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The many-headed monster is a collaborative effort focusing on English society and culture in the early modern period, very broadly conceived. Our name comes from the paranoid imaginations of seventeenth-century gentlemen, who often conceived of ‘the common people’ as a monstrous beast that would devour the rich whole if given half a chance. Whilst we do not approve of cannibalism, we do like the idea of trying to understand what society looked like ‘from below’.
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Historians, PhDs, and Jobs in 2023
13 March 2023
Brodie Waddell Amid yet another year of university strikes in the UK, the Higher Education Statistics Agency has released the latest data on staff and degrees granted. A couple of years...
Fact checking the Flying House of Loreto: Early Modern Truth and Doubt
15 December 2022
This post is part of the Monster Carnival 2022 – Why Early Modern History Matters Now. Dr Emily Price is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Newcastle University. She tweets at @dremilyprice....
Building Back Better – A Rather Old (and Rather Successful) Early Modern (German) Hat
12 December 2022
This post is part of the Monster Carnival 2022 – Why Early Modern History Matters Now. Philipp Rössner is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Manchester and works...
Understanding the Anglo-Scottish Political Union within the United Kingdom
5 December 2022
This post is part of the Monster Carnival 2022 – Why Early Modern History Matters Now. Dr Kirsteen M MacKenzie is an academic historian and broadcaster who is passionate about early...