Join us Monday for the final session of term, with three fascinating papers on fear, photo albums, and psychedelics! 5 June, 5pm, in the Arthur Quiller Couch Room at St. John's College, or email us for Zoom details:

🚨Our last session of term is TODAY at 5pm, in the Arthur Quiller Couch Room (St John's College) and online!

Rievaulx Abbey provided a most magnificent end to a week-long trek through the North York Moors

📢Call for papers for #Twitterstorians working on law and litigation in early modernity: one-day symposium on 'Popular Knowledge of the Law' St John's College next April. Abstracts due end of August. Please RT!

Slightly delayed, but equally excited for my first NACBS!

Looking forward to presenting a paper on perjury, memory and popular understandings of evidence in early modern England Cambridge Legal and Social History Workshop next week

Dinner ahead of our NACBS panel bright and early tomorrow morning! For those in Baltimore join me, Dr Laura Flannigan, and Zoë Jackson tomorrow at 8am to learn about local knowledge and use of the law in early modern England! #nacbs23

In our latest post for our advent calendar (12th of December) Zoë Jackson takes us into London, discussing the monument to the great fire of London and how its inscriptions have changed over time doinghistoryinpublic.org/2023/12/12/12-…

Last year Zoë Jackson, Dr. Emily Rhodes, Charmian Mansell ([email protected]), Lucy M. Kaufman, @DrAngelaMuir and I hit the NACBS in twinned panels exploring early modern legal recs for encounters with law. Some thoughts from our papers will be appearing at the link below, intro'd by Mark Hailwood!

'He would never trust him for a groat' In the opening post of 'The People and the Law' online symposium, Zoë Jackson discusses the seriousness of perjury in trust-based, face-to-face #earlymodern communities. manyheadedmonster.com/2024/04/23/tru…

Very pleased to see this post out today, and to share some of my PhD research on perjury in early modern communities.

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…

Important *new post* by Charmian Mansell ([email protected]) challenging the view that pre-industrial villages were 'self-contained' with 'little movement in and out'... In fact, 'going ‘abroad’ – leaving the place you called home – was commonplace in early modern England' manyheadedmonster.com/2024/05/14/eve…

'Petitions demonstrate the diverse ways in which mothers engaged with and struggled under the control of their neighbours, peers and local authorities.' Great *new post* on mothers and communities by Dr. Emily Rhodes in 'The People and the Law' series... manyheadedmonster.com/2024/05/21/con…

The premodern world held possibilities and imagined futures: the physical and metaphysical systems that were actively built and contested then continue to inform the world in the present. Read our statement on the value of Renaissance & Premodern Studies: rensoc.org.uk/statement-on-t…

Abraham Michael signed his name in Hebrew in the court records of the Welsh Great Sessions in 1777. @DrAngelaMuir asks what can these fragments can tell us about the lives of Jews in eighteenth-century Wales? A new post: manyheadedmonster.com/2024/05/28/loc…

Some version of this post had been running through my head for most of the last year now, so it's great to finally see this out!

I'm really delighted to say that my new article on women who boarded children in 17th century Lancashire has been published open access in The History of the Family. Unsurprisingly, it is based on a collection of petitions: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…