🗣️🎧 Love history podcasts? From @histfest.bsky.social's 'Uprising' to @1642author.bsky.social's 'Cavalier Cast'. we've compiled a list of the best shows about the English Civil Wars that you can listen to right now 👉 earlofmanchesters.co.uk/the-best-eng...

Always a pleasure to see the Tatterjacks perform during the festive period #urbanmorris

Join a family history society for help, support and community. #FamilyHistory #Genealogy www.familyhistoryfederation.com/join-fhs

We had a great day in Canterbury yesterday for our Autumn Meeting! Many thanks to our Meetings Secretaries for arranging a fabulous programme, and to our guides at St Martin’s Church, St Augustine’s Abbey and Canterbury Cathedral.

Are you restoring access to Ethos? Theses online.

I am always amazed something that old and fragile has survived without being chipped or cracked.

It was such a wonderful setting. Thanks for coming along.

Just extraordinary!

Lion?

Died (alas!) on this day in 1625, the remarkable painter Sofonisba Anguissola. Here, self portrait as a young woman, showing off her talents in 1556.

It's a great book, as are your contributions.

Great to see it in print!

www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/product/the-... published today, a fantastic teaching resource and a super Xmas present. With contributions from @annlaurahughes.bsky.social @isminipells.bsky.social @waseemahmed98.bsky.social @denisegreany.bsky.social Richard Cust, Andy Hopper (Ed.) Oh, and me.

All are welcome to our next event. Professor Mark Knights (U of Warwick) works on the political culture of early modern Britain. In this lecture, he will examine Britain’s long struggle with corruption and its impact on the British Empire.

A good time, it seems, for a thread about public sculptures of, and by, women that have been installed in the last 10 years or so... Aphra Benn in Canterbury, Licoricia in Winchester, Mary Anning in Lyme Regis, Dervorguilla in Oxford...

Christian Clarkson of Simpson Brown look at the work they carried out at the iconic castle of Carrickfergus. Done as part of a City Deal, their work shows that we can still learn more from even the most extensively studied castle. To find out more read here: castlestudiestrust.org/blog/2025/11...

This month is the 400th anniv of the passing of Sofonisba Anguissola. Art Herstory commemorates the moment with a (very) limited edition hard cover journal. Order your copy at artherstory.net/product/sofo... Available on Etsy as well (10% discount thru 11/13): www.etsy.com/listing/4383...

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

Great to see this excellent book now in print, featuring one of Brilliana Harley's letters and 99 other fascinating civil war objects @susanwabuda.bsky.social www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/product/the-...

Your podcast, @jackieeales.bsky.social brought back happy memories of Joan Henderson in the IHR, explaining to thie American the origins of Lady Brilliana's name.

Thank you @jackieeales.bsky.social your podcast on Lady Brilliana Harley during the British and Irish Civil Wars is TERRIFIC! You have brought her before us in the most vivid way. @tonyriches.bsky.social www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/podcast/bril... @world-turned.bsky.social #History #Podcast

Delighted my podcast on Brilliana Harley has been released. She died on 29th October 1643 of a 'defluxion of the lungs ', probably pneumonia @susanwabuda.bsky.social @suwesterman.bsky.social @sdamussen.bsky.social @annlaurahughes.bsky.social @jamesdaybell.bsky.social @englishcivilwar.bsky.social

Thank you!

Terrific!

Just tried the free Transkribus site with poor results. Is the paid subscription any better for 17th century handwriting? What about 19th century wills?

Cheshire Archives reveal hundreds of 19th century maps and some amusing place names Link 👉 www.cheshireeast.gov.uk/council_and_...

journals.openedition.org/episteme/20007 Issue n°46 of Etudes Epistémè has just been published.

New TWTUD klaxon! Jackie Eales explores the oft-ignored role of women in the civil wars - from radical religious groups like the Quakers offering women equality of worship and preaching to women directly petitioning Parliament www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/podcast/wome...

A plethora of new ODNB entries on early modern women stationers! Entries from Heidi Craig, Andrea Silva, Kirk Melnikoff, @mgyarn.bsky.social, Andreas P. Bassett, @tarallyons.bsky.social and @georginaemw.bsky.social, me, and of course from @valeriewayne.bsky.social who cooked up the whole cluster.

Thirty-year-old woman who had her portrait painted in 1549 by Antwerp’s foremost woman artist, Catharina van Hemessen. Her day was today.

In the latest episode of the Getty's Art + Ideas podcast, Sheila Barker discusses Artemisia Gentileschi

of undoubted interest to @jastucaz.bsky.social

Professor Ronald Hutton CBE is a leading authority on ancient and medieval paganism and magic. Thursday's lecture will draw upon his recent publications including The Witch: A History of Fear and Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe. All are welcome.

Professor Ronald Hutton CBE is a leading authority on ancient and medieval paganism and magic. This evening’s lecture will draw upon recent publications including The Witch: A History of Fear and Queens of the Wild: Pagan Goddesses in Christian Europe. All are welcome.

This afternoon, bringing a great #TudorsStuarts History Weekend to a close, is @jackieeales.bsky.social discussing women's roles in the English Civil Wars #CKHH #Canterbury

As I used to say on the Other Site (to the amazement of @jackieeales.bsky.social ) that I grew up listening to a GOP uncle say that there should be NO Social Security while all the while his widowed sister and her children were living on Social Security benefits.

Charles I is having a busy month in Canterbury! Come and hear @jackieeales.bsky.social speak at St. Paul's Church.

Very excited amidst all this grim news that tonight we are launching the first annual National Humanities Lecture, delivered by the splendid @davidolusoga.bsky.social, speaking of the urgent importance of public humanities and public history.

Check out the #CHW2025 Tudors & Stuarts events, speakers and all the books here: bookshop.canterbury.ac.uk/tudors-and-s... @medievalcanter.bsky.social @lvhicks.bsky.social @drcbartram.bsky.social @davehitchcock.bsky.social @drjoannepaul.bsky.social @amylicence.bsky.social @jackieeales.bsky.social

Sounds most interesting!

This looks super, do join us!

A few days ago, I posted a picture elsewhere of flowers that were still blooming in my sw Connecticut garden. Now that bouquet is a memory, for the frost has brought the summer riot to an end. It's time to dig the various tubers and prepare for snow. And the spring.

The sky really does seem bluer over here! Hello to anyone who hasn't encountered me before. I'm an #earlymodern historian working on a bio of John Bradshawe (Jacky B), as well as ECW sequestration petitioning. I teach at Conted in Oxford and for Wake Forest University. Expect pics of my cat.

Hello! We are over here now. Come and explore our more than 400 historic maps of London available to view on our website. Which is your favourite? layersoflondon.org/map?layers=t... #Maps #GIS #HGIS #SpatialHumanities #DigitalHumanities #GeoHumanities #StoryMaps #MapMonday

✨🎉Hello new BlueSky people 👋 Who am I? New Book: Visual Arts & the Auld Alliance. New project: Scotland on Parchment: Scraped, Limned and Bound due 2026. Inaugural book in a new EUP series Visual and Material Cultures of Scotland🎉✨ @edinburghup.bsky.social New approaches: wp.me/peZVQm-8R

Yes, once I worked out how to change the screen from dark to light! There are no adverts on here, right?

If you'd like a short introduction to the C17 revival in English stained glass, here is a talk I gave for the Worshipful Company of Glaziers recently. Lots of lovely pictures to feast the eye. youtube.com/watch?v=ApLWyP

Have neglected this account for over a year (!) but time to give it a go - here’s a #bluesky picture from a recent trip to #Winchelsea, #EastSussex.

Highlight was great keynote by @jackieeales.bsky.social on The invention of the #NaughtyVicar (who really deserves his own hashtag).

@lauragowing.bsky.social thanks for the code Laura.