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That’s the proofs done then! The new expanded second edition of Possessed by the devil about the #islandmageewitches trial of 1711 will in bookshops/online at the end of next month, November 2024

Out today from @yalebooks in the UK and worldwide from Yale University Press, my new book "The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807" explores attitudes to slavery in natural history and the role of nature in abolitionist writing. brycchancarey.com/bookshop/unnat…

I will add a shameless plug here for 'Church and People in Interregnum Britain', edited by Dr Fiona Mary McCall to which I contributed a chapter on loyalist religion in southern England.

I loved researching this. It blew my mind. Behind the tragedy of a baby’s death is a tale of rivalry, power, religion, politics, & witchcraft. It is not all in the article but it will be in the book I am writing. Happy 🎃 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Halloween yarn bombing, on the postbox by the post office inside the Waitrose store, Churchill Way West, Salisbury, Wiltshire. Photo taken by me 4 October 2024. The Folklore Library & Archive

#OnThisDay 5 November 1655 a few days after petitioning Cromwell for the readmission of the Jewish community into England after nearly 400 years, Menasseh Ben Israel published his 'Humble Addresses', refuting various libels against his faith. #17thCentury #OTD #JewishHistory

So happy to have this first copy in my hands. It is a tour de force. I love the books we publish but this is definitely a favourite child. Out on 22/11. On website soon.

It is great to see the full volume online at last; a real team effort. The 'surrounding area' of Chippenham includes the parishes of Bremhill, Christian Malford, Hardenhuish, Kington Langley, Kington St Michael, and Langley Burrell, as well as settlements within those parishes.

Too tempting, just too tempting...

#OTD 20 November 1625, the artist Paulus Potter was baptised in Enkhuizen. He is commemorated there by this statue. (Photo by me, May 2023)

I'll be keeping this account live for the time being, but I've joined the mass migration to the 'other place' and will be posting there from now on. Find me as Dr Rosalind Johnson, @historyrosalind.bsky.social.

So pleased to see my Landford & Whiteparish texts on the VCH website. Many thanks to my @WiltsHistory colleagues John Chandler, Hobnob, Dr Louise Ryland-Epton & Mark Forrest for their advice & encouragement, to many local historians for the same, and to all Victoria County History.

A very happy Christmas to you all! Nativity scene/Christmas post box topper, on post box in Waitrose store, Churchill Way West, Salisbury, Wiltshire. Photo taken by me, 20 December 2024. The Folklore Library & Archive

'Fake sleep preacher' Dr Richard Heydock (or Haydock) and 'false leper' Sir Walter Raleigh cross paths in Salisbury (Wiltshire), 1603.

#otd 29 Dec. 1170, Thomas Becket murdered at Canterbury. There's a legend that as a young priest he served at Winterbourne (Wilts.) & said mass at nearby Clarendon Palace . No evidence for this, tho' as Archbishop he visited Clarendon in 1164. More at: wiltshirehistory.org/news/legends-o…

Tintern Abbey, still awe-inspiring in spite of the scaffolding. In the care of Cadw. Photo taken 19 December 2024. #abbeys

As an #EarlyModern historian, I find the post-Dissolution afterlife of monastic buildings fascinating. The room behind the low wall in the centre of the photo was the main kitchen at Tintern Abbey, repurposed in the #17thcentury as a cottage. Photo 19.12.24. Cadw #abbeys

🚨 We're accepting proposals for our Summer Conference on 'Creeds, Councils and Canons', Edinburgh 15-17 July 2025. Deadline: 15 April

Now mostly posting at @historyrosalind.bsky.social, but just popping back on here to say that I am honoured to be able to announce that I have been appointed President of the Friends Historical Society for the year 2025. #Quakers. friendshistoricalsociety.org.uk/events/