Anyone know anyone who works on early modern sport? Including tennis?

Newly attributed Lavinia Fontana painting discovered at auction to go on display in London "The oil on copper miniature portrait ... is the subject of an exhibition at its former home—Strawberry Hill House" by Alexander Morrison for The Art Newspaper www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/24/n...

Excited to share my first podcast! Had a great time chatting all things Anna of Denmark with Rebecca Larson. Link below if you wanna listen 👂 #stuart #annaofdenmark podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

More Than Just a Woman: Anna of Denmark: The Material and Visual Culture of the Stuart Courts podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m... @jemmafield.bsky.social @tudorsdynasty.bsky.social #Stuarts #Podcast

It's kind of wild that you only had to be 57 years old to be simultaneously an Elizabethan and live through the Restoration of Charles II

Send help #earlymodern #paleography wizards. What is this abbreviation “blu”? Context suggests it to be a color (logically black) but I’m stuck. Grateful for any suggestions!

Hello again (even more) new followers! Lovely to see so many people joining and (I hope) interested in #earlymodern history. In the spirit of sharing more ideas and what I'm working on, here's a blog post about 'perishables' in the East India Company archives. blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/history-at-c...

My new chapter “Clothing the Royal Family: The Intersection of the Court and City in Early Stuart London” is out now in this fab collection #stuart #dress

The best review I could ask for! #annaofdenmark

My book on #annaofdenmark making Professor Susan Doran’s list of the best books focused on the reign of James VI and I 🙌 shepherd.com/best-books/t...

Bluesky tip for newbies: Bluesky has no real algorithm. Likes here do nothing but show the poster that you enjoyed their content. That kindness is always going to be appreciated by creators, but if you want to help to boost something here, you have to repost it so others see it. 🙂

I have just had the pleasure of looking through @drchrishiggins.bsky.social's amazing 'Wide Wandring Weemen' database that shows 2000+ journeys of English women throughout Europe and West Asia. #EarlyModern Women MOVED everyone - check it out! 🗃️https://travellers.thedevroom.co.uk/#

VERY pleased that MUP has now published my book on Anna of Denmark in paperback which makes it waaay more affordable: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526182500/

Little fun something I did about one the paintings in our collection at the Yale Center for British Art… something I care a lot about - historic female dress! www.instagram.com/reel/DCto0fs...

Please don't call what RFK Jr. and Jay Bhattacharya are going to do medieval. It's not medieval. It's nothing like the Middle Ages. People in the Middle Ages were happy to try all kinds of things to not die of the plague and if you'd given them antibiotics and vaccines they would have loved it.

Today marks 1000 days of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. On this heartbreaking anniversary, I want to share the essay I wrote last year — a love letter to Ukraine. daryazorka.substack.com/p/a-love-let...

Fellowships for Early Modernists👇🏾

Bluesky academics, let’s get to know each other! Quote this & tell me 1) a project you are working on & 2) an idea/theory you aren’t working on but keep thinking about 1) the wardrobe and material legacies of King Charles I 2) changing patterns in female agency over the course of the civil wars

Quote and tell me, because I’m curious to know: what book that you are currently reading would you recommend? I’ll start: Adam Smyth’s The Book Makers. Such a lively history of mostly fragmentarily known lives of book people. #books #rarebooks #bookhistory #earlymodern

Looking forward to reading this!!! Congratulations @angelamcshane.bsky.social ✨

Jennifer Wu and @jemmafield.bsky.social discuss the striped garment in the painting. Striped clothing originally associated with exotic figures and non- Christians. But as striped Indian textiles become popular in Englad, particularly for men, the moralising messages become more complex.

Next panel...chaired by @jemmafield.bsky.social with @toddsimmons.bsky.social Jane Partner and Katie Aske.

The people I know panicking most about Trump possibly winning in 2024? Not white liberals. Immigrants. Iranian. Chilean. Argentinian. People who know that governments can turn on a dime, go from a democracy to a dictatorship in a day. They’ve seen this happen before, and they know the signs.

The British Library Press Office just posted a thread on Twitter. Not much in the way of news. Here's a link. twitter.com/BLpressoffic... Non-Twitterati can view the updated Press Office webpage which contains mostly the same information. ⬇️ www.bl.uk/press

Coming soon(ish): the first major publication from our #PowerOfPetitioning project! #OpenAccess with UCL Press!! Contributors are me, Jason Peacey, @lloydbowen.bsky.social, Hannah Worthen, Karin Bowie, Imogen Peck, Elly Robson, @sharonhoward.bsky.social & Ann Hughes: uclpress.co.uk/collections/op…

To any researcher affected by the British Library hack that brought down ESTC, there is a temporary workaround up now! Spread the word!

Anyone have an update as to the state of the British Library? Specifically the manuscripts room?

James VI of Great Britain! What did Britain mean? Gustav II Adolf clearly got the distinction between the Royal House of Great Britain, and the separate kingdoms of England and Scotland as political entities. Support could come from all 3 at once. Obvious really 😉 #DailyDoc #EarlyModern #17thC

People do not seem to think that understanding history deeply helps with understanding present problems, and it’s fascinating to see how the erosion of the humanities has contributed to this.

This week in 1612, Henry, Prince of Wales received a doublet of “rich cloth of gold tissued on black ground cut with & upon carnation taffeta & garnished with gold & silver parchment lace.” The cloth of gold tissue was the most expensive fabric recorded in his accounts at a staggering £12 per yard!

Beautiful autumnal day on Yale campus today! Look at that sky! Those trees!

Very taken with the image of King James and Princess Elizabeth playing cards together at Whitehall night after night over Christmas 1612 as they struggled with grief following Prince Henry’s death. Nevermind that Elizabeth lost some £19 to her dad. TNA, E407/57/2.

Frances Drummond's soldier husband abandoned her & called her a whore. She tracked him down: "Madam I pray god yt I may neuer anter in to ye kingdom of heauan nor neuer see ye face of god if I euer nue him to bee man or woman till I was married to him yt night" #DailyDoc #17thC #ThirtyYearsWar

Something so entrancing about this portrait of a #Tudor fisherman, away from it all as he punts across Sturmer Mere, Essex, in 1571, surrounded by reeds, fish & swans - the #map was part of legal evidence in a dispute about fishing rights. More via blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/maps-tell…

The seals attached to the marriage agreement of James VI of Scotland & Anna of Denmark (1589) are simply breathtaking. Photo by my dear friend (new to BSky). Welcome @jemmafield.bsky.social Do give Jemma a follow! #DailyDoc #16thC #EarlyModern #Skystorians #Diplomacy #17thC