13 March 1583: Nothing major happening today. In London, the ubiquitous John Dee signs a lease for two mines at Coombe Martin and Knap Down in Devon; sources differ as to whether they're for copper, lead or silver. This seems a little unexpected, but of course Dee is as much an ... 1/
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So so pleased to see that my book ‘Body Size in Early Modern Germany’ is now available on Oxford Academic ahead of its print publication later this month: academic.oup.com/book/62409
🎉🎉🎉
To mark its online publication, I thought I’d share a bit more about the book and its contents...
Since everything is TERRIBLE, let’s make a thread of good news — reply by crowing about your personal achievements & vaunt your magnificence. Whether it’s finding a load of gelded devils (here’s looking at you @matthewharrison.bsky.social) or finishing a taxing project, share all news great & small!
just had my monograph’s book cover approved!!
Just got it! Thanks though! :)
Thank you!
#earlymodern has anyone come across copies of Quarles poems in manuscript miscellanies? Nothing on CELM
You’d think that blacksmithing would be a historical profession that, aesthetic culture aside, required some bodily coverage
Looking for publisher-friendly images of vulcan’s forge and…..
those in Cambridge: I'm giving a talk on Wednesday to the Cambridge Bibliophiles on 'Obliterated Provenances in Early Modern Books' (Peterhouse, 8:45) ... and a talk on Thursday to the Material Texts Seminar on 'Halliwell-Phillipps, theft, and the problem of identifying manuscripts' (5pm)
We’re having an open day at Peterborough Archives. It’s a free event but places must be booked. Limited to 6 people per tour 10am, 1pm and 3pm. Enquiries email archives.service@peterboroughlimited.co.k
📣Out now on #firstview!
Jenni Hyde (@wallyberry.bsky.social) on 'Providence, Editorial, and News in Early Modern Ballads'
#News #Religion #God #Print #Everyday 17thc 📜🗃️
👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Thank you!
Emily Rowe reviews a Project 1961, Grasp the Nettle Films, and Park Pictures production Grand Theft Hamlet, dir. Pinny Grylls and Sam Crane
🎭: www.undiscoveredcountryfilm.com
📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/974953
📷: Production still courtesy of Sam Crane
Thank you!
Thank you!
Anyone know of any pots of money for ECRs paying for image permissions?? Sorting it all out and things are adding up..
It’s my monograph so metal, metalworking and literature — mix of historical research, material culture, and early modern literature
My article on Queen Anne’s wardrobe has just been published OA.
I provide a qualitative & quantitative overview of her extensive wardrobe accounts (incl makers & suppliers) & show how fashion influenced her representation!
#18thc #17thc #earlymodern
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I'm looking forward to sharing my creative-critical work (and craft) on the Old English Phoenix at Cambridge in a couple of weeks. The paper's almost done... I think: www.english.cam.ac.uk/seminars/Lit...
Something for #BritishPieWeek
#GreenSleeves and Pudding-Pies,
#Playford's #DancingMaster, 1686.
Pudding #pies were popular street food and they are often mentioned in #ballads and street cries.
Woodcut from a set of #CriesofLondon in the Pepys Library.
#earlymusic #earlymodern #pieweek
Anyone know of any pots of money for ECRs paying for image permissions?? Sorting it all out and things are adding up..
In person early modern metals event in London next month with me, @laurenworking.bsky.social, and Lubaaba Al-Azami. Please repost and share widely! And register here -- forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
I'm really looking forward to this event on Monday, where I'll be discussing William Bedwell with Prof. Alastair Hamilton and the curators of the Bedwell exhibition, Deborah Hedgecock & Bridget MacKernan. There's still time to sign up if you'd like to come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/william-be...
It’s #worldbookday and so here’s a book I wrote! It introduces a dozen radical 17th women who have been ignored by history books for far too long ✍️📚#voicesofthunder #newbook
Are you a PG student or ECR interested in presenting at our conference ‘Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750’ in June?
Bursaries to help with expenses are generously funded by @srsrensoc.bsky.social, so please send us your abstract by 14 March!
clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
oh! Come to Mile End! And here from these brilliant women!!! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians
Finally (inevitably?) I have succumbed to How X Read His Y! Grateful for the chance to revisit Joseph Banks’ copy (actually copies) of Thomas Tusser’s husbandry manual in verse, among other plant marginalia. And looking forward to what promises to be a great 2 days! Registration ⬇️
Here’s the full event description !
important for metal fans