Grace Murray
@mazinggrace.bsky.social
Lecturer in English at Birkbeck, University of London | PhD (York) on how-to books in early modern England | fan of scribbles in books, gardens, & scribbles in garden books
🌳 ’Whispers of the Wilderness’ is officially open at Beningbrough Hall!
Ft. beautiful new art and sound installations inspired by the sensory experience of walking through a wilderness garden, & my 🪴 potted 🪴 history of wildernesses, told through 9 historic objects from throughout the Trust!
Ft. beautiful new art and sound installations inspired by the sensory experience of walking through a wilderness garden, & my 🪴 potted 🪴 history of wildernesses, told through 9 historic objects from throughout the Trust!
September 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🌳 ’Whispers of the Wilderness’ is officially open at Beningbrough Hall!
Ft. beautiful new art and sound installations inspired by the sensory experience of walking through a wilderness garden, & my 🪴 potted 🪴 history of wildernesses, told through 9 historic objects from throughout the Trust!
Ft. beautiful new art and sound installations inspired by the sensory experience of walking through a wilderness garden, & my 🪴 potted 🪴 history of wildernesses, told through 9 historic objects from throughout the Trust!
A blockbuster day at #RenSoc25, talking all things how-to, utility, local identity & readership alongside lovely & brilliant scholars — thank you @emilyrowe1.bsky.social for organising our roundtable on satire & sincerity, & @walla7437.bsky.social for chairing our panel on microgeographies!
July 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
A blockbuster day at #RenSoc25, talking all things how-to, utility, local identity & readership alongside lovely & brilliant scholars — thank you @emilyrowe1.bsky.social for organising our roundtable on satire & sincerity, & @walla7437.bsky.social for chairing our panel on microgeographies!
We’re well underway with Birkbeck Arts Week — last call to come along to Gordon Square at 19.30 this evening to read (or listen) to a striking 10th-century #medieval play by a female playwright about the dramatic conversion of a sex worker. Free to all, sign up below! www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
May 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
We’re well underway with Birkbeck Arts Week — last call to come along to Gordon Square at 19.30 this evening to read (or listen) to a striking 10th-century #medieval play by a female playwright about the dramatic conversion of a sex worker. Free to all, sign up below! www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Had a whirlwind of a week at #Shax2025/#RenSa2025 — from participating in my first SAA seminar on the wonderfully generative idea of the ruderal, to listening and learning to so many brilliant papers, to capping it all off with some dubious dance moves… Thanks Boston, you were a blast!
March 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Had a whirlwind of a week at #Shax2025/#RenSa2025 — from participating in my first SAA seminar on the wonderfully generative idea of the ruderal, to listening and learning to so many brilliant papers, to capping it all off with some dubious dance moves… Thanks Boston, you were a blast!
A bee-autiful binding for Thomas Hill’s Profitable Arte of Gardening (1593)! Spending a lovely day before #Shax2025 + #RenSA2025 hunting for annotations in the Botany Libraries at Harvard 🐝 🌱
March 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
A bee-autiful binding for Thomas Hill’s Profitable Arte of Gardening (1593)! Spending a lovely day before #Shax2025 + #RenSA2025 hunting for annotations in the Botany Libraries at Harvard 🐝 🌱
For the Bluesky #EarlyModern York contingent: it’s the EMROC transcribathon tomorrow (yay!) and Emma Marshall and I are running a York cohort where we’ll be on hand for some extra support in transcribing some early modern cosmetic recipes. Contact me for more info and do share with your students!
November 16, 2023 at 12:01 PM
For the Bluesky #EarlyModern York contingent: it’s the EMROC transcribathon tomorrow (yay!) and Emma Marshall and I are running a York cohort where we’ll be on hand for some extra support in transcribing some early modern cosmetic recipes. Contact me for more info and do share with your students!