Curious & curiouser historian. Food, kitchens, recipes, material culture, the used & broken: love'em all. Views all my own -- take'em or leave'em. She/her
This is going to be an exciting discussion. Really looking forward to seeing @April_LouP Cannot put down 'Babygirl You've got this'. 🤜🏾🙏🏾👌🏿
Join us next Friday at the British Library.
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FUNDED PHD: Four years of AHRC funding for a project on the suppression of the underground press in Restoration England, in collaboration with the Stationers' Company. Please pass on to any interested MA students or grads.
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@restalrig@HamHouseNT I'd be really interested in what you find out about her. Trying to write about upper female servants at the moment (as Hannah Wolley was one, in the early 1640s).
What gems @restalrig sees! The quince paste inboxes reminds me of the @HamHouseNT inventory with such boxes listed in the (still-surviving) stillroom. Was Mistress Young an upper servant, I wonder?
Visiting this was one of my highlights of 2023. The exhibition also focuses on the conundrums of conserving such a complex artefact, & at one point even questions whether it will be possible to preserve it for perpetuity. A great & honest admission on the part of its curators.
There are conservation headaches then there’s Vasa. Sank in 1628 and raised in 1961. Hope they get it sorted as it’s the most wonderful Time Machine. https://t.co/eev7QKE89H
What can the #Humanities bring to #AI? In this new paper @mpshanahan & I explore the potential of #LLMs as assistive tools in #creative writing. We evaluate the results from a literary critical perspective & from the standpoint of computational creativity. https://t.co/uDFWUHTpfx
Honoured to have contributed to this excellent book edited by @Ajprescott and @alisonwiggins 'Archives
Power, Truth, and Fiction'. Can't wait to read the other contributions, they look amazing! https://t.co/2z1wkWLal6
The Salford Broadcasting Corporation’s Match of the Day leads with a predictable mid-table victory for Bournemouth. Must have an eye on the pensioner demographic.
A warrant for £70 payable at Goldsmith's Hall to Mrs Christian [Edward alias] Inglis, at Sunderland 11 April 1644 (SP 46/106 f.146), her father was Nicol Edward of the Banshee Labyrinth on Niddry Street
New in our CEME series - Monika Barget takes a fresh look at the political implications of 18thC uprisings from a media perspective: https://t.co/Tdb7FmDOxk
Thinking about John Craske, a Norfolk fisherman who started embroidering after contracting influenza while fighting in WWI. His doctor suggested he embroider to occupy himself. These are from the Dereham Heritage Trust, The Red House, and Norwich Castle Museum
Following the REF initial decisions consultation, we're announcing some updates - most importantly that the next REF will be REF 2029. This is in recognition of the complexities for HEIs in preparing for the exercise.
Following the REF initial decisions consultation, we're announcing some updates - most importantly that the next REF will be REF 2029. This is in recognition of the complexities for HEIs in preparing for the exercise.
@mcoppsldn @magmidd You are very kind... last chapter of @BloomsburyHist Birth of the English Kitchen might be helpful. Happy to chat further if needed.