I’m going to be honest with y’all- I tend to forget I even have this account till I get an email that says “hey did you know that J. E. Kearns did something?” And I go to look and then I’m like “wow Jonathan really does say that good shit” and then I log off

Stop it

It is the 108th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising, where one of Ireland's renowned doctors and revolutionaries, Dr Kathleen Lynn acted as Chief Medical Officer for the Irish Citizen Army.

#OnThisDay in 1990 the Hubble Space Telescope launched 🔭

Hubble orbits outside the Earth’s atmosphere to capture high-res images of space and our solar system 🌑

In the early 19th century, people would paint the moon and stars from what they saw through telescopes until the…

Captured in 1864, this ambrotype immortalizes John and Sarah (Williams) Young of Hallowell, Maine. Perhaps a wedding portrait, it marked a second marriage for both. Sarah, once married to Thomas Williams, labored as a domestic alongside her late husband in the household of a…

Might as well sneak in a cheeky #LegalRecord for #ShakespeareDay . A 1638 Court of Requests case that mentions the 'tenement late of William Shakespeare.'

Y’all should all be lucky enough to have Dr. Monica Ann Walker make you look like an evil queen….

650 years ago today on #StGeorgesDay the poet Geoffrey Chaucer was given a rather unusual royal gift, a daily allowance of a pitcher (roughly a gallon) of wine...

The original letters patent for the grant are on display The National Archives until the end of the month

The best part about J. E. Kearns living across the ocean is that I can buy books on syphilis that are located in his current part of the world, and make it his problem.

Obsessed

Y’all I’m so lucky to know Rachel Lance💥 and I think everyone needs to read her new book

Scots dental surgeon John Smith died #OTD 1910. Surgeon-dentist to Queen Victoria, co-founder of Edinburgh Dental Dispensary & Hospital for Sick Children, Smith was also a very talented medical & anatomy artist. His sketchbooks digitised here buff.ly/2EidLa4? #WorldArtDay

This saw was made by J Gardner & Son, Edinburgh. It was designed to saw through tissue, ligaments and bone.

I spent Saturday in 1845 (though my dress is 1870s) for my dear friend’s wedding.
I am so lucky to have friends who commit to the bit as fully as I do.

Hey J. E. Kearns historic titties

My new article is live, and I’m really proud of this one. Thanks to Dr Deborah Harkness (PhD, LHD) for being cited in like everything I wanted to use 😂🖤 microform.digital/boa/posts/cate…

Tagging Dr Deborah Harkness (PhD, LHD) on this one

I’m so proud of this thread please come look at it

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