to download* from oxrecsoc.org/publications! - everything from medieval cartularies to 20th-century school records, via the Civil War, C19 agricultural trade unionism, and lots more ....

Who writes a rhyming table of contents for his sermon notes? Everyone's favourite Essex tradesman, Joseph Bufton, that's who.

'Good things are written in this little Book / As may be seen by them which on it look' #WrittenWorlds

What does it mean when you're more excited about the 'supplication' of Bartholomew Combers, blacksmith, than the grant from 'Elizabeth R' in response? #PowerOfPetitioning

Returning, like a lost soul, to the spiritual home of early modern English social history.

That the plaintiff can reede and write dutche and can vnderstand a lyttle englishe and she hath seen the pl looke now & then into an englishe book to keep hym busye a lyttle but whether he can reede englishe or but looked into the booke to learne to reed or not she cannot tell

☀️Our LRS Summer Programme is live! ☀️

-9/05 Renaissance Bodies
-10/05 Travel Medieval and Early Modern: a Masterclass
-7/06 Learning from Early Modern Books
-14/06 London Locations

All seminars held at Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square
Book your place: bbk.ac.uk/events/

Announcing three paid internships aimed at new researchers who will work on specially tailored projects which are specifically intended to enhance their professional and intellectual development. buff.ly/3wk3x5m Deadline 31/05/24 at 11.59PM #Internship #DigitalHumanities

🚨New #ArtsWeek Event Alert! 🚨

Anthony Bale, author of A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages, and Eva Holmberg, author of Writing Mobile Lives, 1500-1700, will discuss the opportunities and challenges of writing about travel in the past - bbk.ac.uk/events/remote_…

Find out how non-elite people accessed the growing litigation boom in early modern England... join us on May 16th at the Institute of Historical Research to hear more of Dr Laura Flannigan's  fascinating research on common place books of the period. history.ac.uk/events/commonp…

'To be defamed as a perjurer struck right at the heart of this culture—a perjurer could not be trusted, either with the truth or, likely, with anything else of value.'

Zoë Jackson's great new post on the social consequences of lying under oath: manyheadedmonster.com/2024/04/23/tru…

Excited that my new article 'Postmistresses and the State' is now available open access Women's History Review
Thanks to all UWE History who have read it, and cheers also to Mark Hailwood and Dr Mary Chadwick for looking at it in an earlier phase! To read it go to
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Had an amazing opening session of my #Microhistories module yesterday at School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck! We spent most of it trying to figure out what a 'microhistory' actually is. Is it just about scale or is it also about the historian's use of creativity and self-reflection?

It’s really hard to describe the pressures of being an academic at risk of redundancy. You still have to deliver everything the job demands (and normal working conditions demand way too much, prompting years of industrial action) in teaching, research & admin …/1

And a thank you to Mark Hailwood who actually read the whole thing in draft and iirc perfectly predicted what the peer reviews were going to say!

'He would never trust him for a groat'

In the opening post of 'The People and the Law' online symposium, Zoë Jackson discusses the seriousness of perjury in trust-based, face-to-face #earlymodern communities.

manyheadedmonster.com/2024/04/23/tru…

My new post: ''Unlawful Love' and the 1604 Witchcraft Act' #hextag #witchcraft legalhistorymiscellany.com/2024/04/23/unl… via @legalmiscellany