Cartographic fictions and the early Tudor colonial imagination This essay explores how the English tensions around an intensifying knowledge of the Americas are manifested in cartographic writings and associated imagery of Sir Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) and J...

My new publication is out today, “Cartographic fictions and the early Tudor colonial imagination” - www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Outline from Subway drawings

Two U.S. Postal Envelopes with Commemorative Stonewall Cancellations, 1989 Stamped envelopes and article Private collection

Apocalypse, 1988 Silkscreens Private collection

Three social activists designs in shirts. Including Free South Africa (Suite of 3), 1985 and Ignorance-Fear, Silence-Death, 1989

Swung through Columbia Museum of Art to also see Keith Haring: Radiant Vision, which was fantastic.

Viktor&Rolf. Fashion Statements installation

Painting fragment dress Viktor&Rolf. Fashion Statements

Ansel Adams American, 1902-1984 Pipes and Gauges, West Virginia, 1939, printed 1970 Gelatin silver print Gift of Lucinda W. Bunnen for the Bunnen Collection, 1992.234

Harold E. Edgerton American, 1903-1990 Moving Skip Rope, 1952 Gelatin silver print Gift of the Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation, 1996.69

Lovely afternoon at the High Museum of Art this week, seeing Viktor&Rolf. Fashion Statements and Photography’s New Vision: Experiments in Seeing shows.

This has had a huge impact on research as well as teaching, I used to have assistance based on research in their digital collections…

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Calls for research funding from the Royal Historical Society: three current programmes - RHS The Society currently invites applications for the following three schemes — open to historians across a range of career stages and backgrounds — with a closing date of 5 September 2025. For further i...

5 September deadlines for 3 Royal Historical Society programmes: Martin Lynn Scholarship (PhD research) in African History (£1,500); Early Career Fellowships (up to £2,000) and Open Research Support (£500-1,000). #Skystorians

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Bookstore interior with tall stacks

Museum basement with stored historic radios

San Juan islands

Taking a tiny break to the PNW, where I always feel delightfully spoiled by the bookstores, museum archives, and views

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Phil Martin, founder of Champs Camp Boxing gym, Moss Side, Manchester poses with a group of young boxers c.1981

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Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers have become increasingly prominent themes in historical scholarship. There is, therefore, a pressing need to examine how these constructs have shaped the lived experiences of historically marginalised groups, as well as how they were perceived, defined, and engaged with by those groups. This conference seeks to reorient discussions around borders, boundaries, and barriers by foregrounding the experiences and perspectives of marginalised groups and considering how these divisions were perceived from the peripheries of societies. Rather than treating these concepts as abstract or solely geopolitical, we will explore the ways in which they have operated — both historically and historiographically — as tools of exclusion and differentiation. Organised by Natasha Jenman (University of Oxford), Naomi Reiter (QMUL), and Dean A. Irwin (University of Lincoln/OCHJS), the conference will focus on individuals, religious groups, social groups, societal constructions, and natural phenomena. Participants are invited to explore the role played by evolving borders, boundaries, and barriers in the medieval world as part of group identities; and how groups used them to their advantage. Likewise, it will consider the extent to which borders, boundaries and barriers have been imposed upon the medieval world by modern scholars. Possible topics for consideration include: • Legal jurisdictions • The natural and the supernatural worlds • Socio-economic strata • Ritual and religion • Space, time, and the environment • Gender and sexuality • Disability • Transgression, delinquency, and the grey middle space This conference adopts a broad chronological and geographical approach with submissions from all historically-related disciplines being welcome. The conference will take place on 20 and 21 April 2026 in Oxford. To submit, please send a title, abstract (c. 250 words), and a bio (c. 100 words) to: bordersboundariesbarriers@gmail.com.

I’m co-organising a medieval conference next year in Oxford! Please take a look at the CfP and consider submitting an abstract, by the 15th of September, to bordersboundariesbarriers@gmail.com. We hope to be able to provide funding to help cover expenses of attendance.
#medievalsky #skystorians

🌍✨ Calling all scholars of Iberian, Islamic, and Global Renaissance Art!

📣 SIGA is thrilled to announce THREE exciting Calls for Papers for RSA 2026 in San Francisco!
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I side library at desk using computer to read microfilm

Two glasses of wine on table

Best way to spend the day, microfilms in the basement and a glass of wine ✨

2-day Workshop: Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-Century Barbados and Britain — Medicine and the Making of Race, 1440-1720 Organisers: Dr Michael Bennett (University of Sheffield), Dr Misha Ewen (University of Sussex), and Dr Hannah Murphy (MMoR & CEMS, KCL) Barbados is central to the global history of slavery. The ...

Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-century Barbados and Britain. A 2-day workshop 25-26 June in London at KCL. Be there. www.mmor.co.uk/events/carib...

Greensleeves: Text and Textiles in Early Modern English Culture - Society of Antiquaries of London This interdisciplinary conference takes the iconic sixteenth century ballad Greensleeves as a focal point through which to explore the interconnections of texts, textiles and material culture in early...

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Closes on 25 May. #MedievalSky

Table with two drinks and bread

Celebrating another year older and wiser (well maybe not wiser…) but excited for the next year of adventures

Ceramic apple core on desk with two plants in background and photo framed.

auditorium with stage and four figures on the stage, giving and receiving awards.

Thrilled to have been awarded the Edwards College Apple Core Award last night. This also reflects on the value of Art History, and how this field can really impact them even if they took the course because “they had too.”

And yes, this is a handmade porcelain apple core 🍏

I am thrilled for my graduate student Clayton, who passed their M.A. Thesis Defense with flying colors today. It was also lovely to work with an incredible committee, including Dr. Howie and Dr. Richards-Greaves. Exciting thing to come as he starts his PhD at Duke in fall 🎉

Miranda Elston presenting her paper on Assessing the Land

Sign at the conference of an Early Modern Painting

I only slightly recovered from an absolutely lovely @RSA in Boston #RenissanceArtHistory #GlobalTudors

Phenomenal first day at @RSA - had a super great Q&A at my panel and heard some fantastic papers 📚

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🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen.

Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it.

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