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Dr Amy Saunders
@amysaunders.bsky.social
Independent researcher exploring representations of the Stuart monarchy in heritage sites.

All things museums, books, cats, baking, and lego. Team Saunders-Green ❤️
#History #Arthistory #Conservation #HE friends I'm trying to help a very talented & wonderful student find funding for an MA in Art Conservation, she's been offered the place but needs additional funding to be able to go. Any #scholarships or #grants people can suggest would be amazing. TIA ❤️
March 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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There's currently a 15% discount in my print shop!
Get yourself a cool print and help pay my bills! Thank you!🙏

www.inprnt.com/gallery/eren/
March 17, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Check out the programme for our upcoming online #queensresources workshop on 7 April, featuring a keynote from @natashahodgson.bsky.social + 6 papers on the financial resources of royal women & warfare. Registration is free, see poster below for info & please RT/share, hope to see you there
March 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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News | Museums should stop displaying African ancestral remains, says report — policy briefing calls for change in law to prohibit display of any remains 'without appropriate consent'
Museums should stop displaying African ancestral remains, says report - Museums Association
Policy briefing calls for change in law to prohibit display of any remains 'without appropriate consent'
www.museumsassociation.org
March 14, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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The Vagina Museum is just one month away from closing. Forever. A perfect storm of circumstances means that we may have to close our doors permanently and cease all digital activities. But we're not going to go down without a fight. Save the Vagina Museum. www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
Donate to Save The Vagina Museum, organized by Vagina Museum
The Vagina Museum is one month away from closing – forever The Vagina Museum will be forced t… Vagina Museum needs your support for Save The Vagina Museum
www.gofundme.com
March 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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National Trust membership for a family costs £14.05 a month. A Telegraph subscription costs £104 a month. And don’t get me started on the quality of the product.
National Trust raises fees to £3,000 for family life memberships
Charity squeezes an extra 25pc from members over three years
www.telegraph.co.uk
March 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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We are advertising for an Assistant Professor in Early Modern History. The deadline for applications for this open-ended, full time post is 27th March 2025. For full details see the link below.
durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
Assistant Professor in Early Modern History (2425_HIS_01)
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
durham.taleo.net
February 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Delighted to say that my essay on the Victorians and Charles I's daughter, Princess Elizbeth won the @jofvictculture.bsky.social PGR/ECR essay prize and is now available advance access online academic.oup.com/jvc/advance-...
The Victorian Royal Family and the Body of Princess Elizabeth Stuart: Historical Culture and Heritage, Collection and Display
ABSTRACT. This essay explores the afterlife of Princess Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of the seventeenth-century civil war King, Charles I, and how her untime
academic.oup.com
January 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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If you’re looking for something to do this evening, why not listen to my @historyrage.bsky.social episode! 👑
🚨 THIS WEEK🚨
Dive into the true story of Mary I of England with @johannastrong.bsky.social . Forget the myths of 'Bloody Mary' and uncover the real legacy of this Tudor queen
#HistoryRage #TudorHistory #MaryI #HistoryLovers

Listen now 🎧 https://pod.fo/e/299de6
#history #podcast
January 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Hey could you do me an embarrassing ego-satisfying favour?

If any of you get 'Queer As Folklore' for Christmas... Do share it online. It'd rock my world 👉🏼👈🏼x
December 23, 2024 at 6:20 PM
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This week on the podcast, Amy-Jane Humphries tells us all about the petty drama about the Hanoverians' rise to the English throne. So. Much. Drama! creators.spotify.com/pod/show/inf...
Transcript: www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/u...
Amy-Jane Humphries on the rise of the Hanoverians by Infinite Women
Amy-Jane Humphries, PhD Student at the University of Liverpool, joins us to talk about the Hanoverian rise to the English throne, and royals like Caroline of Ansbach and Augusta of Saxe-Gotha.
creators.spotify.com
December 23, 2024 at 5:14 AM
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I'm really looking forward to seeing @lucyworsley.bsky.social 's new programme about #MaryI to which I contributed in a small way. I've never seen myself on TV and I have a feeling I'll be so self-conscious I'll be hiding behind the sofa...It airs on 24 January.
December 22, 2024 at 9:24 PM
Just awarded my final PhDs of 2024, inbox emptied, and out of office on! 🎄🦌❄️🧑‍🎄🎅🥳
a man in a green sweater is standing in a hallway with his mouth open and a christmas break hashtag .
ALT: a man in a green sweater is standing in a hallway with his mouth open and a christmas break hashtag .
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December 20, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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The latest issue of the @royalstudies.bsky.social journal is out now. Its the 10th Anniversary edition and so contains a reflective editorial by founder, editor-in-chief (and general all-round Royal Studies superstar, @ewoodacre.bsky.social rsj.winchester.ac.uk/29/volume/11...
10th Anniversary Issue with Cluster Feature on 'Queenship and Cross-Confessional Identities' | Royal Studies Journal
The Royal Studies Journal has developed as an offshoot of the successful Kings & Queens conference series and the Royal Studies Network. The Network has provided a framework for researchers in the...
rsj.winchester.ac.uk
December 18, 2024 at 10:09 AM
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I am also delighted that our Cluster has appeared alongside my review of @nicolatallis.bsky.social's Young Elizabeth as well as reviews by @ajohnson1.bsky.social and @melitat.bsky.social. The latest @royalstudies.bsky.social issue has such a stellar cast of scholars 👑👑
rsj.winchester.ac.uk
December 17, 2024 at 9:48 PM
An absolute pleasure to work with @wromantichistry.bsky.social on the @royalstudies.bsky.social cluster! 🎉👑

I have already quoted Sarah's cluster article in a new forthcoming "top secret" project, she's amazing and I highly recommend you read all the wonderful things she's written! ⬇️🎉
Very grateful to the wonderful editing skills of @johannastrong.bsky.social and @amysaunders.bsky.social on this cluster and very much enjoyed contributing a short piece to it, but mostly reading all the exciting work that other people are doing in this area
@amysaunders.bsky.social and I are absolutely thrilled that our @royalstudies.bsky.social Cluster is now out! To read these fantastic articles, check out the latest issue of the Royal Studies Journal here: rsj.winchester.ac.uk/articles/481
December 17, 2024 at 11:41 PM
@johannastrong.bsky.social has summed it up perfectly (as always!) We are so excited that our @royalstudies.bsky.social cluster is out in the world!

It's free to read and contains a whole range of fantastic #queenship scholarship. Please check it out and share it far and wide! 🎉👑🥳⬇️
@amysaunders.bsky.social and I are absolutely thrilled that our @royalstudies.bsky.social Cluster is now out! To read these fantastic articles, check out the latest issue of the Royal Studies Journal here: rsj.winchester.ac.uk/articles/481
December 17, 2024 at 10:33 PM
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@jesmyth.co.uk, I think you'll enjoy this one 😊
@shelleystamp.bsky.social and Lois Weber get a shout-out as well, of course!
Listeners can check out the whole Women in Film playlist - which also features @ewoodacre.bsky.social & @amysaunders.bsky.social - at
open.spotify.com/playlist/3TQ...
Women in film
Playlist · Infinite Women · 4 items
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December 16, 2024 at 5:11 AM
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This week on the podcast Kate Saccone from the Women Film Pioneers Project at @columbiauniversity.bsky.social discusses some of the incredible women of the early film era & how their stories were lost to history.
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/inf...
Transcript: www.infinite-women.com/wp-content/u...
Kate Saccone on the lost women of early cinema by Infinite Women
Kate Saccone, Project Manager and an editor for The Women Film Pioneers Project, tells us about some of the fascinating women of the silent film era and we delve into the reasons so many were lost to ...
creators.spotify.com
December 16, 2024 at 5:11 AM
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Good morning everyone

There is a 🤯FREE🤯 talk at our info centre on Tuesday next week (17th), by Dr. Ellinor Michel - our Chair of Trustees - on "The Art & Science of the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs"

19:30-21:00

organised by the the Penge History Group 🙏

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-art-sc....
December 15, 2024 at 9:46 AM
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🎉 SERIES 15 STARTS NEXT WEEK 🎉

👑 @johannastrong.bsky.social on 'Bloody Mary'
⚔️ Tobias Capwell on Knights and Armour
🌍 Steve Tibble on the Crusades
🌊 Ron Drabkin on Pearl Harbour

🗓️ Starting MONDAY!
#History #Podcast 🎙️
December 14, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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And this is why we have costumes for both littles and bigs. 😁
Next up, a #museumyear isn't complete without a bit of dressing up! Here's a few from the Tolson Memorial Museum in #Huddersfield, the Museum of #Oxford, and @colmuseums.bsky.social, from Romans to Victorians we love a good chance to dress up and be silly 😂

#Romans #Victorians #Museums
December 15, 2024 at 1:47 PM
Over on the other place @jovangreen.bsky.social & I celebrated our reading challenge over the last year, but in the run up to 2025, I thought I'd celebrate some of the AMAZING museums and heritage sites that I've visited this year!

#museums #heritage #exhibitions #art #arthistory
December 14, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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@amysaunders.bsky.social and I have worked so incredibly hard putting this @royalstudies.bsky.social Cluster together and we can’t wait for its publication later this month.

In the meantime, please do have a listen of our Royal Studies Podcast episode about the Cluster to hear a sneak peek! 📝
The latest Royal Studies Podcast episode is out! Join @susannah-lw.bsky.social for her conversation with @johannastrong.bsky.social and
@amysaunders.bsky.social about their forthcoming Royal Studies Journal Cluster "Queenship and Cross-Confessional Identity" 👑

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December 14, 2024 at 11:32 AM
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The latest Royal Studies Podcast episode is out! Join @susannah-lw.bsky.social for her conversation with @johannastrong.bsky.social and
@amysaunders.bsky.social about their forthcoming Royal Studies Journal Cluster "Queenship and Cross-Confessional Identity" 👑

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December 13, 2024 at 7:33 PM