With #InternationalWomensDay this Sunday, we're delighted to bring you another guest blog post from the wonderful
@emmashepley.bsky.social! Emma shines a light on the lives of working women at St Bartholomew's Hospital in the 18th C #WomensHistoryMonth
www.bartshealth.nhs.uk/archives-blo...
What day is it today? It's
* Bandcamp Friday AND
* nearly International Women's Day
so to celebrate #GirlsGotPolyphony it's time to go to our Bandcamp page and grab lots of #nuntastic music
It's also time for a big, HUGE announcement! Sneak a peak at our Linktree for a clue
linktr.ee/musicasecreta
Green-blue-grey blocky soundwaves on background. Centred in black serif lettering “Sonance”, with “journal of early modern sound studies” underneath.
👀 Over the last few months, I’ve been working with the terrific triumvirate @spparkle.bsky.social, @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social & Hannah Yip to set up “Sonance: A Journal of Early Modern Sound Studies”, a diamond open access journal dedicated to historic sounds in all their wondrous & eclectic forms.
Same email over here.
A 3x3 grid titled "Is it a library? Alignment chart". Horizontal axis categories: Contents purist: Must contain books Contents neutral: Must contain information Contents rebel: Can contain anything Vertical axis categories: Curation purist: Must be managed by a professional librarian Curation neutral: Must be curated by someone Curation rebel: Can be managed by nobody Examples represented on the grid: Curation purist, contents purist: New York Public Library is a library Curation purist, contents neutral: A newspaper archive is a library Curation purist, contents rebel: A school information commons is a library Curation neutral, contents purist: A home bookshelf is a library Curation neutral, contents neutral: A Spotify playlist is a library Curation neutral, contents rebel: A zoo is a library Curation rebel, contents purist: A street library is a library Curation rebel, contents neutral: A PC downloads folder is a library Curation rebel, contents rebel: A junk drawer is a library
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Friday Feb 27 5:30 pm London time: Feike Dietz will speak on “Blindness, Writing and Knowing: Visually Impaired Female Authors in the Netherlands (1770-1840)” to the IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person at IHR Wolfson Rm 2 and online. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The bell behind me is c/o wonderful friends who had heard that Oxbridge colleges rang bells when people submitted their theses. So they rang the bell as we walked down the main shopping street of Adelaide to the university's postgraduate office.
A white woman with short hair and glasses clutches three bound books closely to her while looking sheepish. A messy office is behind, and a bell on the desk.
Thirteen years since I submitted my PhD. It... feels like longer?
Anyway my clutching attitude to letting things go to review hasn't changed much. I should work on that.
Hello, fellow historians, especially those in the north of the UK! Booking is open for the second of our events on Second Projects, organised by me and Tracey Loughran and supported by History UK - details of speakers and registration link below!
ahc.leeds.ac.uk/events/event...
The machine will probably still be warm on Monday.
Friendly reminder that we’re still accepting nominations the NC Prize for Best Journal Article!
Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.
Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:
I can't speak for Oxford, but just to vouch for the website as legit and very useful for unglamorous but affordable stays in expensive cities.
Puzzle Binding!
Tricky! These are almost as rare as hen's teeth, and we just...
Had One???
And, it includes HOW Many Books? (Five from Germany c. 1601 and a blank one at last count...) #Vexierbuch #DosADos @newberrylibrary.bsky.social (Case C 823 .966)
As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️
sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...
Coming in November from @brisunipress.bsky.social, In the Aftermath of Empire explores the impact of British imperialism on gender and sexuality law in four jurisdictions.
Please tell your libraries to pre-order!
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/in-the-after...
Publication day! 🥳 Some thoughts on the pros & cons of 'retrospective diagnosis' for enriching disability archives.
Portraiture and Disability: Cripping Retrospective Diagnosis: Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies: Vol 20, No 1 liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
The BBC oddly doesn't mention that one of Hebden's claims to fame is having a very high percentage of LGBTQ+ residents. So if the note's real, there's also a strong chance that some homophobia (and misogyny) is also at play: www.thepinknews.com/2026/01/16/h...
"An open source and customizable publishing tool, EditionCrafter allows users to easily publish digital editions as feature-rich and sustainable static sites..."
Question for #EarlyModern #Skystorians please! 🗃️
What are your favourite online places to search for public domain images?
(free to use, out of copyright, cleared by copyright owner for public use etc)?
Example: Public Domain Image Archive pdimagearchive.org
A handwritten page in a notebook. It begins 'Friday May 29th 1840. Journey to London.' It then lists each stop on the journey and how many miles there was in between.
A double page from the same notebook continuing the details of the journey.
A modern document, showing a table which summarises the journey, giving place names and distances in miles.
Our #ArchiveOfTheWeek, this fascinating notebook, shows that if you were travelling from Chesterfield to London in 1840 you would have changed coach 17 times and have needed 65 horses in total! The 158 mile journey would have taken 7 hours and 45 minutes.
#EYAConnections
![Collage of three sepia photographs from the Cardiff Docklands Collection.
The first shows a formal portrait of a couple [a White woman sitting, Black man standing] and a small Multiethnic boy. The second shows a young Black woman dressed smartly sitting posed in an artist’s studio - “From May to Etta with Love” is written in the top left of the photo. The third photo shows a White woman [in smart Edwardian clothing] standing alongside a very small Black boy standing on a chair, dressed in a smart velvet suit with white frilled collar and white knee-high socks.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7cswerpm6grj7sb2af5nbh5j/bafkreibn5l5touyk5cqwqezo7gtlqp5mszohb5kiip64ggpywmmosucdfu@jpeg)
Collage of three sepia photographs from the Cardiff Docklands Collection. The first shows a formal portrait of a couple [a White woman sitting, Black man standing] and a small Multiethnic boy. The second shows a young Black woman dressed smartly sitting posed in an artist’s studio - “From May to Etta with Love” is written in the top left of the photo. The third photo shows a White woman [in smart Edwardian clothing] standing alongside a very small Black boy standing on a chair, dressed in a smart velvet suit with white frilled collar and white knee-high socks.
Our volunteers loved working on this collection of portraits from Cardiff’s docklands community, taken between 1900-1920.
The images are held at @glamarchives.bsky.social @archiveswales.bsky.social @exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #EYAConnections
FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.
Stiff competition, but I have to say yes.
A very awkard drawing of a hand pointing right
Gertrude Savile bringing probably one of the worst manicules I have ever had the joy of finding.
Oooh-- now you can see Mat Collishaw's 'Mask of Youth' for yourself*, and ask, as I did, 'Does a Face Have Ears?'
thepolyphony.org/2018/12/17/d...
*if you are in Cambridge, UK, before 19 April
POLITICAL CHOICES, MADE BY POLITICIANS.
So many departments that have been shrunk based on the metrics that showed unsatisfactory employability outcomes. Every single time we yelled that *it is not in our power to change the economy* that is the Prime Minister's job.
Glad to have the neat graphs to point at next time. #UKHE
Ever seen one of our expert talks advertised and thought "Wish I was able to watch this from home"?
Well, you're in luck - From Ship to Screen- Archery and the Mary Rose will be taking place Saturday 14th March 2026, and is online only!
Find out more at maryrose.org/events/from-...
One for listeners of @draftingthepast.bsky.social perhaps
