Bethan Catherine Watts

MRHistS. • Childhood & Domestic Historian • PhD on Medieval Children • Author • Featured on HistoryHit & BBC Who Do You Think You Are? • Works with @histchild

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Looking forward to keeping everyone up-to-date with posts from our Fifth Biennial Conference at the University of Sheffield, beginning tomorrow and ending on Friday.

[Children's History Society @histchild]

We’re thrilled to share this AHRC-funded PhD opportunity from Swansea University

“Serious about Play: Childhood, Play and Policymaking in Wales, 1945 to present” explores how Wales developed its own distinct stance of child’s play through examination of postwar Welsh childhoods

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🚨 Extended Deadline!

The Call for Papers for our Fifth Biennial Conference at the University of Sheffield have been EXTENDED until Monday 22nd December!

Get your proposals in while you still can!

Our full Call for Papers here: https://t.co/qzDeUYUHou

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📣 Seminar Tonight!

Join Professor Lynne Vallone and a team from Queen Mary’s Women’s Health Research Unit for tonight’s seminar “The Foetus and Birthing Tools Across Disciplines” for tonight’s seminar at Queen Mary University of London 👶

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📣 Call for Papers! 📣

Check out the call for papers for our Biennial Conference in Sheffield!

The deadline for proposals is 14 December!

https://t.co/BHGJ94aQdS

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We’ve now released 1,000 of our digitised manuscripts, including the Sherborne Missal, My Ladye Nevells Booke, and Octateuch, Four Gospels and Synodicon.

This is an interim resource and we'll be improving and adding to it as soon as we can: https://t.co/i5pDyMYMzF

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This is how an old house speaks: slowly, in coloured shadows on a wall, the fidget of a blackbird in the creeper, a bee drunk on the rosy breath of a humid afternoon.

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It’s Friday and the windows are open on a warm spring day and the air is richly seasoned with wood smoke and newly-turned earth from the rose bed beneath.

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'Books are the mirrors of the soul'
— Virginia Woolf

Happy #WorldBookDay! 📚

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@NC_Renic Seriously feeling this at the moment

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@HeidiMalagisi1 “How to Be a Victorian” by Ruth Goodman

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@tonihistorian @penswordbooks That sounds fantastic! 👏

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Colorized video from 1906, where English children encounter a camera for the first time

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@HCBox @tonihistorian @HeidiMalagisi1 I like the idea that it could have been a toy! Perhaps a little rattle or a piece of a larger game set?

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Anne Boleyn’s life in signatures ✒️

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Excerpts from the Decades by Flavius Blondus.
Albinus, Johannes, died 1496 Compiler.
Biondo, Flavio, 1392-1463 Author.
Todeschino, Giovanni, flourished 1482-1503 Artist.
Naples, Italy
1494.
Bavarian State Library / Library of Congress
#medieval #medievaltwitter

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I recommend the latest episode of 'Talking Tudors', where Bethan Watts talks to Natalie Grueninger about the Tudor home and daily life in Tudor England:

https://t.co/IXiZdu0beI @bethancwatts @OntheTudorTrail #Tudors #podcast