Am I the only one who has reservations about Hamnet? An inarticulate Shakespeare? A depiction of a marriage and parenting based on C21st models? A witchy earth mother who howls with grief and a male figure who by contrast channels his grief into art? All very dubious, in my book

This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com

“Scintillating” - am so grateful for this amazing review of Voices of Thunder by Prof. Elspeth Graham ✨ academic.oup.com/litthe/advan...

Such an honour to become co-Editor of Literature & Theology alongside @jocarruthers.bsky.social. My first published article as a PhD student was in this journal! We’re thrilled to be able to play a role in its future - please think about submitting any relevant articles @oxfordunipress.bsky.social

Out now! Open access in current issue of Renaissance Quarterly thanks to @ucdlibrary.bsky.social my thanks to everyone who helped me with this - but a special mention of the late Bríd McGrath for her wisdom, generosity and dedication to all the things that matter.

My podcast episode on the “Prophetesses and she-preachers of the 17th century” who star in my book Voices of Thunder is available now on the @historyextra.bsky.social podcast ✨ Access it wherever you access your podcasts! #earlymodern

“Women who defied the patriarchy and the Church of England to declare their truths to the world come to vivid life in Voices of Thunder” Very happy with this great review! unreachableshelf.weebly.com/on-the-shelf...

“… the thunder of women’s voices continues to roll.” Thank you @trudymorgancole.bsky.social for this fantastic review of “Voices of Thunder”. It means so much to me that you see the connections between the women I write about and the ongoing struggle for women’s voices to be heard #earlymodern

Thank you @ericanela.bsky.social for this fantastic review of Voices of Thunder in Quaker Studies! 🤩✨🌟 quakerstudies.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...

So happy to have finally gotten a copy of Dr Baker’s newest publication, just in time for Christmas break! An absolutely phenomenal read which brings to light the lives of the most extraordinary women.

I’m currently answering questions about Voices of Thunder on the thread below - ask away, if you have any questions! #earlymodern

The AMA is tomorrow!

It’s the US publication date of Voices of Thunder! 📚 It tells the stories of a dozen radical Protestant 17th-century women, including Quaker women who travelled to Boston and beyond #puritans #womenshistory #quakers #booklaunch #earlymodern

#earlymodern if I were to (note the conditionals) edit an anthology of verse by early modern women, what would you want to see in it? And what would you want it to do that isn’t covered by current options?

Thrilled with this great review of Voices of Thunder by @balancedachieve.bsky.social 📚

On @thejohnrylands.bsky.social blog, Dr Naomi Baker discusses one of the earliest known English conversion narratives by Rose Thurgood, giving us rare insight into religious women’s lives and beliefs in the decades before the English Civil War. Read more: rylandscollections.com/2025/10/17/t...

40% off all titles, including #VoicesofThunder! 🤩

Spotted in @waterstones.bsky.social Cheadle, so I signed a few. It’s still so exciting to see it in the wild 🤩📚#voicesofthunder #womenshistory #earlymodern

1 WEEK: Reflecting on Manchester Criminal Prosecutions 📅 17 Nov, 5pm 📍Sam Alex Building Book: https://ow.ly/ibxU50Xe7zX University of Manchester School of Social Sciences School of Arts, Languages and Cultures @uomlaw.bsky.social CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity Garden Court Chambers

It was such a privilege to talk about Voices of Thunder with Jana Byars on the New Books Network podcast! Link below 🌟📚

Rosalia’s new album is about female mysticism, but reviewers are already saying it is “really” about her own break-up. A woman writes about the experience of self-transcendence and even then she is still assumed to only ever be writing about her own romantic experiences

Writing for The Conversation is great for many reasons - one of which is that you can see how many people have read your piece. Am amazed to see that my recent article about a 17th-century woman’s account of domestic abuse has had almost 30,000 reads! #earlymodern

Elizabeth Barton (1506-34) was a servant woman who defied Henry VIII, warning him that to marry Anne Boleyn would incur divine wrath. As I show in “Voices of Thunder”, female mystics were some of the fiercest critics of patriarchal forms of oppression - they posed a real threat to the status quo

Link here! mathewlyons.substack.com/p/ten-books-...

Very grateful to The Broken Compass for highlighting the women whose stories I tell in Voices of Thunder ✨

Voices of Thunder is one of ten books to look out for, according to Mathew Lyons in The Broken Compass 🤩 As he says, these “highly vocal women” have been “drowned out in much of the historiography” and make a “brilliant subject for a book”! 🌟 #earlymodern

Thanks @waterstones.bsky.social Trafford for having me in to sign books today! 📚

The History section of @waterstones.bsky.social Trafford has a new Her-story arrival on its shelves 😊🤩 Spotted by a friend - it’s so great to see it out in the wild, and in such fabulous book company 📚

Library within a library @porticolibrary.bsky.social

It was wonderful to have my book launch last night @porticolibrary.bsky.social. I had such a brilliant time! Thanks so much to everyone who came along - it was standing room only which was incredible. It meant the world to me that so many people want to hear about these amazing women 📚#earlymodern

I wrote a blog post about the incredible Rose Thurgood for @TheJohnRylands blog 📚 #earlymodern

It was a privilege to talk about the radical C17th women in my book with @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social for Not Just the Tudors. We had a brilliant and wide-ranging discussion about a Yorkshire maidservant who met the sultan of the Ottoman Empire … and much more! shows.acast.com/not-just-the...

I had the great pleasure of editing Naomi Baker’s Voices of Thunder, her groundbreaking book on radical religious women in the 17th century, which arrives with these emphatic endorsements. Out today from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social. #earlymodern

Thanks @tomasstanger.bsky.social for this lovely review of Voices of Thunder!

It’s PUBLICATION DAY!! 🌟⭐️💫 I’m very happy to see Voices of Thunder going out into the world 📚

RIP Diane Keaton, what an absolute star in all senses of the word. I sometimes try to copy her style just a little bit - no-one could come close of course 💔

Huge congratulations to our friends at @mcrlitfest.bsky.social as this year’s Manchester Literature Festival begins! 🎉 This year celebrates 20 years of literary magic - and once again @manchester.ac.uk is the proud official HE partner. Explore the full programme: manchesterliterature...

Anne Wentworth (1630-c.1693) endured years of abuse at the hands of her husband. She knew speaking out would alienate her from the Baptist church of which they were both members, but she went ahead and published 4 accounts of the abuse. I tell her remarkable story in Voices of Thunder #earlymodern

One of the most daring theological works of the C17th, published by Elizabeth Avery in 1647. It reconsiders every mainstream Protestant teaching about the apocalypse, and caused her to be denounced as a heretic, including by her own brother. I tell Avery’s story in Voices of Thunder #earlymodern

Several of the women I write about in Voices of Thunder were accused of being witches - it was done to silence and shame them because they were uncomfortably outspoken and nonconformist. Great to see someone advocating for women like them! #earlymodern #witch

Spotted in the wild for the first time!! 🤩 At Blackwells on Oxford Rd in Manchester - so exciting to see it making its way into the world after so long in my head 🧡

Had a great time today chatting with @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social for the Not Just the Tudors podcast on History Hit. Watch out next week for the episode on Voices of Thunder and radical 17th-century women!

Thank you, @drnaomibaker.bsky.social. 👏 It really is vital for a wide public to be aware of the path by which we get to real conquests - not just to fully appreciate these, but also not to take them for granted.

Hester Biddle was a Quaker preacher who was imprisoned 14 times, often simply for preaching. She was enraged by the growing inequalities of C17th London and warned that God would judge those who ignored the needs of those begging for food on the streets. Ch 7 of Voices of Thunder tells her story

Ch 6 of Voices of Thunder tells the inspiring story of the London lace woman Elizabeth Attaway, the first C17th woman to preach publicly to a mixed-sex congregation. Her Baptist church did not let women preach, but Attaway did not allow her low social status or her sex to be a barrier … 1/2

A serious contender for my favourite woman in Voices of Thunder! Anna Trapnel was a young woman who publicly criticised Oliver Cromwell. A thorn in the side of the authorities, she was accused of being a witch. Trapnel was a true radical, advocating for a fairer society for all. #earlymodern

As the first female Archbishop of Canterbury is appointed, it’s worth remembering that dissenting women were preaching to mixed sex congregations in London as early as 1645. My book Voices of Thunder has a whole section on 17th-century “she-preachers” #earlymodern

Sarah Wight, a 17th-century London teenager and Baptist who struggled with extreme anxiety, is the subject of Chapter 4 of Voices of Thunder. Sarah co-wrote a searing but ultimately inspirational account of her experiences. She went on to become a well-known spiritual counsellor. #earlymodern

I just received the first copies of my book and I have to say it’s looking gorgeous! 😍 Thank you @reaktionbooks.bsky.social for making such a beautiful book #earlymodern

Ch 3 of Voices of Thunder tells the story of the self-proclaimed prophet Elizabeth Poole, one of the only women of her era to intervene in political debate at the highest level. Just weeks before Charles I’s execution, Poole demanded an audience with Cromwell and the council of officers. 1/2