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Clodagh Murphy

@clodaghmurphy.bsky.social
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early modern letters ~ royal authorship ~ collaboration ~ manuscripts ~ scribal culture

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Emilie K. M. Murphy @emiliekmmurphy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This looks brilliant #earlymodern 🗃️
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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Sir Francis Walsingham tempered Queen Elizabeth I's emotions but also counterfeited her anger. The fab @sixteenthcgirl.bsky.social talks to @clodaghmurphy.bsky.social & yours truly about exciting discoveries that will change the way we look at Tudor history bit.ly/4fwBu6Q @erc.europa.eu #FEATHERS
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New Discovery: Who Really Wrote Elizabeth I's Letters?
Podcast Episode · Not Just the Tudors · July 30 · 44m
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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Dr @clodaghmurphy.bsky.social made it into the Dutch newspapers (£) !#FEATHERS 🪶 @leidenhumanities.bsky.social @unileiden.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu
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Clodagh Murphy @clodaghmurphy.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Thrilled to have my research on Elizabeth's letters, conducted on @misswalsingham.bsky.social 's FEATHERS project, in The Times: www.thetimes.com/article/093f...
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Elizabeth I’s spymaster played up her ‘vicious’ temper
Research suggests Sir Francis Walsingham made the Tudor queen’s letters more emotional as part of a campaign to influence her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots
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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Great to see this work being discussed @clodaghmurphy.bsky.social based on her PhD work on the Feathers project with @misswalsingham.bsky.social Elizabeth I’s spymaster played up her ‘vicious’ temper www.thetimes.com/article/093f...
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Elizabeth I’s spymaster played up her ‘vicious’ temper
Research suggests Sir Francis Walsingham made the Tudor queen’s letters more emotional as part of a campaign to influence her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots
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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Delighted to see Dr @clodaghmurphy.bsky.social celebrated in @thetimes.com ! Her research was part of our @erc.europa.eu Consolidator project #FEATHERS 🪶 on mediated authorship in handwritten texts - it’s wonderful to see the questions we’re exploring making the national press. bit.ly/44hNliF
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Elizabeth I’s spymaster played up her ‘vicious’ temper
Research suggests Sir Francis Walsingham made the Tudor queen’s letters more emotional as part of a campaign to influence her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots
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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
I’m SO proud of Dr @clodaghmurphy.bsky.social who was awarded her doctorate cum laude for her exceptional dissertation on Queen Elizabeth I. The @unileiden.bsky.social newsletter now shares some of her remarkable discoveries from our ERC Consolidator project #FEATHERS Congratulations! bit.ly/4fkiMPo
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Elizabeth I did not just have the heart and stomach of a man – in her letters, she commanded his bile, too
Queen Elizabeth I left behind more than three thousand letters upon her death. Whilst historians have so far focused primarily on the hundred or so written in her own hand, PhD candidate Clodagh Murph...
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