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- 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
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Category Archives: Methodology
Recreating Work Activities: A Valuable Visit to the Weald & Downland Museum
Mark Hailwood On the 8th and 9th of September (2016) our whole project team headed over to Sussex to participate in a ‘Knowledge Exchange Workshop’ with the Weald & Downland Open Air Museum. In basic terms this involved us telling … Continue reading
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Finding Work (in the Archives)
Mark Hailwood In a nutshell, the aim of our project is to gather an unprecedented level of information about women’s work in early modern England (1500-1700) by drawing on incidental information about everyday work activities contained in witness statements given … Continue reading
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What is Work?
Jane Whittle Thomas Tusser, in his Elizabethan farming advice book, Five Hundreth Points of Good Husbandry United to as Many of Good Huswiferie (1573) noted that women’s work ‘has never an end’, yet historians of women’s work have struggled to … Continue reading
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Women's Work in Rural England, 1500-1700 