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Susannah Lyon-Whaley

@susannah-lw.bsky.social
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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow at University of York on 17th-century queens and global nature, cross-cultural material exchange | PhD, Art History, on Catherine of Braganza | Honorary Fellow, Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland

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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Can't wait to see our #StudentSalon cabinet in action in the classroom for the first time later this week! Seems like the perfect time to reshare @laurenworking.bsky.social's blog post on why we created this with student partners over the summer blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
It was a delight to discuss 17th-century queens and their global worlds of nature at the @oxfordcourtstudies.bsky.social seminar last night. Thanks to @hannasinclair.bsky.social for the invite, to those who came and were so generous with their time and knowledge, and shared their own inspiring work!
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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Found in a 1915 article. I think I will use this going forward.
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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Love the look of @marloavidon.bsky.social and Ælfred Hillman's CFP for a late Stuart court symposium in April in Cambridge. Please share widely! ❤️
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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Sharing this petition to save Art History in Aotearoa New Zealand secondary schools. petitions.parliament.nz/a1acf19a-72f... Enjoy Rita Angus's stunning view of Central Otago, 1953-56/1969, oil on canvas. Te Papa (1972-0030-1)
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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Autumn skies outside = the perfect time to read 2nd-year @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social student Eva Newell's blog post on cinnamon 🍁 What does Hailey Beiber's cinnamon girl make-up trend have to do with Voltaire's El Dorado? blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo... @laurenworking.bsky.social #StudentSalon
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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Again and again, the response @laurenworking.bsky.social and I received from #StudentSalon workshops was how much handling objects meant. As Rachel Hogue, MA student at @cecs-york.bsky.social says: 'Objects of the past, after all, aren’t just for looking.' blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Back into research after attending Attingham Trust's 'New Perspectives in Country Houses' course, and channelling Jane (photo from the amazing Austen/Turner exhibition at Harewood House, in collaboration with @cecs-york.bsky.social @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social )
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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Bugs in salons?! Recent University of York graduate Mumia Douse-Bah's blog explores the colonial context of bugs and recounts a flea on a salon attendee's breast that spurred a 'poetic frenzy' 🐛🐜 @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social @laurenworking.bsky.social #StudentSalon blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The #StudentSalon project website is live! It's been incredible working with @laurenworking.bsky.social and students over the last few months to put together this cabinet of things to help explore 17th/18th-century salon culture from a global/decolonial perspective blogs.york.ac.uk/student-salo...
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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Michele and Catherine will be speaking on Monday 29 September @8pm UK (8am on 30 September NZ time). Zoom link available by DM or email womenandflowersnetwork@gmail.com. Groundwork features Emily Cumming Harris, a (no longer) forgotten 19th-century NZ botanical artist and poet
Emily Cumming Harris, Kiekie (Freycinetia banksii), nikau (Rhopalostylis sapida), five finger (Pseudopanax arboreum) and karaka (Corynocarpus laevigata) in fruit, 1879
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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
If flowers are your thing - @zarakesterton.bsky.social, Tori Champion and I run a growing network on Women and Flowers. This month Michele Leggott and @deleifd.bsky.social are speaking about their beautiful book Groundwork. Details below or email womenandflowersnetwork@gmail.com to join us!🌷
Book cover for Groundwork: The Art and Writing of Emily Cumming Harris
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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Check out my short article in the June issue of BBC History exploring how 17th-century women found out about new plants growing overseas 🌺🌷🌻 pocketmags.com/bbc-history-...
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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
My exhibition A Queen's Book of Flowers is now on at the Thin Ice Press in York 🌺🌻 Featuring Henrietta Maria and John Parkinson's Paradisi in Sole (1629), women and foreign plants. Today, an accompanying workshop making bookmarks!
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Susannah Lyon-Whaley @susannah-lw.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
A snap from last week's talk on Peter Lely's An Unidentified Child and Charlotte Fitzroy (1670s), beauty, and empire at York Art Gallery.
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