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‘To level those monstrous Blotches or Pustules’: Skincare in Daniel Turner’s De Morbis Cutaneis (1714). (2024)
Book Chapter
Aske, K. (2024). ‘To level those monstrous Blotches or Pustules’: Skincare in Daniel Turner’s De Morbis Cutaneis (1714). In A. Ingram, H. Williams, & C. Lawlor (Eds.), Myth and (Mis)information: Constructing the Medical Professions in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century English Literature and Culture (23–40). Manchester,UK: Manchester University Press

In 1711 Daniel Turner removed himself from the Barber-Surgeons Company and was admitted to licentiate by the Royal College of Physicians. Turner battled with his reputation as a surgeon and his new recognition as a physician, so with his first public... Read More about ‘To level those monstrous Blotches or Pustules’: Skincare in Daniel Turner’s De Morbis Cutaneis (1714)..

Are Users of Digital Archives Ready for the AI Era? Obstacles to the Application of Computational Research Methods and New Opportunities (2024)
Journal Article
Jaillant, L., & Aske, K. (2024). Are Users of Digital Archives Ready for the AI Era? Obstacles to the Application of Computational Research Methods and New Opportunities. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 16(4), Article 87. https://doi.org/10.1145/3631125

 Innovative technologies are improving the accessibility, preservation and searchability of born-digital and digitised records. In particular, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is opening new opportunities for archivists and researchers. However, the expe... Read More about Are Users of Digital Archives Ready for the AI Era? Obstacles to the Application of Computational Research Methods and New Opportunities.

Sharing Skincare Secrets in Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture (2023)
Book Chapter
Aske, K. (2023). Sharing Skincare Secrets in Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture. In Participation, Collaboration, Association: Communautés, échanges, politique, et philosophies au XVIIIe siècle. Communities, Exchanges, Politics and Philosophies in the Eighteenth Century. Par le collectif des chercheurs de la SIEDS 2019 (179-193). Paris: Honoré Champion

This chapter examines the way skin treatments were shared within popular culture from the late seventeenth to early eighteenth century. Focusing on dermatological treatments for the most common issues––pimples, freckles, and several other broadly def... Read More about Sharing Skincare Secrets in Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture.

(Mis)matching Metadata: Improving Accessibility in Digital Visual Archives through the EyCon Project (2023)
Journal Article
Aske, K., & Giardinetti, M. (2023). (Mis)matching Metadata: Improving Accessibility in Digital Visual Archives through the EyCon Project. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 16(4), Article 76. https://doi.org/10.1145/3594726

Discussing the current AHRC/LABEX-funded EyCon (Early Conflict Photography 1890-1918 and Visual AI) project, this article considers potentially problematic metadata and how it affects the accessibility of digital visual archives. The authors delibera... Read More about (Mis)matching Metadata: Improving Accessibility in Digital Visual Archives through the EyCon Project.

‘Such gaudy tulips raised from dung’: Cosmetics, Disease and Morality in Jonathan Swift's Dressing‐Room Poetry (2017)
Journal Article
Aske, K. (2017). ‘Such gaudy tulips raised from dung’: Cosmetics, Disease and Morality in Jonathan Swift's Dressing‐Room Poetry. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 40(4), 503-517. https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12509

While enabling women to embody fashionable trends and the idealised beauty of the period, cosmetics also offered a disguise, not only for ugly and ageing faces but for disease also. Taking examples from advertisements, cosmetic commentaries and Jonat... Read More about ‘Such gaudy tulips raised from dung’: Cosmetics, Disease and Morality in Jonathan Swift's Dressing‐Room Poetry.