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We've just started the 2nd phase of the #WrittenWorlds project on non-elite writers in Early Modern England! Richard Ansell, Michael Powell-Davies, Hannah Robb & Laura Seymour (Neurodiversity at Oxford Network) have now joined the Birkbeck project. Read all about it here: writtenworlds.org/2024/02/26/the…

Looking forward to hearing Matthew Lloyd Roberts's talk tomorrow! 🔥 ‘Laid Waste so useful & opulent a Part of the City’: Rebuilding after Urban Fires in England, 1675–1750 🗓️ Friday 8 March ⏰ 15:00-17:00 (including tea & cake!) 📍 Attenborough 111/Hybrid 🔗 DM us for the Teams link

Happy World Book Day! One week today: Female Servants in Early Modern England - out 14th March with The British Academy Oxford Academic

Hear a discussion w/ Chris Harding (now at Bsky) BBC Radio 3 BBC Sounds Arts and Humanities Research Council about attitudes to death 💀🪦⚱️ in medieval poetry Harriet Soper Viking burial Dr Marianne Hem Eriksen Ugandan heritage sites Pauline Harding & in the Paris and New York morgues Dr Catriona Byers 🎧➡️ bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0h…

Why did people visit Spain and Portugal in the midst of a war? Richard Ansell & Roey Sweet talk about the unusual phenomenon of 'Peninsular War Tourism'. Crazy tales unfold about flirting with locals, and tourists pretending to be officers 🎧 shows.acast.com/napoleonicwars…

When the Mayor's Court of Elizabethan Norwich ordered “a duche woman” to be put in the pillory for "evil Rule", was it a sign that such immigrants were increasingly seen as "belonging" to the city? Lucy M. Kaufman's new post explores this question: manyheadedmonster.com/2024/05/07/a-l…

"The idea of the pre-industrial self-contained village – in which movement in and out was limited – looms large." Read Charmian Mansell ([email protected])'s *new* post on how the great piles of #EarlyModern legal records can bust the myth of everyday immobility: manyheadedmonster.com/2024/05/14/eve…

My article on an early 19th-century British traveller’s decades-long encounter with the #alhambra and Spain’s Islamic history is now online and open access. It has been a pleasure to work on William Gell’s notebook with @the_bsr! cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Looking forward to talking (online) about my new book Female Servants in Early Modern England with NACBS in conversation with Prof Julie Hardwick Julie Hardwick/[email protected] and Prof Steve Hindle. Join us! Sign up below👇 📆 Thurs 30 May ⏰9am PT/noon EDT/5pm BST nacbs.org/event-details/…

Fantastic day long seminar, Learning from Early Modern books, at Birkbeck on 7 June: bbk.ac.uk/events/event/4… Do come if you are in London.

Looking forward to the "Mobile Lives: Itinerant and Street Trades and the Informal Economy in Global Historical Perspective" conference in Trento 13-14 June: webmagazine.unitn.it/evento/sociolo…

If you’re working on interpersonal encounters produced by early modern mobility, @ToffoloSandra & I are welcoming abstracts for our ‘Mobility & Encounter’ panel Renaissance SRS in Bristol next July! Deadline 15 Sep: tinyurl.com/bdhs2hfc #cfp #RenSoc25 #Twitterstorians #EarlyModern

Deadline extension for the next 48 hours or so! Abstracts welcome until noon Wednesday 28th August, UK time #CfP @IMCLeeds #IMC2025 #medievaltwitter

The Centres of Urban History and Regional and Local History present a joint seminar series (dream team!): 🗓️fortnightly, alternating Thurs 2pm and Fri 3pm 🏠ATT 101 or via Teams 📨 Angela Muir ([email protected]) or Roey Sweet ([email protected]) CUH Leicester Centre for Regional and Local History

It's out! 'Migrant Voices in Multilingual London, 1560-1600' in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. Read to find out how insults and information moved between the city's languages, and to think about how linguistic diversity shaped urban life. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

New British Academy publication "Servants Abroad: Travel Journals by British Working People, 1765-1798" by Richard Ansell presents journals by four British domestic servants who accompanied their wealthy employers on their continental Europe 'Grand Tour' global.oup.com/academic/produ…