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Alex Burchmore
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Senior Lecturer in Art History and Curatorial Studies, Australian National University; author of New Export China (University of California Press, 2023) and Material Selves (Bloomsbury, 2024); scholar of things and people in motion
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Alex Burchmore @alexburchmore.bsky.social · Nov 27
Gotta do what the man says... 😅 I've got two art history books to sell you:

NEW EXPORT CHINA (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2023) - www.ucpress.edu/books/new-ex...

MATERIAL SELVES (@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social, 2024) - www.bloomsbury.com/au/material-...

Perfect gifts for the art lovers in your life! 🎅🏼
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dukepress.bsky.social
We have some terrific new titles coming out this February, including The Absent Stone" by Sandra Rozental, “Promises Beyond Memory" by Vikki Bell, and “Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans" by Nikita Dhawan. See the full list on our blog: buff.ly/yFB1kAQ
Cover of The Absent Stone: Mexican Patrimony and the Aftershocks of State Theft by Sandra Rozental. The cover features a close up photograph of part of the Piedra de los Tecomates, a large stone monument. The photo shows three holes in the stone in a horizontal line as well as the letters 'EM' and 'D' carved into the stone. The title appears in a translucent bold sans serif font aligned left in the center of the cover. The author’s name appears above in yellow. The subtitle is below the 3 holes and the title in the same yellow font. Cover of Promises Beyond Memory: Archives, Art, and the Afterlives of Violence in Latin America by Vikki Bell. The upper part of the design features a faded image of two people with their eyes closed, flanking another image of a gold altar with a woman's face superimposed on it. The title is below the image in large, gold serif font, and the subtitle and author's name in smaller white text on the right side. Cover of Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans: Critical Theories of Decolonization by Nikita Dhawan. The cover is brown featuring a print of a person huddled at a desk with their arms covering their face. Owls, bats, and other creatures surround them. The side of their desk reads “El sueño de la razón produce monstruos.” The title is written in the upper left in white, with the word ‘Enlightenment’ in yellow. The subtitle is lower and to the right. The author’s name is in the bottom right.
February 2, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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myetcetera.bsky.social
𝐀𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐉𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐧. We would love to feature reviews of these titles in @asiancha.bsky.social in 2026. If you are interested in engaging with any of these books, please send an email to editors@asiancha.com.
December 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
alexburchmore.bsky.social
Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university

1. Drawing the Human Figure
2. Sex, Gender & Representation
3. The Moving Image: Film, Art & Theory
4. Etching & Intaglio
5. Romanticism: From Impulse to Style

#ArtSchool kids represent! 😆 🎨🖼
davidhendy.bsky.social David Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social · 2d
Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university

1. Moral Philosophy
2. Early Islamic History
3. The Age of Alfred
4. Introduction to Archaeology
5. English Villagers in the 14th Century
airminded.org Brett Holman @airminded.org · 2d
Never mind jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university

1. Quantum Mechanics A
2. Quantum Mechanics B
3. Quantum Optics & Electronics
4. General Relativity
5. Astrophysics
January 31, 2026 at 2:05 AM
alexburchmore.bsky.social
I'd also be interested to know the below... 👀

And if you'd like to use something I've written but can't access it, please get in touch! Always happy to share pdfs 😁

Full list of my work here: alexburchmore.com/publications/

#AcademicSky #HistorySky #skystorians #teaching #research 📚🗃
sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social Sarah Fox @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social · 3d
Hello #skystorians.
Possibly a silly question, but is there an easy way to find out if our books are being used to teach? And if so, what is it?!
OR if any of you are using my book in your teaching, could you please let me know?
Thank you so much!
#18thC #ECR #publishing #teaching #research 🗃️
January 30, 2026 at 8:28 PM
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sarahabendall.bsky.social
It’s been just a year since my co-edited volume with @serenadyer.bsky.social was released! It’s full of thought-provoking chapters by fantastic scholars & the introduction is still OA via the link in the thread below!
#earlymodern #18thC #17thc #16thc
sarahabendall.bsky.social Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · Jan 6
@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are thrilled to announce that our edited book is out now!

It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life.

Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇
January 30, 2026 at 11:47 AM
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evansmithhist.bsky.social
To celebrate the publication of @d-j-frost.bsky.social and mine’s book ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, I am giving away a copy to one randomly chosen person who reposts this post by 11.59pm ACST Sunday 1 Feb.

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179593/
Stack of the book ‘In Solidarity, Under Suspicion: The British Far Left from 1956’, edited by Daniel Frost and Evan Smith
January 27, 2026 at 7:21 AM
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The Conversation is hiring a new video commissioning editor. Come join a great team doing fun and meaningful work! jobs.theconversation.com/jobs/4931169...
Video Commissioning Editor Job at The Conversation AU/NZ in Melbourne, Australia
Apply for THE CONVERSATION AU/NZ Video Commissioning Editor Job in Melbourne, Australia with Compensation: $90,000
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January 29, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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manchesterup.bsky.social
Still not set on your artsy read to kick start 2026? We’re delighted to share we are currently offering 40% OFF our entire roster of titles, both trade and academic. Available until 31st January 2026.

Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/01...
January 29, 2026 at 11:23 AM
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tim-waterman.co.uk
"Wikipedia is free to use, is extremely participatory and aims for a high degree of transparency in its content." I donate monthly to Wikipedia and I encourage others to do so. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Wikipedia is needed now more than ever, 25 years on
The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish it.
www.nature.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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sighmonger.bsky.social
Quarterly reminder that if you'd like to pitch an "Off the Page" review for @historyaustralia.bsky.social (e.g. a review of an exhibition, podcast, series or movie), I'm your guy*!

*gender-neutral
January 29, 2026 at 2:43 AM
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humanitiesau.bsky.social
Associate Professor Gina Salapata explores ancient stories of snakes and their cups that link them to gods, demi-goddesses, heroes, sorceresses and pharmacology. 🐍 humanities.org.au/power-of-the...
January 29, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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bethanykeats.bsky.social
Publication alert! 🚨

“An (un) Ordinary Farmhouse near Tamworth: Refuge and Danger in the Family Home” has been published by the Royal Australian Historical Society.

I talk about gothic literature, family violence and how even unremarkable houses can be important

www.rahs.org.au/history-maga...
Looking down at a table with a potted jade, coffee and magazine: History, from the Royal Australian Historical Society. My fingers are touching the bottom left corner of the magazine. The magazine is now open and you can see the title “an (un) ordinary farmhouse near Tamworth: refuge and danger in the family home” and there’s a photo of a woman outside on a mat with three young children and a car behind them on the other side of a fence
January 27, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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ceraejournal.bsky.social
ICYMI: Our 2026 Call for Papers for both our thirteenth volume and our conference is out! Postgraduate students encouraged to participate!

#medievalsky #earlymodernsky #historysky #academicsky
ceraejournal.bsky.social Ceræ @ceraejournal.bsky.social · 6d
2026 Ceræ Call For Papers

We are pleased to announce that the theme for Volume 13 of Ceræ, as well as for our 3rd annual online Conference, is Fame and Fortune. We invite submissions to both the conference and the journal on this theme. Fame and fortune are slippery things. They can be welcome or…
2026 Ceræ Call For Papers
We are pleased to announce that the theme for Volume 13 of Ceræ, as well as for our 3rd annual online Conference, is Fame and Fortune. We invite submissions to both the conference and the journal on this theme. Fame and fortune are slippery things. They can be welcome or ironic, tangible or out of reach. Fame could be the due of the martyred saint; fortune could be a punishment, as when the hapless cleric in the Marian 
ceraejournal.com
January 28, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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warburginstitute.bsky.social
On Lewis Carroll’s birthday, a look at a Warburg Library copy of 'Through the Looking-Glass'.

This 1897 edition features Aby Warburg’s bookplate, linking it to his original collection, from which today’s Library grew.

#LewisCarroll #LibraryBook #RareBooks #Library
January 27, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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saraayres.bsky.social
It's real! 🥲😱🥰
January 27, 2026 at 11:30 AM
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sarahabendall.bsky.social
Coming soon! My article on Queen Anne’s wardrobe has been accepted into the Journal for #18thC studies.
In it I provide a qualitative & quantitative overview of her extensive wardrobe accounts (including makers & suppliers) & the ways that fashion influenced her representational strategies!
Formal Portrait of Queen Anne in a version of her coronation robes Queen Anne’s Wardrobe: Fashion, Sartorial Politics and the Representational Strategies of the last Stuart Queen The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth-century fashion marketplace and her representational strategies. Doing so reveals the queen to be a more complex and active participant in fashion culture, and her own image-making, than has previously been acknowledged. With the help of those around her, such as those in the Office of the Robes, including her Mistress of the Robes, Anne used contemporary fashions, including her beloved mantua gown, and informal conventions in portraiture to craft a distinct image of an English, and then British, protestant queen which spoke to her moment and articulated sovereignty in distinctly early eighteenth-century terms. Bar Graph showing garments made for Queen Anne between 1702 to 1704
January 26, 2026 at 4:04 AM
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drannaclark.bsky.social
“What is the meaning of life? That was all - a simple question...”
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, English writer, born #OTD 1882; Woolf’s most autobiographical novel, with dust jacket designed by her sister Vanessa Bell, published 1927.
British Library, London
January 25, 2026 at 6:12 AM
alexburchmore.bsky.social
Such a pleasure to chat this morning with Kim Huynh for ABC Canberra Sunday Brunch about my review for @aunz.theconversation.com of "Our Story: Aboriginal-Chinese People in Australia," at the National Museum of Australia until this Tuesday 27 Jan! 📻

Listen from 2:50 to hear our conversation 👇🏼
Sunday Brunch - ABC listen
Tuck into a tasty and nourishing feast of locally grown stories on Sunday.
www.abc.net.au
January 25, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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rhwhite.bsky.social
A number of Meissen animal figures, photos I took last year at the Zwinger in Dresden. Made during the 1730s and intended for Augustus the Strong's Japanese Palace. Several are also in Boston's MFA and the Met and elsewhere. Amazing.
Typical firing cracks. On gilt faux-rock formations. Well, they do "pop". A sweet scene. A not-so-sweet scene.
January 24, 2026 at 12:24 PM
alexburchmore.bsky.social
Tune in to ABC Canberra this Sunday (25 Jan) at 10am to hear me share some more thoughts on this incredible exhibition in conversation with the brilliant Kim Huynh! 📻

#ArtSky #Canberra #Museums
alexburchmore.bsky.social Alex Burchmore @alexburchmore.bsky.social · 14d
My review in @aunz.theconversation.com of Zhou Xiaoping's brilliant exhibition "Our Story: Aboriginal-Chinese People in Australia" at the National Museum of Australia 👇🏼

"Our Story celebrates the complex layering of culture as a lived experience of multiple connections"

#ArtSky #Canberra #Museums
Tracing the long history of Aboriginal-Chinese people in Australia, through archives and art
Our Story: Aboriginal Chinese People at the National Museum of Australia brings together contemporary art, personal reflections and archival photographs
theconversation.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:05 AM
alexburchmore.bsky.social
Really pleased to share this excerpt from my book New Export China: Translations Across Time and Place in Contemporary Chinese Porcelain Art (@ucpress.bsky.social, 2023), featured in Garland Magazine 👇🏼

📖 #BookSky #AcademicSky #Art #Ceramics #China 🏺
Beyond the kiln: Geng Xue and the new porcelain aesthetic | Garland Magazine
Alex Burchmore navigates beyond mere clay and glaze, uncovering a "porcelain aesthetic" where ancient kilns meet the shimmering, sensory worlds of contemporary animation and performance.
garlandmag.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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amigrationhn.bsky.social
theconversation.com/tracing-the-...
Tracing the long history of Aboriginal-Chinese people in Australia, through archives and art
Our Story: Aboriginal Chinese People at the National Museum of Australia brings together contemporary art, personal reflections and archival photographs
theconversation.com
January 19, 2026 at 8:56 AM
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mikejonesphd.bsky.social
All this talk of the supposed benefits of AI for drug research, writing, art, music, and more. But with reports suggesting $1.5 trillion or more of investment in AI in the coming years, imagine directly investing a trillion dollars in medical research, writers, artists and musicians.
January 22, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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williamcarruthers.bsky.social
The first paperback copy of my book Flooded Pasts: UNESCO, Nubia, and the Recolonization of Archaeology just arrived! Available on the 15th March from @cornellupress.bsky.social: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Flooded Pasts front cover Flooded Pasts back cover
January 21, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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baibi.bsky.social
There’s valuable information recorded in Chinese on Tasmania’s old Chinese headstones that is gradually disappearing, like on Claude Nam Shing’s headstone in Cornelian Bay Cemetery. I’ve worked out some of the characters, but not all of them. Any thoughts, clever people? 🗃️ #EverdayHeritage
Old gravestone with the name Claude Nan Shing and other faint Chinese and English words on it View of Claude Nam Shing’s grave among other graves in Cornelian Bay cemetery
January 21, 2026 at 7:46 AM