Elaine Leong
@historyelaine.bsky.social
Historian interested in the everyday, mom, novice potter and recipe/food enthusiast.
Funded PhD Studentship @UCL History and @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on project titled 'Translating Monstrosity: Constructions of Difference in #earlymodern England and France'. Deadline Jan 31st 2025. Project & application info: www.ucl.ac.uk/history/oppo.... #histmed #histsci #HSTM #bookhistory
Opportunities
Find opportunities to join UCL History in academic, research, teaching and learning, admin and other capacities below.
www.ucl.ac.uk
December 16, 2024 at 7:28 AM
Funded PhD Studentship @UCL History and @wellcomecollection.bsky.social on project titled 'Translating Monstrosity: Constructions of Difference in #earlymodern England and France'. Deadline Jan 31st 2025. Project & application info: www.ucl.ac.uk/history/oppo.... #histmed #histsci #HSTM #bookhistory
Interested in war machines? Join the Objects, Images & Spaces of Health WG to discuss Lauren Rozenberg's paper: "Guido da Vigevano's Medical and Technological Conquest of the Holy Land" on FRI March 8th @ 11 EST, w/ Jess Bailey. Paper & zoom link tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx
#histstm #visualculture #histmed
#histstm #visualculture #histmed
March 4, 2024 at 9:13 AM
Interested in war machines? Join the Objects, Images & Spaces of Health WG to discuss Lauren Rozenberg's paper: "Guido da Vigevano's Medical and Technological Conquest of the Holy Land" on FRI March 8th @ 11 EST, w/ Jess Bailey. Paper & zoom link tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx
#histstm #visualculture #histmed
#histstm #visualculture #histmed
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#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for summer term 2024. Stipend of £100 and a chance to get involved in a great seminar! 🗃️
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February 12, 2024 at 10:28 AM
#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for summer term 2024. Stipend of £100 and a chance to get involved in a great seminar! 🗃️
societycultureandbelief.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/o...
societycultureandbelief.wordpress.com/2024/02/11/o...
Join the @chstmorg Objects, Images & Spaces of Health group on Fri Feb 9th @ 11 am EST to discuss Sharon Strocchia's fabulous paper on Indies Balsam in Renaissance Italy, w/ a comment by Mackenzie Cooley. Zoom link & paper @ tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx. #histmed #histstm #materialhistory #earlymodern
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February 1, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Join the @chstmorg Objects, Images & Spaces of Health group on Fri Feb 9th @ 11 am EST to discuss Sharon Strocchia's fabulous paper on Indies Balsam in Renaissance Italy, w/ a comment by Mackenzie Cooley. Zoom link & paper @ tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx. #histmed #histstm #materialhistory #earlymodern
Join the Objects, Images and Spaces of Health WG to celebrate the publication of Heidi Hausse's new bk - The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans and Amputees in EM Germany on Jan 12th @ 11 EST! Heidi will be in conversation w/ Pamela Long, Alisha Rankin and Paolo Savoia. Details: tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx
January 8, 2024 at 2:13 PM
Join the Objects, Images and Spaces of Health WG to celebrate the publication of Heidi Hausse's new bk - The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans and Amputees in EM Germany on Jan 12th @ 11 EST! Heidi will be in conversation w/ Pamela Long, Alisha Rankin and Paolo Savoia. Details: tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx
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oooooooo! Nick Popper's book on #earlymodern archives coming up! 🗃️ press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Specter of the Archive
An exploration of the proliferation of paper in early modern Britain and its far-reaching effects on politics and society. We are used to thinking of ourselves as living in a time when more informa...
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December 30, 2023 at 8:40 PM
oooooooo! Nick Popper's book on #earlymodern archives coming up! 🗃️ press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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CFP! Please circulate widely (my Bluesky footprint is still small) and contact me with any questions.
December 3, 2023 at 9:20 AM
CFP! Please circulate widely (my Bluesky footprint is still small) and contact me with any questions.
Early career fellowships schemes at the IHR in London! #earlymodern #hstm
The Institute of Historical Research annual early career fellowships have now been advertised. Schemes and details and deadlines are here: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...
Early Career Fellowships
IHR Early Career Research Fellowships provide funding to enable early career historians to complete a doctorate or to undertake post-doctoral research.
www.history.ac.uk
December 2, 2023 at 12:15 PM
Early career fellowships schemes at the IHR in London! #earlymodern #hstm
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Published today, online open access and in print: Global Goods and the Country House: Comparative perspectives, 1650-1800, Edited by Jon Stobart: www.uclpress.co.uk/products/210...
November 20, 2023 at 7:44 AM
Published today, online open access and in print: Global Goods and the Country House: Comparative perspectives, 1650-1800, Edited by Jon Stobart: www.uclpress.co.uk/products/210...
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Hello fellow historians of medicine, science and technology, I made a #histstm feed. Post to it simply by adding the #histstm #histsci #histmed #histtech hashtags, add the feed here bsky.app/profile/did:...
And please help spread the word 🙏
And please help spread the word 🙏
November 19, 2023 at 8:00 PM
Hello fellow historians of medicine, science and technology, I made a #histstm feed. Post to it simply by adding the #histstm #histsci #histmed #histtech hashtags, add the feed here bsky.app/profile/did:...
And please help spread the word 🙏
And please help spread the word 🙏
Fancy learning more about #earlymodern beauty recipes? Want to make your own early modern lip salve? Join @EMRecipesOnline's annual transcribathon on Friday to learn more about manuscripts from @ExploreWellcome and @RCPmuseum. Details: tinyurl.com/yes2d3h2. #histmed #histsci #materialculture
Transcribathon Central 2023: Beauty by the Books
17 November 2023Beauty by the Books Please join the Early Modern Recipe Online Collective (EMROC), Royal College of Physicians (RCP) and the Wellcome Collection for a one-day manuscript adventure on ...
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November 15, 2023 at 10:10 AM
Fancy learning more about #earlymodern beauty recipes? Want to make your own early modern lip salve? Join @EMRecipesOnline's annual transcribathon on Friday to learn more about manuscripts from @ExploreWellcome and @RCPmuseum. Details: tinyurl.com/yes2d3h2. #histmed #histsci #materialculture
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Great news this morning for #histsci: British Society for the History of Science announces that research articles in Brit.Jnl. for Hist. Sci. will now be #openaccess, even though the society's council recognises this will have 'major implications for our finances'. www.bshs.org.uk/update-from-...
November 9, 2023 at 12:41 PM
Great news this morning for #histsci: British Society for the History of Science announces that research articles in Brit.Jnl. for Hist. Sci. will now be #openaccess, even though the society's council recognises this will have 'major implications for our finances'. www.bshs.org.uk/update-from-...
This Friday 10th November @ 11 EST on Zoom! Claire Burridge on "Marginal Recipes, Major Insights" at the CHSM Objects, Spaces and Images of Health working group. Paper and details: tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx #histmed #histstm #medieval #recipestudies
Recipes Alert! Join the CHSTM Objects, Spaces & Images of Health WG on 10th Nov @ 11 EST to discuss Claire Burridge's paper "Marginal Recipes, Major Insights". Debby Banham will kickstart our convo with a comment. Paper and details: tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx #histmed #visualculture #medieval #manuscripts
November 6, 2023 at 2:09 PM
This Friday 10th November @ 11 EST on Zoom! Claire Burridge on "Marginal Recipes, Major Insights" at the CHSM Objects, Spaces and Images of Health working group. Paper and details: tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx #histmed #histstm #medieval #recipestudies
I've been eating peaches for a cause & today is the day! I'm making a 17th century hand scrub w/ Julia Nurse & @historyfinn.bsky.social @ Wellcome Collections in preparation for the EMROC annual transcribathon. Theme this year? Beauty by the books. Details: tinyurl.com/47p8uvfs #histstm #earlymodern
November 1, 2023 at 9:26 AM
I've been eating peaches for a cause & today is the day! I'm making a 17th century hand scrub w/ Julia Nurse & @historyfinn.bsky.social @ Wellcome Collections in preparation for the EMROC annual transcribathon. Theme this year? Beauty by the books. Details: tinyurl.com/47p8uvfs #histstm #earlymodern
Recipes Alert! Join the CHSTM Objects, Spaces & Images of Health WG on 10th Nov @ 11 EST to discuss Claire Burridge's paper "Marginal Recipes, Major Insights". Debby Banham will kickstart our convo with a comment. Paper and details: tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx #histmed #visualculture #medieval #manuscripts
October 30, 2023 at 9:52 AM
Recipes Alert! Join the CHSTM Objects, Spaces & Images of Health WG on 10th Nov @ 11 EST to discuss Claire Burridge's paper "Marginal Recipes, Major Insights". Debby Banham will kickstart our convo with a comment. Paper and details: tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx #histmed #visualculture #medieval #manuscripts
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Lecturer in Archives and Records Management at UCL East, working with Adam Crymble and colleagues - www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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October 9, 2023 at 8:36 AM
Lecturer in Archives and Records Management at UCL East, working with Adam Crymble and colleagues - www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Just in case anyone wondered, the title of Tara Nummedal's presentation for the CHSTM OISH session is: "'The Männel is a root, it should be called an Allraune': A Mandrake, Magic, and Money in Seventeenth-Century Saxony"... happy weekend, all! #earlymodern #planthistory #archivalhistory
Mandrakes alert! Tara Nummedal will share her archival finds at the CHSTM Objects, Images and Spaces of Health working group on Fri Oct 13th @ 11 EST. Alisha Rankin start with convo w/ a comment. Please do join us! Details: tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx #histmed #histsci #materialculture #histknow
October 6, 2023 at 8:19 AM
Just in case anyone wondered, the title of Tara Nummedal's presentation for the CHSTM OISH session is: "'The Männel is a root, it should be called an Allraune': A Mandrake, Magic, and Money in Seventeenth-Century Saxony"... happy weekend, all! #earlymodern #planthistory #archivalhistory
Mandrakes alert! Tara Nummedal will share her archival finds at the CHSTM Objects, Images and Spaces of Health working group on Fri Oct 13th @ 11 EST. Alisha Rankin start with convo w/ a comment. Please do join us! Details: tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx #histmed #histsci #materialculture #histknow
October 5, 2023 at 2:56 PM
Mandrakes alert! Tara Nummedal will share her archival finds at the CHSTM Objects, Images and Spaces of Health working group on Fri Oct 13th @ 11 EST. Alisha Rankin start with convo w/ a comment. Please do join us! Details: tinyurl.com/2ycanzjx #histmed #histsci #materialculture #histknow
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🥁 The next conference of the ESHS (European Society for the History of Science) will be in Barcelona from 4 to 7 September 2024, #ESHS2024. Call for for Proposals in the Conference website, open until November 22 ⤵️ eventum.upf.edu/94068/detail...
October 3, 2023 at 7:17 AM
🥁 The next conference of the ESHS (European Society for the History of Science) will be in Barcelona from 4 to 7 September 2024, #ESHS2024. Call for for Proposals in the Conference website, open until November 22 ⤵️ eventum.upf.edu/94068/detail...
Two weeks left to pitch ideas for the 2023 Osiris call for proposals! Questions? Send us an email at osiris[at]bbqplus.org. #histsci #histmed #envhist #histknow Ahmed Ragab, Myrna Sheldon Perez and I look forward to discussing your projects with you!
Are you working on a collaborative project and looking for a home for your publication? The 2023 Osiris call for proposals is now open. We welcome expressions of interest by October 15th. For more details, see tinyurl.com/y4u4rw7p.
Call for proposals: Osiris, vol. 42 — The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies
Osiris invites expressions of interest and volume proposals for Volume 42
(projected publication year 2026). Please submit expressions of interest by
October 15th, 2023 and full-volume proposals by ...
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September 28, 2023 at 1:53 PM
Two weeks left to pitch ideas for the 2023 Osiris call for proposals! Questions? Send us an email at osiris[at]bbqplus.org. #histsci #histmed #envhist #histknow Ahmed Ragab, Myrna Sheldon Perez and I look forward to discussing your projects with you!
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*tap mics* Is this thing on? Hello, fellow BlueSky historians! This is the BlueSky app account for the media and curriculum database #WomenAlsoKnowHistory. Our goals are to share, celebrate, and uplift the lives and work of women and nonbinary historians. womenalsoknowhistory.com
September 22, 2023 at 2:55 PM
*tap mics* Is this thing on? Hello, fellow BlueSky historians! This is the BlueSky app account for the media and curriculum database #WomenAlsoKnowHistory. Our goals are to share, celebrate, and uplift the lives and work of women and nonbinary historians. womenalsoknowhistory.com
Interested in #histmed #histsci #visualculture? Join the CHSTM Objects, Spaces and Images of Health working group this Friday @ 12 EST to discuss Stephanie O'Rourke's paper titled "Figuring Racial Difference in Early Nineteenth-Century France". Details, Zoom link and paper: tinyurl.com/454v9ze9
Objects, Images, and Spaces of Health | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine
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September 4, 2023 at 3:42 PM
Interested in #histmed #histsci #visualculture? Join the CHSTM Objects, Spaces and Images of Health working group this Friday @ 12 EST to discuss Stephanie O'Rourke's paper titled "Figuring Racial Difference in Early Nineteenth-Century France". Details, Zoom link and paper: tinyurl.com/454v9ze9
Got an idea for a collaborative publication and want to brainstorm with likeminded scholars? Curious about crafting proposals for journal special issues? Join Osiris co-editor Ahmed Ragab for an online brainstorming session on September 19th.
Details for brainstorming session: tinyurl.com/bdh4avu4
Details for brainstorming session: tinyurl.com/bdh4avu4
Join us for an Osiris brainstorming session on Sept. 19th — The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer...
Got an idea for an Osiris volume? Want to bring a pressing issue to the
attention of historians of science? Longing to learn more about crafting
proposals for collaborative volumes? Join Ahmed Ragab...
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August 30, 2023 at 12:07 PM
Got an idea for a collaborative publication and want to brainstorm with likeminded scholars? Curious about crafting proposals for journal special issues? Join Osiris co-editor Ahmed Ragab for an online brainstorming session on September 19th.
Details for brainstorming session: tinyurl.com/bdh4avu4
Details for brainstorming session: tinyurl.com/bdh4avu4
Are you working on a collaborative project and looking for a home for your publication? The 2023 Osiris call for proposals is now open. We welcome expressions of interest by October 15th. For more details, see tinyurl.com/y4u4rw7p.
Call for proposals: Osiris, vol. 42 — The Center for Black, Brown, and Queer Studies
Osiris invites expressions of interest and volume proposals for Volume 42
(projected publication year 2026). Please submit expressions of interest by
October 15th, 2023 and full-volume proposals by ...
tinyurl.com
August 30, 2023 at 12:04 PM
Are you working on a collaborative project and looking for a home for your publication? The 2023 Osiris call for proposals is now open. We welcome expressions of interest by October 15th. For more details, see tinyurl.com/y4u4rw7p.