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Recent Posts
- Workers of the Week: Harvesters August 9, 2019
- Project Update: New Outputs, New Funding, New Jobs! July 1, 2019
- Court Depositions of South West England, 1500-1700: A Digital Resource January 8, 2019
- The Project’s Findings: What work did women and men do in early modern England? March 9, 2018
- Sickles, Scythes and Slaughter: Images of Work in Books of Hours June 13, 2017
- Workers of the Week: ‘Ploughmen go whistling to their toils’ March 10, 2017
- Recreating Work Activities: A Valuable Visit to the Weald & Downland Museum November 7, 2016
- Workers of the Week: Family Fortunes August 10, 2016
- How ‘domestic’ was women’s work? June 9, 2016
- Why do women carry things on their heads? February 23, 2016
- Workers of the Week: Night Owls February 3, 2016
- Workers of the Week: Winter is Coming December 1, 2015
- Workers of the Week: Autumnal Gatherers and Cider Makers October 22, 2015
- Finding Work (in the Archives) September 21, 2015
- Work in Progress July 23, 2015
Category Archives: Findings
Workers of the Week: Harvesters
Mark Hailwood Although it officially wrapped up in autumn of last year, recent months have been very productive for the Women’s Work in Rural England project, with major publications coming out and new funding coming through. This means we will … Continue reading
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Project Update: New Outputs, New Funding, New Jobs!
Jane Whittle It’s been quiet on this blog lately, but behind the scenes a lot has been going on. This includes the announcement of new funding allowing us to expand on the original project! As a result we are looking … Continue reading
The Project’s Findings: What work did women and men do in early modern England?
Jane Whittle The project blog has been quiet for a while – I’ve been working away on a series of articles from the project, Mark has taken up a lectureship in History at Bristol University, and the project has been … Continue reading
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Sickles, Scythes and Slaughter: Images of Work in Books of Hours
Jane Whittle Late medieval books of hours provide a wealth of attractive illustrations, apparently of ordinary people going about their work across the agricultural year. Conventionally, books of hours begin with a calendar of Christian festivals illustrated with the labours … Continue reading
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How ‘domestic’ was women’s work?
Mark Hailwood It has been a busy spring for the project team, presenting lots of papers about our methodology and preliminary results. It has been a valuable opportunity to develop our thinking, and now the dust has settled a bit … Continue reading
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Why do women carry things on their heads?
Jane Whittle Agnes Parker of Chilton Cantelo, Somerset, was crossing a bridge in 1592 with a bundle of hay on her head and a pot for milking in her hand, when a gust of wind blew her off and into … Continue reading
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Workers of the Week: Winter is Coming
Mark Hailwood It’s time for another post in our recently launched ‘Workers of the Week‘ series, in which we highlight some appropriately seasonal examples of the work activities the project is finding. The focus this week, then, is on workers … Continue reading
Workers of the Week: Autumnal Gatherers and Cider Makers
Mark Hailwood This is the first post of a new series – ‘Workers of the Week’ – that we are going to be running on the blog, designed to highlight some interesting examples of both women’s and men’s work activities … Continue reading
Did Women Work in Agriculture?
Mark Hailwood As Jane discussed in our previous post – ‘What is Work?’ – women’s work in early modern England is often assumed to have been principally ‘domestic’, taking place within the home and consisting mainly of childcare and housework. … Continue reading
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