Sarah Ponder

MA student Birkbeck. Med/EM/Mod history/art, Syon, Wizard Earl, Pocahontas, Hogarth, Syphilis, Empire, 80s diaries, poet, dog mum etc. That's me in the corner.

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My daughter did a parody on Tiktok. https://t.co/1ThPXw3b5z
Absolutely nailed the results! #eurovision @grahnort @Eurovision @bbceurovision

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@grahnort @Eurovision @bbceurovision #eurovision
https://t.co/1ThPXw3b5z
My daughter did a parody on Tiktok 🤣🤣🤣

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@greg_jenner Moldova! Folklore and rock n roll! That's a historian's dream!

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@JuliaLaite I'm considering writing mine! Strong victorian matriarch, umarried mother openly living with Scottish sporting legend Donald Dinnie. My great grandmother Mary Ann Gellatly.

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@alnwickcastle Fantastic!

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@DebHarkness I always do it with hot chocolate! I never learn 🤣

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@DrAnneHanley @Metal_Circus @BirkbeckUoL @BirkbeckHoA @WhoresofYore You get an acknowledgement 🥰🥰

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IT'S IN !!! I want to cry! Only 6 months late! Doing a History of Art Master's in a pandemic, with added menopause and bipolar issues, whose bloody idea was that?
@BirkbeckUoL @BirkbeckHoA @DrAnneHanley @WhoresofYore #victorians #feminism #munch #lautrec #inheritance

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@WhoresofYore @BirkbeckUoL @BirkbeckHoA @DrAnneHanley I think you'll love the title! "Whores, Sores, and Social Mores: Visualising Syphilis and Social Purity at the Fin de Siecle " 😆😆

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@cerasaurus @BBKEPS @BirkbeckUoL Congratulations! It's a wonderful uni!

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@isleworthpast More more! And seeing as Wizard Earl had been mates with Kit Marlowe, maybe he came to Syon for a nice walk?

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@DrFrancisYoung We had a lecturer like that. His slides were all in French and then went into German. 🤷

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What joy, writing chap 2 of my History of Art MA dissertation on Syphilis. Today researching medical illustrator Christopher D'Alton in 1860s. Having to put a warning on the preceding page! Shall I write: Beware! Gory AF!
Is that academic enough? 🤣🤣
@WhoresofYore @DrAnneHanley

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And then she was 25. Just like that. Blink of an eye. How the hell am I the mother of a 25 year-old with more chutzpah than humanly possible! @ayameep

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@charlottechurch You were absolutely amazing! Thanks for the joy! Xxx

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@RebeccaRideal Ooh definitely 👍 please include Henry and Algernon Percy, Earls of Northumberland. Big political involvement throughout in a pragmatic and enlightened way, v different from other aristos re: colonialism. They don't get the column inches of other families, which is unfortunate.

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So, MA Art History dissertation update. Mit circs extensions, retitles, loss of focus, menopause brain fog, no supervisor, can't read laptop screen without nodding off. So I bought monitor off FB marketplace. Cranked up the font size. Game changer! #maturestudent @BirkbeckUoL

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@DrFrancisYoung Cooler than cool!

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@isleworthpast Def needs a shop in Chiswick with that name!

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@GemmaHAuthor Visit Syon House in Brentford. Loads of history! Used to be an abbey, then Edward Seymour built a house on its foundations. Henry VIIIs body exploded there. All sorts! https://t.co/ZjBYP0RAH8