Sir James Ware's manuscript copy of the annals of the kingdom of Ireland from the first coming of the English under King Henry II to the end of the reign of Henry III. This work would never be published.

The opening chapter of Ware's annals of the kingdom of Ireland which relays the coming of the Normans following the invitation of Diarmait Mac Murchada, king of Leinster, in 1169.

The #manuscript copy of Sir James Ware's Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland 1169-1272. He'd never published this meticulous #earlymodern work, though his annals for the Tudor period were printed in 1664 #bookhistory.
Given this glorious penmanship by a #17thc scribe, why would you publish it?

#CFP Female Networks of Knowledge: Natural History between Private and Public Spaces (Vienna, November 19-20, 2026), due May 30.

Conference explores how women shaped scientific knowledge via networks that crossed the domestic, social, and institutional from early modern to 19th c. #envhist #histstm

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal | Vol 20, No 2

Our spring 2026 issue is out! Featuring four articles, the annual Conversations on Early Modern Women and Race, three exhibition reviews, and twenty-five book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern

#CFP for #earlymodern folks! @hannah-historian.bsky.social and I are putting together a special edition of the Journal of Epistolary Studies on "Letters as Paratexts in the Early Modern World"!

The later silver panels with chain suggests this may have been a chain book in the possession of a (monastic?) library at one stage???

Two hands hold an open book with printed and handwritten text, accompanied by a promotional banner from The Bibliographical Society of America. Transcribed Text: Left Page: THE HIGH TREASVRE... (text continues further down) Imprinted at London, for Gabriell Simson and William White. Right Page: I hate not, having a real note book, but when you order one you, note write... Banner Text: We Need More Bibliographers

The Bibliographical Society of America is participating in a social media campaign with ACLS this week, and we invite you to join in! The message is simple and proactive: we need more humanities and social sciences scholars and research.

#TalkAboutHumanities

What a fabulous mid #16thc portrait with a clear inscription statement: “Sophonisba Angussola Virgo made it herself 1554”. My guess is that this was a personally drafted meditational book by the then 22-year old with an unambiguous #herbook statement? @martinevanelk.bsky.social

The Women's Print History Project collects bibliographic data on printed objects associated with women's production. I've been itching to query the data not limited by the UI, and ✨ I finally get to ✨ Here are some things I've been able to surface...

womensprinthistoryproject.com

Next Friday at 12, PhD candidate Michael O'Connor will speak about his work on Irish slaveholders in Jamaica in an event hosted by the Centre for 18th-Century Studies at QUB

A clash of personalities that still waits for someone to write about. All the more interesting as it’s a v rare admission by Wenworth that he may have gone too far when it was suggested Mountnorris could be even executed for charges laid against him

If memory serves me right @rhetorician.bsky.social did an article on Teresa’s Life so may be able to help?

Thomas Fairfax on 3 June 1645, promising that his army would never treat women as cruelly as the royalists had done at Leicester. A grim irony given what would happen a few days later at Naseby.

A piece of collage from a late 17th century Irish manuscript. A manuscript made in Dublin but grafted with an image of the crucifixion (probably) from a Netherlandish printed book.

✨I could not be more excited to see what arrived in the post today. Not only because it is good to see 2 chapters reach the light of day, but because of the immense scholarship that has gone into this enterprise, with 69 scholars &2 vols my hat goes off to @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social & other editors✨

But did it go to 11?

Wonderful early modern marginalia, including a woman riding a horse astride. #bookhistory @emwjournal.bsky.social

Not holding back 😬

The Journal Religions is putting together a special issue: " Women in the Christian Tradition: Paradigms and Expressions of Religious Life in Early Modern Western Contexts"

Submissions due Sept 1. www.mdpi.com/journal/reli...

These women were Golden Age masters — why have they been ignored by art historians? An ambitious exhibition highlights the glory of Low Countries artists still ripe for rediscovery, centuries after their first fame

Uncovering the work of female artists in Dutch Golden Age or readdressing decades-long imbalance of how art/history is studied? Whatever your view 'Unforgettable: Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam 1600-1750' exhib in Washington DC looks fab @martinevanelk.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/7a53...

17th-century Surprises in Salem It's October, and just as the leaves are beginning to turn and the mornings grow chillier, people are once again flocking to Salem.

If you can track down whereabouts of Caylin Carbonell, she examined Elizabeth Corwine's account books - wife of renowned Jonathan who served as a judge at Salem. There could be a connection between Elizabeth and legal texts. Here's her blog: www.pem.org/blog/17th-ce...

I'd always consider Elias Ashmole’s Institution, Laws, and Ceremonies of the Most Noble Order of the Garter as a historical rather than legal work but depends on how you view it. If you'd consider it the latter then Anne Fanshawe had a copy which you can see in the British Armorial Bindings website

Join us for the annual Máire Ní Chrualaoich lecture taking place at the People's Museum, Limerick, 14 April, from 6pm to 8pm to hear Dr Emma Nic Cárthaigh's lecture on the subject of ‘Prudentia versus politia: bardic encouragement in a poem by Tadhg Mac Bruaideadha for the fourth earl of Thomond’.

The Bodleian Daybook and the Purchase of Second-Hand Books | The Library Oxford, Bodleian Library, Library Records e. 9 (the Daybook) is a ‘Book of Accompts for the Librarie’ that covers the seven-year period following the death of Sir Thomas Bodley. It contains details of two consignments of second-hand books purchased by ...

Long in the making….here’s my new article about second-hand books and the Bodleian www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

Society or the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender 2026 Awards Nominations The Society seeks nominations for awards for English-language scholarly work on women and gender in the early modern period (ca. 1450-1750) published/completed between June 2023 and May 2026. Items pr...

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender welcomes award nominations for the 2026 Book Awards, Editions Award(s) & Collaborative Project Award

For more info &/or to nominate a work, see
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Deadline: May 25, 2026

How such a brilliant resource is restricted to so few continues to baffle me. For what good?

You only have to look at the amazing *freely accessible* Irish History Online database, hosted and maintained by @ria.ie, to truly grasp what scholars are missing out on #dh

Check it out here: www.iho.ie

Fabulous. I worked on Irish warrants in 1630s and there were multiple insights into the role of women: from details of petitioning about husband’s debt, to “riotous” or “malefactory” women, to inheritance rights. Even the lightest of digging on women can yield notable results

Fascinating: Doña María Meléndez, the cacica (female chieftain) of Saltwater & Mocama Timuca peoples in #16thc, converted to Christianity and was a key figure in survival & stability of St Augustine. When famine threatened, she put tax of 25 pounds of corn on married men to ensure survival of colony

‘This Is Our Country Too!’: The Enduring Legacy of Spanish-Speaking Women in Early America Centuries before the American Revolution, Spanish-speaking women crossed oceans and deserts to build communities whose legacies still shape the United States. As anti-Latino sentiment coincides with ...

Two historians on Spanish-speaking women in Early America

I recently read an essay which claimed that early modern civic records only ever described women as 'widow x', i.e. in terms of their relation to a man and Anne, Ann, Ann, Elizabeth, Sara, Ann and Ann would like a word

There are so many (lazy) generalisations about early modern women’s apparent invisibility in our source material. You might expect this in published woks from 60s, 70s and maybe 80s. But I see stuff from as little as 10 years ago that makes my jaw drop