Susannah Lyon-Whaley

Truly honoured to receive these endorsements for my forthcoming book from historians who I so admire & whose work has inspired my research
@lauragowing.bsky.social @juliehardwick.bsky.social @susannah-lw.bsky.social
To read more & pre-order @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social see the links in my bio!

Can't wait to see our #StudentSalon cabinet in action in the classroom for the first time later this week! Seems like the perfect time to reshare @laurenworking.bsky.social's blog post on why we created this with student partners over the summer
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...

It was a delight to discuss 17th-century queens and their global worlds of nature at the @oxfordcourtstudies.bsky.social seminar last night. Thanks to @hannasinclair.bsky.social for the invite, to those who came and were so generous with their time and knowledge, and shared their own inspiring work!

Thank you so much for coming! I was very inspired by everyone's comments and discussion!

Poor Pip!!

Found in a 1915 article. I think I will use this going forward.

One week till I'll be speaking on the Stuart consorts and their global entanglements @oxfordcourtstudies.bsky.social. Please come if you can!

Phillis Wheatley, the first Black nature poet | The Observer Enslaved as a child, the 18th-century writer became the first published Black woman – and a pioneer of nature poetry whose legacy still inspires

'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'

Love the look of @marloavidon.bsky.social and Ælfred Hillman's CFP for a late Stuart court symposium in April in Cambridge. Please share widely! ❤️

Sharing this petition to save Art History in Aotearoa New Zealand secondary schools.
petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...

Enjoy Rita Angus's stunning view of Central Otago, 1953-56/1969, oil on canvas. Te Papa (1972-0030-1)

Autumn skies outside = the perfect time to read 2nd-year @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social student Eva Newell's blog post on cinnamon 🍁 What does Hailey Beiber's cinnamon girl make-up trend have to do with Voltaire's El Dorado? blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo... @laurenworking.bsky.social #StudentSalon

It looks so atmospheric and alive somehow!

This is tonight at 8pm UK time! Please send an email if you'd like to join!

Again and again, the response @laurenworking.bsky.social and I received from #StudentSalon workshops was how much handling objects meant.
As Rachel Hogue, MA student at @cecs-york.bsky.social says: 'Objects of the past, after all, aren’t just for looking.'

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Back into research after attending Attingham Trust's 'New Perspectives in Country Houses' course, and channelling Jane (photo from the amazing Austen/Turner exhibition at Harewood House, in collaboration with @cecs-york.bsky.social @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social )

Bugs in salons?! Recent University of York graduate Mumia Douse-Bah's blog explores the colonial context of bugs and recounts a flea on a salon attendee's breast that spurred a 'poetic frenzy' 🐛🐜
@uoyenglishrl.bsky.social @laurenworking.bsky.social #StudentSalon

blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...

We have some thought-provoking student blog posts for the #StudentSalon project - this one on trade beads is by Daisy Glassett-King, a third year student in @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...

The #StudentSalon project website is live! It's been incredible working with @laurenworking.bsky.social and students over the last few months to put together this cabinet of things to help explore 17th/18th-century salon culture from a global/decolonial perspective
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...

Over the summer, students worked with me & @susannah-lw.bsky.social on the #StudentSalon project, where they helped us assemble a cabinet of 17th & 18th century objects. Our webpage is now live and full of incredible, student-led resources - please check it out!

blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...

Being supplied for her - half of me keeps wondering if she's one of the dogs.
It sounds like hot cross buns!

I have the same with Fanny who keeps getting biscuits 😅

Sending you the details! 😀

Anyone is welcome to join the Women and Flowers research network - we have a Whatsapp group and an optional monthly meeting!

Emily Cumming Harris, Kiekie (Freycinetia banksii), nikau (Rhopalostylis sapida), five finger (Pseudopanax arboreum) and karaka (Corynocarpus laevigata) in fruit, 1879

Michele and Catherine will be speaking on Monday 29 September @8pm UK (8am on 30 September NZ time). Zoom link available by DM or email womenandflowersnetwork@gmail.com. Groundwork features Emily Cumming Harris, a (no longer) forgotten 19th-century NZ botanical artist and poet

Book cover for Groundwork: The Art and Writing of Emily Cumming Harris

If flowers are your thing - @zarakesterton.bsky.social, Tori Champion and I run a growing network on Women and Flowers. This month Michele Leggott and @deleifd.bsky.social are speaking about their beautiful book Groundwork. Details below or email womenandflowersnetwork@gmail.com to join us!🌷

Cover page of programme for the Women’s Worlds symposium.

Off to an exciting and fascinating start to a day on Women’s Worlds, on global spaces in 17th and 18th century Britain. Thank you to @susannah-lw.bsky.social & @laurenworking.bsky.social for bringing together so many interesting perspectives and research from universities, museums & heritage sites.

Thanks to Thin Ice Press and @georginaemw.bsky.social @wordsmith.bsky.social for an enlightening three days of material thinking! If I have learned anything it is that there is there is no end to matter and 'digressions are sunshine'!

Cabinet assembly day for our #StudentSalon @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social! With @susannah-lw.bsky.social and our marvellous student partners Mumia, Rachel, and Daisy.

Congratulations @eilishgregory.bsky.social and Michael Questier for putting together a great volume!

What did empire and global goods have to do with literary sociability and 17th/18th-century salon culture? Watch this space for what our students find!