Open wooden medicine chest with dozens of medicine bottles on display
What medicines did Jacobites use? This chest belonged to a Jacobite doctor, personal physician to Bonnie Prince Charlie.
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See the issue is that when I did comps and when I wrote the prospectus, I had no clue what this project was about. Therefore, how could I have read the things I needed to read before I knew I needed to read them? And people keep publishing things! Really it’s not my fault and I don’t have a problem.
I also had to hear this from my advisor recently 😅 I’ve still managed to add a half dozen new citations from more reading that I’m not meant to be doing. Oops.
On the bright side, no one can accuse me of not having a grip on the historiography (historiographies).
Fun fact, my phd advisor had to literally tell me to stop reading books because I needed to write my dissertation already. I didn't need that many connections to that meany different literatures.
So as I sit here badly transcribing a piece of 'materia medica' that appears to be about a women's salon where everyone's putting on makeup, I've gotta wonder how many mistaken bits of medieval medical text there are out there that are really just narrative sources about... girlies being girlies?
Many of the trials I work on accuse women of applying unguents to aid them in demonic worship. One woman deadpanned the court by explaining what perfume was. I have rarely laughed harder.
Every library should also have the opportunity to be an archive of some cultural form of their choosing. Maybe it's local history or an eccentric crafts-person or media form, but part of a library's unique identity should involve a nifty room filled with objects that exist nowhere else.
Heck yeah!!! Congrats!!
It is a truth universally acknowledged that babies love bubbles 🔭🧪
Worksheet titled: "Evolving from Eel-less Language" and it includes a column titled "Instead of" with a red X, and a column titled "Say this" with a green checkmark. The "Instead of" column includes sayings like "You're doing it wrong" and "Look at those used condoms in the water!" The "Say this" column includes sayings like, "You're grabbing an eel by the tail" and "Hey! Manhattan eels!" I don't have the space here to list all of them. But each expression in the "Say this" column is a bonafide (read that in a Wharvey Gal's accent) historical eel metaphor. We'd all be better off if we talked more about eels.
We're all trying to be careful with our language, so as not to offend, or not to lose federal funding for talking about paragraph transitions.
To help you out, here's a worksheet to guide you in swapping out troublesome phrases for real, historical eel expressions.
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A cartoon illustration of the grim reaper wearing a flowery robe, admiring himself in the mirror. Caption reads "Death felt pretty that day."
Be yourself. #grickledoodle #death #pretty #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor
A royal arrest. The White House ballroom. A lonely monkey.
Today's creative writing prompt
Publication day! My book Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain is out now. 20% discount code KEHO2026. www.cambridge.org/core/books/k...
For Presidents’ Day, I thought I’d put together a thread of *other* Presidents talking about George Washington and slavery. Away we go! 🧵/1
You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).
Friday the 13th comic by War and Peas. 1. The Slutty Witch walks under a ladder. She goes, "Hehe" 2. She sees a black cat and goes, "Hehe" 3. She has broken a mirror on the floor and goes, "Hehe" 4. She looks at her calendar and it's Friday the 13th. She goes "Hehe"
Happy Friday 13th!
Meme. A drawing of an eel, reproduced and turned back to back so that the eels are making a heart shape. Not a real heart, mind; the symbol we call a heart. They are set against a background of waves and sky, and they look a little like they're diving into the water together. The border of the image is pink, and the letters are white with pink trim. I don't have anything to add that could make this image any more ridiculous than it already is. Happy Valentine's Day, friends. Meme text reads: "Will you be my Veelentine?"
So. This Valentines Day, when your beloved -- or aspiring beloved! -- comes at you with chocolates or flowers, think about how they measure up to eels.
Ask yourself: "Would they eat their own bones just to be with me?"
Probably not. 'Cause no one's as romantic as an eel. /fin
You want to read this thread for what we (don’t) know about eel sex, and you want to stay for the alt text.
That one tickled me so much because it’s wildly specific, but with the bees I completely get where he’s coming from
“I am languid & bedeviled & hate writing & hate everybody.” — Charles Darwin
Same dude, same 😔
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
This makes me feel better about how long my dissertation is taking to complete
Thank you
Setting aside the absurd notion that “AI” can do the work of historians, where is the employment number coming from??
Do you have any readings to suggest that connect Cook’s legal lineage (for lack of a better term) to Nuremberg?
I've had a number of exciting abstracts for the Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present conference but I've decided to EXTEND the deadline to 22 Feb, as I'm away the prior week so won't be reviewing apps then! www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Please share. Ask Qs below! 🗃️
its just been downhill since then
also it does have a tiny little curly tail
a round pottery piece with pig eyes and a snout
i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired
Closer.
Closer…
CLOSER…
*record scratch* *freeze frame* Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering how I got here.
