Mabel Winter
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Research Associate: The Politics of the English Grain Trade. Socio-economic historian @sheffielduni Now on bluesky- @MabelWinter .bsky.social
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📣 Out now!
Very excited to see this published!
#NewBookAlert
This book reconstructs the institution of Thompson and Company, the social networks of its partners, the identity of its creditors, and the events and circumstances that led to its collapse. Available here:
@Mabel_Winter
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Thanks for the free advertisement. To learn more, please see the website
Always wanted to know more about this. Sound £879,525 taxpayer investment.
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Also, to see how this project relates to current concerns, see this piece I wrote:
Thanks for the free advertisement. To learn more, please see the website
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@JamesWorron
@gsoh31
The idea is to get a view of what was happening up to that point, to understand the long history of grain prior to the 19th century. When food supply and population were so critically linked, and before mass changes to the industry such as steam technology
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📣 Seems like a good time to make this announcement! A forthcoming volume based on the project's research to be published in the BA Records of Social and Economic History series!
Project announcement!
We are thrilled to announce a forthcoming volume, The English Grain Trade, c.1300-c.1850, to be published in the British Academy Records of Social and Economic History series! 🌽📘
Read more here:
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Early Christmas present for me - Book proofs!
Now it finally feels real, I'm happy to say that Banking, Projecting and Politicking in Early Modern England will be out early next year with
@Palgrave
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Thrilled that my first article has now been published online (officially out in May) in Social History!
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Absolutely delighted that my latest article has been published open access with
@UrbanHistoryCUP
and can be read on FirstView here! The article speaks to themes of identity, skill, occupation, urban infrastructure, and urban association.
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Excited to be joining this project and looking at all things 'Middling'!
We delighted to announce that
@Mabel_Winter
has joined Middling Culture as a postdoctoral research associate! Mabel has recently completed her PhD at Sheffield...
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@jamestpomfret
As above, the uni does take a significant amount for support. This is a 5 year project with 4 researchers working on it, which work includes some travel to archives and conferences.
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Sad to say it's my last day working on
@MiddlingCulture
! I've had a great time working on this project and learnt so much. Massive thank you to
@ProfCatherineR
and
@TaraHamling
, who have been fantastic project leads.
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An exciting month ahead!
We have a new team member!
@Mabel_Winter
from the University of Sheffield will be working with us on the
#PrizePapers
this September - welcome to Oldenburg, Mabel, we are so glad that you are here!
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This time two weeks ago I had just passed my viva. Never thought I'd say this, but after two weeks of fellowship applications and trying to write a book proposal, I really miss my thesis!
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So nice looking at actual manuscripts again! Plus felt a real affinity with Sir William Turner's accounting...
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First blog is up!
First project blog post by
@Mabel_Winter
on Jane Ratcliffe of Chester. This provides a fascinating insight into her writing practice, literacy, clothing and cultural pursuits. It’s also a secular reading of John Ley’s biography.
#womeninhistory
#middling
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Really enjoyed writing this piece on parallels between past and present food systems, and all things grain and milling 🌾
What can conflicts about grain mills in early modern England tell us about food security today?
@DrMabel_Winter
on market and moral economies of food.
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Latest little bit of research is out ⬇️
New blog post!
@Mabel_Winter
explores the Elizabethan civil service, precarity, and petitioning in early modern England through the life of an unlucky clerk...
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Really enjoyed writing this piece for
@unishefhistory
about the politics of grain past and present. Give it a read here!
'Understanding the past and how we came to find ourselves in the current situation must feature in discussions of how to shape our future'.
Check out our latest blog by
@DrMabel_Winter
discussing the AHRC-project 'The Politics of the English Grain Trade'
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@FaraiUnVers
@dr_j_r_c
Thanks! So the project also includes colleagues at Utrecht University who are looking into Baltic trade in the same period. I'm not aware of any comparative studies of Black Sea region, but would be very interested if there were any.
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Lovely thread detailing some the wonderful work of
@Prize_Papers
!
The
@Prize_Papers
have survived in a unique material condition 🪶 📜Great parts of the collection at
@UkNatArchives
have been preserved in a historical state of conservation. On this homepage ➡️, we present our
#materiality
approach. Info & impressions: 🧵
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In Bristol Archives for
@MiddlingCulture
this week, looking at extensive amounts of microfiche probate materials. The wonderful marks left by witnesses is making it slightly more bearable!
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Also, lovely to hear a mention of
@Prize_Papers
at
#SHS2019
. Great how many topics can interact with the project and it's archive! (Including my mention of prize taking!)
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The book is an expanded version of my PhD, which should be of interest to all microhistorians, and historians of commerce, finance, and politics!
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Interesting conference today on intoxication...followed by a trip to the pub. Oh how ironic us historians are
#intoxshef
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New CFP below. If you work on food systems we want to hear from you!
Note bursaries are available for postgrads and ECRs
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So excited to start looking into these!
Quick
@MiddlingCulture
sweep of BL MS Harleian 2073 for
@Mabel_Winter
& struck by a) hometown glimpses of
@RochesterBridge
&
@RochesterCathed
#VisitMedway
#Medway2025
, & b) stunning copied sketch of St Faith's under Paul's (a now-disappeared church beneath London's Cathedral)
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Sign-up to attend two days of great presentations at our Food Systems and Practices Conference - 27 and 28 June, Sheffield. Details below
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Presenting the finalised website! First blog post by Mike Braddick is now up 👇
Our first project blog post is by PI Professor Mike Braddick, on the evolution of the project from the 1980s to now...
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Calling all creative writers!
Exciting opportunity to join our team and help us tell the stories of middling people and objects 👇
📢 Creative Call 📢
We're looking to hire experienced creative writers for our exciting, immersive digital history resource. You'll be working with our project team and the wonderful
@WealddownMuseum
. Follow the link for details and apply by 15th July
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Yarranton's description of a run on a bank has to be the best I've found yet... 'And then all his creditors crowd to him as Pigs do through a hole to a Bean and Pease Rick.'
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Looking forward to this later today 👇
It’s tonight! Join us @ 6PM for the 2021 Renaissance Lecture:
Writing the Biographies of the Overlooked: The Case of the Village Stonemason
w/ Dr Steve Hindle (Huntington Library)
All welcome - DM for the link!
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'Maintaining the status quo is not enough. We should be pushing political leaders to lay out a bold vision of a fairer, more adaptable food system that works for all people as well as nature.' Great read 👇
✍️ New blog: No food security without resilience
FFCC farming lead
@charlietaverner
on why we need a new way of thinking about the UK’s food supply, including changes beyond farming such as enabling families to eat less heavily processed food.
Read 👇
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And to
@AHewitt25
,
@callanjd
,
@HM_Lilley
, and
@GraemeEarl
. Really looking forward to seeing the publication of the rest of the project's digital outputs! Now time to write my own 'middling' article...
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Excited to be included in this line up and present some early findings from the
@PoliticsofGrain
project. Links to the full programme and registration 👇
We're excited to announce the 2022/23 programme for the Political Economy Tokyo Seminar (PoETS) online lecture series, with excellent papers by
@GerdaReith
Helge Wendt,
@DrMabel_Winter
, and Kayoko Yukimura. Details below:
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Great first panel, looking forward to the rest of the sessions!
Our 1st panel of
#OnBelonging
starts in 5 minutes! Recording Early Modern Travel Experiences, w/
@endeeekay
,
@EvaJohannaH
,
@charmianmansell
, &
@emilieKMmurphy
- join us live on Crowdcast:
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Online attendance is now also available for the Food Systems and Practices conference next week! Email to sign up 👇
Sign-up to attend two days of great presentations at our Food Systems and Practices Conference - 27 and 28 June, Sheffield. Details below
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Enjoyed presenting this morning at
#SHS2019
! Looking forward to the rest of the early modern papers!
Great looking set of early modern papers at
#SHS2019
, including
@EJB2157
,
@Xbarsigma
,
@EmilyMayVine
,
@Mabel_Winter
,
@LewisJBrennen
,
@EvaJohannaH
,
@historywomble
,
@PizzoniGiada
,
@_mariacannon
,
@foxvshedgehog
,
@ChrisWhittell
,
@AuntieAmie
,
@annafield92
,
@LenaLiapi
&
@Hitchcockian
...
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Special 'middling culture' guest blog looks at middling music culture through Playford's 'divisions'.
Featuring a pick and mix collection of violin examples to try out!
📣Announcing our latest blog post! Thrilled to post a wonderful interactive guest blog from
@NinaKumin
who invites you to a Jam session, early modern style!
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Horrible to see attacks like this on such valuable and active departments
#SaveSheffieldArchaeology
University of Sheffield
@UniShefArch
threatened with closure. We need your help👇
@sheffielducu
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@ProfCatherineR
@callanjd
This is great! Not sure Randle Holmes's drawings of Chester waterworks will be as impressive!
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The article is a product of my time working on
@MiddlingCulture
and many thanks go to the whole team for their support with this research. I hope the article reflects some of the key ideas behind the project!
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University of Sheffield: Save Sheffield's Archaeology Department - Sign the Petition! via
@UKChange
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Microfilm readers in the Library of Congress are a delight! Who knew microfilm research could be so easy
#twitterstorians
#history
#research
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CFP deadline coming up. If you work on food systems this is the conference for you 🌱
Call for papers! We're looking for submissions for our upcoming Food Systems and Practices: Past, Present and Future conference.
Please send a title and short abstract (max 200 words) to: fspsheffield
@gmail
.com by Monday 27 February 2023.
More info👇
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Off to Cambridge for a potentially crucial discovery. Let's hope it's worth it!
#fingerscrossed
#pepyslibrary
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Looking forward to this tomorrow and Friday 👇
This week, we are joined by Prof. Alexandra Walsham for two exciting early modern events, including a masterclass.
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Looking forward to this paper next week! Analysis of sound toll evidence on the Baltic grain trade - online and in-person
Talk next week: project postdoc
@M_Berlandi
at the IHR Economic and Social History of the Early Modern World, 1500-1800 seminar. Matthias will be presenting 'A quantitative analysis of the English and Baltic grain trade' - details here 👇
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Looking for knowledge on cameras for archival work...
Does anyone have any advice for lens needed, storage level, resolution requirements, or any other useful specifications?
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It's
#ShakespearesBirthday
so no better time to check out the
@MiddlingCulture
class calculator!
@E2EShakespeare
What "class" you would have been in during Shakespeare's time? Our academics have created a calculator so you can find out!
#ShakespearesBirthday
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My train was on time. I fear the end of the world is near
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Exciting opportunity for creative writers 👇 please share and rt
We're hiring creative writers to work on our exciting digital project with the
@WealddownMuseum
. Get your application in by 15th July - join us!
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@dralexgoodall
Terrible news. Aaron was so kind to me and really encouraged me in my work. Thinking of his friends, family, and colleagues at this awful time.
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Great new blog up on the website. Matthias provides new insights into the grain trade through a quantitative analysis of the Sound Toll registers
📣Latest project blog post! Dr Matthias Berlandi reveals some insights from his quantitative analysis of the Sound Toll Registers
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Source description: 'looks like the physical detritus of the Petty Bag Office.' Sounds promising
#research
#history
#notgettinganywhere
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In the latest blog post on our website Jessuca Dijkman discusses 'the complexities of balancing market forces with social policy', drawing out comparisons between modern and pre-industrial food crises...
📣New blog post!
Our project Co-Investigator, Prof. Jessica Dijkman, discusses 'Interventions in the food market', from public grain stocks in pre-industrial Europe to food banks and the free market...
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When research actually brings up something new, interesting and useful!
#success
#twitterstorians
#phd
#London
#NationalArchives
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@Prize_Papers
@unishefhistory
It went so fast! Saw a reference to 'entangled histories' this morning and thought of you all!
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Fascinating blog on the supply of paint and painting tools!
🎨 A new post about two early eighteenth-century art shops (well, colour shops that sold paint pigments) run by women in London. 🎨
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@AHewitt25
@Smithestherkate
@KateGilesYork
@TaraHamling
@Buildingbod
Congrats Alex! Enjoy your celebrations 🍾
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'Huybert Huybertson' - the best name I have ever found in a source. Now how do I get him in the thesis?!
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Later today 👇 looking forward to hearing more
I will be presenting some of my research on seventeenth-century Barbados today (5pm GMT)
@ihr_history
Please sign up below and come along if interested!
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My latest blog post explores what records from the court of Exchequer can tell us about the domestic milling sector in early modern England. Read it here 👇
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'On one estimate, just four corporations control 90% of the global grain trade.' Interesting read from last year that is becoming more pertinent as time goes by.
#foodsystems
I wrote this last year. I think what we are seeing now is the "flickering" of the global food system as it appears to be approaching a critical threshold. Yet the media seems almost entirely oblivious to the wider picture.
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