John Gallagher
Irishman in Yorkshire. Historian of language, education, mobility at the University of Leeds. Co-editor of the Historical Journal, occasional BBC radio presenter. Dad!
- tfw you're a good Protestant clerk but you can't get transubstantiation off your mind
- I'm not sure if Helen Good is on here, but does anyone know what's up with the University of Houston website on the Elizabethan Star Chamber? I'm having no luck with getting into it and wonder if it's offline. @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social, you might be in the know?
- Paging the archives for the genius who wore his freshly ironed white shirt to an appointment with history's grubbiest documents.
- I'm not sure who wrote this Warwick guide to watermark databases but I heartily enjoyed the gentle warning to the uninitiated that with one particular database "you need to know your trefoils from your fleurons".
- Honoured to be mentioned in one of @neilayounger.bsky.social's Elizabethan on-this-day posts, and delighted to confirm that you can read all about the fragrant but stab-happy Italianate Londoner John North here:
- William Herle reports from Antwerp too, a lot of self-pitying stuff, but also interesting tales about John North, son and heir of the puritan Lord North, but evidently a lively character ( @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social has written about him). North is being accused of attending Mass (his father... 8/
- @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social Hi Lisa -- you don't, by some grand stroke of luck, happen to have an electronic copy of Smith's handlist to the archives of the French Protestant Church in London? I'm trying to check things on a tight timeline without access (and am not currently a HS member...)
- Just held a copy of the will of a woman who died in London in 1593. I know a little about her -- that she was born in Hasselt in Belgium, came to England, married another migrant, a notary who died only days before her. It's likely they both died of the plague.
- I have a pocketful of audiobook credits jangling round and am in the market for some BBC radio dramas. The criteria are that they should be extremely enjoyable, ideally also fun in some respect — my go-tos are the Simon Russell Beale Smiley adaptations and the Peter Wimsey radio dramas. Any ideas?
- "Why did early modern people waste so much time writing the same unnecessary platitudes in every letter", I wonder, as I start yet another voice note with an apology for sending a voice note
- Second book review of the week filed! Great news for anyone who was thinking "I still feel like I know too few of John's opinions on things".
