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Leanne Smith
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PhD Newcastle University. Intellectual historian interested in millenarianism & republicanism.
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ICYMI: the many-headed monster has just launched a new mini-series on Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England.

Over the next month we celebrating the relaunch of British Printed Image to 1700 by publishing guest posts on the theme.

1st post tomorrow (Thurs)!🗃️

manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...
A new life for ‘British Printed Images to 1700’
Laura Sangha This post introduces our new mini-series Visual Culture in early modern England. Guest posts in the mini-series will be published over the course of the next month – we will add links …
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February 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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All hail the magnificent Portable Antiquities Scheme database, where you can find so many special treasures!

Including this late medieval finger ring with a bezel of an angel clasping a heart 🗃️

finds.org.uk/database/art...
December 14, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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An introduction to @universalstc.bsky.social: an open access database of early modern print culture. To find out more visit our website: www.ustc.ac.uk
November 20, 2024 at 11:51 AM
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We are on @bsky.app.

Please consider following @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social where every day we commemorate the victims & educate about the tragic human history of Auschwitz.

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November 10, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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Exciting news! We are advertising 1 PhD studentship in Intersections in Medical and Environmental History - supervised by me! All details below 👇
PhD studentship: Intersections in Medical and Environmental History at Newcastle University
jobs.ac.uk are now advertising a PhD studentship: Intersections in Medical and Environmental History. Discover exciting PhD opportunities on jobs.ac.uk.
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 11, 2023 at 9:10 AM
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Cranking up the volume a bit so this announcement will reverberate across the blue skies 🔈📣 Do you have a #SRSlyGood monograph published between 1 January 2022 & 31 Dec 2023? Why not enter it for our book prize? #EarlyModern www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...
October 31, 2023 at 1:17 AM
Nearly had a heartattack as I forgot that I had changed my Ring doorbell to the Dracula chime
October 25, 2023 at 1:06 PM
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We are saddened to learn of the death of the inimitable Natalie Zemon Davis

www.rensoc.org.uk/natalie-zemo...
October 23, 2023 at 6:46 PM
3 chapters edited - 4 more to go & then I am done!
October 23, 2023 at 7:08 PM
Minimal crying today during a dental procedure #smallgoals
October 23, 2023 at 9:01 AM
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Birkbeck is hiring up to four postdoc researchers to work on #WrittenWorlds in 17th-century England, led by Sue Wiseman (PI) and @Brodie_Waddell (CI), focusing on non-elite writers.
£42K pro rata; 0.5FTE for 25 months, starting mid-Nov.
Apply by 22 Oct:
cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...
October 17, 2023 at 3:31 PM
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We are seeking reviewers, do consider & share! also do follow @global-ih.bsky.social for news about the journal, our publications, & the wider field
Call for reviews! We are seeking proposals for book reviews to be commissioned for future issues @global-ih.bsky.social. If you have a proposal that fits the journal themes, email our chief editor, Rosario López. Early career researchers welcome - please share!
www.tandfonline.com/action/journ...
October 17, 2023 at 7:18 AM