I'll be speaking about my NEW BOOK 'Body Size in Early Modern Germany' at the roundtable 'Fatness, Thinness & Embodiment: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' next week (28 April) at UCL, and ONLINE, with Dr @psimonetto.bsky.social and Dr Grace Lucas. Sign up below!
www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Photograph of manuscript from the Essex Record Office, Q/SR 113/39.
Delighted to encounter in the archives this unexpected Elizabethan...
Kytte Myller 'a pedlar, whoe is a maker of Passportes and goeth apparelled in a Spanyshe lether Jerkynne with longe cutts and a payre of venesyans of canvas cutt', selling his services at Chelmsford Fair on Mayday 1590. 🗃️
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Very excited for this year's Catherine Silverstone Lecture at QMUL by Prof Lynette Goddard (RHUL) on 'Family Memories and Intergenerational Inheritance in Black British Queer and Trans Plays'!
20 May at 7pm followed by a wine reception. All welcome: book here www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/annual-cat...
Delighted to announce the upcoming Colloquium on Medievalisms, co-organised with CREMS in person at Queen Mary University of London!
Please join us on Saturday, 2nd May, for some medievalists' fun! 😊
Registration via link: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/medievalis...
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Magnificent cloth of gold and red silk damask velvet cope commissioned by Henry VII late 15th century, likely worn by Wolsey in France in 1521
📷2021 the Stonyhurst vestments at Hampton Court ‘Gold and Glory’ exhibition
#textiletuesday #Tudortuesday
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It was so much fun to speak at this event last month, and to meet talented designers and innovators working with leather today. From fish leather to goat parchment, you can learn more about their fabulous work here leathersellers.org/leather-ligh...
Three great postdocs are available in Trento as part of the "Travellers’ interactions in early modern Italy" project. Deadline 8 May: jobs.fbk.eu/Annunci/Jobs...
So so pleased to see that my book ‘Body Size in Early Modern Germany’ is now available on Oxford Academic ahead of its print publication later this month: academic.oup.com/book/62409
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To mark its online publication, I thought I’d share a bit more about the book and its contents...
!!! Another great article on premodern touch
Feel free to message me!
If anybody has any references in letters or diaries to cuts or rashes caused by shaving in the 17th and 18th centuries, I would be very grateful if you wouldn’t mind sharing them.
it was a real pain not being able to get into the Banqueting House while researching a recent article (britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/29/ki...), but how amazing that it's now possible to get this much closer to Rubens' ceiling paintings!
Money for UK-based historians engaged in research and/or public history. #Skystorians
I'm really looking forward to this event on Monday, where I'll be discussing William Bedwell with Prof. Alastair Hamilton and the curators of the Bedwell exhibition, Deborah Hedgecock & Bridget MacKernan. There's still time to sign up if you'd like to come along! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/william-be...
A half-length 16th-century portrait of a white-skinned woman in a dark colored gown with red velvet sleeves trimmed in white lace, and a white cap on her head. Her hands are in front of her; the left hand holds a pair of gloves - the text on the museum's object page says "presumably leather, decorated with black and golden embroidery" - and the right plays with the end of a chain that encircles her waist. Tucked between her right arm and her body is a small, mostly white lapdog with long ears and a belled collar. In the top right corner in white caps is the text "CATHARINA DE / HEMESSEN PINGEBAT / 1551."
Catharina van Hemessen's 'Portrait of a Woman'
Picture of the month March 2026 from London's National Gallery
www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/pi...
#womenartists #artherstory
🚨 LATE SUBMISSION WINDOW OPEN 🚨
We've had a withdrawal from one of these sessions and would be very keen to include another paper - please do not hesitate to reach out if you're interested, and to help us spread the word. Many thanks!!
#skystorians #medieval #medievalsky #premodernrace #imc2026
We're looking for more book chapters! For anyone working with network analysis on any period in history: check it out! Deadline Friday 13th March - send abstracts to interlocked.universe@gmail.com #digitalhumanities #cfp #skystorians
Ugly to see ECRs pitted against established scholars. No doubt what IS imperilling disciplines is years of under-investment in universities, the huge waste of time and resources that goes into the REF, and the government's xenophobic attitude towards international students and scholars.
'For Caravaggio, clothing was not primarily about meaning, not primarily a language. Clothing allowed him to paint the drama of touch – of sensation... What we are drawn to is Caravaggio’s rendering of the intimacy between flesh and world, simultaneously seductive and repellent.'
Less than a week left to apply for this 🗃️
Delighted to be co-leading 'Leather Lightning Talks' with the Leathersellers' Company at 6pm on 18 March 2026 at the Hall. This brand-new event showcases alumni innovation in British tanning and leather, from fish skin cycling vests to Edwardian women shoe-makers. If you'd like to come, message me!
As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️
sarahabendall.com/2020/03/11/e...
Back in the time when the sun was pink
As a cyclist in London I would agree these interactions have got worse. I've had grown men on *motorcycles* ram my bike at traffic lights for (supposedly) getting in their way - while using a cycle lane! I get sworn at almost every day, exclusively by men. The sheer level of their rage is baffling
Comb, late 15th or early 16th century, Northern French (Met Museum)
PGR event! Having sampled the fantastic produce of @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social, I recommend running, not walking, to book your ticket for this...
