Kate Bennett
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So proud to have been on the team that produced 👇.
It is a great exhibition even if I say so myself. 😁
It is a great exhibition even if I say so myself. 😁
June 17, 2026 at 10:41 AM
So proud to have been on the team that produced 👇.
It is a great exhibition even if I say so myself. 😁
It is a great exhibition even if I say so myself. 😁
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The man who drew London: Wenceslaus Hollar, skilled Bohemian draughtsman & etcher of panoramic views, died #OTD 1677; worked in London under patronage of Thomas Howard, ‘Collector Earl’ of Arundel.
Fisher Library | Yale University Art Gallery Centre for British Art
Fisher Library | Yale University Art Gallery Centre for British Art
March 25, 2026 at 5:46 AM
The man who drew London: Wenceslaus Hollar, skilled Bohemian draughtsman & etcher of panoramic views, died #OTD 1677; worked in London under patronage of Thomas Howard, ‘Collector Earl’ of Arundel.
Fisher Library | Yale University Art Gallery Centre for British Art
Fisher Library | Yale University Art Gallery Centre for British Art
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I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate.
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature (R&T)
College of Arts & HumanitiesSchool of Critical Studies Lecturer in Early Modern English Literature (R&T)Vacancy Ref: 195373Salary, Grade 7, £41,064 - £46,049 per annum The School of Critica...
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March 18, 2026 at 11:21 AM
I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate.
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...
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The Native will be subject to Calumny & Troubles in the Course of his life ... a defect in the Elocution ... and not only so but superlative vexations in Matters Relating to Marriag, or great Discords if so united; besides wondrous Contests in Law suits.
Nativity of John Aubrey, Aubrey 23, 104r-v.
Nativity of John Aubrey, Aubrey 23, 104r-v.
March 12, 2026 at 9:30 AM
The Native will be subject to Calumny & Troubles in the Course of his life ... a defect in the Elocution ... and not only so but superlative vexations in Matters Relating to Marriag, or great Discords if so united; besides wondrous Contests in Law suits.
Nativity of John Aubrey, Aubrey 23, 104r-v.
Nativity of John Aubrey, Aubrey 23, 104r-v.
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Happy John Aubrey Day – 400 years old today! The original stone botherer, who recognised the Avebury stones for the prehistoric marvel they are, and rightly commented that the site 'doth as much exceed Stonehenge as a cathedral doth a parish church'.
March 12, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Happy John Aubrey Day – 400 years old today! The original stone botherer, who recognised the Avebury stones for the prehistoric marvel they are, and rightly commented that the site 'doth as much exceed Stonehenge as a cathedral doth a parish church'.
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John Aubrey’s 400th tomorrow!! And at @chippenhammuseum.bsky.social we are celebrating his b’day & the launch of the Chippenham Our History festival & book with cake 🎂
An Aubrey exhib. & launch of @wiltshistory.bsky.social vol 20 & more to follow!!
I hope Aubrey doesn’t mind us eating his face 🫢
An Aubrey exhib. & launch of @wiltshistory.bsky.social vol 20 & more to follow!!
I hope Aubrey doesn’t mind us eating his face 🫢
March 11, 2026 at 1:06 PM
John Aubrey’s 400th tomorrow!! And at @chippenhammuseum.bsky.social we are celebrating his b’day & the launch of the Chippenham Our History festival & book with cake 🎂
An Aubrey exhib. & launch of @wiltshistory.bsky.social vol 20 & more to follow!!
I hope Aubrey doesn’t mind us eating his face 🫢
An Aubrey exhib. & launch of @wiltshistory.bsky.social vol 20 & more to follow!!
I hope Aubrey doesn’t mind us eating his face 🫢
On this day 400 years ago, John Aubrey was born in the little Wiltshire hamlet of Easton Piercy, weak and like to die. To celebrate his unexpected flourishing, my new biography has been signed by Penguin Random House. and we are launching a new edition of ‘Aubrey’s Villa’ today…
March 12, 2026 at 8:16 AM
On this day 400 years ago, John Aubrey was born in the little Wiltshire hamlet of Easton Piercy, weak and like to die. To celebrate his unexpected flourishing, my new biography has been signed by Penguin Random House. and we are launching a new edition of ‘Aubrey’s Villa’ today…
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Born weak. Shipwrecked. Cursed by a witch. John Aubrey antiquary, naturalist, biographer, folklorist, visionary was born 400 years ago this month. Find out more and how we are celebrating 👇@chippenhammuseum.bsky.social @wiltshistory.bsky.social
www.wiltshirehistory.org/news/john-au...
www.wiltshirehistory.org/news/john-au...
John Aubrey & the Quest for Knowledge — Wiltshire Victoria County History
John Aubrey was born ‘very weak and like to dye’ at Lower Easton Piercy in Kington St Michael on 12 March 1626. But he survived, and as an adult, he continued to cheat death. He survived smallpox. He ...
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March 1, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Born weak. Shipwrecked. Cursed by a witch. John Aubrey antiquary, naturalist, biographer, folklorist, visionary was born 400 years ago this month. Find out more and how we are celebrating 👇@chippenhammuseum.bsky.social @wiltshistory.bsky.social
www.wiltshirehistory.org/news/john-au...
www.wiltshirehistory.org/news/john-au...
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They made little Gibbetts, and roasted Rumpes of Mutton, nay I sawe some very good Rumpes of Beefe: there were Healths to the King Charles II dranke in the streets by the Bonfires even on their Knees:
February 11, 2026 at 9:30 AM
They made little Gibbetts, and roasted Rumpes of Mutton, nay I sawe some very good Rumpes of Beefe: there were Healths to the King Charles II dranke in the streets by the Bonfires even on their Knees:
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I wish this ensuing Yeare to be auspicious to you; with a succession of many others during your life.
Aubrey to Wood, 1 Jan 1680. Wood F 39, f. 335r.
Aubrey to Wood, 1 Jan 1680. Wood F 39, f. 335r.
January 1, 2026 at 9:30 AM
I wish this ensuing Yeare to be auspicious to you; with a succession of many others during your life.
Aubrey to Wood, 1 Jan 1680. Wood F 39, f. 335r.
Aubrey to Wood, 1 Jan 1680. Wood F 39, f. 335r.
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‘Tomalin describes Pepys going “out on his rounds like an animal” – prowling Westminster and beyond for a woman or girl who would “tocar” his penis or let him kiss her “mamelles”, or in his favourite phrase, “do what I would with her”.’
Deborah Friedell on Samuel Pepys
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Deborah Friedell on Samuel Pepys
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Deborah Friedell · Lifted Up: Pepys Deciphered
Pepys was a meticulous – some might say compulsive – record-keeper. Into his diary’s pages went social debts (who...
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December 23, 2025 at 12:10 PM
‘Tomalin describes Pepys going “out on his rounds like an animal” – prowling Westminster and beyond for a woman or girl who would “tocar” his penis or let him kiss her “mamelles”, or in his favourite phrase, “do what I would with her”.’
Deborah Friedell on Samuel Pepys
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Deborah Friedell on Samuel Pepys
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Stained glass, open to the squawks of birds in Sta Theresa, Rio de Janeiro
December 22, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Stained glass, open to the squawks of birds in Sta Theresa, Rio de Janeiro
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‘There was little point in listing the merits of Lady Mary if few other ladies could read about them. Two centuries later, knowledge of Latin was not assumed even in the most intelligent female company.’
Nicholas Penny on church monuments.
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Nicholas Penny on church monuments.
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Nicholas Penny · Diary: Church Monuments
To record the changing conventions of memorial sculpture is to trace the ways in which our ancestors affirmed their...
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December 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
‘There was little point in listing the merits of Lady Mary if few other ladies could read about them. Two centuries later, knowledge of Latin was not assumed even in the most intelligent female company.’
Nicholas Penny on church monuments.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Nicholas Penny on church monuments.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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'A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions, partly in the composer’s own hand – the first Purcell autograph to be found for more than 30 years.' 1/3
‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell
Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk
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October 8, 2025 at 10:03 AM
'A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions, partly in the composer’s own hand – the first Purcell autograph to be found for more than 30 years.' 1/3
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Look what we have here then.
September 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Look what we have here then.
On a whim I googled my grandmother’s name and found one of her paintings had been sold at auction. I wish I’d known. This is called The Rehearsal.
September 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
On a whim I googled my grandmother’s name and found one of her paintings had been sold at auction. I wish I’d known. This is called The Rehearsal.
This, friends, is your new diary.
August 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
This, friends, is your new diary.
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The National Archives is looking for an Early Modern Parliamentary Records Specialist. Pros: you'll get to work in the same department as me. Cons: you'll have to work in the same department as me. Details via the link. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...
Records Specialist - Early Modern Parliament at The National Archives
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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August 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
The National Archives is looking for an Early Modern Parliamentary Records Specialist. Pros: you'll get to work in the same department as me. Cons: you'll have to work in the same department as me. Details via the link. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOD893/r...
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Finally saw this in person earlier this week at the NPG in London: a figure of EIC governor Joseph Collet (ca. 1716), made by the Chinese sculptor 'Amoy Chinqua' from unfired clay on bamboo. Collet sent it home to England to his daughters as an 'image of himself'. #skystorians #earlymodern
August 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Finally saw this in person earlier this week at the NPG in London: a figure of EIC governor Joseph Collet (ca. 1716), made by the Chinese sculptor 'Amoy Chinqua' from unfired clay on bamboo. Collet sent it home to England to his daughters as an 'image of himself'. #skystorians #earlymodern
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‘It was in itself a perverse choice for an artist in the 1960s to take up flower painting, so far out of fashion as to be invisible from the modernist avant-garde.’
Rosemary Hill on the artist Rory McEwen:
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Rosemary Hill on the artist Rory McEwen:
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Rosemary Hill · At the Driehaus Museum: Tulips, Fritillaries and Auriculas
Rory McEwen’s work is not only less concerned with conventional ideas of beauty, it lacks any obvious desire to please...
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July 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
‘It was in itself a perverse choice for an artist in the 1960s to take up flower painting, so far out of fashion as to be invisible from the modernist avant-garde.’
Rosemary Hill on the artist Rory McEwen:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rosemary Hill on the artist Rory McEwen:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Popped into Magdalen library today and there was the Nuremberg Chronicle, surrounded by admirers. It’s pretty special. Here is a locust plague enjoying their moment in the sun…
June 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Popped into Magdalen library today and there was the Nuremberg Chronicle, surrounded by admirers. It’s pretty special. Here is a locust plague enjoying their moment in the sun…
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Congratulations to alumna Blaise Metreweli CMG (Anthropology, 1995), who has been appointed the next Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). She will be the 18th Chief and the first woman to hold the position.
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Photo: UK Foreign Office/AP
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Photo: UK Foreign Office/AP
June 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Congratulations to alumna Blaise Metreweli CMG (Anthropology, 1995), who has been appointed the next Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). She will be the 18th Chief and the first woman to hold the position.
www.pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news...
Photo: UK Foreign Office/AP
www.pem.cam.ac.uk/college/news...
Photo: UK Foreign Office/AP