January Mondays:

Excited to be starting as a The Brilliant Club tutor after working with them as an SLO on launches & graduations Emmanuel College SLO 🥳 I'll be teaching Making a Museum to KS2 students!

Really enjoy that my official award email contains the congratulations emoji confetti 🥳🎊
Delighted to have passed my MPhil! Very grateful for the generous & helpful report from my examiners, and of course all of the support from my supervisors at University of Glasgow

Lots of fun experimenting with this hand scrub recipe this afternoon Wellcome Collection! More on the smells, textures, processes & whether it worked (!?) coming soon 👀

Today is the day! I'm making a 17th century hand scrub w/ Julia Nurse & Finn Manders Wellcome Collection in preparation for the EMROC annual transcribathon. Theme this year? Beauty by the books. Details: tinyurl.com/47p8uvfs #histstm #earlymodern UCL History RCP museum

Delighted to have (at last!) submitted my MPhil - have loved learning all about time, women & recipe books this year, and very grateful for all the support I've received from my supervisors & the community University of Glasgow. I will miss this project and Glasgow very much!

Taking a 2 minute break in-between edits, having just finished re-reading my section on astrology ... Fate! Twitter is still useful sometimes.

Post final supervision and on to the last edit of my MPhil! Cursing all my wee 'sort this out later' notes - it is now 'later' 😶

Consistent misspelling of the day: alamanac (almanac). I keep thinking it's like mississippi/llamas, and enjoying the up down of the vowel sounds before word ruins my fun with its little red underline :(

Delighted to say I'll be starting a PhD with UCL History & Wellcome Collection, funded by LAHP in October, exploring health & the body in the Wellcome's early modern commonplace books! In the archives today & these sources are so rich & intriguing, I can't wait to get started!

On my way to present in Cambridge, via the east coast main line (after a year of the inferior Glasgow-London avanti), listening to my Top Songs of 2018. Feeling both very much like that 18 year old me & that that me would be really quite happy with how things are these days (aw).

Please join us on Monday for our first workshop this term! We can't wait to welcome Jacinta Chen (Cambridge) and Finn Manders (Glasgow) as our amazing speakers ✨

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Looking forward to presenting part of my MPhil research at Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period in May! Zoom available for any not-in-Cambridge friends who might fancy attending :)

Very excited to be presenting at NEMN Conference 2023 (& this year's theme 'outwith the early modern' even uses my favourite word!). Looking forward to attending and hearing from such a varied range of speakers!

What a day! Amazing to hear from so many fantastic researchers from Universities across Scotland (& beyond!) & our keynote speaker Yvette Taylor

Super excited to hear from all of the researchers speaking at our conference tomorrow!

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