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If you're still waiting for the last few seats of the #ElectionResults to be announced, why not take a moment to read our post about elections in medieval Italy 📜🇮🇹

Remember when Freddos were 10p? 📉 My latest for scilicetblog explores the long history of price nostalgia 👇

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What can a set of doodles tell us about experiences of Royal childhood? 👑✍️ In today's post, Natalie Smith talks us through Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden’s childhood drawings of horses 🐴scilicet.org.uk/royal-doodles-…

We are used to descriptions of sights and sounds from history, but what about smells? 👃In today's post, @GuyFassler takes us on a guided tour through the smellscape of medieval Bologna #medievaltwitter scilicet.org.uk/a-guided-tour-…

Apart from being an important botanist, Carl Linnaeus was also prolific in his correspondence. In today's archival post, @GuyFassler and Natalie Smith translate and discuss a mysterious letter he recieved written in Hebrew📜 scilicet.org.uk/a-letter-to-li…

How good was the Latin of late medieval painters? and does it matter? 🎨In today's post, @GuyFassler tells us about an inscription beneath a painting in Pistoia that raises questions about what it meant to be literate in the early fifteenth century scilicet.org.uk/the-literacy-o…

I've been interested in the diary of Janet Burnet for some time now, so it was great to get the chance to write about it for scilicetblog

I'm very excited to be sharing my research on EM Swedishness and Otherness at the IMHs international seminar series on Wednesday - do join if you can!

Delighted to share that my first academic article has been published (open access) in The Seventeenth Century! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

We're absolutely thrilled to share the term card for Martinmas 2024! Be sure to join us either in person or online for what should be another stellar cast of papers, showcasing the very best of early modern research from California to India!

The Institute of Scottish Historical Research University of St Andrews has a new page! Please do follow ISHR_StAndrews and RT this post so we may continue to keep you informed about everything Scottish history (including our seminar series) at the University of St Andrews.

Today is the first day of my new HCAatEdinburgh The British Academy project on female collaboration in the early modern book trade- unbelievably excited to get started! Watch this space for highlights 👀 (USTC 6110476)

Very much looking forward to our second session of the semester, come along!

I had the privilege of being interviewed by Dr Jacob Baxter for the Irish History Students’ Association podcast about my research on Franco-Irish relations, Dublin's newspapers and the French Revolution. You can check out the episode here: tinyurl.com/yc8ufezf

A petition from fourteenth-century Pistoia paints a lively picture of those who frequented its cathedral San Zeno ⛪ In today's archival post, @GuyFassler shares a story about barking dogs and rowdy children terrorising a medieval church #medieval scilicet.org.uk/barking-dogs-a…

💥 New post 💥 Sex, Scandal and Intrigue... On this #GuyFawkesnight, James Fox tells us what a scandalous court case from 1700 reveals about the way the #GunpowderPlot was remembered in eighteenth-century England scilicet.org.uk/remembering-th…

We have made the decision to stop posting on twitter/X, and will jump ship to Bl*esky. Our deepest thanks to everyone who's followed us and read our blog so far. If you want to keep up with our content, come and join us!

It was a real pleasure to celebrate my PhD graduation from University of St Andrews earlier this month alongside some truly wonderful people (including Carlotta Moro and James Fox). It’s been one hell of a journey and I can’t wait for what comes next!

Before Benjamin Franklin became a printer, newsman, author, inventor, philosopher, diplomat and founding father of the United States, he failed math twice. bit.ly/40cptfb