Haohao Zhang (they/he)
@karl-haohaozhang.bsky.social
🔭Household Optics; Generational Craft; EM–Victorian Metrology; DH; Photograph-ie; Analogia; Glass models
📜Archival Marginalia & Dust Enthusiast
🤫Tracing a Jungian–Eranosian–Warburgian-Physician (..) in interwar UK
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8426-8121
📜Archival Marginalia & Dust Enthusiast
🤫Tracing a Jungian–Eranosian–Warburgian-Physician (..) in interwar UK
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8426-8121
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The British Library have a searchable interim Archives & Manuscripts Catalogues up & running: searcharchives.bl.uk
(posting for all the folks who, like me, had somehow managed to miss this important development)
(posting for all the folks who, like me, had somehow managed to miss this important development)
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue
searcharchives.bl.uk
December 15, 2025 at 12:37 PM
The British Library have a searchable interim Archives & Manuscripts Catalogues up & running: searcharchives.bl.uk
(posting for all the folks who, like me, had somehow managed to miss this important development)
(posting for all the folks who, like me, had somehow managed to miss this important development)
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now with YouTube trailer too!
stephenjones.blog/the-film/
stephenjones.blog/the-film/
November 16, 2024 at 12:02 PM
now with YouTube trailer too!
stephenjones.blog/the-film/
stephenjones.blog/the-film/
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Next year we are co-hosting a celebration event with @rshc.bsky.social to mark the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal.
📍Birkbeck, University of London
🗓️Saturday 31 January 2026
⏱️14:00-18:00
Everyone welcome! Please make sure to book via the link below.
📍Birkbeck, University of London
🗓️Saturday 31 January 2026
⏱️14:00-18:00
Everyone welcome! Please make sure to book via the link below.
History Workshop Journal’s 100th Issue: a celebration
Speakers include former and newer editors, and friends of the journal. Tea, coffee and a drink will be provided.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Next year we are co-hosting a celebration event with @rshc.bsky.social to mark the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal.
📍Birkbeck, University of London
🗓️Saturday 31 January 2026
⏱️14:00-18:00
Everyone welcome! Please make sure to book via the link below.
📍Birkbeck, University of London
🗓️Saturday 31 January 2026
⏱️14:00-18:00
Everyone welcome! Please make sure to book via the link below.
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📢 8th lecture in the Open Divide series!
🗓 Dec 17, 2025 | 🕔 5 PM CET
🎙 Zakayo Kjellström: “Beyond Institutional Boundaries: Shadow Libraries as Commons and the Future of Knowledge Preservation”
🔗https://unilu.webex.com/weblink/register/r08cc897f355e4874f6cc5ce7298043ce
🗓 Dec 17, 2025 | 🕔 5 PM CET
🎙 Zakayo Kjellström: “Beyond Institutional Boundaries: Shadow Libraries as Commons and the Future of Knowledge Preservation”
🔗https://unilu.webex.com/weblink/register/r08cc897f355e4874f6cc5ce7298043ce
December 9, 2025 at 4:41 PM
📢 8th lecture in the Open Divide series!
🗓 Dec 17, 2025 | 🕔 5 PM CET
🎙 Zakayo Kjellström: “Beyond Institutional Boundaries: Shadow Libraries as Commons and the Future of Knowledge Preservation”
🔗https://unilu.webex.com/weblink/register/r08cc897f355e4874f6cc5ce7298043ce
🗓 Dec 17, 2025 | 🕔 5 PM CET
🎙 Zakayo Kjellström: “Beyond Institutional Boundaries: Shadow Libraries as Commons and the Future of Knowledge Preservation”
🔗https://unilu.webex.com/weblink/register/r08cc897f355e4874f6cc5ce7298043ce
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On December 14th we'll be hosting an online reading group with John Berger’s biographer, Tom Overton, and Maria Nadotti, Berger's Italian translator and friend. They’ll be discussing Berger’s works on political resistance and what art tells us about ourselves.
Ways of Seeing: In Celebration of John Berger | The Verso Book Club Re
On the arrival of Berger’s centenary, the Verso Book Club will be hosting a conversation on his vital contributions to worlds of art history, politics, translation, and more.
www.versobooks.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
On December 14th we'll be hosting an online reading group with John Berger’s biographer, Tom Overton, and Maria Nadotti, Berger's Italian translator and friend. They’ll be discussing Berger’s works on political resistance and what art tells us about ourselves.
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For those interested in scientific instruments, this volume, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Scientific Instrument Commission (DHST/IUHPST) is a must-read. How have we gone about, and what have we learned from, Forty Years of Scientific Instrument Studies? brill.com/display/titl... #histSTM
December 8, 2025 at 10:51 AM
For those interested in scientific instruments, this volume, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Scientific Instrument Commission (DHST/IUHPST) is a must-read. How have we gone about, and what have we learned from, Forty Years of Scientific Instrument Studies? brill.com/display/titl... #histSTM
Victorian Marginalia ...
December 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Victorian Marginalia ...
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Loved #thewordforworld exhibition, showcasing Ursula K Le Guin’s maps. An enchanting walk through new worlds as presented on fabric.
Only up until 6 Dec, and it’s FREE, so run, don’t walk, to Architectural Association in Bedford Square
#art #maps #books 📚
Only up until 6 Dec, and it’s FREE, so run, don’t walk, to Architectural Association in Bedford Square
#art #maps #books 📚
December 4, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Loved #thewordforworld exhibition, showcasing Ursula K Le Guin’s maps. An enchanting walk through new worlds as presented on fabric.
Only up until 6 Dec, and it’s FREE, so run, don’t walk, to Architectural Association in Bedford Square
#art #maps #books 📚
Only up until 6 Dec, and it’s FREE, so run, don’t walk, to Architectural Association in Bedford Square
#art #maps #books 📚
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This expedition involving Hooker took place in India during the 19th-century, and also at a time when Kew was actively engaged in global plant exchange, resulting in a complex entanglement with the history of empire. Explore more about Hooker here: ow.ly/N37050XBal8
Joseph Hooker Correspondence Project
Digitising the personal and scientific correspondence of the 19th century botanist and explorer Joseph Hooker.
ow.ly
December 3, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This expedition involving Hooker took place in India during the 19th-century, and also at a time when Kew was actively engaged in global plant exchange, resulting in a complex entanglement with the history of empire. Explore more about Hooker here: ow.ly/N37050XBal8
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The Covid Inquiry is essential for achieving justice for the bereaved and providing a blueprint to save lives in the future.
But the amount the Government has spent responding to the Inquiry shows why we need the Hillsborough Law now.
🧵
1/4
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
But the amount the Government has spent responding to the Inquiry shows why we need the Hillsborough Law now.
🧵
1/4
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Government racks up £100m bill responding to Covid inquiry
BBC analysis shows cost to taxpayer is 50% higher than thought, with inquiry's own costs at £192m.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The Covid Inquiry is essential for achieving justice for the bereaved and providing a blueprint to save lives in the future.
But the amount the Government has spent responding to the Inquiry shows why we need the Hillsborough Law now.
🧵
1/4
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
But the amount the Government has spent responding to the Inquiry shows why we need the Hillsborough Law now.
🧵
1/4
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Some are saying my book on London prisons is the perfect holiday gift AND if you DM me before the end of the year I’ll happily share the discount code so you can get 25% off. #skystorians
www.mqup.ca/Books/T/To-D....
www.mqup.ca/Books/T/To-D....
To Detain or to Punish
Imprisonment was rarely used as punishment in Britain before 1800. The criminal justice system was based on terror and deterrence, sentencing convicts to the gallows at home and transportation oversea...
www.mqup.ca
December 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Some are saying my book on London prisons is the perfect holiday gift AND if you DM me before the end of the year I’ll happily share the discount code so you can get 25% off. #skystorians
www.mqup.ca/Books/T/To-D....
www.mqup.ca/Books/T/To-D....
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I have a short Comment piece just published in Nature Reviews Physics on the 350-year-old Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and its funding rdcu.be/eSXb2 #histSTM
The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and government-funded science
Nature Reviews Physics - Over its 350 years of history, the establishment and evolution of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, reflects the history of scientific institutions in Britain.
rdcu.be
December 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I have a short Comment piece just published in Nature Reviews Physics on the 350-year-old Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and its funding rdcu.be/eSXb2 #histSTM
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The Turin Humanities Programme again offers two-year #postdocs, this time with a #CFA on the topic "After the Enlightenment: Histories, Debates, and Reinterpretations”.
Sponsored by the fabulous Fondazione 1563, deadline 16 February. #skystorians
www.fondazione1563.it/progetti/en-...
Sponsored by the fabulous Fondazione 1563, deadline 16 February. #skystorians
www.fondazione1563.it/progetti/en-...
EN THP 2025 - Fondazione 1563
Turin Humanities Programme call for application 2025 "After the Enlightenment: Histories, Debates, and Reinterpretations"
www.fondazione1563.it
November 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The Turin Humanities Programme again offers two-year #postdocs, this time with a #CFA on the topic "After the Enlightenment: Histories, Debates, and Reinterpretations”.
Sponsored by the fabulous Fondazione 1563, deadline 16 February. #skystorians
www.fondazione1563.it/progetti/en-...
Sponsored by the fabulous Fondazione 1563, deadline 16 February. #skystorians
www.fondazione1563.it/progetti/en-...
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Just a 1399 unicorn watermark from a paper manufacturer from Valencia to make your day. Friends of #paperhistory know that these paper sheets of around 1400 are among the first sheets of European paper to appear on the market. European #bookhistory was a different game afterwards. #skystorians
October 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Just a 1399 unicorn watermark from a paper manufacturer from Valencia to make your day. Friends of #paperhistory know that these paper sheets of around 1400 are among the first sheets of European paper to appear on the market. European #bookhistory was a different game afterwards. #skystorians
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Marc Bloch, Carnets inédits 1917-1943 (édition de Massimo Mastrogregori ; @editionsamsterdam.bsky.social, 2025 ; #skystorians) : www.editionsamsterdam.fr/carnets-ined...
Carnets inédits
Le « laboratoire » de Marc Bloch enfin accessible au grand public.
Les deux carnets de Marc Bloch réunis dans cet ouvrage – « Quelques notes de lecture
www.editionsamsterdam.fr
November 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Marc Bloch, Carnets inédits 1917-1943 (édition de Massimo Mastrogregori ; @editionsamsterdam.bsky.social, 2025 ; #skystorians) : www.editionsamsterdam.fr/carnets-ined...
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I can’t say enough how fantastic the programme staff are at the Visiting Scholars Programme @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. If you don’t know about this wonderful programme, read more here: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
🚨 Deadline is this Friday 30 Nov, still time to apply.
🚨 Deadline is this Friday 30 Nov, still time to apply.
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk
November 24, 2025 at 10:44 AM
I can’t say enough how fantastic the programme staff are at the Visiting Scholars Programme @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. If you don’t know about this wonderful programme, read more here: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
🚨 Deadline is this Friday 30 Nov, still time to apply.
🚨 Deadline is this Friday 30 Nov, still time to apply.
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If you're interested in writing a book review for SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social, a new batch of available books is now live! docs.google.com/document/d/1.... & if there's something you'd like to review that's not on this list, feel free to contact me.
SHARP News - Books Available for Review
SHARP News Books Available for Review To express interest in writing a review, please read the book review guidelines and contact coeditors Jolie Braun and Madeline Zehnder at [email protected]...
docs.google.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
If you're interested in writing a book review for SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social, a new batch of available books is now live! docs.google.com/document/d/1.... & if there's something you'd like to review that's not on this list, feel free to contact me.
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"Higher education generated £24bn in export earnings for the UK in 2022-23, far above aircraft manufacturing with £12bn, legal services with £9.5bn and telecoms with £8.8bn."
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Less than Greggs? Public have no idea of value of top universities, study finds
Belief that snack chain’s revenues exceed those of Oxford’s one of many misconceptions about UK’s HE sector
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
"Higher education generated £24bn in export earnings for the UK in 2022-23, far above aircraft manufacturing with £12bn, legal services with £9.5bn and telecoms with £8.8bn."
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
#HigherEd
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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The Weekly Read is "Archival Irruptions" by @ktgerbs.bsky.social, which traces how British colonial authorities in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans. Read the entire book now, for free!
buff.ly/rccy0qL
buff.ly/rccy0qL
November 1, 2025 at 2:01 PM
The Weekly Read is "Archival Irruptions" by @ktgerbs.bsky.social, which traces how British colonial authorities in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans. Read the entire book now, for free!
buff.ly/rccy0qL
buff.ly/rccy0qL
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Happy to share the latest recorded lecture:
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐒: 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨-𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞
Serena Mambriani
𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: youtu.be/s8UpmKMaVVA?...
#CSMBR #Astrology
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐒: 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨-𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞
Serena Mambriani
𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: youtu.be/s8UpmKMaVVA?...
#CSMBR #Astrology
THE BODY AND THE STARS IN THE VITALI ARCHIVE - S. Mambriani (Parma)
YouTube video by CSMBR Pisa
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Happy to share the latest recorded lecture:
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐒: 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨-𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞
Serena Mambriani
𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: youtu.be/s8UpmKMaVVA?...
#CSMBR #Astrology
𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐒: 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨-𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞
Serena Mambriani
𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: youtu.be/s8UpmKMaVVA?...
#CSMBR #Astrology
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Ooh, Simon Schaffer reader coming down the pike. I blogged through a good chunk of his oeuvre back in the day, which was really illuminating. Too bad they didn't include "The Show That Never Ends" (on perpetual motion), which is probably my favorite: doi.org/10.1017/S000... #HPS
Working Knowledge
Collects key articles by Simon Schaffer, one of the most important historians of science working today. Working Knowledge is the first English-language collection of essays by Simon Schaffer, coautho...
press.uchicago.edu
October 29, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Ooh, Simon Schaffer reader coming down the pike. I blogged through a good chunk of his oeuvre back in the day, which was really illuminating. Too bad they didn't include "The Show That Never Ends" (on perpetual motion), which is probably my favorite: doi.org/10.1017/S000... #HPS
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One week to go to my Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. Hear about her witnessing the birth of #photography and maintaining a love of art throughout her life. 5th November 1-2pm Weston Library:
photooxford.org/events/const...
photooxford.org/events/const...
Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford
Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November
photooxford.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
One week to go to my Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. Hear about her witnessing the birth of #photography and maintaining a love of art throughout her life. 5th November 1-2pm Weston Library:
photooxford.org/events/const...
photooxford.org/events/const...
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At the University of Milan, lecture series on the “Annales school”, from November 2025 to March 2026, with great speakers such as Müller, Rubin, Calafat, Burke and Abulafia! @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @historysorbonne.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
At the University of Milan, lecture series on the “Annales school”, from November 2025 to March 2026, with great speakers such as Müller, Rubin, Calafat, Burke and Abulafia! @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social @qmul.bsky.social @cnrs.fr @historysorbonne.bsky.social