Dr Elizabeth Biggs

Medieval Exchequer Research Fellow @virtualtreasury; research on medieval & early modern Westminster & medieval Ireland; formerly @VSS_Project; Dogs; She/her.

[Dr Elizabeth Biggs @ElizabethCBiggs]

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

[Dr Elizabeth Biggs @ElizabethCBiggs]

@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...

[Dr Elizabeth Biggs @ElizabethCBiggs]

@oldenoughtosay I’d love to see a baby at a seminar! Especially if I got to say hi.

[Dr Elizabeth Biggs @ElizabethCBiggs]

Reposting for UK budget day and because I've just been finding more medieval women active in the Dublin exchequer.

[Dr Elizabeth Biggs @ElizabethCBiggs]

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

[Dr Elizabeth Biggs @ElizabethCBiggs]

@sarahxgilbert Absolutely- he is the right person to ask and I hope he can answer your question!

[Dr Elizabeth Biggs @ElizabethCBiggs]

@sarahxgilbert I can check details in that I'm constantly coming across the Hospitallers in the Irish receipt rolls, so if that sounds of use for you?

[PRONI @PRONI_DFC]

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

[John McCafferty @jdmccafferty]

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)

[Dr Elizabeth Biggs @ElizabethCBiggs]

@lucyajmmoore @BALHNews I'm not involved, but @pablodiablo74 and @STMResearch might be able to help.

[Dr Elizabeth Biggs @ElizabethCBiggs]

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!

[Dr Elise Watson @elisewatson_]

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

[Dr Elizabeth Biggs @ElizabethCBiggs]

@ucdarchives The letter before Alice is a &, looking at the other guests, would Lady Lavery have a daughter Alice with her?

[Dr Elizabeth Biggs @ElizabethCBiggs]

@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

[Dr Elizabeth Biggs @ElizabethCBiggs]

@FLSchwizer @runalongwomble Purely for you because you combine a medievalist past with a (sff/fantasy) publishing present?

[Dr Elizabeth Biggs @ElizabethCBiggs]

The before and after of Juno going to be groomed. Thorough attitude in both.

[Dr Elizabeth Biggs @ElizabethCBiggs]

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.

[Royal Irish Academy Library @Library_RIA]

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

[Dr Elizabeth Biggs @ElizabethCBiggs]

@DJMHarland You're very welcome!

[Dr Elizabeth Biggs @ElizabethCBiggs]

@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

[National Archives, Ireland @NARIreland]

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

[IMC @irishmanuscript]

Jessica Baldwin of ⁦@NARIreland⁩ showing a MS from 1309 — one of the oldest records to survive the fire of 1922
⁦@HistFest⁩ ⁦@VirtualTreasury⁩ ⁦@irishmanuscript⁩

[History Ireland @HistIreHedge]

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