Carolyn Day
@carolynaday
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Amazing curls attached to an adventurous historian specializing in #Medicine #Georgians, #Royalty, 19th C #Fashion with a side of #WW2 #MeridaStoleMyLook
Joined January 2010
In case you missed it!
It’s book release day! As a present - I’ve written a FREE preview that explains all about how Ring of Fire came about, and included an excerpt so you can try before you buy 🥰 @militaryhistori @James1940 @thehistoryguy @monstroso @Iain_MacGregor1 @HoZ_Books
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Through the tragic tale of an ill-fated couple and their disapproving families, this #microhistory explores not only forbidden love but also marriage, illness, death, disability, and scandal in eighteenth-century society. Explore more: https://t.co/2lfsv0klZl
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“@carolynaday engages deeply with the intertwined histories of gender, disease, and status while also providing compelling reflections on the twists and turns of the historian’s craft.” Paul Deslandes @uvmvermont Learn more: https://t.co/2lfsv0kTOT
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NEWS! @PikeGrey1418 and I can finally reveal the cover of the book 🤓 Thank you @HoZ_Books Preorder via https://t.co/wpszwloyxC US readers stay tuned @Pegasus_Books @militaryhistori @James1940 @almurray @guywalters @kejamieson_ @DrLindseyFitz @IainDale @GreatWarGroup @CWGC
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This is literally every historian. I’m changing our collective name.
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When research imitates life — I need to put this quote on a t-shirt “I am alive but most heartily tired” Same girl, same!
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Writing a book is one of the hardest things you can do. Getting it over the line is a monumental undertaking, let alone when you’ve lost your mum and the universe continues to pound on you. I am so immensely proud of @carolynaday, one of the finest humans I know. This tale is
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Eeek!!! It looks like my book is available for pre-order! Please order if you want to know all the secrets of the naughty vicar, insights into madness, smallpox & consumption in the 18th century as well as some research help for students! https://t.co/5x1AVFpBNK
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Remembering Anne Beach: Love, Scandal, and Sickness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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Well that’s exciting! Thanks @HistoryToday
During the late 18th century the physical effects of tuberculosis became the ideals of beauty for the fashionable woman. 🔓 We've just made @carolynaday’s fascinating article from The Archive free for the next 7 days. Find it at https://t.co/8sNx5yUszs
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Welp I forgot my computer & feel like why bother since the hard work never actually pays off anyway & it’s only 9am — hope you are having a better start than I am!
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Important article today from @royalhistsoc Fellow @kawulf: 'Humanities & Jobs Data: What’s the Real Story?' https://t.co/MT5MwdvC7v in @scholarlykitchn Karin reviews a new report @americanacad on professional value of humanities degrees in US, that's also v. relevant for UK 1/2
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Dress for the job you want they say — I dressed for cocktails on the Almalfi coast but instead got it’s 100 degrees & back to back meetings from 8:30-3:30 instead — must choose even more carefully tomorrow 😂
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Thanks @IainDale & @churchill_alex for the opportunity to chat about George IV who was “rather too fond of wine & women”.
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Fingers crossed! I might actually get to see papers in private hands I have been chasing for 8 years!!! 🤞🤞🤞Also when I am murdered my headstone will say they promised to show her historic documents & she let them take her to a 2ndry location 😂💀🪦#historian #book3
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And the winner for best book drop I have seen …. The Cambridge University Library!
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When you find something you absolutely MUST have at the National Library of Wales but you only have 1 day when you can possibly get it because of other archive appointments— you try to figure out if you can get to Aberystwyth & back in 1 day! #historianproblems #archives
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Have entered library beast mode — got permission to double my requests & now aiming to get through 20 volumes by the end of today! Today I am a machine, so tomorrow I can rest!! 😂
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Got through all 10 of the volumes I was allowed to call up today in the BL & it’s only 1pm —I’m knackered!
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