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More new research from me published this month! :abunhdhappyhop:​

This is a chapter in the edited volume 'Wolf: Culture, Nature, Heritage' (Boydell Press). My research examines the (vv old!) chancery records of England and found over 200 licences for hunting hares πŸ°β€‹, foxes πŸ¦Šβ€‹, badgers πŸ¦‘β€‹, wildcats (πŸ±β€‹!) and wolves (πŸΊβ€‹!!!) in 13th and 14th century England. The licences are specific so can be mapped like this!

Free copy available here: zenodo.org/record/8173432

@idoubtit Woah that is amazing, what a compliment! πŸ™€β€‹β€‹ Love a bit of the Fortean Times! πŸ‘»β€‹

@fionnbharr Amazing! Hope you enjoy it - let me know what you think :blobgrin:​

@maiamaia Oh I'm proud you enjoyed them! Thank you so much! πŸ’šβ€‹ I think maybe no-one on your instance follows me at the moment so you have to read my older toots on computer! :computerfairies:​

@maiamaia @helenczerski Thank you! I don't think we have the edit button yet on my instance but I will remember this for next time! πŸ’šβ€‹

@maiamaia @helenczerski

That's a fair cop! Okay...​

My book is out today! πŸ™€β€‹

Here is an article I wrote about it for the Conversation: πŸ§β€‹
theconversation.com/wildlife-w

Here is a shorter article about some of the mammal records I found πŸΎβ€‹:
mammal.org.uk/2023/06/the-atla

Here is a long presentation about my book πŸ“½οΈβ€‹:
youtube.com/watch?v=k1RfCQFdv2

Here is a short walkthrough πŸŽ™οΈβ€‹:
youtube.com/watch?v=RJK_eohsL8

Here is a sample πŸ“—β€‹:
pelagicpublishing.com/blogs/ne

And this is a thread of my maps! πŸ’šβ€‹:
computerfairi.es/@LeafyHistory

@maiamaia @helenczerski

That's a fair cop! Okay...​

My book is out today! πŸ™€β€‹

Here is an article I wrote about it for the Conversation: πŸ§β€‹
theconversation.com/wildlife-w

Here is a shorter article about some of the mammal records I found πŸΎβ€‹:
mammal.org.uk/2023/06/the-atla

Here is a long presentation about my book πŸ“½οΈβ€‹:
youtube.com/watch?v=k1RfCQFdv2

Here is a short walkthrough πŸŽ™οΈβ€‹:
youtube.com/watch?v=RJK_eohsL8

Here is a sample πŸ“—β€‹:
pelagicpublishing.com/blogs/ne

And this is a thread of my maps! πŸ’šβ€‹:
computerfairi.es/@LeafyHistory

No equivalent of 'quote tweeting' here, so to add to the post we've just shared: The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife by @LeafyHistory looks like a fascinating read for anyone interested in the wildlife of their British or Irish #OnePlaceStudies in times gone by.

Hi everyone, today is the day my book, THE ATLAS OF EARLY MODERN WILDLIFE is published. πŸ™€πŸ’š

The Atlas catalogues the state of nature in Britain and Ireland during the sixteenth-eighteenth centuries. πŸΊπŸ¦«πŸ¦…πŸ¦ƒπŸ³πŸŸπŸ’πŸπŸ¦žπŸ¦

It's taken me five years to get to this point! The Atlas is based on over 10,000 records from 200+ primary sources (essentially books written in the time period)!

Ok finally career #introduction time!
I am a #DH #earlymodern Historian with preference of English and Irish History. I have specialized in the London Bills of Mortality on Death By Numbers. So basically I love medicine, death, and plague of early modern.

I received my MA from GMU, and worked with the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM) where I discovered my love for mixing tech and history. I am post grad at a local library while I figure out what to research

@EmMeyers7 Aw thank you! It's great to meet you too. I'm looking forward to hearing some medical history and plague research posts now! πŸ’šβ€‹

Amateur naturalists still recorded wolves in the early modern period around Sutherland, and in the west of Ireland, but not England or Wales where they seem to have already gone extinct. πŸΊβ€‹πŸ’”β€‹

But of course, there are legends of wolves living much later than that, and in very different areas! And I have a bit of research coming out later this month which describes what happened when they went extinct in England :abunhdhappyhop:​

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After the Norman Conquests in Britain and Ireland, Rabbits were commonly kept in artificial warrens for meat and fur. πŸ‡
By the period that I study (250-500 years ago) Rabbits were widespread in England. Strangely though, they still had a mainly coastal distribution around Scotland, Ireland and Wales until much later. :abunhdsadpat:​
Map from my forthcoming book. :blobbunblush:​

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