Lenny Hodges

@lrhodges.bsky.social

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Historian of the early modern world. Postdoc at Durham. Associate Editor for French History. Also pottery.

Photo of Marie Legendre giving a paper on early Caliphate tax regimes
Footnote describing digitised archival documents in Spain that are so difficult to find the author gives the very specific search terms that have to be used to find them on the online portal.
The book "By flesh & toil: how sec, race, and labour shaped the early french empire" by Mélanie Lamotte
Director Fred Kudjo Kuwornu seated middle between two discussants on a film stage.
Square grids of coloured fabric dyed with plant, insect and mineral dyes.
Copy of first folio with torn bindings open on the first page of The Tempest
Salt in green pot
Magpie perched on bannister indoors.
Ruins of a castle on a rocky coastline
Panel with source on PowerPoint
Book title: The Sword of Persia. Nader Shah, from Tribal Warrior to Conquering Tyrant
Catalogue entry from the national archives for a document of churchwardens expenses held at Dorset History centre
Flowers arranged in a Morley's fried chicken box
Flowers arranged in a Morley's fried chicken box
Stephen Willat's artwork "Visual Automatic no. 5". A painted wooden box with two lights, stripes and a rotating piece, none of which were working.
Figure looking at exhibit stage.
Two cups and two bowls glazed in muddy green and a greeny grey on a wooden table
Two books about Choiseul
A canteen menu noting it's International I hate coriander day but with "coriander naan" listed as one of the choices
An Arabic deed of sale for an enslaved Nubian woman named Shu'la. It describes her physical appearance including scars.