Emily Vine

The margins of a will register, showing text reading 'Abraham Swallow' and 'Anne Turkey'.

Found the 'people named after birds' page of the will register

Wow!

❓Question please for #Skystorians - has anyone come across examples of people being baptised in punch bowls in 17th and 18th-century England?

We've found one in a will ... 🗃️

📜 Catch up on everything the @materialwills.bsky.social team have been up to with this latest project update 👇

#EarlyModern #DigitalHumanities #History #CitizenScience

@uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social
@leverhulme.ac.uk @transkribus.bsky.social
@zooniverse.bsky.social

Many congratulations Nikki! Wonderful achievement, and wonderful photo too!

📢The wills team have been very busy of late!📢

Here's a little update on our progress over recent months - our volunteers completed Zooniverse and the database is on it's way...

#EarlyModern #DigitalHumanities #Transkribus 🗃️ @uoearchhist.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk

📜 There's a new 'Project Progress Update' blog post over on the @materialwills.bsky.social blog! 📜

Read on for more about our research progress, featuring @zooniverse.bsky.social news & updates about our database 👇

#skystorians #history #citizenscience @leverhulme.ac.uk @transkribus.bsky.social

The side of an woman's effigy tomb showing the bottom of her dress and her feet (she lays on her back). The dress is depicted as many wiggled folds of fabric, and we can see the soles of her small shoes.

slightly obsessed about the end of this lady's effigy tomb with the voluminous folds of her dress and petite heeled shoes

A text description of ‘Fostering and Adoption in Eighteenth-Century Britain’

We are delighted to welcome Dr Kate Gibson (Manchester) on Wednesday 12 November, 3.30-5pm in Forum Seminar Room 10 and on Teams for the following CEMS seminar:

'Fostering and Adoption in Eighteenth-Century Britain'.

Full description attached. Please join us! @lsangha.bsky.social

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

Chris Hoban A master songwriter -- inventive and inspiring Show of Hands favourite - has crafted a unique evening with classical and folk musicians, retelling in song the moving, joyful and absorbing stories of ...

This is the first recording of any of Chris Hoban's wills inspired music!

For lucky people in Devon, Chris will be performing ALL the wills songs at Topsham Folk Club on 18 January, with support from Miranda Sykes.

Grab your ticket now 👇

#Exeter #Devon 🗃️ #Events

wegottickets.com/event/680386

Alice Walter's will might be familiar if you read our project blog, as it was our Will of the Month in October 2024.

Read @emilymayvine.bsky.social's post, and see a transcription of the whole will here:

#EarlyModern 🗃️

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YouTube video by Will Pollard Chris Hoban - Rings On My Fingers (one )

📜WILLS ON THE RADIO!📜

The brilliant Chris Hoban was on local radio talking about the wills project and playing some songs!

This one is perhaps my favourite: based on the will of London widow Alice Walter, proved September 1665. TNA PROB 11/317/428.

#EarlyModern 🗃️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXwB...

And here we all are, not being at all self-conscious about having our photo taken and enjoying Harry's visualisation of our bequests.

And we continue to share full transcriptions and blog posts about interesting wills! 📜

In case you missed it, last week we published our latest 'Will of the Month' post 👇

#skystorians #history #EarlyModern
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A photograph of the Wills project team meeting in a room at the University of Exeter. There are six people in the photograph, sitting around a table with laptops in front of them, looking at a screen on the wall which contains a colourful graph. The carpet is grey and the walls are white. There are glass doors in the wall at the back of the room which overlook grass.

Our Zooniverse volunteers reached this fantastic milestone while the project team were in Exeter, and meeting to discuss next steps for the transcriptions and the database.

We were delighted to reach this milestone, and discussed how valuable all the Zooniverse contributions have been.

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Zooniverse The Zooniverse is the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research.

You can find out more on our Zooniverse 'Talkboards' - which we'll continue to monitor.

We hope to be able to share preliminary results in the near future, and BlueSky will be one of the first places we'll update - so watch this space! 📜

www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...

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A round up of recent @materialwills.bsky.social project news below 👇

Including recent @zooniverse.bsky.social milestones, project meetings, and new blog posts!

#earlymodern #history #skystorians @leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social @cemsexeter.bsky.social

Many thanks for tuning in Lucy, and for your kind words! @ihrscb.bsky.social are hoping to do many more hybrid seminars in future, so watch this space!

A new 'Will of the Month' post over on the @materialwills.bsky.social blog 👇

October's post looks at the poignant will of Margery Gadyng, a married woman who died in childbirth in 1540, who used her final words to make provisions for her children's future care.

#skystorians #history #EarlyModern

Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800 Seminar- Session 2

A quick reminder that Dr Emily Vine @emilymayvine.bsky.social will be speaking TODAY on 'Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London' from 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm in the Wolfson Room (NB02 at the IHR) and online, via Zoom! ✨ www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

We wrote about a very poignant will for October's 'Will of the Month' post over at @materialwills.bsky.social

Married women didn't usually make wills, but Margery Gadyng did - with her husband's permission. She left bequests of her 'hert’ ‘joie’, & ‘comfort’.

#history #skystorians #earlymodern

Wow - congratulations! A fantastic achievement.

So pleased to be on the list of American Historical Association prize winners. My book, Female Servants in Early Modern England, was awarded the Morris D. Forkosch Prize in British, British imperial, or British Commonwealth history since 1485. Congratulations to all the other awardees!

I'm pretty jealous of Jane - the cabinets are opened rarely to prevent light damage and to protect the delicate hinges.

Jane's research focuses on global goods in our 25,000 wills - both imported objects and material culture that imitated them.

Birth! Death!! Domestic Religion!!!

Come along (or join online) to hear @emilymayvine.bsky.social's talk at the @ihr.bsky.social next Thursday.

We’re also thrilled to introduce Emily Vine as one of our new convenors at SCB! Emily is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Exeter on the Leverhulme Project 'The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790’.

Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800 Seminar- Session 2

Join us next Thursday (30/10, 5.30 pm) for Dr Emily Vine’s (@emilymayvine.bsky.social) talk on ‘Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London’! You can sign up to join in-person (IHR Wolfson Room, NB02) or online via Zoom here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

A beautiful photograph taken by @materialwills.bsky.social PhD student Jane Tozer.

Jane visited Ham House during their 'Open Cabinets' event - the cabinets are only opened 2x a year to protect interiors from light & hinges from wear.

#history #skystorians #earlymodern @nationaltrust.org.uk

📢TODAY📢

Tune in to hear @bhamhistory.bsky.social and @emilymayvine.bsky.social discuss our unique methodology 👇

Weds 22 Oct, 5pm
Zoom
#EarlyModern 🗃️ #DigitalHumanities @cemsexeter.bsky.social @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social @dhlabexeter.bsky.social