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Taylor Aucoin
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British Academy Postdoc Edinburgh Uni丨Cultural & Social Historian 丨Medieval & Early Modern Britain 丨 Work, Play, Festivity, Carnival 丨 Louisianan 丨⚜️ 🐯

Website and blog: https://ludicrushistories.wordpress.com/
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Taylor Aucoin @aucointaylor.bsky.social · Sep 22
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
The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
Cambridge Core - Economic History - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
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cmrsedinburgh.bsky.social
🐏 👨‍👨 @nicolemaceira.bsky.social will join us this week to discuss contrasting depictions of animals and humans in post-Reformation thought, and their importance in the development of the Reformed faith in Scotland.
November 3, 2025 at 1:00 PM
aucointaylor.bsky.social
To mark #Halloween & publication of 'The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England', (now available in print & free online), this blogpost revisits the magiconomy.
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Highlights include a magical service paid for with bacon and pigeons.
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#history
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The Magiconomy of Early Modern England
This post is part of a series marking the print and online Open Access (free) publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by Jane Whittle, Mark Hailwood, …
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October 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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timhitchcock.bsky.social
Very much looking forward to Polly Lowe @polly-lowe.bsky.social speaking this Wednesday on bound labour and Scottish miners in the 18th c. @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social Everyone welcome - either in person or hybrid, but please register at www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Bound Labour, Narratives of Nationhood, and the Rhetoric of Slavery: Liberty, Identity, and Scottish Coal-Miners in the Long Eighteenth Century
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October 20, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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markhailwood.bsky.social
Final post in my series on 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England'. It focuses on the heartbeat of the premodern economy.... the harvest.

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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England IV: Harvesters
This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…
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October 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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markhailwood.bsky.social
I believe you kids call this an ‘unboxing’…
October 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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lsangha.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
materialwills.bsky.social The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 28d
Project Research Fellows Harry Smith and Emily Vine are looking forward to speaking as part of the Warwick History 'Post-Doc' Club series, next Wed 22 October @ 17.00.

They'll be discussing 'Digitization & Citizen Science'📜💻

Follow this link for Zoom details:
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...
A poster with a white background and black text, with a blue border at the top of the poster, and photographs of manuscripts. The title of the poster reads Warwick History ‘POST-DOC’ CLUB METHODOLOGIES SERIES. Online Meeting: Weds 22 October at 5pm DIGITIZATION & CITIZEN SCIENCE: Inviting collaborative research to transcribe handwriting. With Harry Smith and Emily Vine of the Material Culture of Wills, 1540-1790 project at the University of Exeter.
October 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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As the agricultural cycle starts to wind down for the winter, my next post on 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' looks forward to its resumption in the new year, when...

‘Ploughmen go whistling to their toils’

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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England III: ‘Ploughmen go whistling to their toils’
This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…
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October 14, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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lsangha.bsky.social
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...

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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...
news.exeter.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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markhailwood.bsky.social
Another post on 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' - a reminder that work in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was very much a family affair...

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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England II: Family Fortunes
This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…
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October 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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markhailwood.bsky.social
As you dig out your chunky knitwear from the back of the draw, I know you are wondering: 'How did people prepare for winter 400 years ago?'

Read today's post to find out (and whet your appetite for our new book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England)

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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England I: Winter is Coming
This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…
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October 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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markhailwood.bsky.social
Delighted to see our new book - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England - out now, and open access (free!)

doi-org.bris.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/9781...
October 1, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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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...
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.
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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maryrosemuseum.bsky.social
Join @magicnotwitches.bsky.social in an exploration of practical magic in English history on 28th October at the Mary Rose Museum!

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Dr Tabitha Stanmore, Historian of magic, witchcraft and environments A woodcut showing a devil and a ship sinking.
September 25, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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brodiewaddell.bsky.social
We've got a stellar set of speakers this term at @ihr.bsky.social. Come along an immerse yourself in the latest early modern history research! #EarlyModern 🗃️
ihrscb.bsky.social IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · Sep 25
We're back! 🎉 And we're thrilled to announce our term card for Autumn 2025! Our first event is on Thursday 16 October at 5.30 pm. Lyndal Roper will be discussing 'Turbulence and the German Peasants' War of 1524-6'. You can register to attend the event at: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
To attend, please register at the event of your choice here. If you have signed up but suddenly find yourself unable to make it, you can relinquish your spot by emailing: ihr.events@sas.ac.uk. If you would like to attend in-person and the event reads as fully booked, please do drop by anyway as we can always find some extra chairs! Thursday 16 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford), Turbulence and the German Peasants’ War of 1524-6 Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid. Online-via Zoom & Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House Thursday 30 October, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Emily Vine (University of Exeter), Birth, Death and Domestic Religion in Early Modern London Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House Thursday 27 November, 5.30 pm to 7.30 pm Nailya Shamgunova (University of East Anglia), ‘English and Scottish Scholars at the Global Library, c. 1500-1700’ Please register here if you would like to attend. Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House
September 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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lsangha.bsky.social
🎺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...
Stories and Songs: Wills as Windows onto Past Lives
A unique performance of history and original music inspired by Tudor, Stuart and Georgian wills.
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September 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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cordeliabeattie.bsky.social
Now the contract is signed etc we're very pleased to share this news. Please do follow the below account to keep up to date with what we're doing. #GenderHistory
September 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
The leading international journal ‘Gender & History’ (@genderandhistory.bsky.social) has moved to the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, edin.ac/46z9jy5

#History #Classics #Archaeology #HCA #Edinburgh #Gender
September 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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benpohl.bsky.social
🤩 Check out the shiny new website of Bristol's world-class Centre for Medieval Studies (@bristolcms.bsky.social), home to over 35 full-time medievalists and over 160 research students and research associates: medievalstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk 🤩 @uobartsmatter.bsky.social #medievalsky #skystorians
CMS; Bristol; University of Bristol; Medieval Studies; MA degree;
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September 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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passamezzo.bsky.social
Delighted to be able to say that we've been awarded a grant to expand the #GreensleevesProject by recording a selection of #Tudor & #Stuart #music & #song associated with clothing.
Huge thanks to the wonderful @continuoconnect.bsky.social for their generosity!

#earlymusic #earlymodern
September 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
aucointaylor.bsky.social
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
The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
Cambridge Core - Economic History - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England
doi.org
September 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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materialwills.bsky.social
We're delighted that our project has been featured in a brand new @zooniverse.bsky.social video! 📽️📼

Researchers @jwhittle.bsky.social @lsangha.bsky.social & @bhamhistory.bsky.social explain what it's all about📜

@uniofexeternews.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYkN...
Around the Zoo- The Material Culture of Wills: England 1540-1790
YouTube video by The Zooniverse
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June 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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emilymayvine.bsky.social
Delighted to see this mock up of the front cover of my first book, due to be published later in the Summer with @cambridgeup.bsky.social .

It's been several years in the making, and has had input and guidance from so many people - but it nearly exists!
A mock up of a front cover of a book entitled 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London'. The book cover is red, and the image is from a seventeenth-century woodcut of bodies being removed from London households during the plague.
May 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
aucointaylor.bsky.social
#ShroveTuesday and dancing go together like, well, Shrove Tuesday and pancakes. It's an old tradition - from Roxburgh Castle in 1314, to Sam Pepys and co in London 1660, to kitchens around the UK today.
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Enjoy some footloose flipping this #PancakeDay! #medieval #earlymodern #Carnival #dance
Timeline showing examples of Shrovetide dancing in medieval and early modern British Isles. 1314, English soldiers dance and sing in Roxburgh castle before Scots forces attack them. 1418, Anglo-Irish nobleman is killed by his blacksmith while dancing. 1505, Clothing purchased for a dance at James IV's royal court in Scotland. 1565, Dancing at a masque performance at Elizabeth I's royal court. 1633, Charles I dances at a masque. 1660, Samuel Pepys and family dance and carouse at a friends house.
March 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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callanjd.bsky.social
Exciting to see our Box Office Bears paper on @antiquityj.bsky.social today! 🎉 How might one know whether an historical site hosted bear-baiting? We look at possibilities based off our work on Bankside & across early modern England, uniting archaeology & archives. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern ‘sport’ | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
What does a bear-baiting assemblage look like? Interdisciplinary analysis of an Early Modern ‘sport’
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February 17, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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ewatson.bsky.social
Very excited to be giving the first talk of my new research project this Thursday on the Edinburgh printress Agnes Campbell and her international networks of bookwomen! Come by if you're in Edinburgh or hit me up for the Teams link 👀 (ESTC R183059 & T507272) hca.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...
February 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM