Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄
@aidannorrie.bsky.social
Doctor of Elizabeth I as/and Deborah the Judge • Early modern history & lit | children’s lit | women’s writing | monarchy • Lecturer & Programme Leader • Managing Editor, @thelondonjournal.bsky.social • The Real Empress Palpatine • they/them • 🏳️🌈🇳🇿🇦🇺
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Applications are now open for the Curriers Prize, awarded by the Worshipful Company of Curriers in association with ourselves and the @ihr.bsky.social for the best entered essay on any aspect of London's history from Roman times to the present.
The Curriers’ Prize
The Worshipful Company of Curriers, has established an essay prize on the history of London, in association with The London Journal Trust and the IHR.
www.history.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Applications are now open for the Curriers Prize, awarded by the Worshipful Company of Curriers in association with ourselves and the @ihr.bsky.social for the best entered essay on any aspect of London's history from Roman times to the present.
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As a previous prize winner, I can hardly recommend this enough: it’s a force for good in the study of #London history, and publishing with @thelondonjournal.bsky.social (with the gentle support/encouragement of @aidannorrie.bsky.social!) was a delight. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 PM
As a previous prize winner, I can hardly recommend this enough: it’s a force for good in the study of #London history, and publishing with @thelondonjournal.bsky.social (with the gentle support/encouragement of @aidannorrie.bsky.social!) was a delight. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Our latest Viewpoint article is out: 'Guilds and Companies in London, 1200–1700: Contexts and Comparisons' by @mpdavies.bsky.social.
A 🧵 on the insights provided by this article into the history and historiography of these key metropolitan institutions in the medieval and early modern periods.
A 🧵 on the insights provided by this article into the history and historiography of these key metropolitan institutions in the medieval and early modern periods.
Guilds and Companies in London, 1200–1700: Contexts and Comparisons
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Our latest Viewpoint article is out: 'Guilds and Companies in London, 1200–1700: Contexts and Comparisons' by @mpdavies.bsky.social.
A 🧵 on the insights provided by this article into the history and historiography of these key metropolitan institutions in the medieval and early modern periods.
A 🧵 on the insights provided by this article into the history and historiography of these key metropolitan institutions in the medieval and early modern periods.
May you all find someone who believes in you like Yodel insisting that my parcel is still “out for delivery” with only 6 stops before me… at 11.11pm on a Saturday night 🤣🙈💅
October 11, 2025 at 10:11 PM
May you all find someone who believes in you like Yodel insisting that my parcel is still “out for delivery” with only 6 stops before me… at 11.11pm on a Saturday night 🤣🙈💅
My favourite genre of scholarly work is stuff inspired by an academic's childhood. This is GOLD!
My new piece on children's TV theme tunes, and how the changes in the music, lyrics, and credit sequences opening and closing shows like Postman Pat, Fireman Sam, and Thomas & Friends reflect huge shifts in the ideas and structures behind their production. 🧵
#skystorians #polisky #socsky
#skystorians #polisky #socsky
Changing the Tune
The evolution of the theme tunes of popular British children’s television programmes offers a useful prism for looking through at processes of ideological change and globalisation.
academicbubble.substack.com
September 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
My favourite genre of scholarly work is stuff inspired by an academic's childhood. This is GOLD!
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
September 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Hivemind, I need your wisdom. My third years have an assignment where they create an edition of an early modern source. Previously, I showed them the Pulter project website, but its fanciness intimidates them (it’s well beyond what they need to do). So, I need something else to show them. Any ideas?
August 31, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Hivemind, I need your wisdom. My third years have an assignment where they create an edition of an early modern source. Previously, I showed them the Pulter project website, but its fanciness intimidates them (it’s well beyond what they need to do). So, I need something else to show them. Any ideas?
What many people on the right fail to grasp is that not everyone is obsessed with money. I’m a lecturer and literary historian because *I* want to be: I’m under no illusions that it’ll make me rich. And… that’s fine? My job supports the book and gin fund, which is really all I need 😉
but “financially better off” and “doing a job you love” aren’t synonyms. arts careers are underpaid (and that isn’t universities’ fault) but that clearly doesn’t stop people from wanting to be artists.
August 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
What many people on the right fail to grasp is that not everyone is obsessed with money. I’m a lecturer and literary historian because *I* want to be: I’m under no illusions that it’ll make me rich. And… that’s fine? My job supports the book and gin fund, which is really all I need 😉
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Considering getting this passage from the NYT article printed on totes for our art history majors. Too much?
August 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Considering getting this passage from the NYT article printed on totes for our art history majors. Too much?
A gentle reminder: if you claim you're "too busy" to do peer review, but are still publishing peer-reviewed material, then you are--quite literally--part of the problem. If everyone else took your attitude, then you couldn't publish, either. This is especially important for senior/employed people!
August 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
A gentle reminder: if you claim you're "too busy" to do peer review, but are still publishing peer-reviewed material, then you are--quite literally--part of the problem. If everyone else took your attitude, then you couldn't publish, either. This is especially important for senior/employed people!
I use Britney’s Work Bitch and/or TayTay’s Look What You Made Me Do.
10/10, would recommend.
10/10, would recommend.
As the academic job market approaches, I’ll repeat my main thought on the process, which is that job talk candidates should get to choose a walk-on song like they’re a closer in the MLB.
August 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I use Britney’s Work Bitch and/or TayTay’s Look What You Made Me Do.
10/10, would recommend.
10/10, would recommend.
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"i just use AI for-" say no more, i already think less of you
August 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM
"i just use AI for-" say no more, i already think less of you
Just over 2 weeks until this book is finally out in the world! My chapter is on the Platonic resonances in the show's conception of reincarnation.
I watched Avatar when it was released, & I love that 20 years later, my thoughts on the show will appear in print.
mcfarlandbooks.com/product/theo...
I watched Avatar when it was released, & I love that 20 years later, my thoughts on the show will appear in print.
mcfarlandbooks.com/product/theo...
July 25, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Just over 2 weeks until this book is finally out in the world! My chapter is on the Platonic resonances in the show's conception of reincarnation.
I watched Avatar when it was released, & I love that 20 years later, my thoughts on the show will appear in print.
mcfarlandbooks.com/product/theo...
I watched Avatar when it was released, & I love that 20 years later, my thoughts on the show will appear in print.
mcfarlandbooks.com/product/theo...
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The latest issue of the London Journal - Volume 50, No. 2 - is out!
A 🧵 of its contents...
A 🧵 of its contents...
The London Journal
Volume 50, Issue 2 of The London Journal
www.tandfonline.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The latest issue of the London Journal - Volume 50, No. 2 - is out!
A 🧵 of its contents...
A 🧵 of its contents...
Imagine a photo was taken of a gay, Jewish, Black man. Only *one* of these three characteristics is 100% ascertainable from this photo.
How do I mask the homo? I don’t speak.
How does a Black person hide their skin colour? Hint: they can’t.
I am disgusted that Starmer’s Labour has sunk this low.
How do I mask the homo? I don’t speak.
How does a Black person hide their skin colour? Hint: they can’t.
I am disgusted that Starmer’s Labour has sunk this low.
It is absolutely absurd that Diane Abbott has been suspended for this.
She's describing the lived experience of anti-Black racism.
She wasn't saying Jewish people and Travellers don't experience racism. She's saying that racism takes different forms.
She's describing the lived experience of anti-Black racism.
She wasn't saying Jewish people and Travellers don't experience racism. She's saying that racism takes different forms.
July 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Imagine a photo was taken of a gay, Jewish, Black man. Only *one* of these three characteristics is 100% ascertainable from this photo.
How do I mask the homo? I don’t speak.
How does a Black person hide their skin colour? Hint: they can’t.
I am disgusted that Starmer’s Labour has sunk this low.
How do I mask the homo? I don’t speak.
How does a Black person hide their skin colour? Hint: they can’t.
I am disgusted that Starmer’s Labour has sunk this low.
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NEW VIEWPOINT ARTICLE: Gary G. Gibbs, 'Parish Studies and Medieval and Early Modern London History', available open access. 🧵
www.tandfonline.com
July 15, 2025 at 2:01 PM
NEW VIEWPOINT ARTICLE: Gary G. Gibbs, 'Parish Studies and Medieval and Early Modern London History', available open access. 🧵
I’m so smad. I opened this and thought for a moment it was a Funko of the Luggage, and I was ready to spend all of the money 🥲🥲🥲
July 11, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I’m so smad. I opened this and thought for a moment it was a Funko of the Luggage, and I was ready to spend all of the money 🥲🥲🥲
Can’t believe we’re at the final panel of #RenSoc25 😮
Very excited though for panel 9.1, on Friendship and Flirting in the Renaissance.
First up is Lanyu Chen on ‘Flatters or Friends: Uncovering the Hidden Friendship in Thomas May’s Cleopatra’
Love me some Plutarch in the afternoon 😉
Very excited though for panel 9.1, on Friendship and Flirting in the Renaissance.
First up is Lanyu Chen on ‘Flatters or Friends: Uncovering the Hidden Friendship in Thomas May’s Cleopatra’
Love me some Plutarch in the afternoon 😉
July 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Can’t believe we’re at the final panel of #RenSoc25 😮
Very excited though for panel 9.1, on Friendship and Flirting in the Renaissance.
First up is Lanyu Chen on ‘Flatters or Friends: Uncovering the Hidden Friendship in Thomas May’s Cleopatra’
Love me some Plutarch in the afternoon 😉
Very excited though for panel 9.1, on Friendship and Flirting in the Renaissance.
First up is Lanyu Chen on ‘Flatters or Friends: Uncovering the Hidden Friendship in Thomas May’s Cleopatra’
Love me some Plutarch in the afternoon 😉
It’s the final day of #RenSoc25, and we come to panel 8.6, ‘Writing Women in the Seventeenth Century’… featuring moi! Excited/terrified about debuting work on the next book, but am looking forward to my co-panelists’ papers. ☺️☺️☺️
July 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
It’s the final day of #RenSoc25, and we come to panel 8.6, ‘Writing Women in the Seventeenth Century’… featuring moi! Excited/terrified about debuting work on the next book, but am looking forward to my co-panelists’ papers. ☺️☺️☺️
Very excited to be attendng panel 7.10, Masque and Antimasque, at #RenSoc25. First up is Rebecca Bailey on Thomas Salusbury’s “An Antimasque of Gypsies”, which was performed at Chirk Castle on 30 December 1641
July 4, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Very excited to be attendng panel 7.10, Masque and Antimasque, at #RenSoc25. First up is Rebecca Bailey on Thomas Salusbury’s “An Antimasque of Gypsies”, which was performed at Chirk Castle on 30 December 1641
First paper in panel 6.7: Foundation Myths across Borders in Early Modern Europe Collapse at #RenSoc25 is Jonathan Sawday’s on the Renaissance Search for Homeric Troy, with reference to Thomas Browne’s Of Troas.
Loving that I get to stretch my (very dormant) classicist muscles.
Loving that I get to stretch my (very dormant) classicist muscles.
July 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
First paper in panel 6.7: Foundation Myths across Borders in Early Modern Europe Collapse at #RenSoc25 is Jonathan Sawday’s on the Renaissance Search for Homeric Troy, with reference to Thomas Browne’s Of Troas.
Loving that I get to stretch my (very dormant) classicist muscles.
Loving that I get to stretch my (very dormant) classicist muscles.
Chairing a panel on Monarchic Relations at #RenSoc25. The brand really is branding 🤣🤣
First up is David Zirak-Schmidt on two Latin poems written for the wedding of James VI and Anna of Denmark in 1589.
James’s hat game was always legendary. 💅
First up is David Zirak-Schmidt on two Latin poems written for the wedding of James VI and Anna of Denmark in 1589.
James’s hat game was always legendary. 💅
July 3, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Chairing a panel on Monarchic Relations at #RenSoc25. The brand really is branding 🤣🤣
First up is David Zirak-Schmidt on two Latin poems written for the wedding of James VI and Anna of Denmark in 1589.
James’s hat game was always legendary. 💅
First up is David Zirak-Schmidt on two Latin poems written for the wedding of James VI and Anna of Denmark in 1589.
James’s hat game was always legendary. 💅
En-route to the @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference in Bristol to be a real academic™ for once!
Very excited for 4 days of early modern goodness with a bunch of cool peeps 🥰🥰
Very excited for 4 days of early modern goodness with a bunch of cool peeps 🥰🥰
July 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
En-route to the @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference in Bristol to be a real academic™ for once!
Very excited for 4 days of early modern goodness with a bunch of cool peeps 🥰🥰
Very excited for 4 days of early modern goodness with a bunch of cool peeps 🥰🥰
This issue includes my review of @krheyam.bsky.social's truly excellent book, _The Reputation of Edward II, 1305–1697: A Literary Transformation of History_ (@amsterdamupress.bsky.social)
journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/Ma...
journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/Ma...
June 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
This issue includes my review of @krheyam.bsky.social's truly excellent book, _The Reputation of Edward II, 1305–1697: A Literary Transformation of History_ (@amsterdamupress.bsky.social)
journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/Ma...
journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/Ma...
Obviously, as the managing editor of @thelondonjournal.bsky.social, I don’t play favourites… HOWEVER, I am beyond excited to have published this excellent piece from the excellent @tracelarkhall.bsky.social!
Free access for the next 3 months, too 🙌
Free access for the next 3 months, too 🙌
NEW VIEWPOINT ARTICLE: 'Pageant Stations: Civic Entertainments in The London Journal', by @tracelarkhall.bsky.social, available open access.
A little 🧵 on the insights it provides...
A little 🧵 on the insights it provides...
Pageant Stations: Civic Entertainments in The London Journal
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
June 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Obviously, as the managing editor of @thelondonjournal.bsky.social, I don’t play favourites… HOWEVER, I am beyond excited to have published this excellent piece from the excellent @tracelarkhall.bsky.social!
Free access for the next 3 months, too 🙌
Free access for the next 3 months, too 🙌