Helen Kemp
@drhelenkemp.bsky.social
Early modernist, mss/print, text/object, reading/writing, libraries/collecting/networks. Library keeper @thomasplumes & Visiting Fellow in School of PHAIS University of Essex.
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Have you had a look at beautiful items available in Leighton Library online shop? Every purchase supports the Leighton Library. From coasters & tote bags, framed & unframed prints, to mugs, table mats & tea towels. Leighton Library Online Shop:
🛍️ leighton-library-shop.co.uk
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🛍️ leighton-library-shop.co.uk
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October 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Have you had a look at beautiful items available in Leighton Library online shop? Every purchase supports the Leighton Library. From coasters & tote bags, framed & unframed prints, to mugs, table mats & tea towels. Leighton Library Online Shop:
🛍️ leighton-library-shop.co.uk
…/👇
🛍️ leighton-library-shop.co.uk
…/👇
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There's only one week left to view our student curated display 'Aby Warburg and the Politics of the Stamp'!
Aby Warburg and the Politics of the Stamp
Discover Warburg’s fascination with stamps and learn how these small, everyday symbols carry large historical narratives about our world.
warburg.sas.ac.uk
August 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
There's only one week left to view our student curated display 'Aby Warburg and the Politics of the Stamp'!
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Volunteers are welcome to join the project to help in the transcription! All volunteers will be named as co-editors, whether you contribute a line or multiple pages. For more info, contact the project lead, Aaron Allen, on administrator@kirkwalltailorsproject.co.uk
#palaeography #Orkney
#palaeography #Orkney
August 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Volunteers are welcome to join the project to help in the transcription! All volunteers will be named as co-editors, whether you contribute a line or multiple pages. For more info, contact the project lead, Aaron Allen, on administrator@kirkwalltailorsproject.co.uk
#palaeography #Orkney
#palaeography #Orkney
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This is happening in 1 week's time - including talks from the project team, and an opportunity to transcribe alongside like-minded volunteers 📜✍️
Sign up for free below 👇
#history #skystorians #earlymodern #citizenscience @zooniverse.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social
Sign up for free below 👇
#history #skystorians #earlymodern #citizenscience @zooniverse.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social
There's still time to sign up for our hybrid Historic Wills Transcribathon - it's happening 1 week from today! 📜✍️
📅 Thurs 24 July
🕐 1-4pm BST
Join us online or in person in Exeter: transcribe on Zooniverse & help transcribe as many wills as possible!
Sign up:
willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com
📅 Thurs 24 July
🕐 1-4pm BST
Join us online or in person in Exeter: transcribe on Zooniverse & help transcribe as many wills as possible!
Sign up:
willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com
July 17, 2025 at 6:46 AM
This is happening in 1 week's time - including talks from the project team, and an opportunity to transcribe alongside like-minded volunteers 📜✍️
Sign up for free below 👇
#history #skystorians #earlymodern #citizenscience @zooniverse.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social
Sign up for free below 👇
#history #skystorians #earlymodern #citizenscience @zooniverse.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @uoearchhist.bsky.social
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I will primarily be in Coupvray, Paris, London, and Brighton, but I'm willing to add stops if it helps fund the trip. Looking for anything related to book history, bibliography, digital humanities, or disability. If you know of anything that might help, please let me know!
June 29, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I will primarily be in Coupvray, Paris, London, and Brighton, but I'm willing to add stops if it helps fund the trip. Looking for anything related to book history, bibliography, digital humanities, or disability. If you know of anything that might help, please let me know!
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It's me!
The next volume in the Camden Series of scholarly editions of primary sources for historians is 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)', edited by Helen Newsome-Chandler.
This volume will be published in print and online @universitypress.cambridge.org in August 2/2
This volume will be published in print and online @universitypress.cambridge.org in August 2/2
June 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It's me!
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Bit later than some, but happy to have finally finished my marking and have had a little holiday up in Scotland.
If anyone knows of any teaching opportunities next academic year. Or if anyone needs a freelancer to do some archival work, please get in touch.
If anyone knows of any teaching opportunities next academic year. Or if anyone needs a freelancer to do some archival work, please get in touch.
June 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Bit later than some, but happy to have finally finished my marking and have had a little holiday up in Scotland.
If anyone knows of any teaching opportunities next academic year. Or if anyone needs a freelancer to do some archival work, please get in touch.
If anyone knows of any teaching opportunities next academic year. Or if anyone needs a freelancer to do some archival work, please get in touch.
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So anyway yes @historybeagle.bsky.social and me are speaking at this next Thursday 19 June, 4–6pm:
www.mfo.ac.uk/event/pen-pi...
www.mfo.ac.uk/event/pen-pi...
‘From Pen to Pixel: Valorising Women’s Manuscript Writings in Digital Humanities Projects’
As part of the Channels of Digital Scholarship Seminar
www.mfo.ac.uk
June 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Are you a researcher interested in histories of collecting and 19thC Victorian decorative art? This wonderful short-term fellowship is an opportunity to research the Albert Dawson archive in Cultural Collections and Galleries at the University of Leeds jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #jobfairy
Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Albert Dawson Collection Fellowship
This role will be based on the University campus, with scope for it to be undertaken in a hybrid manner. We are open to discussing flexible working arrangements.Are you interested in nineteenth-centur...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk
June 13, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Are you a researcher interested in histories of collecting and 19thC Victorian decorative art? This wonderful short-term fellowship is an opportunity to research the Albert Dawson archive in Cultural Collections and Galleries at the University of Leeds jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #jobfairy
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How are the meanings of images assigned, conveyed and recognised?
We are delighted to announce the publication of 'How Images Mean: Iconography and Meta-Iconography' by Paul Taylor, Curator of the Warburg Institute’s Photographic Collection.
Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news/new-pub...
We are delighted to announce the publication of 'How Images Mean: Iconography and Meta-Iconography' by Paul Taylor, Curator of the Warburg Institute’s Photographic Collection.
Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news/new-pub...
June 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
How are the meanings of images assigned, conveyed and recognised?
We are delighted to announce the publication of 'How Images Mean: Iconography and Meta-Iconography' by Paul Taylor, Curator of the Warburg Institute’s Photographic Collection.
Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news/new-pub...
We are delighted to announce the publication of 'How Images Mean: Iconography and Meta-Iconography' by Paul Taylor, Curator of the Warburg Institute’s Photographic Collection.
Find out more: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news/new-pub...
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A great Phd opportunity for a Black British student, starting this September. Spread the word!
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
June 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
A great Phd opportunity for a Black British student, starting this September. Spread the word!
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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We still have tickets available for our #Bloomsday Tour on Saturday 14th June at 3pm. A viewing of his signature in our visitors' book and the 'fading prophecies of Joachim Abbas' mentioned in Ulysses will be at the end of the tour.
www.eventbrite.ie/e/1344041035...
www.eventbrite.ie/e/1344041035...
"The Stagnant Bays" at Marsh's Library
This year Marsh’s Library will provide a special Bloomsday tour. See Joyce’s signature in the visitors book and some of the books he studied
www.eventbrite.ie
June 12, 2025 at 8:55 AM
We still have tickets available for our #Bloomsday Tour on Saturday 14th June at 3pm. A viewing of his signature in our visitors' book and the 'fading prophecies of Joachim Abbas' mentioned in Ulysses will be at the end of the tour.
www.eventbrite.ie/e/1344041035...
www.eventbrite.ie/e/1344041035...
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Booking closes 9 June for our conference on the intersections of text, materiality & performance, w/ papers exploring objects, clothing & bodies in performance spaces. www.sal.org.uk/event/revels/ @crems-york.bsky.social @bsashakespeare.bsky.social @bibsoc.bsky.social @srsrensoc.bsky.social
Revels Office: New Voices in Early Modern Material Culture, Theatre, and Performance - Society of Antiquaries of London
This June, the Revels Office, an international network of early career academics, will hold its first conference with the Society of Antiquaries of London. The conference showcases early career schola...
www.sal.org.uk
June 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Booking closes 9 June for our conference on the intersections of text, materiality & performance, w/ papers exploring objects, clothing & bodies in performance spaces. www.sal.org.uk/event/revels/ @crems-york.bsky.social @bsashakespeare.bsky.social @bibsoc.bsky.social @srsrensoc.bsky.social
Kalyves, Crete, last week. In case anyone is wondering, I slept through the earthquake!
May 31, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Kalyves, Crete, last week. In case anyone is wondering, I slept through the earthquake!
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LAST CHANCE to sign up for this, on 23rd May! A hands-on study day in UCL special collections, exploring their most experimental magazines, from the Modernist avant-garde to the mimeo revolution.
ies.sas.ac.uk/events/magaz...
ies.sas.ac.uk/events/magaz...
May 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM
LAST CHANCE to sign up for this, on 23rd May! A hands-on study day in UCL special collections, exploring their most experimental magazines, from the Modernist avant-garde to the mimeo revolution.
ies.sas.ac.uk/events/magaz...
ies.sas.ac.uk/events/magaz...
How exciting! Thank you @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social
May 13, 2025 at 8:57 AM
How exciting! Thank you @inscriptionjournal.bsky.social
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CfP ‘Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library’
Submit by 16th May
This 2-day symposium (9-10 Sept at UCL) will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Submit by 16th May
This 2-day symposium (9-10 Sept at UCL) will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
May 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
CfP ‘Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library’
Submit by 16th May
This 2-day symposium (9-10 Sept at UCL) will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Submit by 16th May
This 2-day symposium (9-10 Sept at UCL) will explore the rich field of early modern library studies, inviting fresh, interdisciplinary perspectives and methodologies.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Tollesbury Wick Essex Wildlife Trust 💚💙
April 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Tollesbury Wick Essex Wildlife Trust 💚💙
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The MHRA has transitioned from Twitter/X and will now use Bluesky to communicate our work. We are excited to contribute to establishing Bluesky as a dynamic, inclusive, and engaging platform for academic exchange and collaboration.
To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇
To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇
March 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
The MHRA has transitioned from Twitter/X and will now use Bluesky to communicate our work. We are excited to contribute to establishing Bluesky as a dynamic, inclusive, and engaging platform for academic exchange and collaboration.
To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇
To celebrate this new chapter, we are hosting a book giveaway! 👇
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This is a fantastic opportunity to work with our very own @justincolson.bsky.social and Historic Royal Palace for anyone interested #latemedieval and #earlymodern place-based histories, material histories and social histories.
PhD Studentship available! @ihr.bsky.social and Historic Royal Palaces AHRC CDP project on the Tower of London and Londoners, late medieval and Tudor. Focus on looking at everyday people supplying the Tower, especially migrants, also global commodities. Full fees + stipend - UK or international
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Studentship: ‘Material Networks: The Tower, London, and the World in the Late Medieval and Tudor Period’ at University of London
At jobs.ac.uk, you can apply for a AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Studentship: ‘Material Networks: The Tower, London, and the World in the Late Medieval and Tudor Period’. Explore our d...
www.jobs.ac.uk
April 2, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This is a fantastic opportunity to work with our very own @justincolson.bsky.social and Historic Royal Palace for anyone interested #latemedieval and #earlymodern place-based histories, material histories and social histories.
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🧠 Discover more about the life of Andreas Vesalius
In this Renaissance Lives talk, Sachiko Kusukawa revisits Vesalius’s legacy, revealing how his work emerged from the cultural and technological revolution of the Renaissance.
Watch now: warburg.sas.ac.uk/podcasts/ren... #Renaissance
In this Renaissance Lives talk, Sachiko Kusukawa revisits Vesalius’s legacy, revealing how his work emerged from the cultural and technological revolution of the Renaissance.
Watch now: warburg.sas.ac.uk/podcasts/ren... #Renaissance
Renaissance Lives | Andreas Vesalius: Anatomy and the World of Books
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warburg.sas.ac.uk
April 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
🧠 Discover more about the life of Andreas Vesalius
In this Renaissance Lives talk, Sachiko Kusukawa revisits Vesalius’s legacy, revealing how his work emerged from the cultural and technological revolution of the Renaissance.
Watch now: warburg.sas.ac.uk/podcasts/ren... #Renaissance
In this Renaissance Lives talk, Sachiko Kusukawa revisits Vesalius’s legacy, revealing how his work emerged from the cultural and technological revolution of the Renaissance.
Watch now: warburg.sas.ac.uk/podcasts/ren... #Renaissance
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Views from the top of St Peter's Tower (part of the Plume Building) taken by a colleague at Maldon Town Council who went up there yesterday to check the structure.
March 27, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Views from the top of St Peter's Tower (part of the Plume Building) taken by a colleague at Maldon Town Council who went up there yesterday to check the structure.
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#EMROCTranscribes is on 14 March. Details on how to join here: emroc.hypotheses.org/4479 We would love to have you join us in exploring #EarlyModern #HistMed!
2025 Transcribathon Schedule Set
2025 Transcribathon: Women’s Health, Women’s Handbooks Friday, March 14 Join EMROC, Wellcome Collection, and the Royal College of Physicians for a day of transcribing, virtual chatting, and a presenta...
emroc.hypotheses.org
March 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
#EMROCTranscribes is on 14 March. Details on how to join here: emroc.hypotheses.org/4479 We would love to have you join us in exploring #EarlyModern #HistMed!
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Big news! The digital edition of Alice Thornton's four Books is now complete and online. There are 1,019 pages (c. 270,000 words) of Thornton’s life-writings in both modernised and semi-diplomatic versions and they are fully searchable.
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
Full and Final Edition Now Available
News article - 24 February 2025
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk
March 7, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Big news! The digital edition of Alice Thornton's four Books is now complete and online. There are 1,019 pages (c. 270,000 words) of Thornton’s life-writings in both modernised and semi-diplomatic versions and they are fully searchable.
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 📚 📜
thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/news/2...
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Looking forward to the online #EMROCTranscribes panel on 7 March (5-6 pm UK/12-1 EST): Women Talking, Women's Health. We will answer questions about #EarlyModern women's health. Details on booking here: emroc.hypotheses.org/transcribath... #WomensHistoryMonth +
March 7 Transcribathon Preview
Want to know more about early modern recipes before the big day? Join us for an online discussion devoted to recipes and women’s health. Friday 7 March Women Talking, Women’s Health 5pm – 6pm GMT/12pm...
emroc.hypotheses.org
March 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Looking forward to the online #EMROCTranscribes panel on 7 March (5-6 pm UK/12-1 EST): Women Talking, Women's Health. We will answer questions about #EarlyModern women's health. Details on booking here: emroc.hypotheses.org/transcribath... #WomensHistoryMonth +