8 – 9 July 2025, University of Cambridge. Organised by Zara Kesterton and Lucy Havard.
https://sites.google.com/view/plants-and-people/home
Historian of early modern European books, bodies, medicine & science | Author of Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print (Chicago, 2024) | Co-editor of The Recipes Project | Asst Prof at TCU | Taco enthusiast
Writer. Woman about town. Here now, I guess.
Dress and textile historian
Dress & Textile Historian | Curator | Fashion History | Culture | Archaeology | Books: @AustenDress 2019; Jane Austen's Wardrobe 2023 | In Lenapehoking / NYC
Early modern France, eating. Compassion's Edge (2018); now writing on 17thc rivers. I also like cats. Oxford mostly, Cévennes when I can. Trans-inclusive feminist, she/her.
British historian, historian of medicine, & lover of fashion. Author of Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion and Disease & Remembering Anne Beach: Love, Scandal & Sickness in 18th century Britain (forthcoming UTP).
Norwich-based academic/public archaeologist/lecturer in digital media/multimedia storytelling/cultural heritage/UCU member/dogmother/stuff/nonsense/whimsy/claptrap
Historian. Monster consultant (documentaries, etc.).
Words in LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science.
Buy HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY now: https://www.surekhadavies.org/humans-a-monstrous-history
Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/surekhadavies?tag=bluesky
Surprised historian, not surprised eels.
Doctor of medieval history, talking’ about eels, history, and maps. Spaniel mourner. Alt-text artist.
I draw custom maps on commission:
https://surprisedeelmaps.com/
Support me here: patreon.com/SurprisedEel
A podcast about the craft of writing history, hosted by Kate Carpenter. Find it at draftingthepast.com or wherever you get your podcasts.
Professor of art history at Portland State University. Author of Artemisia Gentileschi: The Language of Painting (Yale University Press) and some other stuff. 2 parts Weltschmerz, 1 part vermouth, a dash of film noir.
Leeds-based Venetianist. Works on religion, disease and death. Director of @lahri.bsky.social
Historian (early modern & true crime). TV & Podcast producer / writer.
Author - 1666: PLAGUE, WAR & HELLFIRE (out now), GOD’S THRONE: THE STUARTS 1603-1714 (currently writing).
Director of HistFest. Host Killing Time podcast.
Historian: mobility & recordkeeping of #earlymodern Catholic minorities. Book: confessional mobility and English Catholics in Early Modern Europe. Also grumpy about the state of UK Higher Education so likely to talk about how it is being failed...(She/Her)
Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
Historian and human-sacrifice enthusiast (she/her). Author of On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
Historian interested in the everyday, mom, novice potter and recipe/food enthusiast.
