Lily Freeman-Jones
@freemanjones.bsky.social
Postdoc on ERC 'Europe in the World: A Literary History 1529-1683' at QMUL (2024-27) ~ women's race-making in European performance ~ PhD on human and animal skin in early modern drama (2024) ~ probably in a sauna or the sea
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Great look into the comprehensiveness of EEBO and EEBO-TCP and what that means for using those tools. Highly recommend for all computational bibliographers and early modernists doing large-scale work with EEBO
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Great look into the comprehensiveness of EEBO and EEBO-TCP and what that means for using those tools. Highly recommend for all computational bibliographers and early modernists doing large-scale work with EEBO
Fascinating to see this 800 year old sealskin binding - with fur intact!
What a great find! As a paleographer, I can't help but observe that if this were French I would have dated the not-yet-Gothic script to the mid-12th century. In Norway, the transition from Romanesque to Gothic happens later, hence the tentative 13th-c. date. www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his...
Eight pages bound in furry seal skin may be Norway's oldest book
The little book is so rare that the National Library of Norway is bringing in experts from around the world to learn more.
www.sciencenorway.no
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Fascinating to see this 800 year old sealskin binding - with fur intact!
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Book launch October 23rd!
Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...
Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...
Renaissance Skin Book Launch — CEMS KCL Blog
Book launch for Prof. Evelyn Welch's Renaissance Skin, hosted by King's Centre for Early Modern Studies.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk
October 14, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Book launch October 23rd!
Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...
Join CEMS for the launch of Prof. @evelynwelch.bsky.social's Renaissance Skin. We'll be gathering in King's History department. Comments from Dr. @historyelaine.bsky.social and Dr. Paolo Savoia. Chaired by Dr. @hsmurphy.bsky.social.
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/renai...
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Suitably spooky for our online Oct talk. Sign up now, it's free!
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory #Execution #Death #Crime
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory #Execution #Death #Crime
The Executed Body in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century London
In this lecture we hear Dr Anna Cusack, a social historian of early modern England, present her research into executed bodies.
www.eventbrite.ca
October 12, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Suitably spooky for our online Oct talk. Sign up now, it's free!
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory #Execution #Death #Crime
#MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory #Execution #Death #Crime
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An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations, used to justify Gaza strikes and amplified by international outlets, discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators
www.972mag.com/israeli-army... @972mag.com
www.972mag.com/israeli-army... @972mag.com
How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda
An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.
www.972mag.com
October 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations, used to justify Gaza strikes and amplified by international outlets, discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators
www.972mag.com/israeli-army... @972mag.com
www.972mag.com/israeli-army... @972mag.com
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It was two OUP books.
October 10, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It was two OUP books.
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Anyone aware of any non-Shakespeare early modern plays being performed Jan-Mar 2026 in London? Setting texts for a Renaissance Drama module and would love to track down something the students can go and see!
October 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Anyone aware of any non-Shakespeare early modern plays being performed Jan-Mar 2026 in London? Setting texts for a Renaissance Drama module and would love to track down something the students can go and see!
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I've lost track of how many people over the past years I've told to watch for Elizabeth Scott-Baumann's next book coming out, and now it's here. Proper good ideas: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
Sex and Style
A new literary history that places women writers at the center of poetic theory and practice in English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
press.princeton.edu
October 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I've lost track of how many people over the past years I've told to watch for Elizabeth Scott-Baumann's next book coming out, and now it's here. Proper good ideas: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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*Calling PhD students of modern British and imperial history in London*
The @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social's first session this Thursday (9 Oct.) is dedicated to PhDs, at any stage, for elevator pitches and meet-and-greet. Do come along! Details in the link.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social's first session this Thursday (9 Oct.) is dedicated to PhDs, at any stage, for elevator pitches and meet-and-greet. Do come along! Details in the link.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
New PhD Student Session
For the first session of term we will be hosting a meet and greet at the IHR for all PhD students in modern British and imperial history.
www.history.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
*Calling PhD students of modern British and imperial history in London*
The @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social's first session this Thursday (9 Oct.) is dedicated to PhDs, at any stage, for elevator pitches and meet-and-greet. Do come along! Details in the link.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
The @ihrbritainseminar.bsky.social's first session this Thursday (9 Oct.) is dedicated to PhDs, at any stage, for elevator pitches and meet-and-greet. Do come along! Details in the link.
www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Delighted to see the open access publication of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms -- a superb volume featuring artists, poets, scholars, and a short essay by me on Dutch- and French-speaking women in 16th-century London telling their stories of migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...
Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms – punctum books
punctumbooks.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Delighted to see the open access publication of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms -- a superb volume featuring artists, poets, scholars, and a short essay by me on Dutch- and French-speaking women in 16th-century London telling their stories of migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...
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29 September 1582: As it's Michaelmas, presumably everyone is having to pay their rents and other such tiresome admin and is generally in a bad mood. Unless of course they're landlords, like Elizabeth I, who, it appears by a paper today, has spent £881 23d on embroidery this year. 1/
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
September 29, 2025 at 12:47 PM
29 September 1582: As it's Michaelmas, presumably everyone is having to pay their rents and other such tiresome admin and is generally in a bad mood. Unless of course they're landlords, like Elizabeth I, who, it appears by a paper today, has spent £881 23d on embroidery this year. 1/
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
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3 days left to submit an abstract for the seminar i'm organizing for next year's acla! come think about climate fictions (broadly) before (broadly) climate change (broadly) with me!
www.acla.org/seminar/f8b7...
www.acla.org/seminar/f8b7...
September 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
3 days left to submit an abstract for the seminar i'm organizing for next year's acla! come think about climate fictions (broadly) before (broadly) climate change (broadly) with me!
www.acla.org/seminar/f8b7...
www.acla.org/seminar/f8b7...
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Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern
The 17th-century woman who wrote about surviving domestic abuse
In the 17th century, Anne Wentworth spoke out against her abusive husband and the religious institution that protected him.
theconversation.com
September 18, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern
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This is tomorrow! Join us at Guildhall Library and Archive to hear Lydia discussing the amazing new research she's doing on identity in Civic Performance!
5th June, 2-3pm: 'Race-making in Early Modern Civic Performance', Dr Lydia Valentine
Civic shows were sites of identity formation where the performance of different cultures constructed distinct racial and national identities. Lydia Valentine explores how these led to a collective 'London' identity.
Civic shows were sites of identity formation where the performance of different cultures constructed distinct racial and national identities. Lydia Valentine explores how these led to a collective 'London' identity.
Race-Making in Early Modern Civic Performance
Throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, civic performance played a key role in shaping a collective identity for London’s residents.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
This is tomorrow! Join us at Guildhall Library and Archive to hear Lydia discussing the amazing new research she's doing on identity in Civic Performance!
Beyond excited for this event, which highlights all the ways you could Have a Strop about being served a warrant in early modern England. Stamping on, throwing, ripping, crumpling, and eating documents all feature. Come join us if you're in the city!
join me, @thegozfather.bsky.social, @lflannigan17.bsky.social, @saracharles.bsky.social, @freemanjones.bsky.social, Clare Egan and Derek Dunne on 23rd May to explore what serving, tearing and eating legal documents in early modern England actually looked like! tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv #skystorians
May 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Beyond excited for this event, which highlights all the ways you could Have a Strop about being served a warrant in early modern England. Stamping on, throwing, ripping, crumpling, and eating documents all feature. Come join us if you're in the city!
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talking of Lynchian, here is a barber shaving an owl
THE/ Sale of Esau's Birth-right;/ OR,/ The New Buckingham Ballad.
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 🦉
THE/ Sale of Esau's Birth-right;/ OR,/ The New Buckingham Ballad.
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 🦉
March 27, 2025 at 1:54 PM
talking of Lynchian, here is a barber shaving an owl
THE/ Sale of Esau's Birth-right;/ OR,/ The New Buckingham Ballad.
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 🦉
THE/ Sale of Esau's Birth-right;/ OR,/ The New Buckingham Ballad.
#EarlyModern 🗃️ 🦉
Boston, what a joy. Thank you to RSA for welcoming me back into the fold, and to the entire SAA community. Receiving the J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize was a completely unexpected honour (so much so, I temporarily forgot to stand up) and one I'll always be grateful for @saaupdates.bsky.social
March 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Boston, what a joy. Thank you to RSA for welcoming me back into the fold, and to the entire SAA community. Receiving the J. Leeds Barroll Dissertation Prize was a completely unexpected honour (so much so, I temporarily forgot to stand up) and one I'll always be grateful for @saaupdates.bsky.social
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A great article
Hello Bluesky !
I'm a historian and a cook
Here's something I wrote recently for @thelondonjournal.bsky.social about Smithfield Market
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I'm a historian and a cook
Here's something I wrote recently for @thelondonjournal.bsky.social about Smithfield Market
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Stories from Smithfield: Markets and the Narration of London
Throughout London’s history, marketplaces have not only been integral to its economy but also to how the city was imagined. Drawing on a diverse range of archives and sources—from tabloid journalis...
www.tandfonline.com
March 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM
A great article
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typical book project timeline
March 4, 2025 at 3:08 PM
typical book project timeline
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I'm looking for any historians of medicine or early modernists who might be willing to read and comment on a draft of a piece I'm currently writing on the experiences of men with cancer in early modern England. Lots of references to the senses, masculinity, and genitalia... Please share!
March 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM
I'm looking for any historians of medicine or early modernists who might be willing to read and comment on a draft of a piece I'm currently writing on the experiences of men with cancer in early modern England. Lots of references to the senses, masculinity, and genitalia... Please share!
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I'm involved in this programme with a project on 'Forging Social Solidarities during Religious Wars', which is recruiting a Career Development Fellow and funding a PhD candidate in early modern European history – please share widely! I'm happy to chat with anyone interested in applying
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
We are delighted to share the news that IMEMS has been awarded a transformational investment of £1.3 million to support our new research programme, Inventing Futures. Read more here: 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/...
IMEMS Inventing Futures Programme - Durham University
www.durham.ac.uk
February 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I'm involved in this programme with a project on 'Forging Social Solidarities during Religious Wars', which is recruiting a Career Development Fellow and funding a PhD candidate in early modern European history – please share widely! I'm happy to chat with anyone interested in applying
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
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In 1626, a Cambridge fishwife sliced open a cod, only to find a gelatinous, half-dissolved manuscript inside. It was published the next year under the name "Vox Piscis or, the Bookfish." At this point, why not get your news from inside a dead fish? #earlymodern #bookfish archive.org/details/bim_...
March 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
In 1626, a Cambridge fishwife sliced open a cod, only to find a gelatinous, half-dissolved manuscript inside. It was published the next year under the name "Vox Piscis or, the Bookfish." At this point, why not get your news from inside a dead fish? #earlymodern #bookfish archive.org/details/bim_...
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When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”
To repeat: "A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for."
Today's university slashing and burning is Edinburgh, where about 10% of the budget will be cut. There'll be another case every single day until UK govts actually do something. A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
February 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”
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Some much needed inspiration from Grimsby on this rather damp Thursday morning.
“Trees are just better for our streets and communities.”
“No one else is going to do it... so we might as well crack on.”
“Trees are just better for our streets and communities.”
“No one else is going to do it... so we might as well crack on.”
‘Our community deserves beauty’: one man’s mission to green a UK tree desert
In Grimsby, locals have created a society focused on the environmental and health benefits more trees provide, planting thousands in schools, parks and hedgerows
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Some much needed inspiration from Grimsby on this rather damp Thursday morning.
“Trees are just better for our streets and communities.”
“No one else is going to do it... so we might as well crack on.”
“Trees are just better for our streets and communities.”
“No one else is going to do it... so we might as well crack on.”