Heather Taylor (Hetty) @healextay.bsky.social · 17/11/2025After weeks of being stuck on the sofa it was so refreshing to finally make it out of the house, and to such a brilliant conference no less! Such an incredible range of papers - testified by the reams of notes I took over the two days. Thanks so much to the organisers! 210
Reposted by Heather Taylor (Hetty)Jack Newman @jack-newman.com · 15/09/2025Are you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Consider applying for our Postgraduate Seminar Series ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/08/ihr-...ihrdighist.blogs.sas.ac.ukIHR Digital History Seminar Postgraduate Panels Call for Papers 2025-26 - Digital History SeminarAre you a postgraduate researcher trying out digital methods, tools or resources as a means of exploring historical phenomena? Is your historical research made possible by the use of electronic tools ... 0612
Reposted by Heather Taylor (Hetty)hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...telegraph.co.ukI should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in GazaHome Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone 5385345
Heather Taylor (Hetty) @healextay.bsky.social · 25/06/2025Just found the cutest experiment in Bod. Lib. Digby 67: Ut mureligus redeat ad domum tuam postquam semel fuerit in ea So that a cat (literally mouse-gatherer!) returns to your house after it has once been in it. Think I need to give this one a try 🫴🏼🐈⬛ Followed by one to make a dog follow you 🚶🏼♀️🐕 010
Heather Taylor (Hetty) @healextay.bsky.social · 15/04/2025Want to know what kind of ‘non-medical’ ailments a medieval medical practitioner might have been able to treat you for? Thrilled to share some of my research in the journal of the @sshmedicine.bsky.social - open access and everything! doi.org/10.1093/shm/...doi.org‘An experiment pervyd for a thynge y lost’: ‘Non-medical’ Charms and experimenta in Medieval Medical ManuscriptsSummary. This essay conducts a close examination of manuscripts of English provenance from the late Middle Ages which, while predominantly medical in natur 083