Hanna Polasky

Black and white studio photo of a longhaired white cat sitting up on a small table draped with brocade fabric. The cat has a very large ruffly bow made of dark fabric attached to the right side of its collar.

Very fancy potato bear postcard from my collection, unsent and date unknown.

Tweet from the Durham Bulls that reads "Y'all means all. #PrideNight"

Tweet from a user saying "Please delete," and Durham Bulls responding "No."

Tweet from a user saying, "Actually, no it does not! Stop dividing people." with a response from the Durham Bulls saying, "Inclusion's actually the exact opposite of division"

Tweet from someone saying "Maybe don't promote gay sex to children?" with the Durham Bulls responding, "Okay, sexyman159861581242902587231848675309"

11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls

It’s scheeling a lot like summer
(I bought some arsenic green paper)

Kinda want to fight him, but gosh do I love this book.
I want to fight most historic doctors though

Feeling like a kid in a sweet shop deciding which of our beautiful bindings from Farmleigh to put in our new exhibition! #BeautifulBindings #librariesofinstagram #book #Gold

A hand-colored woodblock print, with German text, showing Thisbe discovering the body of her lover Pyramus beneath a mulberry tree. The gods gave the mulberries the blood-red color in his honor. The features as a play-within-a-play in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream

David Kandel, The Tragedy of Pyramus and Thisbe beneath a Mulberry Tree, 1546, woodcut, color. #midsummer #earlymodern

Printed recipe. Reads: 2. To hinder hair from growing. 1. Pluck out the hair, and anoint the place with the blood of a bat. 2. Or anoint the place with the blood of a little frog. 3. Or with the oyl of henbane. 4. Or loch-leeches bruised with strong vinegar, applied. 5. Burnt ashes of colewort-stalks mixt with vinegar, hundredth the growing of the hair. 6. Also the juice of hemlocs carefully mixt with water, applied to the place where the hair is pluckt out. 7. Dogs milk

Blood of bat, blood of frog, hemlock, leeches and burnt ashes… Just another ordinary everyday 18thc medical treatment, this time for excessive hair

Hello today I held a first edition of Smellie’s tables and I am going to cry about it forever

If anyone was wondering how the new job is going, I started crying when I found this chymistry book last week because I loved it so much

This is what exhausted but happy looks like now that I’m back in the medical history world all the time

I keep forgetting to announce it on here, but ya gal is officially the archivist and heritage manager at the royal college of general practitioners and she’s LOVING HER LIFE

Back in my element (storage rooms for medical collections that need a lot of work)

OH THESE ARE FUN!!!

Promo image. Text: breaking boundaries, working class skin

Blog! Exploring the history of working class skin – the fear of the proximity of poor bodies and the experimentation on the skin of poor patients in hospitals and dispensaries www.rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/her...

Dachshund thylacine! Now do a pug version.

The reviews are in: I am “incredibly child friendly” according to one mum who visited the @oldoptheatre.bsky.social yesterday.
I have laughed so hard about this for hours. I loved her.

This is actually a horror story in two images

I don’t think anyone can gaze into the mystery that is your mum’s brain.
I say that as one of her biggest fans

To be fair, this does sound like peak @sachacoward.bsky.social

A WIN

The foxgloves are starting to come out! And this beautiful illustration from Anne Pratt's 'The poisonous, noxious and suspected plants of our fields and woods' (1857) can be seen in the 'Green Shoots' book display, which will be in the outer library until the 7th of June.

I tried to do this years ago, and it worked, until I was reading wwi autopsies at work, and then going home and seeing the ravages of wwi on the screen…

Trying to create a “cheat sheet” on the history of magic and witchcraft for colleagues and have hit the point where I’m just posting links to @odavies9.bsky.social ‘s work and saying “he says it better, please don’t make me”

Going to start my summer school scripts session with this post:

I blame @debharkness.bsky.social for my financial irresponsibility in the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social shop…
I have *become* the Ripley Scroll

Henry VI's pardon to Richard, duke of York, after his failed rebellion in 1452. LFC Ch VI 10. #medievalsky

Frontispiece featuring three engravings of bees and a leafy border. Captioned 'Frontispiece' and 'T Loveday'.

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the bees, for today is their special day! 🐝

This engraved frontispiece by Thomas Loveday is from ‘Melisselogia: Or, the Female Monarchy…’, a book about bees by John Thorley, published in 1744.

📷 Reserve 595.799 THO

#WorldBeeDay #BeeDay #RareBooks

Every time @hannahcornish.bsky.social takes me through the corpse corridor at ucl, I have this reaction.

I know I've shared these before, but letters with little decorative just give me joy 📜
B893.17 J565
Haggadah (1804) - uncat

I really enjoy inserting the fact that I have 58 volumes of the medical times and gazette into conversations. It lets all participants know two things: I am autistic, and I love antiquing.