Hanna Polasky
@pox-and-frocks.bsky.social
Paleopathologist, medical historian, archives gremlin, a menace and an imp who threatens to lick any Scheele's green she sees.
https://pox-and-frocks.github.io/
https://pox-and-frocks.github.io/
It’s scheeling a lot like summer
(I bought some arsenic green paper)
(I bought some arsenic green paper)
June 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
It’s scheeling a lot like summer
(I bought some arsenic green paper)
(I bought some arsenic green paper)
Hello today I held a first edition of Smellie’s tables and I am going to cry about it forever
June 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Hello today I held a first edition of Smellie’s tables and I am going to cry about it forever
If anyone was wondering how the new job is going, I started crying when I found this chymistry book last week because I loved it so much
June 14, 2025 at 9:28 AM
If anyone was wondering how the new job is going, I started crying when I found this chymistry book last week because I loved it so much
This is what exhausted but happy looks like now that I’m back in the medical history world all the time
June 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
This is what exhausted but happy looks like now that I’m back in the medical history world all the time
I keep forgetting to announce it on here, but ya gal is officially the archivist and heritage manager at the royal college of general practitioners and she’s LOVING HER LIFE
June 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I keep forgetting to announce it on here, but ya gal is officially the archivist and heritage manager at the royal college of general practitioners and she’s LOVING HER LIFE
Back in my element (storage rooms for medical collections that need a lot of work)
June 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Back in my element (storage rooms for medical collections that need a lot of work)
The reviews are in: I am “incredibly child friendly” according to one mum who visited the @oldoptheatre.bsky.social yesterday.
I have laughed so hard about this for hours. I loved her.
I have laughed so hard about this for hours. I loved her.
May 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The reviews are in: I am “incredibly child friendly” according to one mum who visited the @oldoptheatre.bsky.social yesterday.
I have laughed so hard about this for hours. I loved her.
I have laughed so hard about this for hours. I loved her.
I blame @debharkness.bsky.social for my financial irresponsibility in the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social shop…
I have *become* the Ripley Scroll
I have *become* the Ripley Scroll
May 20, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I blame @debharkness.bsky.social for my financial irresponsibility in the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social shop…
I have *become* the Ripley Scroll
I have *become* the Ripley Scroll
Every time @hannahcornish.bsky.social takes me through the corpse corridor at ucl, I have this reaction.
May 20, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Every time @hannahcornish.bsky.social takes me through the corpse corridor at ucl, I have this reaction.
BAT BAT BAT BAT ON MY FACE
May 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
BAT BAT BAT BAT ON MY FACE
My best friend of 12 years: how many times have you been to the @hunterianmuseum.bsky.social ?
Me: we’re not talking about it….
Me: we’re not talking about it….
May 14, 2025 at 7:07 PM
My best friend of 12 years: how many times have you been to the @hunterianmuseum.bsky.social ?
Me: we’re not talking about it….
Me: we’re not talking about it….
Gonna need to start an album that’s just “booksellers giving me the side eye”
Anyway, got to bother my adopted brother @dominussomes.bsky.social with cute and funky hair clips irl, so that was cool.
Anyway, got to bother my adopted brother @dominussomes.bsky.social with cute and funky hair clips irl, so that was cool.
May 6, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Gonna need to start an album that’s just “booksellers giving me the side eye”
Anyway, got to bother my adopted brother @dominussomes.bsky.social with cute and funky hair clips irl, so that was cool.
Anyway, got to bother my adopted brother @dominussomes.bsky.social with cute and funky hair clips irl, so that was cool.
On a rare day out, I found the most amazing (probably 18th c) gravestone, and was so enamoured with it that I had to ask my friend to snap a photo of me losing my whole mind about it.
The name is no longer visible, but whoever owned this was a legend.
The name is no longer visible, but whoever owned this was a legend.
May 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM
On a rare day out, I found the most amazing (probably 18th c) gravestone, and was so enamoured with it that I had to ask my friend to snap a photo of me losing my whole mind about it.
The name is no longer visible, but whoever owned this was a legend.
The name is no longer visible, but whoever owned this was a legend.
@sortalazysusan.bsky.social and I don’t get to hang out in person often, but when we do, it’s an all out party.
(This is Susan’s excited face. She gets it from her mother hat stand)
(This is Susan’s excited face. She gets it from her mother hat stand)
May 5, 2025 at 4:22 PM
@sortalazysusan.bsky.social and I don’t get to hang out in person often, but when we do, it’s an all out party.
(This is Susan’s excited face. She gets it from her mother hat stand)
(This is Susan’s excited face. She gets it from her mother hat stand)
Perhaps the best photo I have ever captured of my darling baby
April 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Perhaps the best photo I have ever captured of my darling baby
These are the roses I fight for
April 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
These are the roses I fight for
Sometimes the world is too too scary, and so I spend my evenings reading mid 19th c medical journals and cuddling with my Victorian wax dolls, and I am aware of how insane that makes me, but this is what y’all signed up for when you followed me.
April 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Sometimes the world is too too scary, and so I spend my evenings reading mid 19th c medical journals and cuddling with my Victorian wax dolls, and I am aware of how insane that makes me, but this is what y’all signed up for when you followed me.
Actual photo of me and @sortalazysusan.bsky.social having a conversation
April 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Actual photo of me and @sortalazysusan.bsky.social having a conversation
Obsessed with this fairy wolf seen in a 19th c pamphlet
April 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Obsessed with this fairy wolf seen in a 19th c pamphlet
Not only did I get to teach kiddos about skeletons yesterday, I also got to adopt my very own emotional support leech from @oldoptheatre.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Not only did I get to teach kiddos about skeletons yesterday, I also got to adopt my very own emotional support leech from @oldoptheatre.bsky.social
My new friend is now on his way to a rehabber, but this was an eventful lunch break
April 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
My new friend is now on his way to a rehabber, but this was an eventful lunch break
Presented without comment
April 8, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Presented without comment
We’re gonna kill you dead
April 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM
We’re gonna kill you dead
The world is scary right now, but I’ve made friends with local fauna and I am so pleased.
April 3, 2025 at 12:00 PM
The world is scary right now, but I’ve made friends with local fauna and I am so pleased.