gabyrobilliard.bsky.social
Historian of early modern food (especially tea and coffee), intoxicants, medicine, material culture, religion (German Pietism), maritime and global history. Also currently researching sailors‘ stuff. Postdoc, Prize Papers Project, Oldenburg University
👤 Joined on 03 November 2023
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@gabyrobilliard.bsky.socialHow I read the news in the morning: with a magnifying glass, and a refilled cup of coffee. I ❤️ this detail of a hand-coloured lithograph of the 1820s.
Show PostAcademic collaboration is sometimes magical. A colleague hit on a 1951 illicit drug smuggling case in a local German archive and copied the whole file for me. And now someone I just met at a conference is sending me Italian archival material on the same case from the side of the Mafia middlemen.
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Show PostMost people don't know but being a lifestyle hair stylist back in the 1550s included #hairmaxxing free roaming lions in Africa. #skystorians
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