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Jonathan Healey

@jonathanhealey.bsky.social

Historian and Occasional Book-writer (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-world-9781526621696/) Works at Oxford University. New book, The Blood in Winter, out now! https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blood-in-winter-9781526672292/

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Jonathan Healey@jonathanhealey.bsky.social · 6d ago

Interested in views on this. The RCT is unequivocal that the princess *doesn't* look like Henrietta Maria (as has been suggested), but I'm not quite so sure: www.rct.uk/collection/4...

Sir Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640) - Landscape with St George and the Dragon

This work was described in 1630 as one executed by Rubens ‘in honour of England’, which he sent home to Flanders as a ‘monument to his abode & employment here’ (Rubens stayed in England as a diplo...

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Royal Historical Society@royalhistsoc.org · last wk.

We've two new volumes in the Society's Camden Series of primary editions: > 'The Correspondence of Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh, 1640–91', ed Evan Bourke > 'Francis Slingsby (1611–42) and the Jesuits', ed Brian Mac Cuarta - published next week More on our latest Camdens bit.ly/4wvv9P1

Cover images of six recent volumes in the Royal Historical Society's Camden Series of primary source editions: Francis Slingsby (1611–1642) and the Jesuits, edited by Brian Mac Cuarta The Correspondence of Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh, 1640–1691, edited by Evan Bourke A Collector Collected. The Journals of William Upcott, 1803-1823, edited by Mark Philp, Aysuda Akan and Curtis Leung. The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), edited by Helen Newsome-Chandler The Papers of Admiral George Grey, edited by Michael Taylor THE HOUSEHOLD ACCOUNTS OF ROBERT AND KATHERINE GREVILLE, LORD AND LADY BROOKE, AT HOLBORN AND WARWICK, 1640–1649, edited Stewart Beale, Andrew Hopper, Ann Hughes
Nute@nutedawn.bsky.social · last wk.

I’m hoping Christopher Nolan writes a scathing review of Wilson’s next translation project, let’s get a real feud going. “Her clumsy and consistent flattening of the gnomic aorist into a bare preterite utterly fails to capture the nuance of the original!”

Liesbeth Corens@onslies.bsky.social · last mo.

This petition needs as many signatories as the Exeter one. Please sign and share — don’t let Hertfordshire managers get away with this just because a Russell Group one took the spotlight. #UKHE

Joanna Bourke@joannabourke.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Shocking news about redundancies in the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire, despite their exceptional research activities. I have signed the petition against these actions: it would be great if you would as well: c.org/kDQynZV7J4 @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @bisa-bkk.bsky.social