Lucy Holehouse
@lucyholehouse.bsky.social
Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London | researching the materials of Nationalism in C17th civic performance | she/her
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November 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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you don’t hate pie, you hate the pie enjoyer’s zest for life
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
you don’t hate pie, you hate the pie enjoyer’s zest for life
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New post on refugeehistory.org: were there refugees in 16thC England? Answer: it's complicated - migrants and the state were in the process of negotiating a form of refugee protection, which helps us to complicate notions of Britain's "proud history of welcome": tinyurl.com/bdyevr4d
When is a refugee not a refugee? — Refugee History.
England’s ‘proud history’ of welcoming refugees is regularly invoked in contemporary debates about refugees in Britain. Public and academic histories of pre-modern migration to England support this no...
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October 23, 2025 at 8:08 AM
New post on refugeehistory.org: were there refugees in 16thC England? Answer: it's complicated - migrants and the state were in the process of negotiating a form of refugee protection, which helps us to complicate notions of Britain's "proud history of welcome": tinyurl.com/bdyevr4d
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Just out. I've written a major report (with David Edgar) looking at the effect of Covid on British Theatre. You can download it here: www.britishtheatreconsortium.co.uk/britishtheat...
British Theatre Before and After Covid
www.britishtheatreconsortium.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Just out. I've written a major report (with David Edgar) looking at the effect of Covid on British Theatre. You can download it here: www.britishtheatreconsortium.co.uk/britishtheat...
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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 2:18 PM
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...
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I'm planning an interactive workshop on the senses and medical humanities, to be held in Leeds in July 2026. It will involve creative practitioners, academics, and clinicians. If this is something you'd be interested in attending, please drop me a message or reply to this post and we can chat more!
October 23, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I'm planning an interactive workshop on the senses and medical humanities, to be held in Leeds in July 2026. It will involve creative practitioners, academics, and clinicians. If this is something you'd be interested in attending, please drop me a message or reply to this post and we can chat more!
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ON STRIKE AGAIN BECAUSE THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH REFUSES TO RULE OUT COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES!
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
ON STRIKE AGAIN BECAUSE THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH REFUSES TO RULE OUT COMPULSORY REDUNDANCIES!
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Maybe we should bring back wearing "a Choice Sort of Black Inck in Hard Balls, with that Conveniency, that you may wear them about you, without any Damage to the Inck, or your Linnen." just mix with any water or wine (except red)!
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Maybe we should bring back wearing "a Choice Sort of Black Inck in Hard Balls, with that Conveniency, that you may wear them about you, without any Damage to the Inck, or your Linnen." just mix with any water or wine (except red)!
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So the onus has to *also* be on students to want to learn and not just teachers whose labor is spread thin already between teaching, scholarship, and committees. We all bear a responsibility to guard our education and humanity (broadly defined) from bots. 3/3
October 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
So the onus has to *also* be on students to want to learn and not just teachers whose labor is spread thin already between teaching, scholarship, and committees. We all bear a responsibility to guard our education and humanity (broadly defined) from bots. 3/3
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If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
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Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Gender and Sexuality MA - University of Birmingham
Course information for prospective postgraduate students on our MA History taught masters degree programme at the University of Birmingham.
www.birmingham.ac.uk
September 15, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Some big news: the University of Birmingham is launching a new MA in Gender & Sexuality. It's interdisciplinary, with a focus on combining theory & practice. It's going to be amazing. I'm convening it: message or email with questions. www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr... @unibirmingham.bsky.social
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One of the most important things I have learned in my life is that how someone attempts to insult you says an awful lot about them.
This weekend, someone in my local community tried to insult me by saying I must be "an illegal" - that is, an undocumented immigrant.
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This weekend, someone in my local community tried to insult me by saying I must be "an illegal" - that is, an undocumented immigrant.
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September 15, 2025 at 9:00 AM
One of the most important things I have learned in my life is that how someone attempts to insult you says an awful lot about them.
This weekend, someone in my local community tried to insult me by saying I must be "an illegal" - that is, an undocumented immigrant.
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This weekend, someone in my local community tried to insult me by saying I must be "an illegal" - that is, an undocumented immigrant.
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My profile is now viewable on the Rylands Institute website: www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/abou...
I'll be based at the Rylands from December (2025) to May (2026) undertaking research on sensory experiences and perceptions of cancer. If you're in Manchester during that time, let me know!
I'll be based at the Rylands from December (2025) to May (2026) undertaking research on sensory experiences and perceptions of cancer. If you're in Manchester during that time, let me know!
Claire Turner (The University of Manchester Library)
www.library.manchester.ac.uk
September 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
My profile is now viewable on the Rylands Institute website: www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/abou...
I'll be based at the Rylands from December (2025) to May (2026) undertaking research on sensory experiences and perceptions of cancer. If you're in Manchester during that time, let me know!
I'll be based at the Rylands from December (2025) to May (2026) undertaking research on sensory experiences and perceptions of cancer. If you're in Manchester during that time, let me know!
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Are you curious about the potential for archival practices to shape the study of emotion; why there are letters in the English State Papers labelled 'mad'; or how the culture & politics of Elizabethan England shaped people's experience of distress? Find out here! doi.org/10.1017/S008... #earlymodern
‘your poore distressed suppliant’: ‘Madness’, Emotion and the Archive in Early Modern England | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society | Cambridge Core
‘your poore distressed suppliant’: ‘Madness’, Emotion and the Archive in Early Modern England
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September 2, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Are you curious about the potential for archival practices to shape the study of emotion; why there are letters in the English State Papers labelled 'mad'; or how the culture & politics of Elizabethan England shaped people's experience of distress? Find out here! doi.org/10.1017/S008... #earlymodern
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One of my RAs landed a permanent job in Madrid (which is awesome!) so I'm now advertising for a new one!
It's to work on my INTRECCI project on global histories of capitalism.
Please share with anyone interested and happy to answer questions.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
It's to work on my INTRECCI project on global histories of capitalism.
Please share with anyone interested and happy to answer questions.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate in Early Modern Global History:Oxford Road
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
August 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
One of my RAs landed a permanent job in Madrid (which is awesome!) so I'm now advertising for a new one!
It's to work on my INTRECCI project on global histories of capitalism.
Please share with anyone interested and happy to answer questions.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
It's to work on my INTRECCI project on global histories of capitalism.
Please share with anyone interested and happy to answer questions.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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I'm chuffed to announce that I've just signed a contract with Manchester University Press to publish my book 'Plague and the Senses in Early Modern London'.
August 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I'm chuffed to announce that I've just signed a contract with Manchester University Press to publish my book 'Plague and the Senses in Early Modern London'.
So so excited to announce that I'll be staying on @royalholloway.bsky.social for the next two years as a Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Early Modern Studies! ☺️🤸♀️
August 13, 2025 at 4:55 PM
So so excited to announce that I'll be staying on @royalholloway.bsky.social for the next two years as a Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Early Modern Studies! ☺️🤸♀️
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✨ CFP: The Odorous Object ✨
Perfumed letters, scented ceramics, fragrant glass vases — from the visible vessel to the invisible scent, olfactory objects carry histories of art, science, power, and imagination.
(1/4)
Perfumed letters, scented ceramics, fragrant glass vases — from the visible vessel to the invisible scent, olfactory objects carry histories of art, science, power, and imagination.
(1/4)
August 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
✨ CFP: The Odorous Object ✨
Perfumed letters, scented ceramics, fragrant glass vases — from the visible vessel to the invisible scent, olfactory objects carry histories of art, science, power, and imagination.
(1/4)
Perfumed letters, scented ceramics, fragrant glass vases — from the visible vessel to the invisible scent, olfactory objects carry histories of art, science, power, and imagination.
(1/4)
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Stop doing this! Whoever is paying @timeshighered.bsky.social for story after story is also funding environmental vandalism on a catastrophic scale. This isn't journalism, it's naive ethical bankruptcy - and intellectually and pedagogically obtuse.
#GenAI is not just for students. Isabel Fischer outlines draft principles to help assessors use AI responsibly in #marking and feedback.
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-s...
www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/how-s...
How should assessors use AI for marking and feedback?
While much attention has focused on students’ use of GenAI, its potential to support assessors has mostly been overlooked. Here, Isabel Fischer shares draft principles co-created at a cross-institutio...
www.timeshighereducation.com
August 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Stop doing this! Whoever is paying @timeshighered.bsky.social for story after story is also funding environmental vandalism on a catastrophic scale. This isn't journalism, it's naive ethical bankruptcy - and intellectually and pedagogically obtuse.
Spending some time working on the 'doublet with a satten forepart and a Canvas back’ in Middleton's Hengist today, and the more I think about it the more I realise just how ridiculous it would have looked. Wondering if it was made specifically for this play...
August 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Spending some time working on the 'doublet with a satten forepart and a Canvas back’ in Middleton's Hengist today, and the more I think about it the more I realise just how ridiculous it would have looked. Wondering if it was made specifically for this play...
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I'm currently looking for visiting lecturing/tutoring work for the autumn 💛 I've worked in English, Media Arts and Liberal Arts departments, and have taught poetry, literature, film, television and critical theory. If you know of any vacancies, or anyone that might be looking, please let me know 😊
August 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I'm currently looking for visiting lecturing/tutoring work for the autumn 💛 I've worked in English, Media Arts and Liberal Arts departments, and have taught poetry, literature, film, television and critical theory. If you know of any vacancies, or anyone that might be looking, please let me know 😊
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#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar
@ihrscb.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for 2025/26. Stipend of £300/yr and a chance to get involved in a great seminar!
@ihrscb.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for 2025/26. Stipend of £300/yr and a chance to get involved in a great seminar!
July 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
#EarlyModern history PhD students around London: the 'Society, Culture and Belief, 1500-1800' seminar
@ihrscb.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for 2025/26. Stipend of £300/yr and a chance to get involved in a great seminar!
@ihrscb.bsky.social at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgrad convenor for 2025/26. Stipend of £300/yr and a chance to get involved in a great seminar!
Material culture folk and dress historians: do we know anything about what a 'Fool's Coat' may have looked like in late C16th to early C17th England?
July 25, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Material culture folk and dress historians: do we know anything about what a 'Fool's Coat' may have looked like in late C16th to early C17th England?
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🎓 We're delighted to announce the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities here @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
The new school is a major investment into the postgraduate research environment for the arts and humanities by King's.
Read more👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...
The new school is a major investment into the postgraduate research environment for the arts and humanities by King's.
Read more👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...
July 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
🎓 We're delighted to announce the new Doctoral School for Arts & Humanities here @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social
The new school is a major investment into the postgraduate research environment for the arts and humanities by King's.
Read more👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...
The new school is a major investment into the postgraduate research environment for the arts and humanities by King's.
Read more👇
www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-l...