Carolyn Day

@carolynaday
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British historian & historian of medicine working on beauty, fashion & TB & the lived experience of disease. She/Hers #histodons #histmed
Yay! It looks like @[email protected] has launched a new server for historians called, fittingly enough, historians.social! I will be migrating there soon, I'm sure. Just waiting for the moderation rules etc to be posted. #histodons #history #academics
So here goes nothing, I’ll guess we’ll see who else pops up on here! #introductions #history #historian #WW1 #WWI #WW2 #WWII #militaryhistory #MilHist #Titanic #CFC #ChelseaFC #Chelsea
Hello Mastodon. My name is Liz. I’m a historian of early America. My research area is the American Revolution. I am slowly working on a born multimedia project about American union and the Articles of Confederation. I’m best known for my public-facing # history podcast, Ben Franklin’s World.
New #introduction now that I've moved over to hcommons:
I research, write, & teach about #EarlyAmerica #GenderHistory #FamilyHistory and #CulturalHistory.
I also work with #museums and historic sites, most recently on interpreting slavery.
Looking forward to building community here!

Heart-shaped pendant with a lock of hair from Marie Antoinette. If this is her hair, it must have been presented before the abortive flight to Varennes in 1791, when Marie's hair allegedly went white overnight.

Is it possible for a person’s hair to go white overnight? Researchers found that hormones produced in response to stress can deplete the melanocyte stem cells that determine hair color. But there’s no scientific evidence that this can happen within hours due to trauma. #histodons

@nationsandnationalism I’ve created a group devoted to academic discussions of nations and nationalism. #Histodons @histodons
Today in the historian’s lament —-Why oh why is everyone’s name William & Anne?!!!— she says as she trying to sort out the family tree so the reader can keep up with which William or Anne #book #18thc #histmed #iamwriting #TheWritersRoom #histodons
Good Morning #books #reading
Please feel free to listen in at 6pm EST (3 hours from now) for my talk about Ottobah Cugoano and the relationship between slavery and British national debt, live at Mount Holyoke College, or on Zoom (use QR code in the poster or DM me for the meeting ID). This is the first talk I've given on this project since my trip to the Bank of England archives in May.
Another cracking mourning ring - A tiny skeleton rests in the coffin-shaped bezel on this example. The skeleton holds an arrow and a hourglass - which features green enamel! The background is hair. 1715 (British Museum) #mementomori #skeleton #histodons #history #mourning