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I’m so thrilled by the enthusiastic response to my rediscovery! I’d like to think the 17th-century schoolgirls of Sutton House NT and their teacher, Sarah Freeman, would be, too. Yay for material culture and girlhood past and present!

Last month Royal Historical Society published an Update to its 2018 report 'Race, Ethnicity & Equality in UK History': bit.ly/4bKmlJS The Update surveys developments in teaching and made special mention of the Black British History Masters Goldsmiths History🏛️ 1/3 🧵⬇️ #twitterstorians

Very rough draft of chapter one finished. 10,748 words. Time to turn on the out-of-office and disappear into the forests of Vancouver Island...

Who says historical research can’t be exciting. I’m currently, quite literally, counting sheep.

We have 100+ft red cedar and douglas fir in the back yard of the place where we're staying and it makes me very happy to wake up to this every morning.

Unfortunately we're continuing to experience IT connectivity issues. We are working hard to resolve these and have contacted students and staff about them. Thank you for your patience and understanding whilst we resolve these issues.

Delighted to see my article out in the latest issue of Library & Information History! Check it out to learn more about how people accessed and read books in 16thC parish libraries! Huge thank you to the editors and to Books & Borrowing, 1750-1830 for the conference that started it all.

Really good article here by @ManorCourts - on 'how to' guidebooks for running courts baron and leet. Argues that printed books led to standardisation, which in turn undermined local custom. utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.313…

I'm not going to claim I'll never use this platform again, but I'm finding the Other Place much better right now ... and it seems considerably less likely to actively promote terrible people. Maybe see you over there?

Touching up the Moodle page for my first-year Early Modern World module at Birkbeck, University of London. Ten weeks to convince the students that #EarlyModern history is the best bit of history. Easy!

LISTEN "Multitudes of hands" In the 17th century, petitioning was one of the few opportunities for people to be heard by those in power. Brodie Waddell tells how this gave people power to change their own lives & the England in which they lived. worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/podcast/multit…

**The Voices of the People, 1500-1800** My shiny new module launches in January at School of Historical Studies, Birkbeck! Still a few spots available for anyone who wants to take it as a stand-alone MA credit-bearing module: bbk.ac.uk/courses/2024/s…