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

Thank you so much for the kind words! I can’t wait to share my research on Anne Boleyn 🥹🥳

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

Thank you so much Greg! Time for some appropriately Burgundian feasting, pies, pasties, and meat, meat, meat! 🍖 I’ll send the falcons to catch some proper fare

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

Aaaaaahahahhahahha Greg! I’m laughing so hard, I could hear the very English “err” sound in your exact intonation even over Bluesky. Thank you so much for your kind words, it’s been a privilege having you as my supervisor and mentor

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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 · 08/06/2026

Definitely not perspective, Loki’s a Norwegian forest cat. He’s a whopping 7.2 kilos of sheer blissful cuddles

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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 · 19/05/2026

What always drew me to investigating her life is the thought that a man could pursue a woman for so long and then have her killed.

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Yes, even if she didn’t see it, she would have heard the crowds. It’s horrific to think about.

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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 · 19/05/2025

Never happened to me *cough* Anne Boleyn, wait Margaret of Savoye, what are you doing here?

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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 · 19/04/2025

Admittedly Miu’s favourite game has always been to catch flies, it’s come in very handy! Lilith on the other hand just snoozes the day away and has caught maybe two insects in her life. One I suspect because it flew into her open mouth while yawning …

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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

Very true! For now I’ve got a captive audience in the three cat babies, they can’t escape my Anne Boleyn waffling 😈

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

Can confirm that my pick-up line is literally just “hey hey hey, *nudge* wanna know why Anne Boleyn got beheaded? Eh? Eh? Go on, you know you wanna know.”

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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 · 06/04/2025

Here’s the official version of that, it’s called Child’s Pose and can really help with lower back pain. Always move very gently and cautiously when you do try it. Hope you feel better soon www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-life...

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Child's pose

Relax with this yoga pose and stretch your back and hips.

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Marlou van Gendt @marlouvg.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Eep better not try that one with a pinched nerve, unless you’re very familiar with that particular pose. Most folks don’t keep their lower back attached to the floor when doing that and then you can really injure yourself (as a wonky spine person)

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

Mwahahaha last time I let his food bowl run on low (not even empty) he immediately made his displeasure known by chomping my foot. Message received, Miu.

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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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