Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital
Matt Baume 🏳️🌈
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A new piece up on the @thelondonjournal.bsky.social blog including some unpublished bits from my PhD; a few of my photos; and some reflections on Smithfield's long life/slow death prompted by Justinien Tribillon's @vittles.bsky.social article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
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....
Jack Hanlon
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!
TERF nonsense on the first day of Pride month? Fuck the fuck off.
New post on our blog from Stephen Ridgwell: ‘Fugitive Material: The Case of the Nineteenth-Century Playbill’: thelondonjournal.org/blog.html#Ri...
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
brill.com/page/forthco...
Image: The Concert, 1623, by Gerrit van Honthorst; National Gallery of Art
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.
The London Journal
The London Journal
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...
