Ewan James Armstrong
@historicewan.bsky.social
He/him |Cultural & Sensory Historian
Mildly obsessed, mostly scholarly. Occasionally coherent. Embroiderer
Mildly obsessed, mostly scholarly. Occasionally coherent. Embroiderer
Zoning out by sketching hydrangeas with gouache.
August 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Zoning out by sketching hydrangeas with gouache.
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BASHAR MURAD - ITSAHELL! (LYRIC VIDEO)
YouTube video by Bashar Murad
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August 10, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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#cfp #imc2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social! Please consider an abstract for 'Things Transcending Time,' sponsored by @haskinssociety.bsky.social and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research, @uniwinchester.bsky.social, and organized by myself. Abstract below with full text in the alt.
![Leeds IMC 2026 Call for Papers:
Things Transcending Time
This session, sponsored by the Haskins Society and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research, University of Winchester, invites papers exploring objects and their relationships to, through, or against time.
Things never have one life but many, through birth, interference, additions, and even abandonment. This session seeks to understand the many ways that objects transcend time through creating it, holding or shaping it. This session also wishes to challenge the dominating hierarchy of textual studies for history (as a time and place, rather than a discipline) through objects who themselves shape or create history.
‘Object’ is broadly conceived for this session; for example, a manuscript is also an object when the research is its life as an object rather than the textual understanding of it.
Topics may include, but are certainly not limited to:
• Multiple or concurrent times understood or embedded in objects
• Objects’ authority and agency with and against time and history
• Microhistories or biographies of objects and their place(s) in time.
• Theoretical or methodological considerations of object-led histories
Papers are warmly invited from any academic field (art history, archaeology, history, etc.), and should be generally focussed on the Anglo-Norman worlds and their surrounds (broadly interpreted), ca 800-1300. Papers presented by ECRs in this session may be submitted for consideration to the Denis Bethell Prize from the Haskins Society.
Please send a 250-word abstract (including key terms) and short CV to Katherine Weikert (Katherine.weikert@winchester.ac.uk) by 15 September. Your subject line should read ‘Things Transcending Time [your surname]’, else it is liable to be missed and unread. If you have any questions, please contact Katherine Weikert.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:reyoejusyevgfe3jr6vl4los/bafkreihoubfcws5rg57rls2aifuh7sufnxputdevuvnhi2oymrt5gapkze@jpeg)
August 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
#cfp #imc2026 @imc-leeds.bsky.social! Please consider an abstract for 'Things Transcending Time,' sponsored by @haskinssociety.bsky.social and the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Research, @uniwinchester.bsky.social, and organized by myself. Abstract below with full text in the alt.
Visually illustrate funded PhD applications 😝😝😝😭
August 4, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Visually illustrate funded PhD applications 😝😝😝😭
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Early Modern name of the day: Ezeckiell Cakebread 🙌
August 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Early Modern name of the day: Ezeckiell Cakebread 🙌
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CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
August 3, 2025 at 12:01 AM
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
The one good thing about disappointment is it fires up the ideas. It maybe time to get some new music out. Build on pre uni efforts.
Martyr (demo)
Keep moving on,
through tempest sand
through blessed storm
I'll breath underwater
I feel the fire
I swallow stone
hush now can you keep a secret?
can you, can you keep a secret?
hush now can you kee
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August 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The one good thing about disappointment is it fires up the ideas. It maybe time to get some new music out. Build on pre uni efforts.
This blog describes the feeling perfectly 👌🏼
“We Regret To Inform You That Your PhD Application Has Been Successful...” A Short Story On The Challenges Of Finding A PhD Scholarship - The PhD Place
Dr Chris Thompson shares his experience of pursuing a PhD scholarship which was more challenging than doing a PhD itself. He talks about the emotional impact of rejection letters and the moments when ...
thephdplace.com
August 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This blog describes the feeling perfectly 👌🏼
Not going to lie, the knockbacks do be knockbacking! Think it’s time to park the applications for further study and start the monograph.
August 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Not going to lie, the knockbacks do be knockbacking! Think it’s time to park the applications for further study and start the monograph.
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Gonna start a magazine called "Too Niche" where I can publish all my rejected pitches....
July 26, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Gonna start a magazine called "Too Niche" where I can publish all my rejected pitches....
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News | EHRC guidance risks discrimination, says @museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk
Organisation responds to consultation on Code of Practice changes around sex and gender
Organisation responds to consultation on Code of Practice changes around sex and gender
EHRC guidance risks discrimination, says Museums Galleries Scotland - Museums Association
Organisation responds to consultation on Code of Practice changes around sex and gender
www.museumsassociation.org
July 25, 2025 at 10:05 AM
News | EHRC guidance risks discrimination, says @museumsgalleriesscotland.org.uk
Organisation responds to consultation on Code of Practice changes around sex and gender
Organisation responds to consultation on Code of Practice changes around sex and gender
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I saw somebody on TikTok using the word 'slopper' as a slur for people who use ChatGPT, and that's a thing we should start doing.
July 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I saw somebody on TikTok using the word 'slopper' as a slur for people who use ChatGPT, and that's a thing we should start doing.
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Dirk (Theodorus) Helmbreker,
Studies of a Man Smoking and a Man Drinking about 1650–1660 (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
Studies of a Man Smoking and a Man Drinking about 1650–1660 (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
July 25, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Dirk (Theodorus) Helmbreker,
Studies of a Man Smoking and a Man Drinking about 1650–1660 (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
Studies of a Man Smoking and a Man Drinking about 1650–1660 (The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles)
Waiting for rejection. Existential crisis. Wondering if I should dye my hair? Is the grey off putting? I need a doughnut. Listing all my off putting qualities in my mind. 🥸 this picture is me.
July 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Waiting for rejection. Existential crisis. Wondering if I should dye my hair? Is the grey off putting? I need a doughnut. Listing all my off putting qualities in my mind. 🥸 this picture is me.
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Here's our CFP for the Forum again, with ALT text
July 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Here's our CFP for the Forum again, with ALT text
Now I’m no michelin star chef, but I can tell this local cafe’s ciabatta is somewhat underwhelming
Is that a cheese single and a single slice of wafer thin ham?
Is that a cheese single and a single slice of wafer thin ham?
July 15, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Now I’m no michelin star chef, but I can tell this local cafe’s ciabatta is somewhat underwhelming
Is that a cheese single and a single slice of wafer thin ham?
Is that a cheese single and a single slice of wafer thin ham?
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Storage jar [albarello] for mostarda dated 1543, Italian Mostarda consists of candied fruit and mustard syrup.
(Met Museum)
(Met Museum)
June 15, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Storage jar [albarello] for mostarda dated 1543, Italian Mostarda consists of candied fruit and mustard syrup.
(Met Museum)
(Met Museum)
Painted the mother’s shed and perimeter fence a delightful shade of Tudor black oak, then a re-edit of a dissertation chapter…. Time for a cuppa and a lie down.
June 14, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Painted the mother’s shed and perimeter fence a delightful shade of Tudor black oak, then a re-edit of a dissertation chapter…. Time for a cuppa and a lie down.
Colleague bought me a carrot cake muffin. I’ll survive! 😝
June 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Colleague bought me a carrot cake muffin. I’ll survive! 😝
There is a difference between being peckish or hungry for an opportunity. My darlings, I am ravenous.
Also it might be dinner time
#foodmetaphors
Also it might be dinner time
#foodmetaphors
Food Foodie GIF
ALT: Food Foodie GIF
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June 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
There is a difference between being peckish or hungry for an opportunity. My darlings, I am ravenous.
Also it might be dinner time
#foodmetaphors
Also it might be dinner time
#foodmetaphors
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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/...