Excited to share that I have accepted an offer to join the Florida State University Department of History as Specialized Teaching Faculty! This is truly my dream professor job, and I’ve worked incredibly hard to get here. I couldn’t be happier.

One of the reasons that American colonists opposed the Stamp Act was bc it made their playing cards more expensive. In my dissertation, I wrote about a French woman who owned a paper mill and exported playing cards to the American colonies. Happy belated 4th!

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Girl Shoots Man Dead at a Ball - for ‘treading on her foot and declining to apologise’ , Illustrated Police News, 1898.

Pope Pius?? Yeah, I sure hope he is???

Fancy some maths? Helen McGregor worked this multiplication table sampler in Scotland in 1840. Multiplication table samplers were a way for a student to learn both needlework and mathematical skills at the same time

I also presented a paper at a major conference in my field at ~7.5 months pregnant, so I don't think we're fooling anyone.

Gold finger ring featuring a figural hare motif, 16th century, crafted in Europe. Currently housed in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum.

Stockings, 1830s. Kyoto Costume Institute.

Mary studies scripture, while Joseph snuggles the baby. Gotta love that ol' 15th Century complementarianism.

Lots of reindeer in this 1572 map of Lapland, not sure where the elves are hiding tho'! #Christmas #RareBooks

Warming flavours of saffron, pepper, chile and ginger for a cold winter's morning in #Dublin. From a 16th century herbal. a book on the medicinal uses of plants.