@toujoursbizarre.bsky.social
Art history PhD candidate at CAMC Coventry in Guazzo’s Compendium Maleficarum and iconographies of witchcraft. British Museum events assistant AAH DECR committee deputy chair
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28.06.2025 10:45 — 👍 8 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0The staff is having an interesting debate on how to exhibit this as a 1960/70s “stop immigration” graffiti, unrelated to the factory, dramatically changes the history and nature of this object.
#stalbansmuseumandgallery #museumwork #preventiveconservation
Earlier this week I helped clean a 1920s sign that St Albans Museum (where I volunteer sometimes) rescued from the old Ballito stockings factory. It was quite dirty, but no major restoration work was needed. BUT,
25.07.2025 16:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Don't forget that we are recruiting for our new committee! If you have any questions, please email us as we are happy to answer.
Keep on scrolling to see what roles we are recruiting for the next academic year!
Photograph of Professor Neil Forbes delivering his keynote speech titled about the twentieth century after the First World War.
Photograph of History Lab conference programmes and Royal Historical Society bookmarks, leaflets and badges.
Our conference has kicked off! We were welcomed by History Lab's Chair @thomascryer.bsky.social, Director of @ihr.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social, and Professor Neil Forbes from Coventry University who is delivering his keynote speech 👨🏫
Don't forget that you can join us online! 💻
Too busy chairing the last panel to share about the papers individually, but some fascinating talks by @toujoursbizarre.bsky.social , Dan Harms and Neil Tarrant!
#MagicWitchCon
What I mean when I tell my friends that I’m not sure I deserve a PhD is that I’ve just spent the past five minutes annoyed at some water for not boiling when I simply had not turned on the stove
13.04.2025 20:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Best adventure ever! Can’t wait for the next one!🧙🏻♀️
28.03.2025 21:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Postcards of woodcuts: devil and woman images reading “witch, please!” and knight mounted on black horse slaying dragon reading “Spenser, Make allegorie great againe” by digitalrenaissance.uvic.ca
Cover of graphic novel made for Andrew Sneddon’s 1711 Islandmagee Witches project showing girl in bonnet against a yellow-lit window and the white cottage where the accusations began @w1711.org
Leaflet from the Vesuvian Lost Cities project showing QR code and engraving of volcano erupting
Leaflets from LEMDO online text Hornbooks and more woodcut images from Digital Renaissance Editions including Newes from Scotland linocut in gold ink by Brett Greatley Hirsch and “Moves like Jaggard” postcard showing printing press
Celebrating scholarship and creativity #RSA2025 Star papers, lovely friends including @mikkibrock.bsky.social @ellenwerner.bsky.social @pjsalzman.bsky.social
@jmhclark.bsky.social
@drandrewsneddon.bsky.social @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social @toujoursbizarre.bsky.social @hsbamford.bsky.social
So nice seeing you @mikkibrock.bsky.social ! Thanks for coming☺️ and see you in York!
22.03.2025 18:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
We’re shipping up to Boston (and bringing witchcraft!) #rsa #rensa25 #boston #witchcraft #witchcraftstudies
19.03.2025 12:08 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Getting ready #salem
17.03.2025 16:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0There's still time to get your abstracts in for the CREMS Magic and Witchcraft conference!
Please share widely in this low-algorithm world 💌
“The witch-burner’s MEIN KAMPF”?!?
WTF call me an academic snob but this sums up PERFECTLY my problem with non-specialistic publications about witchcraft
I wish I could be sarcastic about working at 9PM on a Saturday on the lines of “do a PhD, they said, it’ll be fun, they said” but everyone did indeed warn me and it is just completely, thoroughly, truly my fault
22.02.2025 21:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0📢NOW AVAILABLE TO BOOK!
Join us on Monday 18th November for our Abstract Writing Workshop to help you craft clear, engaging and successful abstracts!
Use the link below to book onto this extremely informative workshop!
history.ac.uk/events/abstr...
Any suggestion and/or retweet very much appreciated, thank you!🦇🧙🏻♀️#earlymodernwitchcraft #earlymodernbooks #woodcut
19.09.2024 11:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#historians #arthistorians of #witchcraft help! I’m hoping to argue that this print in Guazzo’s Compendiun Maleficarum is the ONLY image showing animals that are witches transformed (to enter the victims’ houses more easily) and NOT familiars as all other images. Anyone knows of others?
19.09.2024 11:17 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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