SculpturalMobilities
@saraayres.bsky.social
Art historian. Forthcoming: a critical edition of Prince George of Denmark's travel diary detailing his time in Restoration England, 1669. Danish-British Consort Portraiture, c.1600-1900, Lund Humphries, 2023. Essays in OAJ and JHNA.
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Here's a look inside... :-) Haven't uploaded a movie before so hope this works!
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Your regular reminder 👇
🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy
🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy
EXCLUSIVE: Poll shows huge support for nationalisation of key industries and utilities
Privatisation has failed.
leftfootforward.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Your regular reminder 👇
🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy
🏥 81% want publicly owned NHS
🏫 78% want publicly owned schools
💧 73% want publicly owned water
🚂 70% want publicly owned rail
✉️ 70% want publicly owned mail
🚍 67% want publicly owned buses
💡 65% want publicly owned energy
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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
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Call for papers for a special issue of the 'Journal of Early Modern Studies' edited by Brendan Dooley and Stefano Villani: Diplomacy and the Circulation of Political Information in Early Modern Europe. Deadline: 31 January 2026. 🔗 go.umd.edu/24lh
November 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Call for papers for a special issue of the 'Journal of Early Modern Studies' edited by Brendan Dooley and Stefano Villani: Diplomacy and the Circulation of Political Information in Early Modern Europe. Deadline: 31 January 2026. 🔗 go.umd.edu/24lh
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Would any successful Bodleian visiting fellow recipients be willing to share their application materials with me? Especially if medieval/early modern. Ta!
November 8, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Would any successful Bodleian visiting fellow recipients be willing to share their application materials with me? Especially if medieval/early modern. Ta!
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We're looking for our January speaker for our speaker series. Is it you we're looking for? For details, go to Bodiesandbeing.com
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
Bodies and Being
The Pre-Modern Body Project
Bodiesandbeing.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
We're looking for our January speaker for our speaker series. Is it you we're looking for? For details, go to Bodiesandbeing.com
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory
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We are looking to hire a part-time freelance managing editor at @conteurohistory.bsky.social. Applications are due 30 November and you can find the full details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Happy to answer any questions via DM or email
Happy to answer any questions via DM or email
November 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
We are looking to hire a part-time freelance managing editor at @conteurohistory.bsky.social. Applications are due 30 November and you can find the full details here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Happy to answer any questions via DM or email
Happy to answer any questions via DM or email
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Want to join our lovely team? We're looking for a Loans Coordinator! It's 21 hours per week for a fixed term (7 months) and the candidate will look after our national and international exhibition and research loan requests. Deadline is 10 November. www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...
Vacancies & Volunteering - Society of Antiquaries of London
Current roles available: Assistant Librarian (full time)
www.sal.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Want to join our lovely team? We're looking for a Loans Coordinator! It's 21 hours per week for a fixed term (7 months) and the candidate will look after our national and international exhibition and research loan requests. Deadline is 10 November. www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...
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Very glad to be part of this special issue of Reformation on bodily practices and the European reformations, edited by the wonderful Iryna Klymenko and Alex Walsham. Great intro and articles, all OA!
#earlymodern #reformazing #bodyhist #relhist
www.tandfonline.com/toc/yref20/c...
#earlymodern #reformazing #bodyhist #relhist
www.tandfonline.com/toc/yref20/c...
Reformation
Bodily Practices and the European Reformations. Volume 30, Issue 2 of Reformation
www.tandfonline.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Very glad to be part of this special issue of Reformation on bodily practices and the European reformations, edited by the wonderful Iryna Klymenko and Alex Walsham. Great intro and articles, all OA!
#earlymodern #reformazing #bodyhist #relhist
www.tandfonline.com/toc/yref20/c...
#earlymodern #reformazing #bodyhist #relhist
www.tandfonline.com/toc/yref20/c...
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The British Library would amount to nothing if it only had its hordes of books. The real power is in the immeasurable treasures of staff expertise and dedication. Pay them real money!
Out this morning supporting British Library workers demanding decent pay. I have been using the library regularly for 20+ years
October 27, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The British Library would amount to nothing if it only had its hordes of books. The real power is in the immeasurable treasures of staff expertise and dedication. Pay them real money!
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🌍 CFP: Decentring Europe—Nordic & Iberian Histories
How have the Nordic and Iberian worlds shaped each other across centuries? This conference invites us to rethink Europe’s map and explore the rich diplomatic, political, and cultural ties linking these regions from the late Middle Ages to today.
How have the Nordic and Iberian worlds shaped each other across centuries? This conference invites us to rethink Europe’s map and explore the rich diplomatic, political, and cultural ties linking these regions from the late Middle Ages to today.
October 27, 2025 at 12:52 PM
🌍 CFP: Decentring Europe—Nordic & Iberian Histories
How have the Nordic and Iberian worlds shaped each other across centuries? This conference invites us to rethink Europe’s map and explore the rich diplomatic, political, and cultural ties linking these regions from the late Middle Ages to today.
How have the Nordic and Iberian worlds shaped each other across centuries? This conference invites us to rethink Europe’s map and explore the rich diplomatic, political, and cultural ties linking these regions from the late Middle Ages to today.
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"Machine Yearning" by @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social is such an elegantly written piece. Only 6 pages - go read it!
While its focus is the role of AI and computer vision in art history, it has lessons about collaboration and technology more generally.
While its focus is the role of AI and computer vision in art history, it has lessons about collaboration and technology more generally.
For the latest issue of Artforum I wrote about the culture of “AI” in my sector of academia, arguing that a focus on what it does distracts attention away from examining the exploitative conditions that the hopeful rhetoric of its promise upholds. www.artforum.com/features/gen...
MACHINE YEARNING
Sonja Drimmer critically examines art historians’ recent embrace of generative AI as a tool for humanities research.
www.artforum.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"Machine Yearning" by @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social is such an elegantly written piece. Only 6 pages - go read it!
While its focus is the role of AI and computer vision in art history, it has lessons about collaboration and technology more generally.
While its focus is the role of AI and computer vision in art history, it has lessons about collaboration and technology more generally.
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Very shortly, my current role ends: if anyone needs a temporary tutor in early modern history or any freelance research work done please do drop me a message. I have over a decade's experience in teaching and in archival research.
October 26, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Very shortly, my current role ends: if anyone needs a temporary tutor in early modern history or any freelance research work done please do drop me a message. I have over a decade's experience in teaching and in archival research.
A local and friendly Welsh giant has strewn the fields all around with massive Everton mints in time for Halloween.
October 26, 2025 at 11:14 AM
A local and friendly Welsh giant has strewn the fields all around with massive Everton mints in time for Halloween.
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Young man in a yellow robe, painted around 1630 by Jan Lievens. Today was his birthday.
October 25, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Young man in a yellow robe, painted around 1630 by Jan Lievens. Today was his birthday.
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Prince Rupert of the Rhine, being very exotic in his cape and turban in 1631. Painted by Jan Lievens, born on this day in 1607.
October 24, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Prince Rupert of the Rhine, being very exotic in his cape and turban in 1631. Painted by Jan Lievens, born on this day in 1607.
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Vote in every election. Local elections are coming in less than 2 weeks. School children need you to be their voice.
We, the people, are the checks and balances. Each one of us. Today, every day, and always.
October 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Vote in every election. Local elections are coming in less than 2 weeks. School children need you to be their voice.
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Here we go! Isn't it gorgeous? And mysterious also.
October 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Here we go! Isn't it gorgeous? And mysterious also.
Linguists and Arms and Armour specialists: can I ask your advice? This is an object in the Aberystwyth School of Art museum collection; a clasp knife of 412mm when opened. Made of bone (ivory?) and an unidentified metal. Does anyone out there recognise the script? We know next to nothing!
October 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Linguists and Arms and Armour specialists: can I ask your advice? This is an object in the Aberystwyth School of Art museum collection; a clasp knife of 412mm when opened. Made of bone (ivory?) and an unidentified metal. Does anyone out there recognise the script? We know next to nothing!
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Thursdays are for Translators!
If you're a translator why not tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other
#TranslatorThursday #BookSky 💙📚
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If you're a translator why not tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other
#TranslatorThursday #BookSky 💙📚
alt text please
October 16, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Thursdays are for Translators!
If you're a translator why not tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other
#TranslatorThursday #BookSky 💙📚
alt text please
If you're a translator why not tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other
#TranslatorThursday #BookSky 💙📚
alt text please
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FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER, Alexander Marr (Cambridge) will speak on “Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys,” IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person IHR Wolfson Rm NB02 and online, 5:30 London time. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys
www.history.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
FRIDAY 17 OCTOBER, Alexander Marr (Cambridge) will speak on “Three Renaissance ‘Grotesques’: Holbein, Dürer, Massys,” IHR Low Countries Seminar, in person IHR Wolfson Rm NB02 and online, 5:30 London time. Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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An amazing opportunity for a PhD and a 4-year postdoc on this important project with the brilliant and lovely @smschober.bsky.social - hair, race, trade and multispecies history!
#EarlyModern 🗃️
#EarlyModern 🗃️
Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.
Do apply and spread the word!
www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
Do apply and spread the word!
www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
www.unilu.ch/en/universit...
PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne
Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.
www.unilu.ch
October 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
An amazing opportunity for a PhD and a 4-year postdoc on this important project with the brilliant and lovely @smschober.bsky.social - hair, race, trade and multispecies history!
#EarlyModern 🗃️
#EarlyModern 🗃️
Indexers: can I ask your advice? I am writing an index that needs to include the notes. Endnotes however start again after the introduction. How do I indicate in the index which section the note falls into? Is there an established convention for this? TIA for any help/advice! 🙏
October 8, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Indexers: can I ask your advice? I am writing an index that needs to include the notes. Endnotes however start again after the introduction. How do I indicate in the index which section the note falls into? Is there an established convention for this? TIA for any help/advice! 🙏
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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kinda crazy how every single “just give people enough money to afford some basic stuff” experiments yield the exact same positive results that everyone benefits from every time, huh
Anyway, back to toiling
Anyway, back to toiling
Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...
October 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
kinda crazy how every single “just give people enough money to afford some basic stuff” experiments yield the exact same positive results that everyone benefits from every time, huh
Anyway, back to toiling
Anyway, back to toiling
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Yeah, the devaluing of collections work (and museums work more broadly) has been a worrying trend - your video reminded me of some criticisms of the recent opening of the V&A Storehouse: artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
What Isn’t at the V&A Storehouse
You can’t escape it: this is the same colonial museum we know, in a shiny new suit
artreview.com
October 4, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Yeah, the devaluing of collections work (and museums work more broadly) has been a worrying trend - your video reminded me of some criticisms of the recent opening of the V&A Storehouse: artreview.com/what-isnt-at...