If you work in Royal Studies and would be interested in exploring or promoting a particular key topic in the field then please do get in touch with Ellie at [email protected]...

It was such an incredible evening! And so wonderful to celebrate @enortonhistory.bsky.social’s latest book!

After a busy first week of school, I'm looking forward to my next talk! Join me, Peter Stiffell, and Rosamund Gravelle on September 16 at 7.30pm on Zoom for "Queen Mary and her Cultural Depictions", in partnership with the @englishcathhist.bsky.social 👑 1/2

When is a landscape? Join The Landscape Consortium @imc-leeds.bsky.social with this #imc2026 #cfp exploring multi-scalar research and interpretations of medieval landscapes. Full cfp in alt-text. TLC is Karl Alvestad, Daniel Brown, @jwfr.bsky.social and Stefanie Schild. Please share far and wide!

Please do join us for our upcoming talk! Details are below (or at my website: drjohannastrong.ca/2025/07/11/q...)

Excited to announce that with Dr. Peter Stiffell & @johannastrong.bsky.social, we'll be giving a talk at English Catholic History Association on "Queen Mary & her Cultural Depictions" to members on 16th Sept. To be listen, become a member with ECHA now! To join follow the link lnkd.in/d7jjBVSk

'Three Queens' by Rosamund Gravelle, showing at the Gamut Theatre, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania as part of their Stage Door Series, September 2025 & the US Premiere of the 5 and 4 starred reviewed play - don't miss out! To find out more about "Three Queens" 👇: www.rosamundgravell.com 5/5

Tickets for @rosamundgravelle.bsky.social’s Three Queens are available at the link below 👇

What incredible news!! Congratulations to @rosamundgravelle.bsky.social on her American premiere 😍 If you’re in the US near Gamut Theatre, do get yourself a ticket! 🎟️

I can’t wait to take part in this! Thank you, @onthetudortrail.bsky.social, for the invitation 🤩 If you’d like to attend this year-long event, please do head to the post below or to my website: drjohannastrong.ca/2025/04/08/3...

I’m thrilled that @johannastrong.bsky.social is taking part in next year’s ‘365 Days with Katherine of Aragon’. Dr Strong’s lecture will explore Katherine’s legacy and afterlife. Head to the link below for details. I do hope you'll consider joining us! onthetudortrail.com/Blog/2025/04...

If you’d like to find out even more about how Mary I’s legacy came about, do check out my website: www.drjohannastrong.ca My research has led me to a slightly different conclusion than @tracyborman.bsky.social’s, but it’s great to see Mary getting more attention with HRP.

The cover's back... and there's still time to take advantage of 25% off if you pre-order from @waterstones.bsky.social by 31 July, using code SUMMER25 @wearefootnote.bsky.social #womenwhoruledtheworld #femalekings #femaleking #reigningqueen #reigningqueens

Join us this Tuesday evening, 29 July, for one of our popular guided walks exploring 17th century Huntingdon, including royal visits, a Civil War battle, witch trials, Pepys and (of course) Cromwell. More details and bookings at: cromwellmuseum.org/events/cromw...

Next up is my last talk of @harvingtonhall.bsky.social History Festival this year, featuring @phildowning.bsky.social (Harvington’s manager) who will be speaking on his experience of being in one of Harvington’s priest hides for 36 hours.

I can’t recommend their talk (and their work!) highly enough! If you can make it to Gloucester in September do!

For those of you who missed us at @harvingtonhall.bsky.social , come & see us at Gloucester Hist Fest on September 17th. Livestream tickets also available: www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk/events/spycr...

I’m really looking forward to the final talk of Day 4 of @harvingtonhall.bsky.social History Festival: Ruth Goodman speaking on the Changing Shape of Elizabethan Fashion. I grew up watching anything and everything Ruth was in, so this is a very special talk indeed!

Medieval History Job Alert! University of Tennessee, where I used to work. Unbelievably strong medieval studies. Unbelievable that they are hiring in this climate! Please share this post. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37862790...

Really looking forward to Day 4 of the @harvingtonhall.bsky.social History Festival, with highlights including @londonmudlark.bsky.social, exploring Harvington (again), and Ruth Goodman 🎉 If you don’t follow Lara already, I’d highly recommend it because her posts are fascinating & so insightful!

#OTD Mary I of England & Philip II of Spain were married at Winchester Cathedral. Subsequent interpretations of Mary’s reign regard the marriage as a mistake but the situation at the time was more complex than later historians, overwhelmingly Protestant and anti-Spanish, reflected. bit.ly/1YcxmbC

New @royalstudies.bsky.social podcast out today - hear the excellent @patrikpastrnak.bsky.social talking about his prize winning article on 15th century royal wedding gifts, his wider research on royal wedding journeys, and his project on bohemian queens royalstudies.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...

Last up for me today at @harvingtonhall.bsky.social is a roundtable on Exploding the Myths of the Gunpowder Plot with @enortonhistory.bsky.social, @misswalsingham.bsky.social, Pete Langman, and Stephen Alford 💥

Next up at @harvingtonhall.bsky.social is @misswalsingham.bsky.social and Pete Langman on Spycraft: Finding the Early Modern Q 🕵️

First up on Day 3 of @harvingtonhall.bsky.social History Festival is Gareth Russell, speaking on his latest book, Queen James 👑

Excited now for Alison Weir’s talk on her latest novel on Cardinal Wolsey 📕 What a great way to end the day at @harvingtonhall.bsky.social History Festival!

Great as always to hear @nicolatallis.bsky.social speak, this time about Queen Jane 👑 Thankfully they’d let her out of the priest hide at @harvingtonhall.bsky.social in time for her talk!

Next up is @drjoannepaul.bsky.social, speaking on Thomas More, the subject of her latest book 📕 I’m very excited to finally meet Joanne in-person after us discussing my PhD 7 years ago(!) and following her career with great interest. And a Castle kid to boot! 🏰

Day 2 of @harvingtonhall.bsky.social’s History Festival is about to begin! Today, I’m attending all 4 talks, starting with Diarmaid MacCulloch’s on his latest book, Christianity and Sex

Quite excited to have made it to @harvingtonhall.bsky.social, ready for my first talk of the Festival: @nathenamin.bsky.social, speaking on “Henry & Elizabeth: The Marriage that Made the Tudors” 👑 🏵️

If anyone’s heading to @harvingtonhall.bsky.social over the next week, do let me know! I’m looking forward to some amazing talks and hopefully to checking up with some familiar faces 👑

It’s absolutely time to ditch the moniker! Listen to my @historyrage.bsky.social episode to find out why 👑

📅 #OnThisDay 19 July 1553: Lady Jane Grey is deposed & Mary I becomes Queen 👑 @johannastrong.bsky.social rages it’s time to ditch the ‘Bloody Mary’ myth & see England’s first Queen Regnant for who she was — less brutal than her sister! 🔥⚔️ Listen now 🎧 pod.fo/e/299de6#OnThisDay #otd #history #podcast

As I was packing up my books for an impending move, I came across this beauty and remembered that I recently wrote a review of it for @enghistrev.bsky.social. Please do take a look! drjohannastrong.ca/2025/04/26/r... #MaryI #Tudors #monarchy #queenship #royalstudies @royalstudies.bsky.social

We all loved this conference. Thank you so, so much to the organisers and the speakers and the audiences in person and online. We must do this again and again! A better advertisement for scholarly collegiality I cannot imagine. #earlymodern

Flashback to earlier this week and my adventure with @ajohnson1.bsky.social to Hadleigh Castle! 🏰 In the midst of writing my monograph, I keep reminding myself that it’s okay to take time to rest, to catch up with friends, & to recharge. The book will get done but not if I don’t work sustainably.

Our starter pack will connect you to some members of our HTEN community. We will add to this as colleagues join Bluesky. go.bsky.app/7CTVFdz #historyeducation #historyteacher #TeacherMentoring #TeacherEducation

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Early Modern History- University of Exeter - Department of Archaeology and History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNT433/p...

To listen to the episode head to our Buzzsprout page (www.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...) or wherever you get your podcasts! #podcast #royalty #regency #RoyalStudies

The latest Royal Studies Podcast episode is out! Join @amyjanieh.bsky.social for her conversation with @nemgarrett.bsky.social, @wromantichistry.bsky.social and @rosalindfreeborn.bsky.social about (fictional) representations of regency royalty.

📢 The new RSJ special issue 12.1 is out now! "Material Culture & Built Heritage: Scotland’s Royal Past, Present & Future" guest edited by Drs Lucinda Dean & Amy Hayes. Read here ➡️ rsj.winchester.ac.uk/30/volume/12/i…#RoyalStudiese#ScottishHistoryr#MaterialCulturere

🎉Exciting PhD Opportunities – Australian National University Deadline: July 14th More Info on the attached Docs!

To listen to the episode head to our Buzzsprout page (www.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...) or to wherever you get your podcasts 🎧 To learn more about the exhibition head to the website here: susannahlyon-whale.wixsite.com/queensbookof... 2/3

The latest Royal Studies Podcast episode is out! Join @vic-de-valois.bsky.social for her conversation with @susannah-lw.bsky.social about "A Queen's Book of Flowers", an exhibition running in York until the end of June 💐 🧵/3

Further information will be provided in due course on the RSN website, but we wanted to make this exciting announcement as soon as we could so you could start planning ✈️ #KQ16 #RSN #Chile #Santiago #conference 2/2

We are also massively excited to announce that Kings and Queen 16 will be going - for the first time ever! - to South America! Join us in Santiago, Chile, for 2027's conference on "War and Conquest". 🧵/2

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

End/ Every Kings and Queens conference is a team effort and there are so many who worked so hard for the conference itself, especially our organisers. Thank you for all you do!