“[A]s art historians we are trained to understand how powerful the image can be”, writes @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social, unravelling and unpacking the visual politics of Whiteness in Classical sculpture and beyond (Volume 22, Issue 1-3, 2024). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

@womeninclassicsuk.bsky.social is nearly 10! Come celebrate with us and a great line-up of speakers @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social @alicekonig.bsky.social & Katharine Piu San Russell @durhamclassics.bsky.social. Travel bursaries available, see info in QT'd link #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

I’ve graduated with a PhD in Classics and History! 👨‍🎓 #c18 #classicsbluesky ‘Agents of Empire: Cultural Imperialism, White British Identity, and the Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour’ is available to download and read using the following link: kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/st...

2025 has been a rotten year for most early career postdoctoral researchers, especially in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. For a better 2026, check out (or repost) this short thread on a free resource for UK-based SHAPE PhDs within 10 years (excluding career breaks) of the doctorate. 1/3

"More than a third (37%) of Reform UK voters said they would be prouder of Britain if there were fewer people from minority ethnic backgrounds in a decade’s time, and 10% [compared to 3% overall] said it was important to have white skin to be a good British citizen."

Looking forward to our next @ics.bsky.social – British Museum seminar with another terrific group of speakers, incl @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social @drmaimusie.bsky.social, Eleanor Newman & Joe Skinner. Register at link below!

Register for BSECS using the link below! If any PhD students and/or ECRs want to chat over coffee about postdoc applications, drop me a DM :) I'm always happy to share my experiences of post-PhD life. #c18

A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...

Next time you visit the Pre-Raphaelite galleries at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, keep an eye out for more information about my project, Victorian Art & Design and the Global! More information available at: www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/about/what-w...

Check out my review of Paola Bertucci’s book, In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour. It’s a fascinating glimpse into the social and cultural circles of Italy’s scientific communities in the eighteenth century ⚡️

Hey, it's me! Check out some of the highlights from Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery's newly reopened Pre-Raphaelite galleries!👩‍🎨 www.instagram.com/reel/DQWNyhq...

Εὖγε! Euax! My bestie’s shop is back for 2025! 🦉 Meg is a Classics researcher who makes jewellery inspired by the ancient world. Love ancient coins? Or know someone who does? You’ll definitely find something cool in the shop below 🪙 ko-fi.com/agameganon/s...

Little payday treat order for me! Finally got a couple of laptop stickers (with an Etruscan theme).

Of interest for UK museum staff and those working with collections relating to migration history, an in-person Migration Network event hosted by @migrationmuseum.org at the Museum of Liverpool on Wednesday 3 September 10:00-15:30.

❗My shop is back❗Check out my illustrations of classical antiquities in all their polychromatic glory🏺 www.redbubble.com/people/Neo-C...

My PhD thesis is now available online through the University of Leicester repository! 'Sociability, Provincial Antiquarianism and Networks of Knowledge in the Spalding Gentlemen's Society, 1710-1755'. figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/the...

👉NEW -- Westminster group took cash from Israeli state-owned arms firm by Martin Williams Revealed: Cross-party group of MPs accused of ‘clear breach of the rules’ over donation from weapons company controlled by Israeli government. www.declassifieduk.org/westminster-...

It's ten years since I published this piece on my post-PhD experience of precarious employment, and I'm sad to reflect that my happy ending has become a vanishingly less likely outcome. catherinefletcher.info/2015/06/30/f...

Deeply honoured to say that I am one of the recipients of an Early Career Fellowship! From May 2026, I’ll be spending 3 years at Edinburgh’s Art History department (@edincollegeofart.bsky.social) to research Whiteness and Greco-Roman antiquity in eighteenth-century British history paintings

Super pleased to announce that I started my new job as a Curator/Researcher at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 🎉 I’ll be working on the ‘Victorian Art & Design and the Global’ project and will get to share my expertise on all things Empire and British Art

In today’s #PeoplingPodcast, we are joined by @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social to discuss the relationship between classical culture and imperialism in the 18th and 19th centuries. Listen in to find out more about Classics, the Grand Tour, and Invented Legacies here: peoplingthepast.com/2025/06/03/p...

We're excited to present the first in a series of interviews with our Fellows. We start with @profdanhicks.bsky.social, Prof of Contemporary Archaeology at @ox.ac.uk, Curator of World Archaeology at @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social & Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. www.sal.org.uk/2025/04/meet...

Very pleased that copies of our new volume with @cypriotartleeds.bsky.social & Thomas Kiely ‘Empire & Excavation. Critical perspectives on archaeology in British-period Cyprus’ have arrived! Thanks to @sidestone.bsky.social 🏺

Deeply honoured to have contributed to the relaunch issue of Visual Culture in Britain @vcib.bsky.social 🎨 My short essay uses my illustrations as a starting point to discuss the normalcy of Whiteness in the reception of Greco-Roman art and how Critical Whiteness Studies helps me articulate this

HUGE NEWS! Season 4 of #PeoplingPodcast is coming soon! In today’s preview episode, hosts Chelsea Gardner & Melissa Funke are joined by Christine Johnston (Season 4’s producer) to talk about what our listeners can expect. Listen in and find out more here: peoplingthepast.com/2025/01/14/p... /1

Say, hypothetically, my viva is on Wednesday. What last-minute advice would you give me? Hypothetically speaking of course 🫥

Deeply honoured to have contributed to the relaunch issue of Visual Culture in Britain @vcib.bsky.social 🎨 My short essay uses my illustrations as a starting point to discuss the normalcy of Whiteness in the reception of Greco-Roman art and how Critical Whiteness Studies helps me articulate this

REGISTRATION FOR #BSECS2025 CLOSES AT MIDNIGHT ON SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBER!!!! We can't wait to see you all in January. #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

This issue of Art History I co-edited with Esther Chadwick analyzed the #earlymodern Atlantic as ‘vast’ in its complexity and its connectedness, and in its continuing effects in our world today #VastEarlyAmericas #arthistory @forarthistory.bsky.social #Americas #Africa #Caribbean #18thcentury

Watch live at www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E7t...

Looking forward to today’s Collections and Research Day at @antiquaries.bsky.social, where I’ll be talking about racialised touch and classical sculpture in the eighteenth century #c18

My edition of four travel journals by 18th-c servants is out now, including accounts of France, Italy, the Low Countries, Germany and the Ottoman Empire by three valets and a maid – the majority of people who went on the 'Grand Tour' #skystorians #18thc #c18th global.oup.com/academic/pro...

The ICC has issued arrest warrants for two of the most prominent leaders of the US-Israeli genocide, including Netanyahu, for war crimes including “starvation as a method of warfare” & “the crimes against humanity of murder, persecution, and other inhumane acts.” www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

Going down a rabbit hole on Iraq's Marsh Arabs (as I periodically do) and came across this fascinating piece examining normalized transgender identities in the Marshes in the early 20th century

Great news for historians of the French Empire! Moreau de Saint-Méry's private archives (series F3) have been digitised and are available online on the ANOM website. A very rich resource for anyone working on Haiti, the West Indies,Canada, the Indian Ocean, etc.

New to Bluesky? Love museums? We have you covered! We're constantly adding new museums, libraries, and arts orgs to our Arts & Culture Starter Pack. Today, we welcomed the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social, @artukdotorg.bsky.social, and many more :) bsky.app/starter-pack...

"[Jessica] Murtagh’s #amphorae make connections across time... scenes of quotidian life which.. communicate profound shifts in society and capture the collective culture of a time." citynews.com.au/2024/murtagh... [Jessica Murtagh at Grainger Gallery, Fyshwick, ACT until Dec 1]

Mood. “Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution in 1803, the buildings were used as the city's hospital. #skystorians #history

A group of researchers have recreated the clothing of medieval Nubian royalty and clergy from the wall paintings in the cathedral of Faras, which sits at the border of modern Egypt and Sudan.

A couple years ago I put together a little list of yearly fellowships and applications, mostly for early modernists. It includes deadlines, salaries, and requirements. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Juan, Bertrand, Robinson and I are pleased to announce the programme of the upcoming “The Roman Republic and the 70s BCE: A Period of Uncertainty and Crises”, Stewart House, London, 9-11 January 2025.

Released in 2021, Lizzo and Cardi B's #Rumors is one the most generous and intelligent music video to cite Antiquity and its reception. 🌿 Read our article by @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social and Vanessa Stovall : 🏛️ antiquipop.hypotheses.org/eng/10015eng 🏺 #AncientBlueSky 💿 #PopCulture