📢Workshops on Historical Research & Wills 1540-1790📢

Happy to be sharing details of events the Wills project team are running soon #twitterstorians #EarlyModern #History

Mon 17 June, National Archives eventbrite.com/e/896410406657

Fri 21 June, Uni of Exeter eventbrite.com/e/906238352307

This #WorldBeeDay , read all about Bee Boles. 🐝 Learn about these structures and how people in the past interacted with these important pollinators and producers. howtohistory.substack.com/p/bee-boles

Temperance Movement, by Joe Saunders. By the late eighteenth century hard drinking had become a problem in the British Isles. Fears grew amongst some sections of the public, leading to the temperance movement. howtohistory.substack.com/p/temperance-m…

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Latest blog from How-to History

Link in post below, well worth a read, as always

Temperance Movement, by Joe Saunders. By the late eighteenth century hard drinking had become a problem in the British Isles. Fears grew amongst some sections of the public, leading to the temperance movement. howtohistory.substack.com/p/temperance-m…

Our most recent posts include pieces on teaching methods, reading the historic environment, plague and coroners records, and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's Montaillou. Read them and more here: howtohistory.substack.com

How do you research History when you're no longer at University? With the help of you folks, I compiled this list. Happy researching.

(Plus! Bonus picture of my sister's cat looking utterly happy to be exactly where he is in the preview picture.)

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London’s Parish Plague Records by Dr Aaron Columbus. The impact of and response to plague in early modern London reveals much about the transformative growth and development of the capital in this period, for which we have an array of useful sources. howtohistory.substack.com/p/londons-pari…

A wonderful guest post by the always fantastic Dr Aaron Columbus give it a read!

London’s Parish Plague Records by Dr Aaron Columbus. The impact of and response to plague in early modern London reveals much about the transformative growth and development of the capital in this period, for which we have an array of useful sources. howtohistory.substack.com/p/londons-pari…

Getting 11-18 history students to read, by Jon Rosebank. 'Reading books adds essential depth and is a valuable life skill. Construct fun tasks with an obvious purpose and our students surprise both themselves and us.'
howtohistory.substack.com/p/getting-11-1…

Getting 11-18 history students to read, by Jon Rosebank. 'Every history teacher knows how hard it is to get students to read... There is no magic formula, but some strategies can help.'
howtohistory.substack.com/p/getting-11-1…

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Latest How-to History blog - an excellent read as always

Getting 11-18 history students to read, by Jon Rosebank. 'Every history teacher knows how hard it is to get students to read... There is no magic formula, but some strategies can help.'
howtohistory.substack.com/p/getting-11-1…

A good historian is like the legendary ogre. “Where he scents human flesh — he knows that there is his quarry.”
My appreciation of Emmanual Le Roy Ladurie, who died last year. For How-to History howtohistory.substack.com/p/montaillou-a…

Montaillou and the History of Ordinary Folk, by Jay Hancock. Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie divided historians into parachutists and truffle hunters. His most famous historical truffles came from a 14th-century detective case. howtohistory.substack.com/p/montaillou-a…

Montaillou and the History of Ordinary Folk, by Jay Hancock. 'While we were eating, at dusk, Prades Tavernier arrived; he entered quickly into the house and took from his breast some dead squirrels and threw them down. Then he sat down with us and ate.' howtohistory.substack.com/p/montaillou-a…

My favorite kind of history: tiny details that are all around us that we only have to pause and gaze and think upon to see. lynneaboutloughborough How-to History are all over it. tinyurl.com/2s4cysvn

Look Up, Look Down, Look All Around, by Lynne Dyer lynneaboutloughborough. 'Perhaps like many people, I rarely paused to consider the things around me, barely stopping, and just taking everything for granted.' howtohistory.substack.com/p/look-up-look…

It's amazing what you can find when you start to look up, down, and all around!