Haohao Zhang (they/he)
🔭Household Optics; Generational Craft; EM–Victorianist Metrology; DH; Photograph-ie; Analogia; Glass models
📜Archival Marginalia & Dust Enthusiast
Manuscript Studies; Hutchinson&Cavendish
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- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)Join us this evening at the IHR in London or through Zoo to hear John Hide present 'Presenting the Boy with Two Penises; Participatory Science and the Public Sphere in Early Victorian London'. We start at 17:30 BST & you're very welcome to come along. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)A nice seminar organized in Venice/online - it remains difficult to discuss about mechanization and mechanical philosophy in the early modern period, and perhaps it is no more possible to do it with Descartes/Cartesian philo, but this is a great lineup of scholars #17thcentury #histsci #histphilo
- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)Registration is open for the 2026 Women of Photography conference-athon on 8th March. Join 72 speakers over 24 hours celebrating International Women’s Day - starting with photography of Antarctica & travelling across the world. womenofphoto.com
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- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)🗣️ #VoixAuxChapitres #MarcBloch 📖 La session de rattrapage est en ligne ! 👉 Pour écouter Paolo Napoli (@lier-fyt.bsky.social) et Alessandro Stanziani (@crh.ehess.fr) débattre de l'ouvrage Rois et Serfs de Marc Bloch : youtu.be/lryZIplNztI
- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)Researchers are now using proteomics analysis on historical books, discovering all sorts of proteins people left on them centuries ago. 🏺🧪
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- Grave, sunset, moon, and suddenly a letter to Max Müller from 1896. 🌧️
- Accidentally enabled Apple’s 3D photo feature… Now every photo looks like a Soulsborne opening narrated by a Dementor that might just be the wind chill pretending to have agency. 🥶🌫️😂
- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)Someone made a very clean job when they stole this illustration from our copy of Blaeu's Atlas Major, v.1 from 1662. That it's historical theft makes it no less galling!
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- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)Congratulations to UCL STS’s Professor Simon Werrett on the publication of his new paper exploring the rich intersections of art and science in eighteenth‑century Russia. A fascinating contribution to the field. Read it here:
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- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)Design for an artificial hand from Les œuvres d’Ambroise Paré, c.1585. Ambroise Pare was a pioneer of battlefield medicine and surgery and devised many prostheses. This hand had springs and catches which mimicked the movement of joints. #histmed
- At some point you realise early modern historiography is kinda about who kept reprinting the same evidentiary frontispieces for decades. Nürnberg publishers knew exactly what truth was supposed to look like. 😂
- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com
- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)Red Fox (Vulpes Vulpes): Sleeping fox photo taken by Sarah Mills in the UK. #fox #redfox #vulpes #wildlife #nature #wildlifephotography #foxes
- The frontispiece of Gatterer’s 1762 Handbuch der Heraldik keeps bothering me for 5 years. Clio is still there, but she’s no longer narrating history. So as Historia. Genealogia. Heraldica. Testes temporum et veritatis, published 1737.
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- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)Forthcoming with the CSMBR Online Lecture Series csmbr.fondazionecomel.org/events/onlin... #Avicenna #Brain #Diagram #imagetext #Medieval #IslamicateTradition #Rhazes #Ventricles
- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)‘The English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyond’, a collab between @ies-sas.bsky.social and @senatehouselib.bsky.social celebrating 550 years of printing in England, opens @senatehouselib.bsky.social on 26 Feb 2026! www.london.ac.uk/about/servic...
- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)New on the blog: Floris Solleveld explores allegorical frontispieces and the Enlightenment image of antiquity. warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern #BookHistory #PrintCulture #IntellectualHistory
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- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)The call for the 2026 Training Week: Global History of Astronomy on Primary Sources – A Focus on Cosmology, Physics and Astrology is now open! eida.hypotheses.org/seminars-2/2... June 8-12 2026 Bibliothèque nationale de France, Observatoire de Paris Deadline: 30/01/26 #historyofastralsciences
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- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)Ending the year with a striking #woodcut… This 16th-century broadside records the apparition of a comet on 11 November 1577 above the Scheldt with Antwerp’s skyline below. /1 #bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜
- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)We're excited to announce our CFP for our Lent term mini-symposium on the theme of Cities! We're thrilled to have Professor Miles Ogborn as our keynote speaker. If you are a Cambridge-based postgraduate, recent postgraduate, or ECR do think of applying by 12 February!
- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)The British Library have a searchable interim Archives & Manuscripts Catalogues up & running: searcharchives.bl.uk (posting for all the folks who, like me, had somehow managed to miss this important development)
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- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)Next year we are co-hosting a celebration event with @rshc.bsky.social to mark the 100th issue of History Workshop Journal. 📍Birkbeck, University of London 🗓️Saturday 31 January 2026 ⏱️14:00-18:00 Everyone welcome! Please make sure to book via the link below.
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- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)Loved #thewordforworld exhibition, showcasing Ursula K Le Guin’s maps. An enchanting walk through new worlds as presented on fabric. Only up until 6 Dec, and it’s FREE, so run, don’t walk, to Architectural Association in Bedford Square #art #maps #books 📚
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- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)The Covid Inquiry is essential for achieving justice for the bereaved and providing a blueprint to save lives in the future. But the amount the Government has spent responding to the Inquiry shows why we need the Hillsborough Law now. 🧵 1/4 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)Some are saying my book on London prisons is the perfect holiday gift AND if you DM me before the end of the year I’ll happily share the discount code so you can get 25% off. #skystorians www.mqup.ca/Books/T/To-D....
- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)I have a short Comment piece just published in Nature Reviews Physics on the 350-year-old Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and its funding rdcu.be/eSXb2 #histSTM
- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)The Turin Humanities Programme again offers two-year #postdocs, this time with a #CFA on the topic "After the Enlightenment: Histories, Debates, and Reinterpretations”. Sponsored by the fabulous Fondazione 1563, deadline 16 February. #skystorians www.fondazione1563.it/progetti/en-...
- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)Just a 1399 unicorn watermark from a paper manufacturer from Valencia to make your day. Friends of #paperhistory know that these paper sheets of around 1400 are among the first sheets of European paper to appear on the market. European #bookhistory was a different game afterwards. #skystorians
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- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)"Higher education generated £24bn in export earnings for the UK in 2022-23, far above aircraft manufacturing with £12bn, legal services with £9.5bn and telecoms with £8.8bn." #HigherEd www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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- Reposted by Haohao Zhang (they/he)Happy to share the latest recorded lecture: 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐃𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐒: 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐄𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨-𝐌𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞 Serena Mambriani 𝐖𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐢𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: youtu.be/s8UpmKMaVVA?... #CSMBR #Astrology
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