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Cordelia Beattie
@cordeliabeattie.bsky.social
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Professor of History, with particular focus on women in England c.1300-1700. Was PI on AHRC-funded Alice Thornton’s Books project, 2021-25. https://thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/people/cbeattie/
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Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 19d
Now the contract is signed etc we're very pleased to share this news. Please do follow the below account to keep up to date with what we're doing. #GenderHistory
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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 19d
We are delighted to announce that Gender & History now has a new home at the University of Edinburgh. With thanks to the Sheffield team who did a stellar job for the last five years. hca.ed.ac.uk/gender-histo...
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'Gender & History' moves to Edinburgh | School of History, Classics & Archaeology | History Classics and Archaeology
The School is very excited to announce that the leading international journal ‘Gender & History’ has moved to the University of Edinburgh.
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Dr David Rundle @drdavidrundle.bsky.social · 3h
So true - but the humanities provides so much more than preparation for the economy: it is a training for the whole of life, not just the job. Every well-functioning civil society needs a critically attuned citizenry.
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 3h
What HE managers fail to understand is that in the context of the Humanities, ‘employability’ isn’t teaching coding or carpentry, but skills around writing, presenting, reasoning, evaluation, analysis, research etc. In an 80% service economy, these are the skills that fundamentally matter.
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Kristen Haas Curtis @hellomizk.bsky.social · 5d
My buddy’s book is out now! www.arc-humanities.org/978180270096... Fantastic read for my medievalist friends and fellow @guildmedmak.bsky.social mates! E-book available open access!!
Public Engagement in the European Middle Ages - Arc Humanities Press
This manual uses the medieval past to teach modern scholars how to succeed in public engagement. Combining a careful study of public engagement in Europe bet...
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Karl Galle @karlgalle.bsky.social · 1d
This looks great 👇👇, and also there is an open-access version of the 400-page exhibition catalog online, for those of us sadly unable to travel and see the objects displayed in person: books.ub.uni-heidelberg.de//arthistoric... #medievalsky
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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 1d
On Indigenous Peoples' Day I'm re-sharing the episode of @thisguysucked.com on which I spoke with host @ceaubin.bsky.social about why, even in his own day, people thought Christopher Columbus sucked.

💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #renaissance #maps #geography #cartography #empire 1/2
Christopher Columbus with Surekha Davies
Podcast Episode · This Guy Sucked · 08/28/2025 · Subscribers Only · 1h
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KeepYourPowderDry @keepyourpowderdry.bsky.social · 2d
How very remiss of me, later than usual- today's #ECWtravelogue post looks at Lothian and the ⚔️ Dunbar #Warsof3Kingdoms #BritishCivilWars #EnglishCivilWar www.keepyourpowderdry.co.uk/2025/10/hous...
Houses of Interest: Lothian
English Civil War wargaming , British Civil Wars, Wars of the Three Kingdoms.Home of the ECW travelogue a tourists guide to the English Civil War,
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Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 2d
Edinburgh on Friday 👇
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Daisy Black @daisyeblack.bsky.social · 2d
A wild week beckons, with 'Yde and Olive' in Leamington Spa on Tues and Edinburgh on Fri.
I'm teaching it on my Queer Medieval module too, so my students will likely give me new ideas for the performances!
Leamington: daisyblack.uk/event/storyt...
Edinburgh: daisyblack.uk/event/yde-an...
Yde and Olive at Leamington Literary Society – Daisy Black
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Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 2d
Firth of Forth today. #TimelineCleanse
Picture of blue sea merging with blue sky.
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Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 2d
Lady Ursula Wyvill also wrote a commonplace book (c.1662-72) which has survived. #EarlyModern search.library.yale.edu/catalog/9970...
Commonplace book - Quicksearch - Yale Library
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Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 2d
Daphne Lightfoot had been a servant for the Wandesford and then Thornton families for many years. The context of the letter is that she had taken one of Thornton's first manuscript books to Lady Wyvill, at a time when rumours were spreading about Thornton, her daughter and Thomas Comber. 📚 📜
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Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · 2d
12 Oct. 1668 #otd Thornton received a letter from Lady Wyvill, consoling her on the death of her husband: 'Lady Wyvill's most Christian letter to me after Mr Thornton's death and that she had sent for Daphne to acquaint her of my abuses and that Daphne had told her of my sad condition'. (Bk3) 🗃️
17th-century painting of a woman with a large white ruff around her neck looking down at a book in her hand.
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The Family History Society of Cheshire 🌾🌳 @fhsofcheshire.bsky.social · 21d
THIS is a fabulous website

The #Chester Consistory Court

Archive of cause papers from the oldest complete ecclesiastical courtroom in #England

Find out more about this amazing free database 👉 www.chestercausepapers.org.uk

To search 👉 www.chestercausepapers.org.uk/directory

#Cheshire
Chester Consistory Court - Cause Papers Archive
Searchable archive of cause papers from Chester Consistory Court - the oldest complete ecclesiastical courtroom in England.
www.chestercausepapers.org.uk
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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 3d
New story 📖

Read about sheela-na-gigs carvings by Emma Cieslik 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/sheela-na-gigs-how-carvings-of-women-showing-genitalia-bring-consolation-and-protection

'Sheela-na-gig' by unknown artist 📷 Kendal Museum
A shallow relief of a female figure
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Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 3d
I think she said she’s in this series too?
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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 6d
CFP: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns

🗓️ 22 May 2026
📍 European University Institute, Florence
👩‍🏫 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni
🎤 Keynote: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick)

Submit abstracts (≤300 words) by 20 Dec 2025 👉

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Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns
Call for Papers Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns European University Institute, Florence 22 May 2026 Organiser: Dr Giada Pizzoni Keynote Speaker: Dr Jonathan Davies (Warwick) Violence puts th…
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LopaLeach @lopa.bsky.social · 4d
Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cuts-eq...
Cuts equivalent to 15,000 jobs planned at UK universities – UCU
Proposed job losses almost triple since March as unions prepare to vote on nationwide industrial action
www.timeshighereducation.com
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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 3d
Delighted that latest article from forthcoming Special Issue of @genderandhistory.bsky.social is now available, co-edited by @writinghelena.bsky.social, Lisa Hellman, Rachel Jean-Baptiste & me! Elisabetta Iob explores purdah & resistance in 1950s Pakistan 🌟

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The Girls Are in Town: Purdah, Emotions and Everyday Resistance in Urban Pakistan
Pakistan, mid-1950s. Many upper-class women had already left or were about to leave purdah (or its remnants). This article investigates how these women challenged seclusion, redefining relations of p...
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Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social · 6d
Another post on 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' - a reminder that work in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was very much a family affair...

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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England II: Family Fortunes
This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…
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Sarah-Maria Schober @smschober.bsky.social · 7d
Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

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PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne
Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.
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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 5d
Many congratulations to my colleagues in the Forms of Labour project team on the publication of their new monograph! 🗃️👏🎉

Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:

www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...

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A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history
New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 6d
“We want our international students to continue to feel welcomed for the positive social and cultural and economic contributions they make in Wales, and we're very keen to ensure that that continues so there will not be a levy in Wales.” (Welsh education secretary Lynne Neagle)
Wales rules out levy on international student fees
Education secretary confirms devolved nation will not follow UK government in taking a cut of overseas tuition fee income
www.timeshighereducation.com
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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 6d
Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History

Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland.

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SHS Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History
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Cordelia Beattie @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social · 6d
The Thorntons helped Christopher and Anne Danby out in the 1660s. Alice was still pursuing this 'debt' in her last will and testament, written in 1705! #EarlyModern 📜 🗃️
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Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · 6d
8 Oct. 1688 #OTD Thornton wrote to her great-nephew, Abstrupus Danby, seeking help with her son’s debts. She reminded him ‘how sad and necessitous a condition your father and mother ... were in for several years when their just right was detained from them and they cast off by all’. #EarlyModern 1/2
Outside of a 17th-century letter. Addressed to Abstrupus Danby at his house in York. Above that he has annotated it as a letter from his aunt Thornton, about what she did for his family, and that he is willing to pay her £50 next Martinmas.
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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 6d
We've joined the blue sky! Just as the skies darken for winter too

Please let your followers know that the Scottish History Society has arrived!

Find out more about memberships, the society, and events at our website: scottishhistorysociety.com
The Scottish History Society
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Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social · 7d
There are very few industries in which Britain can genuinely still claim to be a world leader - two of them are the creative sector and higher education. You'd never know it from listening to the Tories, lol.
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The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social · 12d
We ❤️ books! Join us for some upcoming book launches:

Tue 7 Oct, 17:30 -"Love and Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance: Typologies of violence and desire" by @hdohertyharrison.bsky.social from @manchesterup.bsky.social

Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc... (in person and online)
Book Launch: "Love and Anti-Judaism in Medieval English Romance"
New book: "Love and anti-Judaism in medieval English romance: Typologies of violence and desire" by Hope Doherty-Harrison
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The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities @iashedinburgh.bsky.social · 15d
Out now! Our latest book, "Women Who Dared", is released today from Edinburgh University Press. You can purchase direct from @edinburghup.bsky.social via their website or at all good bookshops: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-w...
Women Who Dared
Women Who Dared
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