Annalisa Nicholson

Late to my own party, but it is wonderful to see my edition of Hortense Mancini’s letters in print, which arrived at the start of the year. If you think your library would benefit from the words of one of the seventeenth-century’s most libertine women, here is the link: iterpress.org/978164959131...

A dreamy evening at KCL on Thursday at our seminar on Restoration women and worldly self-fashioning from Elizabeth Lauderdale’s gorgeous screen to Hortense Mancini’s Asian patch boxes. Excess was the theme of the night - so much to say, so many wonderful questions, and many glasses of wine 🍷

In our latest blog post, recent Maddock Fellow Dan Rafiqi places Élie Bouhéreau’s diary within the wider tradition of seventeenth-century autobiographical writing. 🔗https://marshlibrary.ie/contextualising-elie-bouhereaus-diary/

Reposting for those that missed it. New article on cold spots in language degree provision - with maps for individual languages here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Times Higher Education coverage here: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/languag... Summary of the main findings below 👇

Still time to secure a ticket for our event this Thursday!

It’s probably not often that someone can say that after four years of work, they got hit by a car the week they planned to submit their PhD thesis. Even so, 2 nights in hospital, 8 staples in my head, and one hefty concussion only amounted to a 3 week delay, and what will be a funny story!

Joint #earlymodern online book launch next Monday, 26 Oct for myself & @rentravailer.bsky.social, hosted by the wonderful @srsrensoc.bsky.social! We've had a few joint reviews so this is finally our chance to say more about the connections between the two books. Please consider joining us online!

PROGRAMME! Papers on Venice & the Ottoman empire by Filippo de Vivo and the history of blindness by Francisco Eissa Barroso, as well as a celebration of and reflection on recent books. Mondays, 17:30 All welcome in person @ihr.bsky.social or on zoom www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #earlymodern

If you are around in my hometown (London) on Thursday do consider popping along to King's. I'll be joining @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social, Catherine MacLeod, & Dr Hannah Dawson to talk about Restoration women and their worlds. www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

📌 Wednesday, 21 October 2026 | 🕒 3 pm (PDT) 🏫 Stanford University (USA) Alessandra Celati will discuss “Women, Heresy, Archives: Writing about Disorderly Women of the Sixteenth Century” at the Early Modern History Workshop. #EarlyModern #ReligiousDissent #WomensHistory

A few final tickets left if you want to join us @cemskcl.bsky.social on Thursday to talk Restoration women, global interiors, and libertine aesthetics 🍷 www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

📣 Job! Full-time, open-ended. "Expertise is welcomed in any aspect of Asia’s historic global trajectories, connections, and interactions between c.1500 and c.2000, including those of a specific Asian region, society or culture." Details ⬇️ www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DTG789/l...

At French History we're appointing a new Co-Editor and a new Associate Editor in the history of France and/or the Francophone world in the post-1789 period. Deadline 16 Nov. Do get in touch if you have any questions! Links posted below. 🧐📚📖👋✉️💾✍️🖥️🇫🇷 @frenchhistory.bsky.social academic.oup.com/fh

CfP! 🗃️ Marloes Cornelissen Aydemir, @tommasoaga.bsky.social, @jakedyble.bsky.social and I are very excited to be arranging a conference in Istanbul (13–14 May) on Early Modern Euro-Ottoman Exchange. PhD students/ECRs especially welcome! Please share with anyone who might be interested

🎓 'She worked very hard to get into university and was very proud of having gone to King's.' Professor Lawrence Warner pays tribute to @kclalumni.bsky.social Maureen Duffy on a special episode of the @alcs.co.uk Authors' Matters podcast 👇 alcs.buzzsprout.com/536413/episo...

It's the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings today, so I'm reposting my recent piece on the Anglo-Saxon women who made the Bayeux Tapestry – and what the rarely seen reverse of it might tell us about their experiences. mathewlyons.substack.com/p/the-bayeux...

Looking right at you from her lovely niche: Susanna Temple, later Lady Lister. Painted in 1620 by Cornelis Johnson, whose day is today.

A piece for @engelsbergideas.bsky.social on my old favourite Catherine of Siena - underrated political thinker and icon of Renaissance art. engelsbergideas.com/portraits/ca...

There are just a few tickets left for the Elizabethan extravaganza curated by the Society for Neo-Latin Studies! An entirely free concert in the beautiful setting of St Bartholomew the Great in Smithfield. 6th Nov. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/england-at...?

We are having a Trans History Festival! You can see Ruth talk to Susan Stryker, and also many other exciting things!

Announcing our programme for the Early Modern and C18 Centre @emeccwarwick.bsky.social First event on 15 October 1-2pm is a book launch for the amazing @imogenknox.bsky.social celebrating Suicide and the Supernatural in Early Modern Britain and America. More here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

As tiresome as it is to hear Andy Burnham saying "innovation nation" over and over, it's arguably even worse to hear this talk of industrialisation. We have great, valuable export industries in the arts, TV, the BBC and higher education. All are being filleted; thousands out of work, and what for?

Looking forward to this in a couple of weeks! Hear us talk about Elizabeth Maitland's lacquer cabinets, Nell Gwyn's silver snuff box, and Hortense Mancini's Chinese silks. All welcome 🍷

Forty four (yes 44!) pounds for a <1h train journey from Cambridge to London this morning - that’s almost a pound a minute - and the WiFi is down again. Well, why don’t you live nearer work, you ask, if the trains are so terrible? Dear Reader, because my campus is on THE STRAND.

Really excited for this event later this month! Join us if you can.

My new Substack post discusses the lives and careers of Elen and Margaret More, two Black ladies-in-waiting to Lady Margaret and Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland. You can read it here: sophiebacchuswaterman.substack.com/p/elen-and-m...

Université de Poitiers, UFR Lettres et langues. Bâtiment bloqué aujourd’hui. Première AG ce matin à 9h. Groupes de travail ensuite. Repas organisé par les étudiantes et étudiants. Deuxième AG maintenant pour discuter et décider des suites de la mobilisation.

'The University of Nottingham has confirmed that it will close its music and languages departments as it presses ahead with more than 500 job cuts despite widespread opposition from staff and students.' A blight on East Midlands and UK higher education.

Les témoignages sur ce qui s'est passé hier à la Sorbonne nouvelle sont accablants. J'ai honte de ma fac.

🇬🇼 'The Heretic of Cacheu: Crispina Peres and the Struggle over Life in Seventeenth-Century West Africa' by Professor Toby Green has been shortlisted for the @asanewsonline.bsky.social Best Book Prize. The book explores the life of Crispina Peres, a slave trader in West Africa 👇 buff.ly/m9VZ1cU

New #OpenAccess #History: Alice Thornton’s Books Reassessing the Life Writings of a Seventeenth-Century Woman Edited by Cordelia Beattie, Suzanne Trill, Joanne Edge. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Showcase of new PH research on migration and mobility in collaboration with History Lab, online and in person at the IHR, London. Free and open to the public Tuesday 6 October at 5:30-7:30pm. Please book in advance (booking statistics help build the case for UKRI core support).

Check out our upcoming events for Semester 1! We have lots of exciting sessions planned and we hope to see you there! Further details and reading lists will appear on our website shortly: sites.manchester.ac.uk/bodies-emoti...

Stuart courtiers, worldly women, libertinism, and feminist archival methodologies... join us for an exciting evening conversation on the women in the court of Charles II. 22nd October @ 17:00. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/world...

👑 What was life like for the women courtiers of Charles II? @kerrylouisehistory.bsky.social, @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social, Dr Hannah Dawson and Catharine MacLeod examine how women embraced travel, consumerism and libertinism at this @cemskcl.bsky.social event on 22 October. buff.ly/H0MXfq5

I walk past this house all the time, dusty and unattended, but very beautiful; set back from the road. It has recently been for sale. I love IM and also the quiet pace of these paintings and their magic energy all a secret for years. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This reminds me of the time I was complaining how clogged my local park gets with cyclists and dogwalkers during my daytime runs, so a male friend suggested I go running late, after 10pm, like he does.

Dr @clodaghmurphy.bsky.social research is still making headlines! Her research was part of our @erc.europa.eu Consolidator project #FEATHERS 🪶 on mediated authorship in handwritten texts - it’s wonderful to see the questions we're exploring being picked up. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/who-...

Call for proposals for a workshop, my people! Slavery and transimperial trade next March at William & Mary. Please spread it far and wide: I want to read your many great proposals!

ImPRESSed Yet? I am thrilled to announce that Impressive Textiles: Premodern Printing on Fabric will be published October 27 in print and Open Access with @acmrs.bsky.social, thanks to 30 textile and print scholars, and 1 groundbreaking exhibition @newberrylibrary.bsky.social! #CoverReveal 1/5

Elizabethan playhouses were supplied by a network of tailors, merchants & craftswomen. Their names survive in records, but little is known about their lives. I’m working on new research that brings the stories of these makers & traders centre stage. Here is the project in biscuit (cookie) form. 🍪

It was somewhat delayed, but we've now got a booking link for Rosamund Oates's talk on deafness on Thursday! Sign up here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

I'm on strike for the next five weeks with @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social because management continues to threaten mass compulsory redundancies. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...