Dr Victoria Leonard
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Ancient, late ancient, and later ancient historian Research Fellow, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London victoria.leonard@sas.ac.uk #FRHistS #WCCWiki
Mary Clara's sister, Elizabeth Dawes, was the first women in the UK to get a PhD (also in Classics) - they were educational pioneers! They had other sisters too, but records are quite sketchy for both Mary & the others, so it's difficult to work out if the others also achieved academically.
My July #WCCWiki project (only just finished) was a page for Mary Clara Dawes, the first woman in the UK to get an MA, and a classicist with particular enthusiasm for teaching ancient languages as 'living' language! Before her time! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Cl...
Mary Clara Dawes - Wikipedia
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Beekeepers, beehives, and the extraction of honey, with Virgil beneath in the initial 'P'(rotinus) at the beginning of Book IV of the Georgics Bodleian Library MS. Rawl. G. 98; Virgil, Georgics; 15th century, middle; Italy, Milan; f.49v @bodleian.ox.ac.uk
"What does ‘belonging’ or ‘integration’ mean, when the places built to hold a community are treated as targets rather than protected as any other place of worship would be?" www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/i...
In the Age of Dominance
From the series "New Western Views" by Marwan Bassiouni When Nirmal Puwar wrote the seminal monograph ‘Space Invaders: Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place’ in 2004, the opening chapter spoke about a…
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Wind surfing the initial 'P'(aulus) at the beginning of the Epistle to the Romans BL Harley 2804; the 'Worms Bible', Vol 2; 12th century; Germany; f.231r @blmedieval.bsky.social
Making another panis quadratus, the Roman bread shape that there are carbonized loaves of from Pompeii and Herculaneum. 🍞 Left is my bread; right is a carbonized loaf from the Villa Regina di Boscoreale (image from Farrell Monaco / Tavola Mediterranea).
From Vere to Sanctus BnF MS Latin 9430; Sacramentary of the Church of Tours; 10th century; f.17v-18v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
I hate that my work is relevant here, but if you want to read an autopsy of the process of imagining fake women, go read the first chapter here, "Impossible Women", it's open access Things Unseen by Ellen Muehlberger - ePub + PDF - University of California Press share.google/rGRTskbSYmmz...
Things Unseen by Ellen Muehlberger - ePub + PDF
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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I am an ancient historian and I write about ancient things, but that chapter in the book I just published, about boys and men consuming and producing images of women they make up, and those images persisting to obscure and replace the real women around them in daily, even intimate, interactions?
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 5d agoIt was this one, and, yes, I do believe that was an All In first.
We're delighted to announce the plenary speakers for the EHS Winter Meeting 2027 (9 Jan 2027, online) 🎉 Professor Denise Kimber Buell (Williams College) Professor Emerita Philippa Levine (UT Austin) More info about the meeting & how you can submit to give a paper will be announced this autumn.
The stunning portrait depicts a daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. It was unearthed in Akhetaten/Tell el-Amarna. This city was established by Pharaoh Akhenaten as a new capital. Dating around 1345 BC. On display at Neues Museum Berlin 📷 me 🏺 AncientEgyptBluesky #Egypt
With today's theft of Vix torc, here's what has been taken... The torc was found as part of a burial & placed around neck of the interred. Despite its size, it weighs only 480g (less that half the weight of the Snettisham Great torc). It is STUNNING. #Archaeology #Gold #Torcs 🏺 1/2
Following a trip to the Odyssey yesterday I wanted to do a Circe Mari. So looked out the greek pottery for reference
Are you working on the histories of clerics and clerical networks across and beyond political borders? Interested in presenting your research at next year's Leeds IMC? Consider submitting an abstract to our Call for Papers! Deadline 1 Sept, details at: medreligion.wordpress.com/transnationa...
Transnational Clerical Communities
Call for Papers for sessions organised by the Ideology, Society, and Medieval Religion seminar series at the Leeds International Medieval Congress 2027 St. Brendan the Navigator. Bibliothèque de Re…
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Yesterday, in her all-staff talk our VC chose to highlight the recent election of 5 FBAs from the University of Exeter. She failed to point out that 4 of us (with many of our colleagues) have just been placed at risk of redundancy. #DefendExeterUni @exeterucu.bsky.social
Morwenna Ludlow@morwennaexe.bsky.social · 3w ago
The Australian Academy of the Humanities acknowledges, with deep sadness, the death of Professor Marguerite Johnson FAHA: humanities.org.au/our-communit... An Honorary Professor of Classics and Ancient History at The University of Queensland, Marguerite was elected to the Academy in 2022.
Blogging the History of Women in Ancient World Studies - Vale Marguerite Johnson (1965-2026) www.awaws.org/history-of-w...
Vale Marguerite Johnson (1965-2026)
AWAWS was shocked and saddened to hear of the recent death of emerita professor Marguerite Johnson on the island of Lesvos. She was a brilliant, kind and thoughtful supporter, mentor and teacher of...
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So, so sad to hear of the death of Professor Marguerite Johnson. She wrote a wonderful book about Boudica, that I used when writing my own, and then we met on social media, and did an online lecture together. She was incredibly kind & I so hoped we would get to meet in person one day.
Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network (ACRSN)@acrsn.bsky.social · 3w agoBlogging the History of Women in Ancient World Studies - Vale Marguerite Johnson (1965-2026) www.awaws.org/history-of-w...
friends and neighbors, the newest Element in Religion in Late Antiquity is now *live* and *free to download* through August 4! The inimitable Virginia Burrus on "Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature"! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature
Cambridge Core - Religion: General Interest - Martyrdom as Witness in Late Ancient Christian Literature
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Some of the oak posts from Seahenge - an early Bronze Age timber circle which was discovered at Holme beach in North Norfolk following ‘shifting sands’. Photo was taken at ‘The World of Stonehenge’ exhibition at the British Museum during 2020. 📸 My own. #Woodensday #Seahenge
I'm writing something about how gender is everywhere in historical studies--- even in, actually especially in, those places that are supposedly most removed from gender
Carved head of a beast. From the #VikingAge Oseberg ship burial of two women. It is one of five unique carved animal heads from the womens’ richly-furnished ship grave. AD 834. Norway. 📷 by me #Archaeology
Part of the interior of Taversoe Tuick Chambered Cairn on Rousay - one of the Orkney islands. The cairn dates to the Neolithic, and is a wonderful example of a two-storey cairn with chambers on top of each other. 📸 My own. #TombTuesday #Rousay #Prehistory #Archaeology #Orkney
New Publication: ‘Textiles in Manuscripts: A Local and Global History of the Book’, edited by Melissa Moreton and Suzanne Conklin Akbari medievalartresearch.com/2026/07/13/n...
New Publication: ‘Textiles in Manuscripts: A Local and Global History of the Book’, edited by Melissa Moreton and Suzanne Conklin Akbari
This new publication explores the diverse roles of textiles in manuscripts from late antiquity to the early modern period, highlighting their connections to global trade and cultural interactions a…
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TOMORROW!! #WCCWIKI is having their July editing session. 13.00-15.00, 22 July! Join at the link below 🏛️🏛️ us06web.zoom.us/j/85192010168
