Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin
@jasminekt.bsky.social
Early modern historian - architecture, artisans, embodied knowledge, ships' surgeons.
Lecturer in History, Cardiff University.
Canine enthusiast.
Lecturer in History, Cardiff University.
Canine enthusiast.
Pinned
In Thursday’s Miscellanies: life at sea was hard. An #earlymodern ship’s surgeon had to treat not just broken bones but distress and trauma.
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I've written a short piece for History Today on ships' surgeons and emotional lives at sea. Enjoy!
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Should have said, it's 6-8pm on 27th November at @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social 🙄
FREE talk next week, plus you'll get to see some of the most fascinating livery company mss and a couple of pageant books 🤩 (remote attendance is also an option)
To book, go to www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do...
To book, go to www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/things-to-do...
November 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Should have said, it's 6-8pm on 27th November at @guildhalllibrary.bsky.social 🙄
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We've published another new Viewpoint article: 'The Survey of London Today: Reconciling the Granular with the Global' by Sarah A. Dowding, Emily Mann and Aileen Reid, which @tandfresearch.bsky.social are making freely available for all to read for a limited time period.
A short 🧵on its contents...
A short 🧵on its contents...
The Survey of London Today: Reconciling the Granular with the Global
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We've published another new Viewpoint article: 'The Survey of London Today: Reconciling the Granular with the Global' by Sarah A. Dowding, Emily Mann and Aileen Reid, which @tandfresearch.bsky.social are making freely available for all to read for a limited time period.
A short 🧵on its contents...
A short 🧵on its contents...
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Applications are now open for the Curriers Prize, awarded by the Worshipful Company of Curriers in association with ourselves and the @ihr.bsky.social for the best entered essay on any aspect of London's history from Roman times to the present.
The Curriers’ Prize
The Worshipful Company of Curriers, has established an essay prize on the history of London, in association with The London Journal Trust and the IHR.
www.history.ac.uk
November 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Applications are now open for the Curriers Prize, awarded by the Worshipful Company of Curriers in association with ourselves and the @ihr.bsky.social for the best entered essay on any aspect of London's history from Roman times to the present.
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A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
Writing Game Histories
This book offers an accessible introduction to the dynamic intersection between history and games, and the flourishing discipline of Historical Game Studies. Fr…
www.bloomsbury.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:39 AM
A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...
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Published today: 'Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society. The Palmers' Guild of Ludlow', by Rachael Harkes bit.ly/49CIDzC
Rachael's new book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series. It's now available free Open Access & paperback print @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2
Rachael's new book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series. It's now available free Open Access & paperback print @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2
November 6, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Published today: 'Forging Fraternity in Late Medieval Society. The Palmers' Guild of Ludlow', by Rachael Harkes bit.ly/49CIDzC
Rachael's new book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series. It's now available free Open Access & paperback print @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2
Rachael's new book is the latest title in the Society's New Historical Perspectives series. It's now available free Open Access & paperback print @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2
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The Curriers' Prize is now open! Submit your best unpublished essay on any aspect of London's history, and you could get a £1,000 award!
Full details: 👇 w ww.history.ac.uk/funding/awards-bursaries-prizes/curriers-prize
Full details: 👇 w ww.history.ac.uk/funding/awards-bursaries-prizes/curriers-prize
The Curriers’ Prize
The Worshipful Company of Curriers, has established an essay prize on the history of London, in association with The London Journal Trust and the IHR.
www.history.ac.uk
November 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The Curriers' Prize is now open! Submit your best unpublished essay on any aspect of London's history, and you could get a £1,000 award!
Full details: 👇 w ww.history.ac.uk/funding/awards-bursaries-prizes/curriers-prize
Full details: 👇 w ww.history.ac.uk/funding/awards-bursaries-prizes/curriers-prize
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I am thrilled to share my new open-access article on John Evelyn, his wife Mary, eldest daughter Mall and their complex, multifaceted relationship with clothing has been published in @historicaljnl.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Evelyn Family, the Mundus muliebris, and Conceptualizations of Fashionable Female Dress in Late Seventeenth-Century England | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
The Evelyn Family, the Mundus muliebris, and Conceptualizations of Fashionable Female Dress in Late Seventeenth-Century England
www.cambridge.org
November 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I am thrilled to share my new open-access article on John Evelyn, his wife Mary, eldest daughter Mall and their complex, multifaceted relationship with clothing has been published in @historicaljnl.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Giovanna Garzoni (Ascoli Piceno 1600 – Rome 1670),
Lapdog with Biscotti and a Chinese Cup, c. 1648.
(Gallerie degli Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina)
Lapdog with Biscotti and a Chinese Cup, c. 1648.
(Gallerie degli Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina)
October 30, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Giovanna Garzoni (Ascoli Piceno 1600 – Rome 1670),
Lapdog with Biscotti and a Chinese Cup, c. 1648.
(Gallerie degli Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina)
Lapdog with Biscotti and a Chinese Cup, c. 1648.
(Gallerie degli Uffizi, Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina)
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Speaking next Tuesday in Cambridge on #earlymodern pain at the early science and medicine seminar series. talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...
talks.cam : Experiencing and alleviating pain in a settler colony: Jamestown, 1607–1610
talks.cam.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Speaking next Tuesday in Cambridge on #earlymodern pain at the early science and medicine seminar series. talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/2...
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Our latest Viewpoint article is out: 'Guilds and Companies in London, 1200–1700: Contexts and Comparisons' by @mpdavies.bsky.social.
A 🧵 on the insights provided by this article into the history and historiography of these key metropolitan institutions in the medieval and early modern periods.
A 🧵 on the insights provided by this article into the history and historiography of these key metropolitan institutions in the medieval and early modern periods.
Guilds and Companies in London, 1200–1700: Contexts and Comparisons
Published in The London Journal: A Review of Metropolitan Society Past and Present (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Our latest Viewpoint article is out: 'Guilds and Companies in London, 1200–1700: Contexts and Comparisons' by @mpdavies.bsky.social.
A 🧵 on the insights provided by this article into the history and historiography of these key metropolitan institutions in the medieval and early modern periods.
A 🧵 on the insights provided by this article into the history and historiography of these key metropolitan institutions in the medieval and early modern periods.
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So pleased to have a History Matters article in the latest amazing issue of @historytoday.com on Oxford’s medieval scribes, beer brewing, and more! ✍️🍻🎉
October 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
So pleased to have a History Matters article in the latest amazing issue of @historytoday.com on Oxford’s medieval scribes, beer brewing, and more! ✍️🍻🎉
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If you're looking for the short on my new article, Dr Tom Almeroth-Williams has made it easy for you! 👇👇
The 'slums' of Victorian Manchester actually housed wealthy doctors and engineers, mixed in with poor weavers, a @camhistory.bsky.social study shows.
@stjohnscollege.bsky.social historian @emvchung.bsky.social surprise discovery undermines major assumptions about the city: bit.ly/3WLt3dl #history
@stjohnscollege.bsky.social historian @emvchung.bsky.social surprise discovery undermines major assumptions about the city: bit.ly/3WLt3dl #history
October 21, 2025 at 7:18 AM
If you're looking for the short on my new article, Dr Tom Almeroth-Williams has made it easy for you! 👇👇
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📅 Save the Date!
🎉 To mark 50 years of the Social History Society, we’re hosting a Social History Festival with @ihr.bsky.social!
🗓️ Fri 24 April 2026
📍 Senate House, University of London
Panels, a keynote + hands-on activities!
💡 Want to contribute? 👉socialhistsoc@gmail.com
More info coming soon!
🎉 To mark 50 years of the Social History Society, we’re hosting a Social History Festival with @ihr.bsky.social!
🗓️ Fri 24 April 2026
📍 Senate House, University of London
Panels, a keynote + hands-on activities!
💡 Want to contribute? 👉socialhistsoc@gmail.com
More info coming soon!
October 22, 2025 at 8:27 AM
📅 Save the Date!
🎉 To mark 50 years of the Social History Society, we’re hosting a Social History Festival with @ihr.bsky.social!
🗓️ Fri 24 April 2026
📍 Senate House, University of London
Panels, a keynote + hands-on activities!
💡 Want to contribute? 👉socialhistsoc@gmail.com
More info coming soon!
🎉 To mark 50 years of the Social History Society, we’re hosting a Social History Festival with @ihr.bsky.social!
🗓️ Fri 24 April 2026
📍 Senate House, University of London
Panels, a keynote + hands-on activities!
💡 Want to contribute? 👉socialhistsoc@gmail.com
More info coming soon!
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At @ihr.bsky.social we can now offer PhD by Publication in History! For those with a substantial body of existing published research (within past 10 years), but without a PhD, should be of particular interest to #heritage professionals and independent scholars!
October 14, 2025 at 8:53 AM
At @ihr.bsky.social we can now offer PhD by Publication in History! For those with a substantial body of existing published research (within past 10 years), but without a PhD, should be of particular interest to #heritage professionals and independent scholars!
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All these woolly knits left the Yorkshire Grey Sheep HQ last week. Have you got a favourite 💕🐑💚🐮💛 #knits #sheep #highlandcow #coo #collies #sheepdog #bordercollie #beautiful #bsnm #knitwear #cosyknits #pink
October 13, 2025 at 6:09 PM
All these woolly knits left the Yorkshire Grey Sheep HQ last week. Have you got a favourite 💕🐑💚🐮💛 #knits #sheep #highlandcow #coo #collies #sheepdog #bordercollie #beautiful #bsnm #knitwear #cosyknits #pink
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Medieval seals! 🦭
In our Bridge House Estates collection, we hold some remarkable examples of personal seals used by medieval women to authenticate documents. Some of the most commonly used motifs or designs were radial devices, stylised lilies, birds, and full-length standing women.
In our Bridge House Estates collection, we hold some remarkable examples of personal seals used by medieval women to authenticate documents. Some of the most commonly used motifs or designs were radial devices, stylised lilies, birds, and full-length standing women.
October 7, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Medieval seals! 🦭
In our Bridge House Estates collection, we hold some remarkable examples of personal seals used by medieval women to authenticate documents. Some of the most commonly used motifs or designs were radial devices, stylised lilies, birds, and full-length standing women.
In our Bridge House Estates collection, we hold some remarkable examples of personal seals used by medieval women to authenticate documents. Some of the most commonly used motifs or designs were radial devices, stylised lilies, birds, and full-length standing women.
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As you dig out your chunky knitwear from the back of the draw, I know you are wondering: 'How did people prepare for winter 400 years ago?'
Read today's post to find out (and whet your appetite for our new book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England)
manyheadedmonster.com/2025/10/07/t...
Read today's post to find out (and whet your appetite for our new book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England)
manyheadedmonster.com/2025/10/07/t...
The Experience of Work in Early Modern England I: Winter is Coming
This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…
manyheadedmonster.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
As you dig out your chunky knitwear from the back of the draw, I know you are wondering: 'How did people prepare for winter 400 years ago?'
Read today's post to find out (and whet your appetite for our new book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England)
manyheadedmonster.com/2025/10/07/t...
Read today's post to find out (and whet your appetite for our new book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England)
manyheadedmonster.com/2025/10/07/t...
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Before cinema, there was Music Hall! 🎭
From pub backrooms to grand palaces of entertainment, it was the heart of London's cultural life.
Uncover treasures from the golden age in our new free display, 'Spotlight on Music Hall'. Opens Oct 6!
www.thelondonarchives.org/visit-us/exh...
#Archives
From pub backrooms to grand palaces of entertainment, it was the heart of London's cultural life.
Uncover treasures from the golden age in our new free display, 'Spotlight on Music Hall'. Opens Oct 6!
www.thelondonarchives.org/visit-us/exh...
#Archives
October 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Before cinema, there was Music Hall! 🎭
From pub backrooms to grand palaces of entertainment, it was the heart of London's cultural life.
Uncover treasures from the golden age in our new free display, 'Spotlight on Music Hall'. Opens Oct 6!
www.thelondonarchives.org/visit-us/exh...
#Archives
From pub backrooms to grand palaces of entertainment, it was the heart of London's cultural life.
Uncover treasures from the golden age in our new free display, 'Spotlight on Music Hall'. Opens Oct 6!
www.thelondonarchives.org/visit-us/exh...
#Archives
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If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!
October 3, 2025 at 8:49 AM
If anyone needs a freelance researcher in London (or across the UK), I'm your person!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!
I've reasonable rates, lots of archive experience & great recommendations from academics globally. I'm only teaching 1 module this term, as the job market is what it is. Therefore, I'm open to all work. DM me!
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This against one of History's most successful admissions cycles and a clearly thriving degree scheme (healthier than some that have been taken out of scope).
This isn't 'cannot rule out' but 'chooses not to rule out' compulsory redundancies.
This isn't 'cannot rule out' but 'chooses not to rule out' compulsory redundancies.
'The affected staff, in the schools of foreign languages, history, religion and music, have been warned the university cannot rule out compulsory redundancy.'
Almost 200 Cardiff University staff left in limbo as they face losing jobs
Cardiff University confirmed it cannot rule out compulsory redundancies as it also apologised to students for problems with a new timetabling system as the academic year begins
www.walesonline.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 7:32 AM
This against one of History's most successful admissions cycles and a clearly thriving degree scheme (healthier than some that have been taken out of scope).
This isn't 'cannot rule out' but 'chooses not to rule out' compulsory redundancies.
This isn't 'cannot rule out' but 'chooses not to rule out' compulsory redundancies.
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HMS Erebus and Terror set sail from England #OnThisDay in 1839.
Despite many failures, the lure of the Northwest Passage has enjoyed remarkable longevity.
🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/sear...
Despite many failures, the lure of the Northwest Passage has enjoyed remarkable longevity.
🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/sear...
Terror, Erebus, and the Search for the Northwest Passage
www.historytoday.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:06 PM
HMS Erebus and Terror set sail from England #OnThisDay in 1839.
Despite many failures, the lure of the Northwest Passage has enjoyed remarkable longevity.
🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/sear...
Despite many failures, the lure of the Northwest Passage has enjoyed remarkable longevity.
🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days
www.historytoday.com/archive/sear...
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Just two weeks to go until the #Oxford #astrolabe study day on Saturday 27 September! Learn the making and use of this most iconic scientific instrument – with the bonus that everyone attending gets to assemble and take home their own modern laser-cut astrolabe.
September 14, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Just two weeks to go until the #Oxford #astrolabe study day on Saturday 27 September! Learn the making and use of this most iconic scientific instrument – with the bonus that everyone attending gets to assemble and take home their own modern laser-cut astrolabe.
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🎺📖 Happy to say that The Word made Flesh now is available for pre-order (also in slightly more affordable paperback)! 🎺📖
#earlymodern #medhist #histmed #skystorians
www.routledge.com/The-Word-Mad...
#earlymodern #medhist #histmed #skystorians
www.routledge.com/The-Word-Mad...
The Word Made Flesh: Lutheran Bodies, 1600 –1720
From children’s visions of angels to the cancerous belly of a king, this book shows how the body was at the centre of religious experience in seventeenth-century Lutheran culture. It explores what it ...
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September 3, 2025 at 8:26 AM
🎺📖 Happy to say that The Word made Flesh now is available for pre-order (also in slightly more affordable paperback)! 🎺📖
#earlymodern #medhist #histmed #skystorians
www.routledge.com/The-Word-Mad...
#earlymodern #medhist #histmed #skystorians
www.routledge.com/The-Word-Mad...
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In this month's collection's blog, we take a look at how personal possessions recovered from the Mary Rose, such as the bone angel panel found in a gentleman's chest, allow us to learn more about the people who owned them, their beliefs and roles.
maryrose.org/blog/stories...
maryrose.org/blog/stories...
Stories from the past: a personal relic from the Mary Rose - The Mary Rose
Personal possessions hold great importance in exploring life on the Mary Rose. We can use them to learn more about the people who owned them.
maryrose.org
September 1, 2025 at 6:01 AM
In this month's collection's blog, we take a look at how personal possessions recovered from the Mary Rose, such as the bone angel panel found in a gentleman's chest, allow us to learn more about the people who owned them, their beliefs and roles.
maryrose.org/blog/stories...
maryrose.org/blog/stories...
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In Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image, Jack Hartnell charts the emergence of this striking image, used as a visual guide to the treatment of many ailments, and explains why it continues to intrigue us today.
Out August 19. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Out August 19. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
July 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
In Wound Man: The Many Lives of a Surgical Image, Jack Hartnell charts the emergence of this striking image, used as a visual guide to the treatment of many ailments, and explains why it continues to intrigue us today.
Out August 19. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Out August 19. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...