The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'? Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures: www.historyworkshop....

Okay the Earl of Grantham I wasn’t familiar with your game

Honoured to speak to Jake Hall for their fantastic piece here, about something that leaves me frightened and furious.

We’ve reached this stage of the thesis…

Grainger Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, painting by Leeds artist Louis Hubbard Grimshaw (1870-944), son of John Atkinson Grimshaw. #NorthernArt

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Petitioning Charles II to put a stop to the persecution of Quakers, Anne Gilman is an excellent example of how to resist oppression and give the finger to corrupt power (rhetorically speaking):

Happy St Swithin's Day!  According to tradition, today's weather will continue for the next 40 days and 40 nights: 'St Swithin's Day, if it does rain / Full forty days, it will remain / St Swithin's Day, if it be fair / For forty days, t'will rain no more'. We're hoping for a bit more sunshine ...

I’ve taught at a Quaker school for the last four years and there’s so much history and activism you all just don’t see it because it doesn’t boast. Quakers are hardcore, they’re just hardcore pacifists who know what the hell they stand for, and they mean it.

Coming across the wise of words of Marvell today I’m struck by their relevance, now, as ever: ‘Truth for the most part lyes in the middle, but men ordinarily seek it in the extremities.’ #earlymodern

It's✨publication day✨! You can order a copy, or get the open access ebook, at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d.... And I've got 5 spare hardback copies to give away to anyone who runs a book-sharing scheme or would struggle to access the ebook - hmu if that's you 🏳️‍⚧️📚

Writing about the storming and destruction of Quaker meeting houses in the 1660s and seeing similar events occurring in the news today really does make me feel that, in some ways, little has changed since our dear early modern period 😐 Perhaps something to nod to in my thesis’ conclusion…

Sneak preview of the contents page for #VoicesofThunder - a roll call of the incredible 17th century women whose amazing stories I am lucky enough to tell in this book @reaktionbooks.bsky.social #earlymodern

I wholeheartedly agree! What a fun, fruitful, and restorative few days!

It was a real joy to give my paper at @srsrensoc.bsky.social on the Baptist prophet Anna Trapnel! Thanks to those who came along and asked such thoughtful questions.

Had a fab time talking about Nashe, Chettle, and their printerly pals at the @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference. Thanks everyone for a gorgeous few days.

I’m glad that my paper got this point across! 😂 Thanks for coming along!