Marlo Avidon

It’s probably not often that someone can say that after four years of work, they got hit by a car the week they planned to submit their PhD thesis. Even so, 2 nights in hospital, 8 staples in my head, and one hefty concussion only amounted to a 3 week delay, and what will be a funny story!

Thank you so so much for coming Rachel - It was so much fun to meet you and hear about your research!

Should add that I feel similarly about the far more reasonably priced Liberty x Adidas collab

gorgeous gorgeous girls want overpriced morris & co. trainers

Who will win, my laptop memory or one 50 page word document?

@zarakesterton’s incredible pie charts are officially award winning! If you haven’t read her article yet, you must go check it out 💐

Thrilled to have been recognised in this lovely award by @historicaljnl.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @marloavidon.bsky.social for being an excellent camerawoman on a cold and rainy day 💐

Question for the Restorationists: Does anyone know anything about a particular ‘stocking incident’ that happened c. 1671 that was so indecent that it couldn’t be described in a letter or printed in an 19th century volume of correspondence 👀

It's really happening!

A reminder that our first meeting of Lent Term is TONIGHT! You don't want to miss these three wonderful papers!

We are thrilled to share our Lent Termcard 📚 We have some amazing speakers lined up for February and March, so you don't want to miss out - be sure to join our mailing list for further updates and to join us online!

If your New Year's Resolution for 2026 was to submit to the Workshop for the Early Modern Period, you are in luck, as the deadline for our Lent Termcard is this Monday, 5 January! See below for more details!

We hope everyone had a Happy New Year! Like true early modernists, here is our New Year's Gift to you: a reminder that the deadline to submit to the Symposium is THIS Monday, 5 January!

There is only one more week to submit your abstracts for the Late Stuart Court Symposium! We welcome any and all submissions engaging with the politics and culture of the Late Stuart Courts from various interdisciplinary perspectives. See the attached CFP for further details!

The symposium is already shaping up to be a fantastic day of interdisciplinary research - You definitely won't want to miss it!

In case you missed our first announcement, there’s still over a month to submit your abstracts 🪶 We have already received some amazing proposals, and can’t wait to put together a fantastic programme for April!

RIP Samuel Pepys, you would have loved this announcement 🙏 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

That’s me!

We are thrilled to share the CFP for our Symposium, Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714. We hope to bring together a range of interdisciplinary research on this complex and understudied period! #EarlyModern #CfP

Beyond excited for this amazing term card! If you’re interested in attending, but can’t make it to Cambridge, get in touch and I can get you added onto our mailing list for all future Teams links!

You still have a few days left to send in your abstracts!

We are thrilled to share our Michaelmas Term CFP on the theme 'Defining Environments. ' Abstracts are due on 20 September, and we look forward to reading them! Please get in touch if you'd like a plain text version or have any questions.

As always, I had the best time at #SHSConf2025 ❤️ It was an amazing chance to share some of my current research and meet some wonderful scholars! Thank you to all the team at @socialhistsoc.bsky.social for facilitating such an enriching conference!

Final couple of touches to the ol' powerpoint slides for #shsconf2025 tomorrow. Come along to the Early Modern Networks: Work, Leisure, and Consumption strand to take a trip into the maritime with me, alongside print trade and fashion with @marloavidon.bsky.social and @joesaunders1.bsky.social

I’ve only had a very quick look whilst running to a panel, but how cool a venue is @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social for this year’s @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference?! #SHSConf2025

Fantastic roundtable at the #SHSConf2025 on material culture! Featuring four fabulous speakers - @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social on @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social; @timhitchcock.bsky.social on convict tokens; @anahowie.bsky.social on portraiture & pearl fisheries & Simon Morgan on radical pottery✨

I realize it's been a long time so figured a Life/PhD Update is slightly overdue! In the last couple months I have: - Finished a second journal article - Completely transcribed and quantified several account books into Excel - Read a lot of letters - Clung onto my sanity

I'm really excited to share this fun little piece I wrote for the Society for the History of Children and Youth's Digital Childhoods Blog - I've fallen in love with little shoes and hope you do too! shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/shoes-sh...

It’s been a while since I’ve been online (shamelessly been in the trenches transcribing account books) but you don’t want to miss out on another exciting term of WEMP!

Really thrilled to share the final piece of my Samuel Pepys project. It was a joy to be invited to film in the Pepys Library! Massive thanks to the University Media Team and Magdalene College for making this possible. Check it out on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIyO...

This is almost certainly a Cambridge thing, but I've been asked if I'm named after Christopher Marlowe 3 times in the last 5 days... I must give off Renaissance playwright energy ✍️

We are thrilled to be opening up submissions for blog posts for Easter Term! Get in touch if you have any questions!

✨We are thrilled to be extending our call for Committee applications until the 18 February ✨ Read below for more information, or DM us for a plain text version. You can apply using the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please share widely!

It's really me and my Transkribus procrastination against the world.