Fiona Handley
fionahandley.bsky.social
Fiona Handley
@fionahandley.bsky.social
PhD student at the University of Surrey - women travellers in the nineteenth century who used the polite science of botany in their journals and correspondence to create professional authority.
Mum to four grown up children
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The Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is hiring an Assistant/Associate Professor in Black Feminisms. Read more about the position and apply at https://go.umd.edu/WGSSBlackFeminisms🌈🎓 #AcademicSky #Blackademics #PhDSky
October 28, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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I know the world is on fire, but can you help a girl graduate? She needs way more people to fill out her dissertation survey. You can fill it out if you're Black/AA and have ever been in grad school! If not, you can help by sharing!

#BlackSky #AcademicSky #PhDLife #Blackademics #MedSky #Academia
March 15, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Calling UK Academics: Are you currently overwhelmed with marking and looking to procrastinate? Please consider doing so by participating in my PhD research! @bpsofficial.bsky.social @bpseastmids.bsky.social #academicsky #academicchatter #Research

Link: staffordshire.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
January 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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We are early career scholars focused on material culture who feel like we don't need permission to create our own consortium, hold events, and generally take up space as we face a precarious academic job market. Website coming soon! #AcademicSky #Medieval #WhatsHistory #EarlyModern
December 28, 2024 at 8:50 AM
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CFP: Communication & Exchange in the Early Modern - Far From Home

Will surely be of interest to @bsecs.bsky.social members?

#18c #18thC #18thCentury
December 17, 2024 at 6:50 PM
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PhD studentship available:

Atlantic Stories, Colonial Legacies and the Bodleian Library, 1650-1800

#PhDlife

Fully funded £19,237/year + tuition fees covered. PhD project partnership with Bodleian Lib

Deadline: 15 Jan 25

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December 17, 2024 at 8:23 AM
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My edition of four travel journals by 18th-c servants is out now, including accounts of France, Italy, the Low Countries, Germany and the Ottoman Empire by three valets and a maid – the majority of people who went on the 'Grand Tour' #skystorians #18thc #c18th global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 22, 2024 at 11:06 AM
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For every noble or gentleman who did the 'Grand Tour', there was one or more servants who did it with them, but these men and women have been mostly invisible and unheard.

@richardjansell.bsky.social's new edition finally gives us access to their perspectives and their #WrittenWorlds!
My edition of four travel journals by 18th-c servants is out now, including accounts of France, Italy, the Low Countries, Germany and the Ottoman Empire by three valets and a maid – the majority of people who went on the 'Grand Tour' #skystorians #18thc #c18th global.oup.com/academic/pro...
November 23, 2024 at 10:13 AM
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Less than a week to go! You can still sign-up to our online event looking at ancient & modern migration and exile.

🗓️ 13/03/24
🕰️ 16:30 UK

AncientBlueSky

Book here: ics.sas.ac.uk/events/explo...
March 7, 2024 at 9:26 AM
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York is recruiting for a fantastic PhD studentship on weeds and weeding, c. 1500-1950. If you have a brilliant MA student whose interests and experience fit within that chronological bracket, please encourage them to apply! york.ac.uk/professorial...
December 11, 2023 at 3:01 PM
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New PhD studentship opportunity! AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award with Royal Holloway and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: "Economies of Natural History: Publishing Science in Victorian and Edwardian Britain". Closing date: 15 January 2024. Details: www.royalholloway.ac.uk/studying-her...
November 29, 2023 at 1:36 PM
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One for people on the #c19th feed
CALL FOR PAPERS! ‘The high honour of sistership in her craft’: The Sociability of Scottish Women Writers, c.1782-1854 Abstracts welcome from ECRs and PGRs for this exciting symposium, co-hosted by Walter Scott Research Centre and Scottish Writing in the Nineteenth Century
October 13, 2023 at 10:46 AM