Looking fabulous! Best of luck for your first symposium - hope you have a great time. And greetings from a fellow half-history / half-literature person! Just goes to show there's definitely no one-size-fits-all #TypicalHistorian...
#TypicalHistorian going to my first symposium as I zip across the country between my university and partner institution
(late to this trend because I was having my biannual crisis about whether I’m a historian or a literary scholar. have now settled on literary historian. does that count??)
'Professor Catherine Clarke, recreating the Metsys Sieve Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, looks every bit the #TypicalHistorian'
Photo from a BBC article entitled ” Sutton Hoo helmet may actually come from Denmark archaeologist suggests” Photo title - Curator Peter Pentz said that the stamp is "the closest link we've ever seen" between Denmark and the Sutton Hoo helmet. Shows a perfectly confident looking middle aged white man with short greying hair and a grey goatee wearing a grey/off white cable knit turtleneck long sleeved jumper. He’s standing perfectly confidently in front of a large bookcase full of books. He’s making a perfectly confident assertion, perfectly confidently!!
Just a #TypicalHistorian making perfectly confident assertions, perfectly confidently! (Although “Similar motifs have also been found in Germany, but this is the first unearthed in Denmark” so…?)
A #TypicalHistorian on her commute to work, enjoying her academic freedom and freedom of speech
I'm enjoying seeing the many #TypicalHistorian posts, which reaffirms the creativity and diversity of character in our field, as well as the wide range of self-expressions. Wish I could join in, but I'm pretty damned typical.
Being a downright #TypicalHistorian at a music festival
A woman holding a glass of wine and a lecture script. She is wearing an 18C style hat with Revolutionary cockade, a frilled shirt, brocade waistcoat and velvet jacket. Behind her, on a table, are dolls dressed as Éléonore Duplay and Maximilien Robespierre, and some replica Revolutionary fans. On the screen on the wall is projected a slide of Fouquet and Chrétien's physionotrace of Robespierre and the caption: 'Le Nez de Robespierre: le physionotrace et la portraiture révolutionnaire'.
Just a #TypicalHistorian about to lecture on the Physionotrace & #Robespierre portraiture a few yrs ago…
Just a #TypicalHistorian about to give a lecture at a Jean-Paul Gaultier exhibition opening.
Just a #TypicalHistorian hanging out in a television morgue wearing a sequin jacket.
Lunchtime workout: turning a half ton roller. Not playable just yet. #VillageCricket #TypicalHistorian
A woman dressed in black holds red yarn threads running from a bright red crocheted head covering down across her face and body. She grips a small pair of ornate embroidery scissors in one hand, poised to cut the threads. Her lips are painted a bold red, mirroring the colour of the yarn. The image references Atropos, the Greek Fate who cuts the thread of life, blending myth, self-portraiture, and historical symbolism.
#typicalhistorian me as #Atropos, eldest of the Moirai, she who cuts the thread of life. Why?Because we wrestle with what is remembered,what is forgotten & what must be severed to make space for new narratives. Because sometimes being a historian means knowing when to cut the thread. #GreekMythology
I'm loving all your #TypicalHistorian posts and photos, following the BBC's slight mis-step yesterday... Keep them coming - let's show the world we're quite an eclectic bunch, really. 😊 There are so many different ways to be a #historian and do #history.
#typicalhistorian (At least I’m wearing cords)
There’s some great female historians who have been posting under the #TypicalHistorian hashtag.
It was lazy journalism, that’s diminished a great story of how archives can have artefacts stolen and the efforts to recover them.
Just a #TypicalHistorian, enjoying a cool glass of medieval-inspired ale, brewed to celebrate the launch of the St Thomas Way.
An oldie, but familiar to @cathamclarke.bsky.social
Me wearing a replicated knight’s helmet.
But maybe this one is even more #TypicalHistorian? (The photo was taken at Battle Abbey museum.)
A #TypicalHistorian at Hastings
I am, indeed, a #TypicalHistorian at all times.
Reposting with the tag #TypicalHistorian as apparently we're all middle aged men in tweed and dicky-bows or summat.
A #TypicalHistorian in a rash vest and floral hat about to swim in the Baltic.
Enjoying the #TypicalHistorian vibes - even if I mix in a lot of literature too 📚
One more #typicalhistorian!
Leonie in the overgrown grounds of a castle wearing a blue hat and glasses.
Busy day so only now posting a #TypicalHistorian picture (in a castle).
Just for bonus points, I’m about 20 weeks pregnant in these photos #TypicalHistorian
