I’m so excited to share that I will be working as a Postdoctoral Researcher on the @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de project ‘Mining frontiers in the Kingdom of Hungary (16th-18th century)’ at the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum (PI @tinasmussen.bsky.social). I can’t wait to join the team and get started!

We are delighted to share the programme for our 'Art Lovers in the World' Conference, taking place at the University of Cambridge, 28th-29th Jul 2025, funded by the DAAD Hub, the Trevelyan Fund and the GHS. Tickets are available at artloversconference.eventbrite.co.uk. We look forward to seeing you!

We are delighted to share the programme for our 'Art Lovers in the World' Conference, taking place at the University of Cambridge, 28th-29th Jul 2025, funded by the DAAD Hub, the Trevelyan Fund and the GHS. Tickets are available at artloversconference.eventbrite.co.uk. We look forward to seeing you!

We're excited to be looking for our first ever Maker in Residence this summer! We're seeking a MiR who can inspire our audiences through their creative response to our exhibition #MagnaCarta1225. All the details are on our website, closing date 14 July. www.sal.org.uk/about-us/vac...

Two tulips with two cherries and a bee, Jacob Marrel, 1637 (Rijksmuseum) #WorldBeeDay

Next week: Session 3 of the Historical Food Preservation Lecture Series – The Early Modern Kitchen with Lucy J. Havard and Maroesjka Verhagen. 🗓 April 29, 15:30-17:00 (Amst) 🌐 Online 👉 tinyurl.com/mutpkvs9 @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social @preservare.bsky.social @nybg.bsky.social

Today, I am reminded of Judith Butler’s words in their letter on Executive Order 14168 @lrb.co.uk: ‘powers who promise to strip rights from the most vulnerable people in the name of saving the nation, the natural order, the family, society or civilisation itself’. A dark day for the UK.

Really excited to share this amazing news and very much looking forward to starting the project @uclhistory.bsky.social @wellcometrust.bsky.social. Read more about it on the @bemccollective.bsky.social blog and watch this space!!

Registration is now open for @sleepingwelluom.bsky.social's conference 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World', 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Check out our AMAZING programme and register for free here: shorturl.at/SFrEK. Limited spaces available!

Ich hatte zwei tolles Tage auf der Konferenz ‘Alchemisches Wissen & praktisches Laborien’ in der Franckeschen Stiftungen. Das Zusammentreffen von Kolleg/innen, die sich mit verschiedenen Aspekten der Alchemie befassen, zeigte das Fruchtbarkeit der Zusammenarbeit. (weiteres Highlight = Wunderkammer!)

What was up with Neptune 400 years ago? @frederickcrofts.bsky.social and I have been trying to find out: we had a great research stay @zikg.eu! While we cross our fingers for the article (under review), you can find out more about the project, and the small exhibition we co-curated, here:

Why does 25% AfD among young men spark a thousand "what is going on with young men?" posts yet Die Linke 34% among young women generates...nothing at all? Yes, young men voting for the radical right is an important phenomenon. But so is young women going rad left *at even higher rates*.

Toiletries box, 1550, Venetian (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

📣Out now on #firstview! Amelia Hutchinson (@ameliahutchinson.bsky.social) (@jesuscollegecam.bsky.social) on 'Subtle Bodies: Networks and Corporeality in Philipp Hainhofer’s Pomeranian Cabinet' #Art #Body #Merchant #Display #Artisan 16thc 17thc 🗃️ 👉Read OA here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Delighted to share that my new article is now available on FirstView with the HJ. I explore the important role health and the body played in the making of the Pomeranian Art Cabinet. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Taking the occassion of seeing some wonderful Rottenhammer’s in the alte Pinakothek to bring my first article over here with me: ‘‘Very Full of Details and Excellently Executed’: Materiality and Medicine in Hans Rottenhammer’s Painted Bodies’ academic.oup.com/gh/article/4...

Snapshots from the Alte Pinakothek’s Rachel Ruysch exhibition — up close, the technical precision and inclusion of specimens that created amazing depth in Ruysch’s work was tangible. Brilliantly contextualised, engaging with the work of her father, sister Anna, and sottobosco’s of Van Schriek.

We found some other #EarlyModern centres that have joined these blue skies recently: @cemskcl.bsky.social @uclearlymodxcha.bsky.social and @cesrtours.bsky.social, for instance. Any we missed still? go.bsky.app/LLzFj3b

The Age of Neptune: Art and the Power of Water, c. 1520-1650 Projektvorstellung von @davidemartino.bsky.social und Frederick Crofts morgen um 12:00 Uhr im ZI 🧜‍♂️ www.zikg.eu/aktuelles/ve...

My review of Sabine Jagodinzski's (Herzog August Bibliothek's) 'Das Große Stammbuch Philipp Hainhofers' is now available online with the Historians of Netherlandish Art. hnanews.org/hnar/reviews.... Heartily recommend to all interested in cultural exchange & artisanal production in 17th c Germany!

We hope you have all had a wonderful holiday season and a Happy New Year! We are thrilled to announce that we are extending the deadline for our Lent CFP by one week to Monday 13 January 2025! As before, please be sure to send in your abstracts to [email protected].

Initial A, Cock and Spike, c. 1532, by #EufrasiaBurlamacchi (Italian, c.1482-1548), who died #otd, Jan 2. Gradual MS 2650, fol.40v. Held at Biblioteca Statale, Lucca #artherstory #womenartists #nuntastic

This heavy 1652 folio Seneca volume has been repurposed as a makeshift herbarium, with the name of the flower noted in the margin. Dozens of flowers have been preserved, throughout the volume. In other cases, only the name of the plant remains. Here we have a plant sample of "Echinospermum lappula".

Part time research assistant opportunity as part of the recent AHRC Impact Acceleration Award funded grant 'Naming Species in the South Pacific: Revisiting a Past Endeavour to Develop New Digital and Culture Collaborations': www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49450/

In our latest #valuepast blog post, Amelia Hutchinson (University of Cambridge) explored the early modern mining in Germany and how the workers sought to understand, protect, and regulate their bodies and the environment. valuepast.hypotheses.org/1295

Had a great time at the @antiquaries.bsky.social conference today! Some interesting papers which explored exciting and wide ranging approaches to the study of materialities and the self. All whilst enjoying the beautiful Burlington House (and the neighbouring @linneansociety.bsky.social exhibition!)

Tina Asmussen has shared some great photos of the MINSCAPES Summer School, in the Harz Mountains, to explore the history of human-environment relationships and interaction through its mining legacy.