Hello #twitterhistorians anyone here read old French? This is a phrase from a 16th c. Lorraine witch trial. 'Vient diable, vient serpent, viens moy querir' should the final 'viens' be 'vient'? Not according to my source, but just checking. Thanks!

There's a very tender moment in the life of an author when the book you've been quietly working on for years suddenly goes out in to the world - and it makes my heart burst with happiness when I hear it resonates

Are you an early modernist & working on the History of Ideas? There is an exciting 3-month new fellowship for an ECR who wants to research in Amsterdam in 2026: thijssen-schoute.nl/fellowship/ It comes with a stipend of €2000 per month & a workplace at Huygens Instituut - KNAW Deadline: May 15th

The CfP for the 5th Biennial Conference of The Society for the History of Emotions is now OPEN! "Emotions at the Border" is to be held at La UNAM in Mexico City, Oct 28-30, 2025. The deadline for abstracts is Feb 15. Full details available on our website: societyhistoryemotions.com/she-conference…

Joan Plowright helped forge the modernisation of post-war British theatre and died last week, aged 95. I wrote about her here: theconversation.com/joan-plowright… Photo shows her with Billy Dee Williams in Salford-born Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey on Broadway in 1960.

We are thrilled to be publishing Will There Ever Be Another You, the new novel from the Booker Prize & Women's Prize shortlisted Patricia Lockwood 💙 Coming September 2025. elle.com/culture/books/…

Listen to this (It's just common sense, isn't it?) In which Anne Widdecombe and the ingenious Rachael Wiseman & Sarah Jilani (and me) talk about the bleedin' obvious with Matthew Sweet bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Question: I'm looking for lit crit on small(ish) words. Things that have come to mind so far: Ricks on prepositions, Empson on 'all', Longenbach on 'or', Gass on 'and', Jennifer Soong on 'it', Hollander on 'of', Anne Ferry on 'thing'. Can anyone think of other good stuff?

Super excited about talking about trust and friendship at tomorrow's late event at the British Academy, The Age of Mistrust? thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/the-age…

Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women was published in the US in December. Here’s its beautiful cover

Perfect valentines present. Flowers rot, but with The Book You Want Everyone You Love To Read relationships start, blossom and keep blossoming

Wowza!! New book from Francesca Wade on Gertrude Stein -aka "The Typhoid Mary of Prose Style" Out in May from Faber Books 💛Thank you Josh Smith you've made my day!

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There's some really great books in this PREORDER25 offer from Waterstones 25% off. Including mine! waterstones.com/book/bad-frien…

Been an exciting week for BAD FRIEND, since it was published last week in the UK I'm doing an event tomorrow night at The Wanstead Tap E7, and have a handful of free tickets. If you'd like to come, DM me! Tiff x newhambooks.co.uk/displaybook.ph…

BAD FRIEND author, Tiffany Watt Smith, never considered herself a "joiner"—until she was magnetically drawn to a local boxing club for women over forty and had to rethink everything she knew about friendship and herself. —Oprah Daily bit.ly/44EdAkL oprahdaily.com/life/relations…

At book events for BAD FRIEND, the cutest thing keeps happening. Pairs of women friends come up afterwards and buy a copy of the book to share and ask me to dedicate it to them both, and my heart is melting Faber Books The Small City Bookshop