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Charmian Mansell
@charmianmansell.bsky.social
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Historian of work, gender, mobility and court records, 1500-1700.
Lecturer in Early Modern History | University of Sheffield
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charmianmansell.bsky.social
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!
historians.org American Historical Association @historians.org · Oct 15
The AHA is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes, which honor exceptional books, distinguished teaching and mentoring in the classroom, public history, and other historical projects. Congratulations to the 2025 awardees! #AHAPerspectives🗃️
American Historical Association Announces 2025 Prize Winners – AHA
The American Historical Association is pleased to announce the winners of its 2025 prizes.
www.historians.org
October 27, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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willpooley.bsky.social
“Cataclysmically bad”

This new series of ECR blog posts on the French History Network makes for grim reading, perhaps grimmer even than some in UK #FrenchHistory might have realised.

1st post, anon ECRs in French History on what it’s like right now out there:

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6691/

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ECR in 2025: Part One- What is it like? – SSFH
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September 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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stephemmabrown.bsky.social
Last chance to book tickets for my virtual talk on medieval murder for Curious Histories: Charity History Talks

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Mapping Murder in Medieval York, London, and Oxford
Dr Stephanie Brown, lead researcher on the York medieval murder map, reveals the homicidal topography of fourteenth-century English cities.
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September 9, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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uclpress.bsky.social
Congratulations to Rosemary Sweet and @RichardJAnsell! Their #OpenAccess book No Country for Travellers? published today. Read & download free at: bit.ly/4kJYgIl #TravelWriting #EighteenthCentury #Spain #Portugal
No Country for Travellers?
No Country for Travellers? explores the rise and nature of British travel to Spain and Portugal between 1760 and 1820, across a region that is conventionally overlooked in studies of British travel to Europe. Drawing on extensive archival and printed sources left by travellers in the period, Rosemary Sweet and Richard Ansell reveal the unheralded […]
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August 14, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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livunipress.bsky.social
Charmian Mansell's Female Servants in Early Modern England has been awarded the Thirsk Prize for Best Book in British or Irish Rural or Agrarian History by the British Agricultural History Society.
📖 bit.ly/9780197267585
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Female Servants in Early Modern England by Charmian Mansell book cover with additional text reading "Thirsk Prize Winner: Best Book in British or Irish Rural or Agrarian History 2025"
July 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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jamdanfish.bsky.social
📖 I've got a new chapter out on accounting as a technique of labour management in C18th English capitalist agriculture

In this volume of Farm Accounts @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social >>
Front cover of book: title Farm Accounts in Rural Europe c.1700-1914 Contents page First page of chapter 2 by James D Fisher titled Accounting for Labour on Capitalist Farms in Eighteenth-Century England
June 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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royalhistsoc.org
Over the next few weeks, we're highlighting the 8 articles and 8 books shortlisted for this year's RHS Early Career Article and First Book Prizes.

Today we feature 'Female Servants in Early Modern England', bit.ly/43OeABX, by Charmian Mansell 1/2
Front cover of Charmian Mansell's book, 'Female Servants in Early Modern England'.
June 18, 2025 at 7:54 AM
charmianmansell.bsky.social
Such a lovely surprise to have my book shortlisted for this RHS prize! Congratulations, too, to all the other shortlisted authors!
royalhistsoc.org Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · May 29
The shortlist for the Society's 2025 First Book Prize for early career historians is now available bit.ly/4kkm4lW

Eight titles have been selected, following an open call for submissions of books published in 2024. Two winners of the 2025 prize will be announced in July.

#Skystorians
Image of the eight titles shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's First Book Prize for early career historians, 2025. Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485-1547, by Laura Flannigan (Cambridge University Press) Intimate Subjects: Touch and Tangibility in Britain’s Cerebral Age, by Simeon Koole (University of Chicago Press) Female Servants in Early Modern England, by Charmian Mansell (British Academy / Oxford University Press) The Capital Market of Manila and the Pacific Trade, 1668-1838: Institutions and Trade during the First Globalization, by Juan Jose Rivas Moreno (Palgrave MacMillan) Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910–1948, by Jules Skotnes-Brown (Johns Hopkins University Press) The Quislings. The Trials of Norwegian Wartime Collaborators, 1941–1964, by Anika Seemann (Cambridge University Press) Pistols in St Paul’s: Science, Music, and Architecture in the Twentieth Century, by Fiona Smyth (Manchester University Press) Desire and Disunity: Christian Communities and Sexual Norms in the Late Antique West, by Ulriika Vihervalli (Liverpool University Press)
May 30, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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julialaite.bsky.social
Historians/geographers/archaeologists: I'm looking for books where the historian goes to the places they are writing about as an integral part of the work (think Gange, Frayed Atlantic Edge). Also looking for theory/method about going to places & imagining them in the past. Any suggestions?
March 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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camunicampop.bsky.social
📣New blog post alert!📣
Today @charmianmansell.bsky.social gives us 5 reasons why service in the past was not always like Downton Abbey...
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog
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The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Cambridge Top of the Campops: 60 things you didn't know about family, marriage, work, and death since the middle ages
www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk
March 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
charmianmansell.bsky.social
Great new article on geo-coding British census addresses 👇👇👇
joshrhodes.bsky.social Josh Rhodes @joshrhodes.bsky.social · Jan 21
So pleased my article on geo-coding addresses of 121 million + people in British censuses 1851-1911 is now out with Historical Methods! #openaccess

- map any census info (ages, occupations, birthplaces etc) by address

- link census to other spatial datasets

Get the code and data 👇
Map of London in 1901 showing percentage of people born overseas by street.
January 21, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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joshrhodes.bsky.social
So pleased my article on geo-coding addresses of 121 million + people in British censuses 1851-1911 is now out with Historical Methods! #openaccess

- map any census info (ages, occupations, birthplaces etc) by address

- link census to other spatial datasets

Get the code and data 👇
Map of London in 1901 showing percentage of people born overseas by street.
January 21, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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janalena.bsky.social
Check out my talk with @charmianmansell.bsky.social on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Female Servants in Early Modern England. @oxunipress.bsky.social 💙📚 #earlymodern #skystorians #16thc #17thc #history
Charmian Mansell, "Female Servants in Early Modern England" (Oxford UP, 2024) - New Books Network
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December 1, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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apocalypsisnova.bsky.social
A couple years ago I put together a little list of yearly fellowships and applications, mostly for early modernists. It includes deadlines, salaries, and requirements. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Fellowships and Grants
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November 16, 2024 at 9:39 AM
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brettrushforth.bsky.social
Hello, new followers! Reposting this recent announcement for those who missed it: New era for the HLQ. Please share widely! If you study the #earlymodern period (c. 1400-1800) in any discipline, we'd love to see what you're working on. www.pennpress.org/journals/jou...
A flyer advertising a call for submissions for the Huntington Library Quarterly. The Text reads: The Huntington Library Quarterly (HLQ) is a peer-reviewed journal featuring original research and new perspectives on the early modern period, broadly defined (c. 1400–1800). Its content reflects an early modern world that was connected and cosmopolitan, with diverse communities and cultures increasingly linked by the circulation of people, ideas, social practices, and material objects in ways that transcend disciplinary and geographic boundaries. We invite submissions that draw on the sources, methods, and theoretical frameworks of literature, art, history, science, medicine, material culture, music, performance, and critical cultural studies, with a preference for scholarship that is broadly legible across disciplines. HLQ’s historical focus on Britain and its American colonies has been dramatically expanded to embrace broader and more diverse fields of inquiry, including scholarship rooted in continental Europe, the African Diaspora, and the Indigenous Americas, as well as their intersections with Mediterranean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean worlds. The Huntington Library Quarterly (HLQ) invites article submissions for two featured issues that will mark the journal’s new direction. Submissions received before 15 January 2025 will be evaluated for the first of these issues, to be published in September 2025. Submissions received before 15 March 2025 will be evaluated for the second of these issues, to be published in December 2025.
November 11, 2024 at 9:18 PM
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hsmurphy.bsky.social
KCL's Centre for Early Modern Studies hasn't made the leap here yet, so sharing a CFP for a conference "Rethinking State and Society" organised by our wonderful colleague Jonah Miller... #EarlyModern 🗃️
Rethinking State and Society in Early Modern Britain — CEMS KCL Blog
The Centre for Early Modern Studies at KCL invites submissions for papers to be presented at a conference on 17th December 2024. The theme is ‘Rethinking State and Society in Early Modern Britain’.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
September 13, 2024 at 9:09 AM
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juliehardwick.bsky.social
Honored and delighted to be joining this conversation next week with Steve Hindle and Charmain about her [@charmianmansell.bsky.social] excellent new book @thenacbs.bsky.social
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Female Servants with Charmian Mansell | NACBS
Join NACBS to celebrate the publication of Female Servants in Early Modern England by Charmian Mansell.
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May 21, 2024 at 11:58 AM
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zoejackson.bsky.social
Very pleased to see this post out today, and to share some of my PhD research on perjury in early modern communities.
April 23, 2024 at 2:40 PM
charmianmansell.bsky.social
My book Female Servants in Early Modern England is out now! And it’s open access! Order here (for 30% off enter code AAFLYG6) or download for free 👇
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Book image (Female Servants in Early Modern England)
April 2, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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evajohannaholmberg.bsky.social
If you need me, I’ll be checking these proofs for a couple of days… #earlymodern should be out in March 2024.
February 12, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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historicaljnl.bsky.social
📣From our latest issue!

Charmian Mansell (@charmianmansell.bsky.social) (@camhistory.bsky.social) on 'Reconstructing the Labour of Care in Early Modern England'

#Labour #Care #Economy #Resources #Food #Emotion 🫂

🔓Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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January 18, 2024 at 4:30 PM
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jorisvdt.bsky.social
The English translation of our book that studies slavery in the history of the Dutch Central Bank (DNB) is now available Open Acces! It can be downloaded here: library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

@fatahblack.bsky.social and Lauren Lauret.
Serving the chain?
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December 11, 2023 at 1:58 PM
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emilybrand.bsky.social
History folk! Anyone got any clues what this might be?

About the size of a cigarette packet but sadly lacking any identifying branding I can see… #19c 🗃️
November 22, 2023 at 7:22 PM
charmianmansell.bsky.social
Finally made it over here and looking forward to connecting with people. I’m an early modern historian with an almost finished book on female servants 🥳 also: gender and work, early modern mobility/travel and legacies of British slave traders. Hello!
November 1, 2023 at 10:47 AM