Elizabeth Tingle

Marvellous. What a sight!

Red kites taking domestic cats is another misbelief. We have had an expansion in numbers & range in N Leics & all sorts of myths are emerging. The heavy road traffic is rarely invoked for cat mortality - tho kites do use roadkill.

PS it is brilliant to see a big kite over the garden…

Come join me at DMU! ⬇️

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We are looking forward to our online Winter Meeting on 'Creeds, Councils and Canons' on 10 January 2026.

If you would like to present a paper, please make sure to send in your submission application by 31 October: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-me...

Call for papers for @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social's upcoming Winter meeting!

In theory, the BA Small Grants scheme is open to independent scholars. Depending on topic, British Council and Arts Council might be worth a look.

Pale green lettuce topped with chunks of cucumber and aloe and two whole flowers

Large tortoise enjoying his salad. A bright orange hibiscus hangs from his mouth

Today in Jeremy's salad: romaine, hibiscus, zinnia, cucumber and aloe vera

Text stating: One of his favourite pursuits was eating Stilton cheese. He would leave the cheese out for a while then wrap it in paper. When the paper began to rustle he would unwrap it and eat the maggots filled with Stilton, with a pin.

A Leicestershire delicacy….. A description from Ravenstone mid 20 C.

Have you tried catnip for yourself?

A colourful image of a stained-glass window with three human figures. A figure in a blue robe with yellow halo is kneeling in front of two old men with long beards and head-wraps. One of the old men is pointing to a passage in a book on his lap. Pieces of glass in the faces of all three figures are missing due to vandalism.

What could the next 50 years look like for churches? Join policy makers, funders, heritage professionals and community leaders on 21 Oct at the V&A Museum in London
to find out.

⏰Time: 10:45am-1pm & 2:30pm-5pm

🎟️ Tickets: vam.ac.uk/event/4KVGa4...

#GreatExpectationsForChurches

Great news. A new edition and full translation will be very welcome. Searchable online like Domesday Book is so important (I love that site opendomesday.org)

Prices and Crises

New book publication ❗ 📖

Last month, my first monograph was published by the Académie royale de Belgique.

It is a slightly reworked version of my PhD, focusing on the grain prices and the grain economy of 14th-C Flanders 🌿

#medievalsky #graineconomy #MiddleAges

For the contents, see below 👇

St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.

Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Volume 48 Issue 3 | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press

New issue of FHS is out now! Policing and State Power in France and the French Empire: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT.
Good luck with the project.

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...

all reports for the AGM now available to download at churchmonumentssociety.org/events/2025-... (along with details of the Study Day which is open to all - Chandos Mausoleum, Handel's organ and more)

Only a week to go for our study day and AGM at St Lawrence, Edgware churchmonumentssociety.org/events/2025-...
AGM is members only but all are welcome to the rest - explore church, churchyard and the gorgeous Chandos mausoleum with expert guides, and hear the organ that Handel actually played.

Final details for our study day and AGM at St Lawrence Edgware at churchmonumentssociety.org/events/2025-.... Explore the gorgeous Chandos mausoleum, hear the organ that Handel actually played. AGM is members only but the study day is free to all.

Ah, ‘fermeture exceptionnelle’ of the Nantes municipal archives, became the slogan of my PhD research. Hand-written, cellotaped to the door on an ad hoc basis during the 2 months I worked there! 1985. The archive was and still is on the rue d’enfer.

Happy days!

Witnessing the Medieval English Parish Church Since taking up a research fellowship at a single-subject institution last year, I’ve perhaps become a little too comfortable in my material-oriented art historical world. The Ecclesiastical Histor…

Why was behind the impetus to develop parochial buildings in the #medieval period so strong? Dr Meg Bernstein investigates this, particularly in reference the addition of north and/or south aisles to an existing church, in her blogpost for us:

eccleshistsoc.wordpress.com/2017/05/01/w...

📢 Applications are now open for our Winter Meeting on 10 January (online)! Deadline: 31 October 2025

Don’t miss the chance to connect, share ideas, and kick off 2026 with fresh inspiration.

Apply now 👉 ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-me...

#Skystorians

Lambeth Palace Library will be holding a careers open day for anyone considering their future career trajectory. This is your chance to find out what the staff do in their day-to-day work, and how to enter these professions.

www.lambethpalacelibrary.info

In this month's blogpost, Dr Emily Betz writes about anti-Quaker propaganda.

Using the language of #medicine, opponents of #Quaker beliefs attempted to paint them as mentally unstable, their understandings of faith less spiritual revelations than medical complications.

wp.me/p7o0HV-qm #medhist

Just tried the free Transkribus site with poor results. Is the paid subscription any better for 17th century handwriting? What about 19th century wills?

Our new website is live!! Hurrah! 🎉 we will share all upcoming COST action events, calls for papers for relevant events, and news about available grants and opportunities. Do share widely with any Prayer Studies scholars/ Historians of Religion who might be interested! prayticipate.eu

Fully funded PhD with me, @uniexecec.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social working on insectivorous bird declines - hopefully esp. House martin www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

@churchmonuments.bsky.social might know….

Craig Harline.