Ooooh the latest mastertome from Catherine Fletcher!! Excited to read this

Have had this open as a tab for a few months. Finally read it. Fascinating. Really good example of how we can think with history. And for a historian of my generation, the historicisation of Joan Scott is especially interesting.

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Are you interested in #rot ? Join me and the fabulous
Dr Alice Tarbuck for a fun afternoon of deliquescence and decay! Please spread the word: we want to be omnidisciplinary, & warmly welcome all pertinent (& some impertinent) contributions.

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Excited that my article about c18th dog doctors is out!

Follow the link to read about Hester Piozzi’s greyhound’s diarrhoea (cured with hasty pudding + laudanum), Jonathan Swift’s 92 yr old dog doctor and John Norborn, celebrity vet to the royal family.
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I'm very happy to come and talk about the book to your book group, podcast, or local history/classics group. Message me here or at my university email #twitterstorians # #classicstwitter

She’s got a webpage! And a release date! Coming from Cambridge University Press in July… cambridge.org/core/books/rea…

The North American color cat is out of the bag. 🎨 🎨 🎨
#artistspalettes #TheArtistsPalette #colour #color #colour history #color history Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s

📢 Applications are now open for a fully-funded AHRC 4-year CDP PhD studentship with History of Art Edinburgh College of Art and V&A London.

📆 Closing date 23 May for a September 2024 start.
Supervised by Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth Simon Spier Prof Juliette MacDonald Simona Valeriani

Delighted to be in such incredible company (quite literally, as I’m next to Marina Abramović) in the Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s Fall Catalogue!

Fragmentary Forms out September 10th!!

Cover reveal for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! Pre-orders this fall; publication in Feb 2025; lead trade-list title University of California Press. Sign up to my newsletter for pre-order news and giveaways, tour dates, and pub date news! Please share! #HistSTM #twitterstorians surekhadavies.org/humans-a-monst…

Some kids are filming a horror movie next to me on the train.

My guide to some of the best books on colour (no historical ones) for the May issue of The Art Newspaper is now online.
All you ever wanted to know about the topic, from our difficult relationship with colour to a remarkable monochrome children’s book:
theartnewspaper.com/2024/05/07/an-…

I'm going to be speaking at @UCL about NOSTALGIA on the 15th of May - along with Emily McTernan, Joanna Elmy, and Prof. Sonu Shamdasani. Please come along! ucl.ac.uk/grand-challeng…

Back in the studio today recording the audiobook for The Roads To Rome. Hoping I'm on top of all my pronunciations! I have everything from Geez to Irish today! penguin.co.uk/books/443108/t…

“Transgender Embodiment in Fashion and Beauty” is finally out, thanks to 🇵🇸 baby, you can't read the PhDoll 🇵🇸 and the work of our brilliant contributors Ahmad Qais Munhazim, Isabelle Marina Held, Dr Rachel Hann now @rachelhann.bsky.social, ev, drew, and Alex Esculapio 💖

Come get the books! If anyone needs a personal recommendation, I'm making a standing offer to assist. . . .

I'm back at work today and starting a new project 💘 I'm interested in 🤨sceptical communities🤨 and starting with the history of NCT 🍼 I'm going into the archives at Wellcome Collection but I'm also looking forward to speaking to #midwives , NCT staff, and families

Obviously it’s mixed weather, because it’s a bank holiday, so why not read my book? linktr.ee/iheartpolitics

I’m sorry to announce that Jenkin and I have ended our love affair.