“The Wail of the World’s Weary Womanhood” - yes, that just about sums it up 👀 Image from rylandscollections.com/2025/07/04/mis…

This image of a woman fighting the Beast in the 13th-century Trinity Apocalypse is sensational. The manuscript was possibly created for a woman and a 17th-century woman was its first identifiable owner - women are unusually prominent in its stunning illustrations Image: Trinity

Fantastic news!!! Grief education has been included in the Relationships & Sex Education (#RSE) statutory guidance! For more on Grief Education, see our article. This research was supported by University of Bristol Brigstow Institute & SWWDTP bereavementjournal.org/index.php/bcj/…

Orange is the colour of the summer 🧡

Delighted that my Bloomsbury Books UK monograph is live on their website for pre-order, & the stunning front cover has also been revealed, featuring two of my fave images from the archives! URL: bloomsbury.com/uk/radical-pov… #twitterstorians #history #catholicism #catholic #capuchin

Was Shakespeare racist? or anti-racist? Was he an antisemite? Or did he criticize antisemitism? Early Modern Others answers those questions, and shows how early modern authors challenged the biases and prejudices of their age. amazon.com/Early-Modern-O…

Open access link below to my article in “Philosophy and Literature” on truth, beauty, Nietzsche and Ford’s “The Broken Heart” 💔

So excited to see VOICES OF THUNDER in the top 10 “Hot New Releases” in women’s history on Amazon! ⭐️

Did you know that over half of all publications by women between around 1650 and 1690 were prophecies? We need a new approach to women’s literary history 📚 #womenswriting #womenshistory

Visiting @thejohnrylands today to look at a manuscript which contains two very early English conversion narratives - both dating to the 1630s and both written by women! VOICES OF THUNDER begins with the remarkable story of Rose Thurgood, one of these women #earlymodern

So happy that Waterstones are featuring VOICES OF THUNDER in their fantastic summer pre-order promotion! 🌟 From TODAY for 4 DAYS ONLY - 25% off RRP when you enter code SUMMER25 at the checkout for online orders 🌟 Link below waterstones.com/campaign/july-… #WPreorder #SummerReads

This beautiful creature is 1 year old today 😍 #CatsOfTwitter #cats

Waterstones offer ends TODAY! ! waterstones.com/books/search/t… #earlymodern #womenshistory #WomenSupportingWomen

Is this the earliest surviving portion of the New Testament?? It’s a fragment containing John 18:31-33 and 37-38, describing Jesus’s confrontation with Pilate. It was discovered in Upper Egypt and has been dated to the second century CE John Rylands Research Institute and Library #bible

“A learned woman is thought to be a comet, that bodes mischief wherever it appears” (Bathsua Makin, 1673)

On this day in 1819, 18 people were murdered and hundreds were injured when armed cavalry charged into a group of peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators in Manchester. Shelley wrote “The Mask of Anarchy” in response to the massacre - “Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in