Rachel Winchcombe
@rachelwinchers.bsky.social
Lecturer in early modern history at the University of Manchester, specialising in the cultural history of early America. Writing Edible Empire, a book on foodways and the making/breaking of Anglo-America. Indigenous knowledge, colonial appetites.
This is not a drill! Early Modern British History open-ended at Keele. These kinds of posts are basically unicorns at this point.
Danielle Terrazas Williams@drdanielletw.bsky.social · 22h agoJob Opportunity! Lecturer in Early Modern British History Keele University - Faculty of Business, Law, Humanities and Social Sciences - School of Humanities and Social Sciences www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSK768/l...
Think I should stop discussing work around my family. My 19th month old daughter just picked up a book and said ‘mummy wrote that book. It about pineapples’. If only I’d finished it and if only it was just about pineapples 🤣
Call For Proposals: Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds April 15-17, 2027 Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf) Details at: forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...
Fantastic project for someone here!
Hannah Murphy@hsmurphy.bsky.social · 2w agoPlease share! A rare PhD studentship @kingshistory.bsky.social *fully* funded by @slaveryinwar.bsky.social to work with myself and Maeve Ryan, supported by a broader community of experts in Caribbean history, transatlantic slavery, and the history of war. www.kcl.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🗃️
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What really happened during Jamestown’s Starving Time? In this episode, I help explore one of the most infamous crises in early American history. #academicsky #materialculture #history #earlymodern shows.acast.com/not-just-the...
Jamestown: From Colony to Cannibalism | Not Just the Tudors
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They say being a historian isn’t dangerous work, but paper cuts really hurt you know.
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Before tobacco made Virginia rich, colonists chased other prospects. One plan? An ‘artificiall wyne’ made from ‘sassaphras & licoras’. It would be cheaper than fancy French wine, ‘harty, holsome pleasinge and comfortable’ and would never make a ‘man drunk’. America’s first root beer? #AcademicSky
In eighteenth-century Europe pineapples were everywhere. They featured in paintings, adorned buildings, appeared on ceramics and silverware, and crowned dining tables. Was pineapple mania simply about rarity and sweetness? Not quite.
I’ve only just joined Bluesky after ditching Twitter a couple of years ago. The algorithm here is a lot more wholesome - I’m seeing a lot of pictures of cats 🤣
In honour of the USA’s 250th birthday why not listen to me on @history-hit.bsky.social ‘Not Just the Tudors’ talking about the utter hellscape that was the first permanent English colony in America? WARNING: don’t eat your dinner while listening! shows.acast.com/not-just-the...
Jamestown: From Colony to Cannibalism | Not Just the Tudors
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