Interested in #embroidery and early techniques? Sign up to hear professional embroiderers Christy Batie and Erin Moody tell how they recreated an #EstherInglis binding and what they learned. Virtual talk, Thursday Jan. 30, 6pm EST; 11pm GM folger.edu/whats-on/virtu…

A little thread introducing the articles in this issue which we’ll build gradually over the week: 🧵

So happy to see this out in the world! Our Special Issue explores displacement & innovation, interrogates the term 'exile', & foregrounds interdisciplinarity as a method especially apt for exile studies where border-crossings converge... Thank you to all our contributors ✨

Call for Conference Papers Thrilled to share the CfP for Women’s Scientific Literatures: The Poetry and Poetics of #EarlyModern Natural Philosophy 26–27th June 2025, ARU, Cambridge Deadline for submissions: Monday 3rd March 2025. Please share widely! scientificpoetry.org/news/2025/call…

Save MLANG at Cardiff University! chng.it/RMWFwLDn via Change.org UK Solidarity to all colleagues & students at Cardiff facing cuts and redundancies. We need students to learn intercultural communication and the value of different cultures now more than ever

We're excited to announce a special online seminar featuring Distinguished Professor Emerita Merry Wiesner-Hanks, discussing her new book Women and the Reformations. 13 February 2025 via Zoom, 7pm GMT (1 hour). Please join us! #womenshistory yalebooks.yale.edu/book/978030026… /1

♥️Competition time! A special Valentine's giveaway to cheer the gloomy days of mid-February. A signed copy of my Reynard the Fox, a gold-edged Fox for All Seasons journal, a box of Guylian Seashells, a Lindt heart full of truffles & an elegant fox companion. Simply like, share

Born 375 years ago, Nell Gwyn was England's most celebrated actress and Charles II's favourite mistress. Suzannah Lipscomb finds out more about her from Prof. Laura Engel and Charles Beauclerk, a direct descendant of Charles and Nell: podfollow.com/not-just-the-t…

Some great early modern women content in this month’s History Today - on the allegedly ‘Mad Duchess’ of Albemarle & the ethics of writing histories tied up with mental health

Final checks for the monograph at The National Archives… and then I promise to work on something that isn’t to do with Hortense Mancini

From midnight sword fights to introducing champagne to England, the affair between Hortense Mancini and Anne Lennard was nothing short of dramatic Learn more about them this #LGBT+ History month diva-magazine.com/2025/02/12/hor…

From Early Modern Women, this article takes a closer look at a story Madeleine de Scudéry wrote about her two pet chameleons. Learn what this story reveals about Scudéry's opinions concerning the emotional inner lives of animals here: ow.ly/1qKe50UYZ8N SSEMWG

A virtual Glastonbury-style queue this morning for the St James’s Palace tour Royal Collection Trust so I can find out whether the ghost of Hortense Mancini really haunts the rooms 👻

📢For any early modernists still here: 3 x 4-year postdoc jobs at Durham in French, History, & Italian!! Also 3 x PhDs. All working under the banner of 'Inventing Futures' in a wonderful department. Apply / spread the word durham.ac.uk/research/insti…

International Women’s Day reads (accidentally v apt bc we celebrating women everyday in this house) #IWD2025

Thinking about some Protestant "femmes fortes" on #InternationalWomensDay : Jeanne d'Albret, Louise de Coligny, Georgette de Montenay, Catherine de Parthenay, Annabell Murray and Marie Stewart, countesses of Mar - and Esther Inglis. Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal Scottish History

Happily made it to ‘Rise Up’ Fitzwilliam Museum today. The beautiful double portrait of Dido Belle and Elizabeth Murray is even more gorgeous irl. And loved seeing all the playbills advertising Ira Aldridge as Othello, Macbeth & King Lear 🎭

When I started working on Hortense Mancini nine years ago, every book said that (almost) none of her letters had survived. Since then, I’ve managed to find about seventy… transcribed them, translated them, and proofs are now here! 😍✨😭

Lazy Sundays with Breeze Barrington’s new book on women at the Restoration court. Review out soon! 🌸🌻🌷