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Welcome to new followers! Stick with us for all things wills, #EarlyModern material culture, and updates on our progress towards digitising 25,000 English wills from 1540-1790.

Who does the academic housework? A new study from Denmark reveals the strategies that mid career men embrace to avoid internal service work - ignoring emails (evasion) and cultivating a reputation for being disorganized. kifinfo.no/en/2024/03/wom…

Reminder of this opportunity to do a PhD with me and work on early modern emotions and children. I don’t bite (much), am keen on interdisciplinary methods, and good at creating development opportunities for students. #twitterstorians mq.edu.au/research/phd-a…

Looking for recommendations for publishers of exhibition catalogues. Does anyone still do this? Thank you! #twitterstorians

Witchcraft! Treason! Other cool stuff! Want to learn how to use Early Modern Common Law records for research? This day workshop The National Archives in June shares tips and tricks to navigate these complex but rich records. eventbrite.co.uk/e/early-modern…

Already received some stunning abstracts for the special issue I'm editing, 'Shakespeare and His Contemporaries'.

Check out the CFP here (abstract submission deadline 16 June): darrenfj.wordpress.com/wp-content/upl…

📢ICYMI📢 We have a NEW BLOG POST out - it's the second post in our 'Will of the Month' series. Find out all about a Lincolnshire farmer and his cows, his sheep, his horses, his beds and even his second-best beds... sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultur…

Before I was hired as TT CU Boulder 🦬 I was a postdoc lead for a dept-wide pedagogy project in the Hist Dept (@cuhistorybuffs). To learn more about that work--origins, implementation, next steps--check out this new Journal of American History article I co-authored:

academic.oup.com/jah/article/11…

Authors of all things! Your annual reminder, if you haven't, to register at ALCS to get royalties for fair use! And hey, AI tech bros: note how there is already a system in place FOR FAIRLY COMPENSATING AUTHORS FOR THE FAIR USE OF THEIR WORK.

Thurs 3/21: Linking histories of women, the natural environment, material culture & art, Andrea Pappas presents a (free) The Library Company Fireside Chat Embroidering the Landscape: Women, Art & the Environment in British North America, 1740–1770. librarycompany.org/events/firesid…

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Joan of Arc rode 3,000 miles on horseback, study finds medievalists.net/2024/03/joan-a… #history #medieval

“if the field is going to turn around the recent decline in majors, we need to offer better answers on the careers question, and this report is a masterful effort... This is urgently needed in English and across the humanities.” bit.ly/3VjswzS

This year, I'm running two #LegalRecords workshops The National Archives all about Early Modern Legal Records. The first is on Common Law and Regional Justice, on Tuesday 18 June. #TNAPAST eventbrite.co.uk/e/early-modern…

Registration is up for 'Slavery and the Slave Trade in New Netherland and the Dutch Atlantic World.' For May 3 at the Schomburg Center, nyhistory.org/programs/slave…, and for May 4 New-York Historical Society , nyhistory.org/programs/slave…. See attached schedule! And please join us.

Funded also by many of the contributors to the Oxford History of Women & Gender in Medieval Europe, who forewent their payments for their chapters to increase the pool.

🎓 Calling senior academics! Apply now for the prestigious 24/25 Slater Fellowship hosted by University College and IMEMS.
🖊️Details: tinyurl.com/imemsfellowship
⏳Deadline: April 15. Don't miss out! 🚀 #SlaterFellowship #AcademicOpportunity #Research #IMEMS #DurhamUniversity