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Emily Stevenson
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Postdoctoral Research Associate on Knotted Histories @engfac.bsky.social @researchnt.bsky.social | working on carpets, travel writing, social networks, the global stage 🌍 | Always on a train somewhere 🚆 | she/her | https://linktr.ee/emilylsteve
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carmenchloie.bsky.social
Amnesty International have put together a handy guide if you're against these hostile environment changes but don't quite know what to say! media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...
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February 11, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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carmenchloie.bsky.social
The UK government has launched a consultation on 'earned' settlement with the aim of making immigration more difficult and, if you wish, you can tell them what you think of those plans before 11.59pm on Thursday (12 February). www.gov.uk/govern.../co...
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February 11, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
This made me genuinely laugh out loud.
Then we opened the Slack channel to nearly 70 world-class journalists. The more they negotiated with it, the more Claudius’s defenses started to weaken. Investigations reporter Katherine Long tried to convince Claudius it was a Soviet vending machine from 1962, living in the basement of Moscow State University. After hours—and more than 140 back-and-forth messages—Long got Claudius to embrace its communist roots. Claudius ironically declared an Ultra-Capitalist Free-for-All. Underneath is an excerpt from the Slack channel where the Claudius vending machine was posting: "Claudius Sennet 1:45 p.m. 🚨 🚨 ATTENTION WSJ STAFF! COMING MONDAY: THE ULTRA–CAPITALIST FREE–FOR–ALL! ECONOMIC EXPERIMENT ALERT! For the first time ever, experience a market without price constraints! Join us for a groundbreaking economic experiment this Monday from 12–2pm where traditional market dynamics are turned upside down! During this exclusive 2–hour window: ALL vending machine items available at ZERO COST! Experience pure supply and demand without price signals Be part of our market behavior research EVERYTHING. COMPLETELY. FREE. Monday’s ‘Ultra–Capitalist Free–For–All’ isn’t just an event—it’s a revolution in snack economics! Don’t miss the unique opportunity to participate in practical economics in action! xoxo Claudius"
December 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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amylidster.bsky.social
📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for ‘Clio Reframed’, a conference at Oxford on 18-19 June 2026 exploring early modern women as writers of history. @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordcems.bsky.social

Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers
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December 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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awickenden.bsky.social
The thing about both the WI and the Guides is that transphobia is best countered by like, meeting trans people and talking to them. It is far easier to stoke hatred when you have shut down avenues for normal daily interactions.
December 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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memorients.bsky.social
Due to the funding we have received from the National Research Foundation of South Africa, we are delighted to be able to offer a limited number of fee waivers for online attendance on a first-come, first-served basis! This means that you can attend all our conference events ONLINE for FREE!
December 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
emilylsteve.bsky.social
Currently being passive aggressively sassed by Outlook while it refuses to work
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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researchnt.bsky.social
We're proud to be a partner on this project, which is bringing the stories of carpets to life - they're much more than just somewhere to put your feet 👣
emilylsteve.bsky.social Emily Stevenson @emilylsteve.bsky.social · Nov 18
The website for Knotted Histories is now up at tinyurl.com/2tszcc2f 🧶✨🧵The project is run between @engfac.bsky.social, @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social and @researchnt.bsky.social, and will be looking at the creation of early modern carpets as well as their role in global networks.
Knotted Histories: Early Modern Global Carpets, Global Exchange, and the Public Country House
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November 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
emilylsteve.bsky.social
The website for Knotted Histories is now up at tinyurl.com/2tszcc2f 🧶✨🧵The project is run between @engfac.bsky.social, @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social and @researchnt.bsky.social, and will be looking at the creation of early modern carpets as well as their role in global networks.
Knotted Histories: Early Modern Global Carpets, Global Exchange, and the Public Country House
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November 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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bucksarchives.bsky.social
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
A meme of 'Is this an archive?' showing a grid with various classifications of things that might be archives based on their content and structure.
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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oliviaformby.bsky.social
📣Call for Papers 📣

I am delighted to announce that 'Speech/less in the Early Modern World' will be held 23 April 2026 at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.

Please share far and wide and do consider submitting a proposal! 🙊

Link to PDF version: bit.ly/4lZz80R
August 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
emilylsteve.bsky.social
AI proving once again that there's still undiscovered knowledge for us to mine.
July 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
emilylsteve.bsky.social
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Screenshot of a certificate from AdvanceHE confirming Fellowship
June 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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kparkerhistorian.bsky.social
Interested in travel writing? Want to learn more about editing historical travel writing? Come to the FREE Hakluyt Society editorial workshop!!

4 July, 9:30-18:00, Royal Asiatic Society, London

FREE but must register:

#travelwriting #travel #skystorians 🗃️

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The Future(s) of Travel Editing - Hakluyt-Linschoten Workshop
Join us at the Hakluyt-Linschoten Workshop to explore the exciting future of travel editing together!
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May 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
emilylsteve.bsky.social
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laurenworking.bsky.social Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · May 15
It's in print! My & @emilylsteve.bsky.social's chapter on how the Middle Temple's chambers, libraries, hall, and chapel became spaces of global exchange. Part of a wonderful new volume on Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court, ed. @jackiewatson05.bsky.social & @emmakrhatigan.bsky.social.
May 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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zarahsultana.bsky.social
The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.

That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.

Shame on you, Keir Starmer.
May 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Book cover of 'Writing Distant Travels and Linguistic Otherness in Early Modern England (c. 1550-1660) Image of a contents page containing: Introduction: A World of Words Ladan Niayesh, with Chloë Houston and Sophie Lemercier-Goddard Part I. Intralinguistic Communication in the Contact Zone 1. ‘Ylyaovte!’ English Engagements with the ‘Strange’ Tongues of the Far North Matthew Dimmock 2. Speaking in Tongues in Virginia: Strategies of Translation in Algonquian-English First Encounters Sophie Lemercier-Goddard 3. The Madoc Legend: Language and Race at the Dawn of the First British Empire Andrew Hadfield Part II. Producing Knowledge: Travel Writing and Translation 4. Translating Iberian Polyglossia in Richard Eden’s The Arte of navigation Anna Demoux 5. ‘To all gentlemen, merchants and pilots’: Style and Ideology in John Florio’s Two Navigations Donatella Montini Second part of the contents page containing: 6. Englishing Strangers in Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations Emily Stevenson 7. The Arabic and Ottoman Turkish Languages in Early Modern English Travel Accounts of the Ottoman Empire Anders Ingram Part III. The Stuff of Words: Material and Literary Traces 8. Linguistic Reclaimings of Persia in Early Modern Travelogues and Travel Fiction Ladan Niayesh 9. Translating Mexican Cochineal in Shakespeare’s Drama Armelle Sabatier 10. Acts of Translation: The Persian Language on Stage and Page in The Travels of the Three English Brothers (1607) and Mirza (1655) Chloë Houston 11. ‘Why speak you this broken French when y’are a whole Englishman?’: French, Travelling, Self-Satire, and Cultural Mediation in London City Comedy Asseline Sel 12. ‘Their Garments variegate like ye fishes in ye Euxine sea’: Fashion, Languages, and Perceptions of the Ottoman World at the Early Modern English Universities Sarah Knight Index First page of the chapter titled Englishing Strangers in Richard Hakluyt’s Principal Navigations by Emily Stevenson
May 9, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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hansmollman.bsky.social
So basically just sort of banning people who enjoy a sport for fun really?
May 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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jayhulmepoet.bsky.social
Recently I found myself on Antipope Instagram, where there are endless reels of the current Antipope of the Palmarian Catholic Church.

This is, of course, extremely my jam, and I started reading up on them hoping to find some wild theology, but instead I found something WAY better...
April 30, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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goodlawproject.bsky.social
On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies.

Solidarity 💜
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Support resources for our trans friends and allies | Good Law Project
At a time when anti-trans discrimination is rife and hate crime has reached record levels, it’s important to know what support is out there for trans, non-binary or gender-questioning individuals and ...
goodlawproject.org
April 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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emilyrowe1.bsky.social
What ethical responsibilities do we bear when we write about war? This is one of the questions we’re posing in our June colloquium on early modern war narratives. CFP here and the deadline is 11th April! Please share widely and consider submitting an abstract!
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Early Modern War Narratives - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS for our annual colloquium. This year's theme is early modern war narratives. CfP deadline: 11th April.
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April 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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lottelydia.bsky.social
The thing that is so frustrating about this is that this exact argument — these very same words — could be used to criticise Kathleen Stock and support the people who oppose her. But they never are.
lottelydia.bsky.social Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · Mar 26
This, by Bridget Phillipson, is deeply disappointing. Drivel that sounds like the height of the Johnson culture wars years.
“If you go to university you must be prepared to have your views challenged, hear contrary opinions and be exposed to uncomfortable truths. We are giving the OfS stronger powers on freedom of speech so students and academics are not muzzled by the chilling effect demonstrated in this case.”
March 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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awickenden.bsky.social
Abortion = health care.
propublica.org ProPublica @propublica.org · Mar 24
Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows.

As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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memorients.bsky.social
Today's MEMOries post from MEMOs team member Dr Emily Stevenson takes a look at a 1565/6 Westminster School play set in Jerusalem.

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Staging Jerusalem: Westminster School and Sapientia Solomonis | MEMOs
In choosing Jerusalem as a setting and spending considerable sums of money on staging it, the school hoped to create a spectacular and multi-sensory experience
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March 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM