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Dr Sally Holloway

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Historian of emotions, gender, visual & material culture researching ❤️ & 💔 | Author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: https://tinyurl.com/nz7wkwah | AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellow at the University of Warwick

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Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social · Aug 22

After a long time thinking about it, I finally have a ✨shiny new website✨ where you can find all of my research, current projects, publications and media work in one place www.sallyholloway.co.uk

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 15d

Look what we have here then.

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 17d

I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Historical Journal Call for Special Issues

Welcome to Cambridge Core

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Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social · 6d

What an amazing story! Do you still have their letters?!

Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social · 6d

Oh wow! That’s fascinating

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Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social · 6d

Very much looking forward to speaking at the Oxford Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850 this term, on my latest article project on the rise and fall of the written proposal of marriage. We’ll be on Teams, and at Lincoln College, on 2 December talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series... ✍️

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Ben Jackson @benltjackson.bsky.social · 10d

We're putting on an exciting range of research events this year at @manchester.ac.uk on 'Queer Bodies' in 18 & 19C Britain. Colleagues in English, Art History (@emmamerkling.bsky.social), & History are exploring queer approaches to bodies and embodiment and their cultures. See poster for more!

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Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social · 10d

In Koblenz for the next few days to talk about love letters across time, countries, and disciplines ✍️

Conference bundle for the event “Inscribing Love” in Koblenz

Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social · 15d

This year I will be leading the Cabinets of Curiosity project for History undergraduates at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social - find out more about the project here, and come and join us! warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

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Dr Beatriz Pichel @beapichel.bsky.social · 28d

During my research leave I'm trying to read as much as possible, so I thought I could do a thread where I share nice things about the things I'm reading. Let's see how long I keep up with it!

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · Sep 2

This is England.

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Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social · Sep 2

Really looking forward to visiting Koblenz in a few weeks, where I’ll be presenting my work on the rise and fall of the written proposal of marriage

Programme for conference in Koblenz in Sept/Oct 2025 ft. René Magritte’s painting The Lovers, where two lovers kiss with their heads covered by fabric

Abstract for conference on love in Koblenz

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Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social · Aug 27

No worries! SquareSpace is so easy to navigate and I think produces really visually appealing pages 👌🏻 It’s quite addictive tinkering with it though…

Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social · Aug 22

That’s so kind, thank you! I started with Wix which I found impossible to navigate and gave up, then switched to SquareSpace, which I LOVE

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · Aug 22

So sorry to hear this news. Frank O'Gorman was an outstanding historian and his work on voters and voting in the 18C was foundational for many of us. #c18th #skystorians 🗃️www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Frank O’Gorman obituary

Other lives: Manchester University historian who wrote books on 18th- and 19th-century society

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Sally Holloway @sallyholloway.bsky.social · Aug 22

After a long time thinking about it, I finally have a ✨shiny new website✨ where you can find all of my research, current projects, publications and media work in one place www.sallyholloway.co.uk

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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · Aug 21

I once read a source in which a British captain, after the anguish cries of a FOUR YEAR OLD enslaved girl bothered him so much on the voyage, went below deck and stabbed her to death just for quiet.

If you’re not familiar with the primary sources, it’s difficult to comprehend how bad it was.

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · Aug 19

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Aug 15

Simon Jenkins, mouthpiece for what is also said to be Reform UK's university policy. 'For most courses, two years should be enough, as the former universities minister, Jo Johnson, has proposed. The number of institutions claiming fully-fledged university status should be slashed.' Unsurprised sigh.

As thousands more teenagers scramble for university places, I have to ask – why? | Simon Jenkins

Student debt increasing, graduate salaries dropping, high-skilled jobs thin on the ground – higher education in the UK is a mess, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · Aug 6

Early-Career Research Fellowship University of Cambridge - Corpus Christi College

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Early-Career Research Fellowship University of Cambridge - Corpus Christi College | MEMOs

Research Fellowship: Modern and Medieval Languages; Classics; Linguistics; Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

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Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs) @memorients.bsky.social · Aug 6

Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament, The National Archives

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Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament, The National Archives | MEMOs

The National Archives (TNA), London (Kew)

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Aug 4

"How may a man reclaim a headstrong or unruly wife?

The surest way of all is being a good husband yourself, for bad husbands are very often the cause that wives are no better."

My @irishtimes.com review of Mary Beth Norton's collection of romantic advice from the 1690s.

‘I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer’ by Mary Beth Norton: A dive into 1690s messy relationships

Readers’ problems in the late 17th century ranged from the mundane – unhappy marriages, difficult in-laws to the dramatic

www.irishtimes.com

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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · Aug 5

📣🎉 We are pleased to announce 3 new IHR Seminar Series starting in September 2025.

• African History
• Migration & Mobility History
• Planetary History

Find out about the new series on the IHR website: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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BOOOOlioraptor, PhD (spooky version) @biblioraptorphd.bsky.social · Jul 29

A lot of good ideas in this thread. For comp students I’ve been using Fridays as workshop days so the Friday reflections could pair well with that. Also I am making a course pack rather than putting readings on Bb so that students can annotate (they will not annotate digitally)

Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Jul 21

syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.

Describe something you learned from lecture this week that you didn’t know just from doing the readings.

Connect something you learned in 209 this week to something you are learning in another of your classes this semester.

If Monday and Wednesday assigned readings were from two different texts, make connections between the two. Do they share themes? Forms? Tone? Historical context? Do you find them equally interesting?

Look at the very first paragraph of one of our texts and discuss how the opening lays the groundwork for the rest of the work. Quote specific lines, phrases, or images.

Using quotes from a text, persuade someone (friend or foe, your grandma or your senator) to change their mind about something important.

Compose a 5 song playlist to accompany an assigned reading from this week, and write a few sentences for each song, explaining your choices.

Describe an idea you had in response to the readings/lecture/discussions for our class this week- any idea, about literature, or the world, or yourself. How might you pursue this idea, in your studies or elsewhere?

Choose a passage (no more than 10 lines) from the readings this week and rewrite it, changing at least one of the literary aspects such as: person (change from first to third-person or vice versa), tense (change from past to present etc), focalizing character (i.e. write it from a different character's perspective), style (adjectives, diction, description, tone). Then write 2-3 sentences about the effect of your changes.

Compose a yelp review to strangers, or a letter to a specific person, or a booktok style video, recommending a novel/poem/play from this week’s reading.

Write a letter to someone who has questioned your choice of majoring or minoring in English, explaining why you value what you’re learning. Include quotes / ideas from this week’s readings.

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Max Weber Stiftung @maxweberstiftung.de · Jul 25

#CfA Joint Fellowship

📌 awarded by @ghilondon.bsky.social and @mwfdelhi.bsky.social | for early career scholars | research in the field of British Empire and the History of Colonialism

Deadline: 26 September 2025

🔗 karriere.maxwebersti...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jul 18

(If you're a UK based historian, or just History-curious, and don't know about the IHR, you are missing a treat). Over 50 fortnightly seminars (most also available online) during the academic year, and much more. Visit the Institute and its library if you're in London. And it's free. 2/2

Institute of Historical Research

The Institute of Historical Research is the UK's national centre for history

www.history.ac.uk

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · Jul 18

Congratulations to all 92 newly elected FBAs including the wonderful @clairelanghamer.bsky.social whose sterling research is matched by her sterling (or is it platinum?) work for the discipline of History (in all its academic, public and other forms) at the also ace @ihr.bsky.social . 1/2

The British Academy welcomes 92 new Fellows in 2025

92 distinguished scholars have today been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship, in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the humanities and social sciences.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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