Medieval Exchequer Research Fellow @virtualtreasury; research on medieval & early modern Westminster & medieval Ireland; formerly @VSS_Project; Dogs; She/her.
New pinned tweet time! My book came out in 2020, and the link to it on the @boydellbrewer website has changed.
It's been reviewed as an 'impressive study', 'a refreshingly different approach' and 'a full and rich portrait of an institution'.
https://t.co/KPSKWB9p3g
@oldenoughtosay On a very pragmatic note, look at which colleges might have internal funding for DPhils.
For sheer fun, I do like the deer park at Magdalen...
I promised @RebeccaMenmuir and @onslies that I'd write about 13th century women working in the exchequer- here you go! All that we know about Rachel Reeves' medieval predecessors at the treasury:
https://t.co/XW2n04qXxF
Have you seen the digitised register of Archbishop John Swayne on the @VirtualTreasury? 📚
Read about the project to conserve and digitise it in the blog and image gallery on the VTRI website with the full digital version+ D.A Chart’s summary here:
https://t.co/Pn51KpXUXv
27 Oct 1526: Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall of #London burns Tyndale's New Testament at St Pauls cathedral #otd declaring that he had found 2,000 errors in it (DurhamU/BL)
I’m super pleased that we’re getting closer to having translations of all the receipt rolls @UkNatArchives, alongside Connolly’s translation of the issue rolls and full digitisations of the originals. There’s so many wonderful details in them!
A rare and remarkable occurrence of two female printer-publishers not only working together but using their given names: Yolande Bonhomme's imprint and Charlotte Guillard's colophon in an edition of Augustine published in Paris in 1541 (USTC 204524)! https://t.co/CzrfIl8GvL
@ucdarchives I make it (with hesitations on some of the capital letters: Lady Lavery + Alice, Mrs Phillimore, Nalicraj Aliver, Rajatuma, Colonel Amar Singh, Mr Blumfell Sheila + B.J + Jud. Milk
Very much looking forward to seeing the Guild of St Anne deeds join the medieval collections available through @VirtualTreasury.
Deeds are such telling and important records for finding out more about people's ordinary lives.
We are delighted to announce a new project with our partners @VirtualTreasury to enhance access the Guild of St Anne collection. This collection offers a wealth of info about Dublin’s social structure & civic culture from 13th - 18th C. Read more here:
https://t.co/wQecgNYpHC
@DJMHarland I was curious, so went hunting. This 2023 article by Blair et al cites to the unpublished report, so I'm guessing not published yet, but there's also a 2021 publication listed that might have more details: https://t.co/bg78qf4kKV
Born in 1911, Margaret Griffith was the first female Deputy Keeper at the Public Record Office of Ireland, serving from 1956-1971. Find out more about her pioneering work in the new @DIB_RIA entry by @CWallaceDublin at https://t.co/NeR35bwYR1. #WomenInHistory#IrishArchives
Jessica Baldwin of @NARIreland showing a MS from 1309 — one of the oldest records to survive the fire of 1922
@HistFest @VirtualTreasury @irishmanuscript
Thought-provoking podcast here with Robert Bartlett and a special reference to @VirtualTreasury and the destruction of Irish medieval records: https://t.co/KTzo9ZpNWh
@HistoryHit