On the project…
Lucas de Heere’s Wives and Daughters
Tudor Intergenerational Inequality
Interrogating ‘middling culture’: a workshop report
Middling Culture Project Launch: the Middling Sort – Some Reflections
Research: Medium and Long Reads
How to be a Goldsmith in Elizabethan Bristol
Dress Hooks of the Middling Sort
The Bridgwater Corporation Pew c.1620
Humphrey Beckham, Craft, and Literacy among the Middling Sort
Martin the Minstrel and the Playhouses of Suffolk
The Cally Family: Chester’s Early Music Scene
Lettice Green of Stratford Upon Avon and her World
Strangeness, Jacobean Drama, and Chester
How to Get Ahead in London’s Maritime World (Michael Powell-Davies)
Bringing Sextons Back: Stepney’s Buriers, Bearers and Searchers of the Dead (Michael Powell-Davies)
The Draughtsmanship of Divines in Early Modern England: Some Preliminary Observations (Guest post from Dr Hannah Yip)
Pen, Ink, Paper (Guest Post from Dr Paula Simpson)
The Early Modern Precariat: Women in the Precarious Household Middling
Jane Ratcliffe and the life of an ‘upper middling’ woman in seventeenth-century Chester
Immigration, Travel, and Social Mobility: TIDE and Middling Culture Case Studies
The Elizabethan Civil Service, or If at First You Don’t Succeed, Get Up and Petition Again
Jamming together: Recreating improvised seventeenth-century musical divisions (Guest Post from Nina Kümin)
Accessorising Early Modern England: A Middling Culture of Portable Antiquities (guest post by Michael Lewis)
Agility in the face of diversity: Glassmakers, Glaziers, and the Middling Sort (guest post by Louise Hampson)
General Posts and Experience
Mudlarking in the Thames, Part 1: An Immediate Reflection
Mudlarking on the Thames, Part 2: What can we do with Fragments and Waste?
WFH 1: Working from (the early modern) Home
WFH 2: Tradesmen and Tools for Working from Home
Media Moments
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