Brodie Waddell
@brodiewaddell.bsky.social
Early Modern History at Birkbeck, University of London | Likes: archives, fatherhood, footnotes, the seaside. | Dislikes: Henry VIII, cars, inequity. My research: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8004317/brodie-waddell
The Blazing World by @jonathanhealey.bsky.social is best place to start on the English side. Laura Stewart (York) and/or Karin Bowie (Glasgow) on the Scottish side? I'm sure @englishcivilwar.bsky.social has suggestions. Or dive into the primary sources, e.g. petitions: www.civilwarpetitions.ac.uk
Civil War Petitions
Civil War Petitions contains petitions to the state from veterans and their families for welfare payments as a result of injuries and bereavement sustained during the English Civil Wars. It aims to sh...
www.civilwarpetitions.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The Blazing World by @jonathanhealey.bsky.social is best place to start on the English side. Laura Stewart (York) and/or Karin Bowie (Glasgow) on the Scottish side? I'm sure @englishcivilwar.bsky.social has suggestions. Or dive into the primary sources, e.g. petitions: www.civilwarpetitions.ac.uk
A surprisingly common insult in this period. Definitely gets the point across!
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
A surprisingly common insult in this period. Definitely gets the point across!
Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone! I've filed them away for future classes because in the end I decided to go for cheap laughs. bsky.app/profile/brod...
In my first-year #EarlyModern class this week at @bbkhistorical.bsky.social, we did primary source analysis focused on the age-old problems of sex, drugs and rock n roll (comic adultery, disorderly alehouses, and unlicenced musicians).
Still buzzing from such an engaged group of students! 🗃️
Still buzzing from such an engaged group of students! 🗃️
![2 October 1678, order of the Norwich Mayor’s Court
Norfolk Record Office, NCR Case 16a/25, f. 33.
Upon complaint of the Weights [i.e. Waits] of this City against Daniell Hot, George Ellis, Samuel Suffield, Mathew Crotch & Thomas Turner that they notwithstanding they were not bound apprentice to the Science of Musick doe goe from howse to howse & play not onely in the day but at unseasonable times in the night to the great prejudice of severall persons & their friends in this City & also to the Weights of this City, It is ordered for the future that if they or any other person besides such as are the Weights of this City shall in Companyes play in any part of this City eyther in the publique or private houses unless it be in the Assizes weeke, at the Sessions at the Guild time or the choice of parliament men shalbe punished according to the lawe.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:44em43qq5kem43otrh3vejy5/bafkreidclqd5czy3ntdsljau6qtjv46d2zr7iam5k3iv4qfctmsvibenzi@jpeg)
November 5, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Thanks for all the suggestions, everyone! I've filed them away for future classes because in the end I decided to go for cheap laughs. bsky.app/profile/brod...
I hadn't thought of a jest book but that would be a nice opening to talk about Darton's poor cats. Though all 17th century jest books I've encountered are mostly just brutal misogyny, which might not be too 'fun'?
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I hadn't thought of a jest book but that would be a nice opening to talk about Darton's poor cats. Though all 17th century jest books I've encountered are mostly just brutal misogyny, which might not be too 'fun'?
Lovely to get an email marked 'very important' from my employer today, for whom I have worked for 13 years, asking for confirmation of my visa status.
October 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Lovely to get an email marked 'very important' from my employer today, for whom I have worked for 13 years, asking for confirmation of my visa status.