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Dr Victoria Leonard@tigerlilyrocks.bsky.social |
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Ancient, late ancient, and later ancient historian
Research Fellow, Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities
victoria.leonard@coventry.ac.uk
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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Shoutout particularly to 'Framing Disaster in Late Antiquity: New Perspectives', 3 panels of papers going on all day today, organised by Lucy Grig @lucy_grig
and Tina Sessa: imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2024/pre.... What a treat! I'm really sad not to be contributing my paper #IMC2024
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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It's fantastic to see a rich and varied late-antique presence at the Leeds International Medival Congress this year, you can see all papers and events organised by theme here: imc-leeds.confex.com/imc/2024/pre.... #IMC2024
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Rosemary Griggs
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Details from an altar cloth made from pieces of 14th-century embroidered priests’ vestments stitched together
Said to have been stitched by Queen Catherine of Aragon. It’s in St Peter’s, Winchcombe
#textiletuesday #TudorTuesday #needlework
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Res_Australes: Ancient World Studies, Australasia
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#PhD + #postdoc - Ghent - Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams: (1) PhD 4yrs www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...; (2) postdoc 3yrs www.ugent.be/en/work/scie...
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Mark Walters
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I had forgotten how well preserved the late Roman settlement at Din Llugwy, Anglesey is. After an approach through garlic scented woods you suddenly pop out onto this vista in a clearing and it’s really impressive. A rare glimpse of a 4th c. CE iron forge and walled roundhouses.
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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Don't forget #WCCWiki this Thursday!
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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#WCCWiki is meeting again online on Thursday 23 May 2024, 12.00-14.00 GMT+1. Zoom details here: us02web.zoom.us/j/8333021858.... All welcome. Email womensclassicalcommittee@gmail.com for further information
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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That's lovely to hear!
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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And finally, we created a page for Victoria Emma Pagán, Professor of Classics at the University of Florida. She is an expert on Roman historiography and literature, gardens, and conspiracy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victori... #WCCWiki
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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Hatice Gonnet-Bağana (born 1932) is a Turkish archaeologist specialising in the Hittites. She is an emerita researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatice_... #WCCWiki
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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Malekeh Malekzadeh Bayani (ملکه ملکزاده بیانی) was an Iranian archaeologist and numismatist, who was co-founder of the Bank Sepeh Coin Museum and was the Head of the Coins, Seals and Tablets Department of the National Museum of Iran #WCCWiki en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malekeh...
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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Barbara McManus was Prof. of Classics and an expert in classics & comparative literature, feminism, mythology, & women in antiquity. She had a significant influence on both the teaching and research of women in antiquity, and women as classicists: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara...
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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Her page is here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberta... #WCCWiki
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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We created a #Wikipedia page for Roberta Mazza, a Papyrologist at the Dep of Cultural Heritage at the Uni of Bologna. She is an expert on Roman&Byzantine Egypt. Her most recent book is Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts (2024)
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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More on #WCCWiki and a snapshot of the #Wikipedia editing completed over March and April ... We created a new page for Gay van der Meer, a Dutch numismatist who specialised in early medieval coinage of Britain, as well as medallic art: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_van...
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Dr Kate Cook
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My and @jldraycott.bsky.social 's Women in Classical Video Games is now out in paperback! Ideal if you've been hoping to get a copy but were put off by the hardback price...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-in-...
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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Due to technical difficulties and there being a limited number of hours in every day, #WCCWiki is postponed for March.
You can still edit and add to March's list here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped.... We're coming back strong in April 💜🧡
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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Cool!
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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Thank you!
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Vanessa Campanacho
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Amazing work 👏
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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Shout out to Kate Cook @katexe.bsky.social, Richard Nevell
@richardnevell.bsky.social, Katie Shields, Lucy Moore, and Anna Judson @annapjudson.bsky.social for their dedicated hard work, and to everyone who has joined us in the #EditForEquality over the years!! #WCCWiki
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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We'd love to expand our community of editors so that we can achieve our next goal of 1000 #Wikipedia pages!!! We are a group of mainly under-employed, precariously employed, early career volunteers who work so hard to make this difference!! #WCCWiki
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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For #WCCWiki, everyday is #InternationalWomensDay, and we're so proud that on this day we can celebrate the huge milestone of making or editing more than 700 #Wikipedia pages for women and non-binary classicists!!!
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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Have a look at the archive of LGBTQ+ Classicists that have #Wikipedia pages to edit or create: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... #WCCWiki
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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... which made the first ever confirmed ascent of the mountain. She also reported on the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann. She transitioned in 1972, and wrote the book Conundrum, published in 1974 #WCCWiki #IWD #InternationalWomensDay en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Mor...
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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Ok ok so she's not much of a classicist (*cough when has that stopped us before*), but continuing the Welsh theme, Jan Morris (1926 – 2020) was a Welsh historian, author and travel writer. What an incredible life! She was a member of the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition ...
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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Freeman and her partner, Dr. Liliane Marie Catherine Clopet (1901–1987), a GP and author, built their own home, Lark's Rise, on the (beautiful) outskirts of Cardiff. The house was demolished in 2017 #WCCWiki
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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Kathleen Freeman (1897 – 1959) was a lecturer in Greek at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire, Cardiff, 1919-46. She wrote detective novels under the pseudonym Mary Fitt. #WCCWiki en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathleen_
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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Jennifer Ingleheart is Prof of Latin at the Uni of Durham, and an expert on Ovid, Classical reception, and the influence of Rome on the modern understanding of homosexuality. You can see her page here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennife..., and on Twitter she is:
@sapphicapuella
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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Edith Mary "Molly" Walker FSA (1903–1970) was a British archaeologist, field excavator and Secretary of the Roman Antiquities Committee of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society. She was one of those amazing women with a 'close female friend' #WCCWiki en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_M...
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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We edited for #LGBTQHistoryMonth in February, so we kick off with Blossom Stefaniw, Prof of Intellectual History of Christianity at the MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society and expert in early Christianity en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blossom... #WCCWiki
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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For #InternationalWomensDay, #WCCWiki has been editing #Wikipedia to improve the rep of women and non-binary classicsts (broadly conceived), and we have reached our 700 page target!!!
Here are some of the amazing classicists (broadly conceived) we've been writing about ...
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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It's incredible what people can do when they put their minds to it, and #WCCWiki has some great minds!! One of our stalwart editors, Lucy Moore, has created a #Wikipedia page for one woman from every country in the world!!
Read more in today's Guardian here: t.co/VUWC8lbHaT
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Nicole Oesterreich
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Female colleagues! I heard yesterday that Novum Testamentum is desperately longing for your essays to get more gender balanced issues. Please consider publishing your next New Testament piece there.
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Anna P. Judson
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The scheme is open to WCC members only - but annual cost of this is just £5 for students and un/underemployed members, and gives access to our two other short- and longer-term mentoring schemes as well! wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk/about-us/wcc...
AcademicSky AncientBlueSky
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Anna P. Judson
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The Women's Classical Committee's Classical Association conference mentoring scheme is now open, for MA & PhD students to meet with mid/late career mentors in person or online during the CA in March. Sign-ups for both mentees & mentors via this form! AncientBluesky AcademicSky
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The Classics Library
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UK Class in Classics Report 2024
#classicsbluesky #blueskyclassics
www.theclassicslibrary.com/uk-class-in-...
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Alexandra Sills
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I don't think the Network of Working Class Classicists is yet on Bluesky, so here is the report on their (UK) Class in Classics survey. This should be compulsory reading, not just in the UK: www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfil... ancientbluesky
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Christoph Markschies
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In New Haven? Some ideas for Monday, March 4!
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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....And we're online #WCCWiki
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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We're having technical difficulties and we're late starting, hopefully we will be online soon! #WCCWiki
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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#WCCWiki for LGBTQ+ History Month is tomorrow! 11-12:30, details below
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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A reminder that my article, 'Gendered Violence, Victim Credibility and Adjudicating Justice in Augustine's Letters' in Transactions of the RHS (2023) is freely available to read online! ✨
See here: www.cambridge.org/core/service...
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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Email womensclassicalcommittee@gmail.com for further information, or have a look at our Project Page on Wikipedia - this tells you all about #WCCWiki ⚡ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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Join us on Zoom: us02web.zoom.us/j/81488488720. Meeting ID: 814 8848 8720. All welcome!
We can give you training if you don't know much about editing #Wikipedia or the gendered discrimination that determines its content #WCCWiki 💛
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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February is LGBTQ+ History Month! This celebration increases the visibility of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the past and uncovers previously untold stories
#WCCWiki will be editing #Wikipedia together on Thursday 22 Feb, 11-12:30 for #LGBTQHistoryMonth ✨
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Kathleen E. Kennedy
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The great history of women in paleontology! This week I learned that Bristol Museum recently discovered that it had a small collection of Mary Anning's OWN finds in store--originals--and stored bc for so long women's roles in science history were discounted. They're now on permanent display.
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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... please join us for our next #WCCWiki editing session online in February - more details to follow. We'll be editing for #LGBTQHistoryMonth! Keep an eye out on Twitter&the WCC mailing list. You can subscribe here free even if you're not a WCC member: wcc-uk.blogs.sas.ac.uk.
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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For Jan's complete list of #Wikipedia pages, see here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... #WCCWiki are very close to reaching our target of creating or editing 700 pgs for women & nb classicists!!!!!!! We'd love to smash that target in 2024 ...
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Dr Victoria Leonard
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And finally, C. H. E. Haspels (1894 – 1980) was a Dutch classical archaeologist: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._H._E.... Haspels was the first to attribute the black-figured lekythoi produced in Athens between ca. 560 and 470 BCE to specific painters and workshops #WCCWiki
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