COVER REVEAL! On my birthday I'm delighted to be able to reveal the cover for my third book 'The Many Faces of Anne Boleyn: Interpreting Image and Perception' which is due for release in summer 2025 by Pen & Sword Books #BookCover #CoverReveal #AnneBoleyn #HistoryBook

I had a great time chatting with Rebecca about my work at St John's College, and digitization more generally! If you'd like to learn more about the St John's Digitization Project, and the process of digitization, give this a listen! Thank you for having me on again, Rebecca 😊

#WolfHall: The Mirror and the Light air date confirmed by BBC as Thomas Cromwell drama returns radiotimes.com/tv/drama/wolf-…

The Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference committee is delighted to announce this year's Call for Papers! We look forward to receiving submissions for 20 minute papers from graduate students on ‘Rituals and Ceremonies’. Details below: #OMGC2025 #cfp #medieval #medhist

I love manuscripts within manuscripts! I'm currently working with SJC MS 82, a beautiful 15th century book of hours, and wanted to share this image of a manuscript within a manuscript! SJC MS 82 will be available to view on Digital Bodleian soon.

I can't wait for this! Congratulations, Amy 🥳

Never trust that anything that’s digitised or available online will be available forever. Digitisation is not preservation, and tech companies aren’t archivists or librarians. The presence of hard copy in a physical collection is the only guarantee of long-term survival

The calendar in SJC MS 82 includes several additions, such as these entries marking the deaths of Elizabeth of York on 11 February 1502, and Prince Arthur on 2 April 1502. The whole manuscript will be available to view on Digital Bodleian soon.

This historiated initial from SJC MS 82 is just beautiful 😍 It depicts St George slaying the dragon in exquisite detail 🐉⚔️

Witch trials in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries were especially intense, but belief in witches had already existed for centuries around the world. In the second of our special witchcraft series Suzannah Lipscomb finds out more from Prof. Ronald Hutton: eu1.hubs.ly/H0dxCTX0

In today's blogpost, we explore the story of Joan Astley, nurse to Henry VI. Joan was part of a royal household almost wholly made up of women, including a governess, three nurses, a chamberwoman, a laundress and at least two female attendants. blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanus…

I'm constantly amazed at how vibrant and detailed the illuminations in this 15th century book of hours (SJC MS 82) are ✨ The whole manuscript will be available on Digital Bodleian soon.

IT'S OUR BIRTHDAY!

So proud of Dr Eleanor Baker for the launch of her new book "Book Curses" from Bodleian Publishing 📖 A fascinating look at how book owners have protected their books with curses over the centuries. Congratulations, Ellie! 🥳

The deadline for the Call for Papers for Kings and Queens 14 is quickly approaching! 📝 You only have 5 more weeks until proposals are due 🚨 🧵/3

Delighted to be mentioned in this thought-provoking piece about #HenryVIII and the (unfortunate) women who crossed his path The Guardian theguardian.com/books/2024/nov…

#OTD in 1537, #JaneSeymour's funeral was held at St George's Chapel, #WindsorCastle; she was interred in a vault in the quire infront of the high altar in the chapel, at the request of #HenryVIII, who as custom, did not attend the ceremony. #Tudors

I'm currently photography SJC MS 374, the Benefactor's Book of St John's College Library, which records books donated to the college in the 17th and 18th centuries. Here is the entry for William Paddy, a former student of the college who donated a large number of books (f. 15r)

I'm making the move over to Bluesky, where there's a thriving community of historians and history lovers! You can find me at Sophie Bacchus-Waterman.bsky.social.