Zara Kesterton
@ZaraKesterton
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PhD candidate @camhistory writing on flowers in 18th century French fashion 🌷@wolfsonfdn scholar 📚 @MaterialCam (she/her) https://t.co/B6KhZvr0lN
London, England
Joined October 2015
I’m delighted that my first article has finally been published in @HistoricalJnl 🌸 This research started during Covid when I spotted some unusually flowery references in a fashion merchant’s bills at the @INHA_bib. It’s blossomed into my whole PhD topic!
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Artificial Flowers in the Credit Records of an Eighteenth-Century French Fashion Merchant - Volume 67 Issue 5
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Our workshop has a new look this term: The Salon. Discussion group meeting alternate Wednesdays 12-1pm in the Stephen Hawking Room, Trinity Hall. Our symposium on 26 November will feature a keynote by Dr Anna Maerker (KCL). Want to speak? Email us 18thcenturycam@gmail.com.
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Join us this evening for the third workshop this term, featuring our wonderful convenor @Jake_Bransgrove and guest speaker @BethRichards116! We’ll be in the Junior Parlour, Gonville & Caius, at 5pm. Message us for a link to join online. See you there! ✨
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Our next event of term is taking place TODAY! (Monday 2nd June) at 5.30 pm (not 5 pm!) in the Junior Parlour at Gonville & Caius College. We'll be hearing papers from João Moreira da Silva @moreiradasilvaj and Andrés Jácome @jacomeaf94. All are welcome to join!
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Join us today for the first session of the term!
Our Easter Term Card is now live! Join us at 5pm on 27 May, in person and online, for our first two papers by Anthony Zhang and Aelfred Hillman on restoration comedies.
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Our Easter 2025 cfp is up - if you have something up your sleeve that you'd like to present, then get in touch!
Our Easter term CfP is now open! Send us your abstracts by 28 April 🌿
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Our final session of Lent term is on Tuesday! We will be hosting an *online only* event featuring two exciting papers from @arrannerispoli and Deiara Semeco Kouto. DM us for the Teams link or subscribe to our mailing list via the link in our bio.
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Three days left to submit your abstracts!
#CfP Hello, if anyone is still here on X! I’m thrilled to be organising a conference with @lucyjanehavard on Plants and People. Please send abstracts and bios to us by Friday 14 March!
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We have two exciting papers coming up tomorrow from Tomas Brown (Cambridge) @tomasbnbrown and Anita Hoffmann (York) @17CMedicalWomen – join us at 5 pm in the Library Seminar Room at St John's College! Followed by drinks and dinner...!
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Our next session of the term is tomorrow evening at 5pm in Teaching Room 1, Old Divinity School! We’re delighted to welcome Nate Catching and Tiéphaine Thomason to speak on war and peace in France and Martinique 🕊️ Join us in person or online (message for a Teams link)
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Stepping in to present on some of my favourite paintings today at the @18thcentury_cam workshop!
It’s our first session of Lent Term today! Join us at 5pm in the Library Seminar Room, St John’s College, to hear Jonathan Salamon discussing “Moments of Absorption in Bach’s Keyboard Works”, and @ZaraKesterton talking about illusion and artifice in Carmontelle’s portraiture 🎹🎨
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Delighted that my new article is now available on FirstView with the @HistoricalJnl! I explore the important role health and the body played in the making of the Pomeranian Art Cabinet.
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Subtle Bodies: Networks and Corporeality in Philipp Hainhofer’s Pomeranian Cabinet
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We are delighted to announce our Lent term card! Our first session is a big Bach event on 4 February at St John’s College Library seminar room. 🎶 For more details, subscribe to our mailing list: https://t.co/jIEXpj6t3S
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#CfP Hello, if anyone is still here on X! I’m thrilled to be organising a conference with @lucyjanehavard on Plants and People. Please send abstracts and bios to us by Friday 14 March!
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Looking forward to talking about my thesis to the wonderful crowd at EMWH Workshop
Early Modern World History Workshop - Lent Term 2025 🌍
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⏳ Deadline extended! ⏳ You now have until this Friday 17 January to apply to speak at our workshop. All postgraduate students and ECRs welcome. Come and join our friendly 18th century community 😊
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Looking forward to receiving abstracts and planning our next term’s programme!
A reminder that the deadline for our Lent Term CFP is in just 10 days! To apply, please send over a 250-word abstract and short bio by 10 January to our email ✨ Our theme this term is 'Form and Function' ✨
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I look forward to reading the abstracts for the next term of our workshop!
Our Lent Term CfP is now live! We welcome 250 word abstracts + bio on the theme Form and Function. Please apply by 10 January 2025 ✨
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Our final session of the term is tomorrow, and it’s a bumper edition! We’ll be meeting in the Arthur Quiller-Couch room at St John’s at 5pm tomorrow and on Teams. Sign up to our mailing list for more details. See you there! 🏴💡🕰️ https://t.co/jIEXpj5Vek
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One of our @CamHistory co-convenors at @Cambridge_Uni’s workshop for the Long 18th Century has just been published! Daniel’s article tells of a forgotten woman orator against enslavement, highlighting the challenges women orators faced and restoring her rightful credit. Read it!
My first journal article is published! It tells of a woman lost to history who spoke against enslavement hours before Wilberforce’s 1st abolitionist speech. Secret spy reports & newspapers reveal the challenges women faced in public speaking. Read it here:
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What do William Pitt, Foundling Hospital tokens, and shipwrecks have in common? They all feature in tonight’s stellar line up for the Long Eighteenth Century workshop! ✨5pm, Arthur Quiller Couch Room, St John’s and online. Message us for directions or for the Teams link.✨
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