I really enjoyed speaking about my new book with Dr Miranda Melcher for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast 📖

Now available online! 👇📻

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A sunny weekend trip to see my book in the @universitypress.cambridge.org bookshop! 📚

I recently wrote about the book for the publisher's blog: cambridgeblog.org/2025/07/expl...

And if you have £90 to spare, you can buy it here: www.cambridge.org/9781009457231 (but message me for a 20% discount!)

Like many books, the acknowledgements section is huge - here's just a few of the brilliant friends and colleagues who I'm so grateful to for all their support over the years. And you can read the full acknowledgements, and other front matter, for free here! www.cambridge.org/9781009457231

Delighted that the print copies of my first book 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London', just published with @universitypress.cambridge.org, have arrived! 📚📚📚

Featuring tea, coffee, and delicious biscuits homemade by @bhamhistory.bsky.social @materialwills.bsky.social

#transcribathon #history #skystorians #earlymodern #citizenscience #tudors

Delighted to see this mock up of the front cover of my first book, due to be published later in the Summer with @cambridgeup.bsky.social .

It's been several years in the making, and has had input and guidance from so many people - but it nearly exists!

If you're interested in helping us transcribe and read early modern wills, why not join us over at Zooniverse? www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs... #skystorians #history #earlymodern #citizenscience

You can follow the "Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790" project via our Bluesky account, our new website, and also sign up for our mailing list:

Bluesky: @materialwills.bsky.social

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Mailing list: forms.office.com/e/JbUEq4Za1u

You can find out more about what "The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790" @materialwills.bsky.social team will be up to over the next few months on our new website sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultur…

I've made the leap to Bluesky - not too scary so far...