Anna Cusack (@annacusack) — Bluesky Profile

1 week ago

In person early modern metals event in London next month with me, @laurenworking.bsky.social, and Lubaaba Al-Azami. Please repost and share widely! And register here -- forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

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2 weeks ago

Congratulations Sophie 🎉 wonderful news! You superstar!

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1 month ago

Joe Saunders History Here to help with any historical project including genealogy, property history, problem solving, archival photography and writing up research. Joe Saunders History

I am happy to undertake historic research on behalf of organisations of all kinds, including businesses and charities. My experience includes writing histories up for print and digital publication, as well as formal reports for internal use. www.joesaundershistory.co.uk

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1 month ago

Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (111286-0126) - University of Warwick Title: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (111286-0126). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent

🚨History Job: Assistant Professor in Early Modern British History (Permanent) 🗃️

Come work with us at Warwick! You will join a group of excellent early-modernists and one of the nicest bunches of historians around!
👇👇👇

@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

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1 month ago

early modern woodcut of an apothecary stirring a pot, with two customers approaching.

Next Thursday! @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social will be at @ihrscb.bsky.social to talk about 'The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World, 1500-1750: Matter in Multispecies Medicine'

Register here to attend this in-person event at @ihr.bsky.social:
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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1 month ago

Tasting History

Researching and Experiencing the Development of the Cheese Trade

Keynes Library, Gordon Square

Tuesday 24 February 2026
1500-1730
This interactive, experiential event will include a discussion with Ned Palmer, author of A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles, and Alasdair McNeill, a Birkbeck doctoral student researching the early modern cheese trade. It will be accompanied by a free tasting of six historic cheeses.

Ned will introduce each cheese by placing it in its historical context, and the tastings will be interspersed with a conversation between Ned and Alasdair about the development of the trade and its importance to broader histories of commercialisation, labour relations, and women’s social and economic role. They will also discuss the value, and limits, of experiential food studies. How can the history of cheese – from milking to mongering – illuminate the role of ordinary women and men in their local communities and wider society? How can producing and tasting historic foods help us understand their histories?

‘Tasting History: Researching and Experiencing the Development of the Cheese Trade’, with @cheesetastingco.bsky.social and @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social, hosted by Birkbeck's Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Feb 24th!

Register here: www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

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1 month ago

Selling Education in England, 1650–1715* Abstract. In the period 1650–1715, a growing consensus emerged that educational culture in England did not meet the needs of the population, and that chang

My new article, 'Selling Education in England, 1650-1715' is now out (open access) in the English Historical Review! academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-...

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1 month ago

Only just seen this, such sad news. Clare was always so kind and generous with her time. I am very grateful for her support when I did my own PhD and I spent several years working with her at the National Portrait Gallery where her enthusiasm and love of everything she did shone through.

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1 month ago

Hi. Yes I am ☺️

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1 month ago

I am so sorry to hear this. I covered for Tom at Essex a couple of times and he was always very generous with his knowledge and materials for teaching.

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1 month ago

Women, Food and Power - Joint Session

Excited to be speaking at the IHR Food History seminar on 12 February 5.30 pm to 6.30 pm.

Book a place to hear about cheesemaking and women’s dominance of the dairy in early modern England.

Online via Zoom so no real cheese this time I’m afraid.

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1 month ago

Webpage of the Society of Antiquaries of London with text describing the society with image of old text and a drawing of Stonehenge.

Antiquarianism, by Joe Saunders. Antiquarians have served an important part in the study of history over the last few hundred years, and their work has helped the development of the modern historical sciences. how-to-history.com/2026/01/28/a...

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1 month ago

First page of Transactions article, 'Remembering Rebellion in the Tudor South West', by Mark Stoyle.

Full abstract: "This article explores how the five major rebellions which took place in Devon and Cornwall between 1485 and 1603 were subsequently remembered by the region’s inhabitants. It begins by demonstrating that – although early modern elites generally preferred to say as little as possible about episodes of popular protest once they had been safely suppressed – the revolts which had occurred under the Tudor monarchs went on to be officially memorialised in several South Western communities. The article then moves on to discuss how local gentlefolk looked back on the rebellions, and argues that such individuals tended, in their retrospective accounts, to exaggerate the degree of social radicalism which had been exhibited by the insurgents. Next, the article considers the few scraps of evidence which have survived about popular memories of the protests, and suggests that, while the specific grievances which had motivated the rebels may well have been quite quickly forgotten, the desperate courage with which they had fought – particularly during the Western Rising of 1549 – had continued to be remembered by the ordinary people of the region for decades to come. The fourth and last part of the article looks at ‘modern’ commemoration of the revolts and draws out some general conclusions."

Between 1485 & 1603 Devon and Cornwall experienced 5 major rebellions: how were they remembered regionally, over time and across social divisions? And how are they being commemorated today?

'Remembering Rebellion in the Tudor South West': bit.ly/3YXxbbz: a new TRHS article by Prof Mark Stoyle 1/2

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1 month ago

Photo of an English village, showing a lane with terraced white houses to the left of it and a parish church further along.

📢FIRST FEATURED WILL OF 2026📢

'if it shall please God to afflict me before my Death’.

Emily explores the will of Mary Young, who anticipated that she might lose mental or physical capacity at the end.

#EarlyModern 🗃️ @leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social

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1 month ago

Preparing a class for tomorrow, and again enjoying the ballad of 'Shameless Joan of Finsbury', who for a bet crawled backwards across London on all fours, her skirt over her head, and a lighted candle in her backside: a watchman believed he had seen the devil. ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/22345...

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1 month ago

📣You now have until Friday 23 January to get your proposals in - we look forward to seeing many of you in Lancaster in July!✨

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1 month ago

If you've been sitting on the fence about submitting a paper to SHS, guess what?! You have a whole week more to decide and I'd strongly encourage you to submit that paper! It is such a supportive, friendly and fun conference to be part of! Come and join us!

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1 month ago

If you've been sitting on the fence about submitting a paper to SHS, guess what?! You have a whole week more to decide and I'd strongly encourage you to submit that paper! It is such a supportive, friendly and fun conference to be part of! Come and join us!

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1 month ago

The Court of King's Bench could hear the most serious of criminal cases. They also had to hear misdemeanours such as this one against John Carver, for "insulting the French Ambassador by knocking violently on his door" [Rex v Carver, East Geo II] TNA KB 33/11/6

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1 month ago

Deadline extended until 23 Jan! Do put in an application for this conference - it's one of the warmest, loveliest and social (fittingly!) conferences there is in History, and it's especially welcoming to ECRs and PGRs!

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1 month ago

Updated CfP: Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation’ @ Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026.

Please do check out and share our #CfP. Deadline: 27 February 2026.

#Earlymodern #Communication #History

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1 month ago

Meredith Gamer - City of the Gallows

Art and Execution in Eighteenth-Century London

À paraître en juin aux Yale UP

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1 month ago

A very detailed embroidering depicting men and women undertaking various work tasks. These include spinning, harvesting wheat, picking fruit, sheering sheep, carrying water and so on. Each task is labelled with the name of the month. Credit: The Labours of the Months, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

📢JOYCE YOUINGS MEMORIAL LECTURE📢

Prof. Jane Whittle: Work & gender, status & power: the surprising history of everyday chores in early modern England

🗓️ 28 January, 3pm
📍 Uni of Exeter & Zoom

All welcome at this public 🗃️ lecture, register for your place: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-joyce-...

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2 months ago

3 days to submit those abstracts! Get them in! It's going to be a wonderful conference!

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2 months ago

Soho at Noon: Satire, Stratification, and Urbanisation in William Hogarth’s London - On History Daisy Mansfield is volunteer with VCH London, focusing on artists in Soho. In this blog, she discusses what we can learn about Soho in the eighteenth-century from the work of the renowned artist and c...

This new blogpost from @ihr.bsky.social by Daisy Mansfield, a volunteer with our @vch-london.bsky.social project, currently working on the parish of St Anne #Soho looks at what we can learn abut the life of the area in the 18th century from the works of William Hogarth. 🗃️

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2 months ago

Bookes are like Cheese, that is neuer well seasoned to euery mans tast; for one will say it is too salt, another wil say it is too fresh, a thirde will say it is to tart, another thinkes it to be too milde; one will haue it too hard, another too soft, another too tough, another too brittle, it neuer pleaseth euery mans tast; no more do Bookes.

Barnabe Rich explaining that "bookes are like cheese"

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2 months ago

Image of webpage showing the book details for Machel's 'Collections'.

Amazing new publication of Thomas Machell's 17th century 'Collections Towards a History and Topography of Westmorland' edited by Jane Platt. A fantastic source for study made freely available online by Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological society. 🗃️ cumbriapast.com/cgi-bin/cumb...

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2 months ago

Here's what it looked like on my return to work this morning - beautiful red brick gabled building of Girton's Hall, with a dusting of snow on the grass in front.

JOB ALERT!

3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community.

PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January

www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

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2 months ago

How did employers recruit their servants in the 18th century? In a previous article I looked at those who worked at Kenwood House, which led me on to take a look at how employees were recruited. Many servants acquired their position via word of mouth and were able to supply a good reference from a previous employer, although of course, at that time there was no legal requirement to provide one, but without such a reference it would have been virtually impossible to find employment. I have also looked at the typical wages of servants in a previous article which can be found…

How did employers recruit their servants in the 18th century?

In a previous article I looked at those who worked at Kenwood House, which led me on to take a look at how employees were recruited. Many servants acquired their position via word of mouth and were able to supply a good reference from a…

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2 months ago

Crime and Punishment in Early Modern London and the Home Counties Crime and punishment in early modern London and the home counties is a rich area of study. Students will encounter not only the changes in the law across the period, but also the very real human stori...

I know it feels a long way off, but for those of you who think your August is missing a little early modern crime...why not sign up for the University of Oxford's summer school? I promise it will be more fun and less grim than you may think!
lifelong-learning.ox.ac.uk/courses/crim...

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