Charmian Mansell

“Cataclysmically bad”

This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.

1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:

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Mapping Murder in Medieval York, London, and Oxford Dr Stephanie Brown, lead researcher on the York medieval murder map, reveals the homicidal topography of fourteenth-century English cities.

Last chance to book tickets for my virtual talk on medieval murder for Curious Histories: Charity History Talks

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No Country for Travellers? No Country for Travellers? explores the rise and nature of British travel to Spain and Portugal between 1760 and 1820, across a region that is conventionally overlooked in studies of British travel to Europe. Drawing on extensive archival and printed sources left by travellers in the period, Rosemary Sweet and Richard Ansell reveal the unheralded […]

Congratulations to Rosemary Sweet and @RichardJAnsell! Their #OpenAccess book No Country for Travellers? published today. Read & download free at: bit.ly/4kJYgIl #TravelWriting #EighteenthCentury #Spain #Portugal

Female Servants in Early Modern England by Charmian Mansell book cover with additional text reading "Thirsk Prize Winner: Best Book in British or Irish Rural or Agrarian History 2025"

Charmian Mansell's Female Servants in Early Modern England has been awarded the Thirsk Prize for Best Book in British or Irish Rural or Agrarian History by the British Agricultural History Society.
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Congratulations Emily!

This is so lovely to hear @drsheeha.bsky.social Thank you so much!

Front cover of book: title Farm Accounts in Rural Europe c.1700-1914

Contents page

First page of chapter 2 by James D Fisher titled Accounting for Labour on Capitalist Farms in Eighteenth-Century England

📖 I've got a new chapter out on accounting as a technique of labour management in C18th English capitalist agriculture

In this volume of Farm Accounts @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social >>

Front cover of Charmian Mansell's book, 'Female Servants in Early Modern England'.

Over the next few weeks, we're highlighting the 8 articles and 8 books shortlisted for this year's RHS Early Career Article and First Book Prizes.

Today we feature 'Female Servants in Early Modern England', bit.ly/43OeABX, by Charmian Mansell 1/2

Such a lovely surprise to have my book shortlisted for this RHS prize! Congratulations, too, to all the other shortlisted authors!

Historians/geographers/archaeologists: I'm looking for books where the historian goes to the places they are writing about as an integral part of the work (think Gange, Frayed Atlantic Edge). Also looking for theory/method about going to places & imagining them in the past. Any suggestions?

📣New blog post alert!📣
Today @charmianmansell.bsky.social gives us 5 reasons why service in the past was not always like Downton Abbey...
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog
#skystorians

Great new article on geo-coding British census addresses 👇👇👇

Map of London in 1901 showing percentage of people born overseas by street.

So pleased my article on geo-coding addresses of 121 million + people in British censuses 1851-1911 is now out with Historical Methods! #openaccess

- map any census info (ages, occupations, birthplaces etc) by address

- link census to other spatial datasets

Get the code and data 👇

Congratulations Zoë!

Check out my talk with @charmianmansell.bsky.social on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Female Servants in Early Modern England. @oxunipress.bsky.social 💙📚 #earlymodern #skystorians #16thc #17thc #history

Fellowships and Grants

A couple years ago I put together a little list of yearly fellowships and applications, mostly for early modernists. It includes deadlines, salaries, and requirements. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

A flyer advertising a call for submissions for the Huntington Library Quarterly. The Text reads: The Huntington Library Quarterly (HLQ) is a peer-reviewed journal featuring original research and new perspectives on the early modern period, broadly defined (c. 1400–1800). Its content reflects an early modern world that was connected and cosmopolitan, with diverse communities and cultures increasingly linked by the circulation of people, ideas, social practices, and material objects in ways that transcend disciplinary and geographic boundaries. We invite submissions that draw on the sources, methods, and theoretical frameworks of literature, art, history, science, medicine, material culture, music, performance, and critical cultural studies, with a preference for scholarship that is broadly legible across disciplines. HLQ’s historical focus on Britain and its American colonies has been dramatically expanded to embrace broader and more diverse fields of inquiry, including scholarship rooted in continental Europe, the African Diaspora, and the Indigenous Americas, as well as their intersections with Mediterranean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean worlds. The Huntington Library Quarterly (HLQ) invites article submissions for two featured issues that will mark the journal’s new direction. Submissions received before 15 January 2025 will be evaluated for the first of these issues, to be published in September 2025. Submissions received before 15 March 2025 will be evaluated for the second of these issues, to be published in December 2025.

Hello, new followers! Reposting this recent announcement for those who missed it: New era for the HLQ. Please share widely! If you study the #earlymodern period (c. 1400-1800) in any discipline, we'd love to see what you're working on. www.pennpress.org/journals/jou...

Rethinking State and Society in Early Modern Britain — CEMS KCL Blog The Centre for Early Modern Studies at KCL invites submissions for papers to be presented at a conference on 17th December 2024. The theme is ‘Rethinking State and Society in Early Modern Britain’.

KCL's Centre for Early Modern Studies hasn't made the leap here yet, so sharing a CFP for a conference "Rethinking State and Society" organised by our wonderful colleague Jonah Miller... #EarlyModern 🗃️

Female Servants with Charmian Mansell | NACBS Join NACBS to celebrate the publication of Female Servants in Early Modern England by Charmian Mansell.

Honored and delighted to be joining this conversation next week with Steve Hindle and Charmain about her [@charmianmansell.bsky.social] excellent new book @thenacbs.bsky.social
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Thanks for sharing! 😊

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

Thank you!

Thank you, Susan! Hope you're well :-)

Thanks Adam :-)

Book image (Female Servants in Early Modern England)

My book Female Servants in Early Modern England is out now! And it’s open access! Order here (for 30% off enter code AAFLYG6) or download for free 👇
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If you need me, I’ll be checking these proofs for a couple of days… #earlymodern should be out in March 2024.

Thanks so much, Susan. Hope all is well with you 😊

📣From our latest issue!

Charmian Mansell (@charmianmansell.bsky.social) (@camhistory.bsky.social) on 'Reconstructing the Labour of Care in Early Modern England'

#Labour #Care #Economy #Resources #Food #Emotion 🫂

🔓Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The English translation of our book that studies slavery in the history of the Dutch Central Bank (DNB) is now available Open Acces! It can be downloaded here: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

@fatahblack.bsky.social and Lauren Lauret.

History folk! Anyone got any clues what this might be?

About the size of a cigarette packet but sadly lacking any identifying branding I can see… #19c 🗃️