Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @ Birkbeck, working on plant-writing in c16th London 🌷 Also: print culture | marginalia | recipe books | practical knowledge in early modern England ⚙️https://bsky.app/profile/mazinggrace.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mazinggrace.bsky.social/post/3mu3cdypllk2rI’m thrilled to share officially that I’m returning to Birkbeck from September to begin a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. My project, ‘London’s Green Archive: Writing Plants, 1562-1612’, will explore how Londoners wrote about their everyday experiences of living & working with plants 🌳 (1/3)27 Aug 2026 16:46 +0000at://did:plc:siaqueotyvp3rtpvyyr2wch5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3cdypllk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/mazinggrace.bsky.social/post/3mrxie5rzvs2xIt’s the last day of my Huntington Library fellowship today, during which I’ve been on the hunt for imaginative readers of #earlymodern instruction & recipe books 👀 It’s been such a wonderful place to read and write over the summer, especially about plant knowledge!31 Jul 2026 17:32 +0000at://did:plc:siaqueotyvp3rtpvyyr2wch5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrxie5rzvs2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/mazinggrace.bsky.social/post/3mqklzx5ips23An unexpected highlight of my fellowship at the Huntington this summer: getting to see & smell two corpse flowers blooming this morning (one, nicknamed Odorysseus, is making its public debut!). They only flower for 24 hours or so once every 2-3 years, so a double bloom is a real botanical event!13 Jul 2026 21:09 +0000at://did:plc:siaqueotyvp3rtpvyyr2wch5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqklzx5ips23https://bsky.app/profile/mazinggrace.bsky.social/post/3mg5mw5cyik2wFinally (inevitably?) I have succumbed to How X Read His Y! Grateful for the chance to revisit Joseph Banks’ copy (actually copies) of Thomas Tusser’s husbandry manual in verse, among other plant marginalia. And looking forward to what promises to be a great 2 days! Registration ⬇️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Mar 2026 11:08 +0000at://did:plc:siaqueotyvp3rtpvyyr2wch5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg5mw5cyik2whttps://bsky.app/profile/mazinggrace.bsky.social/post/3mfonntkjmk23I was definitely too busy sampling cheese yesterday to remember to take any pics but a huge thank you to @cheeseandpeople.bsky.social and @cheesetastingco.bsky.social for a fantastic event - to be repeated... ? [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Feb 2026 12:11 +0000at://did:plc:siaqueotyvp3rtpvyyr2wch5/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfonntkjmk23