A call for ideas about historic Scottish football sites - what would you suggest? www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/new...
Many congratulations to @emilymayvine.bsky.social whose excellent 'Birth, Death & Domestic Religion in #EarlyModern London' has been shortlisted for the RHS first book prize!
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I'm quoted in this piece on the origin of 'soccer' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Barker only 'learneth children abcye & the Prymer', & the judge found the presentment against him of unlicensed teaching to be untrue. Barker in turn claimed one Mary Diglett taught writing without license.
Early modern education was obviously not the sole preserve of licensed male professionals
📢 NEW WILL OF THE MONTH POST 📢
May's post explores a Greenwich widow's will which exhibits some clear favouritism📜
One son received the bulk of her estate, the other 'one Shilling and no more because of his undutifull behaviour' 🪙
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult... #skystorians #EarlyModern
Reminder. There's an early modern pub night for PhDs & ECRs (& others interested at any stage of their careers) held in London every month. To be added to the mailing list, send me a DM. It's an informal welcoming event. We meet at different historic pubs across central London. #earlymodern
Archdeacon of Colchester's court, June 1600
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Matthew Barker, cobbler of Messing (Essex) was presented for instructing 'children to write & read' while he could neither 'write true orthography' nor 'spell well nor divide the syllables of words as a teacher ought'.
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#truecrime #earlymodern #tudor
HES is inviting the public to help identify sites linked to the development of football in Scotland
www.historicenvironment.scot
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Happy publication day to #AGoldenWorld @faberbooks.bsky.social 🎉🎉
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/a-go...
#DisHist FREE to read publication alert!
Nice to notice this OA offering from my super colleague, @hexhistory.bsky.social's Riikka Miettinen, is now out in the wild.
Definitely one for anyone into disability history or #EarlyModern Europe!
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
