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  • When: 11:30am, Sunday 11th January, 2026 Where: University of Nottingham, Monica Partridge Foyer This year, The Vernacular Architecture Group is holding its winter conference on the theme Vernacular buildings in urban contexts: the study of urban building types and integration with urban studies. Over the past 25 years a number of notable studies have demonstrated the huge…

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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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