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Emilie K. M. Murphy

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🗃️ Early Modern History at the University of York, FRHistS (and on Council) | 🎶 Music and post-Reformation Catholicism | 📚 Multilingualism, mobility, and exiled English convents |👂Listening to Early Modern Travel Writing (forthcoming...!)

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · Jan 28

Do you work on #earlymodern English women and religion (c.1500-1800)? Would you like to join a community of scholars asking questions, sharing research, and disseminating news of upcoming events related to the field? Please subscribe to our new mailing list: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/EMEW-R 🗃️

JISCMail - EMEW-R List at WWW.JISCMAIL.AC.UK

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Exciting! Congrats @musicheritageplace.bsky.social #earlymodern 🗃️ www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve just added my voice to this consultation saying I don’t want a situation in which staff and fellow swimmers might scrutinise or judge my body, or anyone else’s, when I use the ponds. The current policy of trans inclusion works perfectly well. You can fill out the consultation linked below.

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 4d

Those tedious and mysteriously funded transphobes want to limit access to the Ponds so I’ve had a pleasant 10 mins filling this out on why seeing a variety of women is magic and judging by what people look like or can do is very slippery territory hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.isn

Future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds

Inviting feedback from pond users, the local community, and stakeholders on how the Kenwood Ladies’, and Highgate Men’s ponds should operate in the future.

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 4d

hi folks, not my usual content but one of my best friends is running the london marathon this year to support the alzheimer's society, in honour of her lovely mum.
if this is a cause close to your heart as well i know she'd be grateful for any donation - even £1.
www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

Emma

Help Emma Howell raise money to support Alzheimer's Society

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Dr. Erica Johnson @drericajohnson.bsky.social · 7d

Come work with me!

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Francis Marion University and the History Department invite applications for a tenure-track historian specializing in American History.

Assistant Professor of History (26-02) - HigherEdJobs

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 9d

I think something probably needs to be done about the other seminar series, frankly.... All their speakers this semester are white men. The last 11 of 12 of their seminars up to this point were also given by white men. 8/10 of their convenors are white men... Other historians of religion do exist...

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 9d

thanks for flagging Jo. Have also written to Claire L to protest the event, as it does not reflect well on the IHR broadly...

Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 9d

thanks for clarifying Nicola (and sorry for quite erroneously asserting that this was being organised by you all and not acknowledging that it was also a Religious History seminar event- I should have read my email more carefully before posting)

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Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 9d

As some of you were aware, the name of the IHR Tudor and Stuart seminar was recently attached to a day conference that included David Starkey in its line-up. That will no longer be the case going forward.

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Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social · 16d

Come listen to me talk about religious certificates next week! Featuring a fun mix of stranger churches’, recusant, and Church of England approaches to religious paperwork.

IHR Tudor and Stuart Seminar @tudorstuartseminar.bsky.social · 16d

The IHR Tudor and Stuart seminar has joined Bluesky! Please follow and RT!

Our programme for the year is starting NEXT WEEK on Monday 29 September with Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social speaking on 'Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper'.
Online and in-person, 5.30pm
Book here:

Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper

www.history.ac.uk

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 12d

innit just.

Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 13d

lol, not ideal.

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 13d

i mean they can't have been unaware of the line up before this was circulated under their name though, surely...

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 13d

Yeah i'm fuming Laura.

Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 13d

Meh it wouldn't shock me if he was a "we shouldn't cancel people" kinda guy

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 13d

bloody hell i see Tudor/Stuart seminar at the IHR have David Starkey on their line up for a conference.... if I needed a reminder of why I unsubscribed from that mailing list...! lol!

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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · 26d

📢 ICYMI: in our new blog post Laura Sangha talks about her collaboration with a musician to explore wills, history and creative approaches 👇

sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

#EarlyModern 🗃️

A photo montage showing Laura Sangha and Chris Hoban talking to people, looking at wills, visiting a museum. There are also images of people creating linocuts at a workshop, and of a will.

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Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · 22d

This next week! Join Professor Lucy Noakes for her talk 'War and Peace: Mass Observers and the end of the war in Europe, May 1945' & Yves Fradier, Director of Survey and Methods (@veriangroup.com) for his talk 'Living through war: Insights from displaced Ukrainians'.

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Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · Sep 8

Event Announcement!

'Documenting disruption: Everyday life during times of war'

We're collaborating with Verian to bring you an online webinar to look at the ways that everyday experiences of war are recorded.

Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1602048774...

Documenting disruption: Everyday life during times of war

Join us for a collaboration between the Mass Observation Archive and Verian looking at the ways that everyday life during war is recorded.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 15d

AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research.

Run, don’t walk.

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 19d

Well this is an exceptionally good history job. Wonders never cease.

www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

Research Chair in Transgender Studies - Victoria, British Columbia (CA) job with UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA | 398896

The University of Victoria invites applications for a Research Chair in Transgender Studies, a prestigious academic ...

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 20d

please also be proud of everything i've done this week so far even though it is mystery code for you all (WEEK ZERO MEANS WEEK ONE IS NEXT WEEK - TIIME WHERE DOES IT GOOO lol) tomorrow actually feels manageable! huzzah!

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 20d

the ol' hyper-focus kicked in today and i MANAGED TO WRITE SOME RESEARCHY WORDS. be proud of me folks, be proud.

a woman in a white t-shirt with #schittscreek written on the bottom

ALT: a woman in a white t-shirt with #schittscreek written on the bottom

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 20d

honestly this has made me so sad/annoyed today.

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 20d

Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern

The 17th-century woman who wrote about surviving domestic abuse

In the 17th century, Anne Wentworth spoke out against her abusive husband and the religious institution that protected him.

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 21d

How would this ridiculous process even be any quicker?! Wtf would copilot even be doing that would save you time after you have summarised the essay and then told it which of the criteria were met and to what percentage. Absolute garbage - @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social do better.

Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 21d

Simply astonishing. Maybe Lecturer A should not have to mark over 100 essays in a two-week window in the first place? Invest in qualified staff and reduce impossible workloads FFS www.kcl.ac.uk/about/strate...

Screenshot. King's College London page. Examples of effective practice

The following scenarios follow the above guidelines and offer insights into ways that academic staff can use AI transparently and in an assistive capacity, always ensuring human oversight and judgment remain central.
Scenario A – Scaling feedback while maintaining quality

Lecturer A is responsible for marking over 100 essays within a two-week window.

Conscious of the limitations this workload places on the depth of individual feedback, they adopt a hybrid approach using their university’s approved or supported LLM tool, Copilot.

Without ever uploading student work directly, Lecturer A composes an anonymised summary for each student, noting which marking criteria were met and the approximate percentage achieved for each. They input this summary alongside the official rubric into Copilot, prompting it to generate supportive, criterion-referenced feedback. This feedback is then carefully reviewed, adapted, and personalised before being uploaded to the marking platform.

Students are made aware of this process in advance and shown a demonstration, reinforcing transparency and trust.