Kristina Decker

Kristina Decker

@kristinadecker.bsky.social

📚Eighteenth-Centuryist 🖋️18thC history, literature, material culture & country house studies, animal histories ✉️ Secretary, Women’s History Association of Ireland 🏠 Ireland

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Gentle reminder for those that submitted an abstract for the conference. Please check your inbox (and junk email folder). We need to confirm attendance by this day next week (20 March)

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Assistant Professor in 18th Century Literature at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Discover an exciting academic career path as a Assistant Professor in 18th Century Literature at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

Come and join us!!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS657/a...

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Lecturer in Visual and Material Cultures (R&T) at University of Glasgow Searching for an academic job? Explore this Lecturer in Visual and Material Cultures (R&T) opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Come and work with us at Glasgow! Full time permanent post in History of Art: lecturer in material and visual culture with specialism in dress history or textile history. Details below 👇

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQR311/l...

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Illustration is a water colour by Louisa Beaufort, entitled a Connemara net-maker. It shows a lady and gentleman on the quays with nets, water, cobbled, stone, clouded sky. Uploaded to Wikipedia by JaneMaxwell63

#DIBNewLives Born in July 1781 and at a time when women’s intellectual contributions were rarely publicly disseminated, Louisa Beaufort was among the first in Ireland to publish in her own name and to contribute original antiquarian research. www.dib.ie/biography/be...

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I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:

If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.

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Love Letters BSU Senior Lecturer Dr Rachel Bynoth analyses love letters throughout the ages

This Valentine’s season, discover how 18th c. couples poured their hopes, anxieties and desires into hand written love letters - read my article in Bath Spa uni news feature here #18c #love #letters www.bathspa.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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It's St Gobnait's feast day so who was Cork's medieval beekeeper? St Gobnait was an Irish female saint associated with bees in the Middle Ages and is still celebrated by local communities today

It's St Gobnait's feast day, so who was Cork's medieval beekeeper @liber-ray.bsky.social @ria.ie looks at the life and times of Ireland's lesser-known patron saint of bees and beekeeping www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

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PhD placement scheme Our annual placement scheme offers doctoral researchers from all disciplines the chance to develop and apply skills and expertise outside the university sector.

Our latest PhD Placement opportunities - come and work at the British Library for 3-6 months to develop your research and professional skills. 8 projects available, deadline for applications 27 February.

www.bl.uk/services/res...

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A fox on the helmet of a human knight. The knight sits on a fabulous beast. The handdrawn image is part of a 1447 German manuscript (Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg, 2* Cod. 160).

Just a regular fox taking an #earlymodern Uber. Nothing to see here. #skystorians

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If you’re at a loose end tonight, come along to the first Galway Archeological and Historical Society lecture of the year! I’m speaking on tangled knots of sibling obligation, guardianship, unravelling family reputation and the nephews caught in the crossfire (poor Edmund). The Harbour Hotel at 8pm!

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🚨Special announcement: our annual conference will be 3–4 Sept 2026 at LSE Library, in collaboration with @lselibrary.bsky.social, & Friends House, London.

Theme: Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library: One Hundred Years of Women’s History.

Call for Papers coming mid-Jan! #WomensHistory

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Our good friends at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris are advertising a short-term research fellowship in their old library and historical archives. Check it out at portail.centreculturelirlandais.com/index.php?lv...

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A botanical collage of holly by Mary Delany (1700-1788). A botanical collage of mistletoe by Mary Delany (1700-1788).

Some festive greenery courtesy of Mary Delany.

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Between the Bindings: Uncovering the Histories of Irish Women Writers - Marsh's Library Zoë Van Cauwenberg uncovers some of the Irish women writers and illustrators in the Benjamin Iveagh collection.

In our last blogpost of 2025, Maddock Research Fellow
Dr Zoë Van Cauwenberg @zvancauwenberg.bsky.social sheds light on some of the women authors and illustrators among the book owned by Benjamin Guinness, now part of our Benjamin Iveagh collection
marshlibrary.ie/between-the-...

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Update !

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206. Christmas before Christians This week the wonderful Dr Niamh Wycherly from Maynooth University joins us to discuss what medieval Christmas was like in Ireland and whether pagans had similar festivals around the same time of year

📻 Listen back: Dr Niamh Wycherley of the Dept of Early Irish (Sean-Ghaeilge) was on Newstalk's Let Me Explain With Sean Defoe, talking about what medieval Christmas was like in Ireland and whether pagans had similar festivals around the same time of year 🎄

www.goloudplayer.com/episodes/206...

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We are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!

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Ringside seat? Women's modes of entry to the early 19th‐century parliament You have to enable JavaScript in your browser's settings in order to use the eReader.

After the hard work that goes into a peer-reviewed article, very pleased to be in print today! Come for the constructions of women’s sexuality in the 19th century Lords; stay for new diary source on the hidden attic from which women watched the Commons below onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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The facade of a terraced Georgian building in Dublin. A woman in regency dress holds up an item of clothing in front of an audience. A woman in regency dress holding a fan. An early 19th century painting of a woman holding a book.

It was lovely to catch up with @whaireland.bsky.social members on Saturday at the annual Christmas event and AGM, held this year at O’Connell House - once home to Daniel O’Connell - where @melissashiels.bsky.social helped us step back in time to Georgian Dublin with an engaging costumed talk.

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Dublin on a December day.

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On behalf of the committee and all of the members of the WHAI we would like to thank Diana Urquhart for her support as president of the association over the past five-years. Congratulations too to @sonjatiernan.bsky.social our new WHAI president.

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We had a really great catch up yesterday. Thanks again to @melissashiels.bsky.social for a fascinating talk on how Regency women dressed.

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Call for Papers

Very excited for this conference next summer!
#CFP (deadline 28 Feb) Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750 at Oxford 18-19 June 2026. #earlymodern 🗃️ clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

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Women are still absent from how history is taught and assessed in England Over a third of GCSE, AS and A-level exam papers in 2023 made no mention of women at all.

"Of the 991 history exam questions set in 2023, 357 featured a named individual, but only 31 were women – and nine of those were references to Elizabeth I or her reign."

Dr Natasha R. Hodgson of Nottingham Trent University writes this week in The Conversation bit.ly/49ZqTiq

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Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory Volume 36, Issue 3 of Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory

More happy publication news! The first of a two-part special issue on 'Irish Women's Genre Fiction' is out. Thanks to our fantastic contributors and to the editorial team at LIT! Lit: Literature Interpretation Theory: Vol 36, No 3 www.tandfonline.com/toc/glit20/3...

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Really looking forward to this tomorrow!

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An oil painting of the Linnean Society's meeting room in warm ambers and golds. Women are amongst the crowd in front of and behind the desk, and one is writing.

Women were first admitted to the Linnean Society in 1905, after a campaign by Marian Farquharson. This portrait by James Sant shows the first formal admission of women as Fellows. buff.ly/vcmY3sD #EYAInclusion

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📣 #CfP Reminder 📣

Are you a #historian researching #earlymodern gender-based violence?

📜 Check our Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow @ladygiada.bsky.social 's Call for Papers: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns 👇

⏰ Send your proposal by 20 December 2025

📣 #genderhistory #genderstudies

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Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125) - University of Warwick Title: Assistant Professor in Environmental History (111009-1125). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent

@WarwickHistory are recruiting for an Assistant Professor in Environmental History - with an open chronological and thematic focus.

Come join our excellent department with wonderful colleagues and students.

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#history #envhistory #earlymodern

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Only six days left to our annual Christmas event and AGM. Don't forget to register via the link below if you want to attend.

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