Emily Vine

Looking forward to this . . . @lsangha.bsky.social
@materialwills.bsky.social
@emilymayvine.bsky.social
@transkribus.bsky.social
@zooniverse.bsky.social

If you want to know more about our use of handwritten text recognition software (Transkribus) on the wills project, tune in on Zoom next week 👇

All welcome (not just postdocs!).

#EarlyModern 🗃️ #DigitalHumanities #HTR #CitizenScience

Looking forward to speaking at this with @bhamhistory.bsky.social next week - on all things to do with Digitization & Citizen Science 📜💻

@emeccwarwick.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social @zooniverse.bsky.social @transkribus.bsky.social

#history #citizenscience #skystorians #digitalhumanities

Pleased to see that an article I wrote w/ Rachel Rich, @adamcrymble.bsky.social and @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social is out! We look at George III's use of food for masculine self-fashioning. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A group of people seated on stage in a line with another standing in front of them singing into a microphone. An audience watches on.

A career highlight for me to join Chris Hoban and various musicians (a string quartet! a hurdy-gurdy man!) on Saturday to deliver an afternoon of history & music at Exeter Phoenix.

It's so special to be able to share my #EarlyModern research with the public in such a powerful & meaningful way. 📜🎵🎻🗃️

A person pulling a bit of a face with their arms outstreched, gesturing.

A person standing with an red accordian strapped to their front that they are playing.

Come along on Saturday to see me wave my arms around while Chris scratches his head in bemusement!

A FREE performance of history & music inspired by #EarlyModern wills 📜🎵🗃️

📍 #Exeter Phoenix Auditorium
📅 Sat 11 Oct
🕐 13.30
Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-an...

Photos: Steven Haywood.

One week to go until Lyndal Roper's talk at @ihr.bsky.social!

Register for the hybrid event here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

And check out our other talks by @emilymayvine.bsky.social and @nailyas.bsky.social here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...

Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...

📢 Free @materialwills.bsky.social event - this Saturday 11 October! 📢

#skystorians #history #earlymodern

This paper will share some key findings from Emily's recently published book, Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London. Early modern London has long been recognised as a centre of religious diversity, yet the role of the home as the setting of religious practice for all faiths has been largely overlooked. In contrast, the book offers the first examination of domestic religion in London during a period of intense religious change, between the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 and the Gordon Riots of 1780. It considers both Christian and Jewish practices, comparing the experiences of Catholics, Sephardi and Ashkenazi Jews, Huguenots, and conforming and nonconforming Protestants alike. Through its focus on the crowded metropolis as a place where households of different faiths coexisted, this study explores how religious communities operated beyond and in parallel to places of public worship. It demonstrates how families of different faiths experienced childbirth and death, arguing that homes became 'permeable' settings of communal religion at critical moments of the life cycle. By focusing on practices beyond the synagogue, meeting house, or church, this book demonstrates the vitality of collective devotion and kinship throughout the long eighteenth century.

📢REMINDER: CEMS SEMINAR TOMORROW📢

Can't wait to hear @emilymayvine.bsky.social discuss her new monograph:

Dr Emily Vine (Exeter), 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London'.

📅Weds 8 Oct, 2.30-4pm.
📍Exeter Uni, Forum Seminar Room 5 / Teams.
#EarlyModern 🗃️

DM me for the link!

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...

A 1720 drawing of Bridewell Prison, seen from above, from “The Prospect of Bridewell” from John Strype‘s An Accurate Edition of Stow’s “A Survey of London“ (1720) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridewell_Palace#/media/File:Prospect_of_Bridewell.jpg

3. Catch up on our latest 'Will of the Month' blog post!

September's post was written by Dylan Cox, a 3rd year Exeter History student 📜

You can catch up on all of our 'Will of the Month' posts - over 20! - on our website 💻

@uoearchhist.bsky.social #history
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

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A newsletter - mainly consisting of text, with some photos of a workshop in the bottom corner.

A newsletter - mainly consisting of text, with some photos of a print workshop and some images of the prints that were made.

2. Read our Autumn Newsletter! 📰

We've recently circulated our latest project update - with details of what we've been up to over the last 6 months! 📜🎨🎵

Download the pdf or plain version from our news page:
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

@uniofexeterhass.bsky.social #skystorians
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Stories and Songs: Wills as Windows onto Past Lives A unique performance of history and original music inspired by Tudor, Stuart and Georgian wills.

📢 A round up of our recent news 📢

1. UPCOMING 'WILLS PROJECT' EVENT:

Join @lsangha.bsky.social and musician Chris Hoban for a FREE performance of history & music inspired by #EarlyModern wills 📜🎵

📍Exeter Phoenix
📅Sat 11 Oct
🕐13.30

Register here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/stories-an...
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Catch up on the @materialwills.bsky.social news below 👇

Featuring an upcoming free event in Exeter📜🎵
And links to our latest newsletter and blogposts 📰💻

#history #skystorians #EarlyModern

SAS and The London Archives: Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500-1800

@ihr.bsky.social and @ies-sas.bsky.social are partnering with @thelondonarchives.bsky.social to run a new series of public lectures, featuring the chance to see the original records first hand. First lecture by @patrickwallis.bsky.social on "Apprenticeship and the Rise of London", Weds 15th October!

A FREE @materialwills.bsky.social event in Exeter: A unique performance of history ⌛ and original music 🎵 inspired by early modern wills 📜

Register for your free ticket 👇

#skystorians #history #EarlyModern #Tudor

Stories and Songs: Wills as Windows onto Past Lives A unique performance of history and original music inspired by Tudor, Stuart and Georgian wills.

🎺ANNOUNCEMENT!🎺

STORIES & SONGS: WILLS AS WINDOWS ONTO PAST LIVES

Join Chris Hoban and I at #Exeter Phoenix for a unique performance of history & original music inspired by #Tudor, #Stuart & Georgian wills! 🗃️

FREE! Claim your ticket: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1738865536...

A box of printed programmes for the event 'An Evening of Stories and Songs: Wills as Windows onto Past Lives', presented by Arts and Culture. Chris Hoban and Laura Sangha. Another box contains 'Complete Song Lyrics' booklets, words by Chris Hoban.

Chris and I are really excited to be part of the FUTURES Festival and to have the chance to perform the wills music in the Phoenix Auditorium, following our sold out event earlier this year.

📢 A FREE wills project event - Exeter, 11 October 📢

Project co-investigator @lsangha.bsky.social & Creative Fellow musician Chris Hoban invite you to join them for a unique performance of history and original music inspired by #EarlyModern wills 📜 #history

Register for your free ticket below 👇

New 'Will of the Month' post from @materialwills.bsky.social ! 👇

@uoearchhist.bsky.social @cemsexeter.bsky.social #history #earlymodern #skystorians

The Autumn term card for the IHR 'Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800' seminar is now live - and all our seminars this term are hybrid!

Delighted to be part of the series. #history #skystorians #EarlyModern

www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

I really liked the fact that Dylan chose to research a 'boring' will from our collection - one with very few personal or sentimental bequests. As you will read, even wills like this contain a lot of rich historical detail.

Bravo Dylan!

A drawing showing a large complex of buildings - tall walls with lots of windows, it looks a bit like a prison. At the top text reads 'The Prospect of Bridewell'.

📢SEPTEMBER WILL OF THE MONTH📢

It's a special one! Written by Exeter undergraduate student Dylan Cox, who undertook work experience with the project team. He explores the will of a London gentleman 👇

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

sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

Dylan reflects on a will that contains mainly financial bequests, and comments on different ‘styles’ of will-making 📜💸

He also reflects on the process of this type of archival research more broadly 📝

Thank you Dylan for sharing your research!

@uoearchhist.bsky.social #skystorians #history
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It's a very special 'Will of the Month' post over at @materialwills.bsky.social - transcribed & researched by Dylan Cox, a 3rd year History student @ @uoearchhist.bsky.social

Dylan shares some really nice reflections about the process of researching the will of a C17th London gentleman #EarlyModern

Thank you!

The front cover of the book 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London' - it has a red from cover and the image is from a seventeenth-century woodcut.

I really enjoyed speaking about my new book with Dr Miranda Melcher for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast 📖

Now available online! 👇📻

newbooksnetwork.com/birth-death-...

@universitypress.cambridge.org @uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

The Experience of Work in Early Modern England Cambridge Core - Economic History - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England

Delighted to share that my first book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England (co-written with the fantastic @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, and Hannah Robb) has been published and is available free and Open Access! doi.org/10.1017/9781...

#earlymodern #economic #history

In Case You Missed It: Last week we circulated our Autumn 2025 Newsletter 🍂✉️

Want to catch up on what we've been up to recently? You can now read it over on our website 👇

#history #EarlyModern #skystorians