🚨 BOOK LAUNCH🚨 Think Quakers = porridge & pacifism? 🥣✋ Think again. @ericanela.bsky.social takes us through the dramatic, law-breaking, miracle-attempting origins of Quakerism. 🎧 pod.fo/e/333c3b 📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10... #17thCentury #History #Podcast #Booklaunch

I'm so excited about @ericanela.bsky.social's book! #quaker #history

One of the most misunderstood English Queen Consorts is Mary of Modena, second wife of James II. Breeze Barrington joins us on Royals, Rebels, and Romantics to discuss what an extraordinary influence Mary was on English society, apart from her role as queen.

A taster - Sunday's History Festival at Hever Castle. Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy – Dr Elizabeth Norton Thomas More: Man, Myth and Mystery – Dr Joanne Paul with Dr Owen Emmerson Anne Boleyn and the French: – Dr Estelle Paranque 1000 Tudor People: – Melita Thomas

Learn how to read early modern Secretary Hand, with me in this online short course this month. 🗃️

New issue of Quaker Studies! (it's still summer, right?) Featuring peer reviewed articles on Quaker schools, religious authority, allegations of Roman Catholicism, emotions in minutes, and Virginia Quakers moving towards antislavery. quakerstudies.openlibhums.org/issue/1330/i...

Coming to Gloucester History Festival HISTORY RAGE LIVE!!! Yes I'll be doing a live show in the Scriptorium Buttery featuring @ericanela.bsky.social raging about Quakers Friday 19th September at 5:00pm and it's FREE More details on the rest of the festival at : www.gloucesterhistor...

It’ll be out in the UK next month! What a journey this has been. . . I’m looking forward to seeing this out in the world!

An absolute pleasure to attend the launch of Breeze Barrington’s The Graces earlier this week. Tremendous fun to spend time with this crew of historians😎 The 17th century is really the place to be at the moment! Long may it last!

It’s a very humbling exercise when you send your book out into the wild world! I’ve been so overwhelmed with the lovely early reviews. Quaker history is cool! 😎

EARL STRAFFORD TRIAL 1641 DEPOSITIONS CHARGES Civil War ANSWERS 1647 PAMPHLETS 2x #books #antiquarian #17thcentury #trial #court #charges #defence #pamphlets #law #execution #Ireland #KingCharles #war #politics #Parliament #bookauction bit.ly/4ezjp5R

🎉 Join us this weekend for the @stuarthistoryfest.bsky.social in glorious Worcester! tickettailor.com/events/thestua…

In the week of the 380th aniversary of the Battle of Naseby, this month's YouTube video is a redux of our animation of the battle, using an original plan of the battle produced in 1647. You can watch this dramatic story brought to life at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA4L...

We (@1642author.bsky.social @17thcenturylady.bsky.social)spoke to the lovely Philippa @britishhistory.bsky.social (British History Tours) about @stuarthistoryfest.bsky.social, the talks and historians included, and our location at Worcester's Old Palace. 📽️ youtu.be/YAw_GKgpntM 🗓️5 and 6 July 2025

15 June 1629: Charles I dissolves the #English Parliament #otd - his personal rule in England begins. In Ireland, of course, there was a 1634-35 parliament, managed by Wentworth.

🎟️🎫The Stuart History Festival🎫🎟️ Special Announcement for Restoration Day 🌲🍏 Tickets are available for each of the 7 talks in the festival. You can also purchase a bundle - all talks on Saturday, or Sunday, or even the entire weekend. buytickets.at/thestuarthis... #KeepitStuart

🗓️ #OnThisDay 14th June 1645, the Battle of Naseby was fought⚔️, a decisive moment in the English Civil War. In Series 4, @kirsteenmm.bsky.social argues it's more accurate to call it ‘The War of Three Kingdoms’. 🎧 Listen now at: pod.fo/e/14992a #OTD #O#OnThisDay#OTD#OnThisDate #History #Podcast

Our final spring online lecture is next Wednesday, 18 June, when the excellent @jonathanhealey.bsky.social will be talking about the subject of his new book, 'The Blood In Winter' and how the country tipped into Civil War.⚔️ Bookings at: www.cromwellmuseum.org/events/the-b... - don't miss it! 😀

Thank you to @cromwellmuseum.bsky.social and everyone who joined me last night - that was supremely fun! I come to you this morning bearing a gift - a book recommendation! 📕

Our spring online lecture this week, on Wednesday 10 June at 7.30pm, is Erica Canela talking on Cromwell and the Quakers, the radical & controversial religious group of the 1650s! More details on how to join the talk (live or by watching a recording) at: cromwellmuseum.org/events/cromw...

Quaker history is very cool! Join me on Wednesday evening for the @cromwellmuseum.bsky.social Spring Online Lecture Series. 😎 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cromwell-a...

I hear Quakerism in the Atlantic World, 1690–1830 is quite good! 😉

I am so honoured to be speaking in this Series and following the very excellent @johnwrees.bsky.social ! I'll be talking about Cromwell, the earliest Quakers, and (by a distance) the worst character reference in history. And you’ll be supporting a fantastic museum! 🤩

🚨 War! Trauma! Quakers! Worcestershire! This talk HAS IT ALL! There’s going to be a bit of violence, a lot of preaching, and one dead man. I’m going to change the way you look at early Quaker history. 👀 Hugely honoured to be invited by The Battle of Worcester Society for this event!

🎉 We’re delighted to unveil the speakers for the inaugural Stuart History Festival. It’s going to be a celebration of (what we believe is) the most dramatic, dazzling, and divisive period in British history! 📅 5-6 July, The Old Palace, Worcester ....

“Jump to recipe” and “Skip intro” are two of the most glorious phrases in the English language.

It is a gorgeous venue! Cannot wait to welcome our guests! 🥰

Just a quick reminder that applications for the BSSH annual conference in Belfast this summer will close soon. Abstracts of 200 words on any aspect of sport are welcomed, the deadline for submissions is 7th May 2025..

Join me for some radical history! 😀

🥁👑Calling All Stuart History Enthusiasts👑🥁 Dr Erica Canela, Andrea Zuvich, & Mark Turnbull are excited to announce the first Stuart History Festival! 🗓️Save the Date: The Old Palace, Worcester 5-6 July 2025 #StuartFest #KeepitStuart

Tickets are on sale now for our spring online lecture series, starting in May. Four top historians over successive weeks on aspects of the 1600s, this time covering subjects from radical republicans, religious groups and the outbreak of the civil war... www.cromwellmuseum.org/events/cromw...

It’s such an honour to be giving this talk for @cromwellmuseum.bsky.social - it will be on zoom and you’ll be supporting one of the finest museums in the U.K.! Plus the talk will be lively and suitably dramatic. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cromwell-a...

Thank you, @englishcivilwar.bsky.social!

Now THAT'S a hat!

March 14, 1992: Detroit's Isiah Thomas with the no-look assist to Mark Aguirre while sitting on the floor in Sacramento. Pistons 89, Kings 83.

For historians of religion - this includes several female authors writing on spirituality, etc. Margaret Fell, Anna Trapnel, Joanna Southcott and others.

It was such an honour to guest edit this special issue of the journal. 😀

Funeral Invitation, 1688. Funeral invitations first appeared in the 17th century, and acted as an admission ticket to both the church and the funeral feast. Pallbearers were often assigned a number on the ticket to signify their position in carrying the coffin.

My @historytoday.com article about the earliest Barbadian sampler is free to read this week! Check it out here: www.historytoday.com/archive/hist.... I've also written a blog post on the RSN website about the discovery, which you can read here: royal-needlework.org.uk/archive-coll...

THE meme of 2025 for me.

Applications for the BSSH annual conference in Belfast this summer are now open. Abstracts of 200 words on any aspect of sport are welcomed, the deadline for submissions is 7th May 2025..

I’ll be recording an episode on George Fox for The World Turned Upside Down podcast next month!

Yes!!!! @isabellarosner.bsky.social - cannot wait to listen!

All early modern historians should use microfilm readers regularly, just to understand the very early modern sensation that there is a higher power and it is actively trying to punish you.

What a glorious title! 🙌

Become a member of the Cromwell Museum this year! Help cherish the world's most extraordinary collection of objects relating to Oliver Cromwell. In return, access special events, a unique pin badge, and discounts to events and in our shop! Tap here: www.cromwellmuseum.org/support/crom...

Article on BBC website about the #17thcentury #HearthTax. Of the counties whose records have been examined for the project, Wiltshire's date back the furthest. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

No1, 1643 - 'Riding Home for Christmas' with Prince Rupert 🎶 🎄Wishing you a very Merry Christmas🎄 If you'd like me to give a talk about Rupert next year, please drop me a line. My biography of the prince is released on 30 May 2025. #CavalierCommander #KingCharles @penandswordbooks.bsky.social

Our latest Special Issue is Haunted Midlands with nearly all content Open Access! Midland History: Vol 49, No 3 (Current issue)