Dr Laura Sangha

#EarlyModern #Religion
(Long!) #Reformazing

Festival of Social History To celebrate 50 years of the Social History Society, we’ve teamed up with the Institute of Historical Research to host a Social History Festival! The festival will feature two expert discussion pan…

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Women’s History Network Book Prize for 2023 and 2024 We are delighted to announce the winner of the WHN Book Prize for 2023 and 2024 (the two years were amalgamated). The judges chose Charmian Mansell’s book Female Servants in Early Modern Engl…

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... just the occasional bored scribe doing a fancy initial or occasionally something more elaborate. 2/2

Hi Martin, hmm, interesting question. I'm afraid no one in our team is looking at this, though we have come across the occasional artist in our sample. Is yours an original will? We are working with the registered copies, so less likely to have decoration I would guess 1/

BULLWACKIES ALL STARS SKYLARKING YouTube video by clothoide

what a wet grey spring so far!

having heard them calling for a few weeks, I did see a chiff chaff this morning though, the blackthorn is out, hawthorn showing, lanes full of flowers, pussy willow turning yellow. plus the larks are in full throat way up there

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Our fantastic library team have been working hard to make our collections even more accessible. Another reason to join @ihrlibrary.bsky.social

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How do archaeologists engage with material culture? What can we learn from ‘reading’ the everyday lives, ideas and cultures of the people who built the world around us? Join us on 19 Mar at our IHR Archaeology and Local History Online Free Taster Session. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

@willpooley.bsky.social contender for the punny award

Thanks Philip! Gotta love the cats. I saw that there were some myths around the pigeon, all very suitable to the early modern providential / martyrology vibes!

it was truly a Dark Age

p.s. Henry's son Thomas was accused of adultery with Anne Boleyn. His grandson (Thomas' son) was that Wyatt that led a rebellion against Mary I.

18th century portrait of Henry Wyatt, dressed in a heavy robe with a chain of office and black cap with ear flaps. He is an older man, jowls. Next to him an angry looking grey tabby cat paws at a pigeon that is stuck in the bars of a window.

I am reading the will of Sir Henry Wyatt, who leaves a cup with his arms on to Thomas Cromwell and makes him one of his executors.

Henry was imprisoned for opposing Richard III, then supported Henry Tudor's claim & became courtier under him (Henry VII).

Here he is in prison with a nice cat:

Yes, very much so. One of the things that drew me to the early modern period was that sense of familar/strangeness side by side and trying to get inside the early modern mentality.

Kenelm Digby (1603-1665) writing of his grief after the death of his wife Venetia:

'everywhere I carry my hell with me'.

A small grey tabby cat with very clear black stripes on back, legs and face sits on a tiled floor next to a large bit of green foliage.

#otd 2022 Scout bought us this gift

Festival of Social History To celebrate 50 years of the Social History Society, we’ve teamed up with the Institute of Historical Research to host a Social History Festival! The festival will feature two expert discussion pan…

Ooh, any #earlymodern peeps going? socialhistory.org.uk/events/festi...

#earlymodern #maritimehistory

'If generative AI is shaped by power, politics and principle, then education cannot treat it as neutral infrastructure. It is not simply a tool that reflects human bias. It is a technology aligned to particular visions of the future.' 3/3

The choices universities and colleges make about AI are political Ahead of this week's Digifest, Michael Webb and Rebecca Flook confront the complex values systems behind general purpose AI technology

'The systems now being woven into education are shaped by a remarkably small group of people. Not “the internet” as the source of training material. Not “society” influencing the way we use these tools.'

Fascinating that this comes from within Jisc. 1/3

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hmmm, having dug deeper the full line up of 'Sounds Like Art' doesn't yet include any female artists so I won't share it here.

Guitarist Dominic Miller and musician Sting sit playing guitars in front of Rembrandt van Rijn's painting The Night Watch.

Here's Sting playing a gig in the Rijksmuseum for the Sounds Like Art intitiative, which sounds like fun.

'Sting plays a unique 17th-century guitar—originally crafted for the court of Louis XIV, the Sun King—generously loaned to the museum.'

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Beautiful white blossom on a tree, and lots of it! Very delicate little flowers with five or six large petals, long filaments with plump orange anthers at the end.

hello! welcome!

they are quite lovely!

but naughty

Postcard featuring illustrations of piskies, wearing read and green outfits, holding hands and dancing around. Green text reads: 'Cornish Piskies' and red text reads: 'Good Luck'.

What better way to end the working week than with luck bestowed by some mischievous Cornish piskies!

We came across this charming and joyful postcard, dating back to 1915, whilst box-listing an archive this morning.

📷 EUL MS 408 Box 27: 1

#FridayFeeling #Archives #Piskies #Cornwall

📜 Catch up on all 25 of our 'Will of the Month' posts here: sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

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#history #skystorians #EarlyModern 🧵7/7

And John Tylney (d. 1552), a Suffolk 'Scrivener', who mentioned his second-best trousers 👖

Tylney's will inspired a song by Chris Hoban! 🪗

We have added the song's lyrics to the end of the blog post, and to every post that inspired a Chris Hoban song 📜

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