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1 Mar 1557: Katherine Palmer recognised as abbess of Syon in Cardinal Pole's restoration charter for the convent #otd #nuntastic (British Museum)

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Winston Churchill visiting the WH in 1942. Not wearing a suit

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Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

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Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Call for Papers: Marginalia and the Early Modern Woman Writer, 1500-1700 #medieval #earlymodern www.anzamems.org/?p=...

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Want to know the names of some of the bears in Elizabethan Southwark? I've got you covered with this transcription of a 1590 "bear schedule" [TNA C 146/8581]. beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...

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21 Feb 1653: John Milton tries to get Andrew Marvell a government job #otd #Poets sticking together

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Lawyers at Twitter are reportedly threatening advertisers to spend more money on the platform “or else” Elon Musk will use his connections with Trump to hurt their companies.

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An array of #BookHistory in this volume: My lady Warren #HerBook, the as yet unidentified E. H., Humfrey Dyson. The class mark tells me it was in @theulspeccoll.bsky.social before 1715 and there's a lovely little fore-edge running number label.

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A planned dystopia, this was not on my bingo card, ever.

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Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post didn’t want you to see our ad questioning who’s in charge at the White House. We won't stop holding power accountable. thehill.com/media/514849...

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Some days are boring. But some days my work is so damn fun. This is one of those days. Cambridge university.

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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

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So much for free speech. Let's make this cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social go viral. I'm married to @tealcartoons.bsky.social so I might be biased, but cartoons have long played a vital role in shaping political debate - both past and present. This type of censorship is deeply troubling.

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Today we open the brand new Margaret Cavendish exhibition at Hollytrees Museum. An interventive trail throughout the galleries that recounts her life and work. She was a pioneering dystopian sci-fi writer in an age where women were hugely restricted.

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"Pam Bondi is the first attorney general in history to have been a lobbyist for foreign governments. She also just disbanded the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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hold up wait a sec whatever you were doing, just ease off the throttle for a minute and slow down so you look at this bird in today's BIRD BREAK (photo by me)

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A striking #herbook discovery - Lucy Strong clearly treasured her 'Treasurie of the French tong'. That binding 😍

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🧐One of the earliest known examples of a woman's donation bookplate (in our Special Collections), found in a copy of Salvian's works, printed in 1611. The bookplate dates from 1616 when Lady Anne Harington established a library at Oakham Parish Church. #HerBook

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I've been working on a little something for #Shax2025...

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Niche #earlymodern question: reading about life insurance in 17c (bodies/commodities/slavery) and wondering if women’s lives were insured? @jmotis.bsky.social do you know?

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This year, especially, I remember my uncle Siert Kooi, who was killed in Neuengamme in 1944 for his activities in the resistance. #HolocaustRemembranceDay

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I'd love to kick everyone who said don't vote for 'genocide Joe' in the crotch.

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I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋

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Hi old friends from the T-verse - I'm now joining you all in the Blue Sky. Expect to do most of my posting here from now. Had a nice Christmas gift card for an indy bookshop in Raleigh NC, so purchased a copy of Adam's book there today. (I like the jacket of the UK edition better, but still . . . )

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The Folger has now posted "turning the page" versions of three of its Esther Inglis manuscripts: V.a.91, V.a.92 and V.a.93 (for Prince Maurice of Nassau - newly digitized). Give each a moment to load, then enjoy! Sctoll down on this page to find them. www.folger.edu/whats-on/lit...

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Starting this week sorting out figures for my Element, and I just have to include the actual signature of Clemenzia Sostegni somewhere, and this letter that has her name with that of Virginia Galilei, showing that Virginia took her place in the convent. #nuntastic musical nun genealogy #archives

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Please consider participating in this exciting initiative on early modern women and religion on Thursday 23 January 9-10:30 am EST

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I am happy to announce a new initiative, the Early Modern Women and Religion seminar, a virtual forum intended to generate new ideas for the study of early modern British and Irish women and religion. We will meet once a semester. Both established and ECRs (including graduate students) are welcome.

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Today in Tudor History, 2 January 1536, Imperial ambassador to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Eustace Chapuys visited his friend Catherine of Aragon, the first wife of King Henry VIII for the last time. #TudorHistory #History #TudorDynasty #Anglophile

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Been wanting an earlyish Catullus—reading his poetry was when Latin first clicked for me—and ended up with this cheap copy of Gryphius’s 1548 edition. Turns out it was owned by the great Scottish book collector and anti-Union figure, Andrew Fletcher (1655–1716).

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It’s been a long time coming… so thrilled to share the cover (and Oxford UP website last in 🧵) for my book, _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_, pub date 7.2.25 (but will ship, so they say very enticingly, mid-June. 1/ #VastEarlyAmerica 🗃️

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Congratulations!

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From The Archers to Mark Gatiss’ Christmas ghost story, “creepy Christmas” is all around us. This week, the Observer asked me to write about why ghosts are at the heart of Christmas www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Margaret Paston Advent Day 22. Margaret refers to ‘disguising’ as a Christmas activity. We know the Pastons enjoyed Mummers Plays at Castor. We even have a fragment of what seems to be their ‘script’ for Robin Hood & the Sheriff of Nottingham. Trinity College, Cambridge, MS. R. 2. 64 (fragment).

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A silver leaf. Detail from a crimson velvet binding for a book of sermons from 1596, front and back covers embroidered in silver thread and silk with the arms of Elizabeth I. SSS.24.32 @theulspeccoll.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social

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This book cushion has the arms of Sandys of Ombersley, Worcs, & of Esthwaite and Graythwaite Hall, Lancs. They may be those of Elizabeth, the sister of William, 4th Baron Sandys of The Vyne. She was Baroness in her own right from 1629. (V&A, London)

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Popping up on Times Radio just after 9.30 to talk about Sigourney Weaver’s flop in The Tempest - in case you’re not already franticly Christmas shopping!

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Order now, it will still arrive before 🎄, the perfect 🎁 for the codebreaker, wannabe spy, poison maker, document forger, unicorn collector or spy-catcher in your life! With new insights into the Babington & Gunpowder Plots, law-abiding historians will also savour it www.amazon.co.uk/Spycraft-Tri...

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The richest man in the world who is about to shutdown our government tweeting support for a German neo-nazi party in the middle of the night

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