Kathleen E. Kennedy
@themedievaldrk.bsky.social
manuscripts, early print, coconuts, nautiluses, media archaeology Above: BL, Royal 18 D II, Lambeth MS 532 For more on the banner artist, read https://differentvisions.org/aging-artists-and-impairment-in-fifteenth-century-england/
If you’d like a wonderful antidote to those proclaiming that automated facts-mashing is historical practice I urge you to read this 2025 essay from @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage.
In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...
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I keep seeing marketing that makes absolutely no sense and I can't tell if it's no-oversight genAI or an all-vibes plan aimed at Gen Z. I can understand a company choosing the latter. The former...
and then sometimes USHE -IS- the Spiderman meme of UKHE..
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 6h ago“The History Department is among the most affected: Three professors were laid off, and two are taking early retirement under pressure, said Jeremy Varon, one of the retiring professors. Five professors will remain — “not enough to competently deliver a curriculum,” Professor Varon said.”
A long shot: is anyone currently doing research at the Biblioteca Nacional del Perú in Lima? I'm trying to track down two seventeenth-century single-sheet printed broadsides. I'd be very grateful to connect. Thanks! #earlymodern
Last light along the stunning limestone cliffs of Flimston Bay, Pembrokeshire, tonight ☀️👌
Attenborough: just as many creatures never stop growing, codicologists develop longer and more elaborate collations each year of their lives. Eventually this process results in nearly impenetrable formulas that may, some scientists think, begin to inhibit these strange creatures even in daily tasks.
Kathleen E. Kennedy@themedievaldrk.bsky.social · 22h ago😭
The latest HLQ is here, with articles in art history, literature, disability studies, and the blue humanities. There are pastors, captives, painters, healers, actors, sailors, poets, liars, polar bears, and parrots. It's big-tent #earlymodern studies, and it's #nuntastic. muse.jhu.edu/issue/57325
Extremely niche--anyone know if in ancient regime France the day of a nun's profession might be termed her 'journee?' (Script is clear, abbreviations not an issue, inscription grammar is often...condensed.. so I'm brainstorming)
UK history is at a crisis point in academia. More & more people are going freelance on a part time basis, or as a whole new form of employment. IHN is creating support network for all historians who work independently. We aim to bring people together, promote your work, and be a hub of information.
Lucy Delap@lucydelap.bsky.social · yesterdayGreat discussion at the 'crisis in UK history' meeting hosted by @ihr.bsky.social, @royalhistsoc.org, @histassoc.bsky.social and History UK. Horror stories of closures and redundancies, balanced by new resources. Check out for ex. the new Independent Historians Network independenthistorians.org
This is your annual reminder that if you inadvertently write on a whiteboard with a Sharpie, you can trace over that with a whiteboard pen and then the whole thing will come off.
btw should you be in need of a doomscrolling checkpoint or timeline cleanse, give CCC a follow for regular clips of bright, swimming fish just doing their fishy things
Coral City Camera@coralcitycamera.bsky.social · yesterdayHappy to report that the water temperatures have been declining over the past week, dropping us below critical bleaching temps of 30.5C (86.9F) 🌡️📉🥰🪸🌈🌈🐠🐠🪸 #rainbowparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #coralbleaching #coralcitycamera
Little flower wreath pressed in a 1771 edition of the works of William Penn 🌸
Alrighty book people. I'm stirring the pot a bit here this am. English book history ?s: We know that the 16thc crowd are beginning to look at manuscripts beyond coterie poetry. Would it be fair to say that codicological study of 17th and 18thc manuscripts remains relatively rare (and/or copy-spec)?
Some days are anchor, anvil, & ghost-- heavy & haunting, like a melody that lingers. Sometimes, we end up rooted in the ruin, unsure of the asking, the question in our hearts tumbling out. Each of us is longing for honey & wine, but this is the wrong spell-- careful the nails don't rust. #TinyPoem
it is International Owl Awareness Day! May you now be aware of the weird and wonderful Blakiston's fish owl! 🦉
Today for book research I am consulting the practical guide KEEPING ONE COW, 1884. "Exercise is not essential to the well-being of the milch cow; she is an animal of repose, and if she is offered every effort to ruminate, will be perfectly contented" -- same
Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit
Ayfkm this 15thc thing claims it's a -tonary-??
Holy heck this is A Yarn!! Lunchtime reading when you need a pickmeup!
Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 3d agoSo, I really hope I get to tell this story in longer form in the near future, but it it’s burning a hole inside me. Most of it comes from an interview with Bob Hirst this weekend. Bob has been Exec Editor of the Mark Twain Project for 47 years, before which he was part of its staff for ~15. 1/16
If the topics of the current exhibition and their wider historical context are of interest, you can download the East India Company at home book in full for free from @uclpress.bsky.social or as individual chapters (no subscription needed) from JSTOR. Very much enabled by @leverhulme.ac.uk . 3/4
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857
The East India Company at Home, 1757-1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a ...
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Greyhounds being an ideal working from home companion since 1533.
Daniel Bellingradt@dbellingradt.bsky.social · 2d agoAdjustable desk lamps are perfect for a proper lighting of your text work, and it increases productivity and work safety. Buy our (since the 1530s) bestselling flying lamp "the dove", and get an extra refill ink pod for free. #skystorians #writingsky
I don't think people are ready for this kind of joke yet.
"People say it must be great to be so strong and free," said the werewolf, "but they don't trust you." "And wolves have their own packs," the witch said, "and you smell weird to them." "How did you know?" "We are many, us living in the between. All we can do is be ourselves, as well we can."
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