Grace Murray
@mazinggrace.bsky.social
Lecturer in English at Birkbeck, University of London | PhD (York) on how-to books in early modern England | fan of scribbles in books, gardens, & scribbles in garden books
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Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended.
They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision.
Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision.
Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
January 8, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended.
They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision.
Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision.
Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
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If you ever wondered what biochemical traces of past users of medical recipes may tell us about early modern haircare, see @uk.theconversation.com's discussion of our @historians.org article:
doi.org/10.64628/AB....
Research supported by @thejohnrylands.bsky.social & @britishacademy.bsky.social
doi.org/10.64628/AB....
Research supported by @thejohnrylands.bsky.social & @britishacademy.bsky.social
What Renaissance readers left behind in haircare books
New biochemical techniques offer unmatched insight into early modern medicine, as traces of plants, animals and even human waste have been sampled from pages.
doi.org
January 9, 2026 at 6:07 AM
If you ever wondered what biochemical traces of past users of medical recipes may tell us about early modern haircare, see @uk.theconversation.com's discussion of our @historians.org article:
doi.org/10.64628/AB....
Research supported by @thejohnrylands.bsky.social & @britishacademy.bsky.social
doi.org/10.64628/AB....
Research supported by @thejohnrylands.bsky.social & @britishacademy.bsky.social
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JOB ALERT!
3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community.
PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January
www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...
3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community.
PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January
www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...
January 5, 2026 at 9:00 AM
JOB ALERT!
3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community.
PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January
www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...
3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community.
PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January
www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...
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The British Library have a searchable interim Archives & Manuscripts Catalogues up & running: searcharchives.bl.uk
(posting for all the folks who, like me, had somehow managed to miss this important development)
(posting for all the folks who, like me, had somehow managed to miss this important development)
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue
searcharchives.bl.uk
December 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The British Library have a searchable interim Archives & Manuscripts Catalogues up & running: searcharchives.bl.uk
(posting for all the folks who, like me, had somehow managed to miss this important development)
(posting for all the folks who, like me, had somehow managed to miss this important development)
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Looking forward to hearing @mazinggrace.bsky.social talk about gardening and reading at @thegibsonlibrary.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Looking forward to hearing @mazinggrace.bsky.social talk about gardening and reading at @thegibsonlibrary.bsky.social
I have kindly been invited to talk about gardening and reading at the Gibson Library in Saffron Walden! Come along (for free!) at 19.30 on 10 Dec to hear about #earlymodern plants, print & marginalia (+ Gabriel Harvey’s compulsive underlining of mentions of saffron). gibsonlibrary.org.uk/news.html
Gibson Library
gibsonlibrary.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
I have kindly been invited to talk about gardening and reading at the Gibson Library in Saffron Walden! Come along (for free!) at 19.30 on 10 Dec to hear about #earlymodern plants, print & marginalia (+ Gabriel Harvey’s compulsive underlining of mentions of saffron). gibsonlibrary.org.uk/news.html
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I'm thrilled to be teaching a short course on Arabic Studies in Early Modern England with Prof. Alastair Hamilton at @warburginstitute.bsky.social next month. We'll need to meet a minimum number of bookings to run, so if you're interested, sign up asap! warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Crossing the world without an interpreter: Arabic studies in England 1550-1640
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October 17, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I'm thrilled to be teaching a short course on Arabic Studies in Early Modern England with Prof. Alastair Hamilton at @warburginstitute.bsky.social next month. We'll need to meet a minimum number of bookings to run, so if you're interested, sign up asap! warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
🌳 ’Whispers of the Wilderness’ is officially open at Beningbrough Hall!
Ft. beautiful new art and sound installations inspired by the sensory experience of walking through a wilderness garden, & my 🪴 potted 🪴 history of wildernesses, told through 9 historic objects from throughout the Trust!
Ft. beautiful new art and sound installations inspired by the sensory experience of walking through a wilderness garden, & my 🪴 potted 🪴 history of wildernesses, told through 9 historic objects from throughout the Trust!
September 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🌳 ’Whispers of the Wilderness’ is officially open at Beningbrough Hall!
Ft. beautiful new art and sound installations inspired by the sensory experience of walking through a wilderness garden, & my 🪴 potted 🪴 history of wildernesses, told through 9 historic objects from throughout the Trust!
Ft. beautiful new art and sound installations inspired by the sensory experience of walking through a wilderness garden, & my 🪴 potted 🪴 history of wildernesses, told through 9 historic objects from throughout the Trust!
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So turns out I’m the voice of Jane Austen (or her narrators at least) at a National Trust exhibition now
September 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
So turns out I’m the voice of Jane Austen (or her narrators at least) at a National Trust exhibition now
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Dear ESTC:
Thank you for the great error screen!
Thank you for the great error screen!
July 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Dear ESTC:
Thank you for the great error screen!
Thank you for the great error screen!
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Thanks to @stephenaj.bsky.social's fabulous article (still available at link below) I have had a look at this equally fabulous interactive astrolabe alexboxer.com/astrolabe/. It's a really useful tool for understanding what the instrument does and a lot of fun to play with! #histsci #astronomy
July 18, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Thanks to @stephenaj.bsky.social's fabulous article (still available at link below) I have had a look at this equally fabulous interactive astrolabe alexboxer.com/astrolabe/. It's a really useful tool for understanding what the instrument does and a lot of fun to play with! #histsci #astronomy
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That’s a wrap on #plantsandpeople! Thanks to all of our wonderful speakers, keynotes, artists, and attendees for two days of fantastic discussion and hands-on experimentation. Over and out from @zarakesterton.bsky.social and @lucyjhavard.bsky.social !
July 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
That’s a wrap on #plantsandpeople! Thanks to all of our wonderful speakers, keynotes, artists, and attendees for two days of fantastic discussion and hands-on experimentation. Over and out from @zarakesterton.bsky.social and @lucyjhavard.bsky.social !
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We have two workshops running in tandem this morning at the #plantsandpeople conference - one on botanical images at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and a practical workshop on early modern dye production with Nabil Ali! Thanks to @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social for the use of your greenhouses!
July 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
We have two workshops running in tandem this morning at the #plantsandpeople conference - one on botanical images at the Fitzwilliam Museum, and a practical workshop on early modern dye production with Nabil Ali! Thanks to @jesuscollegecam.bsky.social for the use of your greenhouses!
An inspiring and thought-provoking day one of #plantsandpeople @people-plants-2025.bsky.social, thinking about the peripheries of botanical knowledge-making. Thank you @zarakesterton.bsky.social & Lucy Havard for putting all of this together — looking forward to day two! 🌱 📖
July 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
An inspiring and thought-provoking day one of #plantsandpeople @people-plants-2025.bsky.social, thinking about the peripheries of botanical knowledge-making. Thank you @zarakesterton.bsky.social & Lucy Havard for putting all of this together — looking forward to day two! 🌱 📖
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WHAT A WEEK! An utter delight to see so many #EarlyModern 'ists chatting, thinking, discussing together in beautiful Bristol. So many conversations started and ideas sparked.
If you're looking for people you met, we tried to update the starter pack of #RenSoc25 delegates:
If you're looking for people you met, we tried to update the starter pack of #RenSoc25 delegates:
July 7, 2025 at 9:05 AM
WHAT A WEEK! An utter delight to see so many #EarlyModern 'ists chatting, thinking, discussing together in beautiful Bristol. So many conversations started and ideas sparked.
If you're looking for people you met, we tried to update the starter pack of #RenSoc25 delegates:
If you're looking for people you met, we tried to update the starter pack of #RenSoc25 delegates:
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Returning from #RenSoc25 brimming over with early modern goodness, in awe of the incredible research being presented, and buoyed up by the collegiality and community in such abundant evidence, despite everything. A huge thank you to the organisers!
July 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Returning from #RenSoc25 brimming over with early modern goodness, in awe of the incredible research being presented, and buoyed up by the collegiality and community in such abundant evidence, despite everything. A huge thank you to the organisers!
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Such a wonderful time talking through our modes of reading satire and/or sincerity this morning! Left with more questions than answers of course. Thanks to my excellent co-panellists and all who came #RenSoc25
Our roundtable on ‘Satire or Sincerity?’ with me, @elicumings.bsky.social, @mazinggrace.bsky.social, & Mel Harrison! #earlymodern
July 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Such a wonderful time talking through our modes of reading satire and/or sincerity this morning! Left with more questions than answers of course. Thanks to my excellent co-panellists and all who came #RenSoc25
A blockbuster day at #RenSoc25, talking all things how-to, utility, local identity & readership alongside lovely & brilliant scholars — thank you @emilyrowe1.bsky.social for organising our roundtable on satire & sincerity, & @walla7437.bsky.social for chairing our panel on microgeographies!
July 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
A blockbuster day at #RenSoc25, talking all things how-to, utility, local identity & readership alongside lovely & brilliant scholars — thank you @emilyrowe1.bsky.social for organising our roundtable on satire & sincerity, & @walla7437.bsky.social for chairing our panel on microgeographies!
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This is your periodic reminder that every month, there is an early modern pub night in London at a (vaguely) historical pub for PhDs and ECRs (and anyone else interested). They are great fun #earlymodern 1/2
June 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
This is your periodic reminder that every month, there is an early modern pub night in London at a (vaguely) historical pub for PhDs and ECRs (and anyone else interested). They are great fun #earlymodern 1/2
The closure of CLL at York is a huge loss, as Joe says — I also had a wonderful experience co-teaching there with @earlymodernemma.bsky.social during my PhD. We were supported so well by Centre staff and learned a lot from the brilliant students who attended. Very sad and frustrating news.
Devastated that the Centre for Lifelong Learning @york.ac.uk is being closed after 40 years. What a loss to education in the region. Feel for students and staff. Being a tutor has been joy, doing what universities should be doing by sharing knowledge widely with our communities.
June 25, 2025 at 4:02 PM
The closure of CLL at York is a huge loss, as Joe says — I also had a wonderful experience co-teaching there with @earlymodernemma.bsky.social during my PhD. We were supported so well by Centre staff and learned a lot from the brilliant students who attended. Very sad and frustrating news.
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This is tomorrow! Join us at Guildhall Library and Archive to hear Lydia discussing the amazing new research she's doing on identity in Civic Performance!
5th June, 2-3pm: 'Race-making in Early Modern Civic Performance', Dr Lydia Valentine
Civic shows were sites of identity formation where the performance of different cultures constructed distinct racial and national identities. Lydia Valentine explores how these led to a collective 'London' identity.
Civic shows were sites of identity formation where the performance of different cultures constructed distinct racial and national identities. Lydia Valentine explores how these led to a collective 'London' identity.
Race-Making in Early Modern Civic Performance
Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, civic performance played a key role in shaping a collective identity for London’s residents.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This is tomorrow! Join us at Guildhall Library and Archive to hear Lydia discussing the amazing new research she's doing on identity in Civic Performance!
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ESTC klaxon! #BookHistory #EarlyModern
May 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
ESTC klaxon! #BookHistory #EarlyModern
We’re well underway with Birkbeck Arts Week — last call to come along to Gordon Square at 19.30 this evening to read (or listen) to a striking 10th-century #medieval play by a female playwright about the dramatic conversion of a sex worker. Free to all, sign up below! www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
May 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
We’re well underway with Birkbeck Arts Week — last call to come along to Gordon Square at 19.30 this evening to read (or listen) to a striking 10th-century #medieval play by a female playwright about the dramatic conversion of a sex worker. Free to all, sign up below! www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Unearthed opens this week at the British Library 🌷 I learned so much from the brilliant curatorial team during my fellowship there in 2023 and with @researchnt.bsky.social in the early days of the exhibition's development, and can't wait to see how it's evolved since then!
Congratulations to HRC Postdoctoral Fellow Grace Murray, who was Doctoral Fellow at the British Library and National Trust, working on the Library's horticultural collections and assisting with research/curation for the new exhibition ‘Unearthed: The Power of Gardening’ events.bl.uk/exhibitions/...
Unearthed: The Power of Gardening | British Library
From beautiful botanical illustrations to the world’s oldest mechanised lawnmower, ancient herbals to guerrilla gardening zines, Unearthed reveals how gard
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April 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Unearthed opens this week at the British Library 🌷 I learned so much from the brilliant curatorial team during my fellowship there in 2023 and with @researchnt.bsky.social in the early days of the exhibition's development, and can't wait to see how it's evolved since then!