Our fall 2025 issue is out! Featuring three articles, a forum on women in wartime, a review essay, a performance review, two exhibition reviews, and 22 book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern

WSG member Karen Hearn is taking part in the George Villiers Study Day at Melton Carnegie Museum this Thursday 18 September. She will be one of five leading authors & academics discussing the eventful life & portraiture of the 1st Duke of Buckingham. leicestershirecollections.org.uk/villiers-rev...

Position still stands so please do let me know if you or anyone needs a temporary tutor or freelance researcher after October.

My current role ends in October: if anyone needs a temporary tutor in early modern history or as a freelance researcher please do drop me a line! I have over 10 years experience in teaching and a wide practical knowledge of working in archives in the UK and abroad.

New article! Stefan G. Holz on 'Innovative Accounting at the Exchequer and Wardrobe, c.1300: The Jornalia Bills, Books and Rolls under Edward I and Edward II' academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... #medieval

Position still stands so please do let me know if you or anyone needs a temporary tutor or freelance researcher after October.

Delighted to announce the 5th volume in the series will be published in January! Click here for details about the forthcoming 'Catholic Print Networks in Restoration London, 1660-1688' by @creutcke.bsky.social boydellandbrewer.com/book/catholi... #skystorians #CathHist #history #bookhistory

Such a pleasure to welcome so many to launch last night for Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy in Oxford & Cambridge Club on Pall Mall. The club has its own connection with reigning queen: Margarethe II of Denmark the first female member. Fabulous night! #womenwhoruledtheworld

It’s publication day! 🥳 🎈 🍾 Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy published by @wearefootnote and available in all good booksellers. #womenwhoruledtheworld #reigningqueen #femaleking #mybook #newbook #newhistory

Attention Early Modern Historians! This, from Angus Vine and @oxfordunipress.bsky.social is sure to be of great interest — Angus was insanely knowledgeable, helpful & quotable when I interviewed him for my own book. Have a look at it!

Check out this quick and fun @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat with David de Boer about The #EarlyModern #Dutch Press in the Age of Religious Persecution" @oxunipress.bsky.social #skystorians #Netherlands #Reformation #AcademicSky #Press #BookSky📚💙 #AcademicSky newbooksnetwork.com/the-early-mo...

It's very sad to have the news of Bríd McGrath's death. She was an indefatigable editor for @irishmanuscripts.bsky.social See our tribute to her here: www.irishmanuscripts.ie/brid-mcgrath/

New article! Eilish Gregory @eilishgregory.bsky.social, "‘Published by Her Majesties Command’: Sermons Preached before Catherine of Braganza, Queen Dowager, 1685–88" academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @durhamhistory.bsky.social

Hieronymous Bosch, who died #otd 9 Aug 1516 Death and the Miser, c. 1485/1490 It’s all happening here. (National Gallery of Art, Washington)

Absolutely thrilled to announce that my article on sermons published by Catherine of Braganza's command as queen dowager has today been published open access by English Historical Review: academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... . It has been a long time coming, having originally been 1/

CFP: @rebpaf.bsky.social’s “Re-mediating the Early Book: Pasts and Futures” With keynote speakers @wynkenhimself.bsky.social @renskehoff.bsky.social and Aditi Nafde Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, 23-25 June 2026 Deadline: 15 December 2025 All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/re-med...

Absolutely thrilled to announce that my article on sermons published by Catherine of Braganza's command as queen dowager has today been published open access by English Historical Review: academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... . It has been a long time coming, having originally been 1/

Delighted @soroptimistgbi.bsky.social Tunbridge Wells & District Club, core participants in @ukri.org #AHRC #LSBU #womensgrassrootsactivism project, received this honour having reported on our project podcast to @unep.org #HLPF2025. Listen to our podcast here: historyhub.ie/womens-grass....

New #cfp from the Journal of Transcultural Studies for a special issue on “Transcultural Histories of Monarchy” - abstracts to be sent to [email protected] by 1st Sept! The essays will explore the ways in which monarchies incorporate “the foreign” into the familiar.

🖊️ New on the EUP blog! Alasdair Raffe introduces 'The Scottish State and the Experience of Government, c. 1560-1707', a new book on government and its impacts on the Scottish people: edin.ac/3U3kIk5 📖 Read the book Open Access: edin.ac/4kP9rPf

It is with great sadness that we report the death of Dr Marie Rowlands, one of the longest serving members of the CRS. She attended the 2025 conference online during the last week of her life. Details of her life and funeral arrangements are below. Requiescat in pace.

Eilish Gregory, member of the @ccshistorycatholic.bsky.social team, has recently been in Italy visiting various archives for her research about the Little Company of Mary, including those of Propaganda Fide #skystorians #CathHist #history #Catholicism #nuntastic

I was honoured to give my last research paper as the Little Company of Mary Fellow at this year's @catholicrs.bsky.social at Hinsley Hall in Leeds. I very much enjoyed talking about one chapter of the monograph I am writing based on my research, hot off the heels of a research trip 1/

I very much enjoyed exploring the Uffizi Gallery this morning, even if it was rammed by fellow tourists. Was amazing to see Botticelli paintings, the surprise portraits of some Tudor and Stuart monarchs, and of course Artemsia Gentileschi's famous painting in the flesh for the 1/

Having had an amazing and fruitful research trip in Rome, it was a joy to arrive in Florence today to head to Fiesole to see the original convent belonging to the LCM. Although now a private residence, the Franciscan monastery directly above provided the perfect view!

So far, it has been a successful research week in Rome. My first morning this week was visiting the sites of the LCM's hospital (still referred to as the 'British Hospital), which still has traces of their history in the chapel and reception area. I have also been spending time 1/

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

I am very much going to enjoy waking up and going to bed with this view during my research week in Rome!

All packed and ready to go tomorrow morning for my final research trip as Little Company of Mary Fellow to Rome and Florence. Very excited!

Really happy to wake up to the news and see this review of Later Stuart Queens. Without sounding clique it is thanks really to all the contributors in the volume, so thanks go to @royalhistorian.bsky.social @susannah-lw.bsky.social @jessicaminieri.bsky.social @ejpbirch.bsky.social 1/

The CCS’ @eilishgregory.bsky.social has worked with colleagues in @ducollections.bsky.social to launch a pop-up exhibition showcasing the collections of the Little Company of Mary, and welcomed their international leadership team to see its opening #nuntastic #skystorians @durhamtheology.bsky.social

Was an absolute pleasure hearing His Eminence Cardinal Timothy Radcliffe give the Bishop Dunn Memorial Lecture at Durham Cathedral this evening. Was packed to the rafters and what an engaging speaker.

Windy arrival into Durham for a jam packed few days of work-related activities!

Really looking to reading through my proofs in my soon-to-be published article in English Historical Review on Catherine of Braganza and her agency during her queen dowagership in Britain. It has been in the works for a long time and I am grateful to several people for supporting me 1/

Just to keep up the queen and flowers theme ... a podcast too! 🌻 Thank you @royalstudies.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...

📣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...

Congratulations to Hillary Nunn on the publication of Recipes on the Move in Early Modern England & British North America Domestic Medicine, Mobility & Manuscript Culture www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... @amsterdamupress.bsky.social, 2025 It appears in "Connected Histories in the Early Modern World."

My father, 85, tells me that when growing up in Derry people used wear an oak leaf #otd 9 June in honour of St. Colmcille (Columba) whose feast day it is. Derry, or Doire in Irish, means a place of oaks. (Pilgrim badge 14/16th century in form of an oak leaf, British Museum)

On Tuesday 10 June. Prof. Pat Hudson will deliver the Aaron Graham Memorial Lecture, on 'Caribbean Investment and the Financialisation of the British Economy in the Eighteenth Century'. It's at UCL at 5:30 PM and free to attend, but please register here.

Caribbean Connections: Seventeenth-century Barbados and Britain. A 2-day workshop 25-26 June in London at KCL. Be there. www.mmor.co.uk/events/carib...

8 June 1640: The #Irish Parliament suppresses a bill for the Plantation of #Connacht #otd Pet project of Thomas Wentworth bites the dust & another signal of an unravelling his viceroyalty.

#kings #queens #dynasty #monarchy #queenship #peril #crisis #deposition #succession #conference #RSN #Czechia #CzechRepublic #Prague 4/4

Full details are available with this post and will be on the RSN conference website in the coming days: www.royalstudiesnetwork.org/current-conf... We can't wait to welcome you to Prague and to #KQ15! 3/4

Hosted by the Research Centre on Courts and Residences of the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences 👑 The deadline to submit your abstract and/or panel proposal is 31 January 2025, so it's time to get writing ✍️ 2/4

After a fantastic #KQ14, we’re thrilled to announce that Kings and Queens 15 will be in Prague! 🇨🇿 Join us from 2-4 September 2026 for "Kings, Queens and Dynasties in Peril" 🧵/4

My exhibition A Queen's Book of Flowers is now on at the Thin Ice Press in York 🌺🌻 Featuring Henrietta Maria and John Parkinson's Paradisi in Sole (1629), women and foreign plants. Today, an accompanying workshop making bookmarks!

If you're a UK university undergraduate admissions officer for your department/faculty or are informed about/involved in university Widening Participation work, this call for evidence is for you. Closes 18 July 2025. It would be grand to ensure Arts, Humanities & Soc Sci perspectives are included.

6 June 1661: d. Martino Martini #otd #Jesuit, cartographer. He survived the transition from the Ming to Qing dynasties & was involved in the Chinese rites controversies. The 1655 Novus Atlas Sinensis was his major work.