Waterstones! With no info whatsoever about the image 😔

I never thought I’d see an early modern woodcut of women prophets on a ‘girls’ night out’ card.

I loved the film and have had the soundtrack on loop as I’ve been writing up my thesis!

The Church of England may at last be recognising a female leader but it has taken far too long to do so - women were preaching as far back as the 1640s - and were vilified in the strongest terms within the established church #earlymodern

Is Hamnet Grief Porn? The art-nature debate revived!

The latest from me over on substack. Is Hamnet grief porn? The art-nature debate revived?!? #shakespeare
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Some breaking art historical news for you - a lost portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn was unveiled today at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. It’s been missing for more than 200 years.
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So happy to have finally gotten a copy of Dr Baker’s newest publication, just in time for Christmas break! An absolutely phenomenal read which brings to light the lives of the most extraordinary women.

of cleric scholars who have managed to inhabit both the clerical and academic worlds well.

If nothing else, it’s a fourth degree…

It can be a strange thing to try and navigate two seemingly separate worlds, though of late I’m doing my best to see how they can compliment each other.

As I finish my PhD I’m also discerning a vocation to ordained ministry in the Church of England and take comfort in the centuries

As I turn to Elizabeth Hooton’s brief narrative of her encounter with Native Americans I’ve very much been enjoying your ‘Men of our own Nation’ article on Quaker encounters with other cultures!

I wrote a blog post about the incredible Rose Thurgood for @TheJohnRylands blog 📚 #earlymodern

a man standing in front of a bulletin board with papers on it including one that says pepe ALT: a man standing in front of a bulletin board with papers on it including one that says pepe

Today’s thesis-writing mental state: scrawling ‘THE WIGWAM IS A SAFEHOUSE’ across my whiteboard in a moment of breakthrough (or breakdown?) in my thinking.

An engraved illustration showing a grid of 24 different hand gestures, labeled with their meaning in Latin.

Engraved frontispiece that includes tow classical figures, hand gestures, and an extended palm with a speaking face.

Engraved frontispiece featuring several classical orators using various hand gestures for rhetorical purposes.

An engraved illustration showing a grid of 24 different hand gestures, labeled with their meaning in Latin.

The International Day of Sign Languages celebrates the linguistic identities of the Deaf community and all who use sign language. John Bulwer was the first person in Britain to advocate for the education of deaf people. His 1644 book explores the communicative and rhetorical power of hand gestures.

Very excited to dig into this little beauty by @racheljwillie.bsky.social

1817 map snipping, "Well. Well. Well."

Look what we have here then.

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:
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To add to @drnaomibaker.bsky.social and @rhetorician.bsky.social Katharine Evans and Sarah Cheevers also talk about this (1650/60s) when they are imprisoned in Malta with no food but ‘the Lord did take away our Stomacks’ to save them.

See their ‘True Account of the great tryals…’ on EEBO, p. 46.

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.

Also forgive the handwriting, my right arm is in a sling so it does look like an infant wrote this for me.

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

I only ever read from a script and, when I want to, will add in an anecdote or joke. It’s a totally valid method and can still be really engaging!

I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone

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...

‘For if Fire should be prepared for us, the ashes of our bones would rise as a witness against thee to plead the innocency of our Cause before thee […] And so whether thou wilt hear or forbear, I have cleared my self in the sight of God concerning thee’.

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