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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 5d

Autumn skies outside = the perfect time to read 2nd-year @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social student Eva Newell's blog post on cinnamon 🍁 What does Hailey Beiber's cinnamon girl make-up trend have to do with Voltaire's El Dorado? blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo... @laurenworking.bsky.social #StudentSalon

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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 8d

It looks so atmospheric and alive somehow!

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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 10d

This is tonight at 8pm UK time! Please send an email if you'd like to join!

Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · Sep 4

If flowers are your thing - @zarakesterton.bsky.social, Tori Champion and I run a growing network on Women and Flowers. This month Michele Leggott and @deleifd.bsky.social are speaking about their beautiful book Groundwork. Details below or email [email protected] to join us!🌷

Book cover for Groundwork: The Art and Writing of Emily Cumming Harris

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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 10d

Again and again, the response @laurenworking.bsky.social and I received from #StudentSalon workshops was how much handling objects meant.
As Rachel Hogue, MA student at @cecs-york.bsky.social says: 'Objects of the past, after all, aren’t just for looking.'

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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 12d

Back into research after attending Attingham Trust's 'New Perspectives in Country Houses' course, and channelling Jane (photo from the amazing Austen/Turner exhibition at Harewood House, in collaboration with @cecs-york.bsky.social @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social )

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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

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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 16d

We have some thought-provoking student blog posts for the #StudentSalon project - this one on trade beads is by Daisy Glassett-King, a third year student in @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...

All the Small Things: Salons and Trade Beads in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Britain – The Student Salon Project

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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 20d

The #StudentSalon project website is live! It's been incredible working with @laurenworking.bsky.social and students over the last few months to put together this cabinet of things to help explore 17th/18th-century salon culture from a global/decolonial perspective
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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · 20d

Over the summer, students worked with me & @susannah-lw.bsky.social on the #StudentSalon project, where they helped us assemble a cabinet of 17th & 18th century objects. Our webpage is now live and full of incredible, student-led resources - please check it out!

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The Student Salon – The Student Salon Project

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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 20d

Being supplied for her - half of me keeps wondering if she's one of the dogs.
It sounds like hot cross buns!

Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 20d

I have the same with Fanny who keeps getting biscuits 😅

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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · Sep 7

Sending you the details! 😀

Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · Sep 4

Anyone is welcome to join the Women and Flowers research network - we have a Whatsapp group and an optional monthly meeting!

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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · Sep 4

Michele and Catherine will be speaking on Monday 29 September @8pm UK (8am on 30 September NZ time). Zoom link available by DM or email [email protected]. Groundwork features Emily Cumming Harris, a (no longer) forgotten 19th-century NZ botanical artist and poet

Emily Cumming Harris, Kiekie (Freycinetia banksii), nikau (Rhopalostylis sapida), five finger (Pseudopanax arboreum) and karaka (Corynocarpus laevigata) in fruit, 1879

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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · Sep 4

If flowers are your thing - @zarakesterton.bsky.social, Tori Champion and I run a growing network on Women and Flowers. This month Michele Leggott and @deleifd.bsky.social are speaking about their beautiful book Groundwork. Details below or email [email protected] to join us!🌷

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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · Jul 25

Off to an exciting and fascinating start to a day on Women’s Worlds, on global spaces in 17th and 18th century Britain. Thank you to @susannah-lw.bsky.social & @laurenworking.bsky.social for bringing together so many interesting perspectives and research from universities, museums & heritage sites.

Cover page of programme for the Women’s Worlds symposium.

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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · Jul 19

Thanks to Thin Ice Press and @georginaemw.bsky.social @wordsmith.bsky.social for an enlightening three days of material thinking! If I have learned anything it is that there is there is no end to matter and 'digressions are sunshine'!

Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · Jul 18

Print Matters summer school hard at work at Thin Ice Press amid 3 days of book-making, reading Lucretius, depicting 'chaos', and perusing the Minster Library and Shandy Hall

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · Jul 9

Cabinet assembly day for our #StudentSalon @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social! With @susannah-lw.bsky.social and our marvellous student partners Mumia, Rachel, and Daisy.

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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · Jul 2

Congratulations @eilishgregory.bsky.social and Michael Questier for putting together a great volume!

eilishgregory.bsky.social @eilishgregory.bsky.social · Jun 29

Really happy to wake up to the news and see this review of Later Stuart Queens. Without sounding clique it is thanks really to all the contributors in the volume, so thanks go to @royalhistorian.bsky.social @susannah-lw.bsky.social @jessicaminieri.bsky.social @ejpbirch.bsky.social 1/

Carolyn Harris 🇨🇦 @royalhistorian.bsky.social · Jun 29

The new issue of the @royalstudies.bsky.social journal includes a review of Later Stuart Queens edited by @eilishgregory.bsky.social and Michael Questier, a volume that includes a chapter I wrote about Henrietta Maria as Dowager Queen during the Restoration.

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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · Jun 26

What did empire and global goods have to do with literary sociability and 17th/18th-century salon culture? Watch this space for what our students find!

Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · Jun 25

Our cabinet has arrived and she’s a beauty! I’ve been working with student interns & @susannah-lw.bsky.social on our #StudentSalon project and all sorts of 17th and 18th century objects are headed our way — fabrics, engravings, a Dutch tile, maybe even a bug or two…

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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · Jun 16

Just to keep up the queen and flowers theme ... a podcast too! 🌻 Thank you @royalstudies.bsky.social
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A Queen's Book of Flowers - The Royal Studies Podcast

In this episode, host Victoria Barlow is joined by guest Susannah Lyon-Whaley to discuss the royal links with early 17th century gardening practices and the A Queen's Book of Flowers exhibition runnin...

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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · Jun 7

Check out my short article in the June issue of BBC History exploring how 17th-century women found out about new plants growing overseas 🌺🌷🌻
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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · Jun 7

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Overview | Queensbookofflowers

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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · Jun 7

My exhibition A Queen's Book of Flowers is now on at the Thin Ice Press in York 🌺🌻 Featuring Henrietta Maria and John Parkinson's Paradisi in Sole (1629), women and foreign plants. Today, an accompanying workshop making bookmarks!

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Lauren Working @laurenworking.bsky.social · Jun 7

An afternoon at Thin Ice Press for @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social, with a chance to hear more about Marie Curie postdoc @susannah-lw.bsky.social’s work on 17th century women, botany, print. With a little print resurrection of the potato of Canada…

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