Doctor of Elizabeth I as/and Deborah the Judge • Early modern history & lit | children’s lit | women’s writing | monarchy • Managing Editor, @thelondonjournal.bsky.social • Unemployed Lecturer • The Real Empress Palpatine • they/them • 🏳️🌈🇳🇿🇦🇺
Dr Aidan Norrie 🦄
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New blog post by Ian Stone: 'With Due Acknowledgement: From Bermondsey’s Tanneries to The London Journal', reflecting on his research on the Leathersellers’ College in Bermondsey and its archival presence, and its place in his wider research and teaching: thelondonjournal.org/blog.html#St....
Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital
New post on our blog from Stephen Ridgwell: ‘Fugitive Material: The Case of the Nineteenth-Century Playbill’: thelondonjournal.org/blog.html#Ri...
TERF nonsense on the first day of Pride month? Fuck the fuck off.
This observation from Stefan Collini in the LRB is striking. I don’t think it’s true anymore: there’s a level of glee that seems to underpin the cuts to staff & courses. Rather than being seen for the failure of leadership it obviously is, VCs can crow about their ability to make tough decisions.
www.thelondonjournal.org/blog.html#Ha...
A new piece up on the @thelondonjournal.bsky.social blog including some unpublished bits from my PhD; a few of my photos; and some reflections on Smithfield's long life/slow death prompted by Justinien Tribillon's @vittles.bsky.social article about Rungis
I'm so pleased to announce this new book series with @dgb-mem.bsky.social -
Genders & Sexualities in the Early Modern World
Series Editors: Elizabeth Rhodes, James Daybell & Merry Wiesner-Hanks
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Image: The Concert, 1623, by Gerrit van Honthorst; National Gallery of Art
New post for our new blog! 'Smithfield is Dead, Long Live Smithfield' by @jackhanlon.bsky.social, in which he reflects both on his historical research on Smithfield Market, and the market's uncertain future.
All reads and reposts much appreciated.
And here it is! Come to Liverpool in July next year. We have a fantastic [insert appropriate collective noun here] of keynotes: @bkadams.bsky.social, @dnmcinnis.bsky.social, @lucycmunro.bsky.social, Perry Mills & Deborah Payne!
It's time for another 🧵 on one of the articles that made up our 50th anniversary special, 'London's Past Today'. This time, it is the turn of 'ReOrientalism: Representing London’s Muslim History Through its Adapted Mosques', by Nur Sobers-Khan & Shahed Saleem.
‘Three British Mosques’ was co-curated by Shahed Saleem, Christopher Turner, and Ella Kilgallon and exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum’s Pavilion of Applied Arts at the Venice Biennale 202...
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Rachel Willie
#CfP: “Stuart Drama” conference, 6-9 July 2027, @ljmuofficial.bsky.social. Abstracts by 2 October 2026 #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents
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