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The new Chicago Manual of Style is out and it's no longer required to mention place of publication. It's a sad day for Basingstoke.

Can we not propel our feminism with reference to ahistorical nonsense? The fact is that *at the time* these were legal trials, and witch was a real category of person. Women accused other women! Men were accused! It was so much more complex than a purge of women. 1/

“I’ve come up to ask you to go for one of our old-time rambles through September woods & ‘over hills where spices grow,’ this afternoon,” said Gilbert 🍁 #LMMontgomery "Come, my Beloved, haste away/Fly like a youthful hart or roe/Over the hills where spices grow." Isaac Watts

Well I used every single day available to me, but it is finally done. If anyone is wondering, the thesis uses variations of the word 'petition' and 'mother', 1,482 and 1,232 times, respectively

@ #Twitterstorians 📣 Welcome or welcome back to Cambridge! The Michaelmas 2024 term card is here. We have a great range here - both in terms of geography and subject matter. We are all looking forward to seeing you soon! #cambridgeuniversity #history

I'm really delighted to say that my new article on women who boarded children in 17th century Lancashire has been published open access in The History of the Family. Unsurprisingly, it is based on a collection of petitions: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Legal battles of 17th Century foster mums revealed bbc.in/3XTf5pU

It's also great to see Tom Almeroth-W's write-up about my article on the Cambridge University website! cam.ac.uk/stories/sevent…

Great to see research using our amazing Lancashire Archives Lancashire County Council collections reach the national news! The Guardian BBC Lancashire Congratulations Emily Rhodes 👏There are fabulous stories to be told in the Lancashire Quarter Session Records!

Thanks for sharing!

Cambridge friends: This evening at 5.15pm in the Christ's College Portrait Room I will be presenting a paper based on my PhD research to the Early Modern British and Irish History seminar entitled 'Petitions, Mothers and Community in Early Modern England and Wales'.

Me teaching: use clear topic sentences Me writing: I begin with a curious anecdote

Interested in #premodern #parenting? See Dr Elizabeth Foyster's update on the field here: Rethinking mothering and fathering in medieval and early modern europe tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

like captain holt said

Strength: works well under deadline Weakness: can’t work at all otherwise

The introduction to the The History of the Family special issue, Mothers and Fathers in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, written by me and Alice Whitehead, is finally available!: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…