As an Evelyn Cheesman scholar, any time spent reading her books, or researching her specimens, is ‘Time Well Spent’ pictured here the type specimen of Acrida cheesmanae Dirsch, 1954. Collected by the woman herself in 1933 from Papua. #museumcollections #evelyncheesman

How to make a basilisk by Theophilus Presbyter in his 'On Diverse Arts' (c. 1122), on art, glass and metal work. You of course need a basilisk to make basilisk powder which, with red copper, human blood and acid makes up the recipe for Spanish gold. First, take:

NHM Botany Natural History Museum Science Isabel Davis 🐁🐀🐀 @drbeldavis.bsky.social Mark Carine Towards a National Collection Arts and Humanities Research Council The Sloane Lab also includes researchers here at the Museum who are using the collection to re-examine past histories. Many of the plant specimens from Jamaica in Sloane's collections were likely gathered by enslaved men and women. Find out more: nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/…

Stem cell embryo models are coming to the Science Museum! 🙌

Chaired by Philip Ball, ft Julian Hitchcock 🔬 ⚖️, Sandy Starr PET, Emily Jackson LSE and me The Crick, it’s a debate not to miss! (+a childhood dream to present Science Museum 🤩)

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A great chance to learn about the historical collections RoyalCollegeObsGyn and Royal College of Midwives 💙 .

🚨 NEXT EVENT 🚨 March 21, 6.30-8pm UK time, Intro to the RoyalCollegeObsGyn & Royal College of Midwives 💙 Heritage Collections with Clare Button and Peter Basham

Join us as we explore research resources for the history of obstetrics, gynaecology and midwifery.

More info: broadlyconceived.wordpress.com/2024/02/26/int…

Celebrating Rohan Deb Roy and @dominikhhh.bsky.social 🏳️‍🌈 for this amazing series today... They are both talented scholars and incredibly kind human beings... Many congratulations, and thanks for everything you do. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.10…

We’re now able to share a list of the improvements and restoration of service you’re likely to see between now and July, including access to more Library content and changes to Reader Registration so that everyone can access our collection.

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Beatrice gemming up on and avoiding the pregnancy test in 'The Book of Experiment, call'd Secrets in Nature' she finds in Alsemero's medical closet in Thomas Middleton's play 'The Changeling'. Ladies watch out for that white water!

The Wellcome Collection copy of Michele Savonarola's 15th-century treatise on medicinal bathing 🛀 is bound in medieval music. 🎶
Looks like a chant, verse from Joel 2.17.
It's online here👇 wellcomecollection.org/works/ajehr7mq…

Are you considering a Postdoctoral Fellowship application in 2024? Sign up by Sunday 18 February to attend an Information Day we are running in collaboration with the University of Reading Connecting Research
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At work!

OK #medievaltwitter can anyone think of a painting or a description of a painting of a catalogue of women, good or bad, before 1520? You know, like claris mulieribus or similar. Thank you!

Older women get fragrant, like the Ibis 🪶, absolutely known for its perfume. 👃👃🧴🧴
Text: de Vives, 'Education of a Christian Woman', trans. Fantazzi.

Interested in women's history and want to share your research? Then why not blog for us!

Our blog is a forum for researchers at any career stage. We'd love to hear from you! Find out more here:
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Always blame the mothers!
Yes, bite off their ears. 👂👂👂
Text from Juan de Vives, Instruction of a Christian Woman.

What was top of the charts in seventeenth-century England? This great resouce will fill you in.

Transcripts, accounts of the woodcuts, recordings, everything you want to know is here 👇👇

🎶🥁🪈🎻🎶

This 🖼️: Lamentable Ballad of the Ladies Fall.

100ballads.org

What use is a frame that you can just walk out of?
🖼️ : A carolling group in Romance of the Rose MS British Library Royal 20 A XVII.

POSTDOC AND POSTGRAD OPPORTUNITIES - We are working with the University of Reading to develop new research partnerships - find out more on this information day on 7 March - apply by 11 February research.reading.ac.uk/uor-nhm-partne…

... in the place of hair and feathers they have rationality with which they cover themselves and fly wherever they want'.
Hildegard of Bingen, on our diffence from furry and feathered creatures.
🖼: 🔗
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