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Maggie Simon

@maggiesimon.bsky.social
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Interested in early modern literature and culture, book history, recipe studies, and bread, lots of bread.

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Fiona Robertson @fionaswriting.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
If you're in London between now and September, the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social has an exhibition about disability justice and zines - sharing information in spite of hostile govt and medical systems. My zine 'Your Life Is Not Over: A Book Of Apocalypses And How To Survive Them' is included!
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Zines Forever! DIY Publishing and Disability Justice
Discover how self-published zines have been used to share individual expriences of disability and disabled identity. You can see, touch, listen to and create your own zines in this display, drawn from...
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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Looking forward to our Print Exchanges flash talks tomorrow at 4pm GMT! Come along to learn about 6 brilliant new projects from @printlady.bsky.social @john-stone.bsky.social @profjrussell.bsky.social Eve Houghton, Priya Nambrath, and Stacie Vos. Email printexchanges@gmail.com for registration link
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Maggie Simon @maggiesimon.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Bright and early tomorrow! #RSA2025 #SAA2025
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Maggie Simon @maggiesimon.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Some good news at NC State! Very excited to welcome our new chancellor. news.ncsu.edu/2025/03/18/k...
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Kevin Howell Named NC State’s 15th Chancellor
He succeeds Randy Woodson, who is retiring after 15 years of service.
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Maggie Simon @maggiesimon.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
This seventeenth-century measles "remedy" hits a little different in the US at the moment. #HistMed #EMROCTranscribes #MedHums #HistSci #HistFood #EnvHums
seventeenth-century manuscript page with a remedy for measles and smallpox
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Open Research at York @uoyopenres.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Led by Dr Katherine Hunt, Grace and Emma created a framework for mini-transcribathons introducing beginners to working digitally with manuscripts 📜 This was a satellite project of the Early Modern Recipes Online Collective. Read more about EMROC in this issue of the Early Modern Studies Journal 👇
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Volume 8 - Early Modern Studies Journal
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Maggie Simon @maggiesimon.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
These recipes from RCP 688 are full of beans! Remedies for a sore leg and for the gout. #EMROCTranscribes #HistMed #envhums
Manuscript page of medical remedies.
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Maggie Simon @maggiesimon.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Pro tip if you need some empty snail shells: "Take garden snayles and lay them by the fir side the hete whereof will cause the snayles to creepe out" No guidance for what to do, then, with the unhoused snails (from a recipe for kidney stones) #EMROCTranscribes #HistSci #HistFood #HISTSTM #EnvHums
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Maggie Simon @maggiesimon.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Lots of good therapeutic uses for different fabrics in archive.org/details/ms-6... Just found one asking for medicine to be applied to a canker with "a fyne piece of silke" Still time to join the fun emroc.hypotheses.org/transcribath... @rcpmuseum.bsky.social #EMROCTranscribes #HistMed #skystorians
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MS688 Book of surgerie and phisick : Andrewe Plowden : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Handwritten recipe book from the collections of the Royal College of Physicians. Begone the yeare of Our Lord 1601. Written by Andrewe Plowden, Servant to...
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Maggie Simon @maggiesimon.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Fun finds from #EMROCTranscribes! I've just finished one for a flux in the womb and choler (PMS?). #WmnsHist #skystorians #WomensHistoryMonth
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Maggie Simon @maggiesimon.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
We are now transcribing two manuscripts from @rcpmuseum.bsky.social and @wellcomecollection.bsky.social ! Please find all you need to join us today: emroc.hypotheses.org/transcribath... #EMROCTranscribes #WomensHistoryMonth #skystorians #HistMed #HistFood #EarlyModern
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Marissa Nicosia @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
2) Join transcribers across the world working on two really interesting manuscripts! (I've looked at both in person on past research trips and I could not be more thrilled that they will soon be transcribed.) emroc.hypotheses.org/4479
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2025 Transcribathon Schedule Set
2025 Transcribathon: Women’s Health, Women’s Handbooks Friday, March 14 Join EMROC, Wellcome Collection, and the Royal College of Physicians for a day of transcribing, virtual chatting, and a presenta...
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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
#EMROCTranscribes is excited to welcome @maryfissell.bsky.social to celebrate her 🔥new book🔥 Abortion: A History. She is talking about 'Hiding in Plain Sight: Women and Abortion in #EarlyModern England' 4pm GMT/ 12pm EDT, 14 March. Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hiding-in-...
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Hiding in Plain Sight: Women and Abortion in Early Modern England
Join author and Professor in the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, Mary Fissel to discuss abortion in the early modern era.
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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
#EMROCTranscribes is on 14 March. Details on how to join here: emroc.hypotheses.org/4479 We would love to have you join us in exploring #EarlyModern #HistMed!
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2025 Transcribathon Schedule Set
2025 Transcribathon: Women’s Health, Women’s Handbooks Friday, March 14 Join EMROC, Wellcome Collection, and the Royal College of Physicians for a day of transcribing, virtual chatting, and a presenta...
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Grace Murray @mazinggrace.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Looking forward to joining #EMROCTranscribes to work on some fantastic c17th recipe books this Friday. If you're London-based and would like to transcribe with the LRS in-person at Birkbeck, do sign up! No experience necessary. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event... More info: emroc.hypotheses.org
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Recipe Transcribathon
Join the London Renaissance Seminar branch of the EMROC recipe transcribathon. Bring a laptop and a keen eye!
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Hillary Nunn @hnunn.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Want to learn about the manuscripts EMROC is transcribing 3/14? Check out these videos: RCP: Intro to Mrs Henslow's book of 'surgerie and physick' at www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7Br... Wellcome: Intro to Wellcome MS.373 - Jane Jackson's Recipe Book www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiVF... #EMROCTranscibes
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Introducing Mrs Henslow's book of 'surgerie and physick'
YouTube video by Royal College of Physicians
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Maggie Simon @maggiesimon.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Curious about how to treat your period by fumigating your "privitie"? Find out more about Jane Jackson's remedies in @wellcomecollection.bsky.social's video on the manuscript www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiVF... #WmnsHist #emroctranscribes #GenderHist
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Introduction to Wellcome MS.373 - Jane Jackson's Recipe Book
YouTube video by Wellcome Collection
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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Just in time for #IWD, some #wmnshist. We will be talking about women's health in #EarlyModern England. Transmission of women's knowledge through recipes, reproductive and menstrual health practices, & our favourite recipes in the 2 manuscripts! #HistMed #WomensHistoryMonth #EMROCTranscribes
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Maggie Simon @maggiesimon.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
There's still time to register for Friday's panel "Women Talking Women's Health" with @historybeagle.bsky.social @historyelaine.bsky.social @hnunn.bsky.social and wonderful archivists from the @wellcomecollection.bsky.social and @rcpmuseum.bsky.social history.rcp.ac.uk/event/transc...
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Transcribathon 2025: women's health, women's handbook | RCP Museum
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Maggie Simon @maggiesimon.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Getting excited for the EMROC 2025 Transcribathon (3/14) in partnership with @wellcomecollection.bsky.social and @rcpmuseum.bsky.social @hnunn.bsky.social and I are making a headache cure with our classes. Get a template for making it with your class here emroc.hypotheses.org/4430 #EMROCtranscribes
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Recipe Making and the 2025 Transcribathon
This Spring, Hillary Nunn and Maggie Simon are making a headache cure with their classes, and they’d love to have your students join in. Click here for more information and a template for incorporatin...
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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
If you'd like to see the manuscripts we will be transcribing on 14 March, they are: Jane Jackson's book wellcomecollection.org/works/j6kugnjn and Honoré Henslo's book archive.org/details/ms-6.... Any questions about #EarlyModern women and #HistSTM? Please send them to me for the panel on 7 March!
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Jackson, Jane
<p>"A very shorte and compendious Methode of Phisicke and Chirurgery Containeinge the Cures inwardly and also the Cureinge of all manner of woundes on the bodie together with remedies for the stone an...
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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
A foretaste... lots of headaches and migraines in the books, which I'm looking forward to talking about as a #Migraine sufferer! #HistMed #WmnsHist
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Lisa Smith @historybeagle.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
If you're interested in #EarlyModern recipes, medicine, digital humanities etc., please follow my Early Modern Recipes Online colleagues @hnunn.bsky.social @maggiesimon.bsky.social and @historyelaine.bsky.social. We will be skeeting our upcoming #transcribathon and events. emroc.hypotheses.org/4479
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2025 Transcribathon Schedule Set
Want to know more about early modern recipes before the big day? Join us for an online Transcribathon Preview discussion devoted to recipes and women’s health on  Friday 7 March, 5pm – 6pm GMT/12pm – ...
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