Joe Saunders

To reiterate Joe’s post: the value of yesterday evening was really demonstrated by speaking with people interested in the map from different disciplinary backgrounds - helped to underpin its wide potential applications and alerted us to uses we hadn’t yet considered #Skystorians 🗺️

Maps hung up in a display.

Great event yesterday with the Historic Town's Trust talking about our research work on an atlas of London on the Eve of the Great Fire. So pleased to be helping this fantastic project. @historictownstrust.bsky.social

Excited to be teaching two online short courses starting next week; one on local history and the other on using manorial records. Spaces still available on both!
#LocalHistory #FamilyHistory 🗃️

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Excited to be teaching two online short courses starting next week; one on local history and the other on using manorial records. Spaces still available on both!
#LocalHistory #FamilyHistory 🗃️

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A woman in a plaid shirt and jeans sits underneath a large prehistoric structure on a sunny day.

#ICYMI: Join us on 4 November at 7pm to learn how LiDAR technology is transforming local history, as high-resolution aerial data from the Beacons of the Past project is uncovering hidden traces of human activity across the Chilterns.

Book your place: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-a...

A medieval church tower rises from engineering works beneath the skyscrapers.

The City of London in a picture. The medieval church tower of All Hallows Staining. An historic island amidst skyscrapers and construction. 🗃️

At @ihr.bsky.social we can now offer PhD by Publication in History! For those with a substantial body of existing published research (within past 10 years), but without a PhD, should be of particular interest to #heritage professionals and independent scholars!

Progressing Your Local History Research. Students will be encouraged to work on a local history project of their choosing during this course. www.pharostutors.com/progressing-...

Only available on microfilm

Proof of a map of Country Durham.

Proof of a map of Montgomery Shire

New on CollectionsCaptured is a wonderfully illustrated set of 17 proof copies of early 17th Century maps, later included in John Speed's 'Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine'.

All 17 pages can be seen here on CollectionsCaptured: collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll...
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A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

The Experience of Work in Early Modern England II: Family Fortunes This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…

Another post on 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' - a reminder that work in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was very much a family affair...

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Fun little culinary history about kofta kebabs in 1660 in England. Making me quite hungry.

Also not a bad recipe! Veal, nutmeg, onion, fried in patties.

Why are women missing from school history? The extent to which history lessons ignore female figures has been revealed by new research. Here, teachers share the changes they are making to address this gender imbalance

Brilliant to see this continuing to get coverage and hopefully momentum will continue to real change. Exciting also to see the brilliant @willbaileywatson.bsky.social's amazing Meanwhile Elsewhere being used - it absolutely revolutionized History homework for me.

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1817 map snipping, "Well. Well. Well."

Look what we have here then.

Lovely pub. Great history, also it's community owned and they keep a nice range of ales.

This book applies the innovative work-task approach to the history of work, which captures the contribution of all workers and types of work to the early modern economy. Drawing on tens of thousands of court depositions, the authors analyse the individual tasks that made up everyday work for women and men, shedding new light on the gender division of labour, and the ways in which time, space, age and marital status shaped sixteenth and seventeenth-century working life. Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, the book deepens our understanding of the preindustrial economy, and calls for us to rethink not only who did what, but also the implications of these findings for major debates about structural change, the nature and extent of paid work, and what has been lost as well as gained over the past three centuries of economic development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Cover of Whittle, Jane, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, and Taylor Aucoin. The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. of Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Who did what in early modern England?

New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️

Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!

In this lecture, Catherine Clarke will re-visit the question of what makes history radical, asking what kind of radical history we need in our public life and contemporary context today. In particular, she’ll explore ways in which popular history – trade publishing for a wide public audience – has the capacity to be radical, drawing on experiences and examples from her own new book A History of England in 25 Poems (Penguin Allen Lane, September 2025). Catherine’s lecture will move towards a manifesto for how research-led, scholarship-driven popular history can and does make necessary, vital public interventions – from opening inclusive conversations and confronting the rise of AI, to modelling radical empathy and imagination.

I'm hugely honoured and very excited to be giving this year's Historical Research #Lecture at @ihr.bsky.social, on 'Can popular #history be radical? Historical research and writing for the #public'. Tuesday 4 November, all welcome. More info in AltText. Book here: www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: current programmes - RHS The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with closing dates from 5 December 2025 onwards. For f...

RHS Funding opportunity: Postgraduate and Early Career Research Support Grants.

Grants of up to £1000 for graduate and early career historians to undertake research projects bit.ly/4nWLNlI

Closing date for the next round: 5 December 2025

Unique And Curious: A Visit To Dennis Severs' House - Living London History Walk along Norton Folgate from Liverpool Street Station and you are largely surrounded by modern office blocks, many of which have gone up in just the last couple of years. Turn right however down the...

Unique And Curious: A Visit To Dennis Severs’ House on the Living London History website provides a richly illustrated account of a fascinating property dating back to 1724 and described as “somewhere between a house museum and an immersive experience”. #HouseHistory #OnePlaceWednesday

We're excited to reveal the #WolfsonHistoryPrize 2025 shortlist, celebrating the finest historical non-fiction works from the past year.

Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors! 👏📚

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To attend, please register at the event of your choice here. If you have signed up but suddenly find yourself unable to make it, you can relinquish your spot by emailing: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk. If you would like to attend in-person and the event reads as fully booked, please do drop by anyway as we can always find some extra chairs! Thursday 16 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford), Turbulence and the German Peasants’ War of 1524-6 Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid. Online-via Zoom & Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House Thursday 30 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Emily Vine (University of Exeter), Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House Thursday 27 November, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Nailya Shamgunova (University of East Anglia), ‘English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700’ Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House

We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Chester Consistory Court - Cause Papers Archive Searchable archive of cause papers from Chester Consistory Court - the oldest complete ecclesiastical courtroom in England.

THIS is a fabulous website

The #Chester Consistory Court

Archive of cause papers from the oldest complete ecclesiastical courtroom in #England

Find out more about this amazing free database 👉 www.chestercausepapers.org.uk

To search 👉 www.chestercausepapers.org.uk/directory

#Cheshire

Nice to see the 1579 Godolphin Report on the Isles of Scilly, which I transcribed for a client, used in his Poetry Nation Review article. My favourite part, 'The auncient rents I know not but if any were paid they were but puffyns or like small value'. www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/writ...

19th century Great Hall, Lincoln's Inn, London. Grand open space with wooden ceiling and stained class windows in Tudor-esq style.

Looking forward to a second weekend of heritage exploration through the excellent Heritage Open Days / Open House Festival for those in London. 🗃️ www.heritageopendays.org.uk / programme.openhouse.org.uk

Woodcut showing a man ploughing a field with an elephant. The woodcut is surrounded by Latin text.

National Ploughing Championships, 16th century style! From Sebastian Munster's 'Cosmographiae Universalis', printed in 1554.

'Extremely unusual' discovery of wampum beads in Ferryland believed to be province's first | CBC News One Memorial University graduate student came across seven wampum while digging at the Colony of Avalon earlier this summer — and one archaeologist says the discovery changes what we know about life a...

Wampum beads excavated this summer season at Ferryland, a very early 17thC settlement under an hour drive along coast west of St John’s. Amazing site for preservation of stone structures and evidence of wide Atlantic trade networks. #EarlyModern #Archaeology

A screenshot of the banner for The Material Culture of Wills Autumn 2025 newsletter.

In the next few days we'll be circulating our Autumn 2025 project newsletter! 🍂✉️

To receive a copy and find out what we've been up to over the last few months, make sure you're signed up to our mailing list: forms.office.com/e/JbUEq4Za1u

@leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social #history

Sorry, I mean I just use it for a basic graphical visualisation of sets of relationships. There is a scaling tool to show the relative magnitude of nodes as well.