Kate So

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We are looking for a small press to take up a temporary residency at UCL!

£5,000 to spend flexibly, an opportunity to work with outstanding collections & collaborate with brilliant students and staff!

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The new Drag Path version and The Great Divide coming out at similar times is a real Twofer for girlies with religious trauma.

I wish I had the stomach to watch it. It might be a ‘drinking game’ situation, I think!

Nellie Dean? She is also a villain!

There’s a bit where Lockwood tries to deflect from awkwardness by saying ‘oh you like cats’ and pointing to a pile of furry things and then realises they’re dead rabbits. As someone who has smiled at many a handbag on the tube thinking it was a dog, it gets me every time.

The Wuthering Heights discourse annoys me on so many levels, but I especially hate to see people forgetting how genuinely funny parts of it are.

Andrew: Oh my 66th birthday morn, what a noncing nice day

Police cars pull up. Paddington gets out.

'Being detained at your brother's pleasure' will never not be funny

The story of syringes | National Museums Scotland Syringes are important medical tools and have existed for thousands of years. The humble hypodermic injection is also known in Scotland as the jaborjag. It

Anyone else really enjoying The Artful Dodger on Disney? I spend most programmes looking up history of medicine facts relating to the storyline. Check out the collections @ntlmuseumsscot.bsky.social for objects from 19th century medicine www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c...

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Guide dogs or good dogs from the Middle Ages Medieval illustrations often show blind people, sometimes with dogs. But working out whether these were actually guide dogs involves a mix of detailed detective work and expert speculation.

A thread of my articles at Wellcome Stories. Starting with some very good dogs.
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It's been such fun cutting my TV Consultant teeth fact-checking scripts for this show. It's been very fun to wear both my 'academic pedant' and 'engaging interpretation and storytelling' hats at the same time! (and always a joy to annoy the amazing team at @bharchives.bsky.social)

A picture of Lucy, a white person with short blonde hair and glasses. The caption reads: “Star Chamber Mad Lad of the Week, episode 1: The arrest of William Stanhawe (1600)”.

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I’ve started putting up some videos on my public Instagram, including this series I tentatively title “Star Chamber Mad Lad of the Week”. This week, it’s William Stanhawe’s fairly successful avoidance of arrest in 1609. #skystorians

#EarlyModern 🗃️

Rosamund Oates is researching the history of early modern deafnes - see her P&P article, book out soon I think.

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Additional advisory, if you are a UK or Irish citizen but also a citizen of another country, you must use a UK paper to travel to the UK.

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Me, when someone asks me to talk about James Lind and the H.M.S Salisbury scurvy trial.

Also, you’re telling AI all your data and giving you it your likeness? For what? Them to scrape and sell? Because you lack taste and think it’s cute? Baby, that’s a Trojan Horse.

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I do not have time to be polite to friends/ mutuals/ colleagues who are posting those vapid ‘AI caricatures’ of themselves. I can’t say I told you so, when we’re all dead from disaster, be it ecological or geopolitical.

Obsessed with this ‘sorry’ card that seems to have sarcastic vibes?

"I wonder if there's any mention of pseudoarch/related subjects on r/QAnonCasualties..."

An intolerable level of disrespect to the art form of the Clinch Cover.
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A series of black and white photos showing a soldier's face that has been damaged during the war, along with the reconstructive work and final result.

I spoke with Drs. Azoury & Davis (two plastic surgeons) about my book THE FACEMAKER - about the pioneering surgeon Sir Harold Gillies, who rebuilt soldiers' faces during WWI. His work was utterly transformative. You can listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2411976/epis...

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Researching the plague for a freelance job and ended up telling the client about how I got royally told off at primary school years old for fiercely (read: loudly) defending the innocence of rats.*

*and I'd do it again!!

Radek Hanus, a mature student in his second year of a nursing course, has lived in Southend for four years. He only found out that the university was closing when he saw an article in the local paper during a shift on his nursing work placement. "It's a joke," Hanus says. "I've lost two years of time and money and education. People are devastated." Hanus is registered disabled due to his Crohn's disease. "Commuting to Colchester will cost me something like £800 a month in petrol. How can I possibly afford that?"

The cruelty of making this decision the way that the did, without even the decency of telling people. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I had a fun conversation with Miranda Melcher for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about my new book THE DREADED POX and all the wild ways to treat a clap in the 1700s. newbooksnetwork.com/the-dreaded-...

A Roman Mosaic. Trust us. This is a wolf. It may look like Batman after he's fallen asleep at a party and his "mates" have "decorated" him, but it's a wolf.

Morning!
#MosaicMonday

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Dive into maritime history! Join us Monday, Jan 26 (1–2 pm CET) for SHIPS & SEAFARING 1500–1800 with Dr Felix Rösch from Lübeck’s heritage department. Discover the spectacular 17th-century Lübeck shipwreck & its place in North European shipbuilding. Online on Zoom! #archeology #earlymodern #history

Front cover of 'Bethlem Hospital: A History of Care and Control' by Evelyn Cross. The image shows a Victorian (?) institution viewed through open gates. Two statues stand on the gate posts

So, part of my job is to see what people are making of the history of our Hospital.

Bethlem partly exists in the gothic, horror-adjacent end of history, and so attracts a certain kind of presentation.

Restraints, gore, electrodes, I thought I'd seen it all. Until...

...I stumbled onto this book.