Oh, this is such an EXCELLENT choice! Misha Glenny is the new host of BBC Radio 4's flagship show In Our Time, replacing the retiring Melvyn Bragg www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...

Cutting off trans girls’ access to socialising is just horrendous. I’m so angry and ashamed.

TODAY! We’re looking forward to this in-person CECS seminar with the always wonderful Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social

📢 Our next seminar is scheduled for Tuesday 25 November with Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social, presenting a paper on ‘James Tassie: A Maker of the Scottish Enlightenment’. 🗓️ Tuesday 25 November, 5pm 📍 HG/09, Heslington Hall www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c...

Enjoying this, @carolinemccaff.bsky.social!

When literally nothing has changed 😂

'Applications are invited from both early career and established scholars of any nationality, engaged on original research intended to produce monographs, editions or studies of documents, texts or illustrations, that include the analysis of the material features of original manuscripts'. up to £2k.

Some excerpts from my piece in the current issue of BBC History Magazine @historyextra.bsky.social on the stories that museums can & should tell with a focus on my new book & Charlotte Schreiber’s incredible collection of over 5,000 objects that are now spread across the V&A & the British Museum

Great 12-month opportunity for an historian. Salary: £36,799 (Grade 5: Development Worker grade). Edinburgh/hybrid. Closing date 21 October.

Join me this Thursday at the V&A for a free public lecture about my new book www.vam.ac.uk/event/E7WLeV...

Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth is author of this recently published book - Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Extraordinary Art Collector www.lundhumphries.com/products/lad... @lhartbooks.bsky.social Sept 2025

Lights on, lights off. A wonderful day discussing the Portland Vase (especially its 18th Century reception) with colleagues at the British Museum

Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth’s long-awaited study of this great Victorian collector has just been published by Lund Humphries. www.lundhumphries.com/collections/...

Lady Charlotte Shreiber was a woman who subverted gendered norms and challenged Victorian conventions, Schreiber made major contributions to ceramic history and cultural education, and played an influential role in transnational artistic networks.

@carolinemccaff.bsky.social gives the first in our autumn online lecture series on 21st October. 🧵

Earlier this week I celebrated the official launch of my new book with @lhartbooks.bsky.social at Bonhams auction house in Knightsbridge with a room bursting with excellent people & some wonderful ceramics on display ✨ 📚 🏺 www.lundhumphries.com/products/lad...

Full draft of my second book done and sent off to my editor. Wine please 🥂 📚 💤

Delighted to be giving a lecture on my new book at the V&A Museum on 23rd October- it’s free and open to all www.vam.ac.uk/event/E7WLeV...

Catticus Finch is looking extra floofy and doing some excellent assisting as I continue to edit my book draft 📚

I am excited that this marvelous book is now published! Lady Charlotte was extraordinary in *many* ways, really... Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Extraordinary Art Collector By Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth / @carolinemccaff.bsky.social www.lundhumphries.com/collections/... @lhartbooks.bsky.social 2025

Really chuffed with this review of my new book! @theartnewspaper.bsky.social www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/02/t...

It’s PUBLICATION day!!! www.lundhumphries.com/products/lad...

Thank you so much to Bonhams Edinburgh for inviting me to give a lecture on my new book and the formidable collector Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Special thanks to Sophie von der Goltz & May Matthews for organising www.lundhumphries.com/collections/...

A snoozy Caturday with Miss Catticus Finch

Tales of heroic knights, love, dragon fights & giants…no this isn’t Game of Thrones, it’s the Mabinogion! A collection of Welsh medieval tales- It’s thanks to the remarkable antiquarian & collector Lady Charlotte Guest (later Schreiber) that these stories were rediscovered & translated in the 1830s

Readers interested in women's contributions to the decorative arts will also be interested in this imminently forthcoming book: Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Extraordinary Art Collector by @carolinemccaff.bsky.social www.lundhumphries.com/products/lad... @lhartbooks.bsky.social, Sept 2025

Beyond Blue and White The Hidden History of Delftware and the Women Behind the Iconic Ceramic By Genevieve Wheeler Brown www.simonandschuster.com/books/Beyond... "... allows us to craft a more complete picture of female experience through the lens of material culture."

🧵 How beautiful is this #embroidered #map sampler of #Ireland by Sarah Curran? Coloured #silk threads on a piece of satin backed with linen #canvas, mounted in a modern frame and glazed, 1801. 🪡 Zoom in to see the detail: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0....

So excited to see an advance copy of this fabulous book! Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Extraordinary Art Collector by @carolinemccaff.bsky.social www.lundhumphries.com/products/lad... It is forthcoming from @lhartbooks.bsky.social on Sept 19 (should be available in the US warehouse by Jan 2026).

My first few author copies have arrived 📚 ✨ 📖 feeling completely overwhelmed. You can pre-order your copy here: www.lundhumphries.com/products/lad...

Object handling at the Gilbert Collection today 🤩

Flowers for days @saatchigallery.bsky.social

'DMU had collaborated with United Arab Emirates-based Study World Education Holding Group, a private company, to build its Dubai branch campus, which commenced operations in September 2021.' 1/2

If you published your first book in French history in 2024, you might like to submit it for the Society for the Study of French History Book Prize, deadline 31 July 2025 and more details here: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/ssfh-book-pr... @frenchhistory.bsky.social

📣Applications now open for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣 In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks. Deadline: 15th September 2025. More info 👇 www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

Victorian medicine chest, which contains medications for pain relief, such as opium. It also includes a set of scales, weights, a pill tile, and a spatula. It was probably used in the home or by an apothecary. Photo: Wellcome Collection, London.

Renewed call for Edinburgh University bosses to be grilled by MSPs over £140m cuts plan www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

I love this community-led Zine created by the Royal Armouries in Leeds on the ever-fascinating Chevalière d'Éon royalarmouries.org/sites/defaul...

So pleased to see that my @historyextra.bsky.social everything you ever wanted to know about the Great Exhibition of 1851 has had over 2K watches- this was fun to record m.youtube.com/watch?v=HGff...

A fine lecture yesterday at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich CT, sponsored by the Connecticut Ceramics Circle; Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth @carolinemccaff.bsky.social on the great art collector Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Her new book about the remarkable Lady Schreiber is out this September!

Come study for your postgraduate degree in Scotland with myself and an incredible team of global premodern art historians. Applications for our Global Premodern Art: History, Heritage & Curation MSc close on 30 June 2025 @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @edincollegeofart.bsky.social

The Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre is holding a small conference to mark our twentieth anniversary. It's on the 26 and 27 June, and Linda Colley will be there (as will brilliant Birmingham colleagues like Karen Harvey, Kate Smith, and Hiroki Shin). Join us! blog.bham.ac.uk/18c/2025/05/...

Now my contract with Edinburgh is officially over (got my P45 in the post today) I’d particularly love it if you’d like to invite me to speak for your research seminar series, event, etc. I love giving talks and I’d like to keep those fires lit in the next part of my career.

Heart-shaped pendant with a lock of hair from Marie Antoinette. If this is her hair, it must have been presented before the abortive flight to Varennes in 1791, when Marie's hair allegedly went white overnight. Is it possible for a person’s hair to go white overnight? 1/2

Come study for your postgraduate degree in Scotland with myself and an incredible team of global premodern art historians. Applications for our Global Premodern Art: History, Heritage & Curation MSc close on 30 June 2025 @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @edincollegeofart.bsky.social

Such sad news www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Applications are now open for a new fully-funded AHRC collaborative PhD with ECA Lecturer in History of Art Dr @carolinemccaff.bsky.social on Dr J. W. L. Glaisher’s ceramics collection at @fitzmuseum.bsky.social. Deadline: 9 May 2025 - find out more: www.eca.ed.ac.uk/scholarship/...

April has been utterly non-stop but taking a moment this weekend to finally dive into this and escape to 17th Century Delft