Bereft without any more episodes of #Succession having burned through all of it in about a month. Recommendations to fill the void please.

We’ve found the Book of Hours captured by Holbein in his famous portrait of #ThomasCromwell! Cromwell’s book is one of the few objects depicted in a Tudor portrait to survive. Tracy Borman OBE has dubbed it “the most exciting Cromwell discovery in a generation - if not more.”

New Essays on /The Woman of Colour/ (1808), the latest ECF special issue, is live Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/issue/49214 Editors Nicole Aljoe, Kerry Sinanan & Mariam Wassif Long18thCentury ReadECF 18thCentury

Apart from the hay fever, the constant sweat, the sunburn, the lack of sleep, the wasps, the bug bites, the baking hot car, the 3am sunrise, the non-stop disco from next door’s garden, the yellow lawn, the heat rash, the absence of air con and the complete lack of energy… I’m

Many congratulations to this year’s Visiting Fellows, who will each spend a month in the Library to work on a broad range of fascinating research projects. You can find out more about their work here: chawtonhouse.org/2023/06/2023-v…

Found this Big Beast trying to get into my house! Haven't seen one since I was a kid #stagbeetle #beastsofsummer

Happy birthday to Frances Burney!

Just 2 days left to submit abstracts for our online conference #QuillsandCharacters on women's letters, 1-2 September 2023: chawtonhouse.org/2023/05/call-f… #letterwriting #womenswriting #recoveryproject #biography #handwriting #stationery #epistolary #digitisation #transcription

#TuesdayTreasures "Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds." Our first edition of Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to the Ladies was published in 1694 & is one of the earlier works on display in the upcoming Treasures exhibition.

A fab Day 1 of the #QuillsandCharacters conference, with panels on epistolary novels, letters & instruction, posthumous reputations, intimacy & duplicity, & Jane Austen. And a brilliant keynote by Nicole Pohl on the Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence Online (EMCO) project. Thanks to all who joined us!

Started designing some new business cards. Got distracted by 18th-century trade cards. Made biscuit (cookie) versions of those instead. 🍪

Really enjoyed talking to Monica Ali and Henry Eliot, the host of On the Road with Penguin Classics for the first of this fantastic podcast series:

Relatable

The replies are the reason I'm still on Twitter.

To celebrate William Shakespeare's 460th birthday, here are his 46 best (and strangest) insults:

We are many You are few We are Brighton Who are you?

Adds amusing insult from Frances Burney to the mental store.