Lisa Nicholson
Early modernist at KCL
Working on women, exile, gender, Huguenots, Francophonie, queer libertines ~ she/her
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- I always feel fairly "junior" at conferences..still an ECR, still a postdoc - until today when the name of a former undergrad student on a conference programme FLOORED me. The passage of time is harsh and bewildering.
- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonTickets available for our Annual CEMS Colloquium! Join us on June 6th. This year's theme is Early Modern War Narratives and has been organised by Dr. @emilyrowe1.bsky.social. Keynote by Prof. Andrew Hopper and Dr. Ismini Pells. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen...
- What a gross insult to everybody who has made their lives here, who cares for the elderly, who teaches the children, who has fallen in love and made homes and friendships and lives and families, and everything in between.
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- I grew up in a household where no-one had Maths GCSE (or equiv), partly bc my parents’ parents didn’t. And I often find the notion of educational capital completely absent from conversations abt (in)equality and social mobility. Absolutely hate the scenario where lack of privilege = disenfranchisemt
- Have (once again) foiled my schedule this week by proving unable to calculate time difference. Excitement for a panel on Wars of Religion dashed when I realised it happened a couple of hours ago. O wonderful hybrid conferences, I want to be there but my muddled mind has done it again!
- Reposted by Lisa Nicholson📘 New from Languages in UK Education series 👇 Can students keep learning languages after GCSE—without a full A-level? Neil Kenny proposes a practical, flexible Level 3 ‘Applied Languages’ certificate. Read more: www.lspjournal.com/post/time-fo...
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- If Rapunzel was wisteria
- New book out by my colleague (& PhD supervisor) Emma Gilby - on Descartes & the non-human, offering an ecocritical reassessment of Descartes' work & a timely discussion of how his work might help us navigate environmental crises today. Free to download for two weeks! 🌍 doi.org/10.1017/9781...
- Historian friends, pls sign & support trans rights ✏️ Especially urging friends & colleagues who work on women's history. Our work is tied up with the marginalization & minoritization of women in the past. That same brand of repression is happening right now - speak out!!
- OPEN LETTER: HISTORIANS FOR TRANS RIGHTS Are you a historian in the UK or working on UK history fed up at seeing the history of LGBTQIA+ discrimination repeat itself? Sign this open letter to MPs demanding they stand up for trans rights now! Letter: tinyurl.com/879vuver Sign: tinyurl.com/4p7wktrn
- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonHeartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29
- I am proud to be a signatory to this letter speaking out in support of our trans siblings in the face of the current appalling assault on their rights and safety. If you are a feminist academic or educator please do read, share and consider signing. #transrightsarehumanrights #CisWithTheT
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- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonI am proud to be a signatory to this letter speaking out in support of our trans siblings in the face of the current appalling assault on their rights and safety. If you are a feminist academic or educator please do read, share and consider signing. #transrightsarehumanrights #CisWithTheT
- STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia' Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29 Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
- Signed! 🌈
- STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia' Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29 Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...
- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonI am so delighted to announce that we are #hiring! A two year full-time teaching and research post in French 🇫🇷 Come and join our big and beautiful School of Languages, Cultures and Societies in leafy Leeds! Please post to your networks. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... @lcsleeds.bsky.social
- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonThis coming Monday! Join CEMS for a book talk with @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social. She'll be speaking on her NEW book Humans: A Monstrous History and will be in conversation with Dr. Philip Ball. April 28 @ 17:30 Tickets available below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/book-...
- I was meant to spend this week reviewing monograph copyedits (terrifying), but there's been a problem and instead I've been leisurely reading Marguerite de Navarre for the New Project while I wait (✨BLISS✨)
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- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonSomeone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine
- increasingly hard to stay grounded with the AI invasion of academia. this week, I was already fuming at my institution having a sort of unspoken hire-freeze* but advertising ELEVEN permanent jobs if you can connect your research to AI. apply if your research involves a thieving, enviro-harming tool!
- Hugely looking forward to the Cultures of Philosophy conference in June - on early modern women's engagement with natural philosophy, and all things salons, academies, and networks! 💫
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- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonI am so thrilled to announce my new book, Thomas More: A Life, out next month in the UK with @michaeljbooks.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social and North America in July with Pegasus Books Pre-order now! uk.bookshop.org/a/12264/9781... www.simonandschuster.com/.../Joanne.....
- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonMy new book, co-authored with Michelle Dowd, is now out from Oxford University Press in the UK. US publication to follow shortly. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
- Happily made it to ‘Rise Up’ at the Fitzwilliam today. The beautiful double portrait of Dido Belle and Elizabeth Murray is even more gorgeous irl. And loved seeing all the playbills advertising Ira Aldridge as Othello, Macbeth & King Lear 🎭
- Can't help but add 2 pence bc I am a (precarious) academic and my brother is a plumber. He helps family with repairs and manual expertise, and I help with CVs, education advice, difficult texts (like jobs apps and mortgage agreements). I'd like to think we "improve society" in complementary ways ☯️
- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonNew report from @britishacademy.bsky.social on language skills & capabilities in the UK research base Multilingual capabilities are integral to research excellence, impact and integrity www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/publications...
- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonTeaching the Early Modern: A Webinar Series! CEMS will be hosting three online sessions on teaching practices and strategies. We'll have three sessions through the spring: 23rd April, 29th May, and 19th June. Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/teach... @kingsartshums.bsky.social
- Friends, acquaintances, unlucky punters sat nearby at my local, can attest I have been wailing about this for years. Senior managers swan in to a university, wreck the finances while wracking up pet-projects for their CVs, then glide off again with absolutely no accountability. Maddening!
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- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonDeadline this Friday! CfP for our Annual CEMS Colloquium. This year's theme is Early Modern War Narratives. Full details below! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen...
- Can't wait for my monograph to (eventually) come out so I can stop worrying about finishing the endless editorial admin - and instead start worrying about whether everyone* will hate it. (the c.5 people interested in my little niche topic)
- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonCall for Papers: ‘Built with books: shaping the shelves of the early modern library’ Deadline 16th May 2025 9 –10 September 2025 at UCL, London
- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonComing up! My @erc.europa.eu Consolidator project #FEATHERS 🪶🪶 is organising a 3-day international conference on early modern scribal culture and manuscript production at @unileiden.bsky.social on 7-9 May 2025. See www.universiteitleiden.nl/feathers-con... Why not attend, registration closes soon!🥂
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- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonSince so many of us are at #RenSa25 it's a good time to give this a little boost: go.bsky.app/Cqqbsptat://did:plc:g6f5q26fd55svf5klls5wcuc/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lajtgaz4on2w
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- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonThings are dire. But the Royal Historical Society is still funding postgraduate research. Next deadline is 6 June 2025. Grants of £500 or £1,000 available. Details: royalhistsoc.org/research_fun...
- Another uni announcing *hundreds* of jobs losses to add to the tens of thousands across the sector. I am begging journalists to spotlight the ripple effect this will have. It starts with academics, but it will mean cuts to security, caterers, contractors, admin, & all those jobs created by unis...
- Come and talk about early modern war narratives, war reporters, & reader responses at this KCL Colloquium in June! 👇
- Call for Papers for our Annual CEMS Colloquium! This year's theme is early modern war narratives. Organised by @emilyrowe1.bsky.social. We're looking for 15-minute papers. Deadline for abstracts is 11 April. Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen... @kingsartshums.bsky.social
- Jobs for Early Modern Frenchies! ⭐ 4-year Early Career Lectureship in Early Modern French at St John's Ox: www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac... ⭐ 1-year Lectureship in French (Early Modern) at Worcester Ox (link below):
- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonWe're delighted to be hosting @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social for a talk on her NEW book - Humans: A Monstrous History (@ucpress.bsky.social). Chaired by Dr. Hannah Dawson. Join us on 28 April! Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/book-... #HAMH #earlymodern @kingsartshums.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonStill a few weeks left to submit an abstract for our wonderful conference in November! ☟ ☟ ☟ #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜
- CFP - Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade (Nov. 5-7, 2025) deadline : March 31 museumplantinmoretus.be/en/page/wome... #BookHistory #WomenandEarlyModernBook
- International Women’s Day reads (accidentally v apt bc we celebrating women everyday in this house) #IWD25
- The wonders & joys of archives ✨📜 What a find @leahveronese.bsky.social!
- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonNew blog post!!! Claudia Geremia on amulets, materiality and syncretic medicine in the early modern Canaries... www.mmor.co.uk/blog/the-mat...
- It’s Friday, the sun is gleaming, & I am working on my shiny new project on Huguenot women, beginning with the indomitable Marie Dentière
- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonCongratulations to Tony T and his colleagues in the Communities of Liberation project at London’s Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archive. They are doing great work, and I am delighted to have been able to help. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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- 📣 Calling early modernists 📣 3 x 4-year jobs at Durham in French, History, & Italian!! Also 3 x PhDs. All working under the banner of 'Inventing Futures' in a wonderful department. Apply / spread the word.... www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...
- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonOur project blog is BACK. Our new series focuses on #EarlyModern health experiences of enslaved and free members of the African diaspora. With thanks to Lexie Cook for our first post... www.mmor.co.uk/blog/sealing...
- For those many, many of you newly here (very exciting, a little overwhelming!), I'd love to offer my project's blog on medicine, race-making, and slavery as teaching resource, research inspiration, and testament to an exciting community of new and established scholars #EarlyModern
- A virtual Glastonbury-style queue this morning for the St James’s Palace tour so I can find out whether the ghost of Hortense Mancini really haunts the rooms 👻
- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonI'm involved in this programme with a project on 'Forging Social Solidarities during Religious Wars', which is recruiting a Career Development Fellow and funding a PhD candidate in early modern European history – please share widely! I'm happy to chat with anyone interested in applying #earlymodern
- I’m probably the last person to discover this but I was today years old when I found out ‘geyser’ is pronounced ‘geezer’ which (as a Londoner) I’m struggling to take seriously
- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonThe Government is considering allowing AI companies to freely use your works, unless you opt-out. This is unfair and unworkable. Now is your chance to tell them what you think! Submit a response to their AI consultation using the guidance below. www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...
- Final checks for the monograph at The National Archives… and then I promise to work on something that isn’t to do with Hortense Mancini
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- Some great early modern women content in this month’s @historytoday.com - on the allegedly ‘Mad Duchess’ of Albemarle & the ethics of writing histories tied up with mental health
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- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonThe new school into which the remaining Humanities departments are to be merged is going to be the School of Global Humanities. Meanwhile, global languages will no longer be taught there.
- Reposted by Lisa NicholsonIf 1000 job losses were announced in one day for another industry, it would make the top headlines. This one is going to take people by surprise with huge impacts on other sectors, cities, regions, life plans...
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