Elise Garritzen
@egarritzen.bsky.social
Historian; cultural & social history of 19th c. history writing, archives & book history. Latest passion: scholarly celebrity culture. Researcher at the U. of Helsinki. Author of Reimagining the Historian in Victorian England cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com
Ilman säätiöitä urani historioitsijana olisi jäänyt lyhyeksi. Väitöskirjavaiheessa minua tukivat Jenny ja Antti Wihurin Rahasto, @skr.fi ja Niilo Helanderin Säätiö. #säätiöpäivä 1/
Elise Garritzen@egarritzen.bsky.social · 3w ago#säätiöpäivä johdosta on hyvä muistuttaa säätiöiden keskeisestä roolista suomalaisen tutkimuksen tukijoina ja rahoittajina. Emil Aaltosen Säätiö mahdollistaa minulle paneutumisen 1800-luvun brittiläisen julkkiskulttuurin mitä moninaisimpiin ilmiöihin 🌟
#säätiöpäivä johdosta on hyvä muistuttaa säätiöiden keskeisestä roolista suomalaisen tutkimuksen tukijoina ja rahoittajina. Emil Aaltosen Säätiö mahdollistaa minulle paneutumisen 1800-luvun brittiläisen julkkiskulttuurin mitä moninaisimpiin ilmiöihin 🌟
Elise Garritzen@egarritzen.bsky.social · 3w ago15 minutes of fame equaled fame for one London season in the Victorian era 🌟The big question was then: what happened to the surplus of bygone celebrities. One answer was: they were "Un-Tussauded": cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/u...
15 minutes of fame equaled fame for one London season in the Victorian era 🌟The big question was then: what happened to the surplus of bygone celebrities. One answer was: they were "Un-Tussauded": cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/u...
“Un-Tussaud” Celebrities: Fame for One London Season in Victorian Britain
Being a celebrity, the Victorians knew, was a precarious status. Of course there were idols like the Queen, Charles Dickens, or Ellen Terry who enjoyed lifelong popularity, but too often celebrity …
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How Victorian celebrities and publishers used periodicals to boost fans' loyalty, make profit, and advance political agendas: cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2026/08/31/n...
Nurturing a Fanbase in Fin de Siècle Britain: The Sandow’s Magazine of Physical Culture
By the mid-nineteenth century, manufacturers, publishers, commercial photographers, and many others had come to realize that celebrities could be worth big bucks. Yet, successful celebrity commodif…
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Poliittinen historia rekrytoi yliopistonlehtorin määräajaksi. jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Poliittisen historian yliopistonlehtori
Poliittisen historian yliopistonlehtori
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The invention of photography had a tremendous impact on everyday life in the 19th-century 📷 Victorians, in a very Victorian fashion, were enthralled and morally vexed about the opportunities photography provided. cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/p...
Pot-Pourri of Portraits: Victorian Photo Albums and a Very Victorian Moral Panic
Harry How, one of the star reporters of the Strand Magazine, travelled to Edinburgh in 1892 to interview the quirky Professor of Greek, John Stuart Blackie. Following the journalistic customs of th…
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Celebrity can be frustrating, delighting, and emotionally disturbing. There are many ills in celebrity, but celebrity has played too big political, social, economic, and cultural role in history to dismiss it as a viable topic for historical research. cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2026/05/29/s...
Selling Medical Gossip in Victorian Britain: The Ills and Thrills of Celebrity History
After three intense years of research on Victorian celebrities, celebrity culture still baffles me. In Britain, celebrity had firmly established itself as a cultural, social, political, and economi…
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What an academic treat this was! Thank you @zoethomas.bsky.social @svenjaros.bsky.social and the team for making "Power Couples" happen!
PostDoc position in the project “A Digital history of allemansrätten in Sweden and Finland, 1880–1950” www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Postdoctoral position in digital humanities - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral position in digital humanities , Department of ALM, Uppsala University
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Yep. In fact, the real failing of students was when we stopped requiring them to regularly search a library catalogue for their reading and instead produced lists with hyperlinks that students simply had to click. As soon as they have to go off list, they’re lost.
Lauren Fraser@walkyouhome.bsky.social · 7mo agoControversial but - students *perceive* they have been failed when what has happened is they have failed to understand information retrieval is a skill requiring effort. I don't believe a zero friction experience is realistic or desirable in learning, actually.
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Anu Lahtinen@anulah.bsky.social · 7mo agoKansallisarkisto on tiedottanut tänään virallisesti suunnitelmistaan lakkauttaa useita toimipisteitä. Tilalle arkisto ehdottaa digitaalisia ratkaisuja, joiden valmistelu on kesken. Kysymys on koulutus- ja tiedepolitiikasta sekä alueellisesta tasa-arvosta. agricolaverkko.fi/tietosanomat...
Notoriety, it seems, has become the new normal, but notorious celebrities are not a 21st-century invention. Victorians were galvanized by scandalous celebrities: cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/a...
A Historian, A Murderess, and the Two Edith Thompsons: Fascination with Notorious Celebrities
Edith Thompson was furious in 1924. She was well in her seventies, a respected historian, and a prolific contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary. But now she was angry, very angry. The reason …
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Permanent position of a University Lecturer in Social Science History, in the University of Helsinki: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
University Lecturer in Social Science History
University Lecturer in Social Science History
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The ghost of the Cambridge classical scholar Jane Harrison haunts the pages of Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One's Own (1929). Here's my post on the layers of connections, for over 30 years, these two writers shared.
The ghost of Jane Harrison
The woman who haunts Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own
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Jack El-Hai@jackelhai.bsky.social · 10mo ago"#Biographies soared." Today's article pick from Damn History, a free newsletter for readers/writers of #popularhistory. Congrats to writer @egarritzen.bsky.social! Read/subscribe to Damn History: damn-history-16d93f.beehiiv.com/subscribe cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/i...
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
Be like the Victorians and read a biography or two during the holidays 📚🎄 cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/i...
Indulging Passion for Private Lives of Notable Men and Women: Victorian Readers, Writers, and the Allure of Biographies
The Bookman, a trade organ of booksellers and publishers, announced in December 1892 how reminiscences were “Among the most successful books of the month” and “Memories of living men” were more suc…
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Fascinating 👑 #bookhistory
Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 2y agoA widely used #Christmas time special of the European past was to buy and wear a paper crown. A paper crown, #skystorians? Yes, a printed paper crown. And the tiny street seller highlighted in this #earlymodern painting is selling them. Let's have a festive 🧵
Vielä joulun alle tämän vuoden viimeinen puheenvuoro Kansallisarkiston digitaalisen toimittamisen mallista. Äänessä jälleen Liisa V-B, joka kertoo kuulumisia joulukuun alussa pidetystä KA:n ja tutkijoiden keskustelutilaisuudesta: blogit.utu.fi/suomenhistor...
Kohti täysin digitaalista arkistoa? – Lastuja Suomen historiasta
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Mari Välimäki@marivalimaki.bsky.social · 11mo agoTurun yliopiston Suomen historian oppiaineen blogissa julkaistava kirjoitussarja Kansallisarkiston digitaalisen toimittamisen mallista jatkuu Liisa Vuonokari-Bomströmin kirjoituksella, jossa hän pohtii tarvitaanko maakunta-arkistoja blogit.utu.fi/suomenhistor...
KYSELY ARKISTOJEN DIGITALISOITUMISEN VAIKUTUKSISTA Miten digitoidut aineistot ovat muuttaneet tutkimustyötä, millaisia mahdollisuuksia ja rajoituksia se tuo tutkimukseen, millaiseksi tutkijat näkevät historiantutkimuksen tulevaisuuden digiaikana? Linkki kyselyyn: elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...
Victorians loved writing fan mail. Celebrities - historians included - were not necessarily equally thrilled about this specimen of modern fan culture: cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/d...
Dear Historian: Agnes Strickland, Fan Mail, and Historical Knowledge as a Franchise
There was a group of ladies in Plymouth, Massachusetts, who were enthusiastic about Charles Dickens. In fact, their enthusiasm was so intense that they decided to write to their idol to request a s…
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Wonderful chain and tribute to beutiful scholarly writing!
Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · last yr.I’m having intro chats with dissertation students this fortnight, and one of them asked which historians I’d recommend for beautiful writing they could absorb to further develop their own writing style. So, gang, which are your favourite *writers* among historians, any time, any topic, any place. 🗃️
#minätutkin miksi ja miten humanisttutkijoista tuli julkkiksia 1800-luvun Britanniasss 🌟✨️🎓
What a fun essay about photographs in middle-class parlours. I'm especially glad to know about Charlotte O'Conor Eccles and this piece in The Windsor Magazine about "the average hostess" babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=md... #victorian #19th-c
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Elise Garritzen@egarritzen.bsky.social · last yr.An ode to all the clutter in Victorian middle-class homes and especially to photographs in and about these homes cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/p...
An ode to all the clutter in Victorian middle-class homes and especially to photographs in and about these homes cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/08/27/p...
Photographs, Victorian Homes, and the Comings and Goings of Trendy Interiors
Vases, porcelain figurines, mirrors, busts, statues, paintings, engravings, photographs, books, ornamental wallpaper, curtains, cushions, carpets, side tables, chests, lamps, chairs… It was “in” to…
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