Homeward bound after a fabulous time at LAPASEC 2025. Very reluctant to return to real life tbh. So many great papers and conversations, joyous from start to finish. Huge thanks to the organisers!
BSECS levels of fun, on an intimate scale. Highly recommend 😄 ❤️ @lapasec.bsky.social
#18thcentury
Fab start to LAPASEC 2025! Super excited to finally make it after intending to for so long 😄
Possible collateral damage, insofar as Hotel Essener Hof has already ruined me for standard conference catering... @lapasec.bsky.social
#18thcentury
yes hello, I'd like to report some criminal activity at the bird table 🤨🧐
#chickens
The Vagina Museum is just one month away from closing. Forever. A perfect storm of circumstances means that we may have to close our doors permanently and cease all digital activities. But we're not going to go down without a fight. Save the Vagina Museum. www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
TIL that nearly 197 years ago, Anne Lister "incurred a cross"* while thinking about her girlfriend in the back of a carriage, just down the road from here. God I love primary sources 😂
*i.e. masturbated
#LGBTQHistory #HistSex #AcademicSky
Stimmt 😞😞😞
What's going on in America right now is genuinely terrifying. This is straight out of the fascist playbook, with no attempt to disguise it. Solidarity to the trans, queer and research communities, especially in the US. This is horrendous. #AcademicSky
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A full house in Pembroke College's Chapel for the annual BSECS concert! This year, the programme features the Warleggan Village Band who will be performing #18thc dance music. Many thanks to Richard Heacock, Matthew Coatsworth, and @greenmatthewsuk.bsky.social! #BSECS2025
My phone has been dying or dead for most of #BSECS2025, leaving me unable to enthuse in real time, but it’s been an absolutely fab few days! Innumerable great conversations, and huge props to the organisers.
I expect to be declared legally dead any minute, but I regret none of my choices 😄
Hugely excited by the @bsecs.bsky.social draft conference programme this morning! Panels I want to see stacked three deep. Enthusiasts about the body, medicine etc will be spoilt for choice 😁
#BSECS #18thcentury #HistSTM
Super pleased to have landed an SHS small grant to do some archival research! Very excited to get digging into some letters and diaries. Many thanks @socialhistsoc.bsky.social ! Very nice news on a wet Wednesday 🥳
A photo of a round yellow fruit the size of a small apple, in the palm of someone's hand
Absurdly proud of growing this cucumber tbh 🤣 A full-sized crystal lemon! Gonna crunch it like an apple 😄
Blimey. I'd forgotten how square-eyed I go down the ECCO mines 😵💫 Definitely greenery, gentle bimbling and no screens time!
Todays' best find: Jean Astruc, c. 1760, musing on WTF was with ancient medics' counterintuitive silence on nymphomania. Weirdly similar to my own work - 260 years on, I'm pondering similar re Astruc's peers.
Always struck me as a sensible man, Astruc. Wondering now what he'd make of it 😅 #HistSTM
"In my judgment, the Cass review's findings about the very substantial risks and very narrow benefits associated with the use of puberty blockers, and the recommendation that in future the NHS prescribing of puberty blockers to children and young people should only take place in a clinical trial, and not routinely, amounted to powerful scientific evidence in support of restrictions on the supply of puberty blockers on the grounds that they were potentially harmful." Lang said that while the Cass review did not conclude that puberty blockers caused a serious danger to health, that was not the question it was asked to address. She also said that the fact that the review's findings
The review's findings, which it didn't find, support a decision based on the conclusion it didn't find.
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Fantastic papers from Daniel Burrell, Ella Sbaraini and @annacusack.bsky.social at #SHS2024 ! Endless food for thought, well worth braving the rainy morning 😄
I've just done a big revision of my post on the #intersex person Margaret Bradley of (aptly) Middlesex. Exploring the scholarship has shown this is rare evidence indeed, one of only a handful of intersex individuals documented in Europe before 1550. Read! Repost! consistory.org/2018/05/14/b...
Lovely long weekend figuring out why #17thC handbill advertisers promoted spirit of scurvygrass to cure Greensickness.
Marriage was the recommended cure for centuries – but it could not be sold by the bottle or pill!
Once I found ...🧵 #earlymodern
Happy that I've been granted permission the use these images in my forthcoming (2025) essay about the agency of 18th cen. middle class women who devised ingenious ways to learn science in an age when they were excluded from universities. #histsci #womenshistory #sts #hps #manuscripts #gender
Any #skystorians enjoy dressing fancy? Well, here's the perfect opportunity thanks to our own @fancyhistorian &
@NTAssemblyRooms #18thC #DressingFancyBath 🗃️
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