@amalexathorn
Historian of archaeology, Co-Investigator of Beyond Notability @beyondnotables.bsky.social, Co-Editor (with Dr Katy Soar), Strange Relics (Handheld Press, 2022). Website: https://www.amarathornton.com/; Agent: @agentbal.bsky.social @mmagency.bsky.social
1/ Important new article by Dr. Tara Inniss that discusses the "chronic underfunding, aging infrastructure, and climatic threats" of Caribbean archives, compounded by vulnerabilities and policy gaps.
Thread w recent examples of destruction of collections by fire:
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Man, one of the most depressing aspects of modern scholarship is finding a great article and then looking up the scholar to see what else they’ve done and just catching a glimpse of an abbreviated career hopping between visiting positions and publishing great pieces before disappearing from academia
Delighted to contribute to this fantastic series on AI, British Studies and the wider humanities with @thenacbs.bsky.social!
www.nacbs.org/post/back-to...
Finally, you can also see and hear our former Director, Professor John Beckett outlining the contribution and context as part of the 2017 conference held @ihr.bsky.social, London’s women historians: a celebration and a conversation, discussing these women, here: #Skystorians
Thomas Malton the Younger, 1748–1804, King's Parade, Cambridge, between 1798 and 1799, Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1996.22.25.
1/ Explore the NEW website for the Legacies of Enslavement Special Initiative ⬇️
A central online hub for all research, collaboration and public engagement exploring @cam.ac.uk's historical links to slavery & the wider afterlives of enslavement and colonialism.
🔗 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/new-web...
Veery interesting!
Includes several women @beyondnotables.bsky.social database: Caroline Amy Hutton beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q931 Katherine Raleigh beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q2... & Gertrude Levy beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q1...
Great blog post by Rosario Rovira Guardiola on women @joliheroics.bsky.social librarians! library.ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
And a slightly longer list of people who took courses on architecture beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Special... including via University Extension
We have a few architects/trained in architecture in @beyondnotables.bsky.social database - Ethel Charles beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q826 Vera Mary Dallas beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q1... and Dorothy Norie beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q3...
One aspect of this whole thing is the need to invest in deep, meaningful, collaborative, international historical research, looking at multiple institutional archives (not just in museums) and personal ones where available.
#MCRHumNetwork looks for researchers to give online talks. Are you a mid-career researcher, 7+ years from your PhD, in temporary employment or self-employed, doing research? We want to hear from you. If you want to join the mailing list, e-mail MCRHumNetwork@gmail.com and join us.
For the Hat to Class story, see bsky.app/profile/beyo...
Maud Sellers bsky.app/profile/merc... is another one in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q577. Also known, of course, for the Wearing Hat to Class affair. And like Eliza & Joyce Jeffries Davis a @vch-home.bsky.social contributor
Gosh did not know about this - how cheering! (And thank you!)
You'll also find Joyce Jeffries Davis @beyondnotables.bsky.social beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q761
And, thanks to @amalexathorn.bsky.social and @beyondnotables.bsky.social, you can learn more about Eliza Jeffries Davis and many of our early women contributors here:
You can also hear @cathamclarke.bsky.social reading an extract of one of Eliza's letters from the @vch-home.bsky.social archive here: beyondnotability.org/2022/03/
You'll find Lots of info about Eliza Jeffries Davis in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database! Her entry is here: beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q153
#MCRHumNetwork is up and running. If you are a researcher, 7+ years from your PhD and in a temporary job, join us. It is soon time for the first event. Please, e-mail MCRHumNetwork@gmail.com to join the mailing list. Tell your friends and share this message
Returning to Jane Harrison & Eugenie Sellers *Dreadful Handwriting*.
Really wonder how this figure breaks down between disciplines...
The British Museum's Reading Room bsky.app/profile/fran... was a Very Significant place of work, inspiration and connection for many women in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database, and the extant Readers' records at the Museum were a goldmine.
Help us test the “Whose Bias? Ways of Seeing” pilot, a new community-led approach to handling outdated and biased language in collections:
17 March, 13.30 – 14.30: https://bit.ly/3OD48bi
24 March, 13.30 – 14.30: https://bit.ly/4r58mFX
@dh-researchhub.bsky.social @warburginstitute.bsky.social
Opinion | Reframing the narrative 🖼️
Nelson Cummins on how Glasgow Museums has reinterpreted a family portrait featuring an enslaved child.
Table showing gendered ratios of English-language Wikipedia pages and pages for Classicists
In 2016 7% of biographies on #Wikipedia about classicists were about women. Now @richardnevell.bsky.social's wonderful analysis shows that 10 years later, that number is now almost 20%. That's a huge achievement! #WCCWiki
In 1907 the Congress of Archaeological societies published a vol indexing archaeological papers going back to 1660s.
Yep yep!
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Do take a look at the wonderful @beyondnotables.bsky.social database which includes, among others, many of our early women researchers, authors, and editors!