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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · Jan 6

@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are thrilled to announce that our edited book is out now!

It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life.

Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇

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LadyGiada @ladygiada.bsky.social · 18h

Call for Papers📣: Gender, Violence and the Early Moderns. Join us in Florence. We look forward to hosting you in May 2026😎☀️ @eui-history.bsky.social #skystorians #academicsky #earlymodern

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Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen @jessiewhchen.bsky.social · 14d

Printed copies of Everlasting Flowers are gorgeous! But the digital version is #openaccess for anyone to read: brill.com/display/titl....

A book presentation takes place at the KB in The Hague on 3 December. You are warmly invited! To register: tickets.kb.nl/nl-NL/Show/D...

Please share!

Printed copies of the book, with one copy open to pages 196 and 197, and the two that are stacked showing the cover.

Flyer for the book presentation, with the text reads as the following.

Left-hand side:
Book Presentation, 3 December 2025, KB, National Library, Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5, The Hague

Right-hand side:
Programme
14:00 Walk-in
14:30 Welcome and opening, Esther van Gelder (KB, nationale bibliotheek), Editors of series Emergence of Natural History and De Gruyter Brill.
14:50 Book presentation, Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen (Huygens Instituut/KNAW).
15:10 Gifting of physical copies
15:15 Panel discussion:
State of the field(s) and practical knowledge
Moderator: Marieke Hendriksen (Huygens Instituut/KNAW)
Panelists: Marlise Rijks (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Sietske Fransen (Bibliotheca Hertziana/Max Planck Institute), Trude Dijkstra (Universiteit van Amsterdam), Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen (Huygens Instituut/KNAW).
16:00 Introduction to pop-up show. Display of reconstructions and creative projects related to the book.
16:15 Drinks / Borrel, Opportunity to see the pop-up show and book table featuring volumes from the Emergence of Natural History series.
17:00 End of event

Free admission with limited space.
Please register at https://tickets.kb.nl/nl-NL/Show/Details/Book-presentation-
Everlasting-Flower-Between-the-Pages--3-dec-134063.
Link to book: https://brill.com/display/title/70483

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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations Jessie!! Looking forward to reading (and looking at the beautiful images too!!) 🎉

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 21d

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 21d

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The new TOC from academia dot edu.

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 21d

I wish more people would call this what it is: a lie/scam to increase unpaid labour. Management know many of us won’t give crap feedback, so instead we work evenings/weekends or let other work slip. Their spreadsheet is happy, students still get decent feedback. All the burden is on the Lecturer.

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.

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Slava Greenberg 🩼🏳️‍⚧️✡️🇺🇦 in 🇳🇱 for 🍉 @slavagreenberg.bsky.social · 26d

Postdoc job in fashion just published at my department!
Talk to Tommy about it @tommytse.bsky.social

Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · 27d

🚨 Postdoc Alert! 🚨 Join ERC project China (Africa) Fashion Power @uvahumanities.bsky.social U of Amsterdam Media Studies/ASCA. Ethnography in Guangzhou’s fashion hubs + digital sustainability strategies. 9-mo contract (extendable 6 - 12-mo). Apply by 30 Sept 2025 👉 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...

Vacancy — Creativity, Authenticity, and Cultural Mediation: Ethnography of China-Africa Fashion Trade and Cons

The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) currently has a vacant Postdoc position as part of the ERC-funded research project Fashioning Power through South-South Interaction: Re-thinking Creat...

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Karin Sennefelt @karinsennefelt.bsky.social · 26d

Calling #earlymodern and historians of religion! I'm looking for work on food, eating and fasting among religious radicals around 1700. I've found some work on Jansenists and Pietists, but would love to know more about all the other groups out there. Very grateful for any ideas!
#foodhistory

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 29d

Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians

Image of the cover of a book titled Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions, by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth. The background image is an eighteenth-century ink and watercolor rendition of the harbor of Le Cap in modern Haiti, with three ships and one small boat foregrounded in the bay and a handful of buildings scattered on the shore in the background.

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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · 29d

Yes! Very happy so far 😊

Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · 29d

Ah thank you! It wont be released next year but it does have a page on the Bloomsbury website where you can preorder, see the chapters etc

www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...

☺️

The Women Who Clothed the Stuart Queens

This study explores – for the first time – the changing professions and roles of the women who worked to clothe six Stuart queens between 1603–1714: Anna of Den…

www.bloomsbury.com

Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · 29d

Proofs are here!! 🖋️📚 @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social

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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · Aug 29

That’s great!! Really looking forward to eventually reading more! 😊

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Kerry-Louise Apps 🗃️ (formerly the 👩‍🏫 Ms. Apps) @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social · Aug 29

Is the abundance of East Asian lacquers, Indian textiles, and chinoiserie furnishings the product of a woman's taste? Or something else? A joint enterprise between a politically powerful couple in a court marked by colonial/global ambition? I lean towards the latter.

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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · Aug 29

Story is a bit more tricky with dress consumption though. Women’s dress def uses them way more than men’s. Men only really wear them in Indian gowns, women in mantuas, Indian/loose gowns, petticoats, etc. Whether this is taste or practicality though is the question

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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · Aug 29

Women were definitely really important in retailing these goods (the fact there’s no male equivalent of an “Indian woman” is telling), but their clientele for furnishings was both genders.

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ANZAMEMS @anzamems.bsky.social · Aug 28

Henry VIII loved to receive cryptic gifts, but the so-called horned helmet given by the Emperor Maximilian I is perhaps the most bizarre! In @parergon.bsky.social 42.1, Grace Waye-Harris analyses its long-disputed iconographical significance.

muse.jhu.edu/pub/62/...

The horned helmet of Henry VIII, part of a full suit of armour made by Konrad Seusenhofer between 1511 and 1514. The armour was a gift from the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I. The helmet includes a face piece with protruding eyes, a toothy grimace and a stubbly chin with ram's horns rivetted to its upper part.

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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · Aug 29

No worries at all! I’m really looking forward to seeing what your project uncovers ☺️

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · Aug 29

Very much enjoyed this blog and recommended it to volunteers on the KTP: sarahabendall.com/2020/04/03/t...

The tailoring Trade in Seventeenth-Century Oxford – Tales from the Bodleian Archive.

Tales for the MS Morrell series at the Bodleian Libraries Oxford

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Kirkwall Tailors Project @kirkwalltailors.bsky.social · Aug 23

The Kirkwall Tailors Project begins!

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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thanks so much! The intro is OA via the AUP website too!

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Naomi @naominar.bsky.social · Aug 28

Just over 2 weeks left to apply to the Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers conference! It will take place in Oxford on April 20-21, 2026. We hope to provide bursaries to help with attendance. Email your abstracts to bordersboundariesbarriers[at]gmail[dot]com
#medievalsky #skystorians

Full plain text available at: https://medieval.ox.ac.uk/2025/06/24/cfp-borders-boundaries-and-barriers-real-and-imagined-in-the-middle-ages/

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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · Aug 29

*stays!

Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · Aug 29

Catriona Fisk & I wrote in about these stats in our chapter in my edited book:

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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · Jan 6

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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · Aug 29

A few years ago I recreated a pair of 1780s stays which we suspected were used for pregnancy. Well, in true dedication to embodied research (& a handy way to bypass ethics application‼️) I’ve been trialling them during my own pregnancy. Initial thoughts in this video:

youtube.com/shorts/4NGwF...

“OMG women wore corsets during pregnancy?!” Yes! And no, it’s not uncomfortable or dangerous!

YouTube video by History Lessons with Dr Sarah Bendall

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Linda Andersson Burnett @lindaaburnett.bsky.social · Aug 19

Publication Day! How was race taught to students during the Enlightenment? Our book traces how Edinburgh-trained students carried their education into colonial contexts and forged race as a central category of Enlightenment thought. #History #Enlightenment #Colonialism #YaleUniversityPress

Race and the Scottish Enlightenment

How colonialism shaped the Scottish Enlightenment’s conception of race and humanity In the decades after 1750, an increasing number of former medical st...

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