Elise Garritzen
@egarritzen.bsky.social
Historian; cultural & social history of 19th c. history writing, archives & book history. Obsessed with academic geekiness. Academy Research Fellow at the U. of Helsinki. Author of Reimagining the Historian in Victorian England cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com
Reposted by Elise Garritzen
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...
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...
October 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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...
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…
cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com
September 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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...
Wonderful chain and tribute to beutiful scholarly writing!
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. 🗃️
So, gang, which are your favourite *writers* among historians, any time, any topic, any place. 🗃️
September 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Wonderful chain and tribute to beutiful scholarly writing!
Huippuväitös alkamassa 🤓 #humanistinentdkHY
September 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Huippuväitös alkamassa 🤓 #humanistinentdkHY
#minätutkin miksi ja miten humanisttutkijoista tuli julkkiksia 1800-luvun Britanniasss 🌟✨️🎓
September 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
#minätutkin miksi ja miten humanisttutkijoista tuli julkkiksia 1800-luvun Britanniasss 🌟✨️🎓
Just added this to my reading list!
My copies of the Academic Households in #EarlyModern Northern Europe have arrived 🎉
@routledgehistory.bsky.social
@routledgehistory.bsky.social
August 30, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Just added this to my reading list!
Reposted by Elise Garritzen
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
August 27, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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
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…
cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com
August 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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...
Reposted by Elise Garritzen
We've just opened our call for applications for fixed-term appointments starting in August 2026. We're seeking 10-15 Core Fellows and 1-2 Postdoctoral Researchers in the Arts. For more details, please visit our website: www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-...
Apply | Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies | University of Helsinki
Here you will find information on our application procedures
www.helsinki.fi
August 25, 2025 at 12:55 PM
We've just opened our call for applications for fixed-term appointments starting in August 2026. We're seeking 10-15 Core Fellows and 1-2 Postdoctoral Researchers in the Arts. For more details, please visit our website: www.helsinki.fi/en/helsinki-...
Reposted by Elise Garritzen
📣 Call for papers 📣
CONTENTIOUS TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Apply by 31 August
#skystorians
acadsci.fi/en/news/even...
CONTENTIOUS TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Apply by 31 August
#skystorians
acadsci.fi/en/news/even...
Workshop: Contentious Topics in the History of Science - Tiedeakatemia
Time and place: 16–17 December 2025, Helsinki, Finland By focusing on the uncomfortable legacies and darker aspects of the past, this workshop aims to bring together scholars interested in the problem...
acadsci.fi
August 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
📣 Call for papers 📣
CONTENTIOUS TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Apply by 31 August
#skystorians
acadsci.fi/en/news/even...
CONTENTIOUS TOPICS IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
Apply by 31 August
#skystorians
acadsci.fi/en/news/even...
"I am sure that ‘we authors’ require ‘boundless leisure’ [...] the best of air, no care, a walk and a drive daily, and times in which to read and lie fallow." Benjamin Jowett, 1892.
Time to switch off the work mode for a moment 🌞
cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/a...
Time to switch off the work mode for a moment 🌞
cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/a...
A Note for Summer
Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, had something important to say in his old age in 1892: I am sure that ‘we authors’ require ‘boundless leisure’ […] the best of air, no care…
cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com
July 4, 2025 at 7:49 AM
"I am sure that ‘we authors’ require ‘boundless leisure’ [...] the best of air, no care, a walk and a drive daily, and times in which to read and lie fallow." Benjamin Jowett, 1892.
Time to switch off the work mode for a moment 🌞
cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/a...
Time to switch off the work mode for a moment 🌞
cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/a...
Reposted by Elise Garritzen
Just went looking for something at the excellent Hagley Digital Archives, and was greeted by the message below.
They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models."
The web is being murdered. So aggravating.
digital.hagley.org
They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models."
The web is being murdered. So aggravating.
digital.hagley.org
June 24, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Just went looking for something at the excellent Hagley Digital Archives, and was greeted by the message below.
They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models."
The web is being murdered. So aggravating.
digital.hagley.org
They're being overrun by bots, as "AI systems increasingly target sites like ours to train machine learning models."
The web is being murdered. So aggravating.
digital.hagley.org
Great job opportunity for an emerging historian in global history of knowledge at the Lund University lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) at the Joint Faculties of Humanities & Theology, Lund University
We are looking for an up-and-coming researcher who wants to conduct pioneering research to take up a position as Assistant Professor at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology, Lund University.
lu.varbi.com
June 12, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Great job opportunity for an emerging historian in global history of knowledge at the Lund University lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
Reposted by Elise Garritzen
A lot of things clicked into place for me once I realized that, for a lot of journalists, podcasters, and popular nonfiction writers, "research" means "reading books other people already wrote."
I get why publishers love the "untold story" framing, but I still really hate it.
Whether this book is a good re-telling of Elizabeth Van Lew's story, I don't know.
But the idea that it's "untold" is insulting to the historians who've told it many times before.🗃️
Whether this book is a good re-telling of Elizabeth Van Lew's story, I don't know.
But the idea that it's "untold" is insulting to the historians who've told it many times before.🗃️
Civil War spy Elizabeth Van Lew defined courage fighting for what she believed
Elizabeth Van Lew, a Southern belle turned Union spymaster, exemplifies true heroism during the Civil War, challenging the diluted modern concept of a hero.
www.foxnews.com
June 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
A lot of things clicked into place for me once I realized that, for a lot of journalists, podcasters, and popular nonfiction writers, "research" means "reading books other people already wrote."
What can Charlotte Brontë and Britney Spears possibly have in common? As celebrities, a lot! More about women celebrities pushing the boundaries of appropriate domesticity here: cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/05/30/s...
Scandalous Celebrities, Lousy Mothers: Victorian Women Writers and Perilous Celebrity
Robert Southey, Poet Laureate, wrote to Charlotte Brontë to warn her about the dangers of literary pursuits for women’s moral character. Southey advised (ordered?) Brontë to drop all literary aspir…
cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:17 AM
What can Charlotte Brontë and Britney Spears possibly have in common? As celebrities, a lot! More about women celebrities pushing the boundaries of appropriate domesticity here: cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/05/30/s...
Kuka suomalaisartisti voisi olisi sopiva tekemään jotakin vastaavaa? Entä mitä biisi käsittelisi? Pähkinäsaaren rauhaa, Nuijasotaa, Turun akatemiaa, Porvoon valtiopäiviä, kieliasetusta, naiskagaalia, kieltolakia, peruskouluasetusta vai jotakin muuta 🤔 youtu.be/yoAeKvtY_dE?...
La révolution française de 1789 ⚔️Chanson Histoire 4ème 🎶
YouTube video by Equylia - Tes cours en chanson !
youtu.be
May 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Kuka suomalaisartisti voisi olisi sopiva tekemään jotakin vastaavaa? Entä mitä biisi käsittelisi? Pähkinäsaaren rauhaa, Nuijasotaa, Turun akatemiaa, Porvoon valtiopäiviä, kieliasetusta, naiskagaalia, kieltolakia, peruskouluasetusta vai jotakin muuta 🤔 youtu.be/yoAeKvtY_dE?...
Reposted by Elise Garritzen
"...the records female students left behind at these early institutions created a genealogical window into women’s lives that had not previously existed. " 📜
College Records Add New Depth to Women’s Genealogy
blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/04/...
College Records Add New Depth to Women’s Genealogy
blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/04/...
College Records Add New Depth to Women’s Genealogy | Timeless
-This is a guest post by Candice Buchanan and Wanda Whitney in the History and Genealogy Section. Buchanan wrote the first entry; Whitney, the second. Lucy Lazear, the valedictorian of her 1853 gradua...
blogs.loc.gov
April 15, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"...the records female students left behind at these early institutions created a genealogical window into women’s lives that had not previously existed. " 📜
College Records Add New Depth to Women’s Genealogy
blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/04/...
College Records Add New Depth to Women’s Genealogy
blogs.loc.gov/loc/2025/04/...
Reposted by Elise Garritzen
Join us in December 2025 at the Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History for a conference on “In and Out of the Canon in Intellectual History”. Paper submissions open until 17 April 2025. Spread the word: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
In and Out of the Canon in Intellectual History | Centre for Intellectual History | University of Helsinki
The Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History devotes its 2025 conference to exploring the question of being in and out of the canon of intellectual history. We welcome proposals for panels and individ...
www.helsinki.fi
March 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Join us in December 2025 at the Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History for a conference on “In and Out of the Canon in Intellectual History”. Paper submissions open until 17 April 2025. Spread the word: www.helsinki.fi/en/researchg...
Reposted by Elise Garritzen
Almost all Dutch universities will go on strike next week, against the budget cuts. Join us!
10 March: Leiden
11 March: Utrecht
13 March: Nijmegen
17 March: Amsterdam
18 March: Groningen
25 March: Twente
8 April: Rotterdam
10 April: Tilburg
14 April: Wageningen
15 April: Maastricht
10 March: Leiden
11 March: Utrecht
13 March: Nijmegen
17 March: Amsterdam
18 March: Groningen
25 March: Twente
8 April: Rotterdam
10 April: Tilburg
14 April: Wageningen
15 April: Maastricht
March 4, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Almost all Dutch universities will go on strike next week, against the budget cuts. Join us!
10 March: Leiden
11 March: Utrecht
13 March: Nijmegen
17 March: Amsterdam
18 March: Groningen
25 March: Twente
8 April: Rotterdam
10 April: Tilburg
14 April: Wageningen
15 April: Maastricht
10 March: Leiden
11 March: Utrecht
13 March: Nijmegen
17 March: Amsterdam
18 March: Groningen
25 March: Twente
8 April: Rotterdam
10 April: Tilburg
14 April: Wageningen
15 April: Maastricht
❤️
Friendly reminder: if you are waiting on something from a US-based scientist/reviewer/editor, please realize that we're barely making it through each day putting out non-stop fires and trying not to collapse into tears. We're trying our best, but things will take longer right now. Give grace.
March 4, 2025 at 9:45 AM
❤️
Reposted by Elise Garritzen
If you know anyone looking for a funded PhD, Uppsala Idéhistoria is recruiting two - in "history of ideas" and "history of science" (both *very* broadly defined).
International applicants welcome! You can write in English or Swedish. 1/4
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
International applicants welcome! You can write in English or Swedish. 1/4
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
PhD student in the history of ideas - Uppsala University
PhD student in the history of ideas, Department of History of Science and Ideas, Uppsala University
www.uu.se
March 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
If you know anyone looking for a funded PhD, Uppsala Idéhistoria is recruiting two - in "history of ideas" and "history of science" (both *very* broadly defined).
International applicants welcome! You can write in English or Swedish. 1/4
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
International applicants welcome! You can write in English or Swedish. 1/4
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
Reposted by Elise Garritzen
OBaMa - Osallistumisen esteiden yli -hankkeessamme on avoinna tutkijatohtorin tehtävä Turun yliopistossa. Tule tutkimaan kanssani eduskuntakeskusteluissa rakentuvia osallistumisen esteitä ja niiden purkamista. Hakuaikaa 8.5. asti #STN_OBaMa #STN_DEMOC #tutkijatohtori #rekry
Tutkijatohtorin määräaikainen tehtävä
Turun yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan historian, kulttuurin ja taiteiden tutkimuksen laitoksessa laitoksessa on haettavana tutkijatohtorin määräaikainen tehtävä ajalle 1.9.2025 – 30.11.2027. Tutki...
ats.talentadore.com
March 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
OBaMa - Osallistumisen esteiden yli -hankkeessamme on avoinna tutkijatohtorin tehtävä Turun yliopistossa. Tule tutkimaan kanssani eduskuntakeskusteluissa rakentuvia osallistumisen esteitä ja niiden purkamista. Hakuaikaa 8.5. asti #STN_OBaMa #STN_DEMOC #tutkijatohtori #rekry
Reposted by Elise Garritzen
On 8–10 October 2025, LUCK will organise the second international History of Knowledge Conference.
Our Call for Papers/Panels has now been published and we encourage you to submit an abstract: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/02/17/t...
Our Call for Papers/Panels has now been published and we encourage you to submit an abstract: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/02/17/t...
February 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM
On 8–10 October 2025, LUCK will organise the second international History of Knowledge Conference.
Our Call for Papers/Panels has now been published and we encourage you to submit an abstract: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/02/17/t...
Our Call for Papers/Panels has now been published and we encourage you to submit an abstract: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2025/02/17/t...
Business as usual in an early modern library 🫢
Nothing to see here, dear #skystorians, except a human skeleton (with a hat and a feather) riding a #unicorn skeleton that is positioned next to two other animal skeletons (of a bear? and a deer?).
Did I mention yet that the 4 skeletons are standing in an #earlymodern library? #LibraryHistory
Did I mention yet that the 4 skeletons are standing in an #earlymodern library? #LibraryHistory
January 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Business as usual in an early modern library 🫢
Awesome 👏
🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
January 12, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Awesome 👏