'Medieval Mobilities: Gendered Bodies, Spaces, and Movements', which I edited with Dr Jane E Bonsall and Meagan Khoury is now published with Palgrave Macmillan as part of the New Middle Ages Series! link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9….

We were talking in class today about consent to marriage in the Middle Ages, and impediments to consent, and a student asked if drunkenness affected ability to consent. I can’t think of where this is discussed … anyone?

On the day of her execution, a computer scientist, a musician, and a patent lawyer reveal that they stumbled on 57 fully ciphered letters online (!) & decoded them, using frequency analysis and algorithms. They turned out to be by Mary, Queen of Scots. telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/0…

Very pleased to share that my journal article on 'Intersensory Experiences of the Plague in Seventeenth-Century London' has been published online this week with Social History of Medicine SSHM (@sshmedicine.bsky.social) academic.oup.com/shm/advance-ar…

Taught my “Fall of Rome” class Friday, always one of my faves because it defies expectations. The Goths for instance repeatedly ask permission from Rome - they don’t want to end Rome, they want to be part of it, but on their terms. Legitimacy was inconceivable without Rome.

Noble of David II, struck in c.1357. This is the 1st ever Scottish gold coin & 1 of just 4 remaining in existence. It’s one of the The Hunterian coins we’ll be looking at in the NEMN Conference 2023 workshop on minting technology #ScottishHistory #Numismatics #twitterstorians #History #Museum

I had the vaccine and my penis dropped off. Honest. It got better.

The sumptuary laws in mid 15th century Scotland limited commoners to wearing grey and white. In practice, this was probably sheep's colour e.g the natural colour of the fleece which varied from off white to dark grey/ brown.

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Have you seen our latest issue? With excellent new research from Dr Cathryn R Spence, Cordelia Beattie, Leslie Dodd, Alistair Mutch, Naomi Lloyd-Jones, Iain Hutchison & Harry M Lewis… and a bevvy of reviews on recent #scottishhistory books!

Inchcolm Abbey, Firth of Forth (Scotland) reconstruction mock-up over Cameron Morrison. image. An Augustinian House the 'Iona of the East'. It was raided several times by English ships in the 1300s and during the Rough Wooing Wars in the 1540s. #IncholmAbbey #HistoryRebuilt

Looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join the "Pelvic Health and Public Health in Twentieth Century Canada" project - more info here: research.viu.ca/sites/default/… #histmed #twitterstorians CSHM-SCHM

Nine-month, limited-term appointment at the rank of assistant professor in the Dept of Celtic Studies at St Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia for the 2023-24 academic year available. More information can be found here: mystfx.ca/hr/sites/hr/fi…

Sign-ups now open for our belated #WomensHistoryMonth special seminar! Professor Karen Harvey will share her research in a paper titled 'Women's Embodied Lives in Letters: Britain, 1680-1820'. Social Bodies in British Letters, 1680-1820 Don't miss out! Details: 🗓7 June 2023 🕓4pm BST 🔗wp.me/p4HWDD-568

Call for Papers for the Scottish History Society's first annual conference (Edinburgh, March 2024)! Please share widely, submit a proposal, and get in touch if you have any questions☺️ More info can be found here: scottishhistorysociety.com/call-for-paper…

‘Did early modern adults begin to regard children differently? England in the 16th century is fertile ground for such a history: the future was being broken up and stirred around.’ Tom Johnson on childhood under the Tudors: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v45/…

Threads that Bind: Women and their Clothing in Sixteenth-Century #Scotland ⁦Dr Cathryn R Spence⁩ & ⁦Cordelia Beattie⁩ blog about their joint project on #earlymodern women & clothing - a discussion they extend in the current issue of SHR euppublishingblog.com/2023/07/10/clo…