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Alice Thornton's Books
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ICYMI 📜 🗃️
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Cordelia Beattie@cordeliabeattie.bsky.social |
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Professor of Women’s and Gender History (Premodern). PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25.
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Alice Thornton's Books
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ICYMI 📜 🗃️
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Elizabeth Biggs
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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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Alice Thornton's Books
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Project PI @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social has collaborated on a blog post with NYCRO archivist Gail Falkingham, which includes high quality images of the Thornton-related documents we had on display at our event yesterday. Have a look 👀
nycroblog.com/2024/07/04/a...
🗃️ 📜 #EarlyModern #Yorkshire
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Alisa Bokulich
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Lisa Jardine Grant of Royal Society offers funding for: Extended research trips for UK & overseas-based researchers to use Royal Society's rich historical collections & related London collections (up to £8,000 available for travel & subsistence) & more. Deadline 10 October 2024, 3pm. #histsci #HPS 🗃️
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Freya Harrison
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Thank you to Stephanie DeMarco from Drug Discovery News for putting together this lovely podcast about our research on the antimicrobial activities of vinegars and honey www.drugdiscoverynews.com/the-antibiot...
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Cordelia Beattie
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Some early modern oversharing of bowel/bladder problems!
#histmed
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Debbie Cannon
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One week today!
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Cordelia Beattie
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Have a look at what we have been up to! 👇
@hagenilda.bsky.social @sharonhoward.bsky.social
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Alasdair Stuart
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hey, want to opt out of the fucking ghouls at Meta using your data to train a thief machine? The deadline is TODAY and here's what you need:
deborahcopaken.substack.com/p/11-steps-t...
www.cnet.com/tech/service...
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Cordelia Beattie
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Alice Thornton's Books
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Alice Thornton (1626-1707) wrote four books of her life, two 'of my widowed condition' and two which end with her husband's death in 1668. Read about Alice's life in her own words this #InternationalWidowsDay.
🗃️ 📚 📜 #EarlyModern
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/books/
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Cordelia Beattie
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For the bargain price of £2, which includes light refreshments you get me and @debsca.bsky.social in an afternoon of all things Alice Thornton in Northallerton #Yorkshire. 🗃️
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Alice Thornton's Books
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The Remarkable Deliverances is coming to #Derbyshire. Get ready to step into the world of Alice Thornton (1626-1707). @debsca.bsky.social's one-woman play is based on Thornton's hand-written books. Buxton Fringe Festival, July 7th-11th.
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
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Margot Finn
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'In a letter to the...UK's Funding Councils, the British Academy's President, Professor Julia Black and Vice Presidents, Professors Simon Swain and Lindsay Farmer, call on the four UK higher education funding bodies to pause the proposals and undertake further research and modelling.' 1/2
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Brodie Waddell
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How do we get at the embodied and spatial experience of petitioning?
Hannah Worthen answers our questions about the #PowerOfPetitioning in #EarlyModern England (@uclpress.bsky.social 🗃️) in a *new* post: petitioning.history.ac.uk/blog/2024/06...
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Ruth Karras
@rmkarras.bsky.social
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The Journal of Medieval History is now publishing book reviews. If you hold or are working toward a PhD and you’d like to be on the list of potential reviewers, please email review editor philippa.j.byrne at gmail.com with a description of your interests. 🗃️medievalsky
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Sara M. Butler
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Meghan Woolley and I are editing a collection titled Emotions, Law, and Performance in England c.500-1500. Check out the CFP and get in touch if you're interested in contributing:
legalhistorymiscellany.com/call-for-pap...
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Liesbeth Corens
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Hey #earlymodern #skystorians! If you are not normally UK-based but are planning to be in the UK in the coming academic year: let us know!
UK-based people might like to invite you to give a paper, cover a lecture, grab coffee, meet with students, etc.
liesbethcorens.wordpress.com/2020/02/07/v... 🗃️
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Laura Richmond
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My entry for The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Medieval Women's Writing in the Global Middle Ages has been published online ahead of the print edition. link.springer.com/referencewor... (Drop me a line if you don't have institutional access) Thanks to @dianewatt.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute.
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Margot Finn
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Labour Manifesto and university policy: a thread. "The Labour Party has committed to creating a “secure future” for the UK higher education sector that it recognises is in “crisis”, in a manifesto that otherwise gives few clues as to how it would approach this challenge in government." 1/4
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Cordelia Beattie
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#EarlyModern 🗃️
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Laura Ansley
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Our third annual #AHAReads summer reading challenge has begun! I’m going to try again to complete all 6 tasks—but you only need to do 3 to finish. historians.org/aha-reads
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Cordelia Beattie
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I know - enough to put me off their cafe for a while!
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Cordelia Beattie
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As a PhD student, I used to buy a plain potato at Kew to save cash and just used the (then) free sachets of brown sauce as the topping!
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Cordelia Beattie
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At our place, you don't. (Altho' that is def not clear to applicants.)
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Cordelia Beattie
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Sorry should have tagged you, @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social.
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Cordelia Beattie
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Hi Liz, did you end up using the @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social material? The illness blog by @hagenilda.bsky.social has had a big spike in views and so we wondered what was driving it. TIA.
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Celine Camps
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I don't work on the history of #earlymodern medicine, but this recently published collection looks amazing (not to mention super useful)! #histsci #histSTM 🗃️: tinyurl.com/tefn3s4w
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Monica H Green
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So, I remembered this copy of Aldobrandino from when I was surveying ♀️'s medical book ownership in the late '90s. I see that a very fine blogpost was pub'd about it last year: specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=26511. The closeup photos are amazing. Whole MS: cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-II-0...
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Cordelia Beattie
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Wow! Put that on your cv.
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Cordelia Beattie
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Really?!
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Cordelia Beattie
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Amazing!
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Cordelia Beattie
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Really?!
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Cordelia Beattie
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Does Leeds do anything with the armouries?
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Beth DeBold
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More work opportunities at Folger, this time especially for recent grads/early career folks: the Seiler Rare Materials Residency, a year long fellowship! #libraryjobs #earlymodern More info and apply: amherst.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/FSL_Em...
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Alice Thornton's Books
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On #WorldFoodSafetyDay, advice from #17thC Alice Thornton on the perils on your plate. Here's
@debsca.bsky.social as Alice in 'The Remarkable Deliverances of Alice Thornton' which is touring the UK soon. Be the first to see it on July 5th at NYCRO, Northallerton.
soundcloud.com/alice-thornt... 🗃️
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Katherine Stiles
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‘Crash course’
“One in four universities is in the red. [...] In the end, of course, one or more universities will spectacularly fall apart. It’s hard to say where that will happen, exactly, but how it could happen is fairly clear.” ✍🏻 @gsoh31.bsky.social [ #AcademicSky ▫️ #EduSky ]
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Monica H Green
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New work on the economic & legal effects of the Black Death in England. "The analysis exemplifies the potential for short-term legal responses to infectious diseases to have unintended and unanticipated long-term consequences." First-online, #OpenAccess: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1....
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Cordelia Beattie
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Jessica Malay is contributing an essay on Thornton and the Church of England for a collection we are putting together. Short teaser below. #EarlyModern #Skystorians 🗃️ 📚
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Cordelia Beattie
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Sharing a blog post I wrote last year for the coronation - Thornton got that and the restoration of Charles II muddled up! #EarlyModern 🗃️
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Jade Scott
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🚨WORKSHOP🚨
1 NOVEMBER 2024
Excited to issue expression of interest for 'Women's Letters in Early Modern Scotland' w/co-organisers Laura Doak & @pomuirch.bsky.social
🔸️Gender
🔸️Materiality
🔸️Multilingualism
🔸️Archival afterlives
Supported by Scottish Historical Review Trust & @srsrensoc.bsky.social
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Internet Archive
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Sorry to say, archive.org is under a ddos attack. The data is not affected, but most services are unavailable.
We are working on it & will post updates in comments.
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Lucy Cogan
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Delighted to announce the CFP for the first special issue of Women’s writing devoted to Irish women writers that I’m editing with Amy Prendergast (TCD)!! Please share far and wide and consider submitting!
think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
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Shannon McSheffrey
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I've just done a big revision of my post on the #intersex person Margaret Bradley of (aptly) Middlesex. Exploring the scholarship has shown this is rare evidence indeed, one of only a handful of intersex individuals documented in Europe before 1550. Read! Repost! consistory.org/2018/05/14/b...
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Monica H Green
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#MedievalSky A very useful piece analyzing what actually goes into the Wikipedia entries that so many of our students & members of the public use: link.springer.com/article/10.1.... Kudos to @richardnevell.bsky.social for the case study on the Black Death. Essential (& sobering) reading!
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Alice Thornton's Books
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It's now even easier to browse our partial release from Thornton's 'Book of Remembrances'. Our news update will fill you in on some recent changes to our website to enhance usability. thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
#EarlyModern 📜 🗃️ #DigitalHumanities
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Helen Newsome-Chandler
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The provisional programme for my hybrid symposium on 'New Directions in the Materiality of Letter-Writing: From Antiquity to the Present Day' on 29 and 30 May 2024 is now live. See below for further information and registration: thequeenspost.wordpress.com/conference/
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Brodie Waddell
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It's here!!
*The Power of Petitioning in Early Modern Britain*
Published #OpenAccess by @uclpress.bsky.social, with chapters from @lloydbowen.bsky.social, @ellyrobson.bsky.social, @sharonhoward.bsky.social & many more: petitioning.history.ac.uk/blog/2024/05...
#EarlyModern #PowerOfPetitioning 🗃️
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Shannon McSheffrey
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A fascinating case in the London Consistory in 1522 of an intersex person whose husband sued to annul their marriage. 5 midwives testified in some detail that Margaret had both a vagina & a penis. Read transcription, translation, & some preliminary thoughts: consistory.org/2018/05/14/b...
#histsex
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James Baker
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There is still time left to nominate a work you ❤️ for the 2024 Deswarte Prize in Digital History (anything published since Jan 2023 is eligible).
ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2021/12/the-...
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