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Prof Tracey Hill
@tracelarkhall.bsky.social
Sweary prof, iconoclast, and non-league football nut (Larkhall Athletic FC 💙). Lives in early modern London; citizen & Founder. Bossed by cats. I mean it about the swearing 🤬
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Well hello new people! Hope you like cats, football and random snippets of early modern London
This hand 😵‍💫
November 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
A conference of koi carp
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
St Katharine Cree. Very High Church. This is Laud's monument.
November 11, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Methi malai kofta. Very tasty sauce, mopped up with an equally tasty butter nan.
November 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Very pleased to report that the Bell near Aldgate is *not* closed down 😊
November 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Travelodge wifi. Completely shit. And not even free.
November 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Sayle's 1920s transcriptions of this very tricky pageant memorandum book, 1556-1568
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Wondering what Peele, Middleton, Munday, Dekker, Webster, Heywood et al would have thought of this innovation...
November 10, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Reposted by Prof Tracey Hill
The second in our series of threads on the wonderful articles comprising our 50th anniversary special issue, 'London's Past Today', is on Sam Waterman and Charlotte Grant's 'Teaching London’s Past Today: An Experiential Approach to a Global City' (available open access).
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Teaching London’s Past Today: An Experiential Approach to a Global City*
This article provides an account of teaching London’s cultural history on a semester-long, first-year undergraduate study-abroad course at Northeastern University London (NUL) using a multi-authore...
www.tandfonline.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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Let's play Bucks Name or Name Name
November 10, 2025 at 10:37 AM
It's June 1615 and Webster has *finally* got round to claiming his freedom of the Merchant Taylors by patrimony. James Williams and William Griffin witnessed that he was indeed the son of John Webster senior
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Esoteric example of the Custom of London in practice: William Beale and George Bassett are Merchant Taylors but their actual occupation is 'trading and dealing for Orenges, Lemons, and Onyons'. Never assume an early modern Londoner actually practices the trade they're a member of!
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Great look into the comprehensiveness of EEBO and EEBO-TCP and what that means for using those tools. Highly recommend for all computational bibliographers and early modernists doing large-scale work with EEBO
Great news! This is out: Opening the black box of EEBO academic.oup.com/dsh/advance-...
November 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
BULLSHIT OFFSIDE MY ARSE
November 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Fuck you Haaland!
November 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
November 9, 2025 at 3:31 PM
This is a great piece
November 9, 2025 at 11:29 AM
This is Isla. Isla is a lovely girlie. 10/10 waggy tail 💗
November 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
St Peter, Shaftesbury: traces of medieval paint
November 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
November 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Under surveillance
November 7, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Middleton’s final production! Listen in!
🚨Latest pod drop - it's The Triumphs of Health and Prosperity by Thomas Middleton, recorded live last year at Middleton's Endgame, our A Game at Chess event. ♟️
🥁This is Middleton's last performed work, introduced by @tracelarkhall.bsky.social #pageantry #LordMayorsShow audioboom.com/posts/880281...
Lord Mayor's Show 1626 (Middleton's Endgame 5)
Let's go over to the live broadcast of the Lord Mayor's Show...
audioboom.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Fucking close down Schools of Management
"Kelly Shue of Yale School of Management, one of the paper’s authors, says they are now looking at whether AI facial analysis can give lenders useful clues about a person’s propensity to repay loans. For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing."

Or, stay with me, IT COULD NOT.
November 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Watching the Dalglish film and remembering how good were that Liverpool side 🤩
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM