Just one week to go until the deadline for paper proposals for our 'Clerical Lives' conf School of Arts, Languages and Culture! Would welcome papers covering any aspect of clerical experiences/identities in the 17 and 18Cs to [email protected]. See cfp below

Great post by Will Pooley with advice for any historian thinking of using a spreadsheet to keep track of sources 👇🏾

williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2024/05/22/she…

The UK government has revoked the student visa of Dana Abuqamar, a Palestinian law student and leader of the Friends of Palestine Society at the University of Manchester, following her speech in a university demonstration. Abuqamar said that her visa was revoked on the grounds of

Just under 2 weeks until the deadline for our conference on 17/18C clerical lives! We've already received some great paper proposals and would love to see a real diversity of approaches and viewpoints! cfp deadline 1 June to [email protected]

Famous male*** authors. What an odd selection

Found this very interesting, made me rethink some of the ways I phrase 'becoming' and 'being' when writing gender history

Important *new post* by Charmian Mansell ([email protected]) challenging the view that pre-industrial villages were 'self-contained' with 'little movement in and out'...

In fact, 'going ‘abroad’ – leaving the place you called home – was commonplace in early modern England'

manyheadedmonster.com/2024/05/14/eve…

On my way to Warwickshire CRO to look over the diaries and letters of 3 clergymen today, hopefully making an appearance in a paper here in September. Proposal deadline: 1 June. Get in touch with any questions/queries!

Out now: 'Prayer for Family and Friends: The Body and Religion in Eighteenth-Century Britain'
The article with Dr Emily Vine from Social Bodies in British Letters, 1680-1820 has officially been published in The Historical Journal. If you don't have access, DM me for a code (I have 10 giveaways!).

We have now secured some funds from 18th Century Studies to provide a small number of bursaries to help PGRs and ECRs participate in this event! Send your proposals to [email protected] by 1 June 2024!

good morning *especially* our sheffield student encampment. our university *more than any other in the UK* profits from the arms trade. excited to be talking there later about why western humanitarianism has historically failed to prevent or condemn genocide.

Do any historians of early modern sexuality know if fornication was a term that could be used to describe sex between men at all?

A fantastic PhD oppurtunity on a major, exciting
new project!

📢 A reminder for our funded PhD studentship 📢 on Global Commodities in #EarlyModern wills (Deadline 1 May). Find out more in this blog post, which outlines some of the themes this project could explore - Please share! #History #PhDChat #twitterstorians sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcultur…

The deadline for this fantastic #earlymodern PhD studentship is 1 May - please do share with those who may be interested. There's lots of scope for the successful candidate to take it in a direction that most interests them.