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Nicole Greenspan
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Historian of Early Modern Britain. Studied at Toronto, faculty at Hampden-Sydney College, Virginia. Works on news and media, and also royalist exiles.
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Nicole Greenspan @nicolegreenspan.bsky.social · Jan 31
Excited to share that my article "News, Diplomacy, and the 1655 Piedmont Massacre in Cromwellian England", is now available as advance access in Historical Research (if you need access please message me).
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From 1550–1650, death was a carefully crafted ritual — faith, culture, and memory woven together. ⚰️✨

Discover how early modern society understood dying.

#History #EarlyModern #Brewminate
The Ritual of Death in the Early Modern Period, 1550-1650
Discover how rituals of death between 1550 and 1650 reflected religion, culture, and society in the early modern world.
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October 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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brodiewaddell.bsky.social
Who did what in early modern England?

New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️

Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...
This book applies the innovative work-task approach to the history of work, which captures the contribution of all workers and types of work to the early modern economy. Drawing on tens of thousands of court depositions, the authors analyse the individual tasks that made up everyday work for women and men, shedding new light on the gender division of labour, and the ways in which time, space, age and marital status shaped sixteenth and seventeenth-century working life. Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, the book deepens our understanding of the preindustrial economy, and calls for us to rethink not only who did what, but also the implications of these findings for major debates about structural change, the nature and extent of paid work, and what has been lost as well as gained over the past three centuries of economic development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core. Cover of Whittle, Jane, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, and Taylor Aucoin. The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. of Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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chrislangley.bsky.social
The latest special issue of @scottishhistreview.bsky.social, on Scotland's Environmental History, is out!

Thanks to the guest editors, Rebecca Main, Richard Oram & Annie Tindley, for their fantastic work.

Read the issue on the @edinburghup.bsky.social website: www.euppublishing.com/toc/shr/104/2
Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - shr: Vol 104, No 2
www.euppublishing.com
September 2, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Excellent to see this call for papers for a conference bridging the gap between military, political, social & cultural approaches to conflict, war and violence in the #EarlyModern world. 🗃️

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earlymodernwar.bsky.social Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference @earlymodernwar.bsky.social · Jul 7
We are thrilled to announce that the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, with a keynote address by Professor Mark Stoyle, will be held on 30-31 October at the University of Exeter.

Please help us spread the world, and consider submitting a proposal!🗡️
Call for papers for the Conflict, War and Violence in the Early Modern World Conference, taking place at the University of Exeter on 30-31 October. We are exploring early modern conflict in all its forms. We particularly seek to unpack the interactions between the more traditional aspects of conflict, such as the political, tactical and strategic, with the more human side of it, including sociocultural approaches that explore experiences, representations and impacts of violence. As such, we particularly welcome proposals that look beyond purely military history and break chronological, geographical and disciplinary boundaries. We welcome proposals for individual papers of up to 20 minutes, or full panels of three to four papers, on any aspect of conflict, war and violence in the early modern period. Speakers might consider, but are not limited to, the following themes: Physical, tactical, operational and strategic aspects of warfare. Martial identities, values and motivations. Notions of gender, race, class and religion. Remembering, (re)imagining and representing violence and/or conflict. The experience of violence, its impact and the everyday at war. Popular allegiance in early modern conflict. Maritime violence and naval warfare. The bureaucracy of conflict, finance and the law. Abstracts of up to 300 words, along with a biographical note, should be sent to earlymodernwar@gmail.com by Friday 5th September.
July 7, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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My new article 'The Politics of Colonial Lists' just published in Comparative Studies in Society and History @csshjournal.bsky.social
And it is open access! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
June 24, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Hoorah!!! A new book of essays in honour of Bernard Capp, courtesy of @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social !
June 11, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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My article "Seasonal Harvests: Migration, Reproduction, and Religion in the Early Modern Spanish Tuna Fisheries" is now available online in advance of the July issue of
@envirohistory.bsky.social. The essay reflects years of work and revision; I'm so grateful for the help I got along the way.
May 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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#ICYMI on 4 June we'll be in Parliament recording a special live episode of our podcast, 'Tales from the Green Benches'!

Emma & Alex will be joined by some special guests to talk all about political interviewing- and you can join us too! Get your ticket here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tales-from...
Tales from the Green Benches: Live Podcast
Join the History of Parliament for a live recording of our podcast 'Tales from the Green Benches: an Oral History of Parliament'.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 23, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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📢New article out now in JBS!

📗"The Scholarly Business of Corporations and Slavery: Political Fault Lines of the Economic History of Empire," by Priya Satia

Open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Scholarly Business of Corporations and Slavery: Political Fault Lines of the Economic History of Empire | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
The Scholarly Business of Corporations and Slavery: Political Fault Lines of the Economic History of Empire - Volume 64
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May 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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My new article on pauper apprenticeship is online and open access!

Bound to the soil (Part I): the origins of compulsory apprenticeship schemes in South-West rural England c.1670–1750

doi.org/10.1017/S026...
May 23, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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tomaashby.bsky.social
Call! In September we will host "Providence, Propaganda, & Profit in the Early Modern English World" at UTokyo. Keynotes: @annlaurahughes.bsky.social, Shusaku Kanazawa, Keiko Kawawake, & Peter Lake. Deadline: 15 July!
See politicaleconomyseminar.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/%... @kyamamoto.bsky.social
The call poster. Follow the link for details.
May 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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‼️🐠 Our short “History Matters” piece — “Colonialism, Governance, and Fisheries: Perspectives from Lake Malawi” just published OA in The Journal of African History!

doi.org/10.1017/S002...

A lengthier piece expanding on fisheries surveys & colonial development in L. Malawi coming soon in Isis… 🐠‼️
Colonialism, Governance, and Fisheries: Perspectives from Lake Malawi | The Journal of African History | Cambridge Core
Colonialism, Governance, and Fisheries: Perspectives from Lake Malawi - Volume 66
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May 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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#FlashbackFriday to February 1655, when Arthur Stanhope, already known for forging the Earl of Warwick’s handwriting and getting a stint in the pillory for it, gave it another go.
May 23, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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how can a comic be historiographical? how do images as well as words make arguments?

v excited to see that our visual introduction to the forthcoming special issue of ‘rethinking history’ on visual histories is now up online 🗃️

doi.org/10.1080/1364...
Black and white cartoon shows a historian reminiscent of NZ Davis flipping through books. The text reads “She made up a fact.” To which the historian replies “I did no such thing. I offered a “possible truth.”’
May 23, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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Delightful work post — the hard copy of the new issue of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, featuring my article, 'Migrant Voices in Multilingual London, 1560-1600'.
Cover of the current issue of Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, sitting on a speckled windowsill. The journal opened to the first page of my article in paper form.
January 29, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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bho.bsky.social
Announcement on the move of the ESTC to CERL:

www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...

However, nothing on copyright of licensing in this statement.

#History #DigitalHistory #BookHistory
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May 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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maryfissell.bsky.social
WOW!!!!! the ESTC is back!!! Amazing biblio of early modern printed books in English/printed in English-speaking places, up to 1801. I've missed you, old friend! (it went down when BL was cyber-hacked). Gonna get grading done and...
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May 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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New article!

'Seeing Women in the Early English and Dutch East India Companies' is now available as an Advance Article with Historical Research.

It's been years of work, but I'm proud of this one. I hope #earlymodern #skystorians enjoy it!

Some context below:

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May 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Latest Substack dropped today, a story of abortion during the American Civil War. Subscribe here: maryfissell.substack.com
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April 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Interested in the relationship between anti-popery in the 1624 parliament and "real" Catholic activity? Check out my new article in the English Historical Review, now available with advance access!
doi.org/10.1093/ehr/...
An Unsettled Religious Settlement and the Crisis of the 1620s: English Catholics, Anti-Popery, and the Spanish Match, 1622–4*
Abstract. The anti-popish fervour that accompanied the collapse of the Spanish Match has been long acknowledged both by the wave of revisionists who dismis
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April 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Our Subversive Voice is a groundbreaking study of English protest song that spans five centuries.

Out now! buff.ly/cHmMcmv

Check out this playlist of protest songs featured in the book: buff.ly/h9biJdZ

Read a guest blog post by co-author John Street: buff.ly/xrR7KfC
March 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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How did living through a period of violent religious change transform people’s experience of distress? What new light does a history of emotions approach shed on our understanding of the English Reformation? For answers see my new OA article in the JEH! doi.org/10.1017/S002...
‘Strange Enthusiastical Exhortations’: Distress, Religious Identity and the English Reformation | The Journal of Ecclesiastical History | Cambridge Core
‘Strange Enthusiastical Exhortations’: Distress, Religious Identity and the English Reformation
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April 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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unamcilvenna.bsky.social
In 1617, King Louis XIII's guards murdered Concino Concini, chief adviser to the king's mother, Marie de Medici. As a Maddock Fellow, I got to explore how pamphlets at Marsh's Library portrayed this extraordinary event marshlibrary.ie/murder-at-th...
Murder at the French Court - Marsh's Library
Dr Una McIlvenna explores the secret murder of Marie de Medici's adviser Concino Concini, and the French crown's subsequent pamphlet campaign to blacken his name.
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April 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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maryfissell.bsky.social
New Substack dropped today! Bet you didn't expect that America's first medical self-help book winked at ending a pregnancy...
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April 10, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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How did the narrative of a cordwainer's wife about her disabled son, 'which she wrote her own self', fit into the religious politics of #EarlyModern England?

*NEW* #OpenAccess article by Laura Seymour, the first publication from #WrittenWorlds our project! 🗃️

Read it here: doi.org/10.1080/0268...
Screenshot of the title and abstract for: 'A cordwainer’s wife in high politics: a microhistory of Mrs Caute' Abstract: This article introduces a hitherto unstudied pair of seventeenth-century texts, by the cordwainer’s wife Sarah Caute, which exercised political influence at the highest levels. Caute relates how in 1683–4, whilst in London, she experienced a sudden desire for herself and her six-year-old son Mathew to be baptised by Thomas Ken (1637–1711), who was then the prebend of Winchester (he would soon, in January 1685, be consecrated Bishop of Bath and Wells). Since he was a year old, Caute narrates, Mathew did not speak or walk and suffered ‘violent fitt[s]’ which ‘took him of his leges and his teeth fell out of his head at the roots…till they were all out’. Caute’s story reached the ears of Charles II and James II; thereby, she participated personally and in absentia in elite negotiations of confessional identity. Caute’s texts challenge the notion that non-elite women’s writing is scarce and of limited political interest.
March 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM