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Dr Emma Marshall
@earlymodernemma.bsky.social
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Arts & Humanities Impact Administrator @hrcyork.bsky.social • PhD on health, care, family & letters 1630-1750 @york.ac.uk • Formerly public engagement @socialbodiesuob.bsky.social • Committee member @socialhistsoc.bsky.social
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Dr Emma Marshall @earlymodernemma.bsky.social · Feb 24
📢 My article on parents' letters to/about ill children is out in an exciting special issue, 'Mothers and Fathers in Medieval and Early Modern Europe', ed. @erhodes.bsky.social & Alice Whitehead. It's full of fantastic contributions to the history of parenting! 👇
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rhof20/3...
The History of the Family
Mothers and Fathers in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Volume 30, Issue 1 of The History of the Family
www.tandfonline.com
earlymodernemma.bsky.social
For anyone working in literacy engagement in schools or community organisations, @literacy-trust.bsky.social and @unibirmingham.bsky.social have published a useful (and fun!) pamphlet on 'Place-themed literacy': nlt.hacdn.org/media/docume... (1/3)
October 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
earlymodernemma.bsky.social
I was honoured to give a keynote paper (on medical care on 17th-century English estates) at 'Servants, Labourers and the Manorial World', a conference of the European Network for Country House & Estate Research, at beautiful Ledreborg in Denmark. A wonderful few days of discussion and exploration!
October 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM
earlymodernemma.bsky.social
A fantastic day - we had 110 participants and 122 submissions at our Transcribathon! These letters will be hugely useful for researchers and members of the public alike. Check out the Social Bodies website to browse or contribute your own transcription 👇📝
socialbodies.bham.ac.uk
April 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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sswesner.bsky.social
"In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the smallpox..I long regretted bitterly and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of the parents who omit that operation [...]." Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography
kawulf.bsky.social Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · Apr 14
Smallpox inoculation certificates for the Brown family, 1776. The long history of inoculation and vaccination and the clear understanding of why/ how this innovation in healthcare was so important. @jcblibrary.bsky.social ofc.
April 14, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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jdmccafferty.bsky.social
Posset pot, made in #Southwark, 1657 with intials ' B. E. D.' (British Museum)
March 25, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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socialbodiesuob.bsky.social
Hello! This is 'Material Identities, Social Bodies', a Leverhulme Trust-funded research project at the University of Birmingham. Led by @kharveyhistory.bsky.social and supported by @helenesfandiary.bsky.social, it explores embodiment & social identity in C18th British letters
socialbodies.bham.ac.uk
Social Bodies
Social Bodies research project website
socialbodies.bham.ac.uk
March 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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socialhistsoc.bsky.social
📣The programme for our 2025 conference is out now!

👉Read it here (scroll down to 'Conference Programme'): socialhistory.org.uk/events/confe...

✨Take a look at the amazing array of social & cultural history on show!🗃️
Conference
Visit the post for more.
socialhistory.org.uk
March 20, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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uoyopenres.bsky.social
Also in 2022, we awarded the @crems-york.bsky.social Teaching Early Modern Recipes & Manuscript Cultures project by @mazinggrace.bsky.social and @earlymodernemma.bsky.social 🏆

They presented a poster about their work at our 'Open Research at York: Two Years On' event, available in our wiki 👇
March 17, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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rozsro.bsky.social
Today's most adorable research find: A child's message scrawled at the bottom of this c1700 letter from Madras, asking their dad to come home

#earlymodern
17th century letter reading "papa vené (papa, come)" in child's handwriting and "mon cher cest de la petite main de notre enfan (my dear, it's from the little hand of our child" below in the mother's writing.
March 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
earlymodernemma.bsky.social
📢 My article on parents' letters to/about ill children is out in an exciting special issue, 'Mothers and Fathers in Medieval and Early Modern Europe', ed. @erhodes.bsky.social & Alice Whitehead. It's full of fantastic contributions to the history of parenting! 👇
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rhof20/3...
The History of the Family
Mothers and Fathers in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Volume 30, Issue 1 of The History of the Family
www.tandfonline.com
February 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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drhollyfletcher.bsky.social
CFP for the 'Sleeping Well' @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social end-of-project conference, 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Taking place 9-10 June 2025 at JRRI, Manchester. Details on our website here: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

Deadline 3 Feb. Please share widely!
Seventeenth-century painting of landscape with figures in foreground. Text reads Call for Papers: Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World. 9-10 June 2025. John Rylands Research Institute, Manchester.
December 10, 2024 at 10:03 AM
earlymodernemma.bsky.social
Hi all! From January, I'm running an 8-week, learning-for-pleasure evening course via the University of York's Centre for Lifelong Learning. It's on Zoom, open to the public and taking bookings now - please share with any friends or family who might be interested! 👇
www.york.ac.uk/lifelonglear...
December 10, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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nationaltrust.org.uk
One down, nine to go 💪

Our team at Roseberry Topping are doing great work restoring paths to the top of one of the North York Moors' most popular landmarks.

See their work in detail here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
First of Roseberry Topping's damaged paths restored
Walkers are asked to stick to the paths on Roseberry Topping to allow the plants to grow back.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 10, 2024 at 3:45 PM
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thorntonsbooks.bsky.social
In summer 1644, teenaged Alice was saved from drowning in a river by her brother’s horse: ‘the poor mare drew up her fore feet and perceived she did swim ... and ... brought me over that river in safety.’ #EYAAnimals #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📜
More in @hagenilda.bsky.social's blog: https://buff.ly/45H8ilD
An extract from an old handwritten book, a modernised version of which reads ‘…but it happened the river proved deeper than we expected it. and I kept up my horse as well as I could from standly and so bore up a long time but, when we were gone so far that I could not turn back, the river proved past riding and the bottom could not be come to by the poor mare (which was an excellent mare of my poor brother George Wandesford's). So, I saw myself in such apparent danger and begged of God to assist me and the poor beast I rid on, and to be merciful to me and deliver me out of that death for Jesus Christ…’
November 29, 2024 at 10:06 AM
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jdmccafferty.bsky.social
Passionflower, Nicolas Robert, 1625-84

(British Museum)
November 28, 2024 at 5:53 PM
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qmucu.bsky.social
With Leeds Trinity and Loughborough we're now actually at 83, or exactly half of the 166 universities @timeshighered.bsky.social counts.

HALF OF OUR UNIVERSITIES ARE SHEDDING STAFF. In a normal timeline, politicians would care about this and try to do *something*, *anything*, right?
UK HE shrinking
This is a live page of all the redundancies, restructures, reorganisations, and closures taking place across the sector at the moment. Solidarity to all. This sector is vital to the country’s…
qmucu.org
November 26, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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medievallitura.bsky.social
I adore this, what a fun way to show how much fabric is involved!
drmariamitchell.bsky.social Mean Maria @drmariamitchell.bsky.social · Nov 26
I kind of love this:
November 27, 2024 at 12:10 AM
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balhnews.bsky.social
Our Small Grants Programme is now live! If you have a project that supports the study, enjoyment and dissemination of local history we'd love to hear from you.

Find out more: ow.ly/cVKf50TUhP2

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
A picture of a guided walk. A group in outdoor clothing look over a field, with a town or village in the distance.
November 26, 2024 at 8:59 AM
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hagenilda.bsky.social
Hello #EarlyModern where would I read about public charges paid to landholders by tenants in mid C17 Yorkshire/England?
November 25, 2024 at 12:14 PM
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socialhistsoc.bsky.social
📢The call for papers for our 2025 conference is now ✨LIVE✨

We are the biggest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK and will be at the @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social from 7-9 July 2025!

Call is open until 17 January 2025🌟🗃️

Please share widely!

socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...
SHS Annual Conference 2025
Our next annual conference will be held in person at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley. Our call for papers is open now. What to Expect Our next annual conference will take place at the Bla…
socialhistory.org.uk
November 22, 2024 at 10:09 AM