I've not posted all that much over the last few months as I've had a series of health crises, not least a head injury that has forced me to enter into an official PhD interruption. However, I've just posted my most recent blog, a review of Women & Gardens 🌱: www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/review-...

Last night my car was stolen in SE London. There’s some v sentimental irreplaceable stuff in there so I’m desperate to get it back. If you live in SE London please do look out for it, and if you can share this to people you know in the area that would be wonderful!

Latest post out in my newsletter #PhD #PhDChat #PhDSky

Hi everyone - I'm crowdsourcing some plant data! 🌱 I've put together a survey where I'm looking for plants that: - Are named after real or fictional literary people - Are named in a general way in a work of fiction - Existed in the British Isles at the time of Shakespeare (1564-1616)

I’m doing something that I don’t do all that often - I’m reading a work of fiction like I would a historical source.

Got my March Madness locked in! Go Bulldogs!

ADHD brain occasionally gives me side-quests. For the last few months I've been working on a quantitative research project, and I just completed the initial analysis! No idea if I've done it right as I'm not a quant person (this project was mostly to learn), but I've submitted it to my supervisor!

A new post has gone up on my site all about the week off my PhD I gave myself to try and recharge. Catch up on all my activities here! #phdchat #phdsky www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/a-week-...

Over the course of this year (and particularly this week) I’ve been working on a new version of my #PhD upgrade doc that was due today. Big news - I just emailed it off! Now begins the self doubt of “what if my supervisors think it’s rubbish/not changed enough” 😂. Well I’ll hear back next week…!

If you followed along with my two day postathon this week you’ll have seen “finish embroidered starfish” on my to do list, and you might have wondered what that was…well I’ve finished it! 🪡🧵 #embroidery #starfish

Phew, after two very busy PhD days I'm tired as all heck - but straight back to work. I've written a little bit about how I got to that point, and how I'm trying to get through it all over on my substack! open.substack.com/pub/lucybrew...

In case you missed it yesterday - I’ve taken two days off work to write my PhD upgrade document that’s due tomorrow & is nowhere near done. So to try and keep me focused I’m live posting, and today is day two of “two days in the life of a sleepy and distracted PhD student”. #PhDSky #PhdChat #PhD

I’ve taken today & tomorrow off work to focus on writing my PhD upgrade document that’s due on Friday, & I’m nowhere near done. So why not add more pressure to the days by live posting along with them! So this begins a “two days in the life of a sleepy and distracted PhD student”. #phdsky #phdchat

On Friday I have to hand in my next draft of my upgrade chapter and I am not close. 😬 I’ve decided to take Monday and Tuesday off of work to try and focus on it and I’m thinking maybe I live post the two days…see how much progress I make, how much I get distracted…

I've also just launched a substack. At the moment, there isn't much content there, and will likely be a place that largely links to new posts on the website - but if you'd like to subscribe so that you never miss a blog there's that option! substack.com/@lucybrewerh...

I'm back with another Pilgrimage of Paws piece which this time took me to Canterbury. I hadn't been to the cathedral before and gosh it was dreamy. Unfortunately, my trip to the city was cut short, so there is most certainly going to be a second blog checking out dog friendly heritage in the summer!

I just started rewatching an old series - Everwood - and was pretty excited to hear an Audi 5000 reference! Another one for the dashboard. If anyone hears one - let me know! lookerstudio.google.com/s/hkBIO67OhJo

I’m working on an #embroidery installation with a theme of under the sea through my 3D beading diploma module with Hand and Lock and I just hit a big milestone with the first bit of beading being added to my starfish! There’s more beading and gold to come, but eek!

To help support my #PhD site I have set up a Ko.fi account in the event anyone would like to leave me a tip! Do you want to help keep me in books? Help keep me exploring heritage sites with my dog? Help keep a history blog running? Well this is the place for you: ko-fi.com/lucybrewer

A new blog is up on my #PhD site takes A Pilgrimage of Paws to St. Albans. A series that's designed to encourage people with dogs to get out and engage with the heritage and history to be found around the country. #History #Heritage #PhDSky #PhDChat www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/st-albans

What I'm sure everyone has been waiting for...The countdown for my top three blog posts this year finishes with the post that came in first place, The Perils of a Comma: #PhD #PhDSky #PhDChat #History #Football #Whitby #Vampire #Gothic www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/the-per...

The countdown for my top three blog posts this year continues with the post that came in second place: 'Stories From The Archives'. www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/salvati... #History #PhDChat #PhDSky #PhD

As we approach the end of the year, and the end of the first year of my #PhD blog, I thought I'd share my top 3 pieces over the next couple of days! #History #PhDChat #PhDSky

Did you know that you can take dogs into @chicathedral.bsky.social? I only discovered that at the weekend so, of course, I've written a blog about the cathedral, some of its history, and our trip around it. www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/chiches...

I don't know if everyone else is knackered as we approach the end of the year, but I am! I wrote a blog with seven ways to combine studying with a hectic life ,as I was thinking about it recently. If it helps anyone, I'd love to know! www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/combatt... #PhD #PhDSky

It’s Remembrance Sunday, and I recently published a post that looks at Herbert Cowley and the 12th Battalion, London Regiment in WW1. I really enjoyed writing this one so would love people to read it! www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/seeking... #history #phd #phdsky #phdchat

Forgot/ran out of character space for this. If anyone fancies a #history read on Remembrance weekend please do check this blog out. I really enjoyed writing this one. #PhdSky #PhD #garden 🌱

Two blogs in two weeks? My #Remembrance weekend blog just went up. Have a read about Herbert Cowley and the 12th Battalion, London Regiment experience in the First World War and his efforts to find a piece of normalcy in incredibly difficult circumstances. #Phd www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/seeking...

Today was a freaking huge #PhD win. Seven months ago I went to an archive. Today I finished a massive project off the back of it. I can't really talk about it now..but at some point I'll be able to put out into the world what I've done & I can't wait But now...I'm starting the writing up. #PhDSky

Still new to the academic blog life...I have one planned to publish on Saturday on a Remembrance / World War One topic. When do people think is actually the best time to publish to get as much engagement as possible - should I go earlier? How do people decide when's best? #PhdSky #PhDChat #academic

I'm going to pick one of these suggestions, because I'm currently pretty low vibed when it comes to the #PhD. Starting Monday I'll 'Reframe what “progress” means'. I'm going to keep a running list of everything I do for the PhD, no matter how small, and will review it at the end of the week!

It’s #Halloween week! Which means now is a good time to read my latest blog post - full of all things spooky like football, vampires, and punctuation! And the scariest thing of all - when research hits a dead end ☠️ #PhDSky #PhDChat 🧛🏼‍♀️⚽️⁉️ www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/the-per...

It’s spooky season, so I have of course written a blog. Do you like vampires 🧛🏼‍♀️ ? Football ⚽️ ? Punctuation mishaps ⁉️? Then today’s blog is one for you! #PhD #PhDSky #halloween #dracula #whitby #football www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/the-per...

I'm trying to build up my #PhD website (a slow process alongside everything else). What do other people post about on theirs? If you have something you'd like me to write about on mine I'm happy to hear it too and will try and work it into my plans. www.lucy-brewer.com #PhDChat #PhDSky #History

It's the start of #PhD year two, and I'm pretty tired. I don't know if everyone is like this but as a part-time person I don't feel like I ever get holidays from the PhD...do other people observe the academic timetable? I just constantly feel like I'm not doing enough, and that I'm behind #PhDChat

What's that? You want a new blog post to read this Monday evening? Oh go on then...this one has a Spotify wrapped kind of vibe to it looking back over the first year of the #PhD www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/the-sta...

My new small museums for mental health w'shop is on Sat 4 Oct Recent compelling research shows that collecting & arranging collections neatly alleviates anxiety & lifts mood. Includes: 🌿2 hr zoom-we'll make & photograph small museums 🗝️30% off my Etsy shop: workshops.emmamitchell.uk/courses/smal...

Waited a whole year since the last crumble, and after squirrels took some snacks I ended up with 6 apples and 1 delicious crumble. 🌱🍎🍏 #growyourown

As a PhD student at Greenwich it wasn’t great comms to get the email informing us well after finishing the BBC article. Suspect this will create an interesting environment in terms of stability with supervisors over the next few years particularly given the redundancies that just happened…

Doing a side quest piece of research that's nothing to do with the #PhD (thanks ADHD) but hitting a block. Does anyone know of vampire related activity/stories/folklore etc. in Whitby pre. Dracula? #history #nineteenthcentury #vampires

After months of working on it, phase one of my transcription project is done! Whoever said doing a #PhD wasn’t full of glamour? #history #phdsky

Ommmgggg only 10 pages left of my transcription project! 86.35% done! I feel like I should do some kind of post-a-long to celebrate the final 10... #PhDSky #History #Victorianist

Finally time to start this - very excited for @drfernriddell.bsky.social latest! #History #PhDSky #NineteenthCentury

My latest blog post is up...it's taken forever, mostly because it's my thoughts on a book - Braiding Sweetgrass - & I only just finished it tonight, but at least it's done! Hopefully there are minimal typos! www.lucy-brewer.com/blog/braiding-sweetgrass-review #PhD #HistorySky #BlogPost #BookReview

I'm over 80% through my transcription project! Goal is to be finished and onto the next phase before the end of August. What is the next phase you ask? Tidying the data; creating a dashboard; identifying trends; creating an interactive map; deciding who to do case studies on... #PhD #HistorySky

Is everyone psyched for @drfernriddell.bsky.social's new show, on in about 5 mins on Channel 4?! Queen Victoria like you've never seen her before.... #History #Victorianist #NineteenthCentury

A fractured tibia!?! Oh Bronzo #Lionesses

Managed to get this done just in time for the football. I’m so excited for the #Lionesses that I don’t think my brain was fully with it for painting which might explain why I don’t particularly love it 🤣

Omg I only have 22 transcription pages left to do which feels…almost doable… #PhDSky #History #Historians #HistorySky #PhD

During my #100DaysofPhD I wrote a lot about my transcription project, which is split over two books detailing student registrations at a school. Not only have I just finished the first book, but I've now done 65% of the whole project. It's taking forever, but feels like I'm getting there! #History