Cordelia Beattie
@cordeliabeattie.bsky.social
Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
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We are delighted to announce that Gender & History now has a new home at the University of Edinburgh. With thanks to the Sheffield team who did a stellar job for the last five years. hca.ed.ac.uk/gender-histo...
#Skystorians #GenderHistory @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
#Skystorians #GenderHistory @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
'Gender & History' moves to Edinburgh | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology
The School is very excited to announce that the leading international journal ‘Gender & History’ has moved to the University of Edinburgh.
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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
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So proud of my @leidenhumanities.bsky.social colleague Lotte Fikkers, whose Open Access Book, Early Modern Women’s Life Writing & English law is out w/ @edinburghup.bsky.social ! A stunning achievement from our @erc.europa.eu project #FEATHERS. Don’t miss it
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
Women in early modern courtrooms: 'A cross-section of society'
In early modern England, courts of law were working overtime. University lecturer Lotte Fikkers delved into the records of centuries-old court cases involving women. In Early Modern Women's Life-Writi...
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November 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
So proud of my @leidenhumanities.bsky.social colleague Lotte Fikkers, whose Open Access Book, Early Modern Women’s Life Writing & English law is out w/ @edinburghup.bsky.social ! A stunning achievement from our @erc.europa.eu project #FEATHERS. Don’t miss it
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...
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A good time, it seems, for a thread about public sculptures of, and by, women that have been installed in the last 10 years or so...
Aphra Benn in Canterbury, Licoricia in Winchester, Mary Anning in Lyme Regis, Dervorguilla in Oxford...
Aphra Benn in Canterbury, Licoricia in Winchester, Mary Anning in Lyme Regis, Dervorguilla in Oxford...
November 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
A good time, it seems, for a thread about public sculptures of, and by, women that have been installed in the last 10 years or so...
Aphra Benn in Canterbury, Licoricia in Winchester, Mary Anning in Lyme Regis, Dervorguilla in Oxford...
Aphra Benn in Canterbury, Licoricia in Winchester, Mary Anning in Lyme Regis, Dervorguilla in Oxford...
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🔔 job opportunity at @cam.ac.uk in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400 in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400
Applications are invited for the position of Assistant Professor in History of Knowledge Pre-1400, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Please note
www.cam.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:03 PM
🔔 job opportunity at @cam.ac.uk in the History of Knowledge Pre-1400 in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assista...
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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/
London Lives
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November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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/
The document pictured is headed 'Alice Thornton wife of William Thornton of east Newton Esqr aged twenty nyne yeares or thereabouts'. Reader, she was 30.
According to Book 2, Alice Thornton #OTD 3 Nov. 1658 gave evidence at Hipswell before a Master of Chancery. She deposed that her father, Christopher Wandesford, had made a will in Ireland in 1640. The will had since gone missing and its contents were disputed. 1/2 #EarlyModern 📜 🗃️
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The document pictured is headed 'Alice Thornton wife of William Thornton of east Newton Esqr aged twenty nyne yeares or thereabouts'. Reader, she was 30.
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I hope it is now obvious why pillars of democracy like universities, the law, public broadcasting should be funded so that they are beyond the reach of financial coercion by hostile agents.
Pretty extraordinary story here
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China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show - BBC News
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I hope it is now obvious why pillars of democracy like universities, the law, public broadcasting should be funded so that they are beyond the reach of financial coercion by hostile agents.
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This week we also announced plans for a new Applied History Fellowship for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social and publisher DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education. Launch event: 2.30pm, 19 Nov, online #Skystorians
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education. Launch event: 2.30pm, 19 Nov, online #Skystorians
New programme of 'Applied History Fellowships': launch and introductory event - RHS
In 2025-26 the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Royal Historical Society and DC Thomson will launch a new Applied History Fellowship partnership. Join us at this online session -- 2.30pm on Wed...
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November 1, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This week we also announced plans for a new Applied History Fellowship for postdoc historians, with @ihr.bsky.social and publisher DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education. Launch event: 2.30pm, 19 Nov, online #Skystorians
Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education. Launch event: 2.30pm, 19 Nov, online #Skystorians
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Kirklington Hall, where Alice Wandesford Thornton was born in 1626, has a ghost 👻 associated with it known as the Grey Lady. It is also said that if the enormous old trunk, which once contained all the Wandesford family papers, was moved from the Hall then disaster will follow. Spooky! #Halloween 🗃️
October 31, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Kirklington Hall, where Alice Wandesford Thornton was born in 1626, has a ghost 👻 associated with it known as the Grey Lady. It is also said that if the enormous old trunk, which once contained all the Wandesford family papers, was moved from the Hall then disaster will follow. Spooky! #Halloween 🗃️
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👻All Hallow's Eve will soon be upon us! 👻
But what are the spirits associated with this night, and what should you do if one appears before you?
Read my post on #EarlyModern ghost beliefs to find out 🎃 🗃️
manyheadedmonster.com/2016/10/24/d...
But what are the spirits associated with this night, and what should you do if one appears before you?
Read my post on #EarlyModern ghost beliefs to find out 🎃 🗃️
manyheadedmonster.com/2016/10/24/d...
October 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
👻All Hallow's Eve will soon be upon us! 👻
But what are the spirits associated with this night, and what should you do if one appears before you?
Read my post on #EarlyModern ghost beliefs to find out 🎃 🗃️
manyheadedmonster.com/2016/10/24/d...
But what are the spirits associated with this night, and what should you do if one appears before you?
Read my post on #EarlyModern ghost beliefs to find out 🎃 🗃️
manyheadedmonster.com/2016/10/24/d...
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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
ludicrushistories.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...
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Highlights include a magical service paid for with bacon and pigeons.
🥓🪶
#history
ludicrushistories.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...
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
To mark #Halloween & publication of 'The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England', (now available in print & free online), this blogpost revisits the magiconomy.
🧙🎃
Highlights include a magical service paid for with bacon and pigeons.
🥓🪶
#history
ludicrushistories.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...
🧙🎃
Highlights include a magical service paid for with bacon and pigeons.
🥓🪶
#history
ludicrushistories.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/t...
ICYMI #OpenAccess book #MedievalSky
We are happy to share the publication of Reconsidering Consent and Coercion: Power, Vulnerability, and Sexual Violence in Medieval Literature, edited by @janebonsall.bsky.social and Hannah Piercy! Thanks to the generosity of the @snsf.ch it has been published open access!
Reconsidering Consent and Coercion | Gender and Sexuality in the Global Middle Ages
www.brepolsonline.net
October 29, 2025 at 8:39 AM
ICYMI #OpenAccess book #MedievalSky
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The university is threatening cuts on a massive scale with little to no justification. Truly surreal moment in HE.
Staff at Edinburgh Uni to continue strike action #WeAreTheUniversity #StopTheCuts #SaveHE www.heraldscotland.com/news/2557921...
Edinburgh University lecturers to continue strike action
Staff at Edinburgh University have voted to continue strike action over proposals to cut £140m from the institution’s annual budget.
www.heraldscotland.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:59 AM
The university is threatening cuts on a massive scale with little to no justification. Truly surreal moment in HE.
I've read quite a few married women's wills but never one made during childbirth. Great find! #EarlyModern 🗃️
📢 NEW Will of the Month Post 📢
October's will is an unusual & poignant example of a married woman who made a will
Margery Gadyng died in childbirth in 1540 - she declared her will to the midwife & women attending her, leaving them bequests of ribbons & rosaries
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
October's will is an unusual & poignant example of a married woman who made a will
Margery Gadyng died in childbirth in 1540 - she declared her will to the midwife & women attending her, leaving them bequests of ribbons & rosaries
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
October 28, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I've read quite a few married women's wills but never one made during childbirth. Great find! #EarlyModern 🗃️
The Thornton's Books team are very pleased that our digital edition has been recognised by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender in their annual publication awards. We received a ‘Co-Honourable Mention’ in the Digital Scholarship category.
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
Alice Thornton's Books Wins Award
News article - 26 October 2025
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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📢 Calling WHS members! Our next online social is on Wednesday 29th October, 7pm. We are delighted that our guest speaker this month is the historian and tour guide, Ruth Boreham.
To find out more about Ruth 🔗 ruthboreham.com
Members can sign up to the social here 🔗
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To find out more about Ruth 🔗 ruthboreham.com
Members can sign up to the social here 🔗
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Select tickets – Women's History Scotland October Social - Guest Speaker Ruth Boreham – Zoom
Women's History Scotland October Social - Guest Speaker Ruth Boreham – Zoom, Wed 29 Oct 2025 - We are delighted to announce the return of the monthly Women's History Scotland online socials following ...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:27 AM
📢 Calling WHS members! Our next online social is on Wednesday 29th October, 7pm. We are delighted that our guest speaker this month is the historian and tour guide, Ruth Boreham.
To find out more about Ruth 🔗 ruthboreham.com
Members can sign up to the social here 🔗
buytickets.at/womenshistor...
To find out more about Ruth 🔗 ruthboreham.com
Members can sign up to the social here 🔗
buytickets.at/womenshistor...
Yorkshire gentlewoman Alice Thornton (1626-1707) mentions a 'first sleep' in her Book 1, pp. 83 and 134. #EarlyModern 🗃️ @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social
For those whose sleep is negatively impacted by the seasonal changes of the clock - might biphasic sleeping be of any assistance? @drpam outlines evidence that suggests this might be a more natural way to sleep.
Getting back to sleep: understanding biphasic normality
Can some previously little-known information about our ancestors’ sleeping patterns help us to better understand modern insomnia?
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Yorkshire gentlewoman Alice Thornton (1626-1707) mentions a 'first sleep' in her Book 1, pp. 83 and 134. #EarlyModern 🗃️ @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social
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A reminder that we're collecting books, chapters, and journal articles by non-TT historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything with a 2025 pub date is eligible and you can submit for your friends/colleagues! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians
Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...
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October 24, 2025 at 12:09 AM
A reminder that we're collecting books, chapters, and journal articles by non-TT historians for publication in our year-end lists. Anything with a 2025 pub date is eligible and you can submit for your friends/colleagues! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...
Thornton herself does not write much in her four surviving manuscripts about events beyond 1669 but there is material about her life up until 1682 in a manuscript written by her great-great-grandson, another Thomas Comber, now at the Beinecke Library, Yale. #EarlyModern 📜 📚 🗃️
24 Oct. 1677 #OTD Alice Thornton, with her daughter Alice and son-in-law Thomas Comber, went to Malton 'for the first time since the death of her husband ... to pay her respects to his relations, which she was desirous of doing from the regard she had to his memory'. William had died in Sept. 1668.
October 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Thornton herself does not write much in her four surviving manuscripts about events beyond 1669 but there is material about her life up until 1682 in a manuscript written by her great-great-grandson, another Thomas Comber, now at the Beinecke Library, Yale. #EarlyModern 📜 📚 🗃️
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As a kid/teen I LOVED The Fast Show, so I was delighted when @charliehigson.bsky.social invited me on his fantastic history podcast. Episode "The Far Right History Hijack" is out now! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
The Far Right History Hijack
Podcast Episode · Willy Willy Harry Stee... · 21/10/2025 · 54m
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October 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
As a kid/teen I LOVED The Fast Show, so I was delighted when @charliehigson.bsky.social invited me on his fantastic history podcast. Episode "The Far Right History Hijack" is out now! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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Professor Lucy Delap will give the first Women’s History Seminar at Murray Edwards College, one of the two women-only colleges of @cam.ac.uk.
🔎 Title: Disabled women, the labour state and enterprise in 20th-century Britain
⏲️ Tues 28 Oct, 5–6.30pm
🏢 Vivien Stewart Room
Register for free tickets ⬇️
🔎 Title: Disabled women, the labour state and enterprise in 20th-century Britain
⏲️ Tues 28 Oct, 5–6.30pm
🏢 Vivien Stewart Room
Register for free tickets ⬇️
October 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Professor Lucy Delap will give the first Women’s History Seminar at Murray Edwards College, one of the two women-only colleges of @cam.ac.uk.
🔎 Title: Disabled women, the labour state and enterprise in 20th-century Britain
⏲️ Tues 28 Oct, 5–6.30pm
🏢 Vivien Stewart Room
Register for free tickets ⬇️
🔎 Title: Disabled women, the labour state and enterprise in 20th-century Britain
⏲️ Tues 28 Oct, 5–6.30pm
🏢 Vivien Stewart Room
Register for free tickets ⬇️
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We want to know your thoughts on...
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Let us know in our 2025 stakeholder survey!: www.ukri.org/news/ukri-se...
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🔹What our stakeholders think about us
Let us know in our 2025 stakeholder survey!: www.ukri.org/news/ukri-se...
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UKRI seeks your views in 2025 stakeholder survey
In our third annual survey, we are asking for feedback on what we do, how well we do it and what our stakeholders think about UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
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October 23, 2025 at 3:49 PM
We want to know your thoughts on...
🔹What we do
🔹How well we do it
&
🔹What our stakeholders think about us
Let us know in our 2025 stakeholder survey!: www.ukri.org/news/ukri-se...
Closes 31 December⏰
🔹What we do
🔹How well we do it
&
🔹What our stakeholders think about us
Let us know in our 2025 stakeholder survey!: www.ukri.org/news/ukri-se...
Closes 31 December⏰
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Funding available for 2 PhDs on the Inventing Futures project at Durham Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. One focuses on early modern gendered violence, the other on utopia. It's a fantastic project with a fabulous team behind it! Come and join!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD428/f...
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Full-Time PhD Studentship - Daphne and her Sisters: Framing Gendered Violence at Durham University
jobs.ac.uk are now advertising a Full-Time PhD Studentship - Daphne and her Sisters: Framing Gendered Violence. Discover exciting PhD opportunities on jobs.ac.uk.
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October 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Funding available for 2 PhDs on the Inventing Futures project at Durham Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. One focuses on early modern gendered violence, the other on utopia. It's a fantastic project with a fabulous team behind it! Come and join!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD428/f...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD428/f...
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🎓 Calling all MA students in women's history!
Our MA Dissertation Prize 2025 is now open for submissions. Celebrate outstanding scholarship & share your work with the wider community.
Deadline: 16 January 2026
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-ma-disse...
#WomensHistory #MAHistory #GenderHist
Our MA Dissertation Prize 2025 is now open for submissions. Celebrate outstanding scholarship & share your work with the wider community.
Deadline: 16 January 2026
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-ma-disse...
#WomensHistory #MAHistory #GenderHist
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🎓 Calling all MA students in women's history!
Our MA Dissertation Prize 2025 is now open for submissions. Celebrate outstanding scholarship & share your work with the wider community.
Deadline: 16 January 2026
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-ma-disse...
#WomensHistory #MAHistory #GenderHist
Our MA Dissertation Prize 2025 is now open for submissions. Celebrate outstanding scholarship & share your work with the wider community.
Deadline: 16 January 2026
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-ma-disse...
#WomensHistory #MAHistory #GenderHist
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Book launch October 23rd!
Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...
Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...
Renaissance Skin Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog
Book launch for Prof. Evelyn Welch's Renaissance Skin, hosted by King's Centre for Early Modern Studies.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Book launch October 23rd!
Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...
Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...