Joe Saunders
@joesaunders1.bsky.social
Freelance Historian | Part-time PhD English print trade networks 1600-50 📚 Vice-Chair, British Association for Local History 📜 Tutor, Pharos Tutors. Co-editor How-to History. www.joesaundershistory.co.uk
Excellent research trip to Cardiff and Hereford last week including visits to the Mappa Mundi and chained library at Hereford Cathedral, and to Cardiff Castle and markets. 🗃️
November 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Excellent research trip to Cardiff and Hereford last week including visits to the Mappa Mundi and chained library at Hereford Cathedral, and to Cardiff Castle and markets. 🗃️
Never say the English aren't inventive with our placenames. Gardeners Garden, Shoreditch, London (Ogilby & Morgan map, 1676). 🗃️ www.layersoflondon.org/map/overlays...
November 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Never say the English aren't inventive with our placenames. Gardeners Garden, Shoreditch, London (Ogilby & Morgan map, 1676). 🗃️ www.layersoflondon.org/map/overlays...
Many thanks to the Tools & Trades History Society for granting me a Salaman Award in support of my PhD studies. Do check out this great organisation. www.taths.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Many thanks to the Tools & Trades History Society for granting me a Salaman Award in support of my PhD studies. Do check out this great organisation. www.taths.org.uk
Great event yesterday with the Historic Town's Trust talking about our research work on an atlas of London on the Eve of the Great Fire. So pleased to be helping this fantastic project. @historictownstrust.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Great event yesterday with the Historic Town's Trust talking about our research work on an atlas of London on the Eve of the Great Fire. So pleased to be helping this fantastic project. @historictownstrust.bsky.social
Excited to be teaching two online short courses starting next week; one on local history and the other on using manorial records. Spaces still available on both!
#LocalHistory #FamilyHistory 🗃️
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#LocalHistory #FamilyHistory 🗃️
www.pharostutors.com/progressing-...
www.pharostutors.com/manorial-rec...
October 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Excited to be teaching two online short courses starting next week; one on local history and the other on using manorial records. Spaces still available on both!
#LocalHistory #FamilyHistory 🗃️
www.pharostutors.com/progressing-...
www.pharostutors.com/manorial-rec...
#LocalHistory #FamilyHistory 🗃️
www.pharostutors.com/progressing-...
www.pharostutors.com/manorial-rec...
The City of London in a picture. The medieval church tower of All Hallows Staining. An historic island amidst skyscrapers and construction. 🗃️
October 14, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The City of London in a picture. The medieval church tower of All Hallows Staining. An historic island amidst skyscrapers and construction. 🗃️
Nice to see the 1579 Godolphin Report on the Isles of Scilly, which I transcribed for a client, used in his Poetry Nation Review article. My favourite part, 'The auncient rents I know not but if any were paid they were but puffyns or like small value'. www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/writ...
September 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Nice to see the 1579 Godolphin Report on the Isles of Scilly, which I transcribed for a client, used in his Poetry Nation Review article. My favourite part, 'The auncient rents I know not but if any were paid they were but puffyns or like small value'. www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/writ...
Looking forward to a second weekend of heritage exploration through the excellent Heritage Open Days / Open House Festival for those in London. 🗃️ www.heritageopendays.org.uk / programme.openhouse.org.uk
September 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Looking forward to a second weekend of heritage exploration through the excellent Heritage Open Days / Open House Festival for those in London. 🗃️ www.heritageopendays.org.uk / programme.openhouse.org.uk
1620 will of John Sargeant of Grubstreet in the City of London, Translator. A fleeting snapshot of a surely fascinating Life. [Peculiar of St Paul's register wills. TLA, CLC/313/K/C/003/MS25626] #EarlyModern
September 3, 2025 at 9:04 AM
1620 will of John Sargeant of Grubstreet in the City of London, Translator. A fleeting snapshot of a surely fascinating Life. [Peculiar of St Paul's register wills. TLA, CLC/313/K/C/003/MS25626] #EarlyModern
Happy to visit my favourite archive today. It is normal to have a favourite archive, isn't it? (If you do have a favourite archive I'd love to hear it) 🗃️
July 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Happy to visit my favourite archive today. It is normal to have a favourite archive, isn't it? (If you do have a favourite archive I'd love to hear it) 🗃️
Delighted to be taking part in the Devon Family History Society 50th anniversary conference, October 2026. @devonfhs.bsky.social. Set to be a fantastic event: www.devonfhs.org.uk/devon-fhs-co... #Genealogy 🗃️
June 22, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Delighted to be taking part in the Devon Family History Society 50th anniversary conference, October 2026. @devonfhs.bsky.social. Set to be a fantastic event: www.devonfhs.org.uk/devon-fhs-co... #Genealogy 🗃️
It's the last week to use the excellent ScotlandsPlaces site. scotlandsplaces.gov.uk 🗃️ #Genealogy #LocalHistory #OnePlaceWednesday
June 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM
It's the last week to use the excellent ScotlandsPlaces site. scotlandsplaces.gov.uk 🗃️ #Genealogy #LocalHistory #OnePlaceWednesday
New business cards. 🗃️ #FreelanceHistorian
June 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
New business cards. 🗃️ #FreelanceHistorian
Last time teaching in the wonderful King's Manor, York. What a beautiful environment to discuss history in.
June 7, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Last time teaching in the wonderful King's Manor, York. What a beautiful environment to discuss history in.
Wonderful economic and design history with these 1890s copyright registrations at The National Archives. Whisky, tomato sauce, seeds and flour advertising. 🗃️
June 5, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Wonderful economic and design history with these 1890s copyright registrations at The National Archives. Whisky, tomato sauce, seeds and flour advertising. 🗃️
Today's seventeenth century parish registers are more post-modern poetry than historical records. 🗃️ #EarlyModern
May 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Today's seventeenth century parish registers are more post-modern poetry than historical records. 🗃️ #EarlyModern
A bequest to make you hungry. In 1638 William Tagell, Stationer of London left to the poor of the parish of St Botolph without Aldgate within the ward of Portsoken ‘fourtye dousen of good sweete and holesome bread’. 🗃️ #EarlyModern
May 12, 2025 at 10:01 AM
A bequest to make you hungry. In 1638 William Tagell, Stationer of London left to the poor of the parish of St Botolph without Aldgate within the ward of Portsoken ‘fourtye dousen of good sweete and holesome bread’. 🗃️ #EarlyModern
George Ray, Stationer of London, 1644 ‘intending...to goe under Sir William Waller in this present expedition’ left his ‘Adventure of Twenty Fyve poundes...in the Rebells landes in Ireland’ to his sister Susan wife of Thomas Sticestead 'resident in Russia in the partes beyond the seas’ #EarlyModern
May 1, 2025 at 7:15 AM
George Ray, Stationer of London, 1644 ‘intending...to goe under Sir William Waller in this present expedition’ left his ‘Adventure of Twenty Fyve poundes...in the Rebells landes in Ireland’ to his sister Susan wife of Thomas Sticestead 'resident in Russia in the partes beyond the seas’ #EarlyModern
We name things proper in Essex... 🗃️
April 23, 2025 at 7:06 AM
We name things proper in Essex... 🗃️
'as for the Crap on the ground'... Will of Robert Badger of the parish of St Leonards Shoreditch, 1641. 🗃️
April 22, 2025 at 6:30 AM
'as for the Crap on the ground'... Will of Robert Badger of the parish of St Leonards Shoreditch, 1641. 🗃️
Rare bequest of a printing house from Walter Dight, Stationer of London, 1618. If servants ‘take my printing house and the presses and other things belonging thereto as they shalbe prized paying twelve poundes a yeare rent and ten poundes quarterly... they two have the refusal before any other’
April 15, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Rare bequest of a printing house from Walter Dight, Stationer of London, 1618. If servants ‘take my printing house and the presses and other things belonging thereto as they shalbe prized paying twelve poundes a yeare rent and ten poundes quarterly... they two have the refusal before any other’
'To Mary Catherine Flannery U.S.A., whose love is now lost
to me due to the pressures imposed by this study.' Most depressing thesis dedication ever? Not sure any academic study is worth that. 🗃️
to me due to the pressures imposed by this study.' Most depressing thesis dedication ever? Not sure any academic study is worth that. 🗃️
April 14, 2025 at 12:06 PM
'To Mary Catherine Flannery U.S.A., whose love is now lost
to me due to the pressures imposed by this study.' Most depressing thesis dedication ever? Not sure any academic study is worth that. 🗃️
to me due to the pressures imposed by this study.' Most depressing thesis dedication ever? Not sure any academic study is worth that. 🗃️
We are looking for 1.500 word articles for our 'Doing History' feature of The Historian (magazine of The Historical Association). Please get in touch if you might like to share an aspect of historical practice with our members. 🗃️ @histassoc.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
We are looking for 1.500 word articles for our 'Doing History' feature of The Historian (magazine of The Historical Association). Please get in touch if you might like to share an aspect of historical practice with our members. 🗃️ @histassoc.bsky.social
Thomas Purfoot, Stationer of London, in his will of 1640 shows himself to be quite cultured. Bequeathing ‘the Virginalles in the hall with the frame whereon they stand’ and ‘my Speedes Cronicle in twoo Volumes with the mappes’.
April 11, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Thomas Purfoot, Stationer of London, in his will of 1640 shows himself to be quite cultured. Bequeathing ‘the Virginalles in the hall with the frame whereon they stand’ and ‘my Speedes Cronicle in twoo Volumes with the mappes’.