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Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps)

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AHRC-funded PhD Candidate, NT/OU | Global & East Asian Material Culture @ Stuart Ham House | MPhil on Tobacco, Pearls & Indigenous/African Labour in the British Atlantic (1615–1642) | Monomaniac for the 1600s | KerryApps.com

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Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · May 14

In the library, looking at beautiful things. These are images from John Ogilby’s Atlas Japannensis and Chinensis (the East Asian parts of a global series printed for an elite audience in the 1670s combining translated Dutch travelogues, histories, and lavish printed images)👇 🗃️

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Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 34m

That handwriting is a treat.

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Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 23h

Just got an email reminding me my ESTA to enter the States is running out, email ends with a lil graphic saying ‘entering the USA has never been easier’.

a woman says well this is awkward in front of a group of people

ALT: a woman says well this is awkward in front of a group of people

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted to share some initial research that Stephanie Pratt (Crow Creek Dakota) & I have started at Knole @researchnt.bsky.social. How can its transatlantic connections also centre Indigenous presence? What new interpretation might such frameworks allow?

www.historyworkshop.org.uk/indigenous-h...

Indigenous Plant Stories in an English Treasure House

Delve into the links between Knole and Indigenous American histories as we investigate its colonial connections.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 1d

The BSkeet about the obfuscation of firsts in Asian history is an appropriate sequel to my campaign against 'firsts' in the Americas/Caribbean in earlier degrees.

Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 1d

The interest in firsts in history really fascinates me. I've just seen a London Museum post about Sam Pepys recording the 'first' cup of tea, but references exist in print early as 1615, & what of the rich cultural history of the drink in Asia? Firsts so often obfuscate a more complex history.

Teapots in the collection of the National Maritime Museum

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Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 1d

I had a dress like that from Hobbs a few years back. It was so useful!

Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 4d

One thing I miss, having been in Cambridge for four years now, is a London fox. These two lived with their mum in our garden during lockdown. A cute highlight in a rough period.

Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 7d

Backups on back-ups on back-ups.

Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 7d

Google will never kill my love of a paper guidebook.

Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 8d

I have an ongoing, intrusive thought that I will be burgled at night and lose three years of primary research and archival pictures.

Annoyed I haven't called this folder PhD-Panicking! at the Disco.

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Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 8d

I of course hold no truck for ghost stories *but* I can see why Horace Walpole wrote about expecting to see the wraiths of the Duke and Duchess of Lauderdale behind the next door when visiting his niece, Charlotte, at Ham in the 1700s. It's a very atmospheric place.

Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 8d

One privilege of my PhD has been slipping into Ham House when the shutters are drawn and the rooms are quiet. In the half-light, for a moment, the seventeenth century doesn’t seem so far away and passing a jib door gets a little spooky.

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Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 9d

After three years researching the influence of East Asia on seventeenth-century British culture my targeted ads are serving me modern Chinoiserie/japanning.

OKA is an interior design company heavily inspired by historic interiors. NGL, I do like the side table.

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Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 11d

👏👏👏👏👏

Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 11d

That’s amazing Rebecca?! I’d frame this for whenever i felt down!

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Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 11d

It’s such an amazing collection. I was there for the Asian export art collection and lost half a free day to wandering around the On This Ground/America gallery. Cant wait to go back in a better climate I hope sometime in the future.

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 11d

NEW PROGRAMME! What an exciting one it is!
We're looking forward to thinking with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Sari Nauman, @rogerleejesus.bsky.social & @araujohistorian.bsky.social

Mondays, 17:30 @ihr.bsky.social & zoom. All very welcome! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Europe and the world, 1500-1800, IHR seminar, Mondays, 17:30.
6 October: Margot Finn: At the Cusp of the Modern? Tipu Sultan, the Family & East India Company Rule
10 November: Sari Nauman: Between Categories: Migration, War, and Refuge in the Early Modern Baltic Sea
17 November Roger Lee Jesus: Colonialism and Land: Rethinking Imperial and Local Agency in the Portuguese Empire in Asia
1 December: Ana Lucia Araujo: Dahomey: A West African Kingdom in the Centre of the World During the Eighteenth Century

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Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 12d

Teaching History is now up on JSTOR! I didn't know, but I love that it now makes me appear to be a far more accomplished scholar than I am 😭 (yet to publish from my PhD work).

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Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 12d

PEM is a must-visit if you're ever in Boston/Salem. The trials gallery? The American gallery that centres Indigenous voices and art? One of the world's best Asian export art collections? Incroyable.

Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 12d

Original testimony of Abigail Williams from the Salem Witch Trials, 1692.

Now located in the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.

A fragment of parchment with testimony written on it in dark brown ink.

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Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 12d

Mine has become so attached to hers we’ve added a blanket 😅

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Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 13d

I can think of a certain office in DC where the love of it lives on, hard 🫣

Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 13d

Always struck by how long gold sticks in the English imagination. in 1670s visuals Asia hands over silks & America gold decades after tobacco, sugar, and timbers had become the key to colonial economies. Always think of the men at Jamestown scrabbling in the dirt for non existent gold.

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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 14d

Bugs in salons?! Recent University of York graduate Mumia Douse-Bah's blog explores the colonial context of bugs and recounts a flea on a salon attendee's breast that spurred a 'poetic frenzy' 🐛🐜
@uoyenglishrl.bsky.social @laurenworking.bsky.social #StudentSalon

blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...

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Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 14d

I was a history teacher, and I was only able to teach what I thought was appropriate/shape the curriculum when I got into a position of leadership after a few years. I don't know the gender breakdown of history teaching at the Secondary Level, but men mainly staffed the two departments I worked in.

Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · 16d

A straight what would Hitler do tweet/truth?