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Victoria Munn @victoriamunn.bsky.social · 3d

The Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine has a new working group: Beauty Studies in the Premodern World. Join our group and come along to the first meeting, @evelynwelch.bsky.social's seminar, 'Whose Hair is it Anyway? Beauty, Health and Shaven Heads in Early Modern Europe'.

Beauty Studies in the Premodern World | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

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Evelyn Welch @evelynwelch.bsky.social · 5d

We are getting the Renaissance Skin band back together in a few weeks time! Do join us to discuss everything skin from piercing dog's ears to skin under the 17th-century microscope. Thank you @hannahmurphynews.bsky.social for organising such a special event @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 14d

On 23rd October we're delighted to be launching Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's latest book, Renaissance Skin (@manchesterup.bsky.social). Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. The event starts at 17:00.

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Renaissance Skin Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog

Book launch for Prof. Evelyn Welch's Renaissance Skin, hosted by King's Centre for Early Modern Studies.

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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · 14d

On 23rd October we're delighted to be launching Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's latest book, Renaissance Skin (@manchesterup.bsky.social). Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. The event starts at 17:00.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...

Renaissance Skin Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog

Book launch for Prof. Evelyn Welch's Renaissance Skin, hosted by King's Centre for Early Modern Studies.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · Sep 7

#onmydesktoday is a big and timely book about European communication by the great Joad Raymond Wren. Exploring a world of #earlymodern newsmongers, translators and postmasters, Joad highlights that news moved and were shared, and that news binds us together. Good news for #skystorians.

Cover of JOAD RAYMOND WREN:
The Great Exchange
Making the News in Early Modern Europe

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Martine van Elk @martinevanelk.bsky.social · Aug 20

Fantastic post on the blog today by Joe Black, who discusses Lady Bindloss's booklist--evidence of what books she bought, how she ordered them from London, and even how she shelved them by color earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/l... #EarlyModern #HerBook

Lady Bindloss Buys Some Books (1676)

Of the various kinds of documents that provide evidence of book ownership in the early modern period, purchase records are among the scarcest survivals: most booklists take the form of wills, inven…

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Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies @acmrs.bsky.social · Aug 1

Happy pub day to The Island of Hermaphrodites, translated by Kathleen P. long.

Long offers new audiences a satirical romp through a world of absurdist power—one that feels politically salient today.

Access the full text for free online
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The Island of Hermaphrodites – Simple Book Publishing

A scandal in its time and a revelation today, this fearless satire blends courtly decadence with political rebellion in an imagined world of unchecked power.

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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · Jul 13

Little girl wreaks havoc in parents' cabinet. And she's got a pretzel! And a dog! Can't help loving this painting by Sebastian Stosskopf of Strasbourg.

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Jul 5

YES! Always very proud about the extraordinary scholarship AS WELL AS the extraordinary collegiality of the @srsrensoc.bsky.social gang. #RenSoc25

Susan Anne Naramore @sanaramore.bsky.social · Jul 5

Shout out to everyone I’ve met at #rensoc25 what a wonderful conference and community!

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Evelyn Welch @evelynwelch.bsky.social · Jul 3

Congratulations @craigclunas.bsky.social! So glad you got the grant to support images - it does seem that we have moved away from the movement of a few years ago to make images free for academic books.

Craig Clunas @craigclunas.bsky.social · Jul 2

This forthcoming book with @reaktionbooks.bsky.social wouldn't look the way it does without support from Leverhulme Trust, who gave a grant which paid for the crucial pics, and the researcher to get hold of them. Thankyou @leverhulme.ac.uk .
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/sons-of...

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · Jul 2

Excited to set up tents in Bristol for a week, as @evelynwelch.bsky.social’s wonderful welcome made clear: a fascinating town in the #earlymodern as well as modern period! #RenSoc25

Evelyn Welch @evelynwelch.bsky.social · Jul 2

A privilege to introduce Professor Bronwyn Wilson's keynote lecture on 'Mediterranean Itineraries' for the @srsrensoc.bsky.social. A brilliant start to four days of things #Renaissance and #earlymodern in Bristol
@bristoluni.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social

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Evelyn Welch @evelynwelch.bsky.social · Jul 2

#RenSoc25

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Evelyn Welch @evelynwelch.bsky.social · Jul 2

A privilege to introduce Professor Bronwyn Wilson's keynote lecture on 'Mediterranean Itineraries' for the @srsrensoc.bsky.social. A brilliant start to four days of things #Renaissance and #earlymodern in Bristol
@bristoluni.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Jul 1

1 decade of Open Access, now 300 titles 🔓

Introducing 'Renaissance skin' by @evelynwelch.bsky.social - freely available to all students and institutions.

A magnificent feat for research in Renaissance art & #histmed

Read it here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

#Renaissance #OpenAccess

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Evelyn Welch @evelynwelch.bsky.social · Jul 1

@bristoluni.bsky.social @uobrishistory.bsky.social @bristolcms.bsky.social
@historyelaine.bsky.social
@jillburke.bsky.social
##earlymodern #medhist #medieval

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Evelyn Welch @evelynwelch.bsky.social · Jul 1

And it's out! Open access and free to download. Thank you @wellcometrust.bsky.social and @manchesterup.bsky.social. Excited to see it out in the world (and sure that despite all the proof reading, I will find typos) @hsmurphy.bsky.social @historyelaine.bsky.social @medievalbadger.bsky.social

Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · Jul 1

1 decade of Open Access, now 300 titles 🔓

Introducing 'Renaissance skin' by @evelynwelch.bsky.social - freely available to all students and institutions.

A magnificent feat for research in Renaissance art & #histmed

Read it here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

#Renaissance #OpenAccess

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · Jun 29

Thanks Hester! Am already blown away by dog earrings on p.5!

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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · Jun 29

Sometimes a book comes along that you just know is going to transform how you think about the world: this is one of them @manchesterup.bsky.social

Photo of front cover of Renaissance Skin by Evelyn Welch, a close up of the face of a young woman wearing earrings and a necklace

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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · Jun 20

Not one, but two keynote lectures! Join CEMS and MMoR next week.

25.06, 17:00 - @profjennyshaw.bsky.social on "The Women of Rendezvous"

26.06, 17:00 - @sdamussen.bsky.social on "Seeing Racial Patriarchy"

Full details below.

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Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-Century Barbados and Britain — CEMS KCL Blog

Join King's Medicine and the Making of Race for two keynote lectures by Dr. Jenny Shaw (University of Alabama) and Prof. Susan D. Amussen (University of California Merced). Each keynote will think thr...

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · Jun 26

It is Insect Week, which seems like a good time to mention a forthcoming book about an important entomologist's art & art-historical significance:

Maria Sibylla Merian
by Catherine Powell-Warren
www.lundhumphries.com/products/mar...
@lhartbooks.bsky.social & Getty Pubs, Sept 1, 2025

#womenartists

Book front cover featuring plant, butterflies and a chrysalis (?). Title, author and publisher info are presented toward the bottom in black type within a white box. The picture presents an oblique view of the spine.

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Evelyn Welch @evelynwelch.bsky.social · Jun 24

And a plug for the new book: 'A Guide to Regency Dress' - due out in October 2025.... very exciting. ##earlymodern #18thcentury

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Evelyn Welch @evelynwelch.bsky.social · Jun 24

@fourredshoes.bsky.social is on tour! Fabulous to catch her in Bath talking about her book on Jane Austen's wardrobe.

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Evelyn Welch @evelynwelch.bsky.social · Jun 20

@medievalbadger.bsky.social - one for you!

Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · Jun 20

Wow, when it rains, it pours! Two new studies of Mycobacterium lepromatosis, the "new" species of leprosy discovered in 2008 & now the focus of both palaeogenetic & epidemiological studies.
First, Souguel et al postulating claims about squirrels: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #histmed 🧪

The role of red squirrels in leprosy dynamics in the United Kingdom: a critical review

In the United Kingdom, the declining population of the red squirrel, the acknowledged historical reservoir for zoonotic Mycobacterium leprae leprosy, …

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