Fabulous!! Congratulations!
The Cult of Beauty exhibition opening today @ExploreWellcome featuring lots of thought-provoking stuff (see article below) inc The Beauty Sensorium, a collaboration between me, @RenaissanceGoo and art/design team Baum and Leahy. Come see it! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
On the train to London reading The Scots Gardner. Honestly a great gardening book āpublished for the Climate of Scotlandā in 1683. Plan is to follow its advice (as much as poss) to make a physic gardenā¦
Edinburgh smells of hops when the windās in the right direction. I love it, but it divides opinion!
In BBC sounds for another few weeks, if youād like a listen! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Beauty, make-up, art, power: the hidden lives of Renaissance women behind the paintings.
Are you interested in recipes and historical reconstruction? In early modern/Renaissance cosmetics? We have a treat for you! @ExploreWellcome is hosting an online discussion with me, Romana Sammern, and Hayley OāKell, chaired by Patricia Akhimie on 14 Nov. wellcomecollection.org/events/ZSPXJ...
Join an online conversation about early modern health and beauty routines, and what they reveal about western European womenās lives.
Applications are now open for long-term fellowships at the Newberry Library, deadline November 1st, a range of areas and collection holdings of potential interest to #histsci #medievalsky and #earlymodern historians: www.newberry.org/research/fel...
Researchers with long-term fellowships spend four to nine months immersed in the Newberry collection and in our community of learning.
Thank you! Happy to see you too
Yep, been thereā¦.
The last stages of books are always so painful! Itās just at the point when you want to lock the MS in a big cupboard and go drink pina coladas on a beach.