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Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️‍🌈 @benwt.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

News! I've started as the early modern Post Doc on the AHRC-funded 'Inclusive Histories' project @royalholloway.bsky.social. I'm working at @thelondonarchives.bsky.social to research the stories of marginalised groups, which will be used to foster a more inclusive approach to teaching GCSE History

Image of the front of the London Archives, a red brick building with red banners outside

Image of the Founders Quad at Royal Holloway. The building is red brick with white stone. The quad is grassed and has a central path leading to a statue of Queen Victoria.

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 21/01/2026

The traditional Bodleian Oath which every reader is required to read aloud on seeking admission to the Bodleian Libraries. 🫡

An image showing a close-up view of the Bodleian Library's reader's declaration form with the grand interior of the library in the background.

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Bodleian Libraries @bodleian.ox.ac.uk · 08/11/2025

Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚 The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602... This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅

Illustration of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, featuring an intricate architectural drawing of the historic building with detailed facade, numerous windows, and figures dressed in academic robes seated in the foreground.

Engraving of the interior of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, featuring detailed architecture with arched ceilings, rows of books, and figures walking between the bookshelves.

Aerial view of the Radcliffe Camera surrounded by Oxford University's historic buildings, with a cloudy sky above.

Aerial view of the historic University of Oxford, showcasing intricate architecture and a person walking across the courtyard.

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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Fashion Police exhibit at the Houghton Library. Wonderful work Christine Jacobson and John Overholt! @harvardlibrary.bsky.social

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

It’s PUBLICATION DAY!! 🌟⭐️💫 I’m very happy to see Voices of Thunder going out into the world 📚

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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Banned Books Week! Perceived “crimes” against religion, institutional leaders, and public safety have also caused books to be banned. Harvard’s Houghton Library was thorough in considering just who were the “deviants,” and who were the real dangers to society. @harvardlibrary.bsky.social

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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Banned Books Week! Sex is often controversial in books: sex in science & art, homosexual expression, true-to-life depictions of passionate sex. The curators at Harvard’s Houghton Library recently found creative ways to put so many of those lovely naughties on display. @harvardlibrary.bsky.social

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England] phys.org/news/2025-10...

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A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history

New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.

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Susanne Gruss @susannegruss.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Look how pretty she is! I received my author copies of /Practices & Narratives of Early Modern Piracy/ today (officially published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social on Monday). Will post more about individual chapters (including my own) next week - in the meantime, do ask your library to order a copy!

book with details from an early modern map on the cover

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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Fresh feta cheese twist, perfect drip coffee, and graduate research homework in a cafe that makes me feel like I’m in Los Angeles, California while actually being in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ❤️

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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingeneous Mrs. Aphra Behn with Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes. (1871) Boston Athenaeum Library.

The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingeneous Mrs. Aphra Behn with Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes. (1871)

Volume 4.

Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.

The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingeneous Mrs. Aphra Behn with Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes. (1871)

Plays: Volume 2.

Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.

The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingeneous Mrs. Aphra Behn with Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes. (1871)

Plays: Volume 4.

Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.

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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The 2nd edition of The Hammer of Witches: From Both Old and New Authors (1582), a witch hunter’s guide (written by sadistic, power-hungry, pathetic men who preyed on the vulnerable). And a 21st-century artist’s piece to honor those murdered for witchcraft. Boston Athenaeum Library.

The 2nd edition of The Hammer of Witches: From Both Old and New Authors (1582), a witch hunter’s guide.

Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025

Details about the the 2nd edition of The Hammer of Witches: From Both Old and New Authors (1582), a witch hunter’s guide.

Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025

Artist’s piece to honor those murdered for witchcraft.

Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025

Details about an artist’s piece to honor those murdered for witchcraft.

Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025

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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Dumbwaiter etiquette. Boston Athenaeum Library.

Description of etiquette expected for a dumbwaiter at Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.

Dumbwaiter at Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.

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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

“Analog” card catalogs (for any in the audience who’ve never seen them before). Boston Athenaeum Library.

Card catalogs at the Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.

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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Ceilings & roofs. Boston Athenaeum Library.

Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.

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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

E is for Edward (Gorey) who was gloomy and glorious. H is for Harvard (University) and Houghton (Library) where Edward’s malaise and macabre pen did and does good work. S is spectacular because that is what Edward was.

From the Edward Gorey exhibition at the Houston Library, Harvard University. 4 September 2025.

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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Just casually being a Henry Louis Gates Jr. fangirl tonight as he promotes his new book, The New Negro, co-authored with Martha H. Patterson. @harvardbookstore.bsky.social

Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Martha H. Patterson promoting their new book, The New Negro. 3 September 2025.

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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

When I was an undergrad at University of California at Berkeley, Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social was still teaching there. I have never taken a university Economics course in my life, but I had friends at the time who were in his classes. He changed their lives and by extension, my own.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

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Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette

Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.

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Dr. Heather Leslie @heatherleslie.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

This quote: “writing requires an unending effort at something resembling authenticity. Most mistakes come from not being yourself, not saying what you think, or being afraid to figure out what you really think.”

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Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Just finished a live chat for Talking Tudors @onthetudortrail.bsky.social on Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy. There were some great questions! #talkingtudors #womenwhoruledtheworld

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Matthew Harrison @matthewharrison.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

I've been looking for moments like this ever since I read Gerda Lerner: moments when Renaissance women find other women writers and claim them. To that end, let me show you the best thing I've ever seen in an archive: a little note, in Mary Wroth's copy of Eusebius.

Someone has underlined "Hypatia a woman of great lear-ning."

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

This book is out today!!

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Prof. Liz Oakley-Brown @earlymodlancs.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

MANY, many congratulations @renaissancerach.bsky.social on the publication of your beautiful book 👇 ✨️👇✨️👇✨️ "Elizabethan Occult Poetics" | Home share.google/2bFFv6b41C8V...

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Elizabethan Occult Poetics | Home

Exploring Practice and Knowledge in English Poetry

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Isabella Rosner @isabellarosner.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Last year I identified a third circa 1650-75 embroidered cabinet made at the Perwich school, one of 17th-century Hackney's major girls' schools. This example is owned by Doncaster Heritage and the others are in LACMA & the Fitzwilliam. My article about the find is in this issue of Hackney History!

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Jason W. Dean @jasonwdean.com · 08/08/2025

Well, @sibyllacumae.bsky.social and I are back (on schedule), with a longer-ish issue - we're talking about bindings! Read it here: 📜 #bookhistory open.substack.com/pub/twohalfs...

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On Bindings (August 7/8)

we were bound to talk about them sometime...

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Emily F Brooks @emilyfbrooks.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

As a book history/digital humanities scholar, I immensely enjoyed this @rarebookschool.bsky.social talk on Warren's term, computational bibliography, as a set of tools to connect the study of artifact (microscopic/Hinman) to ideology (systemic/Darnton). (1/7)

diagram goes from authors to publishers to printers to books to gatherings to sheets to inner/outer forms, to pages, to sorts. Closed captioning reads: "...a method for moving between them. For connecting the microscopic to the systemic, the page to the printer, the sort to the state. It builds a bridge..."

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Kate Watson @loreandordure.com · 18/08/2025

I admit I may be slightly obsessed with title pages but will you put this little beauty into your eye-holes. (Bonus snowflakes!)

Title page of Robert Hooke’s Micrographia 1665x a marvel in red and black work.

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Ana Struillou @anastruillou.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

The 'Archives & Objects' special issue of the JEMH @earlymodhistory.bsky.social is out ! 🥳 Edited by Y. Glazer-Eytan/G. Marcocci, this multi-authored conversation centres non-textual artefacts in records & broader intersections between the archival and material turns brill.com/view/journal...

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

The Intaglio Printers 1642 Abraham Bosse (Met Museum)

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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

1) 12 Women Old Masters to Know by Karen Chernick www.artnews.com/list/art-new... Art Herstory has resource pages for many of these artists: Lavinia Fontana, artherstory.net/lavinia-font... Clara Peeters, artherstory.net/clara-peeters/ Artemisia Gentileschi, artherstory.net/artemisia-ge...

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12 Women Old Masters to Know

Here are 12 women Old Masters benefitting from a tide of rediscovery

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Catherine Clarke @cathamclarke.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

You can now 'look inside' my new #history book on the Penguin website! Read the introduction and first chapters, see the list of poems and moments in history I explore, and discover the wormhole which inspired this particular kind of time travel... www.penguin.co.uk/books/461263...

A History of England in 25 Poems by Catherine Clarke - cover image

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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Day 1 complete for my Introduction to Digital Humanities course with @david.deroure.org‬, @agneatha.bsky.social‬, @andrewcusworth.bsky.social‬, @jarona7.bsky.social‬, and Mark Rogerson at Digital Humanities Oxford Summer School @dhoxss.bsky.social as part of @discoxford.bsky.social! #DHOxSS2025

Description of the online only workshop called Introduction to Digital Humanities as part of the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, August 4-8 2025, St Anne's College, Oxford.

Description of the Introduction to Digital Humanities (Virtual Strand) Programme for Tuesday, 4 August, 2025.

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Jason Herbert @herberthistory.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

This week @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social drops in to talk about what the creation of monsters has to say about how humans imagine themselves and the world around them. MONSTERS, INC. drops NOW on Historians At The Movies Podcast.

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Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

It was such fun to talk with Pasadena Now about @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social's brilliant new book - and I can't wait to talk with her about monster-making tomorrow night at Vroman's Bookstore. Come join us, SoCal Blueskis! #booksky #writingcommunity #Pasadena

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Erika Gaffney @erikagaffney.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

New from @amsterdamupress.bsky.social - Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe: Bodies, Gender, & Material Culture Ed. @sarahabendall.bsky.social & @serenadyer.bsky.social aup.nl/en/book/9789... Read the intro (no paywall!) here: assets.ctfassets.net/4wrp2um278k7...

Front cover visual of a book, reproducing a painting of a seated woman in a red dress with a long white apron, sitting and working on some kind of hand craft (weaving or embroidery?) in her lap.

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James Leyland @jamesleyland.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Shakespeare's work is famous for its educated women. Nevill married into the family of the Cooke sisters, "the most educated women in England" (his wife Anne in pic, daughter of Catherine Cooke). www.bookdepository.com/Cooke-Sister... #shakespeare www.academia.edu/125775909/Th...

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Elizabeth Kolkovich @ezkolkovich.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Preparing my spring course on Hester Pulter and Margaret Cavendish, and this is the best Pulter thing I’ve found on the Internet: Pulter cross stitch pattern! We don’t have a portrait of her, so this rendition is pure imagination. Love this matronly idea of her. #earlymodern

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Hester Pulter Poet, Writer, Natural Philosopher Cross Stitch Pattern - Etsy in 2024 | Cross stitch patterns, Simple cross stitch, Stitch patterns

Feb 11, 2024 - This Patterns & Blueprints item by WhatsHerNamePodcast has 2 favorites from Etsy shoppers. Ships from United States. Listed on Jul 12, 2024

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