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Dr. Marieke Hendriksen @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The fun has begun! The @preservare.bsky.social team is prepping for reconstructions.

Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Practice makes perfect! @thijselfrink.bsky.social getting some hands-on practice for his historical reconstructions in the PRESERVARE project. Stay tuned! #Reconstructions #EarlyModernHistory

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Preparations for our upcoming historical reconstructions are underway! Today's meeting with the PRESERVARE team gave us a glimpse of the materials we'll be working with - from wooden barrels to different types of salt. #FoodStudies #EarlyModernHistory #Reconstructions

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

📅 What's been happening at PRESERVARE? Read our latest #newsletter and take a peek into our (pleasantly) busy calendar: open.substack.com/pub/preserva...

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Buzzing with activity

Leafing through PRESERVARE's calendar

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

This Tuesday, the PRESERVARE team visited the Zuiderzeemuseum in Enkhuizen. We are very grateful to Laura Roscam Abbing for taking the time to guide us through the museum and generously share her insights.

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

PRESERVARE at the GDCh Conference in Lübeck. Last week, @carmenschmechel.bsky.social presented a work-in-progress paper (with @thijselfrink.bsky.social) on early modern fermentation in the Low Countries: "Fermente und Fermentationen in den frühneuzeitlichen Niederlanden." Stay tuned!

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Jessie Wei-Hsuan Chen @jessiewhchen.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Our Knowledge and Art Practices group had a blast and lots of interesting conversations on historical inks, pigments, and paints this morning. So nice to get back to these materials!

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

📸 Some snapshots from today’s hands-on (!) ink and pigments workshop organized by @jessiewhchen.bsky.social. Thank you!

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

The new PRESERVARE newsletter is out now. Find out more about our first publications and recent activities: substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Today we had the pleasure of a guided tour through the exhibition At Home in the 17th Century by one of its curators, @marijnstolk.bsky.social. It offered a window into everyday life in the 17th C — including this pantry, used to store food and keep it fresh for as long as possible.

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Timing is everything! In her new Ambix article, Carmen Schmechel (@carmenschmechel.bsky.social) explores medieval Latin alchemists’ search for the “Goldilocks moment," i.e. the exact moment to take the metal from the fire. It is available open access: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The Goldilocks Moment: Fire, Material Change, and Critical Time in Medieval Metallic Transmutation

In medieval Latin alchemy, “the work” (magisterium) in the laboratory paralleled the work of nature – yet while nature took over “a thousand years” in the mine, the artifex in the laboratory would ...

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

New publication! PhD researcher Tijmen Moesker (@tijmenm1980.bsky.social) on Bronze Age food preservation in Heiloo, out now in Metaaltijden 12. preservare.eu?p=500

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New publication – “Smoke and Sea”. Unveiling Food Preservation in Bronze Age Heiloo. – Preservare

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Greetings from Lund, where Thijs (@thijselfrink.bsky.social) presented his fascinating research on the history and knowledge of curing herring in the early modern Low Countries.

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Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Goedemorgen allemaal! Ik zit in de trein naar Alkmaar voor een bezoek aan het archief met het @preservare.bsky.social team. De regio Alkmaar speelde een belangrijke rol in vroegmoderne voedselconserveringstechnologie, zoals bijvoorbeeld het maken van lang houdbare harde kaas.

De kaasmarkt van Alkmaar. Ets, 17e eeuw. Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

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Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Hier kwam ik voor: recepten voor en beschrijvingen van voedsel dat geconserveerd werd meegenomen door VOC kooplieden om onderweg op te eten! Dit stuk gaat over ‘des frúgts genaamt fava,’ maar er wordt duidelijk iets anders bedoeld dan wat wij als fava-, tuin-, or paardenbonen kennen.

Foto van een 17e eeuws handschrift uit het VOC archief.

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Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The Sensing the History of Medicine summer school students are busy reconstructing early modern fever recipes - very appropriate on such a hot day. The @preservare.bsky.social team also joins in. Now the test: is this really cooling?

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Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Lunchtijd! Zojuist mijn jaargesprek gevoerd, altijd fijn om te evalueren en vooruit te kijken. We hebben afgesproken dat ik dagelijks tijd in mijn agenda ga blokken om aan mijn boekproject over de geschiedenis van anatomische modellen als kennis- en kunstproducten te werken. Zin in!

Model van een menselijk oog, papier maché, glas en metaal. Gemaakt in opdracht van Caspar Wistar, VS, vroege 19e eeuw.

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Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Koffie drinken met de collega’s van Kennis- en Kunstpraktijken. Vroeger heette de groep Wetenschapsgeschiedenis, maar ondertussen doen we zeer interdisciplinair onderzoek naar hoe kennis en kunst in het verleden tot stand kwamen. www.huygens.knaw.nl/thema/kennis...

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Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Goedemorgen! Vandaag in de agenda: koffie met onze afdeling Kennis- en Kunstpraktijken, mijn jaargesprek met mijn leidinggevenden, en een college geven voor de zomerschool Sensing the History of Medicine van het Huizinga Instituut. www.huizingainstituut.nl/course/huizi...

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Huizinga Institute Summer School 2025: Sensing the History of Medicine - Huizinga Instituut

Historians of medicine are engaging with an increasingly diverse array of sources and methods, with developments in material cultural studies, sensory history, disability studies, and embodied and per...

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Huygens Instituut @huygensknaw.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Collega @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social neemt deze week @historicivertellen.bsky.social over! Als projectleider van @preservare.bsky.social geeft ze een inkijkje in haar week 👇

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Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Tijd om met een drankje op een terras in de schaduw afscheid te nemen van @jakobj24.bsky.social. Hij deed bij ons onderzoek naar beschuit maken als conserveringstechniek en er komt een mooi paper aan. Ook droeg hij bij aan de @preservare.bsky.social dataset. Dankjewel Jakob!

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Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Vandaag op het programma: vergaderingen, een leesgroep, voorbereidingen voor een collega, mails beantwoorden en afscheid van een vertrekkende collega.

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Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

In @preservare.bsky.social onderzoeken mijn team en ik hoe kennis over voedselconserveringstechnologie zich ontwikkelde in de 17e en 18e eeuw, in huishoudens, bedrijven, en de academische wereld. Meer weten? Bezoek www.preservare.eu. Je kan je daar ook inschrijven voor onze nieuwsbrief.

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Large-scale conservation of perishable foodstuffs in the Low Countries, 1600-1800

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Historici vertellen @historicivertellen.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Goedemorgen allemaal! Mijn naam is @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social en deze week mag ik hier over mijn werk vertellen. Ik ben afdelingshoofd en onderzoeker bij @huygensknaw.bsky.social en leid daar @preservare.bsky.social , een @erc.europa.eu Consolidator Grant project.

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Huygens Instituut @huygensknaw.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

📣Our colleagues of Accessing Context are organizing two workshops to introduce data-envelopes for users & providers of cultural heritage datasets. They are developing a standard for the sustainable disclosure of these data sets, with attention to bias, positionality, provenance & historical context.

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Good morning! My name is @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social and I am taking over the @preservare.bsky.social account today. I am the PI (Principal Investigator) of the PRESERVARE project, which means I came up with the idea for the project, acquired the funding, and now lead the team.

A smiling blonde woman in an archival storage room with rolling shelves

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

A new PRESERVARE newsletter is out now! substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

On Thursday, @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social takes over the PRESERVARE Bluesky account. Make sure to follow her #ADayInTheLife!

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

The start of summer sadly marks the end of Jakob Jung’s (@jakobj24.bsky.social) internship at PRESERVARE. Over the past few months, he has been researching the production of rusk in the early modern Low Countries. He shares his findings in this blog post: preservare.eu/2025/06/23/a...

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A Crumbling History: Reconstructing Wormer Rusk Production and Its Sticky Connections

Two pieces of ‘Wormer beschuit’ survive in the collection of the Zaans Museum and are claimed to be more than 300 years old: hard, dry, and crumbly. Would you still fancy a bite? Four centuries ag…

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Huygens Instituut @huygensknaw.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

📣Tomorrow! Join us for "Brining, Pickling, and Smoking". @preservare.bsky.social PhD candidates @thijselfrink.bsky.social and Tijmen Moesker introduce their case studies & share preliminary findings. 🕟 15:30 AMS | 9:30 NY | 🌐 Online 🔗 buff.ly/VlbeNIz @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social @nybg.bsky.social

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The Historical Food Preservation Seminar Series concludes next week. On June 24, @thijselfrink.bsky.social and Tijmen Moesker will speak on their PhD projects on brining, picking, and smoking. We hope to see you there!

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Yesterday, postdoctoral researcher @carmenschmechel.bsky.social presented her research and the PRESERVARE project at the 14th International Conference on the History of Chemistry in Valencia. Read about her #ADayInTheLife👇

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

This Thursday, it's @carmenschmechel.bsky.social's turn to take over our #ADayInTheLife series. Follow along to learn more about her activities as a postdoctoral researcher at PRESERVARE.

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Huygens Instituut @huygensknaw.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

📣Tomorrow! Join us for "Tea and Sugar" with talks by Romita Ray (tea from British colonial commodity to post-colonial product in India) & Ulbe Bosma (the history of sugar). 🕟 15:30 AMS | 9:30 NY | 🌐 Online 🔗 buff.ly/VlbeNIz @preservare.bsky.social @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social @nybg.bsky.social

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Dr. Marieke Hendriksen @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I had an amazing seminar with my colleagues at @lhst-epfl.bsky.social today, talking about @preservare.bsky.social, performative methods, and food history as history of science/technology/knowledge. Very nice lunch too. Thank you everyone!

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

In case you missed it: Last Wednesday, our PhD researcher Tijmen Moesker visited an archaeological depot to study fishbones from an excavation in Enkhuizen. He's researching early modern fish smoking practices - and these bones hold interesting clues. 👇

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Good morning! Tijmen here. Started my day with a much- needed coffee, as good sleep is rare with two young kids.

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Coming this Wednesday: another #ADayInTheLife! PhD researcher Tijmen Moesker will share a peek into his day with PRESERVARE — follow along for a trip to an archaeological depot.

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Last Monday, our project officer @edurnedewilde.bsky.social shared a day behind the scenes at PRESERVARE. Catch up via the thread below! #ADayInTheLife

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Good morning! This is Edurne, project officer of PRESERVARE. Today’s #ADayInTheLife began with an unpleasant surprise: my usual train was cancelled, so now I’m on an alternative one—along with everyone else. If possible, I commute after the rush, but it’s just as busy today. Only up from here 🤞

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Next in our #ADayInTheLife series: @edurnedewilde.bsky.social, project officer of PRESERVARE. Follow along to find out whether it's a typical Monday—or if the start of the week has something unexpected in store!

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Day two of our #ADayInTheLife series is in the books! Many thanks to @thijselfrink.bsky.social for sharing a glimpse of his day at a Huizinga Institute PhD course with us. Want to see what he got up to? The full thread is right here 👇

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Today’s the day! I’m sharing a day in my life as a PhD researcher on early modern food preservation. Follow along in this thread to see what it’s like to investigate historical knowledge about pickling, brining, and curing!

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Huygens Instituut @huygensknaw.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

📣Tomorrow! Join us for "The Early Modern Kitchen" with talks by Lucy J. Havard (natural philosophy & cheesemaking) & Maroesjka Verhagen (Amsterdam's early modern food system). 🕟 15:30 AMS | 9:30 NY | 🌐 Online 🔗 buff.ly/VlbeNIz @preservare.bsky.social @mariekehendriksen.bsky.social @nybg.bsky.social

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

This Wednesday (April 30th), it's @thijselfrink.bsky.social's turn to take over the PRESERVARE Bluesky account. Follow along as he shows us what #ADayInTheLife of a PhD researcher looks like!

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

It’s a wrap! Many thanks to @jakobj24.bsky.social for kicking off our #ADayInTheLife series and taking us along on his trip to the archives today. Missed it? Catch the full thread here👇

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Preservare @preservare.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

100 followers! 🥳 Thanks for following PRESERVARE — we’re thrilled to have you with us as we explore the history of early modern food preservation. #FoodStudies #EarlyModernHistory #LowCountries

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