In our latest History Matters blog, Cameron Whiteside explores the benefits and pitfalls of early modern equity. Read it here 👇 historymatters.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/blog-archive/2…

🚨 call for papers klaxon! 🚨 I’m running this cool collaborative workshop on experiencing law, government and politics in early modernity SCEMS is on Bluesky @sheffieldcems.bsky.social on June 7th! graduate students and ECRs, get your abstracts in by May 1st!

BREAKING NEWS: Arts & Humanities Research Council funds research into the arts & humanities. More on this shocking story as it develops

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“My son’s gone ‘woke’” “Oh no, what happened?” “He’s started studying the Early Modern English grain trade”

Also, to see how this project relates to current concerns, see this piece I wrote: historyworkshop.org.uk/food/the-moral…

There's still time to sign up for this online workshop, supported by @PastPresentSoc and St John's College, exploring 'Popular Knowledge of the Law in Early Modernity'. Happening this time next week! 👇

📣 Seems like a good time to make this announcement! A forthcoming volume based on the project's research to be published in the BA Records of Social and Economic History series!

'Maintaining the status quo is not enough. We should be pushing political leaders to lay out a bold vision of a fairer, more adaptable food system that works for all people as well as nature.' Great read 👇

calling all The University of Sheffield students! I am recruiting student actors to participate in my practice-as-research workshops, where you'll get to act out interactions between early modern magistrates and the people they tried to govern. paid £50 per half-day workshop! pls RT!

What can a flurry of petitions and counter-petitions about Thomas Morely's disorderly alehouse tell us about popular politics? Find out in my *new* #OpenAccess article in Journal of British Studies on the #PowerOfPetitioning in early modern England: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

just four days left to submit to this exciting interdisciplinary workshop! historians, literary critics, sociologists, linguists: all welcome! please RT!

‘In an age where hoaxes and misinformation spread faster than can be countered … the role of historians seems to matter more than ever’. Check out our latest HM blog by Carla Gutiérrez Ramos reflecting on the current political landscape in Spain historymatters.sites.sheffield.ac.uk/blog-archive/2…

in-person registration is open for this exciting workshop, featuring papers from Lily Freeman-Jones, Dr Laura Flannigan, Richard Bell, Mark Jones, Amy Louise Smith, Lucy Ryell and Anastasios Vavalis, and a practice-as-research workshop on arrests by yours truly! eventbrite.co.uk/e/experiencing…

roll up, roll up, sign up for this interdisciplinary workshop at Sheffield next month! come for the papers, stay to watch the practice-as-research workshop investigating the experience of early modern arrest! free to attend, lunch is provided. eventbrite.co.uk/e/experiencing…

It's here!! *The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain* Published #OpenAccess by UCL Press, chapters from @treorchyexile, @EllyRobson9, Sharon Howard, Hannah Worthen, Imogen Peck, @KarinBowie, @annlaurahughes & J. Peacey: petitioning.history.ac.uk/blog/2024/05/n… #PowerOfPetitioning

Fabulous to see this come to fruition!

Great new guest blog on Swedish milling - food provisioning and the challenges of population growth 👇

📣CFP: The Politics of the English Grain Trade are hosting a conference in 2025 on 'The Comparative History of the Grain Trade, c.1500-1800'. politicsoftheenglishgraintrade.co.uk/2024/11/04/pro…