Dr Jenny Lee
@jennyrlee.bsky.social
Curator (Exhibitions & Special Projects) at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall.
Historical Geographer of imperialism, design, visual culture, exhibitions, maps, and communication.
Chair of Trustees for Museum of Cornish Life.
AuDHD.
Views my own.
Historical Geographer of imperialism, design, visual culture, exhibitions, maps, and communication.
Chair of Trustees for Museum of Cornish Life.
AuDHD.
Views my own.
Submitted an article, so you can find me refreshing the page on the submission portal every 10 minutes for the foreseeable future.
October 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Submitted an article, so you can find me refreshing the page on the submission portal every 10 minutes for the foreseeable future.
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The European “discovery” of the beach is a reminder that human ideas about nature have changed over time — with real consequences for the environment and the world.
#envhist #seaside #tourism #senseofplace
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inve...
#envhist #seaside #tourism #senseofplace
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inve...
Inventing the Beach: The Unnatural History of a Natural Place
The seashore used to be a scary place, then it became a place of respite and vacation. What happened?
www.smithsonianmag.com
September 2, 2025 at 7:33 AM
The European “discovery” of the beach is a reminder that human ideas about nature have changed over time — with real consequences for the environment and the world.
#envhist #seaside #tourism #senseofplace
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inve...
#envhist #seaside #tourism #senseofplace
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inve...
Can anyone help - I’m trying to find a publication I used in a class I taught 15 years ago (alas, younger me was not good at filing). It was a micro history of a village, I think in East Anglia. There was an archival reference to rice or rice pudding that revealed a global network of trade.
September 2, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Can anyone help - I’m trying to find a publication I used in a class I taught 15 years ago (alas, younger me was not good at filing). It was a micro history of a village, I think in East Anglia. There was an archival reference to rice or rice pudding that revealed a global network of trade.
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Don’t know who made this but thank you
August 26, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Don’t know who made this but thank you
#skystorians - I’m reading an 18th-century Cornish account book and keep coming across the word ‘dollap’. From context it is being used as a unit of measurement, eg ‘dollap of tea’. Has anyone else come across this or knows what it means?
August 20, 2025 at 11:23 AM
#skystorians - I’m reading an 18th-century Cornish account book and keep coming across the word ‘dollap’. From context it is being used as a unit of measurement, eg ‘dollap of tea’. Has anyone else come across this or knows what it means?
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“the dreadnought behind the dazzle” 🧐
article now published >> artreview.com/what-isnt-at...
August 15, 2025 at 5:26 PM
“the dreadnought behind the dazzle” 🧐
Well, this is deeply worrying, and I can feel the same sentiment creeping in over here. Not so much state-sanctioned censorship, but self-censorship based on perceived hypothetical backlash.
Trump administration to review 19 Smithsonian museums to ensure exhibits are ‘patriotic’
White House letter orders review as part of a broader push to assert oversight over cultural institutions
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Well, this is deeply worrying, and I can feel the same sentiment creeping in over here. Not so much state-sanctioned censorship, but self-censorship based on perceived hypothetical backlash.
Doing some Cornish smuggling research today and I’ve come across a smuggler on the (in)famous ‘Happy-go-Lucky’ ship went by the alias ‘the Doctor’…just saying 🙄
a man with gray hair is wearing a striped vest and bow tie
ALT: a man with gray hair is wearing a striped vest and bow tie
media.tenor.com
August 6, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Doing some Cornish smuggling research today and I’ve come across a smuggler on the (in)famous ‘Happy-go-Lucky’ ship went by the alias ‘the Doctor’…just saying 🙄
Footnote your work, people!! After spending a frustrating afternoon trying to verify a seemingly throwaway comment, footnote-your-work!
July 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Footnote your work, people!! After spending a frustrating afternoon trying to verify a seemingly throwaway comment, footnote-your-work!
I've just remembered that I've pre-ordered a book, but I've no recollection of what it is or when it's being published. And thus begins an exciting game of waiting for what I hope will be a happy surprise. The suspense!
July 19, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I've just remembered that I've pre-ordered a book, but I've no recollection of what it is or when it's being published. And thus begins an exciting game of waiting for what I hope will be a happy surprise. The suspense!
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CfP for maritimebritain.org Maritime Britain Project c.1550-1750 (led by Prof Craig Lambert, University of Southampton) end of project conference is live. See poster below & register your interest on Eventbrite in attending and/or giving a paper:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maritime-b...
#maritimehistory
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maritime-b...
#maritimehistory
July 3, 2025 at 5:34 AM
CfP for maritimebritain.org Maritime Britain Project c.1550-1750 (led by Prof Craig Lambert, University of Southampton) end of project conference is live. See poster below & register your interest on Eventbrite in attending and/or giving a paper:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maritime-b...
#maritimehistory
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/maritime-b...
#maritimehistory
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Review:
Jenny R. Lee on 'Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism', by Philip J. Stern.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.04.004
(Vol. 88)
25/31
Jenny R. Lee on 'Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism', by Philip J. Stern.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.04.004
(Vol. 88)
25/31
June 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Review:
Jenny R. Lee on 'Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism', by Philip J. Stern.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.04.004
(Vol. 88)
25/31
Jenny R. Lee on 'Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism', by Philip J. Stern.
Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.04.004
(Vol. 88)
25/31
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June 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Not a bad start to the day.
June 4, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Not a bad start to the day.
There is a special place in hell reserved for people who take video calls in cafes.
May 21, 2025 at 7:43 AM
There is a special place in hell reserved for people who take video calls in cafes.
I wrote a book review for the @jofhistgeog.bsky.social.
Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism, Philip J. Stern, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA (2023), 408 pages, £29.95 hardback
www.sciencedirect.com
April 23, 2025 at 6:04 AM
I wrote a book review for the @jofhistgeog.bsky.social.
#TypicalHistorian. So typical that the BBC couldn’t get my job title, title, or even my surname correct.
March 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
#TypicalHistorian. So typical that the BBC couldn’t get my job title, title, or even my surname correct.
Submitted an article, feeling (temporarily) invincible.
March 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Submitted an article, feeling (temporarily) invincible.
I’m still waiting for an additional series of ‘Downton Abbey’ set in the present day, where the Abbey is owned by the National Trust. The library will be transformed into a cafe and there will be backlash from the volunteers about an exhibition focussing on the famous Hollywood star, Thomas Barrow.
News | Preston Manor to reopen with Downton Abbey-style immersive experience – Brighton's historic house has been closed since the Covid pandemic
Preston Manor to reopen with Downton Abbey-style immersive experience - Museums Association
Brighton's historic house has been closed since the Covid pandemic
www.museumsassociation.org
February 27, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I’m still waiting for an additional series of ‘Downton Abbey’ set in the present day, where the Abbey is owned by the National Trust. The library will be transformed into a cafe and there will be backlash from the volunteers about an exhibition focussing on the famous Hollywood star, Thomas Barrow.
Does anyone else get ‘Committee of Public Safety’ feelings from the ‘Department of Government Efficiency’? An innocuous-sounding title, but in reality anything but.
February 12, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Does anyone else get ‘Committee of Public Safety’ feelings from the ‘Department of Government Efficiency’? An innocuous-sounding title, but in reality anything but.
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'Stop the boats' - a term former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak revived in 2023 in an attempt to signal control of the border.
Rob Waters traces the history behind the image and rhetoric of the 'small boat', and their social and political effects in Britain:
www.historyworkshop....
Rob Waters traces the history behind the image and rhetoric of the 'small boat', and their social and political effects in Britain:
www.historyworkshop....
Small Boats Past
Rob Waters considers the rhetoric of the 'small boat' in the modern history of British immigration politics.
www.historyworkshop.org.uk
January 23, 2025 at 6:05 AM
'Stop the boats' - a term former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak revived in 2023 in an attempt to signal control of the border.
Rob Waters traces the history behind the image and rhetoric of the 'small boat', and their social and political effects in Britain:
www.historyworkshop....
Rob Waters traces the history behind the image and rhetoric of the 'small boat', and their social and political effects in Britain:
www.historyworkshop....
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Love tokens made from coins rubbed smooth were given to loved ones when sailors went to sea in the 18th & 19th centuries. This token features the initials RDC and BC and the name of the ship, the HMS Ville de Paris, which set sail in 1795.🧵 (1/3)
#MaritimeHistory #18thC #19thC #NavalHistory 🗃️ 📜
#MaritimeHistory #18thC #19thC #NavalHistory 🗃️ 📜
January 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Love tokens made from coins rubbed smooth were given to loved ones when sailors went to sea in the 18th & 19th centuries. This token features the initials RDC and BC and the name of the ship, the HMS Ville de Paris, which set sail in 1795.🧵 (1/3)
#MaritimeHistory #18thC #19thC #NavalHistory 🗃️ 📜
#MaritimeHistory #18thC #19thC #NavalHistory 🗃️ 📜
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Let's focus on #earlymodern paper. Today in the spotlight: #cartography and its connection to #paperhistory:
"De geograaf" in the seventeenth-century painting by Johannes #Vermeer was a paper using man surrounded by paper.
A 🧵 for #skystorians
"De geograaf" in the seventeenth-century painting by Johannes #Vermeer was a paper using man surrounded by paper.
A 🧵 for #skystorians
January 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Let's focus on #earlymodern paper. Today in the spotlight: #cartography and its connection to #paperhistory:
"De geograaf" in the seventeenth-century painting by Johannes #Vermeer was a paper using man surrounded by paper.
A 🧵 for #skystorians
"De geograaf" in the seventeenth-century painting by Johannes #Vermeer was a paper using man surrounded by paper.
A 🧵 for #skystorians
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Lobster pot tree @ maritime museum.
December 4, 2024 at 4:54 PM
Lobster pot tree @ maritime museum.
🌊 SURF! 100 years of Waveriding in Cornwall is the next major exhibition at @TheNMMC opening 28 Mar 2025🏄From 1920s pioneers to today's champions, discover how our coastline shaped a culture & a global movement #SURF! #SurfCornwall #NMMC #Cornwall nmmc.co.uk/surf
November 25, 2024 at 6:34 PM
🌊 SURF! 100 years of Waveriding in Cornwall is the next major exhibition at @TheNMMC opening 28 Mar 2025🏄From 1920s pioneers to today's champions, discover how our coastline shaped a culture & a global movement #SURF! #SurfCornwall #NMMC #Cornwall nmmc.co.uk/surf