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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Passed my PhD viva with minor corrections! My book on Anne Boleyn’s life in Burgundy will be the next step. A huge thank you to my mentor Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social, Thomas Betteridge, David Salter, and the staff at the Uni of Edinburgh for their support. #anneboleyn #henryviii #tudors

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Beth DeBold @elizaaudacis.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

To the inevitable cries of “just digitize everything, then;” not an answer. Making digital facsimiles accessible requires huge investment: staff, metadata, preservation. Orgs are currently not funded to meet these needs. While digital objects are great, they’ll never replace looking at originals.

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Sometimes holidays are for paint. Progress on my self-portrait “Saudade”. #portrait #paint #oilpainting #artist #portraiture

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

One of my Nonna’s favourite poems, her husband passed away when he was 84. A respectable age, but my Nonna lived to be 100 years. She missed him every single day. We often read poetry together or simply sat in silence. #poetry #poet #poem #literature

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Do y’all ever think of how good of a deal Anne of Cleves got out of the whole annulment situation? #tudor #historian #history #HenryVIII

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Sometimes history is finding the 1879 edition because the 1886 edition is incomplete but the 1879 edition has gone on an unauthorised lunch break. #history #medieval #historian #anneboleyn #tudors #sources

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I bet you didn’t know Anne Boleyn was mixed. That might surprise you to hear, since we only know Anne as Queen of England. But in truth, by the time she returned to England, she had been on the Continent for nearly a decade. Culturally, she was mixed. #anneboleyn #historia #history #medieval #tudors

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Chief Mischief Loki wishes to be involved at all times. Not to brag but this is why I don’t need to do lateral raises. #cat #cats #gym #lifting #pets

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

151.269 words, 1.405 footnotes, 57 artworks, 2.443 manuscripts examined, 71 primary sources, 149 secondary, and 1 tired historian; thesis sent to @gregmw4.bsky.social. Soon it’ll be time to defend. And after? Let’s discover how Anne Boleyn got to Burgundy. #PhD #Tudor #medieval #historian #history

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Waking up from a post-PhD editing nap only to realise you now look like a whole wookie. Send help. #hair #research #historytime #oops #ohno

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Just thinking about waking up on 19 May 1536 and knowing your husband ordered you the best swordsman all the way from France just to behead you. #AnneBoleyn #OnThisDay #History #Tudors #PhD #Research #Anne

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

A very tired s[h]elfie to say: finished draft one of the thesis and am officially retreating to my bed for the weekend. Almost time to submit, after that, time to share my research with you all. #medieval #tudor #history #phd #anneboleyn

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Buckinghamshire Archives @bucksarchives.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Here's three minutes of us talking about human skin.

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

When you’re on holiday but the archives send you that one letter you’ve been searching for since December 2024 … bonjour, Signeur Claude Bouton. #archives #manuscript #history #document #palaeography #tudor #tudors #anneboleyn #burgundy #book #books #booktok

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I have questions, but I doubt they’ll be answered. #cat #cats #holiday #mischief

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Interested in the rest of my video on Queen #AnneBoleyn? Come have a look on Instagram I’m @MarlouvanGendt. #Boleyn #Tudor #Tudors #History #HenryVIII

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

You know that moment when you look at a cat and think, “my word, what a graceful creature, what perfection.” And then you look over and see the other one and it’s just full derp, no holds barred, mid-licky? This was that moment today. #MaineCoon and #cat #cats

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Sophie Bacchus-Waterman @sophiebwaterman.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

One of my favourite aspects of writing a biography of Elizabeth Boleyn was gathering evidence for her time in Katherine of Aragon's household. Elizabeth's long and fascinating court service during Henry VIII's early reign was one of the inspirations for me to write this book in the first place (a 🧵)

Katherine of Aragon and her ladies depicted in the 1511 Westminster Tournament Roll

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Happy #Friday! Mr Miu the #MaineCoon has decided that today his War on Flies starts in earnest and has proclaimed himself the Lord of the Flies after catching three of them in a single hour. #cats #cat

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

#ThrowbackThursday to when I held the poor Chief Yeoman Warden of the Tower of London prisoner in Anne Boleyn’s prison cell to tell him all about what Anne got up to in her spare time. Poor man. #Boleyn #Tudor #Tudors #history #London #TowerOfLondon #yeoman #historian

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

“Dear heart, how like ye this?” - Sir Thomas Wyatt. Manuscript text: “Marchionesse of Penbrok” #palaeography #manuscript #history #Tudor #Tudors #Boleyn #AnneBoleyn

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Am I about to disagree with the identification of a hand (TH2) in the Devonshire Manuscript? Sure am. And I’ve got evidence to back it up too. Hold on to your britches, this is gonna be a bumpy ride folks. #history #manuscripts #palaeography #text #manuscript #handwriting #boleyn #tudors #tudor

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Want to know the solution to this riddle, possibly written by #AnneBoleyn, in the Devonshire #manuscript? Stay tuned for more on Anne #Boleyn and her time at the court of Margaret of Savoy. 🧐 #BLMSAdd17942 #Burgundy #history #herstory #Tudor #Tudors #palaeography

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Oh hai Henry. When your signature is super subtle so you gotta write it extra large. #Tudor #Tudors #HenryVIII #England #History #manuscript #palaeography #folio

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

When you get the goods from the Archives Départmentales du Nord Lille and you get stacks and stacks of letter reproductions that all point to #AnneBoleyn and what she was up to in #Flanders in 1513. #Tudor #Tudors #Boleyn #history #herstory #archives #archival #manuscript #manuscripts #paleography

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

When you find such good gossip on #AnneBoleyn that you’ve got to hide under a napkin just to dish it. #history #herstory #writing #Tudor #Tudors #Boleyn #Flanders #EarlyModern #Renaissance #Reformation

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

When you move one (1) toe and your spine suddenly feels like a demonic lightning zipper from tailbone to the base of your skull and it feels like ⚡️⚡️⚡️ and your face is just 😮🫨😵😵‍💫. That’s what #kyphosis and #scoliosis or the “k” in #kyphoscoliotic #EDS feels like. Just #kEDS #spine things. #Disabled

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

“I am become Comfort, Ruler of Pillows” a rare peaceful moment from Mr Miu the Incorrigible #MaineCoon #cats #cat #weekend #benignexistence

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Cato Frederiks 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 @catofrederiks.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

In order to (hopefully) at some point live my life with less CCI (and maybe less ME? Pretty please?) I'll need a C0-C2 fusion... and quite a bit of money. If you have some to spare, I'd be eternally grateful gofund.me/31b04957

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

When you are magnificent, and a perfect darling angel boy, and you know it ft. Loki the #NorwegianForestCat #weegie #cat #cats #pet #HappyFriday

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 28/03/2025

Here's a list of impacted employees who are looking are looking for new opportunities and have consented to have their contact information listed ⤵️ docs.google.com/spreadsheets... We sincerely appreciate anyone who is able to provide assistance.

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

In the continuing saga on the exploits of #Miu the Incorrigible #MaineCoon: sources say he was captured on CCTV at 4:35AM after football tackling his owner straight in the ovaries demanding chin scritches and reported “no regrets” when asked for comment. Evidence included. #cats #cat #HappyFriday

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

When you find a #male #Dutch #historian writing in the year of Our Lady 2021 claiming that women like Margaret of Savoy were not educated. Somebody come claim your man, please, who left this one unsupervised. #KnivesOut #history #herstory #education

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

When you’re perfect and a menace and you know it ft. Miu the #MaineCoon #cat #cats #goodhairday

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Please, if you’re #Dutch sign this petition to get the #Netherlands to stop using #GET as a treatment for #ME. We know it doesn’t work, it nearly killed me and cost me 8 long years of my life #bedridden. It didn’t have to be this hard. RIP ages 28-36. tinyurl.com/ystekut2

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Still a few weeks left to submit an abstract for our wonderful conference in November! ☟ ☟ ☟ #earlymodern #bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Managed to get the full interaction on film, look at this absolute menace Miu the #mainecoon biting Loki the #norwegian #forestcat on the butt. Miu truly has little brother energy despite being twice Loki’s size. #cat #cats #mischief #menace

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Three guesses who decided to bite il Capo Loki the #Norwegianforestcat in the BUTT and now has a nail casing stuck in his massive #mainecoon boop snoot. Yup, that would be Miu, who else? I told him this would happen and did he listen? Did he ever. #cat #cats #FAFO #menace #mischief #weegie

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

When you end up discussing the #Burgundian War of Succession because it’s pertinent to how #AnneBoleyn ended up in #Flanders. 👀 (This was meant to be a footnote, please send help). #history #herstory #netherlands #belgium #poldermodel #NL #Tudor #Tudors

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Since it’s #endometriosis awareness week: sometimes #chronicillness looks like this, and sometimes it’s taking 3 weeks off to change from morphine to oxycodone back to morphine again because the #pain is so bad, you can’t think straight. #invisible #illness #disability

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Most dramatic mlem award goed to: Miu the incorrigible Maine Coon. #cats #cat #goodmorning

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

On the 2 year anniversary of medicating my severe #ME / #CFS after being #bedridden 8 years, just want to remind my #dysautonomia lovelies: Shang Mai San works for #POTS. I’m not cured, but I can focus now. Wishing the same for you. #NEISVoid #chronicallyill #ehlersdanlossyndrome

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

My face when I see a #historian absolutely perjure themselves in the footnotes. No, sir, I know you know that was not in the Lille archives, you said you checked with the Chef du department. Don’t you fib. #earlymodern #monday #medieval #Tudors #cat #academia

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Proud to announce within a minute of posting this functionality was restored. I’m glad y’all understood I ain’t playing.

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