Kristina Decker
@kristinadecker.bsky.social
📚Eighteenth-Centuryist
🖋️18thC history, literature, material culture & country house studies, animal histories
✉️ Secretary, Women’s History Association of Ireland
🏠 Ireland
🖋️18thC history, literature, material culture & country house studies, animal histories
✉️ Secretary, Women’s History Association of Ireland
🏠 Ireland
10/10 would wear.
National Museum of Ireland.
National Museum of Ireland.
October 12, 2025 at 3:49 PM
10/10 would wear.
National Museum of Ireland.
National Museum of Ireland.
Canine research assistant is growing into the role. Still has a taste for paper and notebooks and has a tendency to fall asleep on the job, but I’m sure that she’ll be digging in the archives in no time.
July 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Canine research assistant is growing into the role. Still has a taste for paper and notebooks and has a tendency to fall asleep on the job, but I’m sure that she’ll be digging in the archives in no time.
It was lovely to visit Bantry yesterday for the West Cork Literary Festival and have the opportunity to read an excerpt from my current work-in-progress as part of the writing groups lead by the Cork County Writer in residence Leeanne O’Donnell (do check out her book Sparks of Bright Matter!).
July 15, 2025 at 7:26 PM
It was lovely to visit Bantry yesterday for the West Cork Literary Festival and have the opportunity to read an excerpt from my current work-in-progress as part of the writing groups lead by the Cork County Writer in residence Leeanne O’Donnell (do check out her book Sparks of Bright Matter!).
I’m absolutely delighted to receive my contributor copy of ‘Bluestockings and Landscape in Eighteenth-Century Britain’. Thank you to the editors, Markman Ellis and Jack Orchard, and congratulations to all contributors. I can’t wait to read all the other chapters!
June 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I’m absolutely delighted to receive my contributor copy of ‘Bluestockings and Landscape in Eighteenth-Century Britain’. Thank you to the editors, Markman Ellis and Jack Orchard, and congratulations to all contributors. I can’t wait to read all the other chapters!
Developing an early interest in history.
May 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Developing an early interest in history.
Just a little bear. Shows promise as a research assistant as he has developed quite a taste for papers and books.
May 23, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Just a little bear. Shows promise as a research assistant as he has developed quite a taste for papers and books.
Wishing you all a very happy new year.
January 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Wishing you all a very happy new year.
Very seasonal.
December 26, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Very seasonal.
Wishing everyone a healthy and peaceful holiday season 💫
December 24, 2024 at 9:51 PM
Wishing everyone a healthy and peaceful holiday season 💫
Daily puppy content. Junior canine research assistant had a lie-in this morning.
December 20, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Daily puppy content. Junior canine research assistant had a lie-in this morning.
An apprentice canine research assistant has recently joined me. She seems to have an aptitude for social media and technology. At least, I’ve already had to confiscate my phone from her once this morning.
December 3, 2024 at 10:52 AM
An apprentice canine research assistant has recently joined me. She seems to have an aptitude for social media and technology. At least, I’ve already had to confiscate my phone from her once this morning.
Book Launch! The CSHIHE and School of History at Maynooth University are holding a launch for 3 new publications on 11 Dec. I have a chapter in The Intellectual World of the Country House in Ireland and Britain on 'Mary Delany and the mental and creative world of Delville'.
November 22, 2024 at 11:07 AM
Book Launch! The CSHIHE and School of History at Maynooth University are holding a launch for 3 new publications on 11 Dec. I have a chapter in The Intellectual World of the Country House in Ireland and Britain on 'Mary Delany and the mental and creative world of Delville'.
Post you from a different era.
c. 2005 with Timmy the Wire Fox Terrier.
c. 2005 with Timmy the Wire Fox Terrier.
November 21, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Post you from a different era.
c. 2005 with Timmy the Wire Fox Terrier.
c. 2005 with Timmy the Wire Fox Terrier.
I’ve had a lot of new followers. Firstly, hello! Secondly, I can’t help but fear you’ll find me terribly boring. I share all the same interests as a Victorian lady sent to the seaside to recover her health: reading, writing, drawing, piano, knitting, and swimming. I do have a very cute dog though.
November 21, 2024 at 2:25 PM
I’ve had a lot of new followers. Firstly, hello! Secondly, I can’t help but fear you’ll find me terribly boring. I share all the same interests as a Victorian lady sent to the seaside to recover her health: reading, writing, drawing, piano, knitting, and swimming. I do have a very cute dog though.
Spending time at historic houses and ruins def had the biggest impact on me in sparking my love of history, but also some books and films.
Places: Bartow Pell Mansion Museum and the ruins of Puxley Mansion (before developers got it).
Film:The Secret Garden (1993)
Book: Castle by David Macaulay
Places: Bartow Pell Mansion Museum and the ruins of Puxley Mansion (before developers got it).
Film:The Secret Garden (1993)
Book: Castle by David Macaulay
November 19, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Spending time at historic houses and ruins def had the biggest impact on me in sparking my love of history, but also some books and films.
Places: Bartow Pell Mansion Museum and the ruins of Puxley Mansion (before developers got it).
Film:The Secret Garden (1993)
Book: Castle by David Macaulay
Places: Bartow Pell Mansion Museum and the ruins of Puxley Mansion (before developers got it).
Film:The Secret Garden (1993)
Book: Castle by David Macaulay
My feline research assistant is rather affronted that he has yet to be mentioned when the canine has been pictured several times. I must rectify this serious omission.
November 19, 2024 at 12:49 PM
My feline research assistant is rather affronted that he has yet to be mentioned when the canine has been pictured several times. I must rectify this serious omission.
Just arrived in the post! Looking forward to diving into Amy Prendergast’s ‘Mere Bagatelles: Women’s Diaries from Ireland, 1760-1810’
November 19, 2024 at 11:10 AM
Just arrived in the post! Looking forward to diving into Amy Prendergast’s ‘Mere Bagatelles: Women’s Diaries from Ireland, 1760-1810’
This time last year I was on a research fellowship at Chawton House. I’m very much missing the autumnal morning walks, tearoom scones, and their wonderful library!
November 18, 2024 at 5:00 PM
This time last year I was on a research fellowship at Chawton House. I’m very much missing the autumnal morning walks, tearoom scones, and their wonderful library!
November (blue) skies.
November 17, 2024 at 12:43 PM
November (blue) skies.
My research interests also include country house and material culture studies. Please enjoy some photos of my canine research assistant in front of an assortment of country houses.
November 13, 2024 at 3:02 PM
My research interests also include country house and material culture studies. Please enjoy some photos of my canine research assistant in front of an assortment of country houses.
Loads of new faces here. Hello! One of my areas of interest is 18th-century responses to and interactions with the Irish landscape. Please enjoy these photos of my canine research assistant responding to Drombeg Stone Circle.
November 12, 2024 at 12:10 PM
Loads of new faces here. Hello! One of my areas of interest is 18th-century responses to and interactions with the Irish landscape. Please enjoy these photos of my canine research assistant responding to Drombeg Stone Circle.
Rainbows over Chawton House today.
November 10, 2023 at 12:38 PM
Rainbows over Chawton House today.
A terrier's eye view.
October 26, 2023 at 2:59 PM
A terrier's eye view.