Krista Kesselring
@kjkesselring.bsky.social
Professor of early modern British history at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; Hon Prof, IMEMS, Durham U; Associate Fellow, University of King's College.
My new post is up! When Marriage goes Wrong: Breach of Promise in Fifteenth-Century England legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/08/06/w...
When Marriage goes Wrong: Breach of Promise in Fifteenth-Century England
Posted by Sara M. Butler, 6 August 2026. Cundradus Schlapperitzi, miniature showing marriage (1445). New York Public Library. Courtesy of Picryl. Public Domain. Historians of marriage …
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Some very REQciting news. My Court of Requests pleadings (REQ 2/16-424) project is now complete. Over 28,000 items dating from c.1547-c.1625 (Edw VI to Jas I) now searchable online. Happy researching everyone 🙂 discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C...
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@lynbennetthfx.bsky.social and my book has arrived on my desk! Pre-orders available now for shipping on 22.09.2026! www.mqup.ca/Books/E/Earl...
Really interesting piece. I'd also recommend Alan MacEachern's book on the 'Miramichi' Fire of 1825 (covering some 6000 sq miles, it also burnt parts of the U.S.), an excellent piece of environmental history on a monstrous fire: www.mqup.ca/Books/T/The-...
The Miramichi Fire
On 7 October 1825, a massive forest fire swept through northeastern New Brunswick, devastating entire communities. When the smoke cleared, it was estimated that the fire had burned across six thousand...
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will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · 2w agoSome historical background to the fires in southwestern France, drawing on reading I did for my 2019 book about the moorlands, and lamenting the deeply depressing reality that we have known many of the causes of this ecological disaster for 150years 🗃️ williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/u...
Fabulous new post on grand juries and the linking of juries with due process by K.J. Kesselring! 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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An interactive atlas of the British Empire's civil service: ~16,000 Colonial & India Office careers (1820–1966), every move an arc across the map. Rebuilt from the digitized Indian and Colonial Office Lists with a knowledge graph. WIP, feedback welcome: jimclifford.ca/col_matching/
Very pleased to find not one but two great new books waiting for me on my return to the office: Philippa Carter, Frenzy in Early Modern England: Madness, Brain Disease and the Soul www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...
Frenzy in Early Modern England
Cambridge Core - British History after 1450 - Frenzy in Early Modern England
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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.
legalhistorymiscellany.com
Morning! I have a new feature out for the first time in many months. For Be Giant, I wrote about a recently completed wildlife underpass in southern Alberta, and its role in the larger Yellowstone to Yukon conservation project. Working on this changed my whole perspective when I drive! #longreads
Hidden Canadian passageways are helping wild animals cross the road – and saving lives
Real-life wildlife crossings are popping up across western Canada, preventing deadly highway collisions
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New blog post examines forensic continuity in the history of serial homicide: The ‘Ripper Template’ and Forensic Investigations of Serial Murder legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/06/19/t...
The ‘Ripper Template’ and Forensic Investigations of Serial Murder
By Cassie Watson; posted 19 June 2026. Serial offenders are assumed to have at least two to four victims;[1] to kill for pleasure or gain; and to follow a pattern in victim selection. If, as Eric H…
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Paolo Broggio discusses his new book, Criminal Justice and Peace-making in Early Modern Italy, with Tom Hamilton, Stuart Carroll, Amanda G. Madden and moderated by Krista Kesselring in this online book event. Watch here 👉 buff.ly/K6hULBz @imems.bsky.social @kjkesselring.bsky.social
Criminal Justice and Peace-Making in Early Modern Italy - Book Discussion
Author Paolo Broggio in conversation with Tom Hamilton, Stuart Carroll, Amanda G. Madden, moderated by Krista Kesselring. His work explores private peace pacts in early modern Italy, challenging…
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Looking forward to this online book talk, tomorrow, May 19:
Boydell & Brewer@boydellandbrewer.bsky.social · 3mo ago🎉 Book launch! Learn more about Criminal Justice and Peace-Making in Early Modern Italy by Paolo Broggio at an online book event on Tuesday May 19th! 📅 Tuesday, May 19, 4pm (GMT) 5pm (CET) 11am (EST) 🖥️ Online Teams Call - buff.ly/4pRQHSc @imems.bsky.social
🎉 Book launch! Learn more about Criminal Justice and Peace-Making in Early Modern Italy by Paolo Broggio at an online book event on Tuesday May 19th! 📅 Tuesday, May 19, 4pm (GMT) 5pm (CET) 11am (EST) 🖥️ Online Teams Call - buff.ly/4pRQHSc @imems.bsky.social
Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.
Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags
The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.
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Today! There’s still time to sign up ⬇️
Shannon McSheffrey@medievalmcsheff.bsky.social · 3mo agoHere me talk next week at the Medieval and Tudor London Seminar at @ihr.bsky.social on the memory of Evil May Day riot through the 16th century! Online seminar -- sign up for Zoom link here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
New post from Krista Kesselring for Earth Day! The Most Excellent Things are the King’s? The Case of Mines (1568) legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/04/22/t...
The Most Excellent Things are the King’s? The Case of Mines (1568)
Who owns what lies within the ground beneath our feet? This post explores the answers offered in a 1568 case that has both analogues and legacies today.
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My new post, on the Elizabethan 'Case of Mines', which turns out to have lots of interesting bits just below the surface. legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/04/22/t...
The Most Excellent Things are the King’s? The Case of Mines (1568)
Who owns what lies within the ground beneath our feet? This post explores the answers offered in a 1568 case that has both analogues and legacies today.
legalhistorymiscellany.com
Holy heck if you haven't taken a look at this just launched project and resources from the @historians.org _American Historical Review_, it's incredible. Of course I went to the 1665 Mass Bay petition about royal authoritarianism. Excellent! www.historians.org/news-publica...
Authoritarianism 101 - AHA
Authoritarianism 101 A Global History About Authoritarianism 101: A Global History is a set of 30 primary source-driven teaching modules designed to offer teachers and students a broad perspective on ...
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If you are upset about the federal budget and the funding cuts to cultural heritage, please send a letter (no postage required) or email your MP, Minister of Canadian Heritage Marc Miller, and Prime Minister Carney. Find addresses here: www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/s...
Mary Grace@emgeekay.bsky.social · 4mo ago🧵 The Canadian federal government’s 2025 budget has allocated: More business tax breaks including for fossil fuels sector $925 million for AI $81.8 billion over 5 years for military However, this comes at the expense of cultural heritage.
And the Odyssey begins...
Krista Kesselring@kjkesselring.bsky.social · 4mo agoI'm on a team fundraising for Halifax Humanities by taking a shift in a 24-hour live reading of The Odyssey on April 10-11. If you might be inclined to sponsor the team, the easiest way to donate is online, through Canada Helps: www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...
I'm on a team fundraising for Halifax Humanities by taking a shift in a 24-hour live reading of The Odyssey on April 10-11. If you might be inclined to sponsor the team, the easiest way to donate is online, through Canada Helps: www.canadahelps.org/en/charities...
Really pleased to share my (open access!) article on immigration control in early modern England, feat. rights-bearing subjects, rightsless migrants, and experiments in immigration control
The Historical Journal@historicaljnl.bsky.social · 4mo ago📣Out now on #firstview 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...
Our programme for summer seminars @ihr.bsky.social is up now! Featuring a v timely paper on American citizenship + immigration at the founding; ancient Greek refugeedom; gypsy and Roma mobility; & cross-confessional solidarity with refugees in early 20thC Britain tinyurl.com/3bxsdy32
Migration and Mobility History
The IHR Migration and Mobility seminar provides a space for historians and scholars from other disciplines to come together to discuss migration and mobility in history.
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Pleased to see this out – a translation by Frédéric Demers of a piece I'd published back in 2011 on the Crown’s ownership of enslaved Grenadians in the wake of Fedon’s Rebellion in 1795. (1/2) www.erudit.org/fr/revues/ha...
La prise en charge par la Couronne britannique des esclaves confisqués aux rebelles de la Grenade, 1796-1831 – Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française
Un article de la revue Revue d’histoire de l’Amérique française, diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.
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Have you got your ticket to Humanities Today featuring poet George Elliott Clarke and singer Julia Tynes? Reserve free: www.eventbrite.ca/e/humanities...
Humanities Today: George Elliott Clarke on "The Discipline of Poetry"
A free evening of poetry and music celebrating humanities for all!
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My new blog post introduces one of the most extraordinary 18th-century criminals I've ever come across! Memorable Monikers: Dick the Devil legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/03/27/m...
Memorable Monikers: Dick the Devil
By Cassie Watson; posted 27 March 2026. What did a cheese thief in Victorian Lancashire have in common with a pitman in County Durham, a bigamist in the Rhondda Valley, or an eighteenth-century Wel…
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Dr. Jack Bouchard will be giving a talk based on his new book: 'Terra Nova: Food, Water, and Work in an Early Atlantic World' at 7pm, Friday, March 20, Room 1020, Rowe Management Building (6100 University Avenue). All are welcome - please do pass word along to anyone you think might be interested.
The Global History Initiative at Queen's University is holding an upcoming online conference, "Critical Issues in Global Historiography" www.queensu.ca/ghi/critical....
Online Conference: Critical Issues in Global Historiography | Global History Initiative
The Global History Initiative is happy to announce its upcoming online conference "Critical Issues in Global Historiography" from April 15-17, 2026. To receive a link to the conference, please RSVP to...
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