Heather Taylor (Hetty)
@healextay.bsky.social
History fanatic and spinach fiend | Doctorate in Medieval and Early Modern Studies from @memsunikent.bsky.social | Researching charms and experimenta in late-medieval manuscripts | she/her
After weeks of being stuck on the sofa it was so refreshing to finally make it out of the house, and to such a brilliant conference no less! Such an incredible range of papers - testified by the reams of notes I took over the two days. Thanks so much to the organisers!
November 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
After weeks of being stuck on the sofa it was so refreshing to finally make it out of the house, and to such a brilliant conference no less! Such an incredible range of papers - testified by the reams of notes I took over the two days. Thanks so much to the organisers!
Reposted by Heather Taylor (Hetty)
Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Consider applying for our Postgraduate Seminar Series ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/08/ihr-...
IHR Digital History Seminar Postgraduate Panels Call for Papers 2025-26 - Digital History Seminar
Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Is your historical research made possible by the use of electronic tools ...
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September 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Consider applying for our Postgraduate Seminar Series ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/08/ihr-...
Reposted by Heather Taylor (Hetty)
Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza
Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone
www.telegraph.co.uk
July 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
Just found the cutest experiment in Bod. Lib. Digby 67: Ut mureligus redeat ad domum tuam postquam semel fuerit in ea
So that a cat (literally mouse-gatherer!) returns to your house after it has once been in it.
Think I need to give this one a try
🫴🏼🐈⬛
Followed by one to make a dog follow you 🚶🏼♀️🐕
So that a cat (literally mouse-gatherer!) returns to your house after it has once been in it.
Think I need to give this one a try
🫴🏼🐈⬛
Followed by one to make a dog follow you 🚶🏼♀️🐕
June 25, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Just found the cutest experiment in Bod. Lib. Digby 67: Ut mureligus redeat ad domum tuam postquam semel fuerit in ea
So that a cat (literally mouse-gatherer!) returns to your house after it has once been in it.
Think I need to give this one a try
🫴🏼🐈⬛
Followed by one to make a dog follow you 🚶🏼♀️🐕
So that a cat (literally mouse-gatherer!) returns to your house after it has once been in it.
Think I need to give this one a try
🫴🏼🐈⬛
Followed by one to make a dog follow you 🚶🏼♀️🐕
Want to know what kind of ‘non-medical’ ailments a medieval medical practitioner might have been able to treat you for? Thrilled to share some of my research in the journal of the @sshmedicine.bsky.social - open access and everything! doi.org/10.1093/shm/...
‘An experiment pervyd for a thynge y lost’: ‘Non-medical’ Charms and experimenta in Medieval Medical Manuscripts
Summary. This essay conducts a close examination of manuscripts of English provenance from the late Middle Ages which, while predominantly medical in natur
doi.org
April 15, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Want to know what kind of ‘non-medical’ ailments a medieval medical practitioner might have been able to treat you for? Thrilled to share some of my research in the journal of the @sshmedicine.bsky.social - open access and everything! doi.org/10.1093/shm/...