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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This was SO much fun! For more info and to see more of my vampiric interests, check out my other account: @slaysweeet.bsky.social. 🧛🏻‍♀️

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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

William Powell’s The Anarchist Cookbook (1971).

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

John Stubb’s The Discovery of a Gaping Gulf whereunto England is like to be swallowed by another French Marriage, if the Lord forbid not the banns, by letting her Majesty see the sin and punishment thereof) (1579). Index Liborum Prohibitarum (Index of Forbidden Books) (Rome publication, 1564).

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

England’s King Charles I’s The judgment and decree of the University of Oxford past in their convocation July 21, 1683, against certain pernicious books and damnable doctrines destructive to the sacred persons of princes, their state and government, and of all humane society (1683).

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

Galileo Galilei’s Dialogo Sopra i Due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo Tolemaico, a Copernicano (Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems of Ptolemy, to Copernican) (1632). Nicolaus Copernicus’s De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) (1543).

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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

Upton Sinclair’s Oil! A Novel! (1927). Marquis de Sade’s Justine, Ou, Les Malheurs de la Vertue (Justine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue) (1791). John Cleland’s Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (1750).

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

Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness (1928). Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass (1855).

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

D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928).

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

Madonna’s Sex (1992). Alfred C. Kinsey’s Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953).

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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

John Milton’s Treatice of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Causes: Shrewing That It Is Not Lawful for Any Power on Earth to Compel in Matters of Religion (1790).

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

George Washington’s personal copy of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense (1776) that most certainly influenced his views on what democracy could be.

George Washington’s (rebound) personal copy of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense (1776) at the Boston Athenaeum Library.

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Portrait of George Washington at the Boston Athenaeum Library.

8 September 2025

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

A 19th-century list of the books borrowed from the Boston Athenaeum Library by Louisa May Alcott.

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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

Railings & stairways. Boston Athenaeum Library.

Boston Athenaeum Library. 8 September 2025.

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

Ceilings & roofs. Boston Athenaeum Library.

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

What an exhibition! I’ll be visiting many more times but for now, here are a few highlights. @harvardlibrary.bsky.social @edward.gorey.house

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

Opening reception of 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

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.

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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

You think you know a few things about the US government and how we are barely holding onto democracy by a thread, and then you hear Reich talk. It’s much worse. But there’s still hope. 🤞 @harvardbookstore.bsky.social

Robert Reich talking about his new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, at the First Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 2 September 2025.

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

…but I greatly admire Reich’s passion for the underdog and his aggressive approach to fighting bullies (like the US President). Check out his viral videos and countless interviews (he recently chatted live with Steven Colbert).

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

I accidentally absorbed some of what they explained to me. I finally understood how social justice, democracy, and cultures throughout history were influenced by economics, and not always negatively. Problems still abound (especially now), and there is never one size to fit all…

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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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Erica Robert Pallo @ericarobertpallo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

“When I strapped on my stylish wooden stilts-for-shoes this morning and ate a large breakfast, I may just have forgotten how tricky it would be to get to the privie in haste in the afternoon.”

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

This book is out today!!

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