Table of contents for my forthcoming short monograph 'Listening to Early Modern Travel Writing: Sound, Bodies and Purchas His Pilgrimes'.
Introduction 3
Chapter 1: Earwitnessing and the Authentication of Experience 10
1. Knowledge and Experience 10
2. Teaching the Ear to Hear 14
3. Reliable Earwitnesses 18
4. Textual Earwitnesses 22
Chapter 2: Embodied Travellers 31
1. Collective Auditory Knowledge 31
2. Wonder and the Natural World 34
3. Listening to the Other 40
4. Listening to Themselves 46
5. Alternative Acoustemologies 55
Chapter 3: Embodied Readers 60
1. Bodies and Books 61
2. Purchas’s Labouring Body 63
3. Managing the Reader’s Body 69
4. Staging Traveller’s Bodies 77
Epilogue: Embodied Empire 82
References 88
Manuscripts 88
Printed Primary Sources 88
Secondary Sources 89
aaand she has a full first draft!
this silly little book has taken me far too long, but i'm finally starting to think it'll be set free soon! huzzah.
01.12.2025 21:18 — 👍 33 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector bit.ly/47Y3hYI
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
18.11.2025 16:22 — 👍 35 🔁 40 💬 0 📌 2
Want to understand the relationship between King James VI & I & his favourite, Buckingham, from their own letters?
Read all about it in my forthcoming academic book, Exploring Early Sexualities. The Desires of King James VI & I.
Released 2 weeks today!
#QueerLit #EarlyModern
27.11.2025 16:36 — 👍 34 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 2
A Provincial Market in Second-Hand Books: Book Sales in Devon, 1688–1725
Abstract. Comparatively little is known about England’s early book-auction trade outside of London and the university towns, with few catalogues surviving
*small embarrassed voice*
A little plug for my article on Devon book sales c. 1700, which has gone online open access. tl;dr book auctions weren't just a London/Oxbridge thing: a flourishing second-hand book market centred on Exeter included auctions from the 1680s.
doi.org/10.1093/libr...
27.11.2025 09:31 — 👍 246 🔁 83 💬 13 📌 7
Parliamentary Culture and Indigenous Traditions of Assembly in the Americas and South and East Asia, c.1500–1700
Welcome to Cambridge Core
Our special section of the Transactions of the @royalhistsoc.org on 'Parliamentary Culture and Indigenous Traditions of Assembly in the Americas and South and East Asia, c.1500–1700', co-ed with @pseaward.bsky.social & Jim van der Meulen is out!
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
27.11.2025 13:00 — 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
'“During that roundtable, we heard that a provider could collapse before the end of the year,” she [Helen Hayes] said. As the hearing was in late November, this was “essentially a warning of an imminent collapse of a higher education institution”, she added.' 1/3
25.11.2025 16:41 — 👍 24 🔁 18 💬 3 📌 1
Front page of RHS blog post: 'Joining the Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society. A brief guide if you're considering an application'. with abstract: 'Fellowship is one of several ways to join and belong to the Royal Historical Society. Fellows are elected to this position by the Society in recognition of their work for the historical discipline and profession. There are many different routes to Fellowship, just as there are different kinds of contributions and careers within the discipline of history.'
Fellows of the Royal Historical Society are historians working in a wide range of sectors (in and beyond education) in the UK and worldwide.
We've a new guide about becoming a Fellow: bit.ly/48iH0oG If you'd like to join a 4000+ community of historians, please consider an application #Skystorians
25.11.2025 08:30 — 👍 26 🔁 22 💬 0 📌 2
i am going to look into this later thanks for flagging!
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Jesus, Mary and Joseph and the Wee Donkey. 🤦♀️
24.11.2025 20:27 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
OK yes 100% to this. WHEN?
24.11.2025 14:50 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Joining the Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society: a brief guide if you’re considering an application | Historical Transactions
The Royal Historical Society has published a very helpful guide to its various membership categories, including the Fellowship. If you're engaged in History study, research or teaching (including in public history, journalism & GLAM) & keen to support the discipline, do have a look. #Skystorians
24.11.2025 10:07 — 👍 34 🔁 32 💬 0 📌 1
right?? have just emailed all my students too haha
24.11.2025 09:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
haha yeah i did hear it was based on a podcast. can't wait to read it 😂
23.11.2025 21:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Title page of a book by Ana Garriga and Carmen Urbita called 'Convent Wisdom: How Sixteenth Century Nuns Could Save your Twenty-First century Life'. The book cover is mainly yellow, the nun in a habit is in pink.
Calling all #nuntastic folks, I just discovered this and WOW I have questions (that will soon be answered with next day delivery.....!) LOL #earlymodern 🗃️
23.11.2025 20:00 — 👍 52 🔁 8 💬 6 📌 0
I'm so sorry Tracey. Thinking of you ❤️
21.11.2025 18:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yayeeeeee
21.11.2025 18:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's here! Our special issue of JECS (journal of @bsecs.bsky.social), a bumper vol of cutting-edge interdisciplinary research on 18c networks, gender, sociability & manuscript, deriving from @maryhamiltonpapers.bsky.social project. I'll be skeeting today about the contributions in turn...stay tuned!
21.11.2025 08:34 — 👍 52 🔁 21 💬 2 📌 0
imagine having so little work you can spend half a day yelling about how you're against a thing nobody even asked you for
21.11.2025 17:35 — 👍 384 🔁 69 💬 20 📌 1
congratulations!
19.11.2025 08:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Photograph of the following three titles:
Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society. The Palmers' Guild of Ludlow, by Rachael Harkes
Waterscapes: Reservoirs, Environment and Identity in Modern England and Wales, by Andrew McTominey
Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940, by Gareth Roddy
We are delighted to receive today print copies of the three latest titles in our 'New Historical Perspectives' book series, published with @ihr.bsky.social and @uolpress.bsky.social
Each title is available in paperback print and free Open Access: further details bit.ly/4pl2gkA #Skystorians
18.11.2025 13:36 — 👍 31 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 1
Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
Horrific, stupid news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social — they are closing their music department. Apparently they all found out suddently in a meeting yesterday.
It is one of the best music departments in the country — solidarity with my colleagues and their students
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
06.11.2025 14:25 — 👍 215 🔁 112 💬 11 📌 16
also just clocked the julian of norwich reference in perfume and milk. 🔥
06.11.2025 08:30 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a @crems-york.bsky.social seminar w @nailyas.bsky.social abt her research on #earlymodern library tourism followed by a night out w our amazing early modern grad students has me heading to bed feeling all full of joy and ideas. this is what academia should be folks. wish every day was like this!
05.11.2025 21:50 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers
Florence Welch Was Visited by Psychic Cats While Writing Everybody Scream
very much enjoying evelyn's daughter's new album, and delighted that the @warburginstitute.bsky.social gets a mention too 😂 @evelynwelch.bsky.social
#earlymodern 🗃️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_mc...
05.11.2025 08:35 — 👍 22 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0
“Brown Sugar Makes the World Go ‘Round”: A Conversation with Kim F. Hall on The Sweet Taste of Empire | Barnard Center for Research on Women
Tomisin Fasosi interviews Kim F. Hall on her new book, The Sweet Taste of Empire
Want a taste of *Sweet Taste of Empire*? See this pre-launch discussion w/ a former student about the book, my relationship to writing and to food -- and why it's not just about the early modern. #booksky #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace #writing #foodhistory #history
bcrw.barnard.edu/brown-sugar-...
06.10.2025 20:50 — 👍 66 🔁 33 💬 2 📌 3
Once Upon a Time in the North
Hope you don’t mind me sharing this again. I’m just so excited to share this brand new podcast series produced by @histfest.bsky.social for @historyextra.bsky.social
Listen wherever you get your podcasts (here’s the Spotify link spotify.link/hxH97mL4PXb )
28.10.2025 17:19 — 👍 57 🔁 20 💬 8 📌 2
REAL HOPE. REAL CHANGE.
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🚨BREAKING : The Green Party has passed 150,000 members 🥳
Thousands are joining right now to help us replace Labour and take the fight to Reform.
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27.10.2025 10:00 — 👍 1176 🔁 364 💬 41 📌 66
Green Party Leader (England & Wales)
London Assembly Member.
Chair of London's Fire Committee.
🏳️🌈
https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1837201724?i=1000724643828
Cultural and Literary Historian, EM PhD
Analyst-Feminist-actor-massage therapist-cook- @kylieminogue -Nigella-Kate Bush-Dannii-ALL my views-He/They 🌈❄️🕊
New Academic Book Forthcoming: Early Modern Sexualities. The Desires of King James VI & I (2025).
History of Parliament, parliamentarism and politics in Britain and Europe from the middle ages to now; C17th English political thought and political history; Clarendon, Hobbes. A parliamentary miscellany at https://historyofparliamentblog.wordpress.com
“imagine a classics professor” – The New Yorker
Historian of photography, medicine and emotions. Leverhulme Research Fellow 25/26 & PI of the project The Ethics of Medical Photography Network https://empnetwork.our.dmu.ac.uk
My book! Picturing the Western Front (MUP 2021) http://bit.ly/3bzBSA5.
She/her
Lecturer History at Utrecht University • Interested in all things Early Modern | History of Science | the Environment | Capitalism • Book coming out: Galileo's Fame https://upittpress.org/books/9780822948599/ • My dog’s name is Freddy
British-Nigerian Historian - BAFTA Winning Producer/Presenter - Best Selling Author - AGENT cwalker@unitedagents.co.uk
Image / Word / Orientation / Action
The Warburg Institute is dedicated to the study of global cultural history and the role of images in society.
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/
Senior Lecturer in Chinese and Colonial History at the University of York.
Research and teaching website: jonhowlett.com
Writer. Radical. Historian at UMD. PhD in History from GW. In Case of Emergency: https://tinyurl.com/mvmrcuvk. (he/him)
💚 Real hope. Real change.
greenparty.org.uk
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party, both at PO Box 78066, London SE16 9GQ.
PhD-Candidate Charles University | Historian of Medicine | First Faculty of Medicine, Institute for History of Medicine and Foreign Languages | Ritual Dynamics within the Christianisation of Temple Sleep in 200-700 | Directeur @kleiohistoria.bsky.social
Maritime Musicians | Assoc. Prof in Early Modern Lit | Shakespeare | Sea Theatre | Blue Humanities |🏳️🌈
Early modernist, perpetual reviser. Career Development Fellow and Tutor at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford: https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/people/amy-lidster
Newly on 🦋! A long standing seminar at @ihr.bsky.social. We’re interested in all perspectives on the society, culture and belief of the early modern period. https://www.history.ac.uk/seminars/society-culture-belief-1500-1800
For a fairer, greener Greenwich
greenwich.greenparty.org.uk
PhD candidate in Economic and Social History, Cambridge UK
19C British Urban History, Urban Demographics, Quantitative History
Recovering academic historian. Late antiquity/early middle ages. History purist/puritan. Brexile living in the Veneto. #ActuallyAutistic
AHRC-funded collaborative project between Royal Holloway and Newcastle University, unlocking the musical collections of England's county record offices.
www.musicheritageplace.uk
Associate Prof. of History at Francis Marion University, Editor for @AgeofRevs, Codirector of AAAS, USS faculty coordinator, LACS-SHA treasurer, she/her
