My Element is out out featuring several #earlymodernwww.cambridge.org/core/element...
Cambridge Core - Literary Theory - Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700
Online ordering is coming back in October apparently!
Just published. My new book on Early English texts, including The Grave; on language, history, fiction, Magna Carta, script, and the date of the Tremulous Hand. @ArcHumanities — thank you!
Very excited to be co-hosting my first panel on forensic linguistics with Helmi Siiroinen at the autumn symposium of the Finnish Association for Applied Linguistics. We'll be joined by @anttikannisto.bsky.social@coocho.bsky.social. Looking forward to the discussions!
Steve Poole on serendipity in the archives… and perhaps the oldest surviving forensic evidence (?) anywhere in England (1764) (It’s about a murder case and does include some gruesome detail) bristolrecordsociety.org/stories-from... 🗃️
Steve Poole, University of the West of England (12 April 2024) 14 min read Forensic evidence of a robbery-murder: Bristol Archives, TC/Adm/Box/19/1 How do historians make archival discoveries? I’d lik...
It's out! 'Migrant Voices in Multilingual London, 1560-1600', open access in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. Read to find out how insults and information moved between the city's languages, and to think about how linguistic diversity shaped urban life. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
I've had an influx of new followers, so here is a reminder that I wrote a cool book that you might like to read.
Historians of Bluesky: tell me your experiences of starting out in a new research direction! I'm working on something that needs me to scope and start to map out a big and sprawling research area and I would love to hear how others have managed this.
One of the 25 holograph letters by Alice Thornton that we have been able to trace. High quality photograph in the linked blog 👇 #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📜
After life as a student, Thornton's son Robert was sorely in debt. A plea from his mother for help was written to her great-nephew, Abstrupus Danby #OTD 28 Aug 1688: ‘I am so deeply involved for him already that I am threatened to be clapped in prison’. nycroblog.com/2024/07/04/a... #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📜
Yorkshire gentlewoman, Alice Thornton, née Wandesford (1626-1707), lived in North Yorkshire for much of her life. This collaborative blog with the ‘Alice Thornton’s Books’ project traces her life from...