Fittingly for #LGBTplusHM 🏳️‍🌈, my article on the salon of seventeenth-century queer icon Hortense Mancini is out online with @SEMFS! It explores her salon, her bisexuality, & a poem by her fellow exile & bisexual Saint-Évremond on lesbian hens 🐥.

Lazy Sundays with Breeze Barrington’s new book on women at the Restoration court. Review out soon! 🌸🌻🌷

RT @mg_tumminelli: Welcome to our exciting event exploring the evolution of diasporas from the Mediterranean to a global scale during the E….

When I started working on Hortense Mancini nine years ago, every book said that (almost) none of her letters had survived. Since then, I’ve managed to find about seventy… transcribed them, translated them, and proofs are now here! 😍✨😭

Happily made it to ‘Rise Up’ @FitzMuseum_UK today. The beautiful double portrait of Dido Belle and Elizabeth Murray is even more gorgeous irl. And loved seeing all the playbills advertising Ira Aldridge as Othello, Macbeth & King Lear 🎭

RT @EMHerstory: Thinking about some Protestant "femmes fortes" on #InternationalWomensDay : Jeanne d'Albret, Louise de Coligny, Georgette d….

International Women’s Day reads (accidentally v apt bc we celebrating women everyday in this house) #IWD2025

RT @DIVAmagazine: From midnight sword fights to introducing champagne to England, the affair between Hortense Mancini and Anne Lennard was….

📢For any early modernists still here: 3 x 4-year postdoc jobs at Durham in French, History, & Italian!! Also 3 x PhDs. All working under the banner of 'Inventing Futures' in a wonderful department. Apply / spread the word.

A virtual Glastonbury-style queue this morning for the St James’s Palace tour @RCT so I can find out whether the ghost of Hortense Mancini really haunts the rooms 👻

RT @ChicagoJournals: From Early Modern Women, this article takes a closer look at a story Madeleine de Scudéry wrote about her two pet cham….

Final checks for the monograph at The National Archives… and then I promise to work on something that isn’t to do with Hortense Mancini

Some great early modern women content in this month’s @HistoryToday - on the allegedly ‘Mad Duchess’ of Albemarle & the ethics of writing histories tied up with mental health

RT @NotJustTudors: Born 375 years ago, Nell Gwyn was England's most celebrated actress and Charles II's favourite mistress. @sixteenthCgirl….

RT @AnneLouiseAvery: ♥️Competition time! A special Valentine's giveaway to cheer the gloomy days of mid-February. A signed copy of my Reyna….

RT @WSGUK: We're excited to announce a special online seminar featuring Distinguished Professor Emerita Merry Wiesner-Hanks, discussing her….

RT @wimbush_antonia: Save MLANG at Cardiff University! via @UKChange .Solidarity to all colleagues & students at Ca….

RT @katefallan: Call for Conference Papers. Thrilled to share the CfP for Women’s Scientific Literatures: The Poetry and Poetics of #EarlyM….

RT @SRSRenSoc: A little thread introducing the articles in this issue which we’ll build gradually over the week:. 🧵.

So happy to see this out in the world! Our Special Issue explores displacement & innovation, interrogates the term 'exile', & foregrounds interdisciplinarity as a method especially apt for exile studies where border-crossings converge. Thank you to all our contributors ✨.

RT @EMHerstory: Interested in #embroidery and early techniques?.Sign up to hear professional embroiderers Christy Batie and Erin Moody tell….