May I also add to this thread of early modern images of happy student life?

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....

New purchase for a future project... 👀

Don't forget to register for my hybrid #Voynich lecture on Friday, Sept. 26, at 2:30 PM Eastern at the University of Toronto! After a year of work, Colin Layfield & I have important data- and material-results about the original structure of the manuscript! www.medieval.utoronto.ca/events/lisa-...

Today's artists w/out known birthdays: Jacob Grimmer & his son Abel, of Antwerp. Here, Jacob's bountiful harvest, including some fine bird--dog action.

My book is with the printers 🥳 It's happening! There's no going back now! It will be available in all good bookshops on 30 October in the UK, and 6 March 2026 in the US. In the meantime, please pre-order: thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/...

The @oxembi.bsky.social is hosting a special lecture, Long Distance Travel from Early Medieval Britain by Prof @francescatinti.bsky.social & a workshop on Global Britain with Jörg Drauschke, Maria Duggan, @caitlinrgreen.bsky.social, @jk-viking.bsky.social & others. 14 & 15 October. All welcome.

It is safely with the editor now 😂 I was given a deadline of 2pm today (it's now 2.40). I have done all I can!

Me, frantically sending last-minute edits to my poor editor when the book is due to go to print tomorrow!

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"Women have been describing their experiences of male abuse for centuries – we just haven’t always been ready to listen to them." @drnaomibaker.bsky.social reminds us that if you think domestic and family violence is a new thing, you're not paying attention. theconversation.com/the-17th-cen...

🧑‍🎨 Sisterly confusions & attributional fluctuations: How do we know which Anguissola sister made a particular painting? ✍️ After all, Sofonisba did not sign all her paintings. 🗃️ #arthistory #skystorians #renaissance #womenartists #skystorians #Academicsky ideasroadshow.substack.com/p/sofonisbas...

Here is the final cover, with an endorsement from the wonderful Claire Martin, a dear friend and author of "Heirs of Ambition: The Making of the Boleyns". Claire's quote sums up how I hope people feel after reading the book: "Elizabeth Boleyn, so nice to finally meet you!"

Away it goes! My book is off for its final edits 🥳 A huge thank you to all the historians, friends, and family members who helped me get to this point! So many people have read drafts, fact checked it, and proofread it. Any errors that remain are mine!

AI LLMs are not able to make anything like a decent index. See asindexing.org/ai-news/whit... indexers all over the world are keeping a careful eye on developments, and right now, and probably for a while to come, you need a human being.

I wrote my first ever academic article on the #medieval parish of #Kendal - and archaeology near Holy Trinity church has now uncovered the burials of some of the town’s medieval parishioners, even allowing for a facial reconstruction of one 13th-century woman 💀 www.academia.edu/39694971/Ser...

It is wonderful to have received the index for my book this afternoon 🥳 Usually, in biographies of Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth is mentioned a handful of times. In my book (all about HER!) she will have several entries in the index. Pictured are just a few of them.

CFP: Manuscript Practices and the Making of Exile Communities in the Early Modern Period https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-157335 Prague 1, 15.04.2026-16.04.2026, Institute of Philosophy of the CAS; Institute of History of the CAS, Bewerbungsschluss: 30.10.2025

Spot the difference: John the Baptist from the Hours of Joanna I of Castile and our Community Engagement Officer remembering how many emails he has to respond to

'A celebration of the verdant decorative frames which twist and turn through time, illuminating art of both the past and present' Read more about 'The Nature of Gothic' exhibition (co-curated by Cynthia Johnston) in this piece in The Conversation: theconversation.com/new-exhibiti...

I had a lovely lunch at the Middlehouse in Mayfield today! It is a beautiful building that dates back to the early 17th century ❤️

With how busy I was yesterday, I didn't get a chance to say how lovely it was to see William Carey and Mary Boleyn together at Hever Castle 🥰 The Boleyn Apartments are stunning, and really capture how it might have looked to be there when it was the Boleyn's family home.

What a wonderful day at Hever Castle, giving a talk on Elizabeth and Thomas Boleyn's final years after Anne and George's executions. Followed by a visit to the final resting places of Thomas and Henry Boleyn, and a look at the Boleyn Apartments. The day ended with a double rainbow over Hever 🌈

It's done! Book no. 10 is finished. Princesses of the Later Middle Ages: Royal Daughter of the Plantagenets is now with my editor. Now the nervous wait for feedback begins...

Call for Papers @imc-leeds.bsky.social Following my recent fieldwork sailing down the Seine in a reconstructed tenth-century ship, @stevedehailes.bsky.social and I are organising a panel on practice-based/experiential research in medieval studies. We welcome abstracts from any field. #Medievalsky

shot in the dark: im interested in this 1720 woodcut held by Wellcome. do any #witchcraft #HexTag people know anything (???) about it? id also take suggestions for who i could contact at the Wellcome to ask for more details eg provenance (not listed) wellcomecollection.org/works/h4r27epm 🗃️

Just a quick announcement to say that the publication date for "Elizabeth Boleyn" has been pushed back a week to the 30th of October! Thank you to everyone who has pre-ordered already, I hope you don't mind waiting another week ❤️

An early medieval fibula (a decorative pin for fastening garments/a brooch) in the form of an eagle, made of gold and silver inlaid with garnets and lapis lazuli. It's part of the so-called Domagnano Hoard consisting of 21 pieces. They belonged to an Ostrogothic...🧵1/3 🏺 #archaeology

The corrected proofs are here 🥳 I have one more chance to read everything before it goes off to the printers! Thank you to everyone who encouraged me throughout this journey of almost three years. Thank you to all the historians who offered their expertise. The end is in sight!

#OTD 1533, Princess Elizabeth, later Elizabeth I, was christened in the friar's church beside Greenwich Palace.

I think it may be the royal family of Austria ca. 1597: Maria Anna of Bavaria, Archduchess of Austria, her sister Maximiliana Maria, and daughters Anna, Maria Christina, Catherine Renata, Gregoria Maximiliana, Eleanor, Margaret, Constance, and Maria Magdalena, with a jaunty Archduke Ferdinand behind

The oldest surviving book owned by English speakers was a book made in North Africa. In this article from our archive, Alison Hudson traces how these radical fragments reveal that immigrants and cultural exchange have always been fundamental to Britain.

Just over ONE WEEK to go! The deadline for submitting an abstract for the Winter Conference is Friday 12th September! Share the news with your friends and come on down and join us in Norwich 🏰 @ueahistory.bsky.social @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social @chase-dtp.bsky.social

We love this tiny illustration of a Bridgettine nun engrossed in a book! She can be found in the border of Sister Mary Dominic's vow in the Syon Abbey archive. 📷 EUL MS 389/COM/2/2/3/4 (date: 1924-27) #TinyTuesday #SyonAbbey #Nuntastic #Archives

AI slop is more than just junk – it’s dangerous. An example: This fake photo of a child with a puppy went viral during Hurricane Helene, fueling misinformation. Don’t fall for it (and flag harmful content when you see it). buff.ly/CcK4xSB

#OTD 1513, English forces won the Battle of Flodden. It is well known that Elizabeth Boleyn's father Thomas Howard, then Earl of Surrey, was pivotal in the battle, in which King James IV of Scotland lost his life.

#OTD 1560 Amy Robsart was found dead at the bottom of the stairs in her home in Cumnor Place in Oxfordshire. She was just 28 years old.

Helen's new book, 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots, 1489-1541', is currently available free to read in full via the CUP website, until 30 September: bit.ly/3JJsCgH. For more on the Society's Camden Series of primary editions, please see: bit.ly/469UEJw #Skystorians

"Elizabeth Boleyn: The Life of the Queen's Mother" is number 6 on Amazon's bestselling medieval biographies 🥳 It's unbelievable that my first book has climbed back into the top 20 list! Thank you to everyone who has pre-ordered!

#OTD 1533, Princess Elizabeth, later Elizabeth I, was born. Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII had been hoping for a son, so much so that the wording on the announcements of the birth had to be changed from "Prince" to "Princess".

From Theodore de Bry's 'History of America'. Enslaved Indigenous people in a Spanish settlement harvesting canes and producing sugar for export.

It's #nationalreadabookday, and I thought I'd celebrate by discussing the role of medieval mothers in teaching their children to read. We can be almost certain that Elizabeth Boleyn taught Mary, Anne, and George how to read.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Our galleries have a fresh rotation of objects this fall! Nearly 30 new items are on exhibit, including First Folios owned by two 17th-century women, and scripts and programs from a 20th century women’s theater in Japan that’s still performing Shakespeare today. www.folger.edu/blogs/shakes...

Of all the theories for the sinking of the Mary Rose, "It was overladen with sausages" is certainly in the top five weirdest... Shame they got the year wrong... www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Have you ever heard of Joan Garnac, the girl who apparently dressed as a boy in the late sixteenth century? I was searching on State Papers online today and found her fascinating story. I thought I would share it.

We are proud to announce that 1,000 manuscripts are now published on manuscripta.se, advancing our mission to make #medieval and #earlymodern manuscripts in Sweden accessible worldwide. #iiif #MedievalManuscripts #MedievalSky

It's not too late to sign up for tomorrow's Tudor Times summit - the first of three this autumn. The session will provide a fascinating insight into powerful Tudor marriages. Taking a look at the women as well, and how they operated in what was essentially a man's world.

*sigh* No, that’s just the effect of several centuries of rain through an iron grate. Nobody was wasting precious oil during a siege. they were throwing piss

On this day in History: 1199 Death at Fontevraud of my favourite medieval princess. Joanna of England, Queen of Sicily and Countess of Toulouse, was a remarkably well travelled woman who knew when to stand up for herself. #medievalsky historytheinterestingbits.com/2015/05/21/j...