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Brodie Waddell

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Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell

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Elizabeth Biggs's avatar Elizabeth Biggs @elizabethbiggs.bsky.social
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Did you know that there were a few 13th century women working in the exchequer- if not, here you go! All that we know about Rachel Reeves' medieval predecessors at the treasury:
medium.com/@elizabethcb...

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Brodie Waddell's avatar Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social
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You might have missed it due to the Events of the last few days, but if you want to learn a few things about the politics of 'improving' the landscape in 17th-century England, Elly's short interview below is a good place to start!

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Brodie Waddell's avatar Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social
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For all of you politics fiends, there won't be any real news for at least 12 hours - read this instead!

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Brodie Waddell's avatar Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social
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Yes, very interesting. Interesting in parallel with Weikert's piece as it's focus is highly biographical but without using explicit creative elements.

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Brodie Waddell's avatar Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social
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Thanks! I hadn't seen that new project, but it looks really promising. Great to see that they will be publishing the petitions online open access too!

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Laura Sangha's avatar Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social
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📣V.V. special Will of the Month for August📣

... authored by Liz Wood, a Wills project [@materialwills.bsky.social] Expert Volunteer.

Liz uses the 1725 will of Mary Andrews to explore the life of a widow in maritime Wapping #EarlyModern 🗃️

sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

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Brodie Waddell's avatar Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social
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A very *lively* discussion of creativity, invention and fiction this week's #Microhistories class at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social!

Plenty of strong opinions about Kate Weikert's 'Creative Microhistories' and Hatcher's 'Fiction as History' as tools for medievalist microhistory.

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will pooley 's avatar will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social
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are known modern witchcraft cases a function of available sources, or can they reveal other patterns? my latest tallies, france, 1791-1939. 1.known cases track growth of news industry 2. wars, revs etc depress numbers (press+courts otherwise occupied/non functional) BUT 3. 1930! 🗃️

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Paul Wainwright's avatar Paul Wainwright @paulwainwright.bsky.social
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Interesting symbolism from the stonemason in the yard at York Minster.

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Catherine Fletcher's avatar Catherine Fletcher @cathfletcher.bsky.social
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My new book, The Roads to Rome, is out today! Here's a thread with a few highlights of what's inside.

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Margot Finn's avatar Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social
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"combined with time spent attending lectures, classes and other study, students with part-time jobs are averaging 48-hour working weeks during term time, while some have 56-hour weeks – far above the average 36.6 hours by adults in full-time jobs, according to the Office for National Statistics."

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Margot Finn's avatar Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social
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The other side of the British university funding crisis much in the news today with release of the HEPI report:

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Julie Park's avatar Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social
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My contribution to #manuscriptmonday is this calligraphic commonplace book I discovered at Houghton. I felt I might be hitting the jackpot when I did a search for “commonplace book” and “penmanship” and the record for this book came up. I was right.

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will pooley 's avatar will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social
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1928: first example of witches unionizing. The story below is about seven soothsayers arrested after they set up an organization to ratify and standardize their predictions to clients This from Le Petit Champenois 6/7/1928 🗃️

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Brodie Waddell's avatar Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social
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Well my 'digital humanities method' was essentially: (1) do a really basic keyword search of a couple of key primary source databases; (2) keep an eye out for interesting stuff related to that parable for a few years while researching other stuff.

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Brodie Waddell's avatar Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social
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Unfortunately it is paywalled - I promise we tried to get it OpenAccess but it just wasn't possible this time. However, if you don't have access just send me an email and I can send you a pdf.

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will pooley 's avatar will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social
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how can we have good conversations in current crisis about danger that the ‘defenses’ of arts and humanities defend status quo? that’s what makes this statement better than many: it’s about the value of allowing disciplines to grow and change rather than disappear

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Brodie Waddell's avatar Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social
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This is excellent, Will. The best bit is that it is so *short*! A history student could get as much out of reading this in 10 minutes as they would out of a two-hour generic sessions.

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Brodie Waddell's avatar Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social
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Two-hundred and eighty six pages of omg, to be exact.

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Centre for the History of People, Place & Community's avatar Centre for the History of People, Place & Community @chppc.bsky.social
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Still time to sign up to join us this evening (22nd May) for this seminar 👇

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Brodie Waddell's avatar Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social
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Can't copyright a title. Which means not only could you reuse it for your own article, you could then publish another entirely different article under the same title just for the giggles

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Brodie Waddell's avatar Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social
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So very pleased to have it in the volume, Sharon! And with some nice colourful charts too!

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Sharon Howard's avatar Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social
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The bad news about my contribution: I wrote the thing *I* wanted to read.

The good news: (nearly) all the data I used is completely open access so you can always write your own thing you want to read. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Brodie Waddell's avatar Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social
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Thanks! We were so pleased that the NLS let us use this image and the UCL Press designer did a great job of turning it into a catchy cover.

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Brodie Waddell's avatar Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social
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Indeed! Nothing like the rush of a new publication landing!

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Brodie Waddell's avatar Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social
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It's in the Stationers' Company Archives (digitised by Adam Matthews as Literary Print Culture) at reference TSC/1/E/17/09. I haven't been able to find any reference to it elsewhere but I haven't looked thoroughly and I'd be surprised if it wasn't mentioned in the minutes or something.

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In this case the main complaint was against men, including 'forriegners', brought into the printing trade via Oxford and York, who seem to be then coming to London to compete with printers there. So not about London freemen in other trades, but non-Londoners.

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In this case the main complaint was against men, including 'forriegners', brought into the printing trade via Oxford and York, who seem to be then coming to London to compete with printers there. So not about London freemen in other trades, but non-Londoners.

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Well this is 😍

A petition to the leaders of the Stationers' Company signed by 180 (!!) 'lawfull Masters and Workmen printers of London' complaining about 'irregular Apprentices' & 'men forreign to the Profession', c.1685.

#PowerOfPetitioning 🗃️

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