Susannah Lyon-Whaley
@susannah-lw.bsky.social
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at University of York on 17th-century queens and global nature, cross-cultural material exchange | PhD, Art History, on Catherine of Braganza | Honorary Fellow, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland
Can't wait to see our #StudentSalon cabinet in action in the classroom for the first time later this week! Seems like the perfect time to reshare @laurenworking.bsky.social's blog post on why we created this with student partners over the summer
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
November 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Can't wait to see our #StudentSalon cabinet in action in the classroom for the first time later this week! Seems like the perfect time to reshare @laurenworking.bsky.social's blog post on why we created this with student partners over the summer
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
It was a delight to discuss 17th-century queens and their global worlds of nature at the @oxfordcourtstudies.bsky.social seminar last night. Thanks to @hannasinclair.bsky.social for the invite, to those who came and were so generous with their time and knowledge, and shared their own inspiring work!
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It was a delight to discuss 17th-century queens and their global worlds of nature at the @oxfordcourtstudies.bsky.social seminar last night. Thanks to @hannasinclair.bsky.social for the invite, to those who came and were so generous with their time and knowledge, and shared their own inspiring work!
Found in a 1915 article. I think I will use this going forward.
November 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Found in a 1915 article. I think I will use this going forward.
One week till I'll be speaking on the Stuart consorts and their global entanglements @oxfordcourtstudies.bsky.social. Please come if you can!
It’s that time of year again! Here is the term card for the upcoming talks. As always, everyone is welcome! Fortnightly, 4:30pm in the Memorial Room, @jesusoxford.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
One week till I'll be speaking on the Stuart consorts and their global entanglements @oxfordcourtstudies.bsky.social. Please come if you can!
Reposted by Susannah Lyon-Whaley
'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'
Phillis Wheatley, the first Black nature poet | The Observer
Enslaved as a child, the 18th-century writer became the first published Black woman – and a pioneer of nature poetry whose legacy still inspires
observer.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 6:36 AM
'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'
Love the look of @marloavidon.bsky.social and Ælfred Hillman's CFP for a late Stuart court symposium in April in Cambridge. Please share widely! ❤️
October 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Love the look of @marloavidon.bsky.social and Ælfred Hillman's CFP for a late Stuart court symposium in April in Cambridge. Please share widely! ❤️
Sharing this petition to save Art History in Aotearoa New Zealand secondary schools.
petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...
Enjoy Rita Angus's stunning view of Central Otago, 1953-56/1969, oil on canvas. Te Papa (1972-0030-1)
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Enjoy Rita Angus's stunning view of Central Otago, 1953-56/1969, oil on canvas. Te Papa (1972-0030-1)
October 13, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Sharing this petition to save Art History in Aotearoa New Zealand secondary schools.
petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...
Enjoy Rita Angus's stunning view of Central Otago, 1953-56/1969, oil on canvas. Te Papa (1972-0030-1)
petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f...
Enjoy Rita Angus's stunning view of Central Otago, 1953-56/1969, oil on canvas. Te Papa (1972-0030-1)
Autumn skies outside = the perfect time to read 2nd-year @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social student Eva Newell's blog post on cinnamon 🍁 What does Hailey Beiber's cinnamon girl make-up trend have to do with Voltaire's El Dorado? blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo... @laurenworking.bsky.social #StudentSalon
October 3, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Autumn skies outside = the perfect time to read 2nd-year @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social student Eva Newell's blog post on cinnamon 🍁 What does Hailey Beiber's cinnamon girl make-up trend have to do with Voltaire's El Dorado? blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo... @laurenworking.bsky.social #StudentSalon
This is tonight at 8pm UK time! Please send an email if you'd like to join!
If flowers are your thing - @zarakesterton.bsky.social, Tori Champion and I run a growing network on Women and Flowers. This month Michele Leggott and @deleifd.bsky.social are speaking about their beautiful book Groundwork. Details below or email womenandflowersnetwork@gmail.com to join us!🌷
September 29, 2025 at 7:37 AM
This is tonight at 8pm UK time! Please send an email if you'd like to join!
Again and again, the response @laurenworking.bsky.social and I received from #StudentSalon workshops was how much handling objects meant.
As Rachel Hogue, MA student at @cecs-york.bsky.social says: 'Objects of the past, after all, aren’t just for looking.'
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
As Rachel Hogue, MA student at @cecs-york.bsky.social says: 'Objects of the past, after all, aren’t just for looking.'
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
September 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Again and again, the response @laurenworking.bsky.social and I received from #StudentSalon workshops was how much handling objects meant.
As Rachel Hogue, MA student at @cecs-york.bsky.social says: 'Objects of the past, after all, aren’t just for looking.'
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
As Rachel Hogue, MA student at @cecs-york.bsky.social says: 'Objects of the past, after all, aren’t just for looking.'
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
Back into research after attending Attingham Trust's 'New Perspectives in Country Houses' course, and channelling Jane (photo from the amazing Austen/Turner exhibition at Harewood House, in collaboration with @cecs-york.bsky.social @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social )
September 26, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Back into research after attending Attingham Trust's 'New Perspectives in Country Houses' course, and channelling Jane (photo from the amazing Austen/Turner exhibition at Harewood House, in collaboration with @cecs-york.bsky.social @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social )
Bugs in salons?! Recent University of York graduate Mumia Douse-Bah's blog explores the colonial context of bugs and recounts a flea on a salon attendee's breast that spurred a 'poetic frenzy' 🐛🐜
@uoyenglishrl.bsky.social @laurenworking.bsky.social #StudentSalon
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
@uoyenglishrl.bsky.social @laurenworking.bsky.social #StudentSalon
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
September 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Bugs in salons?! Recent University of York graduate Mumia Douse-Bah's blog explores the colonial context of bugs and recounts a flea on a salon attendee's breast that spurred a 'poetic frenzy' 🐛🐜
@uoyenglishrl.bsky.social @laurenworking.bsky.social #StudentSalon
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
@uoyenglishrl.bsky.social @laurenworking.bsky.social #StudentSalon
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
We have some thought-provoking student blog posts for the #StudentSalon project - this one on trade beads is by Daisy Glassett-King, a third year student in @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
All the Small Things: Salons and Trade Beads in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Britain – The Student Salon Project
blogs.york.ac.uk
September 23, 2025 at 7:24 AM
We have some thought-provoking student blog posts for the #StudentSalon project - this one on trade beads is by Daisy Glassett-King, a third year student in @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
The #StudentSalon project website is live! It's been incredible working with @laurenworking.bsky.social and students over the last few months to put together this cabinet of things to help explore 17th/18th-century salon culture from a global/decolonial perspective
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
September 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The #StudentSalon project website is live! It's been incredible working with @laurenworking.bsky.social and students over the last few months to put together this cabinet of things to help explore 17th/18th-century salon culture from a global/decolonial perspective
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
Reposted by Susannah Lyon-Whaley
Over the summer, students worked with me & @susannah-lw.bsky.social on the #StudentSalon project, where they helped us assemble a cabinet of 17th & 18th century objects. Our webpage is now live and full of incredible, student-led resources - please check it out!
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
The Student Salon – The Student Salon Project
blogs.york.ac.uk
September 18, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Over the summer, students worked with me & @susannah-lw.bsky.social on the #StudentSalon project, where they helped us assemble a cabinet of 17th & 18th century objects. Our webpage is now live and full of incredible, student-led resources - please check it out!
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
If flowers are your thing - @zarakesterton.bsky.social, Tori Champion and I run a growing network on Women and Flowers. This month Michele Leggott and @deleifd.bsky.social are speaking about their beautiful book Groundwork. Details below or email womenandflowersnetwork@gmail.com to join us!🌷
September 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM
If flowers are your thing - @zarakesterton.bsky.social, Tori Champion and I run a growing network on Women and Flowers. This month Michele Leggott and @deleifd.bsky.social are speaking about their beautiful book Groundwork. Details below or email womenandflowersnetwork@gmail.com to join us!🌷
Reposted by Susannah Lyon-Whaley
Off to an exciting and fascinating start to a day on Women’s Worlds, on global spaces in 17th and 18th century Britain. Thank you to @susannah-lw.bsky.social & @laurenworking.bsky.social for bringing together so many interesting perspectives and research from universities, museums & heritage sites.
July 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Off to an exciting and fascinating start to a day on Women’s Worlds, on global spaces in 17th and 18th century Britain. Thank you to @susannah-lw.bsky.social & @laurenworking.bsky.social for bringing together so many interesting perspectives and research from universities, museums & heritage sites.
Thanks to Thin Ice Press and @georginaemw.bsky.social @wordsmith.bsky.social for an enlightening three days of material thinking! If I have learned anything it is that there is there is no end to matter and 'digressions are sunshine'!
Print Matters summer school hard at work at Thin Ice Press amid 3 days of book-making, reading Lucretius, depicting 'chaos', and perusing the Minster Library and Shandy Hall
July 19, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Thanks to Thin Ice Press and @georginaemw.bsky.social @wordsmith.bsky.social for an enlightening three days of material thinking! If I have learned anything it is that there is there is no end to matter and 'digressions are sunshine'!
Reposted by Susannah Lyon-Whaley
Cabinet assembly day for our #StudentSalon @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social! With @susannah-lw.bsky.social and our marvellous student partners Mumia, Rachel, and Daisy.
July 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Cabinet assembly day for our #StudentSalon @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social! With @susannah-lw.bsky.social and our marvellous student partners Mumia, Rachel, and Daisy.
Congratulations @eilishgregory.bsky.social and Michael Questier for putting together a great volume!
Really happy to wake up to the news and see this review of Later Stuart Queens. Without sounding clique it is thanks really to all the contributors in the volume, so thanks go to @royalhistorian.bsky.social @susannah-lw.bsky.social @jessicaminieri.bsky.social @ejpbirch.bsky.social 1/
The new issue of the @royalstudies.bsky.social journal includes a review of Later Stuart Queens edited by @eilishgregory.bsky.social and Michael Questier, a volume that includes a chapter I wrote about Henrietta Maria as Dowager Queen during the Restoration.
rsj.winchester.ac.uk/articles/10....
rsj.winchester.ac.uk/articles/10....
July 2, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Congratulations @eilishgregory.bsky.social and Michael Questier for putting together a great volume!
What did empire and global goods have to do with literary sociability and 17th/18th-century salon culture? Watch this space for what our students find!
Our cabinet has arrived and she’s a beauty! I’ve been working with student interns & @susannah-lw.bsky.social on our #StudentSalon project and all sorts of 17th and 18th century objects are headed our way — fabrics, engravings, a Dutch tile, maybe even a bug or two…
June 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
What did empire and global goods have to do with literary sociability and 17th/18th-century salon culture? Watch this space for what our students find!
Just to keep up the queen and flowers theme ... a podcast too! 🌻 Thank you @royalstudies.bsky.social
www.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...
A Queen's Book of Flowers - The Royal Studies Podcast
In this episode, host Victoria Barlow is joined by guest Susannah Lyon-Whaley to discuss the royal links with early 17th century gardening practices and the A Queen's Book of Flowers exhibition runnin...
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June 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Just to keep up the queen and flowers theme ... a podcast too! 🌻 Thank you @royalstudies.bsky.social
www.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...
www.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...
Check out my short article in the June issue of BBC History exploring how 17th-century women found out about new plants growing overseas 🌺🌷🌻
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June 7, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Check out my short article in the June issue of BBC History exploring how 17th-century women found out about new plants growing overseas 🌺🌷🌻
pocketmags.com/bbc-history-...
pocketmags.com/bbc-history-...
My exhibition A Queen's Book of Flowers is now on at the Thin Ice Press in York 🌺🌻 Featuring Henrietta Maria and John Parkinson's Paradisi in Sole (1629), women and foreign plants. Today, an accompanying workshop making bookmarks!
June 7, 2025 at 3:28 PM
My exhibition A Queen's Book of Flowers is now on at the Thin Ice Press in York 🌺🌻 Featuring Henrietta Maria and John Parkinson's Paradisi in Sole (1629), women and foreign plants. Today, an accompanying workshop making bookmarks!
Reposted by Susannah Lyon-Whaley
An afternoon at Thin Ice Press for @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social, with a chance to hear more about Marie Curie postdoc @susannah-lw.bsky.social’s work on 17th century women, botany, print. With a little print resurrection of the potato of Canada…
June 7, 2025 at 1:57 PM
An afternoon at Thin Ice Press for @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social, with a chance to hear more about Marie Curie postdoc @susannah-lw.bsky.social’s work on 17th century women, botany, print. With a little print resurrection of the potato of Canada…