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Krista Kesselring
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Professor of early modern British history at Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; Hon Prof, IMEMS, Durham U; Associate Fellow, University of King's College.
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sarabutler.bsky.social
Fantastic new post by Krista Kesselring!

legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/10/27/c...
Crime, Culpability, and the Devil in the Details
Did claims of having fallen for the devil’s seductions heighten or lessen perceptions of a person’s guilt in early modern English legal processes?
legalhistorymiscellany.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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juliehardwick.bsky.social
Super new series at @manchesterup.bsky.social - perfectly launched today!
mikkibrock.bsky.social Mikki Brock @mikkibrock.bsky.social · 10d
Exciting Halloween news for scholars of things that go bump in the night:

Our new interdisciplinary series is here from @manchesterup.bsky.social! The series seeks proposals that examine the supernatural (broadly conceived) in innovative ways. Please get in touch if you have ideas or questions!
manchesterup.bsky.social Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 10d
Announcing a brand new series launching this #Halloween 👻

Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place.

Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen
October 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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imems.bsky.social
📢Fully Funded PhD Opportunities @thetimes University of the Year @durham_uni's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 🎓

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October 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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thegozfather.bsky.social
This is an excellent deep dive by @kjkesselring.bsky.social into the Devil in legal records. My (very) small contribution was coming up with the title, which I blurted out mid-conversation with Krista when told about the subject.
October 27, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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legalmiscellany.bsky.social
What if the Devil made them do it? A new post by
@kjkesselring.bsky.social
'Crime, Culpability, and the Devil in the Details'.
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/10/27/c...
Crime, Culpability, and the Devil in the Details
Did claims of having fallen for the devil’s seductions heighten or lessen perceptions of a person’s guilt in early modern English legal processes?
legalhistorymiscellany.com
October 27, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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tedmccormick.bsky.social
my thoughts on generative AI in the classroom
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Why I am not using AI in the classroom
Last week I spoke with some of my colleagues about the “challenges” posed by generative AI to our teaching. As anyone who follows me on Bluesky — or followed me on Twitter, prior …
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October 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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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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tedmccormick.bsky.social
A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.
October 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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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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joelherman.bsky.social
Many thanks to the editors at the @historicaljnl.bsky.social blog for publishing this short piece, and to @ellasbaraini.bsky.social for her help with it. My recent article, and one of the central ideas of the book manuscript I’m currently working on, in a nutshell.

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October 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
kjkesselring.bsky.social
Out #OpenAccess on FirstView @lawandhistrev.bsky.social: 'Conspiracy, Crime, and Conflict in the Court of Star Chamber'. #StarChamber
October 2, 2025 at 3:57 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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clairelanghamer.bsky.social
Very much this. The IHR really is open to everyone and this includes our common room and our library as well as our wonderful seminars. All free, all welcome!
eicathomefinn.bsky.social Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Sep 22
History curious? You don't need to be in London (or the UK) to attend many Institute of Historical Research seminars, although if you're in Bloomsbury you'll enjoy doing so. Most are hybrid (online/in person). They're free, usually fortnightly and open to the public.

Starting this week:
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September 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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drkdwatson.bsky.social
New blog post examines the recent Australian 'mushroom murderer' case in the light of historical patterns - the poison used is pretty unique in the history of crime, but there are plenty of other similarities to note:
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/09/23/p...
Poisoning Crimes and the ‘Mushroom Murderer’: Patterns and Precedents
By Cassie Watson and Carolyn Strange; posted 23 September 2025. The prosecution and sentencing of the Australian ‘Mushroom Murderer’ to life in prison for the poisoning of three relatives and the a…
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September 23, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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legalmiscellany.bsky.social
New post by @drkdwatson.bsky.social and Carolyn Strange: "Poisoning Crimes and the ‘Mushroom Murderer’: Patterns and Precedents"
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/09/23/p...
Poisoning Crimes and the ‘Mushroom Murderer’: Patterns and Precedents
By Cassie Watson and Carolyn Strange; posted 23 September 2025. The prosecution and sentencing of the Australian ‘Mushroom Murderer’ to life in prison for the poisoning of three relatives and the a…
legalhistorymiscellany.com
September 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
kjkesselring.bsky.social
The Board-ordered lockout that began Aug 20 has finally ended: classes start on Tues. I’m excited; but I hope that someone is not now trying to concoct a report on the ‘success’ of this innovative tactic in the ‘rebalancing of markets and mission’. By what KPI would they benchmark it? 🧵 (1/7)
September 17, 2025 at 3:42 PM
kjkesselring.bsky.social
Here @dalhousie.bsky.social, we should be starting our 3rd week of classes today, but instead, we're still locked out -- a lockout the Board initiated on Aug 20 'to not prolong the uncertainty'. No one can make this make sense, but they can at least make it end. #KeepDalStrong
September 15, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Please circulate - we are hiring in Early Modern European history!
Brown University - Early Modern European History, Brown University | H-Net
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September 12, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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src-rsc.bsky.social
We are proud to introduce the new RSC Fellows & College Members! This exceptional group will be officially inducted into the RSC on Nov 14 at #COEE2025 in Montréal. Register at bit.ly/COEE2025 🎉

Meet the Class of 2025: bit.ly/3JZLfga #rscBRAVOsrc
September 4, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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brettrushforth.bsky.social
Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians
Image of the cover of a book titled Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions, by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth. The background image is an eighteenth-century ink and watercolor rendition of the harbor of Le Cap in modern Haiti, with three ships and one small boat foregrounded in the bay and a handful of buildings scattered on the shore in the background.
September 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
kjkesselring.bsky.social
#keepdalstrong
rhiggitt.bsky.social Rebekah Higgitt @rhiggitt.bsky.social · Sep 6
The pattern in Australian, UK and Canadian universities, and a comparison to what happened in urban planning post-WW2
andrewjroger.bsky.social Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · Sep 4
Ren Thomas has a nice blog discussing Nous Group and Dalhousie @dalfaculty.bsky.social @dalhousieu.bsky.social : renthomas.ca/theres-a-nou...
September 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Ren Thomas has a nice blog discussing Nous Group and Dalhousie @dalfaculty.bsky.social @dalhousieu.bsky.social : renthomas.ca/theres-a-nou...
There’s a Nous in Dal’s house – Ren Thomas
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September 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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rfinbow.bsky.social
From our colleague in Law, this is a brilliant dissection of the Board’s doubling down on unfair bargaining tactics in presenting their tepid "offer"

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#keepdalstrong
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September 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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manuscripta.bsky.social
We are proud to announce that 1,000 manuscripts are now published on manuscripta.se, advancing our mission to make #medieval and #earlymodern manuscripts in Sweden accessible worldwide. #iiif #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalSky
manuscripta.se – A Digital Catalogue of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Sweden — manuscripta.se A Digital Catalogue of Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts in Sweden
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September 3, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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sharonhoward.bsky.social
I've updated #EarlyModern Resources earlymodernweb.org/resources/ Quite a few new links but also a big overhaul of the site to be more usable + a visual refresh.

(If you can't see a change, you may need to clear your browser cache and refresh hard. 😬)
Welcome to Early Modern Resources – EMR
earlymodernweb.org
September 1, 2025 at 10:44 AM