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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · Nov 12

To produce 25,000 transcriptions of English wills 1540-1790 we are combining Handwritten Text Recognition software with the power of the crowd.

If you'd like to participate you can transcribe wills any time on our Zooniverse site! #EarlyModern 🗃️

www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjs...

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 33m

It's a funny one - how widely you would have to range to be considered changing period specialism before 1750 compared with afterwards.

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Monika Bargmann @librarymistress.bsky.social · 14d

"Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities" invites Black Digital and Public Humanities project directors to submit their projects to an interactive map and searchable database of 650+ international #Black #DigitalHumanities and #PublicHumanities projects. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities - Call for Projects | H-Net

Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities formally invites Black Digital and Public Humanities project directors to submit their projects to our interactive map and searchable database of 650+ i...

networks.h-net.org

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 59m

it's ok, I don't want to hog all the best centuries

Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 1h

😄 oh no, the Industrial Revolution is a line I will never cross. It's the 14th-century for me!

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 1h

😄 My short cut these days is vegan custard in a carton - I'm not vegan, but it's surprisingly delicious

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Exeter Library @exeterlibrary.bsky.social · 1h

✍️ NEW regular creative writing session at Exeter Library ✍️

The Writer's Circle: Peer to Peer Feedback & Support - a relaxed monthly peer-to-peer feedback group open to writers of every genre & experience.

📚 Once a month on a Tues, 5–6pm
📍 Exeter Library
🎫 Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk...

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 1h

Oh yes, good choice. I'd definitely add custard too though, otherwise can tend towards dryness 😋

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 1h

If you want to know more about our use of handwritten text recognition software (Transkribus) on the wills project, tune in on Zoom next week 👇

All welcome (not just postdocs!).

#EarlyModern 🗃️ #DigitalHumanities #HTR #CitizenScience

The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 1h

Project Research Fellows Harry Smith and Emily Vine are looking forward to speaking as part of the Warwick History 'Post-Doc' Club series, next Wed 22 October @ 17.00.

They'll be discussing 'Digitization & Citizen Science'📜💻

Follow this link for Zoom details:
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

A poster with a white background and black text, with a blue border at the top of the poster, and photographs of manuscripts. The title of the poster reads Warwick History ‘POST-DOC’ CLUB METHODOLOGIES SERIES. Online Meeting: Weds 22 October at 5pm
DIGITIZATION & CITIZEN SCIENCE: Inviting collaborative research to transcribe handwriting. With Harry Smith and Emily Vine of the Material Culture of Wills, 1540-1790 project at the University of Exeter.

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 1h

A reminder of a key difference between early modern/modern history - parameters! My monograph covers 1480-1700, and my current research project 1540-1780!

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 1h

Amazing! Many congratulations Marianna.

And because I can't resist being incredibly childish, windy history **snigger*

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 1h

Nice line-up!

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 1h

It's funny how ancient ack-ack now seems - as a teen it seemed normal as I read a lot of Robert Westall novels that were often set in the 40s

Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 1h

Robin Clifton is always who I think of - early modern social/political history to 20thC history of wartime

Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 1h

Sad we lost you Matt! As an UG I always chose 1 modern, 1 pre-modern each year as I had studied early modern at school and wanted to try other things. Failed to change my allegiance in the end!

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2h

It was great (remember being astonished by the very idea of Mass Observation), but at the same time I was taking an early modern death module and writing an 8,000 word essay about Hamlet and ghost beliefs... 👻 Spoilt for choice!

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 2h

I wasn't sure if they are non-historian or not!

While I am reminiscing, I remember I was supervised by James Hinton, and the dissertation was part of his 'Visions of the People' module - social history of mid-20thC Britian. 👌

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Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social · 3h

At @ihr.bsky.social we can now offer PhD by Publication in History! For those with a substantial body of existing published research (within past 10 years), but without a PhD, should be of particular interest to #heritage professionals and independent scholars!

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 3h

#EarlyModern 🗃️

Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social · 3h

As the agricultural cycle starts to wind down for the winter, my next post on 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' looks forward to its resumption in the new year, when...

‘Ploughmen go whistling to their toils’

manyheadedmonster.com/2025/10/14/t...

The Experience of Work in Early Modern England III: ‘Ploughmen go whistling to their toils’

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…

manyheadedmonster.com

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 3h

The Archive was then housed at Caversham Park, which gave me a completely unrepresentative idea of what most archives are like!

I wrote about how the war shifted the BBC toward a less Reithian output, and the role of radio in morale on the home front. 2/2

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 3h

I got my first taste of archival research when visited the BBC written Archives as a 3rd year undergrad in 2001 to research my dissertation.

I studied the papers relating to radio programme 'Ack-Ack Beer-Beer', broadcast in WWII for Anti-Aircraft and Balloon Barrage personnel.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3h

For reasons, it would be v. helpful to have information from a broad range of academic and non-academic (incl. GLAM) users of the BBC Written Archives OTHER THAN historians, briefly on: 1) What you've used it for and 2) How the proposed changes would impact on your research.

Reposts welcomed.

Historians dismayed by ‘scandal’ of BBC cutting access to...

Critics say new limit to trove of information sounds knell for independent research

observer.co.uk

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 3h

What's the best dessert?

Sticky toffee pudding and custard is hard to beat, though my mum's sherry trifle might have something to say about that.

University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 3h

On National Dessert Day, whether you're looking for recipes from the 1700s or the 1970s, we've got you covered!

📷 Reserve 640.4 NOT & Hypatia DOM/STO

#NationalDessertDay #DessertDay #RareBooks

Title page of 'The Cook's and Confectioner's Dictionary: Or, the Accomplish'd Housewife's Companion.', published in 1723.

Book cover of 'The Dessert Lovers' Cookbook' by Margaret Storm, published in 1971. The book cover features many different types of desserts.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 3h

An owl (Rijksmuseum), c. 1650 - c. 1675

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Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 3h

It's such a vital resource for my teaching and research.

Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 3h

a good example of things getting worse: my typing

Dr Laura Sangha @lsangha.bsky.social · 3h

in a world where most things seem to be getter worse and worse, BBIH just gets better and better.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19h

The October updates include, for example, 162 titles about the history of Wales, 229 records re histories of African nations, 359 publications re Scottish history, 448 records discuss the histories of the Americas and Atlantic Ocean, 468 publications focusing on Irish history, and much more.

Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 1d

The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) has recently been updated with 5000+ new references. Discover further details about this update in this On History blog blog.history.ac.uk/2025/10/bibl... @brepols.net

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