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Elizabeth Tingle
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Professor Emerita of History, DMU, Leicester UK

Works on Early modern European religious belief and practice; church art and archaeology; landscapes and heritage.

Amateur nature lover. Tortoise fan.
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I took this photo less than 10 years after the deer fence behind was erected. Before it went up, the land behind was just grass, exactly like the foreground where he sheep are.

*Nothing* was planted here.

"It's not rocket science" is an understatement.
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March 29, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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dimireider.bsky.social Dimi Reider @dimireider.bsky.social · 7d
Personal note: London has been home for a very, very long time, but as of today, I am also officially a Brit - that is to say, a British citizen. I feel relieved and I feel grateful - but not, perhaps, in the forelock-tugging way GB News/Starmer expect a new immigrant to be.
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Coming on Thursday….
leicsarchhissoc.bsky.social Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society @leicsarchhissoc.bsky.social · Oct 20
Next lecture: 13 November 19.30 in Clephan 0.01, De Montfort University. Free entry.

Pete Liddle will talk on 'The Small Roman Towns of Leicestershire and Rutland'.
See:
lahs.org.uk/events/the-r...
The Roman Small Towns of Leicestershire and Rutland - LAHS
lahs.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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Come join me at DMU! ⬇️
October 28, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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We are looking forward to our online Winter Meeting on 'Creeds, Councils and Canons' on 10 January 2026.

If you would like to present a paper, please make sure to send in your submission application by 31 October: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-me...
October 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Call for papers for @eccleshistsoc.bsky.social's upcoming Winter meeting!
October 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Today in Jeremy's salad: romaine, hibiscus, zinnia, cucumber and aloe vera
Pale green lettuce topped with chunks of cucumber and aloe and two whole flowers Large tortoise enjoying his salad. A bright orange hibiscus hangs from his mouth
October 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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A Leicestershire delicacy….. A description from Ravenstone mid 20 C.
Text stating: One of his favourite pursuits was eating Stilton cheese. He would leave the cheese out for a while then wrap it in paper. When the paper began to rustle he would unwrap it and eat the maggots filled with Stilton, with a pin.
October 13, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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What could the next 50 years look like for churches? Join policy makers, funders, heritage professionals and community leaders on 21 Oct at the V&A Museum in London
to find out.

⏰Time: 10:45am-1pm & 2:30pm-5pm

🎟️ Tickets: vam.ac.uk/event/4KVGa4...

#GreatExpectationsForChurches
A colourful image of a stained-glass window with three human figures. A figure in a blue robe with yellow halo is kneeling in front of two old men with long beards and head-wraps. One of the old men is pointing to a passage in a book on his lap. Pieces of glass in the faces of all three figures are missing due to vandalism.
October 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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New book publication ❗ 📖

Last month, my first monograph was published by the Académie royale de Belgique.

It is a slightly reworked version of my PhD, focusing on the grain prices and the grain economy of 14th-C Flanders 🌿

#medievalsky #graineconomy #MiddleAges

For the contents, see below 👇
Prices and Crises
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October 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem
Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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New issue of FHS is out now! Policing and State Power in France and the French Empire: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
Volume 48 Issue 3 | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
October 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT.
Good luck with the project.
neorsd.org NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · Oct 3
obligatory sturgeon mention content
October 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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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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all reports for the AGM now available to download at churchmonumentssociety.org/events/2025-... (along with details of the Study Day which is open to all - Chandos Mausoleum, Handel's organ and more)
2025 Annual General Meeting and Study Day – Church Monuments Society
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October 1, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Only a week to go for our study day and AGM at St Lawrence, Edgware churchmonumentssociety.org/events/2025-...
AGM is members only but all are welcome to the rest - explore church, churchyard and the gorgeous Chandos mausoleum with expert guides, and hear the organ that Handel actually played.
September 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Final details for our study day and AGM at St Lawrence Edgware at churchmonumentssociety.org/events/2025-.... Explore the gorgeous Chandos mausoleum, hear the organ that Handel actually played. AGM is members only but the study day is free to all.
September 24, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Why was behind the impetus to develop parochial buildings in the #medieval period so strong? Dr Meg Bernstein investigates this, particularly in reference the addition of north and/or south aisles to an existing church, in her blogpost for us:

eccleshistsoc.wordpress.com/2017/05/01/w...
Witnessing the Medieval English Parish Church
Since taking up a research fellowship at a single-subject institution last year, I’ve perhaps become a little too comfortable in my material-oriented art historical world. The Ecclesiastical Histor…
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September 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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📢 Applications are now open for our Winter Meeting on 10 January (online)! Deadline: 31 October 2025

Don’t miss the chance to connect, share ideas, and kick off 2026 with fresh inspiration.

Apply now 👉 ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26-winter-me...

#Skystorians
September 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Lambeth Palace Library will be holding a careers open day for anyone considering their future career trajectory. This is your chance to find out what the staff do in their day-to-day work, and how to enter these professions.

www.lambethpalacelibrary.info
September 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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In this month's blogpost, Dr Emily Betz writes about anti-Quaker propaganda.

Using the language of #medicine, opponents of #Quaker beliefs attempted to paint them as mentally unstable, their understandings of faith less spiritual revelations than medical complications.

wp.me/p7o0HV-qm #medhist
September 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Just tried the free Transkribus site with poor results. Is the paid subscription any better for 17th century handwriting? What about 19th century wills?
September 19, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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Our new website is live!! Hurrah! 🎉 we will share all upcoming COST action events, calls for papers for relevant events, and news about available grants and opportunities. Do share widely with any Prayer Studies scholars/ Historians of Religion who might be interested! prayticipate.eu
PRAYTICIPATE – COST Action CA23143 – Participation through Prayer in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World
Know More Image Caption Half of a Prayer Bead with the Prayer of the Rosary, early 16th century, Netherlandish; Boxwood, silver; 3 × 0.6 cm, Sculpture-Miniature
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September 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Fully funded PhD with me, @uniexecec.bsky.social @rspbscience.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social working on insectivorous bird declines - hopefully esp. House martin www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
September 18, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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@churchmonuments.bsky.social might know….
cathrynpearce.bsky.social Dr Cathryn Pearce @cathrynpearce.bsky.social · Sep 19
Trying to search for info on the use of headstones and footstones in Sussex, and all I get are business websites trying to sell a headstone to me. Not yet, people!!! Can anyone share info with me about these, and when they became popular? Photo is from Seaford's St. Leonard's Churchyard.
Photo of three graves in a row, with large headstones and small footnotes, joined together by a vertical centre piece. The stones are too weathered to read names or dates.
September 19, 2025 at 7:57 PM