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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I’m really sorry, but I just can’t get used to posting here! If you’d like updates from me, I’m on Instagram as lucycoatman

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Does anyone know if the computers at the Austrian National Library have PowerPoint? I need to edit my presentation for a lecture I’m giving on Sunday, but don’t have PP and the slides are apparently too much for Google slides to handle/I need to be able to password protect

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Also up for auction is this pastel portrait of Mary Vetsera. Had the chance to see it the other month at a research appointment!

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

If you want to own Emperor Franz Joseph’s slippers, now is your chance… dorotheum.com/de/l/9582635/

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I need to get good at posting here, I’m sorry. I’m such an Instagram addict. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Came for a Vetsera related meeting, stayed for the art.

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Thankfully getting back on track with everything now that I no longer feel like a zombie (thank you, Hashimoto’s diagnosis and meds!), so if I owe you something, I hope to get it to you in the next couple of weeks!

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

(Sorry for the double post lol, I needed to remove the image I posted from the screen test 😬)

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I had a fun morning on Saturday filming my interview for an upcoming Secrets d’Histoire episode in Empress Zita at the French embassy in Vienna! It was really nice to get back into material that I haven’t had a chance to look at for a while.

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Alright. Summarised all my notes to have at hand for the Zita interview tomorrow. Feeling less stressed and looking forward to it now! (But not the early wake up call…)

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

On a different topic - there are a couple of Mary’s poems that I want to put in my book. They’re not particularly high brow, and my German is fluent, but I don’t feel I have the artistic capability to render them well in English, and a direct translation would be weird. What would you do?

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Feeling slightly overwhelmed about filming this Zita episode on Saturday 😵‍💫

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

April 1, 1989: Empress Zita’s funeral. She was buried on the anniversary of the death of her husband Karl (April 1, 1922), who she loved so much.

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The future Emperor Karl as a child at Villa Wartholz. 📸: ÖNB

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

This week was scarily productive for my job, my own research & writing, teaching, preparing for filming a tv episode on Empress Zita… it’s nice to be healthy & motivated again, but I’m excited to sleep and see The Phantom of the Opera for the 40 somethingth time tomorrow… 😅

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Kind of obsessed with Crown Prince Rudolf’s picnic set that was auctioned in 2008.

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Where else would Mayerling experts meet but in Kaffee Monarchie?

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Alright, who signed me up to receive a magazine for over 50s?

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Today I experienced a virtual reality boat ride where Sisi was our tour guide and we were going through the sewers of Vienna before flying into Schönbrunn (in the boat) and then flying above Vienna (still in the boat). I’m going to need some time to recover from that.

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Born on this day in 1871: Marie Alexandrine Freiin von Vetsera, known as ‘Mary’. 🤍 📸: ÖNB

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

A big part of me was irritated that poor health + my job kept me from finishing my book on Mary Vetsera, but I read through things and wrote 5 pages tonight and think the distance did me some good. I feel motivated again and realised there actually isn’t that much left to write!

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

New (old) Mary Vetsera photos in my collection! 🤩

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Who wore it better? Young Otto von Habsburg or King Charles?

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Very excited for these Mary Vetsera cabinet photos I bought to arrive...!

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Mildly demotivating where you apply for a job where you tick all of their boxes and more and don’t even get invited to an interview…

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Mary Vetsera, 1888. Part of a series of photos taken on the day she met Crown Prince Rudolf. 📸: Wien Museum

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

It’s obviously not the film, but I’m honestly enjoying the new Netflix adaptation of The Leopard… 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

It seems that your friendly neighbourhood Habsburg historian will be filming for French tv again next month…!

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

22.2.1942 💔 “Ich grüsse alle meine Freunde! Mögen sie die Morgenröte noch sehen nach der langen Nacht! Ich, allzu Ungeduldiger, gehe ihnen voraus.”

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

A clip from last night’s Secrets d’Histoire… still can’t believe I got to be on this show and talk about Mary and Mayerling… to 1.7 million viewers!!! (Watch out for YouTube’s auto dubbing which you can turn off if you don’t want everyone to sound like a robot).

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Les amants de Mayerling : la rencontre - Secrets d'histoire

YouTube video by Secrets d'Histoire - France Télévisions

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Zachary Mazur @zacharymazur.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Big announcement! POLIN Museum is hosting a Summer School for Early Career Scholars in Jewish studies. We’ll combine seminars, workshops and field visits over a week (Jul 21-28). POLIN is offering very generous financial support. More details below. Please share! polin.pl/en/event/sum...

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Summer School with POLIN Museum for Early Career Scholars | Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN w Warszawie

Organizujemy tygodniowy program skierowany do doktorantów i doktorów na wczesnym etapie kariery.

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Crown Prince Rudolf in 1881. 📸: Wien Museum

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

40 something-th time (honestly no idea anymore) watching The Phantom of the Opera this afternoon. I always think it isn’t possible for Anton Zetterholm to break my heart more than the last time, but he always does…

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Began my Friday with Sachertorte for breakfast…

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Old article of mine free for a time 👇

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Very excited that the Mayerling episode of Secrets d'Histoire is being released! 19th February, 21:05, France 3. The Mayerling incident happened 136 years ago today. www.francetvpro.fr/contenu-de-p...

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

On this day in 1889: Mary Vetsera and Crown Prince Rudolf make their way to Mayerling. Photo from my collection.

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Jessica Minieri @jessicaminieri.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

If you're in the University Park, PA area this week, check out Marina Perruca Gracia's talk on Naples in the Spanish Empire! Marina does fantastic work on Naples and Spain at King Juan Carlos University in Madrid:

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Tamara Scheer @tamarascheer.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

CALL for PAPERS 🙂 We are looking for colleagues interested in joining us for a conference in Rome/Vatican in late January 2026. Us is me and Jan Bernot @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social , Andreas Gottsmann #ÖHI and Stefan Heid #RIGG Here is the Link: www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

This time last week I was having the most Viennese of birthday parties. 🥹

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Is there one of those starter pack thingymibobs for Habsburg studies? Feel like I’m missing so many people on here…

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

On this day in 1889: Mary Vetsera wrote her will. 📸: ÖNB

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

13th January 1889 was a day so special to Mary Vetsera that she had a cigarette case engraved for Crown Prince Rudolf with the words “13th January, thanks to fate”. My birthday is also on this day, and my boyfriend got me a cigarette case with the same engraving. 🥹

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Lucy Coatman @lucycoatman.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Very plain and unnoticeable Viennese doorway.

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