Naomi Baker
@drnaomibaker.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English Lit, U of Manchester| Assoc. Editor Literature & Theology
📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (2025)
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/voices-of-thunder
📚Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century (2025)
https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/voices-of-thunder
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Naomi Baker
@drnaomibaker.bsky.social
· Jun 27
“the most accessible, detailed and well-informed study to date of the 17th-century women preachers and prophets … many will find it an eye-opening revelation”
Am thrilled with this wonderful endorsement of VOICES OF THUNDER by Prof. Nigel Smith
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social #earlymodern
Am thrilled with this wonderful endorsement of VOICES OF THUNDER by Prof. Nigel Smith
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social #earlymodern
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Out now! Open access in current issue of Renaissance Quarterly thanks to @ucdlibrary.bsky.social my thanks to everyone who helped me with this - but a special mention of the late Bríd McGrath for her wisdom, generosity and dedication to all the things that matter.
January 2, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Out now! Open access in current issue of Renaissance Quarterly thanks to @ucdlibrary.bsky.social my thanks to everyone who helped me with this - but a special mention of the late Bríd McGrath for her wisdom, generosity and dedication to all the things that matter.
My podcast episode on the “Prophetesses and she-preachers of the 17th century” who star in my book Voices of Thunder is available now on the @historyextra.bsky.social podcast ✨ Access it wherever you access your podcasts! #earlymodern
January 2, 2026 at 8:49 AM
My podcast episode on the “Prophetesses and she-preachers of the 17th century” who star in my book Voices of Thunder is available now on the @historyextra.bsky.social podcast ✨ Access it wherever you access your podcasts! #earlymodern
“Women who defied the patriarchy and the Church of England to declare their truths to the world come to vivid life in Voices of Thunder”
Very happy with this great review!
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Very happy with this great review!
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December 27, 2025 at 8:02 AM
“Women who defied the patriarchy and the Church of England to declare their truths to the world come to vivid life in Voices of Thunder”
Very happy with this great review!
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Very happy with this great review!
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“… the thunder of women’s voices continues to roll.”
Thank you @trudymorgancole.bsky.social for this fantastic review of “Voices of Thunder”. It means so much to me that you see the connections between the women I write about and the ongoing struggle for women’s voices to be heard
#earlymodern
Thank you @trudymorgancole.bsky.social for this fantastic review of “Voices of Thunder”. It means so much to me that you see the connections between the women I write about and the ongoing struggle for women’s voices to be heard
#earlymodern
A Review of Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century, by Naomi Baker - Spectrum Magazine
Almost 500 years ago, English women were preaching, prophesying, having ecstatic visions, and travelling the world as missionaries. Are their stories still relevant to us today?
spectrummagazine.org
December 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
“… the thunder of women’s voices continues to roll.”
Thank you @trudymorgancole.bsky.social for this fantastic review of “Voices of Thunder”. It means so much to me that you see the connections between the women I write about and the ongoing struggle for women’s voices to be heard
#earlymodern
Thank you @trudymorgancole.bsky.social for this fantastic review of “Voices of Thunder”. It means so much to me that you see the connections between the women I write about and the ongoing struggle for women’s voices to be heard
#earlymodern
Thank you @ericanela.bsky.social for this fantastic review of Voices of Thunder in Quaker Studies! 🤩✨🌟
quakerstudies.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
quakerstudies.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
December 22, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Thank you @ericanela.bsky.social for this fantastic review of Voices of Thunder in Quaker Studies! 🤩✨🌟
quakerstudies.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
quakerstudies.openlibhums.org/article/id/2...
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So happy to have finally gotten a copy of Dr Baker’s newest publication, just in time for Christmas break! An absolutely phenomenal read which brings to light the lives of the most extraordinary women.
It’s the US publication date of Voices of Thunder! 📚 It tells the stories of a dozen radical Protestant 17th-century women, including Quaker women who travelled to Boston and beyond #puritans #womenshistory #quakers #booklaunch #earlymodern
December 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
So happy to have finally gotten a copy of Dr Baker’s newest publication, just in time for Christmas break! An absolutely phenomenal read which brings to light the lives of the most extraordinary women.
I’m currently answering questions about Voices of Thunder on the thread below - ask away, if you have any questions! #earlymodern
Today's AMA on @askhistorians.bsky.social with @drnaomibaker.bsky.social is live! Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
From the AskHistorians community on Reddit: I'm Dr Naomi Baker, author of Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century. AMA!
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December 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
I’m currently answering questions about Voices of Thunder on the thread below - ask away, if you have any questions! #earlymodern
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The AMA is tomorrow!
December 11, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The AMA is tomorrow!
It’s the US publication date of Voices of Thunder! 📚 It tells the stories of a dozen radical Protestant 17th-century women, including Quaker women who travelled to Boston and beyond #puritans #womenshistory #quakers #booklaunch #earlymodern
December 11, 2025 at 10:22 PM
It’s the US publication date of Voices of Thunder! 📚 It tells the stories of a dozen radical Protestant 17th-century women, including Quaker women who travelled to Boston and beyond #puritans #womenshistory #quakers #booklaunch #earlymodern
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#earlymodern if I were to (note the conditionals) edit an anthology of verse by early modern women, what would you want to see in it? And what would you want it to do that isn’t covered by current options?
December 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
#earlymodern if I were to (note the conditionals) edit an anthology of verse by early modern women, what would you want to see in it? And what would you want it to do that isn’t covered by current options?
Thrilled with this great review of Voices of Thunder by @balancedachieve.bsky.social 📚
December 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Thrilled with this great review of Voices of Thunder by @balancedachieve.bsky.social 📚
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On @thejohnrylands.bsky.social blog, Dr Naomi Baker discusses one of the earliest known English conversion narratives by Rose Thurgood, giving us rare insight into religious women’s lives and beliefs in the decades before the English Civil War.
Read more: rylandscollections.com/2025/10/17/t...
Read more: rylandscollections.com/2025/10/17/t...
Rylands Blog‘Take no distaste of my words, though they be a woman’s writing’
Guest author Dr. Naomi Baker discusses Rose Thurgood’s conversion narrative (1636-7), one of the earliest known English conversion narratives, giving us rare insight into religious women’s lives an…
rylandscollections.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
On @thejohnrylands.bsky.social blog, Dr Naomi Baker discusses one of the earliest known English conversion narratives by Rose Thurgood, giving us rare insight into religious women’s lives and beliefs in the decades before the English Civil War.
Read more: rylandscollections.com/2025/10/17/t...
Read more: rylandscollections.com/2025/10/17/t...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Spotted in @waterstones.bsky.social Cheadle, so I signed a few. It’s still so exciting to see it in the wild 🤩📚#voicesofthunder #womenshistory #earlymodern
November 21, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Spotted in @waterstones.bsky.social Cheadle, so I signed a few. It’s still so exciting to see it in the wild 🤩📚#voicesofthunder #womenshistory #earlymodern
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1 WEEK: Reflecting on Manchester Criminal Prosecutions
📅 17 Nov, 5pm
📍Sam Alex Building
Book: https://ow.ly/ibxU50Xe7zX
University of Manchester School of Social Sciences School of Arts, Languages and Cultures @uomlaw.bsky.social CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity Garden Court Chambers
📅 17 Nov, 5pm
📍Sam Alex Building
Book: https://ow.ly/ibxU50Xe7zX
University of Manchester School of Social Sciences School of Arts, Languages and Cultures @uomlaw.bsky.social CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity Garden Court Chambers
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
1 WEEK: Reflecting on Manchester Criminal Prosecutions
📅 17 Nov, 5pm
📍Sam Alex Building
Book: https://ow.ly/ibxU50Xe7zX
University of Manchester School of Social Sciences School of Arts, Languages and Cultures @uomlaw.bsky.social CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity Garden Court Chambers
📅 17 Nov, 5pm
📍Sam Alex Building
Book: https://ow.ly/ibxU50Xe7zX
University of Manchester School of Social Sciences School of Arts, Languages and Cultures @uomlaw.bsky.social CoDE - Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity Garden Court Chambers
It was such a privilege to talk about Voices of Thunder with Jana Byars on the New Books Network podcast! Link below 🌟📚
Naomi Baker, "Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century" (Reaktion Books, 2025) - New Books Network
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November 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
It was such a privilege to talk about Voices of Thunder with Jana Byars on the New Books Network podcast! Link below 🌟📚
Rosalia’s new album is about female mysticism, but reviewers are already saying it is “really” about her own break-up. A woman writes about the experience of self-transcendence and even then she is still assumed to only ever be writing about her own romantic experiences
November 7, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Rosalia’s new album is about female mysticism, but reviewers are already saying it is “really” about her own break-up. A woman writes about the experience of self-transcendence and even then she is still assumed to only ever be writing about her own romantic experiences
Writing for The Conversation is great for many reasons - one of which is that you can see how many people have read your piece. Am amazed to see that my recent article about a 17th-century woman’s account of domestic abuse has had almost 30,000 reads! #earlymodern
Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern
The 17th-century woman who wrote about surviving domestic abuse
In the 17th century, Anne Wentworth spoke out against her abusive husband and the religious institution that protected him.
theconversation.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Writing for The Conversation is great for many reasons - one of which is that you can see how many people have read your piece. Am amazed to see that my recent article about a 17th-century woman’s account of domestic abuse has had almost 30,000 reads! #earlymodern
Elizabeth Barton (1506-34) was a servant woman who defied Henry VIII, warning him that to marry Anne Boleyn would incur divine wrath. As I show in “Voices of Thunder”, female mystics were some of the fiercest critics of patriarchal forms of oppression - they posed a real threat to the status quo
November 7, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Elizabeth Barton (1506-34) was a servant woman who defied Henry VIII, warning him that to marry Anne Boleyn would incur divine wrath. As I show in “Voices of Thunder”, female mystics were some of the fiercest critics of patriarchal forms of oppression - they posed a real threat to the status quo
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Link here! mathewlyons.substack.com/p/ten-books-...
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Link here! mathewlyons.substack.com/p/ten-books-...
Very grateful to The Broken Compass for highlighting the women whose stories I tell in Voices of Thunder ✨
November 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Very grateful to The Broken Compass for highlighting the women whose stories I tell in Voices of Thunder ✨
Voices of Thunder is one of ten books to look out for, according to Mathew Lyons in The Broken Compass 🤩 As he says, these “highly vocal women” have been “drowned out in much of the historiography” and make a “brilliant subject for a book”! 🌟 #earlymodern
November 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Voices of Thunder is one of ten books to look out for, according to Mathew Lyons in The Broken Compass 🤩 As he says, these “highly vocal women” have been “drowned out in much of the historiography” and make a “brilliant subject for a book”! 🌟 #earlymodern
Thanks @waterstones.bsky.social Trafford for having me in to sign books today! 📚
October 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Thanks @waterstones.bsky.social Trafford for having me in to sign books today! 📚
The History section of @waterstones.bsky.social Trafford has a new Her-story arrival on its shelves 😊🤩 Spotted by a friend - it’s so great to see it out in the wild, and in such fabulous book company 📚
October 20, 2025 at 11:13 AM
The History section of @waterstones.bsky.social Trafford has a new Her-story arrival on its shelves 😊🤩 Spotted by a friend - it’s so great to see it out in the wild, and in such fabulous book company 📚
Library within a library @porticolibrary.bsky.social
October 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Library within a library @porticolibrary.bsky.social