I Am A Royal Rulebreaker: Women Who Shaped History by Fern Riddell has a vibrant and beautiful cover in pink and yellow palette, with multicoloured illustrations of famous historical women on the cover
The new children’s book by @drfernriddell.bsky.social is VERY PRETTY!! A lovely compendium of women from global history who ruled, rebelled, and rampaged
Just a few more days to apply to this year’s Take Your Research Public course - an introduction to public writing, social media, podcasting and more for academics new to this work. Guests include @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social and @estelleprnq.bsky.social. Free, online, over four Tuesdays in June.
William Shakespeare has been laying low for over 400 years, but at long last, @lucycmunro.bsky.social has sniffed him out
Front cover of a book - the image in the top half appears to be an embroidery of 6 human figures in an outdoor scene at night, with trees.
I am happy that this book is now published (in the series Connected Histories in the Early Modern World)!
Performing India in Early Modern England 1575-1642
Commerce, Spectacle, and the Formation of the East India Company
By Amrita Sen
www.routledge.com/Performing-I...
I reviewed Hillary Taylor's "Language and Social Relations in early modern England" for the AHR. An excellent book and one where the thesis is one that all us early modern UK historians should sit with.
💫Booking is open for our Conference!
📅Sat 13 June 2026, 10:00 - 18:15
🏢Senate House, central London
🎁£70 members; £90 non-members (free for trustees/committee members)
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With thanks to our headline sponsor @aqaeducation.bsky.social & our sponsor Pearson
✨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✨
A photo of the author, Holly Fletcher, holding a copy of her book 'Body Size in Early Modern Germany'.
A photo of the book's blurb reading: Body Size in Early Modern Germany uncovers the significance of fatness and thinness in early modern German society and culture. It explores how early modern people conceived of fat and thin bodies, in terms of both the cultural meanings attached to body size and personal perceptions of the body. Holly Fletcher argues that body size became an increasingly prominent concern throughout the German-speaking regions from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth century. During this period, perceptions and practices relating to body size shifted dramatically, as the size and shape of people’s bodies attracted unprecedented attention. Body size became embedded in everyday habits and experiences like never before. This transformation took place against the backdrop of profound social, religious and cultural developments which characterised the sixteenth century. Drawing on a wide array of sources, the book charts changing attitudes towards body size in relation to these developments, including the proliferation of printed medical advice, artistic theories of proportion, Reformation debates, and new body-moulding fashions. It also connects shifting ideals for women’s and men’s bodies to the embodied experiences of early modern protagonists. By revealing the enormous importance that early modern Germans attached to body size, this study overturns the false assumption that concern with body size is a modern phenomenon and sheds new light on sixteenth-century German culture.
Author copies are here and the book is officially out!!
Please order a copy for your university libraries 🙏
Also online here: doi.org/10.1093/9780...
Easy to miss in this glimpse of @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social's TV viewing is - at long last - the best way to bag a hunk. Very many thanks to those who established the soup traditions.
The front cover of Queer in a Wee Place.
Text reads: Hate crime in Scotland and the classification of queer lives: Doors, data and definitions. A razor-thin line exists between safety and danger for LGBTQ people in Scotland. One misstep a glance at the wrong person, a flamboyant hand gesture, a lilt in your speech can mark the moment when everything changes for the worse. Smiles turn to tears, blood and bruises. When the switch happens, as it so often does, the response of the police and courts depends on who you are or are perceived to be. The process of classifying you as 'something' reflects societal assumptions about categories of gender, sex and sexuality: the lifestyles that count as lives, the practices deemed possible and where these decisions locate you on a hierarchical ladder stretching between protection and harm.
✨ Happy publication day to Queer in a Wee Place: Small Nations, Sexuality & Scotland!
In my chapter, I use hate crime as a starting point for a broader discussion of the cracks in Scotland’s liberal and inclusive imaginary as a queer, wee place.
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Tbh, seems a bit sacrilegious not to do this on a Monday, but otherwise this looks excellent.
It's out! 🎉🎉🎉
"Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography"
Open access (just click "save pdf" for a formatted version)
It was a joy working with Heidi Craig, Kris May, and Dorothy Todd on this Element
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This by @magicnotwitches.bsky.social looks fab - one for the things-I-wish-I-had-an-excuse-to-read-now pile, not least because it includes a map of the location of historical & ficitonal magicians in late medieval & early modern London.
Just so unused to something like accountability ftw
After a decade's run of the news being 'The opposite of a good thing has been decided', I am really enjoying the past few days swerve into they-may-have-got-away-with-it-for-65-years-but-let's-not-let-them-get-away-with-it-for-a-66th
Writing memoir comes at a cost. It also does something magic that fiction cannot. There are so many barriers to writing and rewriting your own story. Here I am talking writing, class, sexuality, shame and the work we have to do just to get to the page. monocle.com/radio/shows/...
Very pleasing to talk early modern news, information, and communication (and two excellent books by Rachel Midura & Joad Raymond Wren) with @moonjets.bsky.social on this week's LRB podcast. @lrb.co.uk
I've never lost my sense of it being unrecognisable - just a big old visual shock of a stage alight with umbrellafairystardust
This was the first Shakespeare production I saw. Thanks so much for a lovely memory to fall back into!
Meet Thomas the carter… New post follows Tudors moving around London, on the back of some recent research. What did Shakespeare’s commute look like and who invented the one-way street?
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This looks absolute pants
If you're both gonna talk the talk, you both gotta walk the walk
This is fab! Copying in superstar walker @ellierycroft.bsky.social
+ pyrotechnics, maybe? Let me know on the soundtrack you decide on
Excited to share the CfP for @amendproject.bsky.social ‘s Early Modern European Neurodivergence conference happening in Swansea this August! Info here: drive.google.com/file/d/1TQpB...
Would you accept - and I paraphrase you not - an Olephant and Dragon fiercely combacting, the Dragon under the Olephant and sucking by his extreme heate the blood from him is crushed in peeces with the fall of the Olephant, so as both die at last?
Delighted to announce our seminar - 'Race and the Early Modern' - now has a full schedule of events. We'll be convening monthly to discuss research on race, racemaking, and racialisation across #earlymodern studies.
@kingsartshums.bsky.social @folger.edu
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...
Pan went for a very long walk, and also so did Lyra. Another person is on fire, and kind of cross about it.
I feel like the first trilogy is very tight in its adhesion to narrative structures, and these new books are all about wandering about, lost, for everyone including the reader?
I'll be talking queerness, art, class, love and Scottishness and all things Two Roberts at Charleston next week. You're very welcome. #booksky www.charleston.org.uk/event/an-eve...
Screen grab of front page for article: A Critical Response to the UK's ‘Sullivan Review’ Into Sex and Gender in Research and Data
📢 New peer-reviewed academic response to the Sullivan Review into sex and gender in research and data.
@jaytoddgla.bsky.social and @felicitycallard.bsky.social have published a critical response to the Sullivan Review.
doi.org/10.1111/tran...