Dr Rosalind Johnson

#Quakers

Wiltshire Buildings Record Study Day, Sat 18 Oct 2025, Corn Exchange, Devizes, on 'The Age of Innovation – Buildings in the 19th Century'. As a historian of #Quakers, it's good to see a talk on Quaker architect Brightwen Binyon (1846-1905). Info: www.wiltshirebuildingsrecord.org.uk/coming-soon/

Quakers wore their testimony against tithe payments as a proud signifier of their unique identity. But how faithful to the testimony were they in practice? #Quakers

My Presidential address to the Friends Historical Society, 'A faithful testimony? Quakers and tithe payments in the mid-18th century', Sat 27 Sept, in the Library at Friends House, London. Also on Zoom; pls contact the Society by 22 Sept. Details: friendshistoricalsociety.org.uk/events/
#Quakers

Witchcraft memorials public - Google My Maps Witchcraft memorials public

📢 Today, we want to share our current map with you! If you notice anything we might have missed, please contact us at witchmapproject@gmail.com along with any sources. In the replies, we will list the criteria for entries as well as a guide to the colour-coding.

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Heidelberg Castle. Badly damaged in the wars of the 17th century and by a lightning strike in 1764. By the early 19th century it was in ruins, but those ruins would inspire many Romantic writers, inc. Goethe, Hölderlin and von Eichendorff, as wells as artists inc. Carl Rottmann and Turner.

Poverty and the Parish in Southern England, Medieval to Modern - Southern History Society Southern History Society Conference: Poverty and the Parish in Southern England, Medieval to Modern. Call for Papers. The Committee of the Southern History Society invites contributions to a conferenc...

Southern History Society conference, 'Poverty and the Parish in Southern England, Medieval to Modern'. Call for papers (by 1 September). Conference to be held 18 October 2025, Winchester.

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As an armchair folklorist, I am really looking forward to reading this.

On the 80th anniversary of VE day, I remember my mother telling me that on VE day 1945, when she was 7 yrs old, she was allowed to stay up after her bedtime to watch an effigy of Hitler being burnt.

Open access - read online for free. Topics inc. women's reading of religious books, women and news books, women's engagement with notetaking/recording.

St Andrew's church, Laverstock, last month. So pretty! (For those not local to the area - it's near Salisbury in Wiltshire.)

Oh no, this is so sad.

Oh no, this is so sad.

#17thcentury travel. Another must-have book to add to the growing list...

#18thcentury

Yes, yes, yes! To be published in June. Have pre-ordered copy, and am so looking forward to reading it.

'Rebellion, Protest and Subversion in Hampshire'. Spring symposium, Hampshire Field Club Local History Section, 26 April, Winchester. Speakers on protest in MA, Lollards, Quakers, protest in 1790s, local protest in 1831, COs in WW1. Pls book by 28 March. www.hantsfieldclub.org.uk/sections/loc...

For those thinking of booking - please do so by 28 March 2025.

I'm delighted to be speaking at a Hampshire Field Club Symposium in Winchester on 26 April. I'll be talking about Hampshire #Quakers, particularly their active evangelism in the 1650s, and their later subversive non-compliance. Further details: www.hantsfieldclub.org.uk/sections/loc...

William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury, after Anthony van Dyck. NPG 171. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Laud.jpg

We're thoroughly enjoying 'The Blazing World' by @jonathanhealey.bsky.social

So, as we read, we'll be making four of our articles about the 17th century free!

The first is Mark Parry's 'William Laud and the Parliamentary Politics of 1628-9' 👇
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#skystorians

Happy 399th Birthday to John Aubrey!! I am delighted to be collaborating with Chippenham Museum & Kate Bennett on an exhibition to mark Aubrey’s 400th birthday in 2026. To celebrate this milestone, I will also be publishing Aubrey’s Natural History in its entirety for the first time.

For historians of religion - this includes several female authors writing on spirituality, etc. Margaret Fell, Anna Trapnel, Joanna Southcott and others.

Cover for a book titled Network Analysis for Book Historians: Digital Labour and Data Visualization Techniques

Super excited to share that my book on network analysis and visualization as a method for book history will be out soon!! It's basically a how-to-start guide for book historians interested in networks 😃 www.arc-humanities.org/978180270268...

#dh #bookhistory #firstbook #medievalsky

I just wanted to share this magnificent Green Man post box topper. Outside the community shop at Avebury, Wiltshire, on 31 January 2025.

#Quakers I'm honoured to be able to announce that I have been appointed President of the Friends Historical Society for the year 2025. friendshistoricalsociety.org.uk/events/

Continental influx and pervasive matrilocality in Iron Age Britain - Nature An analysis of ancient mitochondrial and nuclear DNA shows evidence of matrilocal communities in Iron Age Britain.

This is the exciting paper drop. New aDNA science out of Dublin.

Matrilineal descent systems demonstrated for Late Iron Age Dorset.

Building on the work of Mel Giles (2012) who first spotted the potential for it in the archaeology of Middle Iron Age Yorkshire.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New! History of Alderbury, SE Wiltshire, now online. Latest draft from @wiltshistory.bsky.social researchers.

Congratulations in getting this online!

John Aubrey, Lady Salisbury and the Cow Bladders — Louise Ryland-Epton Amongst John Aubrey's unpublished works, which comprised everything except a text on the supernatural, was 'A Collection of Approved Receipts'. A list of medical cures.

I have written something random 😀https://www.louiserylandepton.co.uk/blog/john-aubrey-lady-salisbury-amp-the-cow-bladders

A Valentine's post box topper, Salisbury market place. Photo taken Tuesday 11 February 2025.