Laura Gowing

@ihr_history @LauraGowing @DrAlanaGHarris @carmenmangion @ClaireLanghamer @CornelieUsborne

Akosua Paries-Osei unpacks the sexualisation of West African adolescence in early modern travel narratives, an aspect of Renaissance race-making with troubling longevity....

The CFP for our closing conference 'Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, 1440-1833' is now live! Deadline for submissions is 14th February, and the conference takes place 15th-17th May 2025. Please share! tinyurl.com/4y9bee66 #earlymodern #histmed @kingshistory

And here's the CFP weblink (compressed by 'X' in my first post): sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-well/…

The Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHoSTM) at King's College London invites applications for Hans Rausing Scholarships for MA and PhD studies in the history of science and technology. Deadline: 15th April, 2025. kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy/f…

@Finn_Mackay @dieworkwear @luludelr @MathMechMuse try Community Clothing

@dieworkwear @luludelr @MathMechMuse I love his chore coats. It's hard to find them in a small size though.

"Never wear tight trousers. Always buy trousers at least one waist size too big, make sure that the pockets are big enough to comfortably hold penknife, hanky, string, phone, pencil, labels and perhaps a mint or two." —Monty Don, British horticulturalist and human Peter Rabbit

CEMS Conference! Rethinking State and Society in Early Modern Britain. Organised by Dr. Jonah Miller (@kingshistory). December 17th 2024 Sign up: buytickets.at/centreforearly…

@rhetorician eckhode

can anyone help us (me and Christina) with the word that follows "false" in one of Anne Southwell's poems please? a letter has been written over, followed by a correction to the final word in the line #palaeography #earlymodern

Register: history.ac.uk/events/women-b… @ihr_history @LauraGowing @DrAlanaGHarris @carmenmangion @ClaireLanghamer @CornelieUsborne @ConorLucey70 @BeingKirst @ElizabethCBiggs @TheSAHGB

@PollyChedgzoy Ahaha. Your mums were indeed very cool in the 90s

New flat is round the corner from where my mums had their first date 😭😭

@LiamJLiburd Bury St Edmunds. I mean -

Could not be more excited to see former @CemsKcl Jonathan Powell's work on fiction, law, and women's voices in print. The word groundbreaking gets overused, but for me this painstaking research and expansive conceptual innovation was truly revelatory doi.org/10.1093/res/hg…

@murphyhs2019 @CemsKcl Oh this is sooo good

@PaulineStaffor3 A beloved and pathbreaking friend and colleague, truth-to-power speaker and amazing teacher. We were lucky to have her.

@rouge1767 @IHRWomen @ihr_history @DrAlanaGHarris @carmenmangion @ClaireLanghamer @CornelieUsborne @DrJulieHardwick Wasn’t it? Why didn’t England have notaries…

@LauraGowing @IHRWomen @ihr_history @DrAlanaGHarris @carmenmangion @ClaireLanghamer @CornelieUsborne @DrJulieHardwick So grateful for hybrid seminars. Thanks so much for persevering with the tech. Such a great talk.

Register: history.ac.uk/events/enslave… @ihr_history @LauraGowing @DrAlanaGHarris @carmenmangion @ClaireLanghamer @CornelieUsborne @DrJulieHardwick

@rouge1767 @IHRWomen @ihr_history @DrAlanaGHarris @carmenmangion @ClaireLanghamer @CornelieUsborne @DrJulieHardwick Aw thanks for your patience. Lots of things went wrong today, + our key tech facilitator had flu. Could’ve discussed that paper for hours if we had time!

@IHRWomen @ihr_history @LauraGowing @DrAlanaGHarris @carmenmangion @ClaireLanghamer @CornelieUsborne @DrJulieHardwick Thanks so much for working through the technical difficulties so we could attend @DrJulieHardwick ‘s fabulous talk.

@DrHannahDawson @drlouisegray All @drlouisegray the blackberry queen! I didn’t even pick this year

Hackney marsh queens @LauraGowing @drlouisegray 🍂

I may have missed the northern lights but I did get these summer jewels in blackberry jam made by Lou and Laura

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@lucy_js_clarke Po se cul? Puts self guilty?