Kate So @KateSo_ Twitter profile

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Kate So

4 years

I've updated my 'Recipe Resource' post. It contains a range of different media (from online databases to blogs and YouTube channels). Still a bit messy but I'll sort organisation out later.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

5 years

museum job listings be like: Must have a thousand years experience, can build an exhibition in two seconds, manage ten thousand collections salary: 5 pence and a branded pencil from the gift shop.

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Kate So

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1 year

what is y’all most liked tweet?

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Kate So

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5 months

What's everyone's historical bug-bear? Like if you see it you want to upturn what ever book you're reading? I have....many, but one that really grinds my gears is the claim that 'historically people didn't love their children because of high mortality rates'

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Kate So

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4 years

Historians of medicine are really setting the bar right now regarding corvid-19. They've been giving out facts, critiquing current practice and well as giving us great historical content. This is why you don't cut humanities departments!

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Kate So

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2 years

I love early modern recipe books. They'll be like, 'this confection is going to make you feel SO GOOD, doesn't matter what your ailment is or where it's from!! YOU WILL BE HEALED' and the main ingredients will be opium and honey

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Kate So

@KateSo_

3 years

Ok, imagine this but as a headboard 😍

Sam Perrin

@misssamperrin

3 years

A lovely skull-topped monument in St Mary's, Stoke Newington. The inscription has almost completed eroded away

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Kate So

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4 years

If we could stop referring to historical women with opinions as sassy or feisty that would be grand 👌👌

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Kate So

@KateSo_

6 years

My case broke on a train platform. I injured myself. I bought @neilhimself Norse Mythologies because his storytelling has been balm for my soul since I read Neverwhere as a bedtime story. Made a good friend of the bookseller and made it home in one piece. Praise be for books.

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Kate So

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2 years

Short privilege is being able to walk up a medieval tower and never having to duck to get through doors. ✨

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Kate So

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3 years

when I was 7, I wanted to live in a cottage in a forest, write fairytales to read to the kids in a library and have a license to look after orphaned bats. I told everyone I wanted to be a surgeon bc it was more socially acceptable. I wish I'd listened to 7 year old me.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

5 years

Got my first ever paid museum role as visitor's experience assistant for the Wellcome Collection. It's only agency work so no guaranteed hours but it's a start!!! 💕 😭😭😭

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Kate So

@KateSo_

5 months

@mylarsleeve Oh my god yes!!! Also that women couldn't read before the 19th century?? I got that on a dating app once, he said my MA couldn't be real because he saw a documentary that women couldn't read until victorian times. 😂😂😂😂😂

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Kate So

@KateSo_

5 years

Imagine moving to London after the worst thing in your life happened. ptsd. Working stupid hours in retail jobs. volunteering. Living in squalor in a rat infested building. Finding out you're losing your hearing during ur Diss. And still graduating with a DISTINCTION.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

5 years

So I found out I got a placement with the British Library this June. 🤓📚💞 I'm so happy 😭

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Kate So

@KateSo_

4 years

@LearNonsense This is Tallulah. Her ears are known to bring joy. She wishes Rosie a very happy birthday for tomorrow.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

5 months

@JennS79 Yes this winds me up too! Survivor bias of smaller clothes (less likely to be reused) and occasion clothes for younger mile stones (more likely to be treasured) has honestly created brain rot in some people.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

4 years

Writing this tweet feels very strange because I never thought this would ever be on the cards for me but I'm very excited to say I will soon be starting an LAHP funded PhD at @livesandletters , UCL. ✨✨

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Kate So

@KateSo_

5 months

@MorganDaimler Yes, absolutely! This gets me too! People take political noble marriages and apply that to the whole pop! When extremely young marriages pop up in my work, usually there's another one a few years later as well.

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Kate So

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3 years

My surgery results came this morning confirming that I have endometriosis and I am feeling so emotional about it. It's been a 2 year battle to be considered anything but 'melodramatic'. I'm proud of how I didn't let it go and I proclaim this day an endoversary.

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Kate So

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4 years

@RandiFoorDalton Yesterday was a terrible film anyway but that John Lennon scene made me groan audibly in the cinema. My old manager said it made her cry and she was so unhappy with me when I told her the John Lennon facts.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

5 years

This tweet filled my whole heart 😍

Glyn Morgan

@GR_Morgan

5 years

Guys, I think I found my favourite object on display in @sciencemuseum !

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Kate So

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2 years

I've been telling friends about how growing up our family would let the new year in the front door and the old one out from the back door and noone has any idea what I'm talking about. Did anyone else do this?

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Kate So

@KateSo_

1 year

I absolutely love being a historian because sometimes you’ll despise a dead person because they were awful, like a eugenicist or something, and sometimes you’ll just be exasperated at a dead person because their handwriting HAD NO BLOODY BUSINESS BEING THAT TERRIBLE!!

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Kate So

@KateSo_

1 year

If anyone heard a whispered swear word in the BL’s Manuscript Reading Room, I am awfully sorry. I have a new source that either proves me thesis or disproves it and the person who bound the manuscripts together labelled every single one except the one I need.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

4 years

I've never related to a manuscript so much 😂

Intoxicating Spaces

@intoxspaces

4 years

‘I have drunk so much Coffee this morning I can scarce hold my pen’; relatable content from a 1720 letter writer (apologising for his ‘scribble’). ☕️ #InternationalCoffeeDay

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Kate So

@KateSo_

2 years

I think her head should be on velcro so you can pop it on and off.

Hever Castle

@hevercastle

2 years

These 2 adorable teddy bears will eventually be available to buy in the shop. But before we approve the final design we want to know what you think. Would you be interested in purchasing them? Do you think the design needs to be tweaked? Do they look cuddly enough? Let us know!

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Kate So

@KateSo_

6 years

I. Want. One. So. Badly.

Anna Mazzola

@Anna_Mazz

6 years

Two-faced 17th century Memento Mori ring from the @AshmoleanMuseum (not that any of us really need reminding right now that we’re all going to die).

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Kate So

@KateSo_

2 years

Last week, after a life of dreaming of the big day…ever since I was a little girl. What would I wear? What would the weather be like? How old would I be? All that time sitting and dreaming of this moment…it finally happened…I finally saw Bernini’s work in person.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

5 months

@WandaWyporska Oh my god! Yes! This drives me to distraction!!!!! If I see ‘we are the daughters of witches you couldn’t burn’ one more time 💀(usually when the woman saying it would have been the great x 6 grandmother of the one pointing the finger!!)

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Kate So

@KateSo_

1 year

Put her one a bank note. Or at least a stamp.

Cats of Yore

@CatsOfYore

1 year

"Miss Iris Davis, a nineteen year old from Clapham, London... spends a great deal of time recovering cats with the aid of a 'lassoo' from the debris of bombed house. So far she has rescued six hundred of these feline strays." 1940.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

4 years

Imagine finding the biggest bone haul of your life and having the humans put in a museum. Hope they were compensated with lots of bonios.

Ichthyosaur fossil found by dogs to go to Somerset museum

Conservation work is under way on the find to determine whether it is a new species of ichthyosaur.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

2 years

Is there a German word for when you study history for so long that concepts of age and time almost seem to not exist anymore and you have this weird notion that time doesn't exist and everything is real and not real at the same time... Or do I just need a nap?

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Kate So

@KateSo_

3 months

✨ 😃 Remember you will die 😃 ✨

Mark Hatton

@TheHatton

3 months

Might this be the happiest (dog eared) gravestone ever ?

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Kate So

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2 years

@oldenoughtosay I absolutely love the Hans Christian Anderson and Dickens story so much. The tension, the drama, the frustration 👌

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Kate So

@KateSo_

5 years

Quotes like these and 'the good die young', always make me envision a 98 year old lady with a fag in one hand and a whisky in the other going 'eff you too then, mate'

Simon Knott

@SimoninSuffolk

5 years

some Norfolk ledgerstone details: 'her time was short, the longer was her rest, God calls them soonest whom he loveth best' (1666) and a cheerful little skull at Heckingham #norfolkchurches

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Kate So

@KateSo_

3 years

Regular reminder that tear catches are not a thing. That doesnt mean you can't enjoy the high goth idea ofc!! Most tear catchers you see are actuate pretty perfume bottles or other such dainty wee things.

Rabih Alameddine

@rabihalameddine

3 years

Victorian Tear Catchers - for mourners to collect their funeral tears

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Kate So

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4 years

Absolutely howling at the fact I love following Sotheran's and I've always wondered why I've never been in or even seen the shop in the wild... Only to realise I have, in fact, walked past it obliviously multiple times.

Henry Sotheran Ltd

@Sotherans

4 years

just another bleak London morning in Sackville Street where we occupy the enviable position of "bookstore so subtle no-one has any idea we are still here"

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Kate So

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1 year

I was at a beautiful wedding yesterday on a site that dates back to the 1600s and I think I earned historian karma points because when people were stood going ‘wow these walls are 400 years old’ I kept quiet that every area we were in was 19th cent at the oldest.

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Kate So

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2 years

Disabled people are excluded from pretty much every effort to make society more equal. Marriage equality, for example, many disabled people cannot marry their partner or their disability support payments will stop. Stop getting mad at people when they point out the exclusion.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

4 years

My A&E dr boyfriend came home almost in tears and so I met him at the door and immediately burst into tears. I went to hug him but he said I can't so I remembered the gif of the person patting the sick person with a broom and used a mop to pat his shoulder. Then we laughed. 😭

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Kate So

@KateSo_

1 year

Book nerds get over to this thread 👀

Andrew Male

@Andr6wMale

1 year

What’s the best thing you ever found inside the pages of a second-hand book? Me, I think it’s a 57-year-old child’s paper flower that stained the pages of this 1965 edition of The William Saroyan Reader. Pics if you still have the ‘thing’.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

2 years

Beautiful, but I wish she was still wearing them. ☹️

Catherine Curzon

@MadameGilflurt

2 years

Because a corpse can be #frockingfabulous too! These are the remarkably well-preserved burial clothes of Margaretha Franziska de Lobkowitz, who was laid to rest in 1617. They were removed to the Mikulov Museum when her grave was uncovered in 2003.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

3 months

Today I started an absolute dream job with @BartsHeritage as ‘heritage and health interpretation research associate’. I can’t wait to get stuck in with research, haunt my friends at @BHAandM and watch the conservators in the great hall with big starry eyes.

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Kate So

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5 months

@historylvr84 I have so many issues with the 18th century invention of Shakespeare as some divinely inspired genius. The man had bills to pay and dick jokes to make and an education of stories to retell!

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Kate So

@KateSo_

3 years

Got to have lunch in one of my favourite places 🥰

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Kate So

@KateSo_

5 months

@DrLindseyFitz Holy shit, this is the bane of my life

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Kate So

@KateSo_

5 months

@FarhanAlHasan69 Absolutely. Also Churchill as some sort of Classical hero 🤢

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Kate So

@KateSo_

2 years

You can bring a cemetery girl to her wedding but that girl will still end up in a cemetery (on the way to her taxi)

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Kate So

@KateSo_

1 year

@oldenoughtosay Do you also have to say ‘I have low blood pressure’ when the health care professional’s face blanches? I almost wasn’t let out of the Lister one time because of they were so concerned.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

1 year

This is your reminder that Junior Doctor doesn’t mean ‘not a ‘proper’ doctor�� (whatever that implies), it’s literally everyone below consultancy, or not a GP. It’s a silly name for a group of professionals who are the mainstay of the NHS’s doctor population.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

2 years

working on the same handwriting for a long time gives you a really specific set of skills. Mainly, I know exactly how a dead guy would spell a particular word wrongly.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

10 months

I can’t help myself! Two more beauties are coming home with me.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

5 months

@kristinwh0 Equally, that women safely induce abortion 100% of the time with no risk, and WORSE I see people on TikTok advocating toxic herbs for this purpose. it comes from a place of fear but these abortificants work by making your body choose between ending the pregnancy or ending you!

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Kate So

@KateSo_

4 years

My nan has made me sob in a cafe. She was on the phone to me and said 'I remember taking you to the World Museum in Liverpool when you were little and you asked a lady a million questions about how you get a job in a museum and now you have a job in a museun. I'm really proud'

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Kate So

@KateSo_

8 months

Plea of a historian here.. Date your letters and write names on the back of your fecking photos.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

2 years

I had no idea that putting a silver coin up a champagne cork's butt transforms it into a good luck charm until @DrLindseyFitz told me. Look how cute it is! ❤️

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Kate So

@KateSo_

2 years

They're beautiful. Now what to call them.... 🤔

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Kate So

@KateSo_

1 year

My present to myself. A beautiful split face vanitas tattoo. Artist: Lozzybones

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Kate So

@KateSo_

3 years

If you're commenting 'I can't wait for the [insert true crime doc/podcast] to do an episode/series on this!!!' on tweets, ticktocks, media etc. about active, ongoing missing person/murder cases, I am going to have to invite you to take a good hard look at yourself.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

1 year

I am going to ceilidh so hard tonight

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Kate So

@KateSo_

2 years

Would pet it.

Rachel Deering

@DeeringRachel

2 years

Sea creature, 1534. Book of Miracles, c.1550.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

2 years

There needs to be a blue plaque here

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Kate So

@KateSo_

4 years

Magical. I want to be an inch tall and walk beneath them.

The Waltz Garden

@WaltzGarden

4 years

The fritillaries this morning reminded me of lit lanterns.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

4 years

My friend put a pic on their insta saying 'we reserved our plot! '. The pic was drawing of green space with little rectangles. Some said sold on. And I messaged them to congratulate them on their new grave plot and it turns out it's a new build house. 😬😂

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Kate So

@KateSo_

3 years

In high-school we had a special session called 'PE IS FUN'. They pulled a really shy girl from our year up to demonstrate and she immediately dislocated her knee. The whole thing was called off and an ambulance had to come.

Jay Hulme

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3 years

Sometimes I remember the time we had a primary school assembly on the theme "grasp the nettle", trying to encourage us to just go for it and be brave and do things, but which actually resulted in almost every kid in school getting nettle stings on their hands by the end of lunch.

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Kate So

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8 months

I’m staying with a friend this week and their cutest cats. Just learned the black cat’s fav trick…sitting on the staircase in the dark to try and kill you.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

5 years

I went @secondshelfbks yesterday! Let me tell you that place is magical. I've made the commitment to visit as often as possible. If we want amazing spaces to thrive, we have to put our money where our mouth is. 💕❤️💕

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Kate So

@KateSo_

1 year

Do you think she was pleased to come back in from the snowy weather?

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Kate So

@KateSo_

5 years

Me, an english girl with absolutely no plans to move to America, listening to @alieward literally read the constitution for an hour and a half. ❤️💕

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Kate So

@KateSo_

1 year

A lady fully pushed me over to get to the train before the rest of the people waiting and I will send her the most mild of jinxes. I hope she forgets about her hot beverages after she makes/gets them and only remembers when they are very cold and gross.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

2 years

I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. Enjoy what you enjoy and don’t let others make you feel less than because you’re not reading doorstopper novels.

British Library

@britishlibrary

2 years

What’s your guilty pleasure read? 😎📚

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Kate So

@KateSo_

1 year

Not only is this VILE and reduces women to their fertility / reproductive capacity, but fears around this happening will prevent people from organ donation or stop families from allowing loved ones to donate organs. Waitlists are already so long and availability of organs so low.

Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu

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1 year

……….Lord please give me strength.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

2 years

My PhD is teaching me many things but mainly that the family trees of the aristocracy are circular bushes.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

2 years

I was getting photos only for posterity so sake. With my mouth closed. I was sure I would hate them. But I guess I was just too happy to be self conscious. most people won’t notice the issues I see in my face. I see them in these photos but surprisingly also don’t care about it!!

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Kate So

@KateSo_

4 years

I ordered these for my graduation and I'm hoping they fit 🤞🤞🤞I had little choice on my dress because I'm so ill proportioned and have to shop at bravissimo. Hoping my personality shines through my shoes 😂

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Kate So

@KateSo_

6 years

Child in cafe: Mummy, that lady has a skeleton sticker on her laptop. Do you think she is a witch? Mother: No, she might study medicine though Me: *winks at child*

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Kate So

@KateSo_

2 years

Clothes shopping for a honey moon gives you free reign to buy the expensive jumpsuit of your dreams, yes??? Say yes!!!

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Kate So

@KateSo_

1 year

Tell me you work in medical heritage, without telling me you work in medical heritage. My emails this morning...

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Kate So

@KateSo_

4 years

So excited to graduate from my MA today! I'm wearing an actual book round my neck. Seems fitting to honour the early modern recipe books that inspired my degree!! Thank @Mrs_Vocal for the necklace.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

5 years

Dr Boyfriend and I have booked our first ever holiday together and alls I can think about is how I can go and visit my old haunt @surgeonshall . I've not been since I moved to London a year ago! So so excited!!! 💕 😂 #MusMeme

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Kate So

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2 years

Absolutely love the fact all the women in my family call to menopause 'The Change' like we all reach a certain age and become werewolves with hot flushes.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

5 years

@Book_Folk 100% I have library, archive, special collections and museum experience but I don't have three international medals of honour so I'm out!

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Kate So

@KateSo_

1 year

I recently wrote a public health in Victorian London walk and it’s not lost on me that on every stop there’s a current news headline showing that the same shit is going on.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

4 years

Why did autocorrect do me dirty with Covid-19

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Kate So

@KateSo_

5 months

@magpiemixture Yesssssssssssssss!!! This really grinds my gears! See also: the dark ages.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

2 years

Just a normal, innocent bat

weird medieval guys BOOK OUT NOW !!

@WeirdMedieval

2 years

normal bat, france, 15th century

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@KateSo_

3 years

the other day I saw a Dr talking about a TikTok trend of kids drinking boiled lettuce water to help them sleep (they said there was modest evidence to suggest it could help), today I'm reading an early modern recipe book that suggests the same remedy. I love moments like this!

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Kate So

@KateSo_

3 years

Also bonus awkward moment: The dr was trying to distract me from what she was doing and she asked 'how did you get into old books?' and usually I have a classy answer but I was in too much pain and accidentally said 'I think it started with Rachel Weisz in The Mummy when I was 5'

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Kate So

@KateSo_

2 years

If you’re about to go to uni, read whatever the fuck you want this summer. Whatever nourishes your soul and serves you. Comics, poetry, doorstopper novels, the subtitles as you binge watch Netflix. Feed yourself on what satiates you and pledge to continue doing so going forward.

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Kate So

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2 years

How it started vs how it’s going. Last night we got our previews from the amazing @IrisArtPhoto ! We’d like to thank her for amazing experience. As well as a massive thank you to @surgeonshall for making our elopement so special. Extra thanks to @AnatomicalCat and Thomas!

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Kate So

@KateSo_

5 years

Job hunting initially started out like... I'm going to get a job that actually pays and I can * finally get that tattoo by that artist I've been following for years *have a mini break * hobby Now it is... Heck I need * new glasses *prescriptions * rent rent R e n t * bills

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Kate So

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6 years

The notion that doctors, educated and dedicated professionals who witness the damage caused by gun violence, are having to justify why they deserve to have their voices heard on gun violence. Their stories aren't opinion or politics, they are testimony. Blows my mind.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

5 years

Celebrating submitting my dissertation with these bad boys.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

5 years

Boyfriend has only given me 1 and a half shelves on the book case and I'm seriously revaluating my life choices.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

1 year

Perennial reminder to never trust a primary source as far as you can throw it. Unless you can throw far, in which case…trust it less than you could throw it. Also, why are you throwing special collections material? OMG PUT IT DOWN, YOU’LL BE BANNED FROM THE LIBRARY!!!!

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Kate So

@KateSo_

3 years

I got a new museum volunteer role (remote). I just got off a call and the energy is pumped through my veins ⚡ I missed museums 😭😭. A sense of purpose during this hellish NY.

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Kate So

@KateSo_

5 months

Laughs in OCD

Mollie Goodfellow

@hansmollman

5 months

Absolutely hooting at the idea of laying in bed at night and going “okay this will be my last thought…no THIS is my last thought. Okay for real now this is my FINAL thought of the day.”

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Kate So

@KateSo_

2 years

@DrLindseyFitz found one of Bobo's ancestors

CuratorWithin

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2 years

Not sure if it is too late, but some of my favourite Roman cat paw prints for #LoveYourPetDay ...

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Kate So

@KateSo_

2 years

Everytime somebody says to me 'as I'm sure you already know' I pretty much never already know. But I appreciate the dance of people gently stating the obvious which is absolutely beyond my comprehension 😂

Jessamyn Dukes

@rhymeswspecimen

2 years

I can assure you I did not

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Kate So

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2 years

Wait until the 'how dare you touch rare books without gloves' people find out the ONLY reason I applied to do a PhD was to my fingerprints /contact DNA on as much special collection material as possible.

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