Research Fellow @EmmaCambridge | works on children's emotions & language in early modern England | @AgeandHealth24 | follow me @oliviaformby.bsky.social
Cambridge, UK
Joined November 2014
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Have you ever heard a baby crying in utero? 😭
17th-century midwives, doctors, and parents sometimes did!
I'm excited to share my new (open access) article in @CultSocHistory: doi.org/10.1080/14780038.202…
🗓️ Remember to submit your proposal by next Friday 26 September!
📣Call for Papers 📣
I am delighted to announce that 'Speech/less in the Early Modern World' will be held 23 April 2026 at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.
Please share far and wide and do consider submitting a proposal! 🙊
Link to PDF: bit.ly/4lZz80R
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We are so close to reaching our target of 2500 signatures on this petition calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates! If you care about equity in higher education and want the BA to be affordable and accessible for *all* students, please sign! openpetition.org/au/petition…
📣Call for Papers 📣
I am delighted to announce that 'Speech/less in the Early Modern World' will be held 23 April 2026 at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.
Please share far and wide and do consider submitting a proposal! 🙊
Link to PDF: bit.ly/4lZz80R
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Did you know Francis Fry, heir to the chocolate company J.S Frys & Sons, amassed one of the largest Bible collections ever known?🍫
Hear about Fry's meticulous yet controversial collecting habits in Dr Harry Spillane's upcoming research talk. Free to book: loom.ly/J8GHfCw
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A #CFP for the southern hemisphere's premier #medieval and #earlymodern studies conference - what more could you want for Christmas?! Hosted in Melbourne from 3-5 Dec 2025, our website is now open for paper and panel proposal with a deadline of 14 Feb.
conference.anzamems.org/cfp/
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Please share the CFP for: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton
@marcy_norton (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti @saramiglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June @TheJohnRylands Manchester. Further details: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleep…...
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My very first article has been published in the American Historical Review! ✨
In it I've transcribed a handful of petitions that help us to understand how people began to piece their lives back together following an outbreak of plague 👇
academic.oup.com/ahr/article…
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Virgin Mary and child with Christian priest and attendant. Mughal India, c. 1610 Artist unidentified (British Museum)
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📢The call for papers for our 2025 conference is now ✨LIVE✨
We are the biggest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK and will be at the @BCLivingMuseum from 7-9 July 2025!
The call is open until 17 January 2025🌟
Please share widely!
socialhistory.org.uk/confere…
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Just under a week to go to get your abstracts for a conference in June 2025 in!
🎶Calling all scholars of early music! 🎶Join us for the "Moving Music" conference @EmmaCambridge on 24/25 June 2025! Call for papers is below, and deadline is on 1st December!
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Tomorrow is publication day for @IlariaScaglia1 and @ValeriaVanesio 's wonderful Archives & Emotions @BloomsburyHist. I'm lucky enough to have a chapter included on #emotions and/in the #family #archive - find out more @ bloomsbury.com/uk/archives-a…
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#Twitterstorians CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS!
I’m absolutely thrilled to announce ‘Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern (c.1500-1850)’ is back!
Please do check out and share our CfP we’re already looking forward to reading your abstracts! #CFP #Earlymodern #History
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One of the most poignant medieval documents was written on this day in 1429.
Written by Joan of Arc, it requested gunpowder from the citizens of Riom to support her military campaigns.
And at the end, for the first time, Joan signed her own name.
blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscr…
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👉What events do we support through our Small Grants Fund?
Read about the 'Age and Health 1500-1800' workshop held @stjohnscam and organised by Jennifer McFarland & @oliviaformby ✨
➡️socialhistory.org.uk/shs_exc…
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📢WILLS PROJECT NOW LIVE ON ZOONIVERSE 📢
Using cutting edge technology we've generated transcriptions of 25,000 wills, now we need your help to check & correct them!
zooniverse.org/projects/hjsm…
🧵1/ #History #twitterstorians #EarlyModern @LeverhulmeTrust @UkNatArchives
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Ghost Conference Alert!! @SnedAndrew @tait_clodagh and myself are delighted to be organising a conference on historical representations of ghosts at Mary Immaculate College in Limerick in June 2025. CFP attached! Please share! #earlymodern #twitterstorians #emotions #emostorians
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We now have a twitter account for the Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective @UoMhistdept . Please retweet and follow if you are interested in histories of the body, emotions, material culture studies, and interdisciplinary research!
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Another fantastic Cambridge-Tübingen Workshop on Early Modern Religion with colleagues from History and Islamic Studies. Great papers, great discussions, and great views! Thank you @DAADCamHub
