Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩🏫 Ms. Apps)
@kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social
AHRC-funded PhD Candidate, w/ National Trust & OU | Global & East Asian Material Culture @ Restoration-era Ham House | MPhil on Tobacco, Pearls & Indigenous/African Labour in the British Atlantic c.1615–1642 | Monomaniac for the 1600s | KerryApps.com
Pinned
In the library, looking at beautiful things. These are images from John Ogilby’s Atlas Japannensis and Chinensis (the East Asian parts of a global series printed for an elite audience in the 1670s combining translated Dutch travelogues, histories, and lavish printed images)👇 🗃️
I think if I could find a way to remain in this 1819 attic room forever, I could write the next Frankenstein.
November 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I think if I could find a way to remain in this 1819 attic room forever, I could write the next Frankenstein.
Seventeenth-century Dukes 🤝 a conscientious student's GCSE/A-Level History answer book
TURN OVER.
TURN OVER.
November 13, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Seventeenth-century Dukes 🤝 a conscientious student's GCSE/A-Level History answer book
TURN OVER.
TURN OVER.
I saw today a woman offering ‘witch tours’ of Edinburgh. It’s nice to see a job that my undergraduate degree directly set me up for as I stare down the barrel of post-PhD unemployment 🤣.
November 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I saw today a woman offering ‘witch tours’ of Edinburgh. It’s nice to see a job that my undergraduate degree directly set me up for as I stare down the barrel of post-PhD unemployment 🤣.
The National Archives could never 😬
November 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The National Archives could never 😬
Very happy to be finishing my final (!!) chapter of my PhD this week, which includes the V&A's glorious Lady Clapham as illustrative material.
Images:
Lady Clapham, V&A
The Duchess of Lauderdale, NGS
Images:
Lady Clapham, V&A
The Duchess of Lauderdale, NGS
November 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Very happy to be finishing my final (!!) chapter of my PhD this week, which includes the V&A's glorious Lady Clapham as illustrative material.
Images:
Lady Clapham, V&A
The Duchess of Lauderdale, NGS
Images:
Lady Clapham, V&A
The Duchess of Lauderdale, NGS
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Exciting news! Next August I'll deliver a keynote lecture at the conference 'Carousels and Other Colonial Spectacles: Performing Race and Racialization at European Courts, ca. 1500-1700' at Copenhagen University, alongside Noémie Ndiaye. Call for papers is open now lnkd.in/e2ad7u7H (deadline 15/12)!
November 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Exciting news! Next August I'll deliver a keynote lecture at the conference 'Carousels and Other Colonial Spectacles: Performing Race and Racialization at European Courts, ca. 1500-1700' at Copenhagen University, alongside Noémie Ndiaye. Call for papers is open now lnkd.in/e2ad7u7H (deadline 15/12)!
I don't want to say that my PhD is impacting me in odd ways, but I have bought myself a fruit bowl that I've gathered is genuine Delft this week.
November 7, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I don't want to say that my PhD is impacting me in odd ways, but I have bought myself a fruit bowl that I've gathered is genuine Delft this week.
Pip's six years in South London have not prepared her for the back garden fireworks arms race that is October to November in a well-to-do village on the Cambridgeshire/Essex border.
November 5, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Pip's six years in South London have not prepared her for the back garden fireworks arms race that is October to November in a well-to-do village on the Cambridgeshire/Essex border.
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The world premiere of Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery will be streamed live on YouTube this weekend.
Watch live:
Day 1 (NHCC - Albuquerque) www.youtube.com/live/xiA5Mp_...
Day 2 (MIAC - Santa Fe)
www.youtube.com/live/5r-vWjG...
Follow @natboundunbound for updates and links.
Watch live:
Day 1 (NHCC - Albuquerque) www.youtube.com/live/xiA5Mp_...
Day 2 (MIAC - Santa Fe)
www.youtube.com/live/5r-vWjG...
Follow @natboundunbound for updates and links.
October 29, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The world premiere of Native Bound Unbound: Archive of Indigenous Slavery will be streamed live on YouTube this weekend.
Watch live:
Day 1 (NHCC - Albuquerque) www.youtube.com/live/xiA5Mp_...
Day 2 (MIAC - Santa Fe)
www.youtube.com/live/5r-vWjG...
Follow @natboundunbound for updates and links.
Watch live:
Day 1 (NHCC - Albuquerque) www.youtube.com/live/xiA5Mp_...
Day 2 (MIAC - Santa Fe)
www.youtube.com/live/5r-vWjG...
Follow @natboundunbound for updates and links.
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Happy Halloween! Here's a thread of some of my monstery essays, and a link to register for my next book talk, hosted by the Linda Hall Library:
Thurs Dec 4th, 7-8pm CST (8-9pm EST)
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💙📚 🧪 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH
events.lindahall.org/humansamonst...
Thurs Dec 4th, 7-8pm CST (8-9pm EST)
1/
💙📚 🧪 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH
events.lindahall.org/humansamonst...
events.lindahall.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Happy Halloween! Here's a thread of some of my monstery essays, and a link to register for my next book talk, hosted by the Linda Hall Library:
Thurs Dec 4th, 7-8pm CST (8-9pm EST)
1/
💙📚 🧪 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH
events.lindahall.org/humansamonst...
Thurs Dec 4th, 7-8pm CST (8-9pm EST)
1/
💙📚 🧪 🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH
events.lindahall.org/humansamonst...
Some people played Pokémon Go, I play collect the dodgy 1920s memorials to the Pilgrims/early American settlers.
Image: Begijnhof, Amsterdam.
Image: Begijnhof, Amsterdam.
October 30, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Some people played Pokémon Go, I play collect the dodgy 1920s memorials to the Pilgrims/early American settlers.
Image: Begijnhof, Amsterdam.
Image: Begijnhof, Amsterdam.
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If children who are not related to you do not call you “Aunt” or “Uncle” then you have no charisma and no light in your eyes.
I used to love how my daughter's little friend Neha, down the street, would call me "Uncle Jeff" when the girls were little.
October 28, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If children who are not related to you do not call you “Aunt” or “Uncle” then you have no charisma and no light in your eyes.
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The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
Support Jamaica
supportjamaica.gov.jm
October 28, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR
supportjamaica.gov.jm
supportjamaica.gov.jm
The feminine urge to install a box bed.
Images: Museum Ons‘ Lieve Heer Op Solder/Our Lord in the Attic
Images: Museum Ons‘ Lieve Heer Op Solder/Our Lord in the Attic
October 26, 2025 at 8:23 PM
The feminine urge to install a box bed.
Images: Museum Ons‘ Lieve Heer Op Solder/Our Lord in the Attic
Images: Museum Ons‘ Lieve Heer Op Solder/Our Lord in the Attic
My partner also enjoyed the ADE stuff going on, became best mates with our local barista, and was adopted by a table next to us in a restaurant in De Pijp because he is 100x cooler than me.
Had the pleasure this past week of my partner indulging my seventeenth-century monomania on a birthday break.
Photos: my first time seeing Petronella O’s doll’s house (which I’ve studied from afar as a deeply global object) in the flesh. Look at the ceramics, the spittoons, the japanned cabinet.
Photos: my first time seeing Petronella O’s doll’s house (which I’ve studied from afar as a deeply global object) in the flesh. Look at the ceramics, the spittoons, the japanned cabinet.
October 25, 2025 at 8:19 PM
My partner also enjoyed the ADE stuff going on, became best mates with our local barista, and was adopted by a table next to us in a restaurant in De Pijp because he is 100x cooler than me.
Had the pleasure this past week of my partner indulging my seventeenth-century monomania on a birthday break.
Photos: my first time seeing Petronella O’s doll’s house (which I’ve studied from afar as a deeply global object) in the flesh. Look at the ceramics, the spittoons, the japanned cabinet.
Photos: my first time seeing Petronella O’s doll’s house (which I’ve studied from afar as a deeply global object) in the flesh. Look at the ceramics, the spittoons, the japanned cabinet.
October 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Had the pleasure this past week of my partner indulging my seventeenth-century monomania on a birthday break.
Photos: my first time seeing Petronella O’s doll’s house (which I’ve studied from afar as a deeply global object) in the flesh. Look at the ceramics, the spittoons, the japanned cabinet.
Photos: my first time seeing Petronella O’s doll’s house (which I’ve studied from afar as a deeply global object) in the flesh. Look at the ceramics, the spittoons, the japanned cabinet.
Witnessed a fellow visitor attempting to touch a seventeenth-century ebony cabinet at the Rijksmuseum yesterday. The room steward was swiiiiift with the politest telling off. Me?
a man in a military uniform is standing in front of a room with people sitting at tables .
ALT: a man in a military uniform is standing in front of a room with people sitting at tables .
media.tenor.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Witnessed a fellow visitor attempting to touch a seventeenth-century ebony cabinet at the Rijksmuseum yesterday. The room steward was swiiiiift with the politest telling off. Me?
Our hotel room in Amsterdam has bathrooms papered in documents from the former City Archives. We won Rembrandt’s marriage certificate.
I am trying to be on a break from seventeenth century handwriting. 😅
I am trying to be on a break from seventeenth century handwriting. 😅
October 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Our hotel room in Amsterdam has bathrooms papered in documents from the former City Archives. We won Rembrandt’s marriage certificate.
I am trying to be on a break from seventeenth century handwriting. 😅
I am trying to be on a break from seventeenth century handwriting. 😅
Out of office on, Dutch art from tomorrow on.
a painting of a man playing an electric guitar
ALT: a painting of a man playing an electric guitar
media.tenor.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Out of office on, Dutch art from tomorrow on.
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How was Robert Knox, son of an EIC Captain and captive in Sri Lanka for nineteen years, immediately identified as an outsider aboard ship when it was inspected on his arrival in England in September 1680?
His beard was long and old-fashioned. #earlymodern #skystorians
His beard was long and old-fashioned. #earlymodern #skystorians
October 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
How was Robert Knox, son of an EIC Captain and captive in Sri Lanka for nineteen years, immediately identified as an outsider aboard ship when it was inspected on his arrival in England in September 1680?
His beard was long and old-fashioned. #earlymodern #skystorians
His beard was long and old-fashioned. #earlymodern #skystorians
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Ned Blackhawk - How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution
The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution
The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.
www.theatlantic.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Ned Blackhawk - How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution
The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The Founders were inspired—and threatened—by the independence and self-governance of nations like the Iroquois Confederacy.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
This includes close-up images of the embroidered textiles that once adorned Queen Catherine of Braganza's state bed.
October 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This includes close-up images of the embroidered textiles that once adorned Queen Catherine of Braganza's state bed.
Do you like seventeenth century stuff? Then my Instagram (@kerrylouiseapps), which has zero engagement, but so many pictures of Ham House in empty periods might be for you. 🫠
October 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Do you like seventeenth century stuff? Then my Instagram (@kerrylouiseapps), which has zero engagement, but so many pictures of Ham House in empty periods might be for you. 🫠
Call me Alanis because I just got an invite to a free preview of the Rijksmuseum's 'Life in the Seventeenth Century' exhibition via the VVAK, but I've already paiiiiiiidddd (for tickets, flights, and hotel when it's open to the public).
Alanis Morissette And Isnt It Ironic Dont You Think GIF
ALT: Alanis Morissette And Isnt It Ironic Dont You Think GIF
media.tenor.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Call me Alanis because I just got an invite to a free preview of the Rijksmuseum's 'Life in the Seventeenth Century' exhibition via the VVAK, but I've already paiiiiiiidddd (for tickets, flights, and hotel when it's open to the public).
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Delighted to share some initial research that Stephanie Pratt (Crow Creek Dakota) & I have started at Knole @researchnt.bsky.social. How can its transatlantic connections also centre Indigenous presence? What new interpretation might such frameworks allow?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/indigenous-h...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/indigenous-h...
Indigenous Plant Stories in an English Treasure House
Delve into the links between Knole and Indigenous American histories as we investigate its colonial connections.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
October 7, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Delighted to share some initial research that Stephanie Pratt (Crow Creek Dakota) & I have started at Knole @researchnt.bsky.social. How can its transatlantic connections also centre Indigenous presence? What new interpretation might such frameworks allow?
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/indigenous-h...
www.historyworkshop.org.uk/indigenous-h...