@lucyjsclarke.bsky.social
interdisciplinary historian of early modern England; Leverhulme ECF at Sheffield, working on 'Performing the early modern English state into reality, 1558-1641'. socio-legal history, practice-as-research as historical method. mum of cats and a small human.
parenthood is full of discoveries. for example, yesterday I got to experience what it feels like to be punched in the face by someone with a fistful of banana.
no cheeses for us meeces
Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead
It doesn’t escape me that these are named after a woman and a teenage girl. It does not escape me that medical misogyny continues to kill.
Congrats Shirley!
just to be clear there is SO MUCH precedent for arresting a senior royal. just not any precedent where it ends well for them
it was as I vigorously lipsynched to the Lonely Island’s “Sushi Glory Hole” while folding laundry in front of my six month old that I thought, “gosh, my daughter is getting such a unique upbringing”.
Six (more) historians in my department have taken (been pressured into) voluntary redundancy. Since we cross teach, supervise, & tutor, politics staff now have more work to do. The solution? Pressure staff (those with the biggest caring & teaching commitments) to move onto teaching only contracts.
unforced error
Hey, Bluesky history nerds! Who are your favorite pre-modern historians on here?
📢FESTIVAL OF SOCIAL HISTORY📢
❓Celebration of 50 years of the Social History Society
📅 Fri 24 April
📍 Senate House, London
🫰£30 (£10 non members)
Join us for panel discussion, stalls & tours, plus keynote from Prof. Naomi Tadmor.
🗃️ #EarlyModern
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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
Liz Truss waiting patiently by her phone for Reform to ring, not realising it's actually a penguin biscuit
I'm afraid there *is* an obvious answer: it can't.
And the England cricket team - who did NOT get whitewashed
Possibly the loveliest man in academia!
disquieting to read the story about OUH maternity care today.
Oh my god, SAME
whenever someone I know in professional contexts discovers I’ve had a baby and writes me a congratulatory email, they foolishly activate my trap card: sending a raft of unsolicited photographs of the Nugget
I LOVE THIS THREAD
‘Labour polled 11% in a seat that the party has held for 100 years’ is the headline news this morning. Feels like a headline going to hear a lot in the next year.
(Also result - Plaid win - does show that the fissuring of British politics isn’t all to the right)
A periodic reminder that the ORIGINAL STAR CHAMBER CEILING from Westminster Palace is now in a hotel outside Liverpool. www.leasowecastle.com/dine
I wonder if the Leverhulme would let me use my research allowance to go stay there. You know. For research purposes.
Oh, brilliant!
Oh my god the cringe turned me inside out.
Eton Mess, or trifle. I’m never more evangelical about British culture than when recommending both.
The worst use of quotation marks in the history of human civilisation is in.
“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”
my little girl started smiling at us properly, and we completed on a house!