Hi everyone, I'm on the look out for postdoc opportunities in academia & museum settings - specialising in early modern European/Brit history. Any heads-up greatly appreciated! My experience here:

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The Case of Corallium Rubrum. Controversies and Consistencies in the Interpretation of a Galenic Simple in Early Modern England In the seventeenth century, red coral was a popular Galenic simple in early modern England, imported from busy ports such as Livorno and Marseilles to the Port of London. It was a bestseller in apothe...

Latest #openaccess publication here! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Thank you Katie and for signposting me to the beautiful caskets! Hope to catch up with you again one day xx

Thanks Claire. Hope to catch you Up North one day!

Thank you so much for your time and your insights Sasha. Lots to think about and excited about next steps!

Thank you Lisa! It was wonderful to meet you and hear your thoughts on my research.

Happy to say that I passed my viva last week @memsunikent.bsky.social ! Thanks to my examiners Prof Sasha Handley @sashahandley.bsky.social & Dr Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social for a really interesting discussion, my wonderful supervisor Dr Suzanna Ivanic & lovely Dr Claire Jones as chair.

Amazing collections, lovely people. Come and spend a year doing research @theul.bsky.social @theulspeccoll.bsky.social

First complete draft of my thesis done and to celebrate, I'm sharing my favourite tiny #coral monkey charm, I love him so much!

Now off to edit over 100,000 words on "what you didn't know about coral".

#earlymodern @memsunikent.bsky.social

Medieval & Early Modern Studies Festival 2025 A celebration of research in the Medieval and Early Modern periods at the University of Kent: 13th - 14th of June 2025

#memsfest2025 starts today! Best event of the year @memsunikent.bsky.social and always lovely to see some old faces 😍 Registration here: memsfestival.wordpress.com

‘The Advice of a Gent Who Died from Neglecting it’: The Gentlemanly Pursuit of Knowledge Regarding Domestic Medicine in Kent c.1630–1800 Summary. English gentlemen in the early modern period held ultimate responsibility for the health of their households. Building on previous studies which h

My article is published #openaccess in the Feb edition! ‘The Advice of a Gent Who Died from Neglecting it’: The Gentlemanly Pursuit of Knowledge Regarding Domestic Medicine in Kent c.1630–1800 #histmed #earlymodern academic.oup.com/shm/article/... @sshmedicine.bsky.social

Welcome to Glorious Tuga Travel far enough and you might just find yourself ‘Joyous, a modern-day Jane Austen meets The Durrells’ ELIZABETH DAY ‘A magical novel, so uplifting, heartwarming, funny’ MARIAN KEYES ‘A much-needed...

With the demands of academic research, I find it really hard to enjoy reading like I used to... so it was such a pleasure to find a book to fall in love with again. Simple pleasures - tea, pillows, escapism. Sequel coming out on my birthday, perfect 😍
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Ever wanted to see the faces behind the HHRN? Still going strong after 15 years, the current team includes Julia Nurse, HHRN Chair, Research Development Lead @wellcomecollection.bsky.social ...

Evolving Traditions: Influences on Western Herbal Practice A Herbal History Research Network Online Seminar

The Zoom Room is ready, the speakers are prepped... only 5 days until our fabulous ONLINE seminar:

*Evolving Traditions: Influences on Western Herbal Practice*

Speakers from Kew, Oxford, NHM, Alternative Healers Project & more!

Wed 19 mar • 14:30 GMT

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Last chance to book tickets for our fabulous ONLINE seminar on Wed 19th March!

Programme and link to book below ⬇️

Had a great weekend of #rewilding, #folklore and #Shakespeare’s women @favlit.org ! Michael Rosen and Bettany Hughes to come.

Great Hope you find it interesting!

Picture of a painting showing a witch in beautiful clothes, black haired wearing a red hair covering and jewels

The Heroines Anthology is open for submissions of poems & short fiction on the theme of witches, witch trials, medicine women, mystics, herbalists, spells, enchantments, shapeshifters, familiars, covens, hags, crones and sabbats. Deadline June 2025

Please share :)

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Wonderful time seeing the Medieval Women exhibition and my very talented friend's one woman show at the Hope Theatre. Emotional wreck by the end of the day!

I'm visiting today!

The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | Letters Letters: Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley, and Dr Ronan McLaverty-Head and another letter writer comment on cuts at Ca...

'The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts" bit.ly/4gnDCuE

An excellent letter, in today's @theguardian.com, by the co-chairs of @artsandhums.bsky.social, a collective of subject specialist organisations representing and advocating for arts & humanities subjects in UK HE. #skystorians

Delighted to have Prof Mark Nesbitt, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew on #MateriaMedica as #materialculture and Prof Elizabeth Hsu, University of Oxford on #Qinghao at our ONLINE seminar on 19th March!

Evolving Traditions: Influences on Western Herbal Practice ⬇️

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Introduction to the special issue mothers and fathers in medieval and early modern Europe This special issue explores lives and experiences of mothers and fathers from across medieval and early modern Europe, c.1000 to 1800. It investigates mothers and fathers from a parent-focused pers...

For those interested in new research in #familyhistory #medieval #earlymodern Introduction to the Special Issue: Mothers and Fathers in Medieval and Early modern Europe www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Herbal History Research Network From ancient to modern history, bringing researchers and herbalists together

I'm on the committee of the Herbal History Research Network, bringing researchers and herbalists together to understand the origins and practice of herbal medicine. Give us a follow! @herbalhistoryrn.bsky.social www.herbalhistory.org/home/

‘The Advice of a Gent Who Died from Neglecting it’: The Gentlemanly Pursuit of Knowledge Regarding Domestic Medicine in Kent c.1630–1800 Summary. English gentlemen in the early modern period held ultimate responsibility for the health of their households. Building on previous studies which h

Would also love to chat #gender #reading #domesticmedicine
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‘I praie ye send for the courall’: children’s coral as the physical embodiment of parental hopes and fears in early modern England Mediterranean red coral has long been believed to be imbued with sacred, spiritual and healing power and was given to children across Europe in the form of an amulet, teether or medicine. In early ...

Sharing my published research on #coral for anyone interested in #materialculture #family in C17th www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just made it over from the X place and hoping to find some old friends and make new acquaintances... especially in the world of early modern history!