Dr Maddy Pelling
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Me: look at the cosy room of my own that I made.
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THIS IS NOT A DRILL
The Bennets' house from the 1995 Pride and Prejudice is FOR SALE
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Wow, okay this spread quickly. Muting now to enjoy the weekend and my heavily wooded study. Stay safe everyone, and don't be an internet reply guy 👍
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'With this Diamond I cut the glass[.] with this face I kissed a lass'
Window graffiti from Kings Manor at York, likely dating from its use as a girls school (where Anne Lister went, no less)
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That prominent male public historian tweeting about how going to university is a waste of time when the majority of his women colleagues are required to have a PhD in order to even enter a public history TV career is 👀
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I am so ridiculously pleased with my cosy, fairy-lit study.
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This new edition of Pride and Prejudice with all the characters' correspondence as loose sheets is lovely, though it does remind me of childhood favourite and choose-your-own-adventure book The Jolly Pocket Postman. Half expecting there to be a mini magnifying glass inside
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Decorated* my study/library and can't post on Instagram because it's a surprise for the husband who is away and if I don't post somewhere I will inevitably ruin the surprise and tell him
*With my dad, in 40 degree heat. We narrowly avoided murdering each other
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I'm absolutely fascinated by this controversy over a Jane Austen statue in Winchester - a small thread...
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Obviously I have a William Morris mask because I'm a basic art historian
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Just went to the post office to pick up a mystery 5 yr wedding anniversary parcel from the husband, who has been away on deployment for five months. Am now a blubbering mess
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After a bit of a crappy week last week, I'm really grateful to have been awarded an Royal Historical Society Early Career Fellowship Grant for my project ‘Graffiti in the Age of Revolutions: Romance, Ritual and Rebellion’! 🗡️✏️✒️🖌️
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For anyone wondering what *was* in the box, it was a cat.
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In case anyone was under the illusion that dogs are fun and easy, I just got home to Nell having taken a box of cat food off the side, ripped open EVERY INDIVIDUAL pouch and eaten the entire contents
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Absolutely delighted to announce I've been awarded a Paul Mellon Centre Postdoctoral Fellowship to work on my monograph 'The Portland Museum: Collecting, Craft, and Conservation, c. 1750-1786'
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I am so excited to share this, I reinstalled Twitter on my phone especially, having removed it earlier. Tragic
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My mother to me just now: how much of your book have you written?
Me: um? Why?
Mum: (thoughtfully, looking out at the garden) I just worry about it, that's all.
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Amazing charity shop find: book of 101 prints of Hogarth's engravings. I can hear my bank account groaning as I head to the framers...
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In honour of the Bluestocking women I work on and for whom friendship between women outweighed romantic love, I have bought this and cannot get over how much I adore it
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@malcolmcanmore
Thanks Marian! And yes, I guess we were both labouring under the misapprehension people can do whatever they want to their own homes 🤷
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Very happy to say that I'll be taking up a postdoc fellowship
@IASH_Edinburgh
in 2020! I'll be working on two foundational articles for my project on 18th century women and antiquarianism
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Sorting image permissions today:
BL: £7.50
RCT: No problem, have it for free
BM: that'll be £60 for photography and £35 for a licence
This is so, so wrong.
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For some of us, having a baby isn't an option. Fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, off
@guardian
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My dad is in London today and I asked him to take a photo of a specific alley for me near where he is as it's the location of something important in my book. In true dad style, he has sent me 27 photos of the same alley
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Passed my viva!!! Had the most wonderful experience thanks to my examiners Helen Cowie and Nicole Pohl. Thank you also to my supervisor Richard Johns as well as my TAP reader
@chloewigsmith
for all their help and support
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Every now and then, I remember this exists 🤯
The Swedish warship, Vasa, sunk in the Bay of Stockholm in 1628 just 20 minutes into its maiden voyage. It was recovered in 1961 in an excellent state of preservation. Experts estimate that 98% of its wood is still intact. Here is a link with a video 👇
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After a lot of late nights and a bit of a hiatus from Twitter, my manuscript is in! Lots of steps to go yet, but it exists. Now for wine and sleep...
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So tired after moving house and pets to Yorkshire this weekend. The whole house is a mess, but have painted my new study, making this mid-century monstrosity marginally more appealing
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Precarity in academia and the impact it has on life beyond work has really hit me this week. I'm very lucky in some ways but feeling utterly ground down in others.
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Delighted to be elected as ECR member to the Royal Historical Society!
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Anyone else give their pets ridiculous nicknames? In the two weeks we've had Nell she's become Noodle, Lord Nelson and, inevitably, Lord Nellington
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Women historians doing any form of public history: not only do we need a PhD when our male counterparts often do not (see
#immodestwomen
+ the great
@FernRiddell
on that), but now we mustn't write about women because its coming across resentful of all those men who 'RAN HISTORY'
"I think many female historians resent the fact that men were the ones who ran history, so they exaggerate the contributions of the women in the story".
These were five murder victims.
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Can someone living by the sea assure me it's still there? First thing I'm going to do when we can travel is head to the north east coast and stare at that cold expanse of grey
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Sorry to be a cliche but I'm absolutely delighted (and somewhat bewildered after such a lovely day launching
@TSAHpodcast
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@BARS_official
Stephen Copley research award! This will support my work on C18 graffiti, in particular a journal article 1/
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Delighted to say the Society for the History of War has awarded me a small bursary in support of my ongoing research into late 18th-century prisoner of war graffiti!
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I live next door to an older couple who are never in the same room but always shout to each other. Genuinely just heard the man yell from upstairs 'If you want to talk about the end of civilization and the death of western art, it's your turn to speak.' There was no reply
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Just bought this for a bargain on ebay and I am so excited!!!
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Yesterday we moved house and put our stuff into storage for 9 months. It was exhausting, epic and involved moving 2 cats and a dog. We did finish with champagne, though I think Winnie may have over-induldged
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Got myself an old velvet Laura Ashley chair for my library so if anyone needs me I will be reading and drinking wine in it for the rest of the evening
(Clearly my priorities are buying inappropriate furniture rather than actually painting the walls...)
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*NEED* this gilded 1770s dog kennel made by French furniture maker Claude I Sené for Marie-Antoinette. From the Met
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Nell has finally arrived and is THE calmest, most beautiful girl imaginable. Pilot thinks she's nice, though he's not sure about the ear nibbling
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Thrilled to say I've signed with
@nurnberg_agency
and am currently developing a very exciting book project! Watch this space!
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Sooo pleased with my new 1788 gambling token necklace 💃
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But while I’m sure Jane herself would have something witty to say about the debate unfolding now, it’s the words of her sister Cassandra I’d like to turn to, from a letter written in the days after Jane's death in that city
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Online shopping came and I've bought a top that makes me look like an eighteenth-century swordmaster ⚔️
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Does this mean Academic Twitter™️ is going to have to go back to listservs? Because, in all seriousness, Twitter is a fantastic resource for ECRs both in terms of connection and solidarity and I can't see an alternative?
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Had to go and face the consequences of tipsy weekend auction bidding today. Only just got it into the car, but success!
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If someone (hypothetically me) set up a (hypothetical) side hustle selling small antiques and old bits and bobs, would there, hypothetically, be some interest?
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So excited and grateful to have been awarded the
@BSECS
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An in-law just told me I can't appreciate holidays because I don't have a job or do any work. So fucking tired of having to justify my PhD/academic life to people. I've done 7 years of university, consistently working 2-3 jobs to support myself. 😤
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For my money, I think Austen’s story in Winchester is one of sisterly love, of companionship and a meditation on the idea of legacy itself. Perhaps a statue exploring those ideas would be more welcome?
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Things I bought at auction today for wildly cheap prices instead of writing my book*
*As someone interested in 18th c auctions, I am justifying this to myself as research.
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Everything in the world is terrible and very scary, but here is Nellie happy to see her chair returned to her
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PSA: Surprisingly large fish on display in Bath in 1769
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Very excited to say that, pending a couple of minor revisions, my article 'Reimagining Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots: Women's Historiography and Domestic Identities, c. 1750-1800' will be published in Women's History Review journal
#amwriting
#18thcenturytwitter
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Decorated the bedroom this weekend and pretty pleased with the results (cat approves)
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Patiently waiting, full of hope she can share my breakfast 🤣
(She's had a huge bowl of kibble already at this point...)
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Good morning to everyone, but particularly to Beatrix Potter and her depictions of early modern and eighteenth-century buildings and interiors. Is there any recent work on this?
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Album of 104 designs for woven silk cloth by Spitalfields resident and Huguenot weaver James Leman (1688 - 1745). © Victoria and Albert Museum, London
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I may have just impulse bought an c18 grandfather clock in working order with a gorgeous hot air balloon on the face and graffiti (!!!!) on the back. This will fit in my car right? Right?!
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. I aspire to a Bramley Hedge interior
Meanwhile in Brambly Hedge, we’re searching for some pudding cloths.
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Sanded and oiled an old step ladder to be mounted on a rail against built-in bookcases. Resting it here for now until cases are built and I find some antique wheels for it
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I did a thing! Extremely proud of this transformation of the little lean-to in our house to what we are now calling the 'orangery' (😂lol). Bench and table from a derelict chapel nearby and restored by me (many, many hours of sanding off black lacquer)
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For anyone who needs it this evening, Nell perfectly capturing my book-writing mood this week
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Okay, it is home, it is working (the dogs are not convinced by the bongs) and I love it
I may have just impulse bought an c18 grandfather clock in working order with a gorgeous hot air balloon on the face and graffiti (!!!!) on the back. This will fit in my car right? Right?!
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Rewatching Sense and Sensibility for the millionth time, and honestly I've no idea what Marianne sees in Willoughby when Colonel Brandon appears to own a golden collie and flat coat retriever. Fool!
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As if
#ISECS2019
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@JRRIManchester
in 2020 to work on my project on women antiquarians!
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This is utterly devastating news and yet another example of the cruel ineptitude and historical ignorance of our government.
BBC News - Stonehenge A303 tunnel plan approved
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Unbelievably excited and proud to share this news:
@Freya_Gowrley
@CarolineMcCaff
@Serena_Dyer
and I have put together a podcast!!!
Teaser episode coming soon, followed by 8 episodes covering material culture in the 18th and 19th centuries, and feat AMAZING guests
Hello and welcome to the Travelling Sisterhood of Art Historians podcast, a show that explores how objects and images have shaped our world...
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Nell tells me she's decided to live on this Highlands beach and won't be leaving
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After a crappy day, I won eBay with this 1783 botanical watercolour
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Elizabeth Montagu writing to the duchess of Portland in 1741, describing a socially distanced meeting with her sister, who was recovering from highly infectious small pox: 'this happy day! [...] We talk's to each other at about four foot distance for above an hour.'
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Delighted (and amazed) that details of our upcoming 'What's Next for Period Drama?' day, organised with
@AnthonyPDelaney
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SUBMITTED!!! (obviously brought the research assistant along)
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My great-auntie Flo is known to me for three reasons. 1. As a young woman she crushed her hand in a mangle. 2. She used to bring the donkey into the house in winter to keep it warm. 3. She used to make (invented?) these little cakes, which family tradition has it we make in /
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Went to collect my £5 auction chair from the upholsterers. Fabric is a bit more yellow than the pics show. Very pleased with this bargain! Bert still undecided.
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Thrilled (yes, thrilled) to share 'Women and the Making of History, from the Middle Ages to the Present,' a special issue of
@HisJournalHA
edited by
@liliantabois
and myself.
Here's what you can expect inside...
Thread 🧵
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Just found out Nell has a heart murmur. Awaiting full bloods to find out more, but I am absolutely gutted and having a little cry in the car park. Good wishes very much appreciated
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Back from the antiques market and have given a home to this startled boi
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The antiques market in my town reopened! I am now bankrupt but very happy. Early 19th c writing slope and a pair of Davenport mugs (c. 1820-30?)
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Ok. I've officially run out of patience. Can Covid just be over now please? I want to go to the pub, and walking in the Lake District, and running with the dog on Bamburgh beach. I miss book shops and antiques and street food. Do these things still exist?
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