Introducing... the Greek translation of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY! 1/ #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #18thC #politics 💙📚 🗃 salto.gr/en/shop/huma...

Humans: οι Δημιουργοί των Τερά...
Humans: οι Δημιουργοί των Τεράτων, μια ιστορία της ανθρωπότητας

. - Τα τέρατα είναι κεντρικής σημασίας για το πώς σκεφτόμαστε την ανθρώπινη κατάσταση. Ακολουθήστε τη βραβευμένη ιστορικό της επιστήμης Σουρίκα Ντέιβις καθώς αποκαλύπτει πώς οι άνθρωποι…

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The paperback of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY from @ucpress is now in my hands! There's new jacket copy! There are review quotations on the back: 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #18thC #histsci #histmed #politics 1/

The #HarrissListDigitalArchive project has reached the halfway point 🎉

9 of the 18 surviving editions of Harris’s List of #CoventGardenLadies are now available for data exploration, enabling research through tabular analysis, mapping, and network visualisation.

Excited to see how scholars and the public engage with this remarkable eighteenth-century source as the archive continues to grow. More editions, data, and discoveries coming soon.

https://harrisslist.prisms.digital/

#c18th #18thC #18thCentury

Queen, monster, icon: Marie Antoinette at the V&A - my review of the museum's latest blockbuster show., in my free newsletter. 1/ #earlymodern #monsters #politics #18thC #prints 🗃 buttondown.com/surekhadavie...

Queen, monster, icon: Marie An...
Queen, monster, icon: Marie Antoinette at the V&A

To celebrate a French naval victory, Marie Antoinette once wore a hat topped by a ship. It still inspires fashion designers. Hallo friends, and welcome, new...

Strange and Wondrous: Notes from a Science Historian
We have a handful of #18thc stays at the Fenimore. This set is in quite good shape, and since it's missing its lining, we can see all of the interesting details of construction. (Full 360 of photos at the link!) collections.fenimoreart.org/objects/5219...
Chinese edition (traditional characters) of HUMANS: A Monstrous History now in my hands! Link to book (all editions and languages in bio), from Gusa Press (Taiwan): 1/ 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH
@brookenewman.bsky.social: "The receiver general, an officer charged with managing payments on behalf of the crown, offered the enslaved Africans to the highest bidders in the king’s name." 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern #18thC #VastEarlyAmerica 1/

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If you're in London, here's a great book event on Jan 30th evening at Waterstones Gower Street! 💙📚 🗃 #earlymodern #18thC #politics

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I'll be giving a talk on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY at the Linnean Society in London on Thursday March 5th, 6-8pm.

Come and chat monsters with me! Reception, book sales and signing follows the talk.

Link for tickets is below.

#history #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #18thC

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HUMANS | A Monstrous History

Monsters aren’t fantasy. They built our ideas of race, gender, nations, and ‘normal. This is history through monsters.

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