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 explore. Jo...

It has long been known that the famous Eikon Basilike, attributed to Charles I and published shortly after his execution, was popular with seventeenth-century women readers. So far, our blog has fe…

Over the summer, I had the opportunity to work with the National Trust’s Moseley Old Hall as part of my Research Employability Project (WRoCAH). I worked on a project researching a recently acquired 1...

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Crowd the Cause to Fund the Pause! Help us Pause the Stigma on Menopau… Vagina Museum needs your support for Menopause on display: A Vagina Museum exhibition

This three-day international conference hosted at Leiden University by the ERC Consolidator-funded FEATHERS project aims to bring together researchers working on early modern scribal culture and manus...

Reading is a form of necromancy, a way to summon and commune once again with the dead, but in what ersatz temple should such a ritual take place? Andrew Hui tracks the rise of the private study by rev...

Image by Dr. Tara Lyons with permission of Reader’s Books, Petworth, UK. This 1630 English Bible has an array of evidence of women’s book ownership. At the top of the front cover’…

In November 2023 I spoke online as part of Cardiff University’s acknowledgement of UK Disability History Month. The recording is now available here: Disability and Mobility Aids in Britain 16…

International conference.