4 Aug 1633: Preaching at Christ Church #Dublin #otd on the text 'Tu es Petrus', John Bramhall, Lord Deputy Wentworth's chaplain causes consternation by suggesting that the Church of #Rome might be a 'real' church, just in error, rather than no church (Sidney Sussex/NLI)

Giving this cfp a boost: please consider submitting something. Our Forum feature is a great home for shorter pieces. #earlymodern

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal@emwjournal.bsky.social · last mo.

We hope that lots of you will consider submitting a piece for our upcoming forum on early modern women and generations #EarlyModern

This is one of those editions that will stand the test of time. Students, academics and general readers will be forever grateful. Big shoutout to co-editors: my former boss @mlcoolahan.bsky.social & fun colleague Wes Hamrick. Most importantly it’s OPEN ACCESS: www.cambridge.org/core/books/w...

Women's Poetry from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, 1400–1800: An Anthology

Cambridge Core - Literary Texts - Women's Poetry from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, 1400–1800: An Anthology

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Aberystwyth University @aberuni.bsky.social · last wk.

📖 Academics from our Department of Welsh and Celtic Studies have co-edited a new collection of poetry that sheds light on women's poetic voices across Wales, Ireland and Scotland between 1400 to 1800. 🖱️ tinyurl.com/425psjdu #WomensPoetry #CelticLanguages

If anyone is considering editing something from our collections, we will happily supply a digital copy at no cost. Please contact Kate (archives at ucd dot ie).

Irish Manuscripts Commission@irishmanuscripts.bsky.social · 2w ago

Closing date: Wed 29 July The IMC student prize of €1,000 is awarded to a postgraduate student for editing a short historical document, which will also be considered for publication in Analecta Hibernica. Learn more at: irishmanuscripts.ie/imc-student-prize-2026/

My short essay about two 17th century Powhatan women in London and Bermuda is finally out! commonplace.online/article/the-...

The Other Elizabeth and Mary: Anglo-Powhatan Marriages and the Virginia Company of London - Commonplace

By employing marriage as a technology of imperialism, the Virginia Company hoped to turn its struggling overseas colonies into stable, productive English communities.

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The Records of Early English Drama is delighted to announce the open access publication of the tenth digital edition in the REED series. The dramatic records for the Swan Playhouse, edited by Sally-Beth MacLean, are now available on REED Online (ereed.org/collections/...).

Earlier this week I was informed that “The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women's Writing” is now published. It's a phenomenal effort by the editors but selling at a phenomenal price too. I've published some stuff in it so if any one doesn't have access happy to share my work #earlymodern

And if you're not in Galway you can hear Prof Steven Ellis discuss St Nicholas's Church during the reformation here: podcasts.apple.com/eg/podcast/p... OR read his superb open access article published here: er.ceres.rub.de/index.php/ER...

Tuatha@tuatha.ie · 3w ago

If the heat is getting a little too much, may I suggest escaping into the cool gloom of a medieval church? This is St Nicholas’ Church in Galway. It was constructed in around 1320, on the site of an earlier church. Though it has seen many alterations, it remains an evocative & atmospheric place.

We often say that books hide stories. This time, one quite literally did. Secret compartment was hollowed out in this collection of sermons. 🕵️ #earlymodern #rarebooks #secretcompartment

This week we also published 'The Correspondence of Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh, 1640–1691', edited by Evan Bourke: bit.ly/4ouSa1l This is the latest volume in @royalhistsoc.org's Camden Series of primary source editions, published online & print by CUP: bit.ly/4oxm5Ga #Skystorians 1/2

Letters of Lady Ranelagh (1640-91): new Camden volume published - RHS

The latest volume in the Society's Camden Series of primary source materials is The Correspondence of Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh, 1640–1691, edited by Evan Bourke. Published on 11 June, thi...

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As promised! The @uniofgalwaycasscs.bsky.social has generously provided support for two days of public-facing ms activities this July. The events will be free of charge, and there is funding for ECR travel (defined as ≤7 years post-PhD, with preference for those not yet in permanent employment). 1/

STEMMA: Systems of Transmitting Early Modern Manuscript Verse@stemma.bsky.social · 2mo ago

STEMMA will be hosting its inaugural Manuscripts Week this year starting 20 July. Watch our socials for details, including opportunities to get involved.

Super-niche query based on my ongoing research on #earlymodern women and accounting: is there any work that's been done on Spanish women and numeracy--or even numeracy in Spain more generally? I'm thinking of something similar to @afroide.bsky.social and @jmotis.bsky.social 's work on England.

Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers)@lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Investigating accounting practices in Spanish convents has led me down a very interesting rabbit hole of #earlymodern arithmetic and accounting manuals. It's abundantly clear that the nuns had sophisticated knowledge and skills.

I missed this earlier but it’s yet another terrific #HerBook piece by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social. I’ve done a small bit of work on female gift giving (out soon!) but more needs to be done. And come on, how can you not resist a read by an owner named Dulcibella Dunch??? #earlymodern

Martine van Elk@martinevanelk.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today on the blog, Sarah Lindenbaum discusses a gifted book and two other books owned by the wonderfully named Dulcibella Dunch, giving us an indication of her library and reading practices. earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2026/05/04/d... #HerBook #EarlyModern

#DIBLives #OTD 1922 a huge explosion at the Public Records Office in the Four Courts destroyed centuries of Irish administrative, legal & genealogical records. @virtualtreasury.bsky.social has spent years recreating many of these records & made them freely available to the public. virtualtreasury.ie

It feels like this is the inevitable culmination of "hidden histories" and "untold stories" combined with "we can't footnote your work, that would be awkward for the reader." But at its core, it's just the result of an utter lack of respect for the labor and expertise of an entire field.

Rachel Hope Cleves@rachelcleves.bsky.social · last mo.

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

NEW OPEN ACCESS E-BOOK: 'Atlas of Scottish History to 1707' Almost 15 years in the making, the atlas contains maps, diagrams, plans, charts and tables covering the history of Scotland from the earliest times up to 1707, along with explanatory texts: books.socantscot.org/digital-book...

My new post, on the Elizabethan 'Case of Mines', which turns out to have lots of interesting bits just below the surface. legalhistorymiscellany.com/2026/04/22/t...

The Most Excellent Things are the King’s? The Case of Mines (1568)

Who owns what lies within the ground beneath our feet? This post explores the answers offered in a 1568 case that has both analogues and legacies today.

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The #manuscript copy of Sir James Ware's Annals of the Kingdom of Ireland 1169-1272. He'd never published this meticulous #earlymodern work, though his annals for the Tudor period were printed in 1664 #bookhistory. Given this glorious penmanship by a #17thc scribe, why would you publish it?

#CFP Female Networks of Knowledge: Natural History between Private and Public Spaces (Vienna, November 19-20, 2026), due May 30. Conference explores how women shaped scientific knowledge via networks that crossed the domestic, social, and institutional from early modern to 19th c. #envhist #histstm

Our spring 2026 issue is out! Featuring four articles, the annual Conversations on Early Modern Women and Race, three exhibition reviews, and twenty-five book reviews www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/emw/curr... #EarlyModern

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal | Vol 20, No 2

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#CFP for #earlymodern folks! @hannah-historian.bsky.social and I are putting together a special edition of the Journal of Epistolary Studies on "Letters as Paratexts in the Early Modern World"!

The Bibliographical Society of America is participating in a social media campaign with ACLS this week, and we invite you to join in! The message is simple and proactive: we need more humanities and social sciences scholars and research. #TalkAboutHumanities

What a fabulous mid #16thc portrait with a clear inscription statement: “Sophonisba Angussola Virgo made it herself 1554”. My guess is that this was a personally drafted meditational book by the then 22-year old with an unambiguous #herbook statement? @martinevanelk.bsky.social

Art Herstory@artherstory.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Self-portrait, 1554, by #SofonisbaAnguissola (Italian, c. 1532–1625). On view in Room 6 at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, www.khm.at/en/artworks/... #artherstory #womenartists

The Women's Print History Project collects bibliographic data on printed objects associated with women's production. I've been itching to query the data not limited by the UI, and ✨ I finally get to ✨ Here are some things I've been able to surface... womensprinthistoryproject.com

Next Friday at 12, PhD candidate Michael O'Connor will speak about his work on Irish slaveholders in Jamaica in an event hosted by the Centre for 18th-Century Studies at QUB

A clash of personalities that still waits for someone to write about. All the more interesting as it’s a v rare admission by Wenworth that he may have gone too far when it was suggested Mountnorris could be even executed for charges laid against him

John McCafferty@jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 4mo ago

8 Apr 1635: At dinner #otd in the Lord Chancellor of Ireland's house, Francis Annesley, Baron Mountnorris, rejoices in a footstool dropped by a relative on the gouty foot of the Lord Deputy Thomas Wentworth. He hints there'll be more to come. He'd be court-martialled. (NMNI)

Thomas Fairfax on 3 June 1645, promising that his army would never treat women as cruelly as the royalists had done at Leicester. A grim irony given what would happen a few days later at Naseby.

A piece of collage from a late 17th century Irish manuscript. A manuscript made in Dublin but grafted with an image of the crucifixion (probably) from a Netherlandish printed book.

✨I could not be more excited to see what arrived in the post today. Not only because it is good to see 2 chapters reach the light of day, but because of the immense scholarship that has gone into this enterprise, with 69 scholars &2 vols my hat goes off to @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social & other editors✨

Wonderful early modern marginalia, including a woman riding a horse astride. #bookhistory @emwjournal.bsky.social

Zanna Van Loon@zannavanloon.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Blank pages invite use. In this 1578 print album by Philip Galle, published in collaboration with the Officina Plantiniana, a later reader used the flyleaves and leftover white space to sketch contemporary faces and figures. #bookhistory #rarebooks #earlymodern 💙📚📜