A #nuntastic read! Highly recommend.

1 Sept 1641: d. Elizabeth Shirley at the #English #Augustinian Convent of St. Monica's #Louvain - she was mainly responsible for founding the house & was also a #nuntastic author (Rijksmuseum)

Today our project is linked on the front page of @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social's website! Our fantastic postdocs @hagenilda.bsky.social and @sharonhoward.bsky.social get a well-deserved mention: www.ed.ac.uk/news/memoirs... #EarlyModern #DigiHums #BookHistory @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social

#cfp for the 2026 Conference of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland, ‘Women Religious: Patronage & Networks from Medieval to Modern’ taking place at Queen Mary University of London on 11/12 June. Please share widely #nuntastic historyofwomenreligious.org/call-for-pap...

ICYMI #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📜

We are delighted to be involved in this British Academy/Leverhulme Small Research Grant funded workshop ‘Religious History and Catholic Archives: Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach’, which includes an archives showcase using our collections!

New Publication! Recently published in OUP Academic's Very Short Introduction series, 'The Catholic Reformation' by Dr James Kelly, Associate Professor in the History of Catholicism. This short book introduces readers to the events and global impact of the Catholic Reformation.

📣Out now on #firstview! James E. Kelly (‪@durham-university.bsky.social) on 'Women’s Agency, Discernment, and Choice in the English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800' #Women #Nuns #England #Europe 17thc 18thc⛪ 👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

IHR Tudor & Stuart seminar news: it's time for our annual call for papers! If you'd like to speak to us in the coming academic year, full details below. Get in touch with any questions or if you would like to be on our mailing list. Please RT.

New Publication! 'Women’s Agency, Discernment, and Choice in the English Convents in Exile, 1600–1800' by Dr. James Kelly, published in The Historical Journal from @universitypress.cambridge.org. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

JOB ALERT! Join us at Durham! Exciting new postdoc opportunity to work with the history of Catholicism team, deadline 27 July. More info here: durham.taleo.net/careersectio... #skystorians #skyhistory #history #academia #jobalert #catholicism

Maddy Keightley-Phillipps, PhD researcher at @durhamtheology.bsky.social, is currently visiting the 17th-century English convent in Bruges to investigate their library thanks to support from @catholicrs.bsky.social #skystorians #CathHist #history #Catholicism #nuntastic @durhammemsa.bsky.social

Could you be a Durham Collections Fellow next year? Applications for 2025-26 are now open! Learn more and explore the range of research possibilities across the collections available here in Durham: durhamcollections.org.uk

#CFP the fifth early modern British and Irish Catholicism conference. The conference will be held in London 29 June-1 July 2026. Proposal deadline: 21 Jan 2026 www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins... #skystorians #history #Catholicism #CathHist #nuntastic @imems.bsky.social

PhD researcher @maddyphillipps.bsky.social of @durhamtheology.bsky.social has been talking at the @catholicrs.bsky.social annual conference about early modern English Catholic women and their use of missionary texts #skystorians #CathHist #history #Catholicism #nuntastic

Some great papers by @maddyphillipps.bsky.social, Esther Rollinson (Manchester) and Alejandro Sell Maestro (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) in the first panel of the day at the @catholicrs.bsky.social exploring different aspects of new and exciting work on Catholic women’s networks.

Great final panel before the last keynote of the @catholicrs.bsky.social conference, with @eilishgregory.bsky.social, @carmenmangion.bsky.social on global missions. More updates on this panel at a later date!

I am a bit worried: anybody else re-read work they published years ago and have no memory of entire passages you wrote? It is like reading something that was written by someone else, in places ... 😳

For French speakers interested in #earlymodern English nuns in exile, here is the recording of a #nuntastic seminar talk entitled "Lever le voile: quand le corps des religieuses est livré aux regards". youtu.be/RPLETQ1y3cU

Another video for French speakers who may be fond of #earlymodern and #nuntastic talks. Here, Claire Schiano-Locurcio presents the representations of holy poverty in the convents of English Poor Clares. youtu.be/FMJpVAkkDy4

Another video for French speakers who may be fond of #earlymodern and #nuntastic talks. Here, Claire Schiano-Locurcio presents the representations of holy poverty in the convents of English Poor Clares. youtu.be/FMJpVAkkDy4

For French speakers interested in #earlymodern English nuns in exile, here is the recording of a #nuntastic seminar talk entitled "Lever le voile: quand le corps des religieuses est livré aux regards". youtu.be/RPLETQ1y3cU

Not been too proud of being French those last few years; this is a very welcome change. Thank you Sir. youtu.be/wmDVrV7QRrU?...

Découvrez sur le carnet de recherche EN-globe des Mastérants (Master Etudes culturelles, parcours Monde anglophone) les 4 billets écrits par chacune des lauréates de la bourse TIGER pour des déplacements en archives, nécessaires dans le cadre de l'écriture de leur mémoire. englobe.hypotheses.org

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

Reminder about this! Please do share with anyone else you think this might be of interest to! (On or offline!)

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

Do you work on #earlymodern English women and religion (c.1500-1800)? Would you like to join a community of scholars asking questions, sharing research, and disseminating news of upcoming events related to the field? Please subscribe to our new mailing list: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/EMEW-R 🗃️

If you would like to be a featured speaker in the roundtable, email a short summary of your thoughts on these questions (two to three sentences) to [email protected] by Monday, 1/13. @lux-sterritt.bsky.social @liamtemple.bsky.social @michelinewhite.bsky.social @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social

Check out what's happening on TeamNun! www.teamnun.org

www.facebook.com/share/r/19qR... Magnificent embroidery by the Visitandine Sisters.

Delighted to welcome the amazing @jaimelgoodrich.bsky.social on this platform. Our little #nuntastic community is steadily growing.

🚨I'm one of the editors of the Politics, Culture & Society in Early Modern Britain series at Manchester Univ Press. We are especially interested in expanding offerings on the late 17th and 18th centuries. Please reach out! #17thc #18thc #earlymodern 🗃️ manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/polit...