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Vampires, Ghosts, and Spirits on Santorini: The Affectivity of a Sulphuric Landscape
By Lavinia Gambini (@GambiniLavinia) Today known for its luxury tourism, high-end ‘destination weddings’, and romantic ‘Instagrammability’, Santorini was for seventeenth-century Westerners a ‘demonic’ island.[1] Early modern travellers to the Aegean encountered an unsettling landscape: they met a fragmented island torn into pieces by the many seismic and volcanic activities that had struck Santorini throughout…
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Striking Gold in the Archive: Goldsmiths’ Hall
By Kirsty Wright (@BeingKirst) Perhaps ironically in a year when access to archives has been restricted, my research shifted direction to examine the materiality of early modern records and record-keeping. In the summer when I was able to return to The National Archives, I spent some time sifting through different boxes for relevant material and…
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Courtroom to Classroom: Teaching with Old Bailey Online
By Dr. Stephanie Brown (Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/stephemmabrown.bsky.social) Old Bailey Online is a vast and searchable digital collection of nearly 200,000 trial accounts from London’s central criminal court from 1674 to 1913. A pioneer of digital humanities, Old Bailey Online also holds remarkable pedagogical value. In my teaching, I have found it to be an unparalleled resource…
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20. Stephen Gardiner’s Household Account Book
By Yicen Liu (@YicenLiu0927) Just as a magnificent royal court was integral to strong kingship, so too did powerful Tudor bishops strive to preside over large households to demonstrate their power and prestige. Household account books detail how these episcopal households looked and functioned, and in the Hampshire Record Office we have Stephen Gardiner’s household account…
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19. A Statue of Queen Anne
By Emily Rhodes (@elrhodes96) Presiding over the library in Blenheim Palace, the seat of the Dukes of Marlborough, is a marble statue of Queen Anne, carved by Flemish sculptor John Michael Rysbrack. The inscription dedicates the statue to the monarch, thanking her for the gift of land and funds which enabled the building of the…
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