Happy New Year from the IHR Tudor & Stuart seminar! We will be back at the IHR a week today:

Monday 19 January, 5:30pm, in-person at the IHR, and on zoom:

Holly Brewer (Maryland) @earlymodjustice.bsky.social & Elizabeth Hines (Johns Hopkins): ‘How to Steal the Spanish Silver Fleet’.

All welcome!

Amazing! Congratulations- it’s gorgeous!

Come listen to me talk about religious certificates next week! Featuring a fun mix of stranger churches’, recusant, and Church of England approaches to religious paperwork.

I intend to say this next time someone asks me to do a task

Medina Sidonia to Philip II, when asked to lead the Spanish Armada:

‘I have no doubt his majesty will do me the favour I humbly beg and will not entrust me to a task of which, certainly, I shall not give a good account; for I do not understand it, know nothing about it, have no health for the sea’

Sounds fab!

Thanks for this! Might I be added?

Yes! Because what if that gap turns out to be insurmountable, and I have to rethink everything? Of course that is also writing - you don’t know what you want to say until you’ve said it - but this time around it feels like there’s no time for rethinking (I’m lucky if there’s time for thinking)!

So daunting - I think it’s knowing how much work it really takes, so it feels like everything has to be perfect from the start or it goes in the bin. A sort of second book fear of commitment?

How gorgeous!

Thanks, Maria!

Thank you!

So honoured and delighted by this news!! 🍾

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Racing headlong into term!

*yes, we did a Rhubarb photoshoot. In our defence, we had to as she is so beautiful

Finally made the leap to explore these bluer skies - and it’s already feeling like twitter used to!