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Emilie K. M. Murphy

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🗃️ Early Modern History at the University of York, FRHistS (and on Council) | 🎶 Music and post-Reformation Catholicism | 📚 Multilingualism, mobility, and exiled English convents |👂Listening to Early Modern Travel Writing (forthcoming...!)

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · Jan 28

Do you work on #earlymodern English women and religion (c.1500-1800)? Would you like to join a community of scholars asking questions, sharing research, and disseminating news of upcoming events related to the field? Please subscribe to our new mailing list: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/EMEW-R 🗃️

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

lol *roars (was channelling raaaaaaaaaar clearly! 🦁)

Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

haha i think it's because i'm fairly sure it was actually entire cocomelon songs he was singing (a period of my life that i'm thankfully beyond now mine are 8 and 6.5 😆 but occasionally miss toddler days)
The lion raws were 👌🏼

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

On a packed commuting train and there is a toddler singing unaccompanied nursery rhymes at the top of his lungs (I can only assume he has headphones on or something - i can’t see him) and it is giving me life this morning. Occasionally he breaks up his renditions with loud lion roars. What a guy.

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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · 1d

Job Opportunity!

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill - UNC-Chapel Hill, Religion and Science Assistant Professor

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University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill - UNC-Chapel Hill, Religion and Science Assistant Professor | H-Net

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 8d

Exciting! Congrats @musicheritageplace.bsky.social #earlymodern 🗃️ www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10d

I’ve just added my voice to this consultation saying I don’t want a situation in which staff and fellow swimmers might scrutinise or judge my body, or anyone else’s, when I use the ponds. The current policy of trans inclusion works perfectly well. You can fill out the consultation linked below.

Bat Krown 🦇 @katbrownwrites.com · 11d

Those tedious and mysteriously funded transphobes want to limit access to the Ponds so I’ve had a pleasant 10 mins filling this out on why seeing a variety of women is magic and judging by what people look like or can do is very slippery territory hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.isn

Future access to the Hampstead Heath Bathing Ponds

Inviting feedback from pond users, the local community, and stakeholders on how the Kenwood Ladies’, and Highgate Men’s ponds should operate in the future.

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 11d

hi folks, not my usual content but one of my best friends is running the london marathon this year to support the alzheimer's society, in honour of her lovely mum.
if this is a cause close to your heart as well i know she'd be grateful for any donation - even £1.
www.justgiving.com/fundraising/...

Emma

Help Emma Howell raise money to support Alzheimer's Society

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Dr. Erica Johnson @drericajohnson.bsky.social · 13d

Come work with me!

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Francis Marion University and the History Department invite applications for a tenure-track historian specializing in American History.

Assistant Professor of History (26-02) - HigherEdJobs

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 15d

I think something probably needs to be done about the other seminar series, frankly.... All their speakers this semester are white men. The last 11 of 12 of their seminars up to this point were also given by white men. 8/10 of their convenors are white men... Other historians of religion do exist...

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 16d

thanks for flagging Jo. Have also written to Claire L to protest the event, as it does not reflect well on the IHR broadly...

Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 16d

thanks for clarifying Nicola (and sorry for quite erroneously asserting that this was being organised by you all and not acknowledging that it was also a Religious History seminar event- I should have read my email more carefully before posting)

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Dr Nicola Clark @nikkiclark86.bsky.social · 16d

As some of you were aware, the name of the IHR Tudor and Stuart seminar was recently attached to a day conference that included David Starkey in its line-up. That will no longer be the case going forward.

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Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social · 22d

Come listen to me talk about religious certificates next week! Featuring a fun mix of stranger churches’, recusant, and Church of England approaches to religious paperwork.

IHR Tudor and Stuart Seminar @tudorstuartseminar.bsky.social · 22d

The IHR Tudor and Stuart seminar has joined Bluesky! Please follow and RT!

Our programme for the year is starting NEXT WEEK on Monday 29 September with Alison Knight @aeknight.bsky.social speaking on 'Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper'.
Online and in-person, 5.30pm
Book here:

Certificates of Religion: Early Modern Belief on Paper

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 19d

innit just.

Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 19d

lol, not ideal.

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 19d

i mean they can't have been unaware of the line up before this was circulated under their name though, surely...

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 19d

Yeah i'm fuming Laura.

Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 19d

Meh it wouldn't shock me if he was a "we shouldn't cancel people" kinda guy

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 20d

bloody hell i see Tudor/Stuart seminar at the IHR have David Starkey on their line up for a conference.... if I needed a reminder of why I unsubscribed from that mailing list...! lol!

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The Material Culture of Wills Project @materialwills.bsky.social · Sep 12

📢 ICYMI: in our new blog post Laura Sangha talks about her collaboration with a musician to explore wills, history and creative approaches 👇

sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

#EarlyModern 🗃️

A photo montage showing Laura Sangha and Chris Hoban talking to people, looking at wills, visiting a museum. There are also images of people creating linocuts at a workshop, and of a will.

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Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · 29d

This next week! Join Professor Lucy Noakes for her talk 'War and Peace: Mass Observers and the end of the war in Europe, May 1945' & Yves Fradier, Director of Survey and Methods (@veriangroup.com) for his talk 'Living through war: Insights from displaced Ukrainians'.

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Mass Observation Archive @massobsarchive.bsky.social · Sep 8

Event Announcement!

'Documenting disruption: Everyday life during times of war'

We're collaborating with Verian to bring you an online webinar to look at the ways that everyday experiences of war are recorded.

Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1602048774...

Documenting disruption: Everyday life during times of war

Join us for a collaboration between the Mass Observation Archive and Verian looking at the ways that everyday life during war is recorded.

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Liesbeth Corens @onslies.bsky.social · 22d

AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research.

Run, don’t walk.

Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at King's College London

Discover an exciting academic career path as a Lecturer in the History of Early Modern Europe and the World at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 26d

Well this is an exceptionally good history job. Wonders never cease.

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Research Chair in Transgender Studies - Victoria, British Columbia (CA) job with UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA | 398896

The University of Victoria invites applications for a Research Chair in Transgender Studies, a prestigious academic ...

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 26d

please also be proud of everything i've done this week so far even though it is mystery code for you all (WEEK ZERO MEANS WEEK ONE IS NEXT WEEK - TIIME WHERE DOES IT GOOO lol) tomorrow actually feels manageable! huzzah!

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