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  • Event: In conversation with artist Jo Lathwood

    When: 7-9pm, Thursday October 23rd 2025 Where: East Quay Gallery, Watchet, Devon, TA23 0AQ Jo Lathwood’s current show, Down the Hatch, focuses on seventeenth century brewers and sellers of ale. I’m really excited to visit so I can enjoy (and even interact with) the artworks. She and curator George Harwood-Smith very kindly asked if I’d

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  • Publication: Group Petitioning and the Performance of Neighbourliness in the West Midlands, 1589-1700

    In 2023, I published my first academic article in Cultural and Social History . It was called Group Petitioning and the Performance of Neighbourliness in the West Midlands, 1589-1700 and you can read it here. It looked at petitions from ordinary groups of people about everyday matters. I was keen to explore the process of

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  • What will be posted on here?

    On this page, you’ll see posts about publications (academic articles, media articles, and… who knows what else?!), as well as any events I’ve got coming up. In all likelihood, these publications and events will be about women’s work in alehouses: brewers, ‘alewives’, serving maids… But from time to time, you might see publications about some

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A photo of historian Amy Burnett on a site visit. She sits in front of Judge Wyndham's oak, a 1,5000 year old tree in Somerset.

Dr. Amy Burnett – Historian