📣Call for Papers 📣 I am delighted to announce that 'Speech/less in the Early Modern World' will be held 23 April 2026 at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge. Please share far and wide and do consider submitting a proposal! 🙊 Link to PDF version: bit.ly/4lZz80R

I was so pleased to learn of my election as an Associate Fellow of @royalhistsoc.org, continuing my membership beyond my PhD.

Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · last yr.

This week we welcomed 233 new Fellows and Members to @royalhistsoc.org. They join the Society after election at the latest meeting of the Society's Council bit.ly/3GQAQSW Applications for Fellowship and Membership are welcome at any time: next closing dates 11 August and 13 October #Skystorians

A week late but (still) reflecting on a wonderful 3 days at my first @socialhistsoc.bsky.social ‪‪conference. So much fascinating social history research, provoking conversations across time periods/topics, with setting of @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social as an added bonus #SHSConf2025

Seconding all of this - thank you to the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social for the opportunity to present some of my new research, and to everyone who stayed to attend our panel as the very last session of the conference!

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Thank you to all who came out for our last panel on the last day. Such good discussions and many thanks to @zoejackson.bsky.social and our chair Leo Shipp for the generous and thoughtful discussion afterward. It was a great wrap up to #SHSConf2025

The FEATHERS conference in Leiden last week was absolutely fantastic, full of excellent papers and truly interdisciplinary conversation. Thank you to the FEATHERS team for organising, and for giving me the opportunity to participate!

Submitted my hardbound thesis yesterday, which means I am #PhDone!

Please share the CFP for our Work, Authenticity, and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain Conference, to take place 10-11 June 2025 at the University of Warwick, with keynote addresses from Steve Hindle, @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social & @brodiewaddell.bsky.social!

Ok, I've started a crime history starter pack, hmu to be added! go.bsky.app/BaHNGzw

GOOD NEWS for the discipline: there are *many* #earlymodern historians. Bad news: we couldn't all squeeze into one pack. So here's the second, do follow all the wonderful researchers in this one as well: go.bsky.app/NQqDFr1 #skystorians

I have created a starter pack for scholars of the long seventeenth century! I will be adding to it; do comment or message if you would like to be added - & share! go.bsky.app/BtkNcRq

I'm starting a pack for Postgraduate and Early Career Researchers working on any aspect of Historical Studies! go.bsky.app/95yTEM3

Given the X-odus (see what we did there? A true fire bird): which other #earlymodern centres have arrived here already? We've got a starter pack for easy following, but keen to hear about more: go.bsky.app/LLzFj3b #skystorians

With the twitter exodus: welcome, and here are some #earlymodern historians posting about early modern stuff (though I should update it now it’s more than 50 in those things) go.bsky.app/VQeQbbF

CFP below for Oaths and Oath-Taking in Historical Perspective: Britain, Ireland, and the British Empire, 1700 to the Present, 7 March 2025, Northumbria University in Newcastle. Keynote from me but don't let that put you off!

Some version of this post had been running through my head for most of the last year now, so it's great to finally share this piece - in which I try to make the case for looking to early modern England to better understand our current (AI-infused) era. doinghistoryinpublic.org/2024/10/01/s...

Searching for Authenticity: Parallels between Early Modern England and the Age of AI

By Zoë Jackson (Twitter: @ZoeMJackson1, Bluesky: @zoejackson.bsky.social) If you teach, or work in a public-facing role, or indeed have any online or social media presence at all, you wil…

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Delighted to share that my first academic article has been published (open access) in The Seventeenth Century! doi.org/10.1080/0268...

Testimonies of Temple Lane: memory, perjury, and the landscape in a seventeenth-century West Yorkshire dispute

In the later seventeenth century, a path passing through the Temple Newsam estate in West Yorkshire became the subject of intense and prolonged litigation. The disputants contested whether the path...

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The premodern world held possibilities and imagined futures: the physical and metaphysical systems that were actively built and contested then continue to inform the world in the present. Read our statement on the value of Renaissance & Premodern Studies: www.rensoc.org.uk/statement-on...

'The evidence we have of most minority or marginalised groups in the past is always fragmentary...[that] does not mean we should relegate these histories to obscurity' *new* @drangelamuir.bsky.social on the history of the Jewish community in 18thC South Wales manyheadedmonster.com/2024/05/28/l...

Locating Jews in Eighteenth-Century Wales: Case Studies from the Welsh Court of Sessions

This post is part of our 'The People and the Law' Online Symposium, a series exploring early modern English - and now Welsh - legal sources. Angela Muir is Lecturer in Social and Cultural History and ...

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📣NEW POST in 'The People and the Law' series📣 Emily Rhodes on what quarter sessions petitions can tell us about community control of mothers in #EarlyModern England 🗃️ manyheadedmonster.com/2024/05/21/c...

‘Controlling’ Behaviour: Mothers, Community and Petitions in Early Modern England

This post is part of our 'The People and the Law' Online Symposium, a series exploring early modern English legal sources. Emily Rhodes is a fourth-year PhD student at Christ's College, Cambridge. Her...

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"The idea of the pre-industrial self-contained village – in which movement in and out was limited – looms large." Read @charmianmansell.bsky.social's *new* post on how the great piles of #EarlyModern legal records can bust the myth of everyday immobility 🗃️ : manyheadedmonster.com/2024/05/14/e...

'In 1565 Strangers accounted for no more than 1% of the population of Norwich... less than a decade later 1-in-3 inhabitants was an immigrant.' Lucy Kaufman's new 'People and the Law' post on how an Elizabethan city dealt with a major wave of immigration: manyheadedmonster.com/2024/05/07/a...

A Laboratory of Immigration: Elizabethan Norwich

This post is part of our 'The People and the Law' Online Symposium, a series exploring early modern English legal sources. Lucy Kaufman is Assistant Professor of Early Modern British History at the Un...

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How and where did people learn how to litigate in early modern England? Great new post from Laura Flanigan on the improvised and hoarded legal knowledge found in the scrappy “personal notebooks of estate administrators, rural gentry, and urban merchants” manyheadedmonster.com/2024/04/30/c... 🗃️

Commonplace Legal Knowledge in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century England

This post is part of our 'The People and the Law' Online Symposium, a series exploring early modern English legal sources. Laura Flannigan is a Junior Research Fellow at St John’s College, Oxford Univ...

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Very pleased to see this post out today, and to share some of my PhD research on perjury in early modern communities.

Dr Laura Sangha@lsangha.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣ALSO OUT TODAY📣 The first post in the many-headed monster Online Symposium on 'The People and the Law'. @zoejackson.bsky.social draws on court records to explore what ordinary folk knew about perjury, and what role it played in #EarlyModern communities. 🗃️ manyheadedmonster.com/2024/04/23/t...

Exciting to see this symposium launched - participating in the @thenacbs.bsky.social panels from which it emerged was one of my highlights of last year!

Brodie Waddell@brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 2y ago

"The People and the Law" A free online symposium on popular engagement with the law in early modern England hosted by the Many-Headed Monster, launched today and introduced by @markhailwood.bsky.social. Check it out here: manyheadedmonster.com/2024/04/18/t...