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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

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)Mar 23

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

Cassidy Percoco Feb 21

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...

Dig: A History Podcast Feb 9

Save it for the Rag-and-Bone Man: The Premodern History of Recycling, Salvage, and Reuse

https://digpodcast.org/2026/02/08/save-it-for-the-rag-and-bone-man-the-premodern-history-of-recycling-salvage-and-reuse/

#EnvironmentalHistory #18thC #18thCentury #19thCentury #20thCenturyHistory #EnvironmentalHistory #EuropeanHistory #SocialHistory #podcast #histodons #history @histodons

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)Feb 3

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

Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)Jan 26

@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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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)Jan 22

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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Dr Surekha Davies Jan 20

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

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/humans-a-monstrous-history-tickets-1979887105630?aff=oddtdtcreator

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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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)Jan 18

Can an archive make a monster of a historian? But of course! I wrote about this for @[email protected], and the essay is now both free to read online and available as an audio read by me! The audio version: 💙📚 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH #maps #cartography 1/2

Can the Archive Make a Monster...

Can the Archive Make a Monster of a Historian? — audio

A historian who pays full attention to their sources can’t help but be transformed into a monster...

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)Jan 8

CORRECTION: My lecture in London is on the evening of Thursday 5th March! Sorry, folks. 'Twas my first day doing any work after the break. 😭 💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH

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