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Hannah Robb
@hkrobb.bsky.social
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Historian of everyday commerce, credit and debt in late medieval and early modern England. Post doc ‘Written Worlds’, Birkbeck. Church courts and chronicles.
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Hannah Robb @hkrobb.bsky.social · 24d
So excited to finally have hold of the book!
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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
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This episode of the MERL's podcast is amazing. It made me want to read @timjerrome.bsky.social 's book but I don't think it's written yet.

And they've got someone on talking about folklore tomorrow for Halloween.
themerl.bsky.social The Museum of English Rural Life @themerl.bsky.social · 14d
Absolute Units is back!

We continue our conversation with @timjerrome.bsky.social (University of Brighton; formerly, The MERL) about his research into queer rural life.

Discover what Tim has found in our archives to date & the research challenges he's faced.

merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...
Absolute Units, a podcast from The Museum of English Rural Life. Three giant sheep float over the English countryside.
October 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
hkrobb.bsky.social
A spooky blog post from Taylor on the magiconomy and all the miraculous and magical work performed in early modern England.
October 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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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
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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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Join the @ihr.bsky.social Digital History seminar on 4 November (12:00 GMT on Zoom) to celebrate the winning entry for the 2025 Richard Deswarte Prize in Digital History and to learn about gender and lottery rhymes in the medieval/early-modern low countries ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/09/tues...
Tuesday 4 November 2025 - Deswarte Prize Seminar - Marly Terwisscha van Scheltinga, Sara Budts, and Jeroen Puttevils (University of Antwerp): (Fe)male Voices on Stage: Finding Patterns in Lottery Rhym...
This seminar is 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm GMT live on Zoom at https://zoom.us/j/96338659032 later posted to our YouTube channel. Session chair: James Baker. This seminar will celebrate the winning entry for ...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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📢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
materialwills.bsky.social The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · Oct 14
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:
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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 22, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Deadline extended to 1 Nov.

Please share with UGs interested in #legalhistory or #womeninlaw. Don't have to be studying legal history, topic is open.

Chance to connect with Selden's Sister, who also run PG mentoring scheme.

£100 in Hart Publishing vouches up for grabs!
loreldridge.bsky.social Dr Lorren Eldridge @loreldridge.bsky.social · Aug 2
Selden's Sister has launched an essay competition for undergraduates interested in legal history.

£100 @hartpublishing.bsky.social vouchers up for grabs, as well as an invitation to receive your prize at our annual lecture - this year at the University of Nottingham. #legalhistory
October 20, 2025 at 10:31 AM
hkrobb.bsky.social
So excited to finally have hold of the book!
October 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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urbanhistory.bsky.social
New book by our editor Roey Sweet and Richard Ansell!
August 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Great news!! My special issue on Writing for Third Parties: Commercial Manuscript Production in the Late Middle Ages (Queeste, @amsterdamupress.bsky.social) is now available in open access.

Looking much forward to your reactions!

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October 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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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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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...
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October 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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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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materialwills.bsky.social
2. Read our Autumn Newsletter! 📰

We've recently circulated our latest project update - with details of what we've been up to over the last 6 months! 📜🎨🎵

Download the pdf or plain version from our news page:
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

@uniofexeterhass.bsky.social #skystorians
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A newsletter - mainly consisting of text, with some photos of a workshop in the bottom corner. A newsletter - mainly consisting of text, with some photos of a print workshop and some images of the prints that were made.
October 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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materialwills.bsky.social
3. Catch up on our latest 'Will of the Month' blog post!

September's post was written by Dylan Cox, a 3rd year Exeter History student 📜

You can catch up on all of our 'Will of the Month' posts - over 20! - on our website 💻

@uoearchhist.bsky.social #history
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

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A 1720 drawing of Bridewell Prison, seen from above, from “The Prospect of Bridewell” from John Strype‘s An Accurate Edition of Stow’s “A Survey of London“ (1720) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridewell_Palace#/media/File:Prospect_of_Bridewell.jpg
October 1, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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SSMLL are delighted to announce the opening of our Call for Papers for the 2026 Day Conference, Medieval Wales, which will be held at Cardiff University 25-26 April, 2026.

Proposals should be submitted to Dr David Callander (callanderd@cardiff.ac.uk) by 30 November.
Cardiff University and the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature are pleased to announce a multi-disciplinary conference on medieval Wales, to be held at Cardiff University on the 25th and 26th of April 2026. The conference will provide a space for discussion and collaboration between scholars of all disciplinary backgrounds interested in medieval Wales. The conference programme will include the Medium Ævum annual lecture, which will be delivered by Professor Helen Fulton (University of Bristol). The Henry Loyn Memorial Lecture will be held on the evening of the 24th of April, and will be delivered by Professor John Hines (Cardiff University). We invite proposals for 20-minute presentations representing any specialization that sheds light on medieval Wales. We shall particularly welcome papers that discuss encounters between different languages and traditions and their consequences. Proposals are welcome from speakers at all career stages and papers can be delivered in English or Welsh. Proposals should include a title and an abstract (100–200 words) and should be submitted to Dr David Callander (callanderd@cardiff.ac.uk) by 30 November.
October 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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#HistoryJob - just a reminder that our colleagues in VCH Herefordshire are looking for *two* contributing editors to bring their first #BigRedBook for over 100 years to fruition.

Details in the link, applications close on 10 October.
Contributing Editors at The Herefordshire Victoria County History Trust
Apply for the Contributing Editors role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.
www.jobs.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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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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September 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM