Emily Stevenson
@emilylsteve.bsky.social
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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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 👣
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
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 👣
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
tinyurl.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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.
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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📣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
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
📣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
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
AI proving once again that there's still undiscovered knowledge for us to mine.
July 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
AI proving once again that there's still undiscovered knowledge for us to mine.
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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 🗃️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...
4 July, 9:30-18:00, Royal Asiatic Society, London
FREE but must register:
#travelwriting #travel #skystorians 🗃️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...
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!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 15, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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 🗃️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...
4 July, 9:30-18:00, Royal Asiatic Society, London
FREE but must register:
#travelwriting #travel #skystorians 🗃️
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...
🎉🎉🎉
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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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.
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
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.
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.
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So basically just sort of banning people who enjoy a sport for fun really?
May 1, 2025 at 9:21 AM
So basically just sort of banning people who enjoy a sport for fun really?
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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...
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
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...
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...
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On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies.
Solidarity 💜
goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...
Solidarity 💜
goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...
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
On what is a really difficult day, here are some resources for our trans friends and allies.
Solidarity 💜
goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...
Solidarity 💜
goodlawproject.org/resource/sup...
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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!
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen...
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen...
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.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
April 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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!
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen...
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen...
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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.
This, by Bridget Phillipson, is deeply disappointing. Drivel that sounds like the height of the Johnson culture wars years.
March 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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.
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Abortion = health care.
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%.
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.
propub.li
March 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Abortion = health care.
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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
Today's MEMOries post from MEMOs team member Dr Emily Stevenson takes a look at a 1565/6 Westminster School play set in Jerusalem.
memorients.com/articles/sta...
memorients.com/articles/sta...
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if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
March 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.
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I’m glad Labour is supporting these workers, who are at risk of losing 400 jobs. Would be nice if they were also supporting university workers, where 10,000 jobs are at risk. In the first week of February alone 1,000 job cuts were announced. Nothing from Labour at all in response.
February 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I’m glad Labour is supporting these workers, who are at risk of losing 400 jobs. Would be nice if they were also supporting university workers, where 10,000 jobs are at risk. In the first week of February alone 1,000 job cuts were announced. Nothing from Labour at all in response.
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This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?
Cardiff: University confirms plans to cut 400 jobs
Vice-chancellor Wendy Larner says
www.bbc.co.uk
January 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This is a national scandal. When will the government wake up and realise they are presiding over the rapid implosion of the UK's world-renowned university sector?
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I didn't know this wasn't well known! Here are some resources:
DHQ article on eebo and fingerprints specifically: www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/1...
DHQ article on eebo and fingerprints specifically: www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/1...
January 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I didn't know this wasn't well known! Here are some resources:
DHQ article on eebo and fingerprints specifically: www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/1...
DHQ article on eebo and fingerprints specifically: www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/18/1...
Discussing how similar early modern character names are in seminars this week and one of my students goes ‘oh it’s really confusing, for realio’, prompting me to freeze at the thought I’d forgotten who Forealio was and which play he was in
December 7, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Discussing how similar early modern character names are in seminars this week and one of my students goes ‘oh it’s really confusing, for realio’, prompting me to freeze at the thought I’d forgotten who Forealio was and which play he was in
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This is actually full of good reporting on casualization of UKHE at even the most prestigious institutions. And the fact that the Observer pressed Christ Church directly on ad wording, and then reported on the college's sidestepping is nothing short of astonishing.
Oxford relying on ‘Deliveroo-style’ contracts with most tutorials not taught by full-time staff
Leading university accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2024 at 11:31 AM
This is actually full of good reporting on casualization of UKHE at even the most prestigious institutions. And the fact that the Observer pressed Christ Church directly on ad wording, and then reported on the college's sidestepping is nothing short of astonishing.
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Hello all: It is with a heavy heart that I remove my Starter Pack of "Trustworthy Mesopotamian Copper Ingot Merchants Within the City-State of Ur."
I have been informed about some pretty unfortunate oversights on my part and ultimately platformed some creators who should not have been platformed.
I have been informed about some pretty unfortunate oversights on my part and ultimately platformed some creators who should not have been platformed.
November 13, 2024 at 3:25 AM
Hello all: It is with a heavy heart that I remove my Starter Pack of "Trustworthy Mesopotamian Copper Ingot Merchants Within the City-State of Ur."
I have been informed about some pretty unfortunate oversights on my part and ultimately platformed some creators who should not have been platformed.
I have been informed about some pretty unfortunate oversights on my part and ultimately platformed some creators who should not have been platformed.