Daniel Reed
@dreedhistory.bsky.social
Oxford Brookes University Research Affiliate
Author of ‘The Society for the Reformation of Manners in Hull, 1698-1706’ (UWP, 2023)
Author of ‘The Society for the Reformation of Manners in Hull, 1698-1706’ (UWP, 2023)
Great to be back at the Roderic Bowen Library in Lampeter to co-host the Welsh Ecclesiastical History seminar
Our speaker was the Revd Dr Leslie Griffiths, Lord Griffiths of Burry Port, who shone a light on the pioneering Methodist reformer Revd Hugh Price Hughes (1847-1902)
Our speaker was the Revd Dr Leslie Griffiths, Lord Griffiths of Burry Port, who shone a light on the pioneering Methodist reformer Revd Hugh Price Hughes (1847-1902)
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Great to be back at the Roderic Bowen Library in Lampeter to co-host the Welsh Ecclesiastical History seminar
Our speaker was the Revd Dr Leslie Griffiths, Lord Griffiths of Burry Port, who shone a light on the pioneering Methodist reformer Revd Hugh Price Hughes (1847-1902)
Our speaker was the Revd Dr Leslie Griffiths, Lord Griffiths of Burry Port, who shone a light on the pioneering Methodist reformer Revd Hugh Price Hughes (1847-1902)
Had a great time at @uniofhull.bsky.social with an old friend to mark 20 years since starting my BA in History - fortunate to be there on an Open Day for an ‘all access’ visit!⏳
November 17, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Had a great time at @uniofhull.bsky.social with an old friend to mark 20 years since starting my BA in History - fortunate to be there on an Open Day for an ‘all access’ visit!⏳
what would a Sterne conference be without subplots and serendipity? After hearing @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social fascinating keynote about the author and transatlantic material culture, I stumbled across this 1779 Angelica Kauffman print of Maria… thank/blame the fates
November 8, 2025 at 4:55 PM
what would a Sterne conference be without subplots and serendipity? After hearing @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social fascinating keynote about the author and transatlantic material culture, I stumbled across this 1779 Angelica Kauffman print of Maria… thank/blame the fates
a wonderful few days in Liverpool with a digression of Sternean colleagues exploring the Terraqueous Globe - left with new ideas, and new friends
November 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
a wonderful few days in Liverpool with a digression of Sternean colleagues exploring the Terraqueous Globe - left with new ideas, and new friends
great to be back at my old workhouse East Riding Archives - first time since the building was remodelled. Some reassuring constants though - first document ordered has a reference no. written by yours truly some 15 years ago!
October 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
great to be back at my old workhouse East Riding Archives - first time since the building was remodelled. Some reassuring constants though - first document ordered has a reference no. written by yours truly some 15 years ago!
Archbishop Drummond x2
September 22, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Archbishop Drummond x2
Probate copy of the last will of Caesar Ward, bookseller and printer of York, dated 10 November 1759 - his wife and executrix Ann Ward continued his trade and printed the first volumes of Sterne’s ‘Tristram Shandy’ just weeks later
June 28, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Probate copy of the last will of Caesar Ward, bookseller and printer of York, dated 10 November 1759 - his wife and executrix Ann Ward continued his trade and printed the first volumes of Sterne’s ‘Tristram Shandy’ just weeks later
apparently today is #CrocodileDay, which is the perfect excuse to post this plate from Samuel Wesley’s ‘Dissertations on the Book of Job’ from 1736
June 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
apparently today is #CrocodileDay, which is the perfect excuse to post this plate from Samuel Wesley’s ‘Dissertations on the Book of Job’ from 1736
Wonderful to be back at The Bar Convent to speak about Jaques Sterne and his campaign of nastiness against Catholics in York after the ‘45
June 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Wonderful to be back at The Bar Convent to speak about Jaques Sterne and his campaign of nastiness against Catholics in York after the ‘45
partying like it’s 1765 courtesy of @gilbertwhites.bsky.social
June 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
partying like it’s 1765 courtesy of @gilbertwhites.bsky.social
Cheers to the organisers, hosts, and participants of #GilbertWhiteConference for a really stimulating few days! And what better way to toast this success than with a nanobrew from @gilbertwhites.bsky.social made to his own recipe!
June 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Cheers to the organisers, hosts, and participants of #GilbertWhiteConference for a really stimulating few days! And what better way to toast this success than with a nanobrew from @gilbertwhites.bsky.social made to his own recipe!
an intrepid start for me and my co-panellists on our way to #GilbertWhiteConference in (usually) sunny Selborne, with thanks to our hosts @stephholtnh.bsky.social @brycchancarey.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 11:09 PM
an intrepid start for me and my co-panellists on our way to #GilbertWhiteConference in (usually) sunny Selborne, with thanks to our hosts @stephholtnh.bsky.social @brycchancarey.bsky.social
Who is an archivist’s favourite Happy Days character?
The Fondz
The Fondz
May 5, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Who is an archivist’s favourite Happy Days character?
The Fondz
The Fondz
To think, these days I have to go out of town to get my ostrich feathers dyed
March 31, 2025 at 12:15 PM
To think, these days I have to go out of town to get my ostrich feathers dyed
‘Farewell then admirable Yorick!’
Laurence Sterne died on this day 257 years ago
Laurence Sterne died on this day 257 years ago
March 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
‘Farewell then admirable Yorick!’
Laurence Sterne died on this day 257 years ago
Laurence Sterne died on this day 257 years ago
Delighted to be at the Central Library in Manchester for the launch of the new @methodist.org.uk archivists’ handbook
March 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Delighted to be at the Central Library in Manchester for the launch of the new @methodist.org.uk archivists’ handbook
Thrilled with the bumper turnout for my Lunchtime Talk at the Hull History Centre - nowt puts bums on seats like tales of vagabonds and moral iniquity
All the more satisfying to be speaking in a room with the original records on display, no doubt to facilitate real-time fact checking
All the more satisfying to be speaking in a room with the original records on display, no doubt to facilitate real-time fact checking
March 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Thrilled with the bumper turnout for my Lunchtime Talk at the Hull History Centre - nowt puts bums on seats like tales of vagabonds and moral iniquity
All the more satisfying to be speaking in a room with the original records on display, no doubt to facilitate real-time fact checking
All the more satisfying to be speaking in a room with the original records on display, no doubt to facilitate real-time fact checking
mesmerised by this arresting photograph by Hugh Welch Diamond of a patient of Surrey Lunatic Asylum, 1850s
February 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
mesmerised by this arresting photograph by Hugh Welch Diamond of a patient of Surrey Lunatic Asylum, 1850s
Great to be back in Lampeter @lampetersoc.bsky.social @uwtsd.bsky.social for the Welsh Ecclesiastical History Seminar - an excellent paper by Dr Eryn White @aberuni.bsky.social
February 19, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Great to be back in Lampeter @lampetersoc.bsky.social @uwtsd.bsky.social for the Welsh Ecclesiastical History Seminar - an excellent paper by Dr Eryn White @aberuni.bsky.social
Two copies of a book that doesn’t exist
February 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Two copies of a book that doesn’t exist
Great looking conference @aberuni.bsky.social in June 2025! Call for papers open until the end of this month
February 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Great looking conference @aberuni.bsky.social in June 2025! Call for papers open until the end of this month
Very glad to be here, now Archbishop Lancelot Blackburne can stare imperiously at all of *you* too
February 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Very glad to be here, now Archbishop Lancelot Blackburne can stare imperiously at all of *you* too