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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is a wonderful resource of important book history articles! Many thanks to DBNL. #bookhistory #libraries
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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Susan Ferrier is definitely worth reading. I recommend Marriage to begin - great satire of spoiled young woman.
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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Relieved to send in the page proofs for my Esther Inglis biography yesterday! Should be out by the end of the year 😊
Book cover for biography of Esther Inglis from EUP
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Michael Pearce @michaelpearce.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
1 August 1587: Funeral of Mary, Queen of Scots at Peterborough Cathedral, some few details: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funeral...
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Funeral of Mary, Queen of Scots - Wikipedia
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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Congratulations to Sarah Joan Moran on the publication of her new book Unconventual Women in the Habsburg Low Countries, 1585–1794 Visual Culture at the Court Beguinages www.routledge.com/Unconventual...
The front cover of a book. The featured image is a soberly dressed woman wearing a white head covering, with her right hand resting on her left, both hands held in front of her. Her right forefinger is inserted into the pages of a small book with a black cover that she holds in her right hand.
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Paula Butterfield @pbutterwriter.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Lavinia Fontana, #BOTD in 1552, is considered the first female professional painter in Western Art. She was given a state funeral upon her death, and a special medal with her image was created. Please note that she had 11 children. Art by @trudilula
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Women's History Scotland @womenshistscot.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A new paperback edition of Scottish Women: A Documentary History, 1780–1914 is now available from @edinburghup.bsky.social 📚 This collection of sources brings Scottish women’s voices and experiences to life across a variety of themes. Read More 🔗 womenshistoryscotland.org/2026/08/22/s...
Book cover for Scottish Women: A Documentary History, 1780–1914, edited by Esther Breitenbach, Linda Fleming, S. Karly Kehoe, and Lesley Orr. The cover has a teal-blue header with the large white title and subtitle. Below is a collage of historical images and documents, including photographs of Scottish women and children, illustrations, handwritten letters, newspaper clippings, and a building, framed by a tan background.
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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Delighted to see Hatfield House featuring books owned by Mildred Cooke Cecil in their library this summer. Turns out she wrote her name in whatever language the book was published in, as here on Roger Ascham's 'Apologia': 'Mildredae Burghleyae'.
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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This tour looks really interesting - wish I weren’t giving a talk at the same time!
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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Sat 3 Oct 2026 at Christ Church Library, Oxford Univ - Women and Their Books: Women as Book Producers and Owners in Early Modern England and Scotland A study afternoon exploring women as book producers and owners in Early Modern England and Scotland. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-and-...
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Women and Their Books in Early Modern England and Scotland
A study afternoon exploring women as book producers and owners in Early Modern England and Scotland.
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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Another talented woman revealed. Thank you Michael!
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Danielle Clarke @rhetorician.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Delighted to announce that the Handbook is coming out in paperback!
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Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Cover Reveal! Coming soon, open access, with Taylor & Francis. Edited by @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social, Suzanne Trill and @hagenilda.bsky.social.
Cover of a book called Alice Thornton's Books: Reassessing the Life Writings of a Seventeenth-century Woman. The image on the book cover is a 17h-century painting of a domestic interior with a woman writing at a table while a younger woman stands behind looking out the window.
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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
@natlibscot.bsky.social recently acquired an important #EstherInglis manuscript that was in private hands - it's one of her most beautiful with dedication to Sir Thomas Wotton done unusually in gold lettering on red background. Argumenta in Librum Geneseos 1606.
Detail of page with lettre frizée writing beneath strawberry flower and fruit. NLS
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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
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Queen Camilla Unites Winnie-the-Pooh With a Long-Lost Friend
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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
More research into work by early modern women of the middling sort. Congratulations Sophie!
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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Read a new post highlighting the women who sewed for the royal Scottish courts.
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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Roses and Butterflies, c. 1650, by #MargarethaDeHeer (#MargaretaDeHeer; Dutch, 1603–1665). Held at the Stedelijke Kunstverzameling; source, www.facebook.com/female.artis... #artherstory #womenartists #hernaturalhistory
A delicate drawing in watercolor of 2 pale pink roses on a stone ledge, attached to a leafy branch. In the lower left corner is a black and red beetle. In the middle left, a colorful butterfly alights on the end of a branch that sticks up in the air; it is depicted sideways, with wings straight up and its head facing toward the middle of the artwork. Above it, in the farther background, is a red or orange butterfly or moth in flight. On each side of the colorful butterfly are tiny winged insects. In about the middle of the painting, sitting on the same branch as the colorful butterfly and facing it, is a larger winged insect - maybe a dragonfly? - depicted from the side. On the right half of the work, above the rose leaves, is another butterfly, this one orange and black, with its head pointed down toward the leaves and its wings spread in flight. The artist's signature is on the face of the ledge near the lower right corner of the work: "Margareta D Heer Fecit."
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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
CFP The 16th Century Society (SCS): A Society for Early Modern Studies SCS invites proposals for individual presentations, panels, roundtables & workshops for its annual conf at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, Oct 29-31, 2026. For more info, visit: sixteenthcentury.org/conference/2....
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2026 | Sixteenth Century Society
The Sixteenth Century Society hosts one of the most important annual conferences in early modern studies each year, where senior, junior, and future colleagues of all early modern disciplines meet to ...
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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Congratulations to the editors and all who contributed to this long-awaited first vol (2 pts) of the History of the Book in Scotland! Great achievement. Proud to be included on Esther Inglis in pt.2, with her portrait highlighting the cover of pt.1. #bookhistory @edinburghup.bsky.social
Image shows the covers of pts 1 and 2 of the new vol. 1 of The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland
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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Wonderful early modern marginalia, including a woman riding a horse astride. #bookhistory @emwjournal.bsky.social
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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Coming up Thurs, March 19th, on Zoom - Did Artemisia Gentileschi Paint for Men or for Women? A talk by Sheila Barker Hosts: The Center for the Study of Women and the Society for the Study of Women in the Renaissance (SSWR) RSVP Link: bit.ly/sswrartemisia
Top portion of event poster illustrated with Artemisia Gentileschi's painting Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy, and text in black against a dusky rose background.
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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
See my new post today on 'Ice-schoklis'! Find it at estheringlis.com/2026/01/29/i... #icicles #EstherInglis #Avercamp #FolgerLibrary #WashingtonNationalCathedral #Avercamp
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Ice-schoklis
Icicles from a gargolye on Washington National Cathedral, detail. Photo by Linda Davidson (Washington Post, 2014) Our thoughts turn to ice and icicles in various forms these days, especially on the…
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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
See my new blog post on "Multi-talented Women" featuring the current exhibition at #NMWA on women as artists, engravers, calligraphers, sculptors, embroiderers, lacemakers, etc. I place #EstherInglis within this coteree of talented Netherlandish women. estheringlis.com/2025/11/17/w...
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Women of Many Talents
Calligrapher, limner, embroiderer, writer – those are all arts in which Esther Inglis engaged. She seems to have been unique in Britain at the time, so who were her cohorts? There must have b…
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 24/06/2025
The next volume in the Camden Series of scholarly editions of primary sources for historians is 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)', edited by Helen Newsome-Chandler. This volume will be published in print and online @universitypress.cambridge.org in August 2/2
Cover image for 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541)', edited by Helen Newsome-Chandler (August 2025)
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Sarah Betts @wromantichistry.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The new issue of @royalstudies.bsky.social Royal Studies Journal is out, a special issue that I've been really looking forward to, 'Material Culture and Built Heritage: Manifestations of Scotland’s Royal Past, Present and Future' rsj.winchester.ac.uk/30/volume/12... Guest eds. Lucy Dean & Amy Hayes
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Special Issue: Material Culture and Built Heritage: Manifestations of Scotland’s Royal Past, Present and Future | Royal Studies Journal
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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
See new blogpost "Esther Inglis and 'Little Beasts'" on relationship of her work with that of Flemish nature artists of the time, based on extraordinary new exhibition at NGA DC. estheringlis.com/2025/05/29/e... @artherstory.bsky.social @ngadc.bsky.social #EstherInglis #JorisHofnagel #ClaraPeeters
Jan van Kessel the Elder, Butterfly and Insects, c. 1655, NGA,DCClara Peeters, Still Life with Flowers surrounded by Insects and a Snail, c.1610. NGA, DC.
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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
A nice piece on the woman who tutored the young Mary Queen of Scots in French!
Mary Queen of Scots by Clouet, c.1549 - Yale University Art Gallery
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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
This means that our Rachel Ruysch Note Card Wallet | 8 cards and envelopes - usually $16.95 - is on sale for $12.75!
Rachel Ruysch note card wallet open showing back cover, spine and front cover. The back cover floral still life is in landscape mode; the front cover floral still life is in portrait mode. The spine contains the title and product info in white text reversed out of a hot pink background.
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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Spend your Saturday afternoon in good company with #EstherInglis, novelist Sara Sheridan in conversation with Anna Pike and Jamie Reid Baxter, along with poet Gerda Stevenson, and music by the White Rose Ensemble. St. Cecilia's Hall, Edinburgh. 2-4 pm. Tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-afterno...
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An Afternoon with Esther Inglis (c. 1570-1624)
Join author Sara Sheridan & experts to explore calligrapher Esther Inglis, with live Renaissance music, spoken word poetry & discussion!
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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Early German book in gorgeous binding, published by a woman. @emwjournal.bsky.social #women #publishing #binding
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Clare Kirk @digupyourancestors.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
This is a register from the guild of book producers and merchants in 15th-century Bruges, showing a list of craftspeople who made books of hours. One quarter of the guild members between 1455 and 1500 were women! #medievalsky #TrotsenTroost #PrideandSolace
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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
For Maundy Thursday, A Royal Maundy depicted by Levina Teerlinc from the court of Elizabeth I.
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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Celebrate Esther in April! Staatsbibliothek, Berlin MS.Lat.C14 If you're in Edinburgh, come enjoy a wonderful afternoon with interesting talks, delightful poetry, and great music. When: Saturday, 26th April : 2-4 PM Where: St. Cecilia's Hall and Concert Room, 50 Niddry Street, Edinburgh Scottish…
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Celebrate Esther in April!
Staatsbibliothek, Berlin MS.Lat.C14 If you're in Edinburgh, come enjoy a wonderful afternoon with interesting talks, delightful poetry, and great music. When: Saturday, 26th April : 2-4 PM Where: St. Cecilia's Hall and Concert Room, 50 Niddry Street, Edinburgh Scottish novelist Sara Sheridan will be in conversation with historians Jamie Reid Baxter and Anna-Nadine Pike to illuminate the life and times of Franco-Scottish creative woman, Esther Inglis (1570?-1624).
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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Just arrived in the mail - new from #Brill Congratulations to #EliseWatson and #JessicaFarrellJobst for a big editorial job on 24 articles, including my piece on #EstherInglis, #embroidery, and #calligraphy. A couple of chapters for free here: brill.com/edcollbook/t...
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Gender and the Book Trades
"Gender and the Book Trades" published on 02 Dec 2024 by Brill.
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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Interested in #embroidery and early techniques? Sign up to hear professional embroiderers Christy Batie and Erin Moody tell how they recreated one of #EstherInglis's #bindings and what they learned. Virtual talk, Thursday Jan. 30, 6pm EST; 11pm GMT www.folger.edu/whats-on/vir...
Recreated embroidered binding of Folger MS V.a.93 by Esther Inglis
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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
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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Little Books, Big Gifts: The Artistry of Esther Inglis | Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Shakespeare Library is the world's largest Shakespeare collection, the ultimate resource for exploring Shakespeare and his world. Shakespeare belongs to you. His world is vast. Come explor...
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emherstory.bsky.social @emherstory.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
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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