Dr Jenny Lee

Submitted an article, so you can find me refreshing the page on the submission portal every 10 minutes for the foreseeable future.

It’s a small world! Lovely to ‘see’ you too.

Inventing the Beach: The Unnatural History of a Natural Place The seashore used to be a scary place, then it became a place of respite and vacation. What happened?

The European “discovery” of the beach is a reminder that human ideas about nature have changed over time — with real consequences for the environment and the world.
#envhist #seaside #tourism #senseofplace
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inve...

Yes, it worked. Sounds like it should be an old wives tale.

That's really interesting. I once left a candle burning for too long, leaving a smoke stain on my wall. My Dad suggested using bread to remove it, and I thought it was very odd, but it makes complete sense knowing that people used it to erase charcoal.

Thanks, I’ll take a look

I just hope I’ve not been imagining it

I’m adding that to my reading list, thanks, but I don’t think that’s the one. From what I remember, the rice was the central to the argument. It might have been an article rather than a book.

Thanks, but I don’t think that’s it.

Can anyone help - I’m trying to find a publication I used in a class I taught 15 years ago (alas, younger me was not good at filing). It was a micro history of a village, I think in East Anglia. There was an archival reference to rice or rice pudding that revealed a global network of trade.

I think they look more botanical, maybe a branch or a flower stem?

Baudrillard’s 4 stages of simulacra applied to pumpkin spice Stage one (next to picture of pumpkin): Initially the sign (image or representation) is a reflection of basic reality Stage two (next to picture of pumpkin pie): the sign masks a basic reality. The image becomes a distortion of reality Stage three (next to Starbucks pumpkin spice latte): the sign marks the absence of basic reality. The image calls into question what the reality is and if it even exists Stage four (next to jug of pumpkin spice flavored coffee mate): the sign bears no relation to any reality whatsoever; it is it’s own pure simulacrum

Don’t know who made this but thank you

It’s much bigger. I found a reference in Sussex to it being about 40lb, which would make sense in the context.

#skystorians - I’m reading an 18th-century Cornish account book and keep coming across the word ‘dollap’. From context it is being used as a unit of measurement, eg ‘dollap of tea’. Has anyone else come across this or knows what it means?

“the dreadnought behind the dazzle” 🧐

Trump administration to review 19 Smithsonian museums to ensure exhibits are ‘patriotic’ White House letter orders review as part of a broader push to assert oversight over cultural institutions

Well, this is deeply worrying, and I can feel the same sentiment creeping in over here. Not so much state-sanctioned censorship, but self-censorship based on perceived hypothetical backlash.

Apart from the heat, that sounds like an ideal day. Nice selection of books

I’d love to read it!

It’s on my list

a man with gray hair is wearing a striped vest and bow tie ALT: a man with gray hair is wearing a striped vest and bow tie

Doing some Cornish smuggling research today and I’ve come across a smuggler on the (in)famous ‘Happy-go-Lucky’ ship went by the alias ‘the Doctor’…just saying 🙄

Footnote your work, people!! After spending a frustrating afternoon trying to verify a seemingly throwaway comment, footnote-your-work!

I've just remembered that I've pre-ordered a book, but I've no recollection of what it is or when it's being published. And thus begins an exciting game of waiting for what I hope will be a happy surprise. The suspense!

Well I live in Cornwall, so the cost of living isn’t too far behind London. I feel like the worst feminist ever, but I honestly couldn’t do my job if I didn’t have a partner. Our mortgage is more than my wage.

Speaking as a curator, who earns less than this and is only part time (not through choice), that’s a good wage. Maybe not for London. It’s also rare to have a curatorial post that is both full time and permanent. And I’m very aware of what minimum wage is. It’s quite demoralising to be honest.

Or you were talking to an autistic person, which is less about competition and more about finding shared points of reference to relate.

Is it available as an ebook? I'd love to read it

Try living in Cornwall and having to include Barbary pirates in exhibitions on piracy, but not in the way that those Barbary reply-guys want.

CfP for maritimebritain.org Maritime Britain Project c.1550-1750 (led by Prof Craig Lambert, University of Southampton) end of project conference is live. See poster below & register your interest on Eventbrite in attending and/or giving a paper:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maritime-b...
#maritimehistory

Review:

Jenny R. Lee on 'Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism', by Philip J. Stern.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.04.004

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