Annalisa Nicholson
@apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social
Early modernist and Research Fellow in French at KCL
Working on women, exile, gender, Huguenots, Francophonie, queer libertines ~ she/her
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/annalisa-nicholson
Working on women, exile, gender, Huguenots, Francophonie, queer libertines ~ she/her
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/annalisa-nicholson
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✨Excitingly my monograph now has a cover!✨ It’s out in November @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social, which means there will finally be a whole book on Hortense Mancini’s salon, the eager few will be relieved to know. It comes with an academic price tag £££ but will be Open Access. Library orders welcome 🙏
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Merry Christmas! My gift to you all is this new episode about an old fav - Hortense Mancini, It Girl of the 17th century. And our very special guest @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social is an expert on Hortense, who has just published TWO books about her! pod.link/1489560920/e...
December 24, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Merry Christmas! My gift to you all is this new episode about an old fav - Hortense Mancini, It Girl of the 17th century. And our very special guest @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social is an expert on Hortense, who has just published TWO books about her! pod.link/1489560920/e...
Wonderful news that the UK is set to rejoin Erasmus - but with modern languages departments at risk of closure across the country, the benefits of Erasmus will surely be far more limited.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Wonderful news that the UK is set to rejoin Erasmus - but with modern languages departments at risk of closure across the country, the benefits of Erasmus will surely be far more limited.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
The new British Library archives & manuscript catalogue is finally here... my prayers have been answered 😍 searcharchives.bl.uk?utm_campaign...
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue
searcharchives.bl.uk
December 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The new British Library archives & manuscript catalogue is finally here... my prayers have been answered 😍 searcharchives.bl.uk?utm_campaign...
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'For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it. Indeed, the most useful lesson the humanities have to offer today is a profoundly countercultural one: Difficulty is good, an end in its own right.' 2/2
December 15, 2025 at 12:44 PM
'For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it. Indeed, the most useful lesson the humanities have to offer today is a profoundly countercultural one: Difficulty is good, an end in its own right.' 2/2
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Our deadline is approaching! A reminder that you have until Monday 15 December to apply for our £750 bursary. Good luck everyone!
📢Funding announcement! Applications for our bursary are now open (deadline 15 December 2025). £750 for ECRs, indie scholars or PhD students working on any aspect of women's studies in the period 1558 to 1837. Full details available on our website:
womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/
#funding #ECR #PhD
womensstudiesgroup.org/bursary/
#funding #ECR #PhD
WSG Bursary Scheme
Applications for 2025-2026 open on 1 November 2025 WSG is offering a bursary of £750 to an early career researcher*, independent scholar or PhD student who is a member of the WSG. The bursary is in…
womensstudiesgroup.org
December 12, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Our deadline is approaching! A reminder that you have until Monday 15 December to apply for our £750 bursary. Good luck everyone!
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So delighted to see my first book up online with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @anzamems.bsky.social @memorients.bsky.social @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social. DM or email me for a review copy request form, and ask your uni librarian to buy the book!! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
December 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
So delighted to see my first book up online with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @anzamems.bsky.social @memorients.bsky.social @earlymoderncircle.bsky.social. DM or email me for a review copy request form, and ask your uni librarian to buy the book!! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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Graduate of the American Studies programme that the University of Nottingham wishes to close wins 2025 Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.
History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.
The Wolfson History Prize - Celebrating Outstanding History
The Wolfson History Prize is awarded annually to promote and recognise outstanding history written for a general audience.
www.wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk
December 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Graduate of the American Studies programme that the University of Nottingham wishes to close wins 2025 Wolfson History Prize for Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.
History, it's a long game. Divest in haste, repent for the longue durée.
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📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector bit.ly/47Y3hYI
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
careers.universiteitleiden.nl
November 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM
📢Here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden within the ERC project LangPro led by Dr Alisa van de Haar, and co-supervised by yours truly, on professional opportunities for women in the early modern language sector bit.ly/47Y3hYI
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
Apply by 15 Feb. 2026; starting date 1 Aug. 2026
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In case you missed our first announcement, there’s still over a month to submit your abstracts 🪶
We have already received some amazing proposals, and can’t wait to put together a fantastic programme for April!
We have already received some amazing proposals, and can’t wait to put together a fantastic programme for April!
December 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
In case you missed our first announcement, there’s still over a month to submit your abstracts 🪶
We have already received some amazing proposals, and can’t wait to put together a fantastic programme for April!
We have already received some amazing proposals, and can’t wait to put together a fantastic programme for April!
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After fleeing from her husband, #HortenseMancini fascinated #17thcentury Europe as a wealthy duchess, a royal mistress, and a scandalous libertine.
🔒 Annalisa Nicholson’s article from the December issue is now in the archive
www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
🔒 Annalisa Nicholson’s article from the December issue is now in the archive
www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
Hortense Mancini’s English Affairs
www.historytoday.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
After fleeing from her husband, #HortenseMancini fascinated #17thcentury Europe as a wealthy duchess, a royal mistress, and a scandalous libertine.
🔒 Annalisa Nicholson’s article from the December issue is now in the archive
www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
🔒 Annalisa Nicholson’s article from the December issue is now in the archive
www.historytoday.com/archive/feat...
It’s December! And I have a piece in this month’s @historytoday.com on (you guessed it) Hortense Mancini’s life, and what I learned about her as I prepared the first ever edition of her letters, which is out with Iter Press later this month. (Lots of other great stuff in HT Dec issue too)
December 1, 2025 at 10:59 AM
It’s December! And I have a piece in this month’s @historytoday.com on (you guessed it) Hortense Mancini’s life, and what I learned about her as I prepared the first ever edition of her letters, which is out with Iter Press later this month. (Lots of other great stuff in HT Dec issue too)
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“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?”
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
‘Doing the Readings’
Dr Will Pooley (Associate Professor in Modern History), University of Bristol The students, we often grumble, don’t read the secondary readings we set for class. Every year, we find ourselves press…
www.history-uk.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?”
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
I’m so happy that it’s publication day for my monograph! As I’m on leave atm, there’s no book launch (yet…) but I’m celebrating with my little mascot who says it’s almost as good as their favourite Peekaboo Moon, which is towering praise from this fairly fierce book critic.
November 27, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I’m so happy that it’s publication day for my monograph! As I’m on leave atm, there’s no book launch (yet…) but I’m celebrating with my little mascot who says it’s almost as good as their favourite Peekaboo Moon, which is towering praise from this fairly fierce book critic.
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🖼️ Did exile ultimately give women more freedom?
Using the example of French exile Hortense Mancini, Dr Annalisa Nicholson shows how these women played a pivotal role in shaping elite culture in Restoration England ⬇️
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@apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social @kingsdllc.bsky.social
Using the example of French exile Hortense Mancini, Dr Annalisa Nicholson shows how these women played a pivotal role in shaping elite culture in Restoration England ⬇️
buff.ly/2yV89M5
@apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social @kingsdllc.bsky.social
The original influencers: exiled women and the French salon in European culture
A new book explores how exiled women played a pivotal role in shaping elite culture in Restoration England through the introduction of the French salon model.
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November 27, 2025 at 10:21 AM
🖼️ Did exile ultimately give women more freedom?
Using the example of French exile Hortense Mancini, Dr Annalisa Nicholson shows how these women played a pivotal role in shaping elite culture in Restoration England ⬇️
buff.ly/2yV89M5
@apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social @kingsdllc.bsky.social
Using the example of French exile Hortense Mancini, Dr Annalisa Nicholson shows how these women played a pivotal role in shaping elite culture in Restoration England ⬇️
buff.ly/2yV89M5
@apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social @kingsdllc.bsky.social
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📖 @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social A Salon-in-Exile shows how Hortense Mancini’s 17th-century London salon became a hub for French exiles, turning the traditional French salon into a pan-European space of intellectual, literary & cultural exchange.
🔓 www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
🔓 www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
November 27, 2025 at 10:18 AM
📖 @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social A Salon-in-Exile shows how Hortense Mancini’s 17th-century London salon became a hub for French exiles, turning the traditional French salon into a pan-European space of intellectual, literary & cultural exchange.
🔓 www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
🔓 www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph?do...
I've had an article under review at a journal for over 7 months, which feels like AGES but...is this normal now?! I keep hearing about the difficulties in finding peer reviewers. I don't want to be dramatic and withdraw the manuscript, but also as an fixed-term ECR, I can't help feeling restless
November 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I've had an article under review at a journal for over 7 months, which feels like AGES but...is this normal now?! I keep hearing about the difficulties in finding peer reviewers. I don't want to be dramatic and withdraw the manuscript, but also as an fixed-term ECR, I can't help feeling restless
Unboxing my author copies to finally hold the finished book in my hands. What a feeling! I started this research during my MA in 2016, and 1 PhD and 2 research fellowships later it’s finally here. Coming soon to a research library near you! ✨
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Unboxing my author copies to finally hold the finished book in my hands. What a feeling! I started this research during my MA in 2016, and 1 PhD and 2 research fellowships later it’s finally here. Coming soon to a research library near you! ✨
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The Worshipful Company of Curriers essay prize on London for early career scholars, in association with The London Journal Trust and the Institute of Historical Research.
The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal.
The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal.
Curriers' Essay Prize | The London Journal
The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal. Other promising entries may also be considered for publication.
www.thelondonjournal.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The Worshipful Company of Curriers essay prize on London for early career scholars, in association with The London Journal Trust and the Institute of Historical Research.
The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal.
The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal.
Early modernists! I'm reading abt the 1662 Russian embassy to London where Pepys records gifts of 'furs, hawks, carpets, cloths of tissue, and sea-horse teeth'. I'm intrigued by the seahorse teeth bc...seahorse don't have teeth, right? Are these other parts of the seahorse's body or something else?🪸
November 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Early modernists! I'm reading abt the 1662 Russian embassy to London where Pepys records gifts of 'furs, hawks, carpets, cloths of tissue, and sea-horse teeth'. I'm intrigued by the seahorse teeth bc...seahorse don't have teeth, right? Are these other parts of the seahorse's body or something else?🪸
Did anyone else feel their heart leap with the news that the British Library are aiming to relaunch their archives and manuscript catalogue in early December? Can't wait to see you old friend 😭
October 31, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Did anyone else feel their heart leap with the news that the British Library are aiming to relaunch their archives and manuscript catalogue in early December? Can't wait to see you old friend 😭
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We are thrilled to share the CFP for our Symposium, Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714. We hope to bring together a range of interdisciplinary research on this complex and understudied period! #EarlyModern #CfP
October 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
We are thrilled to share the CFP for our Symposium, Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714. We hope to bring together a range of interdisciplinary research on this complex and understudied period! #EarlyModern #CfP
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Delighted to see the open access publication of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms -- a superb volume featuring artists, poets, scholars, and a short essay by me on Dutch- and French-speaking women in 16th-century London telling their stories of migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...
Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms – punctum books
punctumbooks.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Delighted to see the open access publication of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms -- a superb volume featuring artists, poets, scholars, and a short essay by me on Dutch- and French-speaking women in 16th-century London telling their stories of migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...
Another day, another email with a REF task. I’ve been at my institution barely a year and already lost so many hours to this bleak stuff. I know everyone hates it but it’s even more exhausting when you’re fixed-term ECR and doing it for an institution that’ll turf you out as soon as contract ends
September 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Another day, another email with a REF task. I’ve been at my institution barely a year and already lost so many hours to this bleak stuff. I know everyone hates it but it’s even more exhausting when you’re fixed-term ECR and doing it for an institution that’ll turf you out as soon as contract ends
Starting some new writing today on a favourite topic - libertine women - with some motivational libertine treats
September 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Starting some new writing today on a favourite topic - libertine women - with some motivational libertine treats
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Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians
September 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians