Abby Hammond (she/her)
@absham.bsky.social
PhD @ Northumbria · Researching the lives & deaths of women buried at Newcastle Cathedral, 1640-1815 (funded by Northern Bridge DTP) · Transcribing Elizabeth Montagu's letters in my spare time · https://hammonda.substack.com/ 💀
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One month until the 1 May deadline for the Gordon Forster Essay Prize.
Open to postgraduate students & ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should be between 7000-10000 words inc. footnotes.
Please repost!
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Open to postgraduate students & ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should be between 7000-10000 words inc. footnotes.
Please repost!
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Gordon Forster Essay Prize
Published in Northern History (Vol. 62, No. 1-2, 2025)
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March 31, 2026 at 12:18 PM
One month until the 1 May deadline for the Gordon Forster Essay Prize.
Open to postgraduate students & ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should be between 7000-10000 words inc. footnotes.
Please repost!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Open to postgraduate students & ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should be between 7000-10000 words inc. footnotes.
Please repost!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📜 Paid Summer Internship 2026 – Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online!
Open to PhD students & ECRs. Transcribe & mark up 18thC letters in XML/TEI. Remote, £600, by 31 Aug. Deadline for applications: 1 April 2026.
CV to [email protected]
Info: [email protected], or message me!
Please share :)
Open to PhD students & ECRs. Transcribe & mark up 18thC letters in XML/TEI. Remote, £600, by 31 Aug. Deadline for applications: 1 April 2026.
CV to [email protected]
Info: [email protected], or message me!
Please share :)
𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗴𝘂 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲
𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳… | Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online
𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 - 𝗘𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗴𝘂 𝗖𝗼𝗿𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗢𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲
𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘗𝘩𝘋 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘊𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘳 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴.
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March 9, 2026 at 4:18 PM
📜 Paid Summer Internship 2026 – Elizabeth Montagu Correspondence Online!
Open to PhD students & ECRs. Transcribe & mark up 18thC letters in XML/TEI. Remote, £600, by 31 Aug. Deadline for applications: 1 April 2026.
CV to [email protected]
Info: [email protected], or message me!
Please share :)
Open to PhD students & ECRs. Transcribe & mark up 18thC letters in XML/TEI. Remote, £600, by 31 Aug. Deadline for applications: 1 April 2026.
CV to [email protected]
Info: [email protected], or message me!
Please share :)
Love this image of the "Newcastle Cloak", a punishment for 'common drunkards' in the seventeenth century, from John Sykes' "Local records" (1833). Even he asked, "why has this punishment been laid aside?" Some excellent Friday night content possible here, so I concur.
February 12, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Love this image of the "Newcastle Cloak", a punishment for 'common drunkards' in the seventeenth century, from John Sykes' "Local records" (1833). Even he asked, "why has this punishment been laid aside?" Some excellent Friday night content possible here, so I concur.
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Gordon Forster Essay Prize 2026
Deadline: 1 May 2026
Open to postgraduate students and ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should fit within the journal’s aims & scope, and be between 7000-10000 words (inc. footnotes).
Please repost.
Deadline: 1 May 2026
Open to postgraduate students and ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should fit within the journal’s aims & scope, and be between 7000-10000 words (inc. footnotes).
Please repost.
www.tandfonline.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Gordon Forster Essay Prize 2026
Deadline: 1 May 2026
Open to postgraduate students and ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should fit within the journal’s aims & scope, and be between 7000-10000 words (inc. footnotes).
Please repost.
Deadline: 1 May 2026
Open to postgraduate students and ECRs, the winner receives £200 and their essay will be considered for publication. Essays should fit within the journal’s aims & scope, and be between 7000-10000 words (inc. footnotes).
Please repost.
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Was great to present at Cambridge's Economic and Social History Workshop with @absham.bsky.social on (In)Visible Infrastructures and gendered perspectives on economic and social life on Tyneside.
November 24, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Was great to present at Cambridge's Economic and Social History Workshop with @absham.bsky.social on (In)Visible Infrastructures and gendered perspectives on economic and social life on Tyneside.
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Death, in two parts. Another post in our Royal Funeral series, but this time with a brief interlude from one of Britain's most kingly-non-kings. Yes, it's Oliver Cromwell! Read it here: hammonda.substack.com/p/15-royal-f... & don't forget to subscribe, so the posts go straight to your email!
September 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Death, in two parts. Another post in our Royal Funeral series, but this time with a brief interlude from one of Britain's most kingly-non-kings. Yes, it's Oliver Cromwell! Read it here: hammonda.substack.com/p/15-royal-f... & don't forget to subscribe, so the posts go straight to your email!
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Our new post, "#1 Royal Funerals Series: Charles I", is now live! You can read it here: hammonda.substack.com/p/1-royal-fu...
August 12, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Our new post, "#1 Royal Funerals Series: Charles I", is now live! You can read it here: hammonda.substack.com/p/1-royal-fu...
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Tugging further on this fascinating historical thread...
This painting shows Sir Harry Harper with a favourite horse, Furiband, and an unnamed groom, c. 1774: could this be a portrait of "Jockey Jack"? I certainly hope so! #18c
This painting shows Sir Harry Harper with a favourite horse, Furiband, and an unnamed groom, c. 1774: could this be a portrait of "Jockey Jack"? I certainly hope so! #18c
August 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Tugging further on this fascinating historical thread...
This painting shows Sir Harry Harper with a favourite horse, Furiband, and an unnamed groom, c. 1774: could this be a portrait of "Jockey Jack"? I certainly hope so! #18c
This painting shows Sir Harry Harper with a favourite horse, Furiband, and an unnamed groom, c. 1774: could this be a portrait of "Jockey Jack"? I certainly hope so! #18c
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Our new “Royal Funerals” series begins in 1649, with the execution of Charles I. Whilst the moments that led up to this event are well known in the British psyche, instead we ask: what happened to Charles post-mortem? Explore this legacy in our post tomorrow!
(c) Parliamentary Art Collection
(c) Parliamentary Art Collection
August 10, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Our new “Royal Funerals” series begins in 1649, with the execution of Charles I. Whilst the moments that led up to this event are well known in the British psyche, instead we ask: what happened to Charles post-mortem? Explore this legacy in our post tomorrow!
(c) Parliamentary Art Collection
(c) Parliamentary Art Collection
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🪦 Where are the dead? My latest post examines how the Victorian burial crisis led to sweeping reforms that moved the dead from churchyards to suburban cemeteries, and why we're facing the same challenges today. #skystorians #graves #death #substack
August 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
🪦 Where are the dead? My latest post examines how the Victorian burial crisis led to sweeping reforms that moved the dead from churchyards to suburban cemeteries, and why we're facing the same challenges today. #skystorians #graves #death #substack
March 22, 1726. Ordinance from the Society of Saddlers of Newcastle-upon-Tyne... "No brother shall come into the meeting of the company in his night-gown, on pain to forfeit 1s". ❌ No pyjamas allowed! ❌
two stuffed bananas wearing striped pajamas with the numbers b11 and b12 on them
ALT: two stuffed bananas wearing striped pajamas with the numbers b11 and b12 on them
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August 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
March 22, 1726. Ordinance from the Society of Saddlers of Newcastle-upon-Tyne... "No brother shall come into the meeting of the company in his night-gown, on pain to forfeit 1s". ❌ No pyjamas allowed! ❌
I launched a blog to post some of my musings that don't quite fit into my PhD thesis... Really excited to share stories from the North East and beyond on early modern graves and death culture!
Blog post #1. An Introduction to Grave Concerns. Come and read about the new blog, with a snippet of a story of how one mother's grief created a lasting legacy...
So excited to start blogging on this! hammonda.substack.com/p/an-introdu...
So excited to start blogging on this! hammonda.substack.com/p/an-introdu...
July 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
I launched a blog to post some of my musings that don't quite fit into my PhD thesis... Really excited to share stories from the North East and beyond on early modern graves and death culture!
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Histories of death, dying and memorials? Yes, please! Subscribe to the blog today for weekly posts, straight to your e-mail.
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Grave Concerns | Abby | Substack
Histories of life and death. Click to read Grave Concerns, by Abby, a Substack publication. Launched 5 minutes ago.
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July 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Histories of death, dying and memorials? Yes, please! Subscribe to the blog today for weekly posts, straight to your e-mail.
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Today we launched the North East Funerary Heritage Group at Newcastle Cathedral to explore, preserve & promote regional funerary heritage. Great panel & workshops mapped knowledge, skills & burial sites. Grateful to Anna Walsh, Ray Hayes & Myra Giesen. Visit: blogs.ncl.ac.uk/nefhg/
July 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Today we launched the North East Funerary Heritage Group at Newcastle Cathedral to explore, preserve & promote regional funerary heritage. Great panel & workshops mapped knowledge, skills & burial sites. Grateful to Anna Walsh, Ray Hayes & Myra Giesen. Visit: blogs.ncl.ac.uk/nefhg/
Have you signed up to attend the North East Funerary Heritage Group's launch event on the 23rd of July? You have until the 18th to do so! blogs.ncl.ac.uk/nefhg/2025/0...
#heritage #monuments #graves #gravestones
#heritage #monuments #graves #gravestones
NEFHG Launch Deadline Set for Friday, 18 July – North East Funerary Heritage Group
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July 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Have you signed up to attend the North East Funerary Heritage Group's launch event on the 23rd of July? You have until the 18th to do so! blogs.ncl.ac.uk/nefhg/2025/0...
#heritage #monuments #graves #gravestones
#heritage #monuments #graves #gravestones
What a scene of udder chaos! Milk maid melee in Soho, 1805. Never a dull moment when using the British Newspaper Archives for research! 🐄
May 20, 2025 at 10:56 AM
What a scene of udder chaos! Milk maid melee in Soho, 1805. Never a dull moment when using the British Newspaper Archives for research! 🐄
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Research Assistant/Associate (History)
Newcastle University - School of History, Classics & Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNA537/r...
Newcastle University - School of History, Classics & Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNA537/r...
Research Assistant/Associate (History) at Newcastle University
An academic position as a Research Assistant/Associate (History) is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.
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May 13, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Research Assistant/Associate (History)
Newcastle University - School of History, Classics & Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNA537/r...
Newcastle University - School of History, Classics & Archaeology #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNA537/r...
My little project. Up until the end of May!
If you’re in the Newcastle upon Tyne area and able to visit Newcastle Cathedral (St. Nicholas), I hope you will take time to look at a small exhibition there entitled “Home and Howay : Letters and Post in the 18th Century North-East”.
This is @absham.bsky.social and she’s the exhibition creator.
This is @absham.bsky.social and she’s the exhibition creator.
April 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
My little project. Up until the end of May!
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🚨Internship alert!📷An exciting opportunity for a PhD student or Early Career Researcher to work as a research intern for EMCO this summer. The EMCO internship programme focuses on transcribing the letters written by Montagu to her friend, Elizabeth Carter.
March 14, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🚨Internship alert!📷An exciting opportunity for a PhD student or Early Career Researcher to work as a research intern for EMCO this summer. The EMCO internship programme focuses on transcribing the letters written by Montagu to her friend, Elizabeth Carter.
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What a fantastic PhD project:
"Phd Studentship : Early women solicitors in England and Wales 1919-1939 (Lady Cruickshank Studentship)
Queen Mary University of London - Department of Law"
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLM390/p...
"Phd Studentship : Early women solicitors in England and Wales 1919-1939 (Lady Cruickshank Studentship)
Queen Mary University of London - Department of Law"
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLM390/p...
Phd Studentship : Early women solicitors in England and Wales 1919-1939 (Lady Cruickshank Studentship) at Queen Mary University of London
Find a Phd Studentship : Early women solicitors in England and Wales 1919-1939 (Lady Cruickshank Studentship) on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board in higher education. Click to view more!
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January 21, 2025 at 6:39 AM
What a fantastic PhD project:
"Phd Studentship : Early women solicitors in England and Wales 1919-1939 (Lady Cruickshank Studentship)
Queen Mary University of London - Department of Law"
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLM390/p...
"Phd Studentship : Early women solicitors in England and Wales 1919-1939 (Lady Cruickshank Studentship)
Queen Mary University of London - Department of Law"
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLM390/p...
Highly recommend this internship, having completed it last year!
Internship alert!
An exciting opportunity for a PhD student or Early Career Researcher to work as a research intern for EMCO this summer. The EMCO internship programme focuses on transcribing the letters written by Montagu to her friend, Elizabeth Carter.
An exciting opportunity for a PhD student or Early Career Researcher to work as a research intern for EMCO this summer. The EMCO internship programme focuses on transcribing the letters written by Montagu to her friend, Elizabeth Carter.
January 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Highly recommend this internship, having completed it last year!
Just about decompressed from #BSECS2025... Feeling lucky to have been on a panel with these guys and to have had some time to explore Oxford. Back in Newcastle now, researching more female coal mine owners, and more!
January 13, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Just about decompressed from #BSECS2025... Feeling lucky to have been on a panel with these guys and to have had some time to explore Oxford. Back in Newcastle now, researching more female coal mine owners, and more!