For a limited time only (until 31 July) you can pre-order my new book from @waterstones.bsky.social for 25% by using code SUMMER25 Bargain 😀 (although I’m not sure why the book cover isn’t showing on their site yet) #womenwhoruledtheworld @wearefootnote.bsky.social

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/...

Does anyone have access to the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) and have time to look something up and perhaps photograph the entry for me? Reposting this would be helpful!

Heads-up! If you are interested in learning more about marginalia by Katherine Parr and Henry VIII, you can attend in person or on-line. www.library.gov.au/whats-on/eve...

it's proofs day 😍 Introducing Catherine Sanger. This is another woman publisher that I found after an editor assumed traces of her labor in the English Short Title Catalogue were a typo. A [sic] was put next to her initial, and I spent weeks combing through Ancestry to figure out who she is.

Proooooooofs #earlymodern

Pete Hegseth: “Nobody texted war plans.”

Wannabe author Joannes Paulus de Mont already designed a title page for his book on the temptations of the Devil and the flesh. Unfortunately, the Antwerp priest never found a printer to actually publish his book. #booksky #bookhistory #skystorians #earlymodern #antwerp

On Monday our instagram account was hacked and then deleted. We received a ransom note to recover it; obviously we couldn't and wouldn't pay, and therefore lost thousands of followers. Meta support was useless. But we're BACK with a new account: @littletollerbooks. Can you follow us there and share?

Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist at Harvard Medical School, was detained at Logan Airport after returning from France and sent to an ICE detention in Louisiana, The Insider reports. A big critic of Putin and the war in Ukraine, she may now be deported to Russia.

Today’s adventure in reading medieval documents is brought to you by the wonders of UV light for picking up faded text. I’m picking my way through this summary of Richard II’s Irish revenues line-by-line under a UV lamp. TNA E 101/247/1.

In a nutshell: — The Espionage Act contains a provision that criminalizes the disclosure of national secrets through gross negligence. — The law does not require that the info be classified, it refers simply to national defense information. Arrest them. Immediately.

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

Porsha Ngumezi was killed by Texas’ abortion ban after doctors refused her a D&C to treat the miscarriage she suffered at 11 weeks gestation. She leaves behind a husband and two sons. www.cbsnews.com/news/grievin...

📢 JOB OPENING 📢 I am thrilled to announce that the first postdoc position of my ERC project UNSEEN at Oxford is now live! This is a three-year post for an Iberian historian who will be working on slavery and Islamic material culture in the early modern Mediterranean. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

A 15th century devil for your enjoyment! One of many fantastic wall paintings to be found at the Church of All Saints & St. Andrew, Kingston, Cambridgeshire 🤩

Shot. Chaser.

Scientist loses their grant funding because they briefly mentioned the word "hesitancy" in their grant.

I guess no more US conferences for the foreseeable future www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

My thanks to His Majesty King Charles III for his warm welcome and gracious hospitality today. Canada is fortunate to have a steadfast defender in our sovereign.

Dr. Oz, nominated by Trump to head up Medicare and Medicaid, is all in on the plan to take nurses out of nursing homes.

Wow, @kimgilchrist.bsky.social! A ‘fragment of a longer cue-script produced for amateur performance’ of *Mucedorus*! Great stuff! academic.oup.com/nq/advance-a...

Today in #TudorHistory, 15 March 1551, the future Mary I, caused a stir in London w/ a public procession, demonstrating her beliefs. She defied her brother Edward VI & rode through London in a carrying rosary beads, w/an obvious show of her Catholic faith. #TudorDynasty #History #Anglophile

#OTD 1539 Robert Cranwell, the steward of Hever Castle, wrote to Thomas Cromwell to inform him that Thomas Boleyn had "departed this transitory world" and "made the end of a good Christian man". (Image: TNA SP 1/144 f. 99)

Trump freezes $1 billion in food aid given to local schools and food banks to help low-income families The Trump administration said it had determined this funding ‘no longer effectuates agency priorities and that termination of the award is appropriate.’ www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

People are changing the labels on Wayne G's wine: "a merlot that is sad and 2 faced" "as weak as the name-sakes moral fibre." There is a reason why Canadians dominate comedy - we are wickedly funny. And when push comes to shove we play for keeps (ie. Kharmalov's ankle). Sucks to be you Wayne.

This is a super post by @michelinewhite.bsky.social. I’ve a chapter due to be published soon which shows how popular Barclay was among women: Grey, Egerton, Clifford, Bennet, Hervey are some examples, while Marsh’s Library’s copy contains three female names, Chetham Library with two #HerBook

Time to pre-order this gorgeous book? Not least because it includes a piece by Sue Doran and yours truly on 'Joint Iconography for Joint Sovereigns: Mary Queen of Scots, James VI of Scotland, and the Campaign for the Association, c. 1578–1584'. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/women-and...

In the 1790s a London woman named Eliza Denyer developed a modest reputation as a restorer of medieval manuscripts. She was forgotten by scholars and, in one case, her restorations were deliberately replaced by a man’s. I recovered her story & tracked all her known work here: tinyurl.com/2ktztx2e

Infuriating.

Problem: previous book owner(s) wrote their name(s) on the title page of your book Solution: turn them into fish

Beautiful seventeenth century book-clasps, still in good working order.

Why isn’t Musk firing everyone at SpaceX and why isn’t Congress demanding to know where the money is going?

Today on the blog, a rich post by @michelinewhite.bsky.social on a fascinating copy of the romance Argenis by John Barclay, owned by three different generations of early modern Scottish women buff.ly/GJYrHCa #EarlyModern #HerBook

Since it's @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social perhaps it's appropriate for me to announce that I've just signed a contract with my current publisher, @headofzeus.bsky.social, to write a book about Elizabeth I. Don't yawn. It's a rather different take on the Virgin Queen.

NEW: "In the seven years since CISA’s creation, it’s become a crucial agency to help secure elections from foreign and domestic cybersecurity threats." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

"The president has been impeached. That's a pretty big lesson...I believe that he will be much more cautious in the future." - Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), February 2020 www.cbsnews.com/news/susan-c...

Are you going to the joint RSA-SAA in Boston? One of my projects, The Social world of Samuel Pepys, will be giving its first presentation about our efforts with unmodernized early modern english and named entity recognition for Pepys' diary rsa.confex.com/rsa/2025/mee...

Tiny vellum-bound books in the Egerton Traveling Library (1615), likely gifted to Thomas Egerton by William Hakewill.

#OTD in 1515 #marytudor daughter of #elizabethofyork and #henryvii sister to #henryviii married Charles Brandon in secret. Her first marriage had been to the king of France. Louis XII was an old man and died only a year into the marriage. 1/3

The picture that will live in infamy & killed Rubio's presidential dreams

Delighted and excited to hear that my #bookhistory chapter, which discusses the important role the Irish Protestant community played in preserving crucial #medieval #manuscripts in #17thc, is now published. And look at that cover 🤩

niche question for book history people, early Black Atlantic literature people (mostly maybe for @rezekjoe.bsky.social ). The copy of Wheatley's Poems that Sancho received from Jabez Fisher--does anyone know if it had PW's signature?

It’s March 1—you’ve got just 2 weeks left to enter your submission for the @royalstjournal PGR/ECR article prize for the best work by up and coming junior scholars in the field—pls RT/share w/your students/colleagues rsj.winchester.ac.uk/prizes rsj.winchester.ac.uk/prizes @royalstudies.bsky.social

In 1626, a Cambridge fishwife sliced open a cod, only to find a gelatinous, half-dissolved manuscript inside. It was published the next year under the name "Vox Piscis or, the Bookfish." At this point, why not get your news from inside a dead fish? #earlymodern #bookfish archive.org/details/bim_...