Lloyd Bowen
@lloydbowen.bsky.social
Early modern historian of Wales and Britain (esp. British Civil Wars) at Cardiff University. Also work on petitioning, duelling, political cultures. Edward Vaughan book free to download: https://www.uwp.co.uk/book/the-trials-of-edward-vaughan/
Reposted by Lloyd Bowen
Incredibly honored to see Old Age and American Slavery listed as a finalist alongside such important scholarship in the Slaveryarchive book prize. Very grateful indeed. www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...
#Slaveryarchive Book Prize 2024 – #Slaveryarchive
www.slaveryarchive.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Incredibly honored to see Old Age and American Slavery listed as a finalist alongside such important scholarship in the Slaveryarchive book prize. Very grateful indeed. www.slaveryarchive.com/slaveryarchi...
Reposted by Lloyd Bowen
'These essays provide fascinating insights into the diversity of gender identities and the operation of gender as an intersectional category in the construction of Welsh identity.'
A brilliant review by Kirsti Bohata of 'Gender in Modern Welsh History' in the latest issue of ‘History’.
A brilliant review by Kirsti Bohata of 'Gender in Modern Welsh History' in the latest issue of ‘History’.
June 24, 2025 at 2:00 PM
'These essays provide fascinating insights into the diversity of gender identities and the operation of gender as an intersectional category in the construction of Welsh identity.'
A brilliant review by Kirsti Bohata of 'Gender in Modern Welsh History' in the latest issue of ‘History’.
A brilliant review by Kirsti Bohata of 'Gender in Modern Welsh History' in the latest issue of ‘History’.
Reposted by Lloyd Bowen
If you're not old enough to know what microfiche is, here's some lofi love...
How do government documents, locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, become searchable & accessible online? Now you can see it happen in real time.
🎞️⤵️ Watch it live:
www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
#InternetArchive #LiveStream #LiveNow
🎞️⤵️ Watch it live:
www.youtube.com/live/aPg2V5R...
#InternetArchive #LiveStream #LiveNow
lofi Archive radio 🎞️ beats to scan/read microfiche to
Off Hours? Watch a 2hr stream at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gibUecoF1bEEver wonder how government documents, locked away on tiny sheets of microfiche, b...
www.youtube.com
June 23, 2025 at 3:40 PM
If you're not old enough to know what microfiche is, here's some lofi love...
Reposted by Lloyd Bowen
CFP: Workshop on 'Crime and Conjugality in Europe, pre-1800' to be held in Oxford, 6 July 2026; deadline for expressions of interest is 15 Sept 2025. Please help spread the word! #history #SkyStorians www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2...
Call for papers: Crime and Conjugality in Europe, pre-1800
www.bristol.ac.uk
May 28, 2025 at 8:24 AM
CFP: Workshop on 'Crime and Conjugality in Europe, pre-1800' to be held in Oxford, 6 July 2026; deadline for expressions of interest is 15 Sept 2025. Please help spread the word! #history #SkyStorians www.bristol.ac.uk/law/events/2...
Reposted by Lloyd Bowen
I don't think this is really the key narrative question raised by the text
May 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I don't think this is really the key narrative question raised by the text
Reposted by Lloyd Bowen
This is the best George Wendt joke on cheers by an absolute mile, and its so well done
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FNH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FNH...
Cheers | S08E14 cold open | "They've even changed the panelling"
YouTube video by JHew
www.youtube.com
May 21, 2025 at 6:24 AM
This is the best George Wendt joke on cheers by an absolute mile, and its so well done
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FNH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FNH...
Reposted by Lloyd Bowen
New article!
'Seeing Women in the Early English and Dutch East India Companies' is now available as an Advance Article with Historical Research.
It's been years of work, but I'm proud of this one. I hope #earlymodern #skystorians enjoy it!
Some context below:
academic.oup.com/histres/adva...
'Seeing Women in the Early English and Dutch East India Companies' is now available as an Advance Article with Historical Research.
It's been years of work, but I'm proud of this one. I hope #earlymodern #skystorians enjoy it!
Some context below:
academic.oup.com/histres/adva...
Validate User
academic.oup.com
May 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
New article!
'Seeing Women in the Early English and Dutch East India Companies' is now available as an Advance Article with Historical Research.
It's been years of work, but I'm proud of this one. I hope #earlymodern #skystorians enjoy it!
Some context below:
academic.oup.com/histres/adva...
'Seeing Women in the Early English and Dutch East India Companies' is now available as an Advance Article with Historical Research.
It's been years of work, but I'm proud of this one. I hope #earlymodern #skystorians enjoy it!
Some context below:
academic.oup.com/histres/adva...
I’ve had worse days.
May 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
I’ve had worse days.
Reposted by Lloyd Bowen
Amazing scenes in the carpark today.
April 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Amazing scenes in the carpark today.
Reposted by Lloyd Bowen
As the @ihr.bsky.social Tudor & Stuart seminar is not formally on Here yet, here's our programme for next term (please RT):
Mon 19 May, Paulina Kewes @paulinakewes.bsky.social and Fred Smith: ‘Excommunicating Henry VIII’ (in person and on zoom) 1/3
Mon 19 May, Paulina Kewes @paulinakewes.bsky.social and Fred Smith: ‘Excommunicating Henry VIII’ (in person and on zoom) 1/3
Tudor & Stuart History
www.history.ac.uk
April 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
As the @ihr.bsky.social Tudor & Stuart seminar is not formally on Here yet, here's our programme for next term (please RT):
Mon 19 May, Paulina Kewes @paulinakewes.bsky.social and Fred Smith: ‘Excommunicating Henry VIII’ (in person and on zoom) 1/3
Mon 19 May, Paulina Kewes @paulinakewes.bsky.social and Fred Smith: ‘Excommunicating Henry VIII’ (in person and on zoom) 1/3
Reposted by Lloyd Bowen
Fully funded (4 year) PhD studentship supervised across Keele Univ. and the British Library: "Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection". You'll generate your own project focused on how this unique collection was created and used: www.keele.ac.uk/study/postgr...
Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection
www.keele.ac.uk
April 3, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Fully funded (4 year) PhD studentship supervised across Keele Univ. and the British Library: "Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection". You'll generate your own project focused on how this unique collection was created and used: www.keele.ac.uk/study/postgr...
RIP little fella.
This is Gatsby. He was killed yesterday by a hit-and-run driver tearing through our village, which has no pavements and which, bizarrely, has not seen a reduction to 20mph like most such roads in Wales.
He was only four, a quirky bugger, and we loved him. 😢🐶
This is Gatsby. He was killed yesterday by a hit-and-run driver tearing through our village, which has no pavements and which, bizarrely, has not seen a reduction to 20mph like most such roads in Wales.
He was only four, a quirky bugger, and we loved him. 😢🐶
April 11, 2025 at 6:23 AM
RIP little fella.
This is Gatsby. He was killed yesterday by a hit-and-run driver tearing through our village, which has no pavements and which, bizarrely, has not seen a reduction to 20mph like most such roads in Wales.
He was only four, a quirky bugger, and we loved him. 😢🐶
This is Gatsby. He was killed yesterday by a hit-and-run driver tearing through our village, which has no pavements and which, bizarrely, has not seen a reduction to 20mph like most such roads in Wales.
He was only four, a quirky bugger, and we loved him. 😢🐶
“Nothing is more remarkable in the Whigs than their unparallel’d impudence in lying. They will positively affirm the most unheard of absurdities in reason, and the most notorious falsehoods in fact; especially in matters of calumny and slander” (Joseph Trapp, 1712).
Remind you of anyone?
Remind you of anyone?
April 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
“Nothing is more remarkable in the Whigs than their unparallel’d impudence in lying. They will positively affirm the most unheard of absurdities in reason, and the most notorious falsehoods in fact; especially in matters of calumny and slander” (Joseph Trapp, 1712).
Remind you of anyone?
Remind you of anyone?
Reposted by Lloyd Bowen
Don't miss out! My @erc.europa.eu Consolidator project #FEATHERS 🪶🪶 is organising a 3-day international conference on early modern scribal culture & manuscript production at @unileiden.bsky.social on 7-9 May 2025. www.universiteitleiden.nl/feathers-con... Registration closes tomorrow!
Scribes and Inky Fingerprints
Collaborative and Mediated Authorship in Early Modern English Manuscripts
www.universiteitleiden.nl
April 6, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Don't miss out! My @erc.europa.eu Consolidator project #FEATHERS 🪶🪶 is organising a 3-day international conference on early modern scribal culture & manuscript production at @unileiden.bsky.social on 7-9 May 2025. www.universiteitleiden.nl/feathers-con... Registration closes tomorrow!
This should be excellent fun. Looking forward to learning a lot.
Who's joining us in Cardiff for our Annual Welsh Lecture? Come hear Ruth Canning discuss 'The “Irish Problem” in English Colonial History', with a response from @lloydbowen.bsky.social & chaired by our Wales Rep @mrfw17thc.bsky.social! June 18, 2025. All welcome!
www.rensoc.org.uk/event/the-ir...
www.rensoc.org.uk/event/the-ir...
April 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This should be excellent fun. Looking forward to learning a lot.
Reposted by Lloyd Bowen
Who's joining us in Cardiff for our Annual Welsh Lecture? Come hear Ruth Canning discuss 'The “Irish Problem” in English Colonial History', with a response from @lloydbowen.bsky.social & chaired by our Wales Rep @mrfw17thc.bsky.social! June 18, 2025. All welcome!
www.rensoc.org.uk/event/the-ir...
www.rensoc.org.uk/event/the-ir...
April 4, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Who's joining us in Cardiff for our Annual Welsh Lecture? Come hear Ruth Canning discuss 'The “Irish Problem” in English Colonial History', with a response from @lloydbowen.bsky.social & chaired by our Wales Rep @mrfw17thc.bsky.social! June 18, 2025. All welcome!
www.rensoc.org.uk/event/the-ir...
www.rensoc.org.uk/event/the-ir...
Reposted by Lloyd Bowen
@helengittos.bsky.social So this fell out of an old cardboard folder …
March 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
@helengittos.bsky.social So this fell out of an old cardboard folder …
Reposted by Lloyd Bowen
Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.
Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK
Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.
Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK
Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.
March 17, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.
Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK
Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.
Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK
Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.
Reposted by Lloyd Bowen
📰💫🏆 Multiple academic staff at the School of History, Archaeology and Religion granted research funding and an award nomination: cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2901277-multiple-academic-staff-at-the-school-of-history,-archaeology-and-religion-granted-research-funding-and-an-award-nomination
Multiple academic staff at the School of History, Archaeology and Religion granted research funding and an award nomination
Several academic staff recognised for their contributions to teaching and research
cardiff.ac.uk
March 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
📰💫🏆 Multiple academic staff at the School of History, Archaeology and Religion granted research funding and an award nomination: cardiff.ac.uk/news/view/2901277-multiple-academic-staff-at-the-school-of-history,-archaeology-and-religion-granted-research-funding-and-an-award-nomination
Reposted by Lloyd Bowen
Nice analogy for colleges that slash humanities programs: “What kind of bookshop would you want to go to: a large, sprawling bookshop, with lots of books…or do you want to go to the airport or motorway service bookshop, where you end up with only the bestsellers?" bit.ly/40Yo2RH
Cardiff cuts: ‘They don’t grasp what university means for Wales’
Academics warn of ‘culture of fear’ at pre-eminent Welsh institution amid plans to axe courses and hundreds of jobs
bit.ly
February 5, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Nice analogy for colleges that slash humanities programs: “What kind of bookshop would you want to go to: a large, sprawling bookshop, with lots of books…or do you want to go to the airport or motorway service bookshop, where you end up with only the bestsellers?" bit.ly/40Yo2RH
Reposted by Lloyd Bowen
Reposted by Lloyd Bowen
Steady on, Elon.
a group of men are standing in front of a large map of the world .
ALT: a group of men are standing in front of a large map of the world .
media.tenor.com
January 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Steady on, Elon.
David Lynch 😢
a man is sitting in a car and talking to someone .
ALT: a man is sitting in a car and talking to someone .
media.tenor.com
January 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
David Lynch 😢