Medieval Exchequer Research Fellow @virtualtreasury; research on medieval & early modern Westminster & medieval Ireland; formerly @VSS_Project; Dogs; She/her.
Joined February 2014
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13 Aug 2021
New pinned tweet time! My book came out in 2020, and the link to it on the @boydellbrewer website has changed.
It's been reviewed as an 'impressive study', 'a refreshingly different approach' and 'a full and rich portrait of an institution'.
boydellandbrewer.com/9781783…
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30 Oct 2024
Reposting for UK budget day and because I've just been finding more medieval women active in the Dublin exchequer.
8 Jul 2024
I promised @RebeccaMenmuir and @onslies that I'd write about 13th century women working in the exchequer- here you go! All that we know about Rachel Reeves' medieval predecessors at the treasury:
medium.com/@elizabethcbiggs/…
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28 Oct 2024
Have you seen the digitised register of Archbishop John Swayne on the @VirtualTreasury? 📚
Read about the project to conserve and digitise it in the blog and image gallery on the VTRI website with the full digital version D.A Chart’s summary here:
virtualtreasury.ie/item/PRON…
ALT A page from the Register of Archbishop John Swayne
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22 Oct 2024
I’m super pleased that we’re getting closer to having translations of all the receipt rolls @UkNatArchives, alongside Connolly’s translation of the issue rolls and full digitisations of the originals. There’s so many wonderful details in them!
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15 Oct 2024
A rare and remarkable occurrence of two female printer-publishers not only working together but using their given names: Yolande Bonhomme's imprint and Charlotte Guillard's colophon in an edition of Augustine published in Paris in 1541 (USTC 204524)! hdl.handle.net/10481/10736
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11 Oct 2024
The before and after of Juno going to be groomed. Thorough attitude in both.
ALT A white dog in a car
ALT A brushed out white dog in a car.
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11 Oct 2024
Very much looking forward to seeing the Guild of St Anne deeds join the medieval collections available through @VirtualTreasury.
Deeds are such telling and important records for finding out more about people's ordinary lives.
11 Oct 2024
We are delighted to announce a new project with our partners @VirtualTreasury to enhance access the Guild of St Anne collection. This collection offers a wealth of info about Dublin’s social structure & civic culture from 13th - 18th C. Read more here:
ria.ie/2024/09/30/medieval-d…
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Dr Elizabeth Biggs retweeted
8 Oct 2024
Born in 1911, Margaret Griffith was the first female Deputy Keeper at the Public Record Office of Ireland, serving from 1956-1971. Find out more about her pioneering work in the new @DIB_RIA entry by @CWallaceDublin at bit.ly/3NjXZww. #WomenInHistory #IrishArchives
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Dr Elizabeth Biggs retweeted
5 Oct 2024
Jessica Baldwin of @NARIreland showing a MS from 1309 — one of the oldest records to survive the fire of 1922
@HistFest @VirtualTreasury @irishmanuscript
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Dr Elizabeth Biggs retweeted
4 Oct 2024
Thought-provoking podcast here with Robert Bartlett and a special reference to @VirtualTreasury and the destruction of Irish medieval records: open.spotify.com/episode/364…
@HistoryHit
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1 Oct 2024
One of my favourite documents @UkNatArchives document of the month for October!
It was such fun to work on the collaborations with heritage scientists that meant we were able to read even more of the text than ever before.
ALT A medieval document in a case surrounded by the tools used in its creation and conservation.
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1 Oct 2024
Exciting new Stories Unboxed display @UkNatArchives for October. Find out how heritage scientists and historians collaborated to experiment in reading 'under' gall to recover lost medieval text: A medieval Irish roll with hidden grievances – The National Archives
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Dr Elizabeth Biggs retweeted
13 Sep 2024
In conservation @PRONI_DFC work is underway on Archbishop Milo Sweteman’s register with @VirtualTreasury. Acidic early 20th century repairs are removed with agarose gel and replaced with kozo paper wsp infills
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9 Sep 2024
Very pleased to have an essay in this collection, in the amazing cluster on medieval forgery/ forging the medieval, where I think about how Ireland's medieval history has been shaped by archival losses (and it's open-access too!). Thanks so much to the editors!
9 Sep 2024
we have just released an exciting new issue of /postmedieval/!! 🎉🎉
👉 link.springer.com/journal/41…
#medievaltwitter
ALT Image of cover featuring MS Morgan C/1, Page-spread from Scrapbook 1, 225–26, University of Glasgow Library Archives and Special Collections. Read more at: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41280-024-00326-1
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7 Sep 2024
Seven years of my publishing on St Stephen’s Westminster with the biggest of thanks to @CanaryCaroline and the @boydellbrewer team! All of them are very much a memorial for the best of supervisors, Mark Ormrod.
ALT Seven books on a wooden countertop.
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17 Jul 2024
Very pleased to have contributed to this w/ @pablodiablo74 and @Lucia_InTheSky_. Heritage science makes it possible to read damaged medieval documents, including some gnarly ones @UkNatArchives @VirtualTreasury (free via the link below until September)
authors.elsevier.com/c/1jRPu…
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16 Jul 2024
The news is out! I'm thrilled to share that I rediscovered eight 17th-century paper objects made by schoolgirls when @SuttonHouseNT was one of Hackney's many female academies. These paper cuts are an extremely rare example of an art form written about by Hannah Woolley (1/2)
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15 Jul 2024
I really can't wrap my head around how a management could be so silly to remove their institution from the urgent & critical work being done about Black British History. What an own goal. Save Goldsmiths from its management: chng.it/xjV6tZxnY6
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11 Jul 2024
In today's chaos translations relating to the Templars in Ireland, "doleum vacuum" is sadly not a sad vacuum cleaner which time-travelled to 1308, but instead simply an empty cask.
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8 Jul 2024
A reminder that the closing date for the 2024 IMC Student Prize is 31 July. A prize of €1,000 will be awarded to a postgraduate student for editing a short historical document. Read more about the prize here irishmanuscripts.ie/imc-stud…
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