Taylor Aucoin
@aucointaylor.bsky.social
Honorary Fellow in History Edinburgh Uni丨Cultural & Social Historian 丨Medieval & Early Modern Britain 丨 Work, Play, Festivity, Carnival 丨 Louisianan 丨⚜️ 🐯 Website and blog: https://drtayloraucoin.com
Did you know that #Elizabethans kept Andean guinea pigs as pets? In this extract from #AGoldenWorld for Unseen Histories, I trace some of the parrots, monkeys, crocodiles, boars, flying squirrels & other Atlantic creatures in English parks & country houses: www.unseenhistories.com/the-tudor-an...
Archdeacon of Colchester's Court, 1629 🧑⚖️ Giles Haven of Hatfield Peverel presented 'for that he rang the [church] bell after the fashion of a [death] knell as it is reported for the death of a sow'. 🪦 🐷🪽 #earlymodern #truecrime
Cute Flying Piggy with Angel Wings
ALT: Cute Flying Piggy with Angel Wings
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Last week, about a third of the History department were able to gather together on graduation day. Rather than lend our intellectual authority to the official procession and ceremony we invited our students to come and celebrate their achievements with us in a shady courtyard. They came. 1/
Archdeacon of Colchester's Court 1594 🧑⚖️ Dorothy Richmond of Great Holland (Essex) presented 'for thrusting of a pin in Edye Alefounders' buttocks in Divine Service which caused disquietness in the church.' 🧷🍑 #truecrime #tudor #earlymodern
Friends: Joey Tribbiani - Something Hurts
Alt: Friends: Joey Tribbiani - Something Hurts
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‘The “incredible iridescence” of American feathered headdresses, artworks, shields and wall hangings attracted Jacobean collectors too. In early modern England, “people were surrounded by feathers all the time”.’ Clare Jackson on American influence on English life. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Clare Jackson · Jaguars over the Seine: Early Modern Americana
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Professor Whittle is one of four colleagues in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Faculty at the University of Exeter elected to Fellowship of the British Academy this year. 🗃️ ALL FOUR of these outstanding scholars were placed at risk of redundancy last month. Here's their statement:
🥳 Enormous congratulations to my outstanding colleague & friend Prof. Jane Whittle, on her election to the Fellowship of the British Academy. Jane is a world renowned scholar of the history of work & gender in preindustrial Europe. She currently leads The Material Culture of Wills project. 🗃️
Is it coming home? No. But for centuries football, home and identity have been closely entwined, as @aucointaylor.bsky.social reveals in this fab new blog post... manyheadedmonster.com/2026/07/17/b...
Becoming Home: Football and Geographic Identity in Early Modern Britain
This summer’s football World Cup has prompted lots of talk of ‘historic’ matches and rivalries that have played out over decades, but the game’s history – and its conn…
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#Football was fashioning national & local identities well before the #Worldcup & modern game. ⚽️ 🏉 My new blogpost for the manyheademonster explores how #earlymodern & #medieval football forged a sense of place & home. #history manyheadedmonster.com/2026/07/17/b...
Becoming Home: Football and Geographic Identity in Early Modern Britain
This summer’s football World Cup has prompted lots of talk of ‘historic’ matches and rivalries that have played out over decades, but the game’s history – and its conn…
manyheadedmonster.com
This otherwise excellent book seems not to mention ecclesiastical lawyers. Can anyone point to a similarly themed work that considers access civil lawyers in England had to printed legal material for their specialism pre- and post-Reformation (both for church courts and chancery work)? #Skystorians
We are pleased to say that our July Issue is now out! This Issue includes 22 original articles, 14 #OpenAccess, and 9 book reviews. #Skystorians #GenderHistory Read it here 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14680424...
Gender & History: Vol 38, No 2
Gender & History is a global gender studies journal publishing research on femininity, masculinity and gender across eras and territories.
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What unites Mary, Queen of Scots and Jonathan Anderson? Both have been inspired to bring a little South American creature into their art. Before the #Dior armadillo bag, Mary stitched one in silk to pass the time during her long imprisonment.
📘From our latest issue! Kathleen Commons @kabcommons.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social on 'Discovering ‘Immigration Control’ in England, c. 1540 – c. 1640' #Migration #History #EarlyModern #England #Immigration 📜 16thc 17thc 👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
A REMINDER! WILL WORK FOR MONEY! joanneedge.co.uk/freelance-wo... #MedievalSky #EarlyModern
Freelance Work
Transcription, scholarly editing, archival visits Joanne is available for freelance work: transcriptions and editions of late medieval and early modern Latin, English and Anglo-Norman manuscript te…
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It’s here! Publication day for my @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social @catholicismsem.bsky.social book. Click here for disgruntled ministers, canny bookwomen, and a world of Catholic print that was more complex and multiconfessional than you could have ever imagined. boydellandbrewer.com/book/print-a...
Print and Catholic Persistence in the Dutch Golden Age
Reveals the hidden world of ephemeral Catholic print in the so-called Dutch Golden Age, reconstructing lost works to discover the lived experience of a religious community marginalised within a multi-...
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📢 There's a new 'Will of the Month' post over at @materialwills.bsky.social 📢 📜 It explores the will of a Tudor clergyman who lost all his goods in the Henrician Reformation, but regained his material wealth before death👇 #history #EarlyModern #skystorians @leverhulme.ac.uk @cemsexeter.bsky.social
The Material Culture of Wills Project@materialwills.bsky.social · last mo.📢 NEW WILL OF THE MONTH POST 📢 June's post explores the will of a Tudor clergyman who forfeited much of his property in the turmoil of the Henrician Reformation📜 His fortunes improved: his will reveals material comfort & ownership of many fine & decorative items sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
I'm back: I may be made redundant in September, but right now I am still part of a world leading @leverhulme.ac.uk research project, working with a whip smart group of people using cutting edge AI technology to produce a dataset of of unprecedented scale. I will be focusing on research when I can.
🚨Announcement!🚨 I'm now offering freelance services (archival photography, transcription, bespoke research...) 📜✒️ Please get in touch if you or someone you know has #history research needs in the UK (esp Scotland & northern England) #Medievalsky #Earlymodern #c18th drtayloraucoin.com/freelance-hi...
Freelance Historical Research
As a professional historian based in the UK I offer a number of research services: Archival Photography Travel to archives and record offices to photograph documents and transfer them securely. Geo…
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We are ‘at risk’. Not just me, not just my wonderful colleagues in History, and not just the world-class community of teachers and researchers across the University of Exeter, but all of us who value the humanities. You can support us here: c.org/2cSZVFyhNF #defendexeteruni
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Markets, by Joe Saunders. Markets have historically fulfilled a key role in the economic life of Britain with most towns prior to the nineteenth-century existing as market centres. how-to-history.com/2026/06/24/m...
Markets
Joe Saunders Markets have historically fulfilled a key role in the economic life of Britain with most towns prior to the nineteenth-century existing as market centres. These markets provided regula…
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A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
Over the coming week, we feature the 8 monographs and 8 articles shortlisted for the Society's 2026 First Book and Early Career Article prizes. Today: 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London', by Emily Vine (Cambridge University Press) bit.ly/3SsnvWo 1/2 #Skystorians
Latest addition to the 2nd Plague Pandemic biblio: "this article ... asks how often women were employed as wage workers in the rural economy of medieval England, how they were paid relative to men, and to what extent change is evident after the Black Death." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Women's Wage Labour in Rural England, c. 1250-c. 1450: Identifying the Known Unknowns in Manorial Accounts
Rodney Hilton’s observations about women’s work recorded in manorial accounts underpin Tine De Moor and Jan Luiten van Zanden’s influential argument that paid work for women expanded significantly ...
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🚨NEW Blogpost🚨 #England plays tonight. #Scotland tomorrow. ⚽ But which team would James VI/I have most favoured in the #WorldCup? 👑 Explore his complicated relationship w/ #football, & its shift from #medieval unlawful game to #earlymodern elite pastime. 👇 drtayloraucoin.com/2026/06/19/j...
James VI and I: Football Fan or Foe?
Today (19 June) marks the 460th birthday of James VI of Scotland and I of England, the first monarch to unite Great Britain under one crown. He’s had a big year: 2025 was the 400th anniversar…
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Hoping this brings good luck for next week v Brazil ⚽️🤞🏴 www.museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk/news/worlds-...
World's oldest football crosses Atlantic for World Cup appearance - Museums Galleries Scotland
Today, the Stirling Smith hosted a public farewell event to celebrate the start of the football's journey to Miami where it will be displayed at the Coral Gables Museum from 20 to 26 June as part of W...
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Happy birthday to James VI & I, whose lesser-know quirks & achievements include: -purchasing two dozen fashionable beaver hats in a single year of his reign -forcing courtiers to find him a Virginian flying squirrel -tearing down tobacco houses near his country estate #AGoldenWorld #earlymodern
🚨NEW Blogpost🚨 For James VI/I's birthday & tonight's #Scotland match: ⚽👑 Did James like #football? Would he have liked the #WorldCup? Where were the first recorded football stands? How did #earlymodern elites come to embrace the sport? Asking the big questions👇 drtayloraucoin.com/2026/06/17/j...
James VI and I: Football Fan or Foe?
Today (19 June) marks the 460th birthday of James VI of Scotland and I of England, the first monarch to unite Great Britain under one crown. He’s had a big year: 2025 was the 400th anniversar…
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At the weekend I gave a paper at the International Football History Conference #footycon26. I explained how and why the Meadows was so important for the early development of football in Edinburgh, long before association rules came along in the 1870s. www.scottishsporthistory.com/sports-histo...
Edinburgh's Meadows: a crucible for football in Scotland's capital
I recently spoke at the International Football History Conference in London, about the significance of the Meadows for the early development of football in Edinburgh. It is well known that ...
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