Part-producer, part-PhD researcher, 100% in the archives. PhDing @livesandletters on English encounters with Arabic pre-1635. Fled from here to Bluesky!
London, England
Joined November 2009
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Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.
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It's out! 'Migrant Voices in Multilingual London, 1560-1600' in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. Read to find out how insults and information moved between the city's languages, and to think about how linguistic diversity shaped urban life. cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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The European Qurʾān
Encounters with the Holy Text of Islam from the Ninth to the Twentieth Century
What role does the Holy Scripture of Islam, the Qurʾān, play in the history of European thought?
Forthcoming by De Gruyter (Oct. 7, 2024)
degruyter.com/document/isbn/…
ALT Front cover of a forthcoming book titled The European Qurʾān. Main colour green, with an illustration in the middle of a late modern European scholar holding an open copy of the Quran.
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Looting and Learning: my essay with Jan Loop on looted manuscripts & Muslim captives in the history of European Qur’anic studies, for a special issue of Erudition and the Republic of Letters, “The Turkish Wars and the Study of Islam in Early Modern Europe” brill.com/view/journals/erl/…
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Tune in for the final episode, tonight at 9pm on @Channel4 #TheBodyDetectives
The first episode of our new documentary ‘The Body Detectives’ airs on @Channel4 this Tuesday at 9pm 📺
The series dives into 3 of our most compelling cases & shows our team's incredible work. Tune in then to see the real impact of our mission. 🔎
#TheBodyDetectives #Channel4
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In case you're wondering where all the arts TV has gone on the BBC, then today's Annual Report is both revealing and depressing. A short 🧵
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Apply now for NYPL's new Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies Fellowship, including a $25,000 stipend to support three months' research at the Library!
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One enduring feature of the rise of academic oriental studies in Europe in the seventeenth century: the enthusiastic appropriation of “inshallah” (if God wills) by Arabic learners. Here, in a 1667 letter from Edmund Castell to Samuel Clarke. British Library, ms Add. 22905.
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Book launch: Gabriel Harvey & the History of Reading
24 June 5pm @UCL_IAS
This @UCLpress collection provides a unique lens on the place of marginalia in textual, intellectual and cultural history. With @Warburg_News
ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/event…
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URGENT! Pls share. The last chance to register to vote in the General Election is 11.59pm tomorrow Tue 18 June. Potentially 8m aren't registered at their current address. Here's 4 key facts...
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4) You'll need ID when you do vote (not to register) if you don't have it, you can get it free until Wed 26 June gov.uk/apply-for-photo-id-vo…
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We're running a 'first academic article' panel and Q&A on the 28th! Open to PGRs and ECRs in early modern studies. Details and sign up link below.
Looking to publish your first academic article? We're hosting an in-person panel and Q&A with editors and writers on Friday 28th June at 16:00. Join us!
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Want to hear more about what makes books useful (and what makes them useless)? Come along to #York3MT tomorrow @YorkFestofIdeas to listen to 9 PhD students, inc. yours truly, explain our research in 3 minutes! There’s a wonderful array of work on show ⬇️ features.york.ac.uk/three-mi…
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Book launch: Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading 24 June 5pm at UCL
This collection provides a unique lens on the place of marginalia in textual, intellectual & cultural history.
ucl.ac.uk/early-modern/event…
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A Friday afternoon submission for my PhD thesis: ‘Useless Books: (Mis)reading the How-To Book in Early Modern England (1550-1630)’. I’m so grateful to everyone who has made it possible — I’m lucky to be part of such a brilliant community, in York and beyond!
ALT Grace with her printed PhD thesis
ALT Grace’s PhD acknowledgements
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New scholarship announced at London's SOAS for a Palestinian MA student. Deadline is June 7.
soas.ac.uk/study/student-lif…
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I had so much fun presenting my new work on French translation of English news at @emtbookcon!!
Thanks so much to @Ellen__Werner and @SerenMRoberts for organising such a wonderful conference and to all the speakers for such a fascinating range of transnational book history
The one and only @BasilBowdler absolutely smashing it with his paper on the London Gazette and the Gazette de Londres at the @emtbookcon!
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Confronted with the challenge of transliterating the Arabic letter ع (ʿayn), the annotator of this early modern Italian-Turkish dictionary devised a simple and elegant solution: add ع to the Latin alphabet. Bodleian, ms Arch. Selden. A. 42
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Fantastic to see @rosiejcousins's review of Nicholas Popper's _The Specter of the Archive_ in the new issue of @HistoryToday! @LeedsUniHistory
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With the PhD under my belt, I'm officially on the job market and available for paid work! My expertise is in early modern family life, illness, healthcare, and gentry and letter-writing cultures. I am experienced in archival research, palaeography and transcription, public (1/2)
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Slightly belated (blaming jet lag!) #RenSA2024 post: a lovely few days in Chicago (+ a visit to see family) and a joy to present some results of my @BLprintheritage and @nationaltrust gardens fellowship alongside the fantastic @walla7437 and @samuscript, thanks to @SHARPorg!
ALT The green Chicago River for St Patrick’s Day
ALT First slide of presentation, Writing on Leaves in Early Modern Garden Books