Anne Goldgar
@annegoldgar.bsky.social
Early modern historian at USC. Cultural history, Netherlands, tulipmania, arctic, history of art, history of science, history of the book, etc. Opinions expressed are mine, not USC’s.
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Reminder that from the beginning of next year I’m available for work!
Writing, narrative design, historical & narrative consultancy, research, teaching.
I’m particularly fond of applying historical approaches to worldbuilding & storytelling in interactive mediums
Writing, narrative design, historical & narrative consultancy, research, teaching.
I’m particularly fond of applying historical approaches to worldbuilding & storytelling in interactive mediums
November 6, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Reminder that from the beginning of next year I’m available for work!
Writing, narrative design, historical & narrative consultancy, research, teaching.
I’m particularly fond of applying historical approaches to worldbuilding & storytelling in interactive mediums
Writing, narrative design, historical & narrative consultancy, research, teaching.
I’m particularly fond of applying historical approaches to worldbuilding & storytelling in interactive mediums
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The David Richards Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History
University of Oxford - Wadham College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH050/t...
University of Oxford - Wadham College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH050/t...
The David Richards Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History at University of Oxford
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November 4, 2025 at 6:49 AM
The David Richards Junior Research Fellowship in Economic History
University of Oxford - Wadham College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH050/t...
University of Oxford - Wadham College #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPH050/t...
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New #CFP on 'Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World', to be held in June 2026 at the University of Amsterdam
Abstracts of >200 words due by the 1 February 2026
#18thc #skystorians 🗃️
Abstracts of >200 words due by the 1 February 2026
#18thc #skystorians 🗃️
CFP: “Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World”
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
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Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
1/6
November 4, 2025 at 6:32 AM
New #CFP on 'Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World', to be held in June 2026 at the University of Amsterdam
Abstracts of >200 words due by the 1 February 2026
#18thc #skystorians 🗃️
Abstracts of >200 words due by the 1 February 2026
#18thc #skystorians 🗃️
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Junior Research Fellowships 2026/27 (Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences)
University of Oxford - Christ Church www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG873/j... #skystorians 🗃️
University of Oxford - Christ Church www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG873/j... #skystorians 🗃️
Junior Research Fellowships 2026/27 (Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences) at University of Oxford
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November 4, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Junior Research Fellowships 2026/27 (Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences)
University of Oxford - Christ Church www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG873/j... #skystorians 🗃️
University of Oxford - Christ Church www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG873/j... #skystorians 🗃️
Friday 31 Oct Dirk van Miert will speak to the IHR Low Countries Seminar on “The Synod of Dordrecht: Binding the Anglo-Dutch Orthodox Republic of Letters.” In person IHR Wolfson Rm 2 & online, 5:30 pm London time (clocks have changed in UK). Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The Synod of Dordrecht: binding the Anglo-Dutch orthodox Republic of Letters
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October 29, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Friday 31 Oct Dirk van Miert will speak to the IHR Low Countries Seminar on “The Synod of Dordrecht: Binding the Anglo-Dutch Orthodox Republic of Letters.” In person IHR Wolfson Rm 2 & online, 5:30 pm London time (clocks have changed in UK). Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Friday 31 Oct Dirk van Miert will speak to the IHR Low Countries Seminar on “The Synod of Dordrecht: Binding the Anglo-Dutch Orthodox Republic of Letters.” In person IHR Wolfson Rm 2 & online, 5:30 pm London time (clocks have changed in UK). Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The Synod of Dordrecht: binding the Anglo-Dutch orthodox Republic of Letters
www.history.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Friday 31 Oct Dirk van Miert will speak to the IHR Low Countries Seminar on “The Synod of Dordrecht: Binding the Anglo-Dutch Orthodox Republic of Letters.” In person IHR Wolfson Rm 2 & online, 5:30 pm London time (clocks have changed in UK). Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Friday 31 Oct Dirk van Miert will speak to the IHR Low Countries Seminar on “The Synod of Dordrecht: Binding the Anglo-Dutch Orthodox Republic of Letters.” In person IHR Wolfson Rm 2 & online, 5:30 pm London time (clocks have changed in UK). Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The Synod of Dordrecht: binding the Anglo-Dutch orthodox Republic of Letters
www.history.ac.uk
October 28, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Friday 31 Oct Dirk van Miert will speak to the IHR Low Countries Seminar on “The Synod of Dordrecht: Binding the Anglo-Dutch Orthodox Republic of Letters.” In person IHR Wolfson Rm 2 & online, 5:30 pm London time (clocks have changed in UK). Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
The Role of Images in Early Modern Botany
This seminar brings together two experts on sixteenth- and seventeenth-century plants. Zooming in on the dilemma of visualizing plants (or not), and how images could become part of epistemic methods w...
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October 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Join us in Rome or online for a seminar on plant illustrations on 6 November! 🪴🌻🌿
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
Through images of mandrakes and ferns, @fabribald.bsky.social and I will be discussing issues in the role of images in early modern botany.
www.biblhertz.it/events/43483...
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Today, Sid and I are attempting a recipe for “roy marmelaede” with quinces from the Antwerp Annunciates’ recipe book (first half 17th century, with some later additions - @kbrbe.bsky.social).
Quite curious as to how this will go (1/?)
#earlyModern #bookhistory
#womenshistory #foodhistory
Quite curious as to how this will go (1/?)
#earlyModern #bookhistory
#womenshistory #foodhistory
October 19, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Today, Sid and I are attempting a recipe for “roy marmelaede” with quinces from the Antwerp Annunciates’ recipe book (first half 17th century, with some later additions - @kbrbe.bsky.social).
Quite curious as to how this will go (1/?)
#earlyModern #bookhistory
#womenshistory #foodhistory
Quite curious as to how this will go (1/?)
#earlyModern #bookhistory
#womenshistory #foodhistory
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Such empathy with these huddled beasts on a 10th/11thC whalebone chesspiece, perhaps a rook or a bishop, snuggling up against cold and damp autumn days…
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
October 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Such empathy with these huddled beasts on a 10th/11thC whalebone chesspiece, perhaps a rook or a bishop, snuggling up against cold and damp autumn days…
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...
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Portrait of a goldsmith, 1580. By Hans Hoffmann. It's his day today.
October 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Portrait of a goldsmith, 1580. By Hans Hoffmann. It's his day today.
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This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!🎙️
We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges
We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges
S5 E11 - Steven Shapin on the Social Life of Scientific Knowledge
Podcast Episode · The HPS Podcast - Conversations from History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science · 19/10/2025 · 50m
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October 19, 2025 at 10:25 AM
This week we welcome Prof. Steven Shapin to the pod!🎙️
We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges
We explore his journey through interdisciplinary spaces, revisit Leviathan and the Air-Pump 40 years on, and explore how credibility, trust and expertise are shaped by the fragmentation of expertise and (recent) political & cultural challenges
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I will use any excuse to bring up Dürer's self-portrait again when talking about his drawings.
October 17, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I will use any excuse to bring up Dürer's self-portrait again when talking about his drawings.
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See the fantastic work of our colleague Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social on the history of Horton cemetery #Epsom #London
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#WorldMentalHealthDay
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#WorldMentalHealthDay
'Grandad is one of 9,000 buried in Epsom's derelict Horton Cemetery'
The Friends of Horton Cemetery wants the site to be a memorial to those buried there.
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October 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
See the fantastic work of our colleague Alana Harris @dralanagharris.bsky.social on the history of Horton cemetery #Epsom #London
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#WorldMentalHealthDay
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#WorldMentalHealthDay
Happy to learn that USC has declined to join the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.
October 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Happy to learn that USC has declined to join the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.
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GET READY FOR FRIDAY! Make plans to get to lovely Bloomsbury if you're in the neighbourhood, or sign up for the zoom link by Thursday evening.
(or, if you like to live on the edge, get a picture of a Good Tree ready to bribe me for the clandestine zoom link on Friday)
#LowCountries #ArtHistory
(or, if you like to live on the edge, get a picture of a Good Tree ready to bribe me for the clandestine zoom link on Friday)
#LowCountries #ArtHistory
PROGRAMME! Excited to be welcoming Alexander Marr, Dirk van Miert, and @ebenbow.bsky.social this term -- and David Hopkin, Jeroen Puttevils, Feike Dietz, Sam Geens, Valika Smeulders, and Gloria Moorman in Spring.
All welcome @ihr.bsky.social or zoom! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians
All welcome @ihr.bsky.social or zoom! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #SkyStorians
October 13, 2025 at 6:48 PM
GET READY FOR FRIDAY! Make plans to get to lovely Bloomsbury if you're in the neighbourhood, or sign up for the zoom link by Thursday evening.
(or, if you like to live on the edge, get a picture of a Good Tree ready to bribe me for the clandestine zoom link on Friday)
#LowCountries #ArtHistory
(or, if you like to live on the edge, get a picture of a Good Tree ready to bribe me for the clandestine zoom link on Friday)
#LowCountries #ArtHistory
Excited to read this new book by Martha Howell!
October 16, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Excited to read this new book by Martha Howell!
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Seems like we're getting another influx of new users, so for all those interested in art and art history I'd highly recommend the Bluesky for Art History starter pack created by @joshuajfriedman.com go.bsky.app/NKHmh87
March 10, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Seems like we're getting another influx of new users, so for all those interested in art and art history I'd highly recommend the Bluesky for Art History starter pack created by @joshuajfriedman.com go.bsky.app/NKHmh87
FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER, Alexander Marr (Cambridge) will speak on “Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys,” IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person IHR Wolfson Rm NB02 and online, 5:30 London time. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys
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October 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER, Alexander Marr (Cambridge) will speak on “Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys,” IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person IHR Wolfson Rm NB02 and online, 5:30 London time. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Book launch October 23rd!
Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...
Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...
Renaissance Skin Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog
Book launch for Prof. Evelyn Welch's Renaissance Skin, hosted by King's Centre for Early Modern Studies.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Book launch October 23rd!
Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...
Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...
Congratulations to @judithpollmann.bsky.social on the Spinoza Prize!
Collega @judithpollmann.bsky.social kreeg vanmiddag de Spinozapremie uitgereikt in een feestelijke bijeenkomst. Meer dan verdiend: Judith is een fantastische onderzoeker die anderen meeneemt in haar enthousiasme. Ook een enorme opsteker voor de geesteswetenschappen, geschiedenis en ons Instituut!
October 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Congratulations to @judithpollmann.bsky.social on the Spinoza Prize!
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FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER, Alexander Marr (Cambridge) will speak on “Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys,” IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person IHR Wolfson Rm NB02 and online, 5:30 London time. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys
www.history.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER, Alexander Marr (Cambridge) will speak on “Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys,” IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person IHR Wolfson Rm NB02 and online, 5:30 London time. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER, Alexander Marr (Cambridge) will speak on “Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys,” IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person IHR Wolfson Rm NB02 and online, 5:30 London time. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys
www.history.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER, Alexander Marr (Cambridge) will speak on “Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys,” IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person IHR Wolfson Rm NB02 and online, 5:30 London time. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
What should I read first by László Krasznahorkai?
October 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
What should I read first by László Krasznahorkai?