Lucy Brewer
@lucybrewer.bsky.social
📚History PhD student - 19thC female gardeners and environmentalists @ Uni of Greenwich 🪡 Instagram: LoopyStitching 🌱Instagram: Lucy_Brewer 👩🏻🎓 www.lucy-brewer.com 🥤 https://ko-fi.com/lucybrewer
I've not posted all that much over the last few months as I've had a series of health crises, not least a head injury that has forced me to enter into an official PhD interruption. However, I've just posted my most recent blog, a review of Women & Gardens 🌱: www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/review-...
Review: Women & Gardens. — Lucy Brewer
A review of Women & Gardens.
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Last night my car was stolen in SE London. There’s some v sentimental irreplaceable stuff in there so I’m desperate to get it back. If you live in SE London please do look out for it, and if you can share this to people you know in the area that would be wonderful!
Hi everyone - I'm crowdsourcing some plant data! 🌱 I've put together a survey where I'm looking for plants that: - Are named after real or fictional literary people - Are named in a general way in a work of fiction - Existed in the British Isles at the time of Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Literary plants
The aim of this survey is to find plants that: - Are named after real or fictional literary people - Are named in a general way in a work of fiction (i.e. Lord of the Rings mentions 'roses') - Existe...
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I’m doing something that I don’t do all that often - I’m reading a work of fiction like I would a historical source.
ADHD brain occasionally gives me side-quests. For the last few months I've been working on a quantitative research project, and I just completed the initial analysis! No idea if I've done it right as I'm not a quant person (this project was mostly to learn), but I've submitted it to my supervisor!
A new post has gone up on my site all about the week off my PhD I gave myself to try and recharge. Catch up on all my activities here! #phdchat #phdsky www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/a-week-...
A week off. — Lucy Brewer
What to do in my own personal reading week?
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Over the course of this year (and particularly this week) I’ve been working on a new version of my #PhD upgrade doc that was due today. Big news - I just emailed it off! Now begins the self doubt of “what if my supervisors think it’s rubbish/not changed enough” 😂. Well I’ll hear back next week…!
If you followed along with my two day postathon this week you’ll have seen “finish embroidered starfish” on my to do list, and you might have wondered what that was…well I’ve finished it! 🪡🧵 #embroidery #starfish
Phew, after two very busy PhD days I'm tired as all heck - but straight back to work. I've written a little bit about how I got to that point, and how I'm trying to get through it all over on my substack! open.substack.com/pub/lucybrew...
On Friday I have to hand in my next draft of my upgrade chapter and I am not close. 😬 I’ve decided to take Monday and Tuesday off of work to try and focus on it and I’m thinking maybe I live post the two days…see how much progress I make, how much I get distracted…
I've also just launched a substack. At the moment, there isn't much content there, and will likely be a place that largely links to new posts on the website - but if you'd like to subscribe so that you never miss a blog there's that option! substack.com/@lucybrewerh...
Lucy Brewer ~ Historian | Substack
PhD Candidate at the University of Greenwich sharing my academic journey and research ✨Learn More: https://lucy-brewer.com/
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I'm back with another Pilgrimage of Paws piece which this time took me to Canterbury. I hadn't been to the cathedral before and gosh it was dreamy. Unfortunately, my trip to the city was cut short, so there is most certainly going to be a second blog checking out dog friendly heritage in the summer!
A Canterbury Tale. — Lucy Brewer
A Pilgrimage of Paws visits Canterbury.
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I just started rewatching an old series - Everwood - and was pretty excited to hear an Audi 5000 reference! Another one for the dashboard. If anyone hears one - let me know! lookerstudio.google.com/s/hkBIO67OhJo
Audi 5000 dashboard
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I’m working on an #embroidery installation with a theme of under the sea through my 3D beading diploma module with Hand and Lock and I just hit a big milestone with the first bit of beading being added to my starfish! There’s more beading and gold to come, but eek!
To help support my #PhD site I have set up a Ko.fi account in the event anyone would like to leave me a tip! Do you want to help keep me in books? Help keep me exploring heritage sites with my dog? Help keep a history blog running? Well this is the place for you: ko-fi.com/lucybrewer
A new blog is up on my #PhD site takes A Pilgrimage of Paws to St. Albans. A series that's designed to encourage people with dogs to get out and engage with the heritage and history to be found around the country. #History #Heritage #PhDSky #PhDChat www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/st-albans
St. Albans. — Lucy Brewer
A Pilgrimage of Paws visit to St. Albans.
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What I'm sure everyone has been waiting for...The countdown for my top three blog posts this year finishes with the post that came in first place, The Perils of a Comma: #PhD #PhDSky #PhDChat #History #Football #Whitby #Vampire #Gothic www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/the-per...
The Perils Of A Comma. — Lucy Brewer
The spookiness of missing punctuation.
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The countdown for my top three blog posts this year continues with the post that came in second place: 'Stories From The Archives'. www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/salvati... #History #PhDChat #PhDSky #PhD
Stories from the Archives. — Lucy Brewer
Working in an archive; death in the nineteenth century; using data in historical research.
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Did you know that you can take dogs into @chicathedral.bsky.social? I only discovered that at the weekend so, of course, I've written a blog about the cathedral, some of its history, and our trip around it. www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/chiches...
Chichester Cathedral. — Lucy Brewer
A tour of Chichester Cathedral, and the first installment of A Pilgrimage of Paws.
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I don't know if everyone else is knackered as we approach the end of the year, but I am! I wrote a blog with seven ways to combine studying with a hectic life ,as I was thinking about it recently. If it helps anyone, I'd love to know! www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/combatt... #PhD #PhDSky
Seven strategies to not burn out in your PhD — Lucy Brewer
Seven strategies to help you combine your PhD with work.
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It’s Remembrance Sunday, and I recently published a post that looks at Herbert Cowley and the 12th Battalion, London Regiment in WW1. I really enjoyed writing this one so would love people to read it! www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/seeking... #history #phd #phdsky #phdchat
Seeking Gardens At War — Lucy Brewer
Finding nature in the most desolate of settings.
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Forgot/ran out of character space for this. If anyone fancies a #history read on Remembrance weekend please do check this blog out. I really enjoyed writing this one. #PhdSky #PhD #garden 🌱
Lucy Brewer@lucybrewer.bsky.social · 11mo agoTwo blogs in two weeks? My #Remembrance weekend blog just went up. Have a read about Herbert Cowley and the 12th Battalion, London Regiment experience in the First World War and his efforts to find a piece of normalcy in incredibly difficult circumstances. #Phd www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/seeking...
Two blogs in two weeks? My #Remembrance weekend blog just went up. Have a read about Herbert Cowley and the 12th Battalion, London Regiment experience in the First World War and his efforts to find a piece of normalcy in incredibly difficult circumstances. #Phd www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/seeking...
Seeking Gardens At War — Lucy Brewer
Finding nature in the most desolate of settings.
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Today was a freaking huge #PhD win. Seven months ago I went to an archive. Today I finished a massive project off the back of it. I can't really talk about it now..but at some point I'll be able to put out into the world what I've done & I can't wait But now...I'm starting the writing up. #PhDSky
Lucy Brewer@lucybrewer.bsky.social · last yr.13/100 Had an exciting trip to an #archive this morning checking out both document’s and the wonderful surrounding #garden 🌱 #100daysofPhD #PhDSky #PhDChat #AcademicSky
