Holly B 🌈
@hsbamford.bsky.social
PhD student Uni of Liverpool | Early Modern Family | Witchcraft and Superstition | VL at York St John | She/They 🏳️🌈
Submitted the thesis! Now to rest
October 31, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Submitted the thesis! Now to rest
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We're pleased to announce the programme for the 2025 Spooky History Conference!
We have 3 fantastic panels full of spooky papers.
Sign up for the conference here:
forms.gle/Rn7vSGs1xxqn...
We have 3 fantastic panels full of spooky papers.
Sign up for the conference here:
forms.gle/Rn7vSGs1xxqn...
October 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
We're pleased to announce the programme for the 2025 Spooky History Conference!
We have 3 fantastic panels full of spooky papers.
Sign up for the conference here:
forms.gle/Rn7vSGs1xxqn...
We have 3 fantastic panels full of spooky papers.
Sign up for the conference here:
forms.gle/Rn7vSGs1xxqn...
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Our Call for Papers is open!
If you are working on anything spooky get in touch!
This is a fun, informal conference for anyone studying anything “spooky” in history or a related field and the perfect way to spend Halloween 🎃
🗃️ #skystorians #academicsky #HexTag
If you are working on anything spooky get in touch!
This is a fun, informal conference for anyone studying anything “spooky” in history or a related field and the perfect way to spend Halloween 🎃
🗃️ #skystorians #academicsky #HexTag
September 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Our Call for Papers is open!
If you are working on anything spooky get in touch!
This is a fun, informal conference for anyone studying anything “spooky” in history or a related field and the perfect way to spend Halloween 🎃
🗃️ #skystorians #academicsky #HexTag
If you are working on anything spooky get in touch!
This is a fun, informal conference for anyone studying anything “spooky” in history or a related field and the perfect way to spend Halloween 🎃
🗃️ #skystorians #academicsky #HexTag
It's spooky time!
Elizabeth and I cannot wait to read all the fantastic abstracts!
Elizabeth and I cannot wait to read all the fantastic abstracts!
Spooky season is coming and we’re excited to open our call for papers for this year’s Spooky History Conference!
This is a fun, informal conference for anyone studying anything “spooky” in history or a related field and the perfect way to spend Halloween! 🎃👻
This is a fun, informal conference for anyone studying anything “spooky” in history or a related field and the perfect way to spend Halloween! 🎃👻
September 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
It's spooky time!
Elizabeth and I cannot wait to read all the fantastic abstracts!
Elizabeth and I cannot wait to read all the fantastic abstracts!
I enjoy living in a village. I do not enjoy walking 45 mins for a doctors appointment when the farmers have just manured the fields
September 3, 2025 at 8:07 AM
I enjoy living in a village. I do not enjoy walking 45 mins for a doctors appointment when the farmers have just manured the fields
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On which ... what are you favourite online collections of early modern letters, diaries/life-writing, and other 'personal documents'?
#EarlyModern 🗃️
#EarlyModern 🗃️
Editing revised chapters for the forthcoming 2nd edition of our guide to #EarlyModern 🗃️ sources today👌
The revised volume will also include 3 new chapters:
Part 1 'Sources':
- Digitised Sources
Part 2 'Histories':
- Race
- The Body, Mind & Emotions.
The revised volume will also include 3 new chapters:
Part 1 'Sources':
- Digitised Sources
Part 2 'Histories':
- Race
- The Body, Mind & Emotions.
August 22, 2025 at 1:21 PM
On which ... what are you favourite online collections of early modern letters, diaries/life-writing, and other 'personal documents'?
#EarlyModern 🗃️
#EarlyModern 🗃️
Had a lovely chat with my supervisor, it's finally hitting me just how much work I have done! The end is in sight!
August 15, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Had a lovely chat with my supervisor, it's finally hitting me just how much work I have done! The end is in sight!
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📢Handwritten Text Recognition model klaxon📢
Want to give automated transcription a try? See below 👇
#EarlyModern 🗃️
Want to give automated transcription a try? See below 👇
#EarlyModern 🗃️
The @transkribus.bsky.social "Egerton: English Secretary Hand" model is now public! app.transkribus.org/models/publi.... We have a website with sample transcriptions for different hands, information about our training conventions, and more: sites.northwestern.edu/egerton/
July 31, 2025 at 8:54 AM
📢Handwritten Text Recognition model klaxon📢
Want to give automated transcription a try? See below 👇
#EarlyModern 🗃️
Want to give automated transcription a try? See below 👇
#EarlyModern 🗃️
Listening to research proposal presentations today and feeing inspired by all the new research going on!
July 30, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Listening to research proposal presentations today and feeing inspired by all the new research going on!
Hey England can we stop going down to the wire my heart can’t deal with extra time
July 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Hey England can we stop going down to the wire my heart can’t deal with extra time
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Still looking for submissions for the @rsaorg.bsky.social panel "Living with Demons: Emotions, Encounters, Experiences".
Any #earlymodern #hextag peeps please do get in touch? Fwiw, Stuart Clark personally endorsed the abstract. 😅
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
Any #earlymodern #hextag peeps please do get in touch? Fwiw, Stuart Clark personally endorsed the abstract. 😅
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
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June 30, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Still looking for submissions for the @rsaorg.bsky.social panel "Living with Demons: Emotions, Encounters, Experiences".
Any #earlymodern #hextag peeps please do get in touch? Fwiw, Stuart Clark personally endorsed the abstract. 😅
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
Any #earlymodern #hextag peeps please do get in touch? Fwiw, Stuart Clark personally endorsed the abstract. 😅
www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...
Brilliant round table to end the magic and witchcraft conference!
June 25, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Brilliant round table to end the magic and witchcraft conference!
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1 month into The Thing About Salem podcast, & we're thrilled with the opportunity to tell this rich, complex story week by week.
From Salem's "witch cake", to judges experimenting with poppets in court proceedings. Read about it: aboutsalem.com/we-are-just-...
From Salem's "witch cake", to judges experimenting with poppets in court proceedings. Read about it: aboutsalem.com/we-are-just-...
We Are Just Getting Started Talking About the Things – The Thing About Salem
aboutsalem.com
June 23, 2025 at 3:14 AM
1 month into The Thing About Salem podcast, & we're thrilled with the opportunity to tell this rich, complex story week by week.
From Salem's "witch cake", to judges experimenting with poppets in court proceedings. Read about it: aboutsalem.com/we-are-just-...
From Salem's "witch cake", to judges experimenting with poppets in court proceedings. Read about it: aboutsalem.com/we-are-just-...
Ready and raring for the York Magic and Witchcraft Conference! 3 days talking about all things witchcraft!
June 23, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Ready and raring for the York Magic and Witchcraft Conference! 3 days talking about all things witchcraft!
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For those interested in the Chevalier D'eon or James Allen, please see this blog from our Archives and Manuscripts team, 'What the John Johnson Collection Tells us About Gender in Early Modern Britain': blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/archivesandm...
#Pride #TransgenderHistory #TransHistory.
#Pride #TransgenderHistory #TransHistory.
June 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
I've had my first meetings with my new Master's students this week, and it's so nice to hear their motivations for their research projects!
It's really helping me get through the last stretch of my PhD
It's really helping me get through the last stretch of my PhD
June 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
I've had my first meetings with my new Master's students this week, and it's so nice to hear their motivations for their research projects!
It's really helping me get through the last stretch of my PhD
It's really helping me get through the last stretch of my PhD
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May 31, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Travelling to Liverpool for my final ever PGR conference! Theses conferences are always a great opportunity to see the variety of research done in the history department (and an opportunity to socialise!)
May 13, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Travelling to Liverpool for my final ever PGR conference! Theses conferences are always a great opportunity to see the variety of research done in the history department (and an opportunity to socialise!)
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OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Historians for Trans Rights - Open Letter to MPs
In light of the recent and incessant attacks on the trans community in the UK by the UK government and legal system, a group of UK-based historians have drafted the letter linked below. Our aim is to ...
tinyurl.com
May 1, 2025 at 10:17 AM
OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now!
Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver
Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
Can’t wait to ramble about cute (read demonic) animals like this guy!
April 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Can’t wait to ramble about cute (read demonic) animals like this guy!
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Got a nasty dark scan too? You could try ...
You might find this old post by Adam Crymble helpful adamcrymble.blogspot.com/2012/04/tric...
Tricks for Transcribing High-Contrast Historical Reproductions
If you spend enough time as a historical researcher, you're bound to come across the black blob. The blob - also referred to by its more tec...
adamcrymble.blogspot.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Got a nasty dark scan too? You could try ...
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Trans rights are human rights
April 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Trans rights are human rights