Found in a 1915 article. I think I will use this going forward.

One week till I'll be speaking on the Stuart consorts and their global entanglements @oxfordcourtstudies.bsky.social. Please come if you can!

'Before William Wordsworth’s imagination had wandered, lonely as a cloud, and before John Keats’s nib had quivered with notions about nightingales, a Black woman named Phillis Wheatley was circulating a treasury of nature-inspired verse in London.'

Love the look of @marloavidon.bsky.social and Ælfred Hillman's CFP for a late Stuart court symposium in April in Cambridge. Please share widely! ❤️

Sharing this petition to save Art History in Aotearoa New Zealand secondary schools. petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f... Enjoy Rita Angus's stunning view of Central Otago, 1953-56/1969, oil on canvas. Te Papa (1972-0030-1)

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

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

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

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 )

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...

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...

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

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

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!🌷

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.

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'!

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

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

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!

Just to keep up the queen and flowers theme ... a podcast too! 🌻 Thank you @royalstudies.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...

Check out my short article in the June issue of BBC History exploring how 17th-century women found out about new plants growing overseas 🌺🌷🌻 pocketmags.com/bbc-history-...

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!

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…

What a treat to meet the lovely Anna Thornton from AUP in person at RSA!

An amazing find at York's Bar Convent. (Top tip: the cafe is also excellent!) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We are delighted to announce our #CfP for 'Plants and People: the cultivation and propagation of botanical knowledge among non-professional communities, c.1600–1800'! Please email your abstracts (300 words) and bios to @zarakesterton.bsky.social @lucyjhavard.bsky.social, by 14 March 🪴

**Print Matters summer school** Applications now open! Deadline 12th Feb 3 days of practical printing sessions, trips, and seminar discussions based at York's Thin Ice Press www.thinicepress.org/events/print...

A snap from last week's talk on Peter Lely's An Unidentified Child and Charlotte Fitzroy (1670s), beauty, and empire at York Art Gallery.

Very lucky to have been part of this!

The latest Royal Studies Podcast episode is out! Join @susannah-lw.bsky.social for her conversation with @johannastrong.bsky.social and @amysaunders.bsky.social about their forthcoming Royal Studies Journal Cluster "Queenship and Cross-Confessional Identity" 👑 🧵/4

Six years of Early Modern Female Book Ownership today! 72,500 views, 41,500 visitors, 221 posts by academics, librarians, book owners, and others with the support of libraries, private owners, and booksellers. And much more to come! https://buff.ly/2REqsPi #HerBook #EarlyModern

So lucky to have such a fantastic review from @marloavidon.bsky.social !! A testament to some wonderful contributors 🌼

Today's pick: Madonna with wild roses (c. 1530) - Jan van Scorel. This Madonna was probably made during Van Scorel's Haarlem period. [..] #art #VanScorel www.artbible.info/art/large/973.html

We've written a Researcher's Guide to Bluesky! It's a bit like all those other useful guides to Bluesky, but with several useful insights from University of York academics about using the platform, and we'd love it if it was reposted far and wide... >> blogs.york.ac.uk/library/2024... 🧵 below