Gwen Seabourne
@gwenseabourne.bsky.social
#LegalHistory prof, U of Bristol Law. Account nobody else's fault. On research leave 25-26, working on books: mayhem; 'legal medievalism'.
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Love medieval manuscripts? Love public libraries? Love Bristol? Don’t miss this FREE exhibition: bristol.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=250...
Medieval Manuscripts at Bristol Central Library
A rare opportunity to view a selection of medieval manuscripts from our collections. Highlights from this unique display include a richly decorated Book of Hours, a Missal made for St Augustine’...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Love medieval manuscripts? Love public libraries? Love Bristol? Don’t miss this FREE exhibition: bristol.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=250...
Much cooler than UK banknotes.
A lot of axolotls: the amphibian-themed banknote Mexicans don’t want to spend
Nearly 13m people are hoarding millions of dollars’ worth of the stylish 50 peso note, featuring Mexico’s cutest critter
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Much cooler than UK banknotes.
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William Jenkins was the General Manager of Consett Iron Works c.1860s. His eldest daughter Edith Rosina married Sir Thomas Oliver, a Newcastle-based surgeon who went on to campaign vociferously against disease & illness caused by heavy industry. I often wonder about their Sunday dinner conversation!
Consett Iron Works, County Durham, 1978, photo by Graham Smith (b.1947).
November 21, 2025 at 8:55 AM
William Jenkins was the General Manager of Consett Iron Works c.1860s. His eldest daughter Edith Rosina married Sir Thomas Oliver, a Newcastle-based surgeon who went on to campaign vociferously against disease & illness caused by heavy industry. I often wonder about their Sunday dinner conversation!
Clever advertising image, in an evil, cancerous, sort of way ... #WillsTobacco
November 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Clever advertising image, in an evil, cancerous, sort of way ... #WillsTobacco
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Very proud of my former PhD student, Dan Booker, whose important study on women and the law of the exchequer has just been published by @ihrlibrary.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/histres/adva...
Women and the law of the exchequer in the early thirteenth century*
Abstract. This article explores the status and treatment of women under the law of the exchequer in the early thirteenth century and more specifically duri
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November 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Very proud of my former PhD student, Dan Booker, whose important study on women and the law of the exchequer has just been published by @ihrlibrary.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/histres/adva...
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The Moving Labour Collective is pleased to invite applications for our biennial Labour Law Summer Camp, taking place in Malmö, Sweden, from 14–17 June 2026. Applications close on 1 December—please feel free to reach out with any questions!
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
The Moving Labour Collective is pleased to invite applications for our biennial Labour Law Summer Camp, taking place in Malmö, Sweden, from 14–17 June 2026. Applications close on 1 December—please feel free to reach out with any questions!
Bristol Record Society's latest:
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Documents on the Bristol Slave Trade : Kenneth Morgan : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Kenneth Morgan (ed.), Documents on the Bristol Slave Trade (Bristol Record Society publications, Vol. 80, 2025)A collection of transcribed documents relating...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Bristol Record Society's latest:
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archive.org/details/bris...
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Now open for booking: OU Law School's legal histories conference. This year's theme is 'moments of rupture' and we have an exciting range of speakers, topics, jurisdictions and periods.
20-21 November, online, free.
Programme and booking at the link.
20-21 November, online, free.
Programme and booking at the link.
Annual Diversity, Dilemmas and Discoveries Conference - Moments of Rupture
Join us for the 6th annual Diversity, Dilemmas and Discoveries Conference - Moments of Rupture
www.eventbrite.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Now open for booking: OU Law School's legal histories conference. This year's theme is 'moments of rupture' and we have an exciting range of speakers, topics, jurisdictions and periods.
20-21 November, online, free.
Programme and booking at the link.
20-21 November, online, free.
Programme and booking at the link.
An excellent #LegalHistory initiative from my #Bristol colleagues. Do have a look!
Are you working on a paper on law, history and reproduction? My great colleague Dr Gauri Pillai and I are organising a workshop for you at the University of Bristol Law School on 1 May 2026!
Please send your abstract by 15 December 2025.
Travel grants available.
Please send your abstract by 15 December 2025.
Travel grants available.
November 5, 2025 at 9:10 AM
An excellent #LegalHistory initiative from my #Bristol colleagues. Do have a look!
Scary #LegalHistory: Nothing particularly Halloween-y in my own research, but feel moved to point out, in honour of the occasion, the is an excellent bit of magic- and witch- related content in the latest Selden Society volume (Sir John Baker's 6th part of Coke's Notebooks), p. 1807.
October 31, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Scary #LegalHistory: Nothing particularly Halloween-y in my own research, but feel moved to point out, in honour of the occasion, the is an excellent bit of magic- and witch- related content in the latest Selden Society volume (Sir John Baker's 6th part of Coke's Notebooks), p. 1807.
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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...
@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
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...
@kjkesselring.bsky.social
'Crime, Culpability, and the Devil in the Details'.
legalhistorymiscellany.com/2025/10/27/c...
Some new open access #LegalHistory: inc. some thoughts from me on medieval 'petty treason'. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Scho...
Celebrating "Law and Constitutional Change" New Conference Volume | School of Law | Queen's University Belfast
A new conference volume, Law and Constitutional Change, co-edited by Professor David Capper, Dr Conor McCormick and Professor Norma Dawson, has been published open access by Cambridge University Press...
www.qub.ac.uk
October 24, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Some new open access #LegalHistory: inc. some thoughts from me on medieval 'petty treason'. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Scho...
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Two more days to get your abstracts in!
Researching a legal moment that was supposed to change everything - whether it did or not? The call for papers for 'Moments of Rupture' is open until 23 October!
Free, online conference in November, hosted by the Open Universities legal histories research cluster.
#LegalHistory #cfp
Free, online conference in November, hosted by the Open Universities legal histories research cluster.
#LegalHistory #cfp
The Open University
Moments of Rupture Online 20-21 November 2025Some legal and social changes are so profound that they create what seem to be moments of rupture: breaks between the ‘before’ and ‘after’. These moments c...
law-school.open.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Two more days to get your abstracts in!
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Here’s something to look forward to!
In celebration of the publication of Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections: A Descriptive Catalogue / Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social & Melek Karataş - 📚 Bristol Central Library are having an exhibition!
🗓️ 4-18 December
In celebration of the publication of Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections: A Descriptive Catalogue / Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social & Melek Karataş - 📚 Bristol Central Library are having an exhibition!
🗓️ 4-18 December
October 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Here’s something to look forward to!
In celebration of the publication of Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections: A Descriptive Catalogue / Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social & Melek Karataş - 📚 Bristol Central Library are having an exhibition!
🗓️ 4-18 December
In celebration of the publication of Medieval Manuscripts in Bristol Collections: A Descriptive Catalogue / Kathleen E. Kennedy @themedievaldrk.bsky.social & Melek Karataş - 📚 Bristol Central Library are having an exhibition!
🗓️ 4-18 December
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Researching a legal moment that was supposed to change everything - whether it did or not? The call for papers for 'Moments of Rupture' is open until 23 October!
Free, online conference in November, hosted by the Open Universities legal histories research cluster.
#LegalHistory #cfp
Free, online conference in November, hosted by the Open Universities legal histories research cluster.
#LegalHistory #cfp
The Open University
Moments of Rupture Online 20-21 November 2025Some legal and social changes are so profound that they create what seem to be moments of rupture: breaks between the ‘before’ and ‘after’. These moments c...
law-school.open.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Researching a legal moment that was supposed to change everything - whether it did or not? The call for papers for 'Moments of Rupture' is open until 23 October!
Free, online conference in November, hosted by the Open Universities legal histories research cluster.
#LegalHistory #cfp
Free, online conference in November, hosted by the Open Universities legal histories research cluster.
#LegalHistory #cfp
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Exciting news! 📣 The CMS' own Dr Sig Sønnesyn (@sigsonnesyn.bsky.social) is giving a lecture tomorrow (Tuesday) on 'Meaning, Intelligibility, and Fusing Horizons: Medieval Thought as a Case Study' at 3:30pm in G.HO1, Arts Complex. All welcome. We can't wait! 😀 #medievalsky #skystorians
October 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Exciting news! 📣 The CMS' own Dr Sig Sønnesyn (@sigsonnesyn.bsky.social) is giving a lecture tomorrow (Tuesday) on 'Meaning, Intelligibility, and Fusing Horizons: Medieval Thought as a Case Study' at 3:30pm in G.HO1, Arts Complex. All welcome. We can't wait! 😀 #medievalsky #skystorians
A #Bristol Libraries event of #LegalHistory and #History interest tomorrow: bristol.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=235...
Special Collections Sunday : Fugitives in the Archive
During the 18th century, British newspapers published advertisements for runaway enslaved people with rewards for their capture; for the hundreds of Black and Asian people brought to Britain through t...
bristol.events.mylibrary.digital
October 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
A #Bristol Libraries event of #LegalHistory and #History interest tomorrow: bristol.events.mylibrary.digital/event?id=235...
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Utilitas - The Word That Changes Everything? | Edinburgh Law School
www.law.ed.ac.uk
October 8, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Hwæt?! The amazing Old English Reading Group is BACK and with a new friend?!?
Join Hattie and Co for Old English Reading Group at 3pm Friday in Hattie’s office, followed by the brand new Old Norse Reading Group at 4pm! No prior knowledge or experience needed, and everybody welcome!
Join Hattie and Co for Old English Reading Group at 3pm Friday in Hattie’s office, followed by the brand new Old Norse Reading Group at 4pm! No prior knowledge or experience needed, and everybody welcome!
October 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Hwæt?! The amazing Old English Reading Group is BACK and with a new friend?!?
Join Hattie and Co for Old English Reading Group at 3pm Friday in Hattie’s office, followed by the brand new Old Norse Reading Group at 4pm! No prior knowledge or experience needed, and everybody welcome!
Join Hattie and Co for Old English Reading Group at 3pm Friday in Hattie’s office, followed by the brand new Old Norse Reading Group at 4pm! No prior knowledge or experience needed, and everybody welcome!
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We're so excited for the first Centre for Medieval Studies Research Seminar of the year!
Join us on Thursday at 4pm, with our CMS Welcome Party to follow straight after!
All welcome! We hope to see you there! #medievalsky #skystorians
Join us on Thursday at 4pm, with our CMS Welcome Party to follow straight after!
All welcome! We hope to see you there! #medievalsky #skystorians
September 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
We're so excited for the first Centre for Medieval Studies Research Seminar of the year!
Join us on Thursday at 4pm, with our CMS Welcome Party to follow straight after!
All welcome! We hope to see you there! #medievalsky #skystorians
Join us on Thursday at 4pm, with our CMS Welcome Party to follow straight after!
All welcome! We hope to see you there! #medievalsky #skystorians
Congratulations Paul! 🍾
It’s publication day, folks. Available from the website of the Press or from Amazon. May you find it useful in your own work.
#AncientLaw
#HenrySumnerMaine
#RomanLaw
#AncientLaw
#HenrySumnerMaine
#RomanLaw
September 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Congratulations Paul! 🍾
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🤩 Check out the shiny new website of Bristol's world-class Centre for Medieval Studies (@bristolcms.bsky.social), home to over 35 full-time medievalists and over 160 research students and research associates: medievalstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk 🤩 @uobartsmatter.bsky.social #medievalsky #skystorians
CMS; Bristol; University of Bristol; Medieval Studies; MA degree;
medievalstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
September 24, 2025 at 7:44 AM
🤩 Check out the shiny new website of Bristol's world-class Centre for Medieval Studies (@bristolcms.bsky.social), home to over 35 full-time medievalists and over 160 research students and research associates: medievalstudies.blogs.bristol.ac.uk 🤩 @uobartsmatter.bsky.social #medievalsky #skystorians
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'They [maps] are a great research tool and are also equally accessible to people without skills or training.' 🗺️
Dr Evan Jones (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) comments on the addition of historic street names to Bristol's Know Your Place interactive city map for BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dr Evan Jones (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) comments on the addition of historic street names to Bristol's Know Your Place interactive city map for BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Bristol's forgotten street names revealed in map
Names of roads either lost down the centuries or renamed are available on a new map.
www.bbc.co.uk
September 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
'They [maps] are a great research tool and are also equally accessible to people without skills or training.' 🗺️
Dr Evan Jones (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) comments on the addition of historic street names to Bristol's Know Your Place interactive city map for BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Dr Evan Jones (@uobrishistory.bsky.social) comments on the addition of historic street names to Bristol's Know Your Place interactive city map for BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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A new semester means a new exciting round of CMS seminars! Here's a sneak peek of what we have to look forward to over the next few weeks!
September 19, 2025 at 10:14 AM
A new semester means a new exciting round of CMS seminars! Here's a sneak peek of what we have to look forward to over the next few weeks!
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This Fri, 19 September: Join Paul Dryburgh, medieval collections specialist @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, for "England's first colony: medieval Ireland, 1171-1500". An overview of English intervention in Ireland and its role in the political development of the British and Irish isles.
September 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
This Fri, 19 September: Join Paul Dryburgh, medieval collections specialist @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy, for "England's first colony: medieval Ireland, 1171-1500". An overview of English intervention in Ireland and its role in the political development of the British and Irish isles.