@leanneks.bsky.social
PhD Newcastle University. Intellectual historian interested in millenarianism & republicanism.
ICYMI: the many-headed monster has just launched a new mini-series on Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England.
Over the next month we celebrating the relaunch of British Printed Image to 1700 by publishing guest posts on the theme.
1st post tomorrow (Thurs)!🗃️
manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...
Four images of part of a medieval gold ring, The bezel depicts the head, wings, torso and arms of a crude angel, it clasps a heart in its hands.
All hail the magnificent Portable Antiquities Scheme database, where you can find so many special treasures!
Including this late medieval finger ring with a bezel of an angel clasping a heart 🗃️
finds.org.uk/database/art...
An introduction to @universalstc.bsky.social: an open access database of early modern print culture. To find out more visit our website: www.ustc.ac.uk
20.11.2024 11:51 — 👍 82 🔁 42 💬 2 📌 10
The main gate of the former Auschwitz I camp with the 'Arbeit macht frei inscription.
We are on @bsky.app.
Please consider following @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social where every day we commemorate the victims & educate about the tragic human history of Auschwitz.
Repost please.
Exciting news! We are advertising 1 PhD studentship in Intersections in Medical and Environmental History - supervised by me! All details below 👇
11.11.2023 09:10 — 👍 40 🔁 47 💬 0 📌 6
Phoenix logo, with 'Book Prize' underneath
Cranking up the volume a bit so this announcement will reverberate across the blue skies 🔈📣 Do you have a #SRSlyGood monograph published between 1 January 2022 & 31 Dec 2023? Why not enter it for our book prize? #EarlyModern www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...
31.10.2023 01:17 — 👍 23 🔁 36 💬 1 📌 2Nearly had a heartattack as I forgot that I had changed my Ring doorbell to the Dracula chime
25.10.2023 13:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Natalie Zemon Davis in her home office. Photo by Michael Graydon. Source: https://www.universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/becoming-natalie-davis/
We are saddened to learn of the death of the inimitable Natalie Zemon Davis
www.rensoc.org.uk/natalie-zemo...
3 chapters edited - 4 more to go & then I am done!
23.10.2023 19:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Minimal crying today during a dental procedure #smallgoals
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Vermeer - Woman writing a letter with her maid
Birkbeck is hiring up to four postdoc researchers to work on #WrittenWorlds in 17th-century England, led by Sue Wiseman (PI) and @Brodie_Waddell (CI), focusing on non-elite writers.
£42K pro rata; 0.5FTE for 25 months, starting mid-Nov.
Apply by 22 Oct:
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
We are seeking reviewers, do consider & share! also do follow @global-ih.bsky.social for news about the journal, our publications, & the wider field
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