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

- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University - 1 in 4 people will be made redundant But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action? Please read 👇 Sign the petition 👇 chng.it/7F52bThYqn

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...

Pepys doing the original “I went to a riot, and a football match broke out.” 6 Dec 1659, London Apprentices vs Hewson’s Regiment: “in some places the apprentices would gett a football and drive it among them on purpose, and they either darst not (or prudently would not) interrupt them” ⚽️

On 9 July 1825, the Literary Gazette advertised Pepys’s Diary as ‘published this day’ (though it had been out for a week). The paper then proceeded to light the match on rumours about what had been censored in the edition, and chuck gasoline on the fire. All very decorously. @magdlibs.bsky.social

Just finished "The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary" by @kateloveman.bsky.social. Scholarly, accessible, and fascinating. One that book historians, in particular, will appreciate. And so to bed (well, in an hour or so...).

I reckon Samuel Pepys would be tuning into the Euro matches. He was a fan of drama starring accomplished women players in breeches roles. 🤔⚽️

Small thing I wrote up just now for the British Library, about the new John Milton document I discovered in their collections. This happened a couple years ago, but they’ve been understandably occupied with other things (the cyberattack recovery) until recently blogs.bl.uk/english-and-...

Still a few places available for tomorrow’s online event on Pepys’s shorthand! Saturday 5 July at 6-7pm BST.  Sign up on Eventbrite here: tinyurl.com/shorthand-sa...

In 17c Netherlands you could enjoy drinking your cool beer from a ‘book’. Very nice blindstamped boards, raised bands, fore-edge ties. #Rijksmuseum #Bookart

🎉🎉This week is the 200th anniversary of the publication of Pepys’s diary.🎉🎉 On 2 July 1825 the Literary Gazette announced the diary was out. The paper printed excerpts on drama, including a “curious entry”… @magdlibs.bsky.social

Come to a free online event about Pepys’s diary, neither of which clashes with England’s matches in the Euros! ⚽️ Saturday 5 July at 6-7pm BST.  tinyurl.com/shorthand-sa... Or Tuesday 8 July 2-3pm BST. tinyurl.com/shorthand-tu...

hello. if you work at a university please ask your library to buy my book. it is all about books and libraries and also plants, museums, the Royal Society, and the ways we learn. I think it will be interesting to lots of people, hopefully. thank you www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Blogpost for the excellent Dickens Code project on Pepys’s shorthand. Also featuring info on how to sign up for a free shorthand workshop on Pepys’s diary 🪶 dickenscode.org/the-shorthan...

a tip that I wish I had known earlier in my career as an early modernist: any time you need image permissions for early modern printed books, you should start with the Huntington. Huge collection, generous/easy permissions policy, streamlined imaging service request system.

Thank you to shorthand expert Guy de la Bédoyère for his video on my upcoming workshops on Pepys’s diary! m.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vu5...

Today is the official US publication day for The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary! 🎉🎉🎉 This is Pepys in 1667 on the future founder of Pennsylvania, aka the amusingly emo young man next door… www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-strang...

Today is publication day for my new history of England’s remarkable winter revolution of 1641-2. I’m really proud of how it turned out and I hope you enjoy it! Do keep an eye out for signed copies in independent bookshops around the country. www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Winter...

25 June 1825: the public were awaiting the 1st edn of Pepys’s diary. It was ‘not yet in general circulation, the noble Editor presenting those which were earliest ready to his friends, and the mass for publication being delayed’. Here’s the Noble Editor Lord Braybrooke @magdalenecollege.bsky.social

📣Free online event on reading Pepys’s shorthand! Find out about how Pepys used shorthand to write his diary and try reading it! Sat 5 July, 6-7pm BST.  Eventbrite sign up: tinyurl.com/shorthand-sa... Or Tues 8 July 2-3pm BST. Sign up: tinyurl.com/shorthand-tu... @magdalenecollege.bsky.social