Naomi Baker
@drnaomibaker.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in English Literature, University of Manchester| General 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
#emilybrontë, the most monstrously misrepresented of all our great writers. Her writing shattered the mould and we have yet to scratch the surface #wutheringheights #emilybronte
February 18, 2026 at 7:45 AM
#emilybrontë, the most monstrously misrepresented of all our great writers. Her writing shattered the mould and we have yet to scratch the surface #wutheringheights #emilybronte
Back in the time when the sun was pink
February 17, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Back in the time when the sun was pink
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"Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century," by Naomi Baker, University of Chicago Press, 2025
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"Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century," by Naomi Baker, University of Chicago Press, 2025
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February 12, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Today's featured title:
"Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century," by Naomi Baker, University of Chicago Press, 2025
@uchicagopress.bsky.social @drnaomibaker.bsky.social
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
"Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century," by Naomi Baker, University of Chicago Press, 2025
@uchicagopress.bsky.social @drnaomibaker.bsky.social
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Today’s the day! 🎉 We're in Sam Alex SG.16 4–5pm for an EACW research seminar 'The Sweet Taste of Empire' - @profkfh.bsky.social in conversation with @fredschurink.bsky.social on sugar, empire and race. Join us!
February 12, 2026 at 8:30 AM
Today’s the day! 🎉 We're in Sam Alex SG.16 4–5pm for an EACW research seminar 'The Sweet Taste of Empire' - @profkfh.bsky.social in conversation with @fredschurink.bsky.social on sugar, empire and race. Join us!
A bunch of “greedy dumb-dogs”, men who “never have enough, and love greeting in the marketplaces … and the upper seats at feasts, and to be called … masters; they are filthy brute beasts” - Hester Biddle’s account of powerful men in the 1660s. How very little things have changed #earlymodern
February 7, 2026 at 8:14 AM
A bunch of “greedy dumb-dogs”, men who “never have enough, and love greeting in the marketplaces … and the upper seats at feasts, and to be called … masters; they are filthy brute beasts” - Hester Biddle’s account of powerful men in the 1660s. How very little things have changed #earlymodern
Exactly this
So the Epstein scandal is about politics? Silly me for thinking it’s about the mass abuse of women and girls | Marina Hyde
Obsessing over individual players and political chaos leaves less time to focus on the misogyny. And that’s for the best, isn’t it guys, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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February 6, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Exactly this
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
Is the real issue the implications for the careers of yet more powerful men? So tired of this being the only story that counts
February 5, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Is the real issue the implications for the careers of yet more powerful men? So tired of this being the only story that counts
A strange feature of #hamlet is the fact that the villain - Claudius - speaks a lot of sense. Here he is on the relationship of money and corruption - ring any bells??
“In the corrupted currents of this world/ Offence’s gilded hand may shove by justice”
“In the corrupted currents of this world/ Offence’s gilded hand may shove by justice”
February 4, 2026 at 2:43 PM
A strange feature of #hamlet is the fact that the villain - Claudius - speaks a lot of sense. Here he is on the relationship of money and corruption - ring any bells??
“In the corrupted currents of this world/ Offence’s gilded hand may shove by justice”
“In the corrupted currents of this world/ Offence’s gilded hand may shove by justice”
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A late Christmas with the in-laws brings goodies including @drnaomibaker.bsky.social's 'Voices of Thunder' – can'ty wait to delve into this!
February 1, 2026 at 6:23 PM
A late Christmas with the in-laws brings goodies including @drnaomibaker.bsky.social's 'Voices of Thunder' – can'ty wait to delve into this!
The fact that a woman has become the #archbishopofcanterbury is not the astounding progress that it might seem, given that women were preaching in 1641! But they were vilified for doing so by the Church of England, which has taken a very long time to revise that view #earlymodern
January 28, 2026 at 1:34 PM
The fact that a woman has become the #archbishopofcanterbury is not the astounding progress that it might seem, given that women were preaching in 1641! But they were vilified for doing so by the Church of England, which has taken a very long time to revise that view #earlymodern
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January 23, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Equal parts sweet and imperious 😻 #caturday #catsofbluesky
January 24, 2026 at 8:24 AM
Equal parts sweet and imperious 😻 #caturday #catsofbluesky
Adventurous, emotional, hopeful, informative, inspiring, mysterious, sad, fast-paced … it’s fascinating to see this reader’s description of “Voices of Thunder”! It’s sad that women’s stories have often been sidelined in history books because it’s a powerful thing to connect with women from the past
January 23, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Adventurous, emotional, hopeful, informative, inspiring, mysterious, sad, fast-paced … it’s fascinating to see this reader’s description of “Voices of Thunder”! It’s sad that women’s stories have often been sidelined in history books because it’s a powerful thing to connect with women from the past
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Very much enjoyed editing Helen Pierce’s richly informative and superbly entertaining history of the British political caricature, ‘The Profaned Pencil’. Out this October from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social.
January 22, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Very much enjoyed editing Helen Pierce’s richly informative and superbly entertaining history of the British political caricature, ‘The Profaned Pencil’. Out this October from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social.
Thank you Prof Alice Hunt for this wonderful review of Voices of Thunder in @historyextra.bsky.social magazine
January 21, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Thank you Prof Alice Hunt for this wonderful review of Voices of Thunder in @historyextra.bsky.social magazine
Nay it is well and happy for the people if their King be but a cypher, being oft times a mischief, a pest, a scourge of the nation ~ John Milton
January 20, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Nay it is well and happy for the people if their King be but a cypher, being oft times a mischief, a pest, a scourge of the nation ~ John Milton
Certainly then that people must needs be mad or strangely infatuated, that build the chief hope of their common happiness or safety on a single person: who if he … be bad, hath in his hands to do more evil without check, than millions of other men ~ John Milton, 1660
January 20, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Certainly then that people must needs be mad or strangely infatuated, that build the chief hope of their common happiness or safety on a single person: who if he … be bad, hath in his hands to do more evil without check, than millions of other men ~ John Milton, 1660
Interesting to see US figures channelling Nietzsche’s praise of strength while claiming this can be reconciled with Christianity - the celebration of weakness over strength was the key reason Nietzsche hated Christianity
January 20, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Interesting to see US figures channelling Nietzsche’s praise of strength while claiming this can be reconciled with Christianity - the celebration of weakness over strength was the key reason Nietzsche hated Christianity
1656, when the new builds started popping up
January 15, 2026 at 9:59 AM
1656, when the new builds started popping up
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Out in the USA since November, available in the rest of the world from today (but not from @princetonupress.bsky.social website!) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Liberal Worlds
The intellectual biography of a Victorian Liberal polymath
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January 13, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Out in the USA since November, available in the rest of the world from today (but not from @princetonupress.bsky.social website!) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Happy early morning discovery at Altrincham @waterstones.bsky.social - signed copies are now in store! ✍️📚#voicesofthunder #womenshistory
January 13, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Happy early morning discovery at Altrincham @waterstones.bsky.social - signed copies are now in store! ✍️📚#voicesofthunder #womenshistory
Am I the only one who has reservations about Hamnet? An inarticulate Shakespeare? A depiction of a marriage and parenting based on C21st models? A witchy earth mother who howls with grief and a male figure who by contrast channels his grief into art? All very dubious, in my book
January 11, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Am I the only one who has reservations about Hamnet? An inarticulate Shakespeare? A depiction of a marriage and parenting based on C21st models? A witchy earth mother who howls with grief and a male figure who by contrast channels his grief into art? All very dubious, in my book
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This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com
The Library of Early Modern Women's Marginalia
The Library of Early Modern Women's Marginalia.
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January 11, 2026 at 11:03 AM
This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com
“Scintillating” - am so grateful for this amazing review of Voices of Thunder by Prof. Elspeth Graham ✨
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January 8, 2026 at 9:38 AM
“Scintillating” - am so grateful for this amazing review of Voices of Thunder by Prof. Elspeth Graham ✨
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