On Tuesday next week I'm talking about snuff, gender, race, and the inter-sensorial nature of eighteenth-century consumption. Hmmmm, love a bit of accidental snuff in my pies.

Advance copy arrived! Thanks Cornell University Press Mahinder S. Kingra and The Leverhulme Trust

Multisensory experience at the The Parker Library ! What a great initiative! I visited so many times over the years while living in Cambridge, one never gets tired of it (especially of its premodern manuscripts collection!)

Multisensory experience in Cambridge!

We now organise weekly tours for visitors wanting to
👀 the interior of the Parker Library, 🫰 the smoothness of parchment,👂interesting facts and👃the smell of wood and leather covered books.

Next one is today!
eventbrite.co.uk/o/parker-libra…

The wonderful Lucy Schaufer & Lana Bode will premiere my 'Two Edinburgh Machines': 15 Nov University of St Andrews Laidlaw Music Centre. Poems by Muriel Spark & A. McCall Smith

This #FemaleFollowFriday , meet 𝑬𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒖𝒆𝒍𝒂 𝑽𝒂𝒊, Head of Research Worcester College, Oxford, cultural historian, who focuses on musical instruments, soundscapes, space & senses in Renaissance life combining her research w/ 3D virtual modelling, GIS platforms, and acoustic analyses #womeninDH

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Check out our new account with news and updates from the Bate Collection of Musical Instruments Faculty of Music GLAM Community Engagement Oxford History Humanities Division Bodleian Libraries Digital Scholarship @ Oxford Ashmolean Museum Pitt Rivers Museum History of Science Museum University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Arboretum Oxford University Heritage Network Digital Humanities and Sensory Heritage @Oxford

Welcome to the new Bate Collection of Musical Instruments Twitter/X page. We are home to over 2,000 instruments from the Renaissance up to modern times!

Echo Cornet by Brown & Sons of London c.1895.

It has a fourth valve that diverts the playing length of the instrument to an integrated 'mute bell'. This creates the effect of sounding far away and was used in comic opera and other light entertainment.

See this at the Bate!

#HappyHalloween

This recorder is going as #Barbie this year!

Going left to Right > Sopranino by Dolmetsch c.1950, soprano/descant by Steenbergen, modern plastic soprano, fourth flute in B-flat by Bressan c.1720

Want to do a PhD on sensory history between 1400 and 1800, supervised by me and Emilie Murphy? Get in touch with us please, we’d love to hear from people with ideas for projects! Info on WRoCAH funding (wrocah.ac.uk/funding/prospe…) and contact details for me (york.ac.uk/history/people…)

Calling all medievalists & early modernists - our new Charters Catalogue Bodleian Libraries is now online (thanks to generous support form Mellon Foundation). Fill yer boots! charters.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

📯The #EarlyModern Digital Itineraries call for participants is now live! 📯 If you are interested in all things #digital , #spatial , and #premodern , join the 2024 NEH-funded workshop series. Please re-share and follow up with any Qs. Apps due by 10/1/23 🗺️ emdigit.org/2023/call-for-…

I blogged about my new book, which is out in December: eeleach.blog/2023/08/29/dis…

We welcome the news about the draft agreement between the UK and the EU and hope the UK will be re-entering Horizon Europe🇪🇺 soon! 🇪🇺🇬🇧

This amazing project on 'Proto-Industrial Architecture of the Veneto in the Age of Palladio', in the Venetian terraferma narrated by Deborah Howard on #Vimeo vimeo.com/833933578. Vote!

Fab that Deborah Howard 's amazing project on proto-industrial architecture in the Veneto has been shortlisted for a European Heritage Award. It's a public vote on an incredible set of European conservation and heritage projects. Read more and vote here! vote.europanostra.org