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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I've declared myself a traitor by mistake!"

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

It was somewhat delayed, but we've now got a booking link for Rosamund Oates's talk on deafness on Thursday! Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

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Silent Histories: Deafness in Early Modern England

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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

That is so inhumane and ridiculous. Sending positive vibes

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I had to leave my best sewing machine in Denmark because I couldn't carry it home (photo is it inside a byttebox, where citizens drop off unwanted items for others to collect -- such a great system -- more recycling!)

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There's a backlog of covers to work on, so there's a new rule: spend only a few hours on each. I had my sewing machine in Aarhus, but I didn't have much fabric, so couldn't work on my quilt. Leslie’s work provided a conceptual and historical lens on material transformation, reuse for my fellowship.

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

So ... after a hiatus I am back with the challenge of recreating the covers of books I've read and loved using recycled materials. The project was paused for a year while I was in Aarhus for a Research Fellowship. All the fellows picked a book that was important to their work, and I chose this one:

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Way back in the day, my three-year-old separated toys with shiny eyes from those with non-shiny eyes — as though that was necessary

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

More crowdsourcing: the same census return, what are the words crossed out here and replaced with 'Housekeeper Domestic'?

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Crowdsourcing census 1911 help. In the final column for “infirmity” what might the two crossed out words be?

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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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Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

That might include works in which each chapter is counter chronological, restarting later at the beginning of each individual chapter or section, or ones where the whole book starts later and ends earlier. I was thinking, for example, of @rummage.bsky.social's excellent history of recycling.

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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Researching today, I came across a tiny textile scrap in an 1800 writ of attachment. (Details on the case in alt text). Any fashion, fabric, dress, or material culture historians know what textile it might be? Thanks! 🗃️

A writ of attachment from 1800, issued on behalf of Boston attorney Thomas O. Selfridge against his client Sarah Freeman, an African American woman, who owes him $12 in unpaid legal fees. The writ is a printed form, completed by hand, in the lower portion is a tiny scrap of textile.

Selfridge’s bill against Freeman for helping her prosecute Nancy Princess and Hitty Little, neighbors of hers and also African American, as well as for writing and presenting a petition on her behalf to Boston’s Court of General Sessions of the Peace

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Will Tullett @willtullett.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Big thanks to David Hendy, @cathamclarke.bsky.social, and @rummage.bsky.social for their kind words on Sniff: A Hidtory of Smells, out 8th September and pre-orderable from all good bookshops. yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...

Black text on white background that reads ‘"A deeply researched, revelatory and hugely entertaining sensory odyssey.
Sniff hopscotches nimbly across centuries and
continents to take us to some wonderful and terrifying places
—ancient Rome, medieval
China, the Shakespearian stage, the Victorian city, the trenches of the Great War, a modern funeral home-and reveals the myriad ways that smells evoke danger, pleasure, memories, places, bodies, in fact are the very stuff of life. Brilliant."-David Hendy, author of Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening’

Black text on white background that reads: "Tullett invites us to follow our noses into history, discovering the fascinating stories behind smells past and present. This is a stunning book full of
surprises and revelations-and always alive to the politics of scents and stinks across history and today."—Catherine Clarke, author of A History of England in 25 Poems

Black text on white background that reads: "Sniff explores sensory landscapes, evoking newspaper ink, old books, and the chemical tang of new cars. This profound, sweeping history reveals how powerful scents have defined human
experiences."—Emily Cockayne, author of Penning Poison: A History of Anonymous Letters

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The recorded lady on East Coast Mainline says ‘Skegness’ as though it is the sexiest thing imaginable

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Happy Birthday! (From Kevin, Genghis & me)

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Fiona McLees @mclees-fiona.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

A question for something I’m thinking of: what diseases might 19th c brick-makers be susceptible to? Silicosis perhaps? (Not thinking of injuries now but other risks from the job)

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Aw, thank you, Leon — that means a lot coming from you!

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

From 1 August, I will be Professor of Material and Textual Cultures – not bad for a first-gen lass who, in the late-1980s, was instructed by the school careers adviser to ‘aim to be a telephonist’, because ‘historian is not on our list of careers’. Chuffed!

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Anita Hoffmann @17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

#earlymodern mystery berry. Does anyone know what Debanto berries was or the plant/tree they came from in the 17th century? SP 29/373 f.17.

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Leon Jackson @drleonj.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Interesting post-colonial ephemera: in 1780, Massachusetts Justice of the Peace Joseph Gardner was still using blank recognizance forms mentioning King George and Great Britain, all of which he neatly crossed out. Paper was expensive and couldn’t be wasted! 🗃️

A printed blank form with certain words neatly crossed out.

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I think it refers to apprentices (or an apprentice) who has just been trained, or is still in training

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Crowdsourcing handwriting help: So, the writing is disguised, so it complicates things a little, but what are your best guesses for this name?

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Or should VCs and the academic members of their senior teams instead be required to lead and teach 1 undergraduate module per term/semester, including all module admin and marking? Non-academic members of SMTs could all annually take a module, completing all assessments. Serious counterproposal. 3/3

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Katie Lumsden @katiejlumsden.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

I get a lot of AI slop book marketing emails, but this is the first time I have ever been . . . mistaken for Jane Austen.

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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I checked this too. *20 seconds* of Reform logo display. *No other* party logo displayed. In local election purdah. This is not normal. At all.

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Tom Licence is part of LDC at UEA, not in the School of History

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

It hasn’t been an easy few years

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

1. Blood & Brutality 2. Georgian 3. Witchcraft 4. Palaeography 5. Specialist Tutorials 6. Intro to E.Mod Europe 7. Society, Politics & Culture 8. Historical Research Skills 9. Stuarts (L) 10. Adaptations (L) 11. Env Hums (S) 12. Doing History (L) 13. Age of Extremes (L) L/S Lectures/seminars only

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I love writing them. Tips: write it somewhere you don’t usually write — read the whole thing (to be concluded) as though you haven’t written it. Keep something back just for the conclusion that touches all parts of the whole, but doesn’t fit neatly into any of them. Also use paper & coloured pens

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

These strange color decisions of the 1560s do have a background story. A short 🧵 for #bookhistory.

A detail from a title page from 1562: the image shows a table with various brushes and various mixing flasks. A few of the flasks are hand-colored.

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Cecelia Cancellaro @ceceliacancellaro.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Thrilled about this new grant we are offering for under-represented early career scholars. The first cycle is for scholars in history and area studies. Please spread the word widely. @universitypress.cambridge.org ********************************* Read more here: 🔗 cup.org/4pF5xvr

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Amplifying voices

New Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

I can’t! They’re 450 miles away!

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The press used to make from Edward & Eva Pinto, 'Tunbridge and Scottish Souvenir Woodware', 1970, p. 125:

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Bois Durci plaque, France c.1857 from powdered sawdust (rosewood or ebony) & slaughterhouse blood, steam-heat hydraulically pressed to look like carved hard wood. An ethically complex compound, but my favourite 19thC plastic. These were sometimes stuck onto pianos to make them look more high-end.

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Everything about the advert is gross!

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The Prince of Fluid Beef is a weird flex

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Context help! I’m trying to fix a possible date on this papier mache snuff box. I *think* the words are “Playing at Hazar”. Anyone got any leads? I suspect the box is e19thc and possibly American.

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Interesting! The intonation can flatten the prose.

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Emily Cockayne @rummage.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

I always get my computer to read it to me, else I massage out all the errors when I read it myself.

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