First complete draft of my thesis done and to celebrate, I'm sharing my favourite tiny #coral monkey charm, I love him so much!

Now off to edit over 100,000 words on "what you didn't know about coral".

#earlymodern @memsunikent.bsky.social

#memsfest2025 starts today! Best event of the year @memsunikent.bsky.social and always lovely to see some old faces 😍 Registration here: memsfestival.wordpress.com

My article is published #openaccess in the Feb edition! ‘The Advice of a Gent Who Died from Neglecting it’: The Gentlemanly Pursuit of Knowledge Regarding Domestic Medicine in Kent c.1630–1800 #histmed #earlymodern academic.oup.com/shm/article/... @sshmedicine.bsky.social

With the demands of academic research, I find it really hard to enjoy reading like I used to... so it was such a pleasure to find a book to fall in love with again. Simple pleasures - tea, pillows, escapism. Sequel coming out on my birthday, perfect 😍
www.penguin.co.uk/books/458538...

Ever wanted to see the faces behind the HHRN? Still going strong after 15 years, the current team includes Julia Nurse, HHRN Chair, Research Development Lead @wellcomecollection.bsky.social ...

The Zoom Room is ready, the speakers are prepped... only 5 days until our fabulous ONLINE seminar:

*Evolving Traditions: Influences on Western Herbal Practice*

Speakers from Kew, Oxford, NHM, Alternative Healers Project & more!

Wed 19 mar • 14:30 GMT

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/evolving-t...

Last chance to book tickets for our fabulous ONLINE seminar on Wed 19th March!

Programme and link to book below ⬇️

Had a great weekend of #rewilding, #folklore and #Shakespeare’s women @favlit.org ! Michael Rosen and Bettany Hughes to come.

The Heroines Anthology is open for submissions of poems & short fiction on the theme of witches, witch trials, medicine women, mystics, herbalists, spells, enchantments, shapeshifters, familiars, covens, hags, crones and sabbats. Deadline June 2025

Please share :)

www.writingtheheroine.com

Wonderful time seeing the Medieval Women exhibition and my very talented friend's one woman show at the Hope Theatre. Emotional wreck by the end of the day!

'The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts" bit.ly/4gnDCuE

An excellent letter, in today's @theguardian.com, by the co-chairs of @artsandhums.bsky.social, a collective of subject specialist organisations representing and advocating for arts & humanities subjects in UK HE. #skystorians

Delighted to have Prof Mark Nesbitt, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew on #MateriaMedica as #materialculture and Prof Elizabeth Hsu, University of Oxford on #Qinghao at our ONLINE seminar on 19th March!

Evolving Traditions: Influences on Western Herbal Practice ⬇️

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/evolving-t...

For those interested in new research in #familyhistory #medieval #earlymodern Introduction to the Special Issue: Mothers and Fathers in Medieval and Early modern Europe www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I'm on the committee of the Herbal History Research Network, bringing researchers and herbalists together to understand the origins and practice of herbal medicine. Give us a follow! @herbalhistoryrn.bsky.social www.herbalhistory.org/home/

Would also love to chat #gender #reading #domesticmedicine
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Sharing my published research on #coral for anyone interested in #materialculture #family in C17th www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Just made it over from the X place and hoping to find some old friends and make new acquaintances... especially in the world of early modern history!