Sam Brown
Part-producer, part-historian, 100% in the archives. PhDing at UCL on Arabic in England pre-1635. Northerner. Learner gardener. Human 🦜 perch.
www.lifeandotherstories.co.uk
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- My conference tattoo may be fading, but the research, conversations and unadulterated geekery of FEATHERS’ Scribes and Inky Fingerprints will be with me for quite some time. If you weren’t here I’m afraid you really did miss out…
- Reposted by Sam BrownIn two weeks' time! Join us in the evening of 19 May for an exciting conversation about 'changing the record: how people use(d) paperwork to make their world. Free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/changing-t... #YayArchives #SkyStorians #HistArchives
- If someone would like to pay me to move to Leiden that would be delightful, thank you
- Very excited to be en route to Leiden to talk about Arabic correspondence in England (obviously feat. William Bedwell) at the FEATHERS conference. Less excited at being stationary on the tarmac at Stansted for longer than the journey will take…
- Come and join us at @livesandletters.bsky.social to talk about #EarlyModern libraries! Two weeks to get your abstracts in! Check the website for full details, incl. how PhDs and ECRs can apply for funding to attend…
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- Every Richard Field binding now a possible Shakespeare household archive? Yes please!
- Reposted by Sam BrownIt’s me! I’m the expert! Had lots of fun writing this piece on The White Lotus and Shakespeare. Please read and share! #Shakespeare #TheWhiteLotus
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- Reposted by Sam BrownWhat ethical responsibilities do we bear when we write about war? This is one of the questions we’re posing in our June colloquium on early modern war narratives. CFP here and the deadline is 11th April! Please share widely and consider submitting an abstract! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen...
- Reposted by Sam BrownThey did it. They terminated my NEH grant. Their letter went to my junk mail. This is an active grant that would have finished on June 30. “Your grant’s immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government” They are so afraid of us.
- I was lucky enough to spend much of last year surveying Arabic manuscripts at the @nationaltrust.bsky.social and @britishlibrary.bsky.social, tracing the provenance of individual items and identifying trends across the collections. If you’d like to read more there’s a link to my report below!
- We’re having a symposium at @livesandletters.bsky.social! Come and geek out with us over early modern libraries and the books that filled them. Abstracts due May 16th, full details here www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of... #bookhistory #earlymodern
- You know you’ve found your people when a stranger pulls a rare book out of their bag to compare with your homemade tote because both title pages feature the same printer’s device #RenSA25
- Home after a truly fantastic #RenSA25. Loved sharing my own work (once the paper was finished 😅), saw so much stimulating research and discussion, and loved Boston. But the company of amazing ECR pals is what really made it a really special trip. Fugit hora when you’re having fun ❤️
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- Happy World Book Day from my current favourite, a manuscript Qur’an acquired in Surat, in the hefty English binding of Sir Simonds d’Ewes (1602-1650)
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- So pleased I finally made it to the fantastic Endless Stories exhibition at Cambridge UL today. Slightly off topic but - aside from a couple of Bedwell MSS - this doodle study of a cat was a real highlight…
- Is @theulspeccoll.bsky.social blog down for anyone else this afternoon or is it just me?
- Today I put a bird feeder *with camera* in our garden and I think it might be the best money I’ve ever spent. I’ve christened it ‘Peck a Manger’ and I apologise in advance if you don’t like birds because this will now be 90% of my social media content… 🐦⬛
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- Just caught up on this and it’s an absolute must-listen. So exciting to see #EarlyModern historical research being used to tell such an urgent, current story 👏
- My absolute favourite thing in the V&A. Close second is the façade of Paul Pindar’s house, built in 1600 and demolished in the 1890s
- I think it’s time to introduce Bluesky to my favourite #EarlyModern person, William Bedwell. If you wanted to learn Arabic in England 400 years ago you would head to his vicarage in Tottenham. It was demolished in the 1800s but you can still see where it stood today, near White Hart Lane Station 🔎
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