@kerrylouisehistory
AHRC-funded PhD Candidate, w/ National Trust & OU | Studying the impact global goods on Restoration-era court culture @ Ham House | MPhil on Tobacco & Indigenous/African Labour in the English Atlantic c.1615–1642 | 1600s Monomaniac | KerryApps.com
Quick question for academics at U.K. universities. What provision does your institution have to allow lecturers at Grade 7 to take part in doctoral supervision?
Can they be lead supervisors? Are they always supported by senior colleagues, for example?
Oxford and my adopted second home of Cambridge (South London forever) looked gorgeous in some much appreciated blue sky in these past few days.
Watch now on YouTube: Taoiseach of Ireland @micheal-martin.bsky.social announces Professor Alvin Jackson as first Childers Professor of Irish History @cam.ac.uk
Speeches also from Vice-Chancellor Deborah Prentice and @lucydelap.bsky.social
@trincolllibcam.bsky.social
🔗 youtu.be/rNynCzuh0CA?...
I stopped by on Monday after a workshop on carpets as global objects!
I had the same argument with mine over coffee this morning. 😒
Needs a proper biography.
Have you read Richard Frethorne’s letter from Virginia? Really tragic picture of a young man in an awful indenture (though he had the network back home/standing to beg food and supplies)
I knew about the reports of riots in London of children scared of being sent to Virginia but have never seen the source material (this is cool, and sucks all at once)
Not my guy Warwick, absolute colonial everywhere man.
(Say it louder for the people in the back)!
Rewatching Hook in my mid-thirties and realising that I am Hook. Dramatic, slightly flamboyant existential crises often in a Baroque environment.
Do you ever listen to the Elis James and John Robins show on the BBC/podcasting platforms? Chiles pops up regularly, often with a sneak peek of these columns.
[I can think of many people in my life I wish I'd taken more photos with when we all had the chance]
This song hits me right in the tear ducts.
I bet my MPhil supervisor's Caribbean in World History taught course (if it's still going) was lit this week.
Also, net-zero, rejoinist, wokeism? Don't mind if I do.
With this and the comments about student loans, Labour really seems to want to lose its base among the millennials and below. If the idea is to court working-class pub-goers, they're too far down the GBNews pipeline to vote Reform-lite (anecdotal evidence of one side of my fam). I want to scream.
It sounds awful. Why the need to put words in mouths when oral histories/testimonies exist? We seem to be in the era of the erosion of consent in *everything*.
Post-mortem pictures is another level though. Bleak.
There’s a company (Lewis Goodall did an interview with them on a story on the rise of AI in Vegas) that will take pictures/texts/videos of deceased people and create a reanimated chatbot you can talk to/ask advice. Heinous.
I feel this (my undergraduate work firmly coalesced around the women who contributed to the patriarchy via moral policing in early America and 17th-century England).
... behind caught our accents; turns out we went to the same primary school, and started dishing out intel on places he drives to in Cambridgeshire for jerk pork or brown stew chicken. Honestly, made me really patriotic. THIS IS MY ENGLAND! Queuing in the rain for rice-and-peas.
A Jamaican food van arrived at my village/estate in Cambridge today. It turned out that almost everyone in line, including my partner and me, was an excited former South Londoner. My partner and I exclaimed, 'SMELLS LIKE HOME!' and hugged each other like losers as soon as we caught the smoke. Guy ..
This was a constant joke on Soccer AM in the 90s/00s I’m first in my family to uni and my dad used to parrot ‘tax dodger’ at me. Wild this dead rhetoric is back.
Absolutely @ed by the Greenpeace Instagram this morning.
It really infuriates me to think of all the incredible, ethical, forward-thinking transatlantic projects that *could* have come out of the 1776 anniversary this year in another timeline.
I asked my partner (a programmer) to ask via his work subscription who the major global economic powers of the 16th/17th centuries were. Did it say China, Japan, or Mughal India? Nah. British Empire. Cool, cool, cool.
They were still about in South London in my first year of secondary school. Remember seeing the odd person chucking themself on as it moved.
You cannot keep me away from a good Maritime Museum.
I know where you are! Hope the weathers okay outside?!
Amsterdam, where the global/colonial connections are *everywhere*
Tobacco jar, Antique Shop
Kraak porcelain laid out with Dutch-made silverware, At Home in the C17th Exhibition
Lacquer charger, Rijksmuseum
Miniature apothecary, Rijksmuseum