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Lucy Holehouse
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Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London | researching the materials of Nationalism in C17th civic performance | she/her
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I'm planning an interactive workshop on the senses and medical humanities, to be held in Leeds in July 2026. It will involve creative practitioners, academics, and clinicians. If this is something you'd be interested in attending, please drop me a message or reply to this post and we can chat more!
October 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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ON STRIKE AGAIN BECAUSE THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH REFUSES TO RULE OUT COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES!
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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Maybe we should bring back wearing "a Choice Sort of Black Inck in Hard Balls, with that Conveniency, that you may wear them about you, without any Damage to the Inck, or your Linnen." just mix with any water or wine (except red)!
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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So the onus has to *also* be on students to want to learn and not just teachers whose labor is spread thin already between teaching, scholarship, and committees. We all bear a responsibility to guard our education and humanity (broadly defined) from bots. 3/3
October 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Gender and Sexuality MA - University of Birmingham
Course information for prospective postgraduate students on our MA History taught masters degree programme at the University of Birmingham.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
September 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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One of the most important things I have learned in my life is that how someone attempts to insult you says an awful lot about them.

This weekend, someone in my local community tried to insult me by saying I must be "an illegal" - that is, an undocumented immigrant.

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September 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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My profile is now viewable on the Rylands Institute website: www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/abou...

I'll be based at the Rylands from December (2025) to May (2026) undertaking research on sensory experiences and perceptions of cancer. If you're in Manchester during that time, let me know!
Claire Turner (The University of Manchester Library)
www.library.manchester.ac.uk
September 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Are you curious about the potential for archival practices to shape the study of emotion; why there are letters in the English State Papers labelled 'mad'; or how the culture & politics of Elizabethan England shaped people's experience of distress? Find out here! doi.org/10.1017/S008... #earlymodern
‘your poore distressed suppliant’: ‘Madness’, Emotion and the Archive in Early Modern England | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core
‘your poore distressed suppliant’: ‘Madness’, Emotion and the Archive in Early Modern England
doi.org
September 2, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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One of my RAs landed a permanent job in Madrid (which is awesome!) so I'm now advertising for a new one!

It's to work on my INTRECCI project on global histories of capitalism.

Please share with anyone interested and happy to answer questions.

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate in Early Modern Global History:Oxford Road
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
August 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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I'm chuffed to announce that I've just signed a contract with Manchester University Press to publish my book 'Plague and the Senses in Early Modern London'.
August 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
So so excited to announce that I'll be staying on @royalholloway.bsky.social for the next two years as a Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Early Modern Studies! ☺️🤸‍♀️
August 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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✨ CFP: The Odorous Object ✨
Perfumed letters, scented ceramics, fragrant glass vases — from the visible vessel to the invisible scent, olfactory objects carry histories of art, science, power, and imagination.
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August 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Stop doing this! Whoever is paying @timeshighered.bsky.social‬ for story after story is also funding environmental vandalism on a catastrophic scale. This isn't journalism, it's naive ethical bankruptcy - and intellectually and pedagogically obtuse.
August 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Spending some time working on the 'doublet with a satten forepart and a Canvas back’ in Middleton's Hengist today, and the more I think about it the more I realise just how ridiculous it would have looked. Wondering if it was made specifically for this play...
August 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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I'm currently looking for visiting lecturing/tutoring work for the autumn 💛 I've worked in English, Media Arts and Liberal Arts departments, and have taught poetry, literature, film, television and critical theory. If you know of any vacancies, or anyone that might be looking, please let me know 😊
August 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar
@ihrscb.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for 2025/26. Stipend of £300/yr and a chance to get involved in a great seminar!
July 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Material culture folk and dress historians: do we know anything about what a 'Fool's Coat' may have looked like in late C16th to early C17th England?
July 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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🎓 We're delighted to announce the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities here @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

The new school is a major investment into the postgraduate research environment for the arts and humanities by King's.

Read more👇

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...
July 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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We are delighted to announce the publication this month of the ninth digital edition in the REED series, the collection of the Newington Butts Playhouse records, edited by Sally-Beth MacLean. Check it out here:
ereed.org/collections/...
REED Online: Collection: Newington Butts Playhouse
ereed.org
July 21, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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And the STAC 5 data enhancements are complete. You can now search the whole of STAC 5, nearly 40,000 items for Elizabethan Star Chamber proceedings, by short title, plaintiff, defendant, case code, and more. Enjoy! discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1...
Court of Star Chamber: Proceedings, Elizabeth I | The National Archives
The official archive of the UK government. Our vision is to lead and transform information management, guarantee the survival of today's information for tomorrow and bring history to life for everyone...
discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
July 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Great article from Nick Lee that came out of one of his lectures on media and class for Royal Holloway's Introduction to Media Histories that I was teaching on this year: theconversation.com/who-represen...
Who represents Britain on screen? UK film and TV culture still has a worrying class problem
The narrowness of this field is bad news for diversity – we need greater breadth and depth when it comes to British culture and those who produce it.
theconversation.com
July 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Thank you Literary Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social
for running a little extract from my book 👇

‘In From the Margins: On Letting the Roma Narrate Their Own Story’

lithub.com/in-from-the-...
In From the Margins: On Letting the Roma Narrate Their Own Story
From a very young age I was drawn to the world of fiction. Every day my grandfather would walk me home from nursery and tell me a story as we walked along the lifeless streets. I wish I could remem…
lithub.com
July 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM