Dr Laura Flannigan

With visas approved and flights booked it's now becoming very real - excited to say that I am starting a new position next month as the Warner Woodring Chair in Early Modern History at The Ohio State University @osuhistorydept! history.osu.edu/news/congratul…

Congratulations to Laura Flannigan, author of Royal Justice and the Making of the Tudor Commonwealth, 1485–1547, who has won the @RoyalHistSoc 2025 First Book Prize! 🎉 Discover the award-winning title here ▶️ cup.org/4kQ3rWp

@elpatersonPhD @osuhistorydept Me too 😢 we'll have to do them virtually!!

@LFlannigan17 @osuhistorydept SO PROUD !!! Though I will miss our coffees 😭

With visas approved and flights booked it's now becoming very real - excited to say that I am starting a new position next month as the Warner Woodring Chair in Early Modern History at The Ohio State University @osuhistorydept! history.osu.edu/news/congratul…

At the end of my first year in the US, in June 2026, I'll also be taking up a one-month fellowship @FolgerLibrary. Details of my project and all others for the current fellowship year here: folger.edu/research/the.... Hoping to meet lots of fellow scholars in DC!

Very excited to announce that my book, Royal Justice, has been awarded the RHS First Book Prize for 2025. A real honour, for a project I greatly enjoyed working on! royalhistsoc.org/winners-of-the…

This article was a real labour of love; my first real postdoctoral research project, which became an obsession at times as I tried to track down Pilkington and Catesby in different archives. Very grateful to readers and anonymous reviewers for their help making sense of it all!

Happy New Year! I for one received a lovely belated Christmas gift in the form of my new article, out now on First View for Continuity and Change. It's even available Open Access for all to read: #en44" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">cambridge.org/core/journals/…

It's that time of year again... here is the Call for Papers for next year's Fifteenth Century Conference, hosted by Prof. Christian Liddy @durham_history, 4-6th September 2025. Closing date 31st Jan 2025. Please share!

@elrhodes96 Huge congratulations, Emily - so exciting to see petitions research make national news!

I'm also thrilled that my new article has been covered on @BBCCambs and in @guardian! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Lovely to receive the news this morning that I'm now an FRHistS as full Fellow of the Royal Historical Society!

CEMS Conference - Rethinking State and Society in EM Britain. 17th December 2024. Join us for a conference on all things early modern Britain - organised by CEMS and Dr. Jonah Miller (@kingshistory). CfP deadline: 15th October. Full details: kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-ret…

@ZoeMJackson1 Many congratulations, Zoe - it sounds great! I look forward to reading it

Delighted to share that my first academic article has been published (open access) in The Seventeenth Century! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A belated post, but it was lovely to host so many late medievalists at @StJohnsOx over the end of last week for this year's Fifteenth Century Conference. Thanks again to all delegates and speakers, and I'm already looking forward to reconvening in Durham in 2025!

@tomlukejohnson @OrielOxford Many congratulations, Tom! It's going to be great to have you in Oxford

Some news: as of today, I am delighted to be starting a new position as Associate Professor and Tutorial Fellow in Medieval History @OrielOxford I'll miss my wonderful colleagues at York but I'm excited to begin this new chapter (and to work in the Bodleian again!)

My recent History Today article is now online, and available to read for free over the next week 👇

More details on the volume, including of course lots more rich old ladies, Alice Chaucer, and Gascony here: boydellandbrewer.com/9781837651993/…

...a topic I really should have covered in my book, but hopefully done some justice(!?) here. I'm indebted to many excellent scholars of medieval queenship - @JLLaynesmith, @mlbeer2, @mlcseah, Anne Crawford and more - and hope they don't mind my interloping into this field!

Chuffed to get my hands on the latest volume of The Fifteenth Century, a festschrift for my friend and colleague Rowena Archer. I contributed a chapter on some especially powerful ladies - the queens consort - how they administered justice to their estates....

Hooray! My book, Law in Common, has just come out in paperback, and is now a mere £30 Some representative index entries: - Custom, acting against - Highways, pigs in - Law-courts, feasting at - Mariners, testimony of - Theft, of eels - Vagabonds tinyurl.com/4kp237yz