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To AEthelflaed, I give my best cloak – Inside Wynflaed’s Will beckybookshistory.uk/2022/12/13/to-…

a 14th century door in exeter cathedral that has a hole in it for cats to come and go

📌NEW BLOG SERIES We begin the new year with the publication of our 'Freedom & Work in Western Europe (c.1250-1750)' conference blog series! We present 23 short pieces written by presenters at our conference in July 2022, plus summaries and reflections: formsoflabour.exeter.ac.uk/conference/

Such an amazing conference! Grateful to Jane Whittle, Hannah Robb James Fisher Taylor Aucoin and all the wonderful people in Forms of Labour for their inputs and organization! More on women miners soon!

A reflection on some of our findings from Forms of Labour on commercial work in rural early modern England from our conference last summer

Sunlight streaming into the Elizabethan parlour at St Nicholas Priory, #Exeter #WindowsOnWednesday St Nicholas Priory #elizabethan

Blog Theme 4: Ideas of Unfree Labour The three posts under this theme all directly confront the idea of freedom/unfreedom of work in early modern Scotland and England. formsoflabour.exeter.ac.uk/conference/

Last year I visited Stockholm University to give a paper on the credit networks of married women in rural early modern England with Forms of Labour. Here, I reflect on how our database of work tasks can be used to explore economic relations formsoflabour.exeter.ac.uk/2023/01/12/exp…

The Summer School "Modern History and Anthropology of Work", aimed at PhD and Master Students, will take place on 27 August–2 September 2023 at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. Find the Call for Papers on our Website: worck.eu/2023/01/12/sum…

Come join us in beautiful Oslo! Ben Schneider Jane Whittle Judy Stephenson Meredith M. Paker Robin Philips (Economic and Social History Utrecht University); keynotes by LeandroPdelaEscosura Amy Erickson (CAMPOP).

Open garden this weekend for Hospice Care at Holcombe Court, Holcombe Rogus - one of the finest Tudor houses in Devon (Pevsner)

Also looked in Holcombe Rogus church was has this monument to Mary Bluet d.1613 age 65: “A modest matron here doth lie, a mirror of her kind, her husband and her childrens good, her like was rare to find, godly, chaste and hospitable, a housewife rare was she”.

Recent PhD or developing book idea that focuses on the local or regional history of Britain? We'd love to hear from you if you'd like to publish in this excellent series.

Fully funded PhD to study gender and early modern wills at the University of Exeter with our wonderful Leverhulme Trust 'Material Culture of Wills' project: details here exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/… Deadline 6 Feb

Fully funded PhD to study global commodities in early modern wills at the University of Exeter with our wonderful Leverhulme Trust 'Material Culture of Wills' project: details here exeter.ac.uk/study/funding/… Deadline 6 Feb

Read my LRB blog written jointly with Harry Smith about the consultation to destroy post-1858 wills at lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/febr…. Responses to the consultation need to be submitted by midnight today.

Our project on early modern wills is looking for a creative fellow (artist/writer/practioner) to join us at University of Exeter and take inspiration from wills... Deadline 3 Nov. See buff.ly/47YhzYO for more info.