@cornwallhistory.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/library/arti... open access @annalujz.bsky.social on second hand book sales in Devon 1688-1725
A Provincial Market in Second-Hand Books: Book Sales in Devon, 1688–1725
Abstract. Comparatively little is known about England’s early book-auction trade outside of London and the university towns, with few catalogues surviving
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November 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
academic.oup.com/library/arti... open access @annalujz.bsky.social on second hand book sales in Devon 1688-1725
The @bsecs.bsky.social 2026 conference is almost upon us. The Royal Institution of Cornwall 2025 journal just published with my article / paper from this year's BSECS conference. Please let me know if you would like an offprint.
November 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
The @bsecs.bsky.social 2026 conference is almost upon us. The Royal Institution of Cornwall 2025 journal just published with my article / paper from this year's BSECS conference. Please let me know if you would like an offprint.
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Penzance | expired 35mm
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Penzance | expired 35mm
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Really pleased to see that Helen Esfandiary's excellent talk last week to @long18thsem.bsky.social is now available on the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
‘Such a silly fellow I fear his making some mistake’: The convergence of medical and maternal approaches to domestic childcare in Georgian England
British History in the Long 18th Century Seminar Session
www.history.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Really pleased to see that Helen Esfandiary's excellent talk last week to @long18thsem.bsky.social is now available on the @ihrlibrary.bsky.social website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
If you like finding out more about Cornwall's history - or are looking for a present for someone who does - there are paperbacks and ebooks here www.amazon.co.uk/stores/autho... - also available from other online booksellers.
Charlotte MacKenzie: books, biography, latest update
Follow Charlotte MacKenzie and explore their bibliography from Amazon's Charlotte MacKenzie Author Page.
www.amazon.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 11:42 AM
If you like finding out more about Cornwall's history - or are looking for a present for someone who does - there are paperbacks and ebooks here www.amazon.co.uk/stores/autho... - also available from other online booksellers.
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Kingsand-Cawsand | Kernow
35mm
2025
35mm
2025
November 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Kingsand-Cawsand | Kernow
35mm
2025
35mm
2025
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Last week, our project director, Prof. Dr Dagmar @dagmarfreist.bsky.social and Dr Marc Vermeulen (National Archives, UK) presented one of the most intriguing objects in our material collection at the Annual Reception of the @akademienunion.bsky.social
#earlymodern #maritimehistory
#earlymodern #maritimehistory
November 18, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Last week, our project director, Prof. Dr Dagmar @dagmarfreist.bsky.social and Dr Marc Vermeulen (National Archives, UK) presented one of the most intriguing objects in our material collection at the Annual Reception of the @akademienunion.bsky.social
#earlymodern #maritimehistory
#earlymodern #maritimehistory
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An amazing sky over our house early this morning.
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
An amazing sky over our house early this morning.
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Long tails and important outcomes. Finally, it's live - the website for the report, "Conversion Therapy' and the University of Birmingham c.1966-1983'!
There's material about the history, the project, its organisation, and there are resources there too.
#HistPsych #HistSTEM #QueerHist #HistSex
There's material about the history, the project, its organisation, and there are resources there too.
#HistPsych #HistSTEM #QueerHist #HistSex
‘Conversion Therapy’ and the University of Birmingham c.1966-1983 - University of Birmingham
Between c.1966 and 1983, the University of Birmingham employed researchers who orchestrated so-called 'conversion therapy' for same-sex love
www.birmingham.ac.uk
November 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Long tails and important outcomes. Finally, it's live - the website for the report, "Conversion Therapy' and the University of Birmingham c.1966-1983'!
There's material about the history, the project, its organisation, and there are resources there too.
#HistPsych #HistSTEM #QueerHist #HistSex
There's material about the history, the project, its organisation, and there are resources there too.
#HistPsych #HistSTEM #QueerHist #HistSex
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Oops. It seems that the Rosevale deep Adit team dug into a backfilled stope in shit ground, which collapsed spectacularly. We now need to do some ground reinforcement before we can clear this mess and progress onwards. Still better down now than were we are metres beyond it, or were squashed by it.
November 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Oops. It seems that the Rosevale deep Adit team dug into a backfilled stope in shit ground, which collapsed spectacularly. We now need to do some ground reinforcement before we can clear this mess and progress onwards. Still better down now than were we are metres beyond it, or were squashed by it.
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& the notice to quit arrives finally, the postie quiet (he has delivered several before yours), sheets whip in a cold wind as you sign for it, & corvids rasp, go as-the-crow-flies south over the site of a small clearance
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
& the notice to quit arrives finally, the postie quiet (he has delivered several before yours), sheets whip in a cold wind as you sign for it, & corvids rasp, go as-the-crow-flies south over the site of a small clearance
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Would you ask a judge to declare a house haunted? What about suing a fortune-teller for mispredicting your future? Should the law even allow these claims?
If you write about law, believer or sceptic, you can contribute to our book on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal.
tinyurl.com/46jwmcnh
If you write about law, believer or sceptic, you can contribute to our book on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal.
tinyurl.com/46jwmcnh
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Would you ask a judge to declare a house haunted? What about suing a fortune-teller for mispredicting your future? Should the law even allow these claims?
If you write about law, believer or sceptic, you can contribute to our book on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal.
tinyurl.com/46jwmcnh
If you write about law, believer or sceptic, you can contribute to our book on Supernatural Law: Regulating the Paranormal.
tinyurl.com/46jwmcnh
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French artist Raymond Wintz specialised in marine and coastal views in Brittany. Here, almost 100 years ago, he looks through an open doorway to the harbour beyond (The Blue Door, 1927)
November 9, 2025 at 7:09 AM
French artist Raymond Wintz specialised in marine and coastal views in Brittany. Here, almost 100 years ago, he looks through an open doorway to the harbour beyond (The Blue Door, 1927)
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coast path day, i am alive again
November 8, 2025 at 8:09 PM
coast path day, i am alive again
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Tonight’s moon over north Cornwall - taken from our garden gate
November 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Tonight’s moon over north Cornwall - taken from our garden gate
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Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
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”I believe that everyone ought, in duty, to do any good they can.”
The man who saved children: Thomas Coram, English sea captain, philanthropist & founder of London’s Foundling Hospital, world’s first incorporated charity.
Portrait 1740 by William Hogarth, died #OTD 1764.
Foundling Museum
The man who saved children: Thomas Coram, English sea captain, philanthropist & founder of London’s Foundling Hospital, world’s first incorporated charity.
Portrait 1740 by William Hogarth, died #OTD 1764.
Foundling Museum
October 26, 2025 at 5:42 AM
”I believe that everyone ought, in duty, to do any good they can.”
The man who saved children: Thomas Coram, English sea captain, philanthropist & founder of London’s Foundling Hospital, world’s first incorporated charity.
Portrait 1740 by William Hogarth, died #OTD 1764.
Foundling Museum
The man who saved children: Thomas Coram, English sea captain, philanthropist & founder of London’s Foundling Hospital, world’s first incorporated charity.
Portrait 1740 by William Hogarth, died #OTD 1764.
Foundling Museum
How to use Google search free of AI - what's not to love?
www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
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zensnapple's comment on "Is there a real way to shut off the Google AI overview for searches, or am i switching browsers and search engines?"
Explore this conversation and more from the techsupport community
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October 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
How to use Google search free of AI - what's not to love?
www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
Well informed post. Wonder why that sometimes brings out crass replies from others. Reminds me of the historical podcast and radio programme makers who narrate with a sarcastic / tongue in cheek undertone in their voice as though the audience response they want is laughter not interest.
The Madog story of a Welsh medieval Welsh prince who sailed to America is absolutely fascinating (my book has a chapter on it!) - but the "America" part doesn't seem to enter the story, on available evidence, until it was a useful justification for Tudor imperialism in North America
Prince Madoc (or Madog ab Owain Gwynedd) was a Welsh prince who, according to folklore, sailed across the Atlantic in 1170, more than 300 years before Columbus.
October 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Well informed post. Wonder why that sometimes brings out crass replies from others. Reminds me of the historical podcast and radio programme makers who narrate with a sarcastic / tongue in cheek undertone in their voice as though the audience response they want is laughter not interest.
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Coming up on Tuesday
October 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Coming up on Tuesday
Coming up on Tuesday
October 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Coming up on Tuesday
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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...
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
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...
news.exeter.ac.uk
October 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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...
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
Brilliantly, The Experience of Work in #EarlyModern England is available open access:
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-h...
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In which Sak Supple shares his experiments with using LLMs to transcribe 18th and 19th century playbills from the British Library - manicules, long 's' and all! 'blplaybills.org: better search results using LLMs' www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
#OCR #TheaterHistory #LLMs #AI #ATR
#OCR #TheaterHistory #LLMs #AI #ATR
blplaybills.org: better search results using LLMs
Search for, view and download 300 years of theatre posters from Great Britain and Ireland, 1600–1902.
www.bl.uk
October 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
In which Sak Supple shares his experiments with using LLMs to transcribe 18th and 19th century playbills from the British Library - manicules, long 's' and all! 'blplaybills.org: better search results using LLMs' www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
#OCR #TheaterHistory #LLMs #AI #ATR
#OCR #TheaterHistory #LLMs #AI #ATR
Scorrier also used as a building material in Cornwall.
In one of our latest blogs, Dr Susan Major highlights the scoria bricks of York's alleyways, sharing a story of recycling, ingenuity and urban change.
Find out more: balh.org.uk/blog-scoria-br…#WeAreLocalHistoryr#LocalHistoryForAllll
Find out more: balh.org.uk/blog-scoria-br…#WeAreLocalHistoryr#LocalHistoryForAllll
September 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Scorrier also used as a building material in Cornwall.
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What did #18thcentury women wear when they were pregnant? What did a ‘good’ mother look like? Which fashion was both patriotic and recommended by midwives? For the answers to all these questions join me at the #IHR on 7th Oct archive.history.ac.uk/events/good-...
September 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
What did #18thcentury women wear when they were pregnant? What did a ‘good’ mother look like? Which fashion was both patriotic and recommended by midwives? For the answers to all these questions join me at the #IHR on 7th Oct archive.history.ac.uk/events/good-...