📢Vital piece from Jonathan Saha reflecting on (lack of) progress towards addressing racial inequalities in university #History departments since 2018 #twitterstorians

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I wrote an article on benefaction boards: ‘Post-Reformation benefaction boards and related artefacts in English churches’, Ecclesiology Today 60 (June, 2021), pp. 17-56. Hoped it would spark greater interest in them.

Students of the University of Bristol have established an encampment jn protest of the university's complicity in Israel's genocide of Palestinians. Come join us at Royal Fort Gardens! #FreePalestine #UniversityofBristol #ArmsOffCampus

Oak bed, with corner posts and frieze and panel decorations, 1600 (Rijksmuseum)

meanwhile in Bristol ... (respect to the keeper in full whites!)

📢ICYMI📢 Our third 'Will of the Month' post is now live: Read all about a fashionable lady who had many valuable possessions - including wedding rings, family portraits, boxes of chinaware, and 'Cloath of Gold' shoes... sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultur…… #EarlyModern #twitterstorians

*New post* in our 'The People and the Law' series:

Dr Laura Flannigan uses commonplace books to explore 'what non-elites knew about law and its procedures in the midst of the early modern ‘legal revolution’, and how they knew it'

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If you would like to know more about Laura Flannigan's research on the people and the law 👇🏾

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Last year Zoë Jackson, Emily Rhodes, Charmian Mansell ([email protected]), Lucy M. Kaufman, Angela Muir and I hit the NACBS in twinned panels exploring early modern legal recs for encounters with law. Some thoughts from our papers will be appearing at the link below, intro'd by Mark Hailwood!

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In the next post in 'The People & the Law' series Dr Laura Flannigan explains how she uses commonplace books to investigate popular knowledge of the law

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We're off! Nice to hear the many-headed monster blog getting a plug 👍🏾

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Looking forward to organising this workshop in Exeter this summer, with some wonderful scholars joining us! Exeter South Asia The Societies & Cultures Institute (SCI)

Elizabeth & Robert Alee, looking a little confused to wake on Judgement Day and find themselves behind a sheet of glass being gawped at by tourists

Memorial brasses of 1518, originally at Dunstable Priory, now at the V&A Museum in London

#MementoMoriMonday

I've got a bloke accusing that an arresting officials did 'take his garters and dyd pynny on the said Thomas Foster with the same' -- anyone else ever come across this sort of thing? am I missing something, or is this just some sort of shaming tactic? or a rudimentary hog tie?

There’s a brand new little library on Bampfylfe Lane in the city centre - can you help Princesshay fill it up? 📚

An awesome opportunity to do a funded PhD with UCL and TNA on The Court of Chancery during the Civil War & Interregnum: jobs.ac.uk/job/DHI516/ahr…

Today's MEMOries offering to you is on Robert Daborne's play 'A Christian Turn'd Turk' (1609), inspired by the true story of English Captain John Ward, who converted to Islam. memorients.com/articles/race-…