Second row, top right ☺️

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-posi...

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

I am thrilled to share my new open-access article on John Evelyn, his wife Mary, eldest daughter Mall and their complex, multifaceted relationship with clothing has been published in @historicaljnl.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This is my talk from earlier in the year at Bletchley Park on reading early modern shorthand with a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model with a few extra bells and whistles. Combining my hobby with work! youtu.be/O79kcyAfBcM?... #pepys #earlymodern #ai #aibom #cybersecurity #machinelearning

Another review for Inside Story. On Kate Loveman, The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Dairy @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org @kateloveman.bsky.social katefullagar.com/2025/10/31/g...

Angels and Demons is just like when I went to CERN with dry ice and everything.

Spotted in Leicester 🦇🎃

How was Robert Knox, son of an EIC Captain and captive in Sri Lanka for nineteen years, immediately identified as an outsider aboard ship when it was inspected on his arrival in England in September 1680? His beard was long and old-fashioned. #earlymodern #skystorians

a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587). the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.

1066 And All That (1930): “Among the famous characters in the Restoration were Samuel Pepys, who is memorable for keeping a Dairy, and going to bed a great deal, and his wife Evelyn who kept another memorable Dairy but did not go to bed in it.”

Someday I will learn to competently use “quote post” but today is clearly not that day.

Congratulations to Kate Loveman on winning the 2025 Samuel Pepys Award for her book 'The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary'. 📘 🏆 Find out more about the book 🔗 https://cup.org/47hzdrI

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

200th anniversary of the first passenger railway this weekend. Also 200th anniversary of the publication of Pepys’s diary. Not actual footage

The John Lewis Christmas theme this year seems to be alcoholic mice.

Enjoyed writing “Prep for Romantics, Murderbot” on my teaching calendar for this term. Not in the same session, unfortunately.

Episode 732 starts with @jackewilson.bsky.social taking a look at the different ways that 10 writers have viewed the Bible. Then Jacke talks with Kate Loveman about her new book on Samuel Pepys. #books @universitypress.cambridge.org @kateloveman.bsky.social #booksky

Celebrating 200 years since the publication of Samuel Pepys’s Diary! 📜 Author @kateloveman.bsky.social shares what inspired her to write ‘Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary’. 📖 Read more 🔗 https://cup.org/4paZtex

Happy Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone Day to all who celebrate 🎶

Lovely to see this write up of our project in the Smithsonian Magazine. #EarlyModern 📜 🗃️ @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...

Fantastic post on the blog today by Joe Black, who discusses Lady Bindloss's booklist--evidence of what books she bought, how she ordered them from London, and even how she shelved them by color earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/l... #EarlyModern #HerBook

I’m excited to be speaking at this year’s #CheltLitFest (10-19 October 2025) 📚🍂 View the full line-up here: www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/whats-on Tickets go on sale 4 September www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/unloc...

Chipping away at the 2nd earl of Oxford. Son of Robert Harley, Queen Anne's great minister: "his consuming passions [were] bibliomania, literary patronage and, towards the end of his life, drink..." #HistParl

A favourite memorial from @exetercathedral.bsky.social. Born Nutcombe Quicke in 1727 he attended Cambridge University & in 1753 married Anne, daughter of the Bishop of Exeter. He became Canon Chancellor of the Cathedral & in 1792 changed his name to Nutcombe Nutcombe to receive an inheritance.

Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906... ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️

Hellblazing and necromancy going on at my local library next weekend

Huge thanks to @kateloveman.bsky.social for her brilliant talk on 'The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary'. 📖 From burying cheese during the Great Fire of London, to leaving King Charles II coronation for a wee, she explored historic moments in Pepys's diary in strange yet intimate ways. 🧀👑

Just received a contract for the use of recordings “in perpetuity, throughout the universe in all forms of media now known or hereafter developed” Holodeck here I come.

Rosemary Sweet and I have written a book about #18thc British travellers to Spain and Portugal, and I'm really happy it's now free to download here: uclpress.co.uk/book/no-coun... (hard copies also available!) #skystorians #c18th

Pepys’s list of “Publique Depravity of Manners” from 1692 always cheers me up. “Plays and Stage — profane” 🧐 “Bookes — Atheisticall” (he buys them) “Publique Mistresses” (he has one) “Universitys debauched”

Published today! Guy de la Bédoyère’s selection from Pepys’s diary has new transcriptions of shorthand and the polyglot! www.waterstones.com/book/the-con...

Come to my talk on Wednesday 13th at Cambridge University Press bookshop! Features drinking and unscholarly language - certainly by Pepys and possibly by me @cambridgebookshop.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-strang...

Need a play about this encounter….

Lovely to see Alice Thornton and @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social getting some love in the press. 'A female Samuel Pepys' Thornton is a bit less self-obsessed! www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

📣 Still a few places left for my free online event on Samuel Pepys’s diary and shorthand. Saturday 2 August at 6pm BST. (Registration closes Friday evening) tinyurl.com/shorthandAug

This remains one of my favourite anecdotes from the English Civil War.

Hello, quite new here, so introducing myself 👋 I’m a historian of #BlackBritishHistory @icws-sas.bsky.social, living in North Wales. My first book was #BlackTudors and my new one #Heiresses, is about nine British women who inherited enslaved people and plantations in the Caribbean.

I wrote about John Taylor and ethnographies of paper. It's out online today, prior to publication in *Critical Quarterly*. Thanks to @georginaemw.bsky.social and co for kicking off this train of thought with a wonderful conference, and giving it a home. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Meanwhile in Leicester…

Sign up for this free online event next Saturday! 6-7pm BST 🪶 tinyurl.com/shorthandAug

New blog post reflecting on some of the material I was looking at during my @folger.edu fellowship. Thinking about how race was staged on London's streets during the post-Restoration Lord Mayor's Show. www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...

Counting down to the publication of TWO fantastic new books this summer: Nautical Rutters & New Bodies of Knowledge in the Age of the First Globalization, 1400-1600 - out 6/8/25 Practices & Narratives of Early Modern Piracy - out 22/9/25 Pre-order them now! aup.nl/en/series/ma...

📣 Back by popular demand, free online event on reading Pepys’s shorthand. Find out about how Pepys used shorthand to write his diary and try reading it! Sat 2 August, 6-7pm BST.  Eventbrite sign up: tinyurl.com/shorthandAug

Amazingly cutting-edge fashion on display when Dream visited 1670s London.

We’re looking for scholarly/critical essays that contribute to our understanding of Anglophone literature/history/culture,1660-1700. Essays that explore how the Restoration impacts other periods, including our current moment, are especially exciting! Submission info: blog.umd.edu/restorations...

Book of the day in The New Statesman ☺️ (paywalled). www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...