Our postgraduate Public History Prize is back!

This year's prize is one year’s free membership of the SHS, a showcase on our Community Exchange and a £300 cash prize.

The deadline is 17 May 2024. Full details in the link:

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Finally reading Jonathan Healey's Blazing World from the beginning, rather than just dipping into random chapters, and you know it's good because the many-headed monster already features on page five.

Loving the cover - and thanks for the very kind blurbs! yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030026…

Out now on History Workshop: Fishing, Freedom, and the Market in Early Modern London academic.oup.com/hwj/article/do…

Was the English Poor Law an instrument of discipline? Did the early modern poor have a legal right to relief? New article from me in which I try to add some new evidence to these old questions.
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Join us for this inspiring interdisciplinary rumination on early modern law, forms, fictions, more - feat. dr lucy js clarke is arguably a 'woke academic' 🍉 Holly Brewer Chloë Ingersent Clare Egan Joanna McCunn , Nandini Chatterjee, Lorna Hutson, Tim Stretton, Subha Mukherji, Lenny Hodges, Ian Williams -!

Your attention please! I am having a little launch for my book after a seminar paper by Emily Corran on Thursday 2 May at 7pm, at the IHR, London. Please come - to both seminar and launch preferably - and let me know here if you are so we can plan.

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Still buzzing after this excellent workshop yesterday. Proud to rep QS amid all the STAC, REQ, C and E!

And by Henry Miller & Richard Huzzey, in whose AHRC project this book originates. Can't wait!

Exciting webpage for Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms, ed. Natalya Din-Kariuki, Subha Mukherji, & Rowan Williams -- out this autumn, feat. my short essay on women in Elizabethan London talking about their experiences of transnational migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/crossin…

Thanks to The British Academy for publishing this volume based on a Arts and Humanities Research Council research network. The volume is dedicated to Aaron Graham and #MalcolmChase who added so much to our network, and it includes Aaron's superb essay on the British Caribbean.

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(1) Hello #Twitterstorians . I would like to speak to doctoral students anywhere in the world working on late C16th/C17th European (English, Spanish, French, etc) social, economic, material and marine history to test out a database I have developed (24,000 deponents, 1570-1685)

Posting this in the hope that people will stop asking me if I know any bilingual eighteenth-century fart jokes.

Many thanks Surprised Eel Historian, PhD for bringing this smile into our life

Fi was slightly alarmed: in all her years of instruction she had never seen a cat-cow which was quite so.. ecstatic...

Name: the ecstatic lion of mystery
Gawkiness: 9/10
Lionness: 5/10
Creativity: 8/10

There's still time to sign up for this online workshop, supported by Past and Present and St John's College, exploring 'Popular Knowledge of the Law in Early Modernity'. Happening this time next week! 👇

We are currently looking for nominations to join our committee. The vacancies include a postgraduate representative, which is a great way to get involved in the society if you are a PhD student researching social or cultural history:

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Your periodic reminder that there is an early modern pub night once a month for anyone who may be interested. We meet at a (vaguely) historic pub, normally in the central London area, but our April meet will be further afield at The Spaniards Inn, Hampstead! Drop me a DM to join.

Finally! After 4+ years & several iterations my co-authored article with the incredible Margot Brazier CSEP Manchester is in print & #openaccess #midwives #17thC #oaths #feministhistory #histmed #legaltwitter #twitterstorians

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*Petitions and Petitioning from the Late Medieval Period to the Present*

Book launch and conversation about the #PowerOfPetitioning , Thursday, May 23rd, 4pm, online!

Register for free here: royalhistsoc.org/calendar/petit…

NEWS:

Due to problems with our site upgrade, we are dropping the paywall, allowing full access to all our material.

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Additionally, due to problems with search, we are temporarily making available the old version of our site.

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