Rachel Anderson
@rach-anderson.bsky.social
Special Collections and Archives Assistant @ Newcastle Uni Library / Heritage Researcher @ Natural History Society of Northumbria / PhD’ing @ Durham Uni History ✨
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Women of London, and a countrywoman (with chicken), their costumes carefully recorded in 1574 by Lucas de Heere from Gent. His day is today.
August 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Women of London, and a countrywoman (with chicken), their costumes carefully recorded in 1574 by Lucas de Heere from Gent. His day is today.
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Early Modern name of the day: Ezeckiell Cakebread 🙌
August 4, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Early Modern name of the day: Ezeckiell Cakebread 🙌
This is such a wonderful love letter to the gorgeous archive we have the privilege of caring for at @nenature.bsky.social ✨
Well done @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Well done @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Our heritage researcher @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social has written this piece for @corridor8.bsky.social on the artistic riches to be found in our North East Nature Archive: corridor8.substack.com/p/e1fb8576-1...
June 30, 2025 at 2:11 PM
This is such a wonderful love letter to the gorgeous archive we have the privilege of caring for at @nenature.bsky.social ✨
Well done @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Well done @petermitchellnhsn.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Archive Monday: love these ink drawings from MS Tanner 118 in the Bodleian. Skeleton representing death with various scenes of a moralistic nature. Dress suggests late Elizabethan / early Jacobean. Scenes include royal court, hunting, duelling, trade/banking, religious/political persecution.
June 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Archive Monday: love these ink drawings from MS Tanner 118 in the Bodleian. Skeleton representing death with various scenes of a moralistic nature. Dress suggests late Elizabethan / early Jacobean. Scenes include royal court, hunting, duelling, trade/banking, religious/political persecution.
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Trade card of Richard Middleton, coffin maker and undertaker - 19th century.
June 12, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Trade card of Richard Middleton, coffin maker and undertaker - 19th century.
I’m actually super proud of this little project. The transactions are such a fab resource not just for natural history but for the social and cultural history of the north east! Do have a browse! ✨
Introducing the newly digitised Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumbria!
Today we proudly unveil the digitised Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumbria, starting with all 19th-century volumes from 1831 to 1899.
Find out more at: www.nhsn.org.uk/transactions...
Today we proudly unveil the digitised Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumbria, starting with all 19th-century volumes from 1831 to 1899.
Find out more at: www.nhsn.org.uk/transactions...
June 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
I’m actually super proud of this little project. The transactions are such a fab resource not just for natural history but for the social and cultural history of the north east! Do have a browse! ✨
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Introducing the newly digitised Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumbria!
Today we proudly unveil the digitised Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumbria, starting with all 19th-century volumes from 1831 to 1899.
Find out more at: www.nhsn.org.uk/transactions...
Today we proudly unveil the digitised Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumbria, starting with all 19th-century volumes from 1831 to 1899.
Find out more at: www.nhsn.org.uk/transactions...
June 10, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Introducing the newly digitised Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumbria!
Today we proudly unveil the digitised Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumbria, starting with all 19th-century volumes from 1831 to 1899.
Find out more at: www.nhsn.org.uk/transactions...
Today we proudly unveil the digitised Transactions of the Natural History Society of Northumbria, starting with all 19th-century volumes from 1831 to 1899.
Find out more at: www.nhsn.org.uk/transactions...
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Would you like to improve your creative writing skills, but need a spark of inspiration?
Join us for a flash fiction workshop where NHSN's unique collections provide the creative fuel. Learn how to craft compelling, concise stories that bring the past to life.
Book here: bit.ly/nhsnflashfic...
Join us for a flash fiction workshop where NHSN's unique collections provide the creative fuel. Learn how to craft compelling, concise stories that bring the past to life.
Book here: bit.ly/nhsnflashfic...
May 21, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Would you like to improve your creative writing skills, but need a spark of inspiration?
Join us for a flash fiction workshop where NHSN's unique collections provide the creative fuel. Learn how to craft compelling, concise stories that bring the past to life.
Book here: bit.ly/nhsnflashfic...
Join us for a flash fiction workshop where NHSN's unique collections provide the creative fuel. Learn how to craft compelling, concise stories that bring the past to life.
Book here: bit.ly/nhsnflashfic...
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🌸🌿 Celebrate Blossom Week with Us! 🌿🌸
Join us during the Festival of Blossom and learn the timeless art of hand-wiring flowers in our Flower Crown workshop led by local expert florist Jules Fleur.
🌷 Limited spaces, book now to reserve your spot at bit.ly/nhsnflowercrown
Join us during the Festival of Blossom and learn the timeless art of hand-wiring flowers in our Flower Crown workshop led by local expert florist Jules Fleur.
🌷 Limited spaces, book now to reserve your spot at bit.ly/nhsnflowercrown
May 14, 2025 at 1:35 PM
🌸🌿 Celebrate Blossom Week with Us! 🌿🌸
Join us during the Festival of Blossom and learn the timeless art of hand-wiring flowers in our Flower Crown workshop led by local expert florist Jules Fleur.
🌷 Limited spaces, book now to reserve your spot at bit.ly/nhsnflowercrown
Join us during the Festival of Blossom and learn the timeless art of hand-wiring flowers in our Flower Crown workshop led by local expert florist Jules Fleur.
🌷 Limited spaces, book now to reserve your spot at bit.ly/nhsnflowercrown
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#ArchiveFoodAndDrink Looking for Easter bakes inspiration? Flick through Jane Loraine's 17th century recipe book which contains approx 620 culinary & medicinal recipes, including spice-cake, curd loaf & cheesecakes collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll... #Archive30 @arascot.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 12:45 PM
#ArchiveFoodAndDrink Looking for Easter bakes inspiration? Flick through Jane Loraine's 17th century recipe book which contains approx 620 culinary & medicinal recipes, including spice-cake, curd loaf & cheesecakes collectionscaptured.ncl.ac.uk/digital/coll... #Archive30 @arascot.bsky.social
for anyone who missed it the first time, my AHR article is now open access (yay!)
academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
The Lancashire Plague Petitions: Life after the Plague in Early Modern England
Abstract. Historians typically explore the resilience of past societies in terms of large-scale outcomes like population levels. In contrast, this paper ex
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April 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
for anyone who missed it the first time, my AHR article is now open access (yay!)
academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
academic.oup.com/ahr/article/...
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Can you help?
One of our Bequest students is working with our Civil War Tracts (early published items relating to the English Civil War). She's came across the note at the bottom of page, we think it might be a date (21 Sept 1646), but is it?
Ref. Bradshaw 942.062 LET
One of our Bequest students is working with our Civil War Tracts (early published items relating to the English Civil War). She's came across the note at the bottom of page, we think it might be a date (21 Sept 1646), but is it?
Ref. Bradshaw 942.062 LET
March 27, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Can you help?
One of our Bequest students is working with our Civil War Tracts (early published items relating to the English Civil War). She's came across the note at the bottom of page, we think it might be a date (21 Sept 1646), but is it?
Ref. Bradshaw 942.062 LET
One of our Bequest students is working with our Civil War Tracts (early published items relating to the English Civil War). She's came across the note at the bottom of page, we think it might be a date (21 Sept 1646), but is it?
Ref. Bradshaw 942.062 LET
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📣New on the blog: How Covid impacted our relationship with nature.
As we mark five years since the first lockdown, we reflect on how the natural world helped us cope with the unprecedented uncertainty. Read the full stories here: www.nhsn.org.uk/how-covid-im... 🌳💚
As we mark five years since the first lockdown, we reflect on how the natural world helped us cope with the unprecedented uncertainty. Read the full stories here: www.nhsn.org.uk/how-covid-im... 🌳💚
March 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM
📣New on the blog: How Covid impacted our relationship with nature.
As we mark five years since the first lockdown, we reflect on how the natural world helped us cope with the unprecedented uncertainty. Read the full stories here: www.nhsn.org.uk/how-covid-im... 🌳💚
As we mark five years since the first lockdown, we reflect on how the natural world helped us cope with the unprecedented uncertainty. Read the full stories here: www.nhsn.org.uk/how-covid-im... 🌳💚
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C17th century food bank - the bread cupboard provided under the terms of the 1638 will of John Sayer, yeoman, in the porch of St Mary's Church, Woodbridge, Suffolk. Bread was provided into the 1970s; the charity continues to assist poor people.
March 13, 2025 at 5:45 PM
C17th century food bank - the bread cupboard provided under the terms of the 1638 will of John Sayer, yeoman, in the porch of St Mary's Church, Woodbridge, Suffolk. Bread was provided into the 1970s; the charity continues to assist poor people.
Delighted to announce that I passed my viva yesterday with minor corrections! ✨
A big thank you goes to my lovely examiners @SocialHistoryOx and Amanda Herbert for being so kind and giving such thoughtful feedback!
Time for cake! 🍰
A big thank you goes to my lovely examiners @SocialHistoryOx and Amanda Herbert for being so kind and giving such thoughtful feedback!
Time for cake! 🍰
March 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Delighted to announce that I passed my viva yesterday with minor corrections! ✨
A big thank you goes to my lovely examiners @SocialHistoryOx and Amanda Herbert for being so kind and giving such thoughtful feedback!
Time for cake! 🍰
A big thank you goes to my lovely examiners @SocialHistoryOx and Amanda Herbert for being so kind and giving such thoughtful feedback!
Time for cake! 🍰
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📢 New 'Will of the Month' Post! 📢
For February @lsangha.bsky.social uncovers the fascinating story of a London citizen and former prisoner, who examined his conscience when he made his will in 1607 ⏳📜
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
#history #skystorians #earlymodern @uoearchhist.bsky.social
For February @lsangha.bsky.social uncovers the fascinating story of a London citizen and former prisoner, who examined his conscience when he made his will in 1607 ⏳📜
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
#history #skystorians #earlymodern @uoearchhist.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 8:49 AM
📢 New 'Will of the Month' Post! 📢
For February @lsangha.bsky.social uncovers the fascinating story of a London citizen and former prisoner, who examined his conscience when he made his will in 1607 ⏳📜
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
#history #skystorians #earlymodern @uoearchhist.bsky.social
For February @lsangha.bsky.social uncovers the fascinating story of a London citizen and former prisoner, who examined his conscience when he made his will in 1607 ⏳📜
sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...
#history #skystorians #earlymodern @uoearchhist.bsky.social
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'Whoso will a gardener be
Here he may both hear and see
Every time of the year and of the moon
And how the craft shall be done…'
For #MichaelhouseMonday, we are highlighting a 15th-century manuscript poem which describes the practice of gardening in the period when Michaelhouse was operating. 🧵
Here he may both hear and see
Every time of the year and of the moon
And how the craft shall be done…'
For #MichaelhouseMonday, we are highlighting a 15th-century manuscript poem which describes the practice of gardening in the period when Michaelhouse was operating. 🧵
February 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
'Whoso will a gardener be
Here he may both hear and see
Every time of the year and of the moon
And how the craft shall be done…'
For #MichaelhouseMonday, we are highlighting a 15th-century manuscript poem which describes the practice of gardening in the period when Michaelhouse was operating. 🧵
Here he may both hear and see
Every time of the year and of the moon
And how the craft shall be done…'
For #MichaelhouseMonday, we are highlighting a 15th-century manuscript poem which describes the practice of gardening in the period when Michaelhouse was operating. 🧵
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These quotes are drawn from stories shared in a recent workshop as part of 'Nature’s Cure in Time of Need', a Heritage Lottery Funded project capturing how nature supports us in challenging times. Do you have a story about how the natural world has helped you?
Submit yours here: ow.ly/yIr450V5cH8
Submit yours here: ow.ly/yIr450V5cH8
February 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
These quotes are drawn from stories shared in a recent workshop as part of 'Nature’s Cure in Time of Need', a Heritage Lottery Funded project capturing how nature supports us in challenging times. Do you have a story about how the natural world has helped you?
Submit yours here: ow.ly/yIr450V5cH8
Submit yours here: ow.ly/yIr450V5cH8