Hannah Robb
@hkrobb.bsky.social
Historian of everyday commerce, credit and debt in late medieval and early modern England. Lecturer early modern history The University of Manchester. ‘Written Worlds’, Birkbeck. ‘Forms of Labour’, Exeter. Church courts and chronicles.
What really happened during Jamestown’s Starving Time? In this episode, I help explore one of the most infamous crises in early American history. #academicsky #materialculture #history #earlymodern shows.acast.com/not-just-the...
Jamestown: From Colony to Cannibalism | Not Just the Tudors
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My new post: 'Grand Juries and Star Chamber’s Haunting Spectre' legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/07/17/g...
Grand Juries and Star Chamber’s Haunting Spectre
With curbs on trial juries now proposed in the UK, this post looks back to the part played by their now defunct counterpart, the grand jury.
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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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In addition to today's data on staffing in UK HE, @britishacademy.bsky.social has produced several briefings, including one on the very significant decline in early career academics, 2012-24: bit.ly/4wGBTcl History has seen a 32% decline in early career staff numbers since 2012/13 #Skystorians 1/2
Applications are also invited for the Society's Associate Fellowship bit.ly/4vnZVb0 Associate Fellows include early career historians (post PhD) and history-related professionals in fields such as archives, museums, public history and schools education. Closing dates 27 July & 5 Oct #Skystorians
Apply for Associate Fellowship - RHS
Closing dates for next applications: Mondays 27 July and 5 October 2026 Associate Fellowship recognises the contribution made by a wide range of historical researchers and advocates for History with...
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please pardon 'piggybacking' @onslies.bsky.social but our 'French Connection' volume is #earlymodern #ICYMI @manchesterup.bsky.social 50% sale ends this week (only 15 quid/$22.50) manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/978152616733...
Manchester University Press - Agents of European overseas empires
Agents of European overseas empires - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Agents of European overseas empires by Elodie Peyrol-Kleiber
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Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · 3mo ago50% off with @manchesterup.bsky.social!!! Go on, get yourself a little treat. Our series of Studies in #earlymodern Europe history is basically one big treasure chest of shiny gems. #SkyStorians manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/studi...
Want money to study medieval and early modern cultures in the city with England's oldest cathedral? Then you have a week in which to apply for one of the MA scholarships @memsunikent.bsky.social: research.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear... Complete the simple application process by next Monday, 13th July.
PhD and MA Funding - Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Studies - Research at Kent
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A reminder: this Friday (10 July) is the closing date for applications for the Society's Funded Book Workshop Grants, 2026-27 bit.ly/4vfL6av Grants fund a day workshop for historians writing a 2nd or 3rd monograph, to discuss their project and manuscript with up to 6 specialist readers #Skystorians
After three days at the Social History Society Conference what better way to spend the Saturday with the kids @gregjenner.bsky.social
New article has just been published OA @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social ! Lots of archival work in here tracing the the women who ran “Indian houses” in #17thc London. Including one woman who may have helped plot the Glorious Revolution!! #earlymodern www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🚨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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🚨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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I'm very excited to see Gwen Seabourne (@gwenseabourne.bsky.social) and Joanna McCunn's Insiders and Outsiders in the History of Law now available to pre-order. Featuring new research by me on the Chevalier d'Eon uolpress.co.uk/book/insider...
Insiders and Outsiders in the History of Law - University of London Press
Writing the history of law involves choices: whose stories are to be told, and how? Traditionally, legal history has focused on influential ‘insiders’ like judges, lawyers and legislators, and on stud...
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Along with almost all of my colleagues in history, this afternoon I got an email telling me that I am at risk of redundancy. It looks like the University of Exeter sent this email to the vast majority of people in Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty. Bit hard to breath right now.
Ben Phillips@benphillips1989.bsky.social · 3mo agoA statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.
* ha ha ha ha * The year is 1503, and this jester is laughing at you from his woodcut, reader!
Excited to see Sonia Tycko's book rethinking early modern consent and contract labour is now available. This is an important intervention for histories of coerced labour. 'Captured Consent: Contract Labor in English Charity, Colonization, and War, 1600–1700'
Thanks to @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @aucointaylor.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social (via @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social), for reminding me that my kids are slackers. 🗃️ Lovely discussion of *The Experience of Work in Early Modern England* in the LRB: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
📢 In Case You Missed It! 📢 We've been busy - catch up with our latest 'Project Progress Update' Blog Post 👇 sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... Find our more about our recent milestones, and the building of our project database 💻📜 @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk #skystorians
We're now welcoming abstracts for our 2026 conference, on the theme of 'Violence in the Medieval and Early Modern North'! The deadline is 15 January.
In "Energy, Ecology and Gender in the Middle-Class Home of the Eighteenth-Century Low Countries," Wout Saelens examines the impact of fossil fuel usage on housewives and maidservants who bore the burden of new discomforts accompanying this new energy regime 🗃️ #envhist doi.org/10.3828/whpe...
The @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference will be at Lancaster in July. Call for papers just released. I'll put putting together a proposal, so hope to see some of you there! #EarlyModern 🗃️ Details here: socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...
Bígí linn | Join us for the 2025 Paul Walsh Memorial Lecture, the final Early Irish research seminar this year, Thursday 4 December at 17:00, Room 2.31 IONTAS. *Law and Narrative in Fifteenth-Century Petitions to the Irish Parliament* Dr Sparky Booker (Trinity College Dublin) Fáilte roimh chách!
Last week, VOICES PI Professor Jane Ohlmeyer delivered a lecture at the Institute of Historical Research entitled: 'Making a living in early modern Dublin: Women and work'. Find out more at the link below: @janeohlmeyer.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social
Institute of Historical Research Lecture: Making a living in early modern Dublin: Women and work - VOICES
On November the 20th, VOICES PI, Professor Jane Ohlmeyer delivered a lecture at the Institute of Historical research entitled: Making a living in early modern Dublin: women and work https://www.hist...
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Pudding season approaches; #Thanksgiving is here. Closing my seasonal series of posts marking the publication of our new book, I revisit a case where food takes the plate Featuring industrious duckwives, wisemen & gossiping quarrymen #earlymodern ludicrushistories.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/t....
The Pudding Pinching Heifer Heisters
New blogpost written for the Forms of Labour Project exploring everyday life and work in early modern England through the depositions of a Lancashire quarter sessions court case. Featuring an indus…
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New article from Ellen Paterson on how petitioners 'evoked and confronted the parliamentary past' in their economic disputes is the tumultuous years preceding the outbreak of civil war.🗃️ #OpenAccess #PowerOfPetitioning Read it here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
NEW PUBLICATION Our @historians.org American Historical Review article presents a pathbreaking methodology to analyse the invisible biochemical traces that #earlymodern users left behind on the surface of paper recipes doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
The Scientific Analysis of Renaissance Recipes: Proteomics, Medicine, and the Body in the Material Renaissance
Abstract. Collaborations between the humanities and sciences allow for novel insights into the material world of Renaissance recipe cultures, and in partic
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Cosy season is well upon us Curl up w/ a warm drink & NEW post on CUP's blog: The #Autumnal Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England This seasonal celebration of our new book features apples & pears, cider & ale, meat & markets, & the #Christmas milling craze cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/the-...
I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...
Coroners' Inquests | In Her Mind's Eye
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Tim Hitchcock@timhitchcock.bsky.social · 11mo agoReally pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
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