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Rachel Winchcombe @rachelwinchers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Currently on the 8th watch in a row of Steps' music video for 5,6,7,8 (c. 1998) with my one year old. I mean I know it's obviously a banger, but I'm not sure I can take it much longer. Especially as she's making me do the dance....

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Steps Dance to Scared of the Dark

ALT: Steps Dance to Scared of the Dark

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......

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Will Clement @historywill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Excited to join BEMCC! I’m just leaving a conference Paris exploring the “cloaques” in history. These “cesspits” (tho that’s an imperfect translation — I suggested “shitholes”) had a marked impact on the bodies of urban inhabitants. Also feat @manonraffard.bsky.social of @uomsalc.bsky.social

A poster for an academic conference showing a black and white image of a man in a fetid alleyway. The title of the conference was Le cloaque, in bad-fond d’un autre genre à explorer

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Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective @bemccollective.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Check out our upcoming events for Semester 1! We have lots of exciting sessions planned and we hope to see you there! Further details and reading lists will appear on our website shortly: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

30 September: Dr Holly Fletcher, 'The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World'
28 October: Reading Group, 'Environmental Approaches to the Body'
16 November: Anne Hultzsch, 'Female Biography ad Architecture, 1785-1842: Maria Dundas Graham Callcott'
2 December: Reading Group, 'Environmental Approaches to the Body'
9 December: Work-in-Progress Session, 'Sugarways: The Material Life of a Caribbean Crop'

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Dr Jennifer Evans @historianjen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm a so pleased that the exhibition I co-curated with @cerihoulbrook.bsky.social is now open at the Chelsea Physick Garden. Running until the 15th Nov, it explores the autumnal plants of the garden through the work of pioneering botanical illustrator Anne Pratt.

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Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective @bemccollective.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A feathery feature: @stefanhanss.bsky.social and the Collective’s digital microscopes will help uncover the mysteries of a 400-year-old ‘Feather Book’ held at McGill University Libraries. The project is led by Dr Victoria Dickenson and funded by @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca. Read more on our blog!

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History, Art and Science join Forces to Unlock the Mysteries of a 400-Year-Old Feather Book

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Ryan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is how I remember the order of Henry VIII’s wives.

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Rachel Winchcombe @rachelwinchers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Today I'm writing about sugar, but mostly from the perspective (not literally) of enemas.

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Robert De Niro Why Not

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Bodies, Emotions and Material Culture Collective @bemccollective.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We're excited to welcome @drhollyfletcher.bsky.social (@ucl.ac.uk) back to Manchester to speak about her new project, ‘The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World: Matter in Multispecies Medicine’ (funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social). Join us on Weds 30th Sept, 13:00, to hear more! Details linked:

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Holly Fletcher (UCL), 'The Fats of Life in the Early Modern World: Matter in Multispecies Medicine'

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Rachel Winchcombe @rachelwinchers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Being a historian of British colonisation involves far too much discussion of dysentery for my liking.

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Max Greenfield (Schmidt) Dry Heaving

ALT: Max Greenfield (Schmidt) Dry Heaving

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Joshua Rushton @joshuarushton8.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@nicolemaceira.bsky.social and I are delighted to share the final programme for our online colloquium “Environmental Approaches to the Reformation World” - 30th September* (forgive my date error on previous now deleted post 🤦🏼‍♂️) Register Below: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/environmen...

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Environmental Approaches to the Reformation World, 1500-1800

Online colloquium

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Rachel Winchcombe @rachelwinchers.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Am I really to believe that in the 18th century well off people were peering down at their beautiful newborn babies and deciding that 'Bacon' was a perfect and fitting first name?

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Chloe: Fille Choque Shocked Reaction

ALT: Chloe: Fille Choque Shocked Reaction

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Charlie Lynch @charlielynch.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Historian looking for freelance work. I’m a very experienced RA, I’m looking for anything really that might help me pay my bills, because in general my profession does not, and no one will let me try doing anything else…

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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

We have published a new collection of advertisements about apothecaries and medicines in 18th c. Bridgetown, Barbados. dloc.com/collections/... More information in the thread. 1/

Screenshot of digital items of the collection Apothecaries and Medicines in colonial Bridgetown.

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Rachel Winchcombe @rachelwinchers.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Oh surely this has to feature in my pineapple chapter now!

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Rachel Winchcombe @rachelwinchers.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Been trying to reconstruct the cost of an eighteenth-century pinery. In today’s money, it’s about £35,000 to build, plus £5,000 a year to maintain. This would yield 150 pineapples a year, if you were lucky. This feels a bit like the Georgian version of NFTs. #FoodHistory #EarlyModern #AcademicSky

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Baby Wasting Money

Alt: small child throwing piles of cash out the window

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Rachel Winchcombe @rachelwinchers.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This is not a drill! Early Modern British History open-ended at Keele. These kinds of posts are basically unicorns at this point.

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Rachel Winchcombe @rachelwinchers.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Think I should stop discussing work around my family. My 19th month old daughter just picked up a book and said ‘mummy wrote that book. It about pineapples’. If only I’d finished it and if only it was just about pineapples 🤣

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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Call For Proposals: Conference on Families in Early American and Atlantic Worlds April 15-17, 2027 Hosted by the John Carter Brown Library (Co-chairs Julie Hardwick and Karin Wulf) Details at: forms.gle/QWcB23XGbwu6...

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Applications for the Postdoctoral Fellowships are open. We're inviting proposals from early-career researchers in the humanities and social sciences wishing to pursue an independent research project. Learn more: bit.ly/4xWduAS

A colour block banner promoting Postdoctoral Fellowships funding. Deadline: Wednesday 30 September 2026

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EUI Department of History @eui-history.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

📢 Job vacancy - Chair in Intellectual History We welcome applications from scholars working across a broad range of fields, including: 💠 History of political theory, political economy 💠 Knowledge systems and IT 💠 Postcolonial and intersectional thought 💠 Humanist, post-human, and planetary history

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Rachel Winchcombe @rachelwinchers.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

What really happened during Jamestown’s Starving Time? In this episode, I help explore one of the most infamous crises in early American history. #academicsky #materialculture #history #earlymodern shows.acast.com/not-just-the...

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Jamestown: From Colony to Cannibalism | Not Just the Tudors

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Rachel Winchcombe @rachelwinchers.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Before tobacco made Virginia rich, colonists chased other prospects. One plan? An ‘artificiall wyne’ made from ‘sassaphras & licoras’. It would be cheaper than fancy French wine, ‘harty, holsome pleasinge and comfortable’ and would never make a ‘man drunk’. America’s first root beer? #AcademicSky

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Rachel Winchcombe @rachelwinchers.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

In eighteenth-century Europe pineapples were everywhere. They featured in paintings, adorned buildings, appeared on ceramics and silverware, and crowned dining tables. Was pineapple mania simply about rarity and sweetness? Not quite.

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Rachel Winchcombe @rachelwinchers.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I’ve only just joined Bluesky after ditching Twitter a couple of years ago. The algorithm here is a lot more wholesome - I’m seeing a lot of pictures of cats 🤣

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Rachel Winchcombe @rachelwinchers.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

In honour of the USA’s 250th birthday why not listen to me on @history-hit.bsky.social ‘Not Just the Tudors’ talking about the utter hellscape that was the first permanent English colony in America? WARNING: don’t eat your dinner while listening! shows.acast.com/not-just-the...

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Jamestown: From Colony to Cannibalism | Not Just the Tudors

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