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Exploring the lives of women through the instructions they left for their deaths
Wills can provide a tangible sense of the personalities of, the people and possession that were important to, ordinary people from the past.
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Amy Freeborn
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History writing, history, and writing #5
Digital archives, bone music, purple dye, and textile design.
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Amy Freeborn
Ill-gotten game and other wartime fun
In between the fighting, there was still time for a bit of mischief.
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Amy Freeborn
Women’s role in writing the historical record
The research that’s established a baseline of activity and revealed there’s still more to uncover.
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Amy Freeborn
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A unique manuscript on the production and consumption of cheese in 16th Century England
The good, the bad, and the horse-y of the “chiefest” of foods in the Tudor period.
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Amy Freeborn
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What happens on medieval pilgrimage, stays on medieval pilgrimage (NSFW-ish)
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The historical treasure trove emerging from a family photography business
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Victorian prostitutes’ favourite feats of engineering and architecture
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