Murray Gove
@earlymodernmurray.bsky.social
AHRC Northern Bridge DTP funded PhD student at Newcastle University researching texts of travelling women prophets in the seventeenth-century - he/him 🏳️🌈🏴
It can be a strange thing to try and navigate two seemingly separate worlds, though of late I’m doing my best to see how they can compliment each other.
As I finish my PhD I’m also discerning a vocation to ordained ministry in the Church of England and take comfort in the centuries
As I finish my PhD I’m also discerning a vocation to ordained ministry in the Church of England and take comfort in the centuries
October 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
It can be a strange thing to try and navigate two seemingly separate worlds, though of late I’m doing my best to see how they can compliment each other.
As I finish my PhD I’m also discerning a vocation to ordained ministry in the Church of England and take comfort in the centuries
As I finish my PhD I’m also discerning a vocation to ordained ministry in the Church of England and take comfort in the centuries
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I wrote a blog post about the incredible Rose Thurgood for @TheJohnRylands blog 📚 #earlymodern
In our latest blog, Dr Naomi Baker writes about Rose Thurgood’s conversion narrative from 1636-7, which gives us a rare insight into religious women’s lives and beliefs in the decades before the English Civil War.
Blog: https://ow.ly/Pt7i50Xcva4
Dr Baker's latest book: https://ow.ly/ltyT50Xcvnm
Blog: https://ow.ly/Pt7i50Xcva4
Dr Baker's latest book: https://ow.ly/ltyT50Xcvnm
October 17, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I wrote a blog post about the incredible Rose Thurgood for @TheJohnRylands blog 📚 #earlymodern
Today’s thesis-writing mental state: scrawling ‘THE WIGWAM IS A SAFEHOUSE’ across my whiteboard in a moment of breakthrough (or breakdown?) in my thinking.
a man standing in front of a bulletin board with papers on it including one that says pepe
ALT: a man standing in front of a bulletin board with papers on it including one that says pepe
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October 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Today’s thesis-writing mental state: scrawling ‘THE WIGWAM IS A SAFEHOUSE’ across my whiteboard in a moment of breakthrough (or breakdown?) in my thinking.
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The International Day of Sign Languages celebrates the linguistic identities of the Deaf community and all who use sign language. John Bulwer was the first person in Britain to advocate for the education of deaf people. His 1644 book explores the communicative and rhetorical power of hand gestures.
September 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The International Day of Sign Languages celebrates the linguistic identities of the Deaf community and all who use sign language. John Bulwer was the first person in Britain to advocate for the education of deaf people. His 1644 book explores the communicative and rhetorical power of hand gestures.
Very excited to dig into this little beauty by @racheljwillie.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Very excited to dig into this little beauty by @racheljwillie.bsky.social
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Look what we have here then.
September 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Look what we have here then.
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The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'?
Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....
Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....
September 23, 2025 at 5:32 AM
The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'?
Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....
Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....
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Okay the Earl of Grantham I wasn’t familiar with your game
September 4, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Okay the Earl of Grantham I wasn’t familiar with your game
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Honoured to speak to Jake Hall for their fantastic piece here, about something that leaves me frightened and furious.
The case of a trans man currently before a U.K. court is part of a long fascist history of restricting bodily autonomy.
A U.K. trans man was denied legal gender recognition because he’s trying to conceive | Xtra Magazine
The decision falls in line with horrific sterilization histories entwined with rising fascism
xtramagazine.com
August 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Honoured to speak to Jake Hall for their fantastic piece here, about something that leaves me frightened and furious.
We’ve reached this stage of the thesis…
August 27, 2025 at 12:23 PM
We’ve reached this stage of the thesis…
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Grainger Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, painting by Leeds artist Louis Hubbard Grimshaw (1870-944), son of John Atkinson Grimshaw. #NorthernArt
August 21, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Grainger Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, painting by Leeds artist Louis Hubbard Grimshaw (1870-944), son of John Atkinson Grimshaw. #NorthernArt
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Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza
Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone
www.telegraph.co.uk
July 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
Petitioning Charles II to put a stop to the persecution of Quakers, Anne Gilman is an excellent example of how to resist oppression and give the finger to corrupt power (rhetorically speaking):
July 15, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Petitioning Charles II to put a stop to the persecution of Quakers, Anne Gilman is an excellent example of how to resist oppression and give the finger to corrupt power (rhetorically speaking):
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Happy St Swithin's Day! According to tradition, today's weather will continue for the next 40 days and 40 nights: 'St Swithin's Day, if it does rain / Full forty days, it will remain / St Swithin's Day, if it be fair / For forty days, t'will rain no more'. We're hoping for a bit more sunshine ...
July 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Happy St Swithin's Day! According to tradition, today's weather will continue for the next 40 days and 40 nights: 'St Swithin's Day, if it does rain / Full forty days, it will remain / St Swithin's Day, if it be fair / For forty days, t'will rain no more'. We're hoping for a bit more sunshine ...
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I’ve taught at a Quaker school for the last four years and there’s so much history and activism you all just don’t see it because it doesn’t boast. Quakers are hardcore, they’re just hardcore pacifists who know what the hell they stand for, and they mean it.
facts. I know no one knows anything about Quakers, but while they’re often thought of as sort of doddering nerds, they’re incredibly values driven and were founded on the idea that we’re all equal and that that wasn’t reflected in spiritual or every day life.
The Quakers wouldn’t have caved to state abuse like cowardly Penn.
July 2, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I’ve taught at a Quaker school for the last four years and there’s so much history and activism you all just don’t see it because it doesn’t boast. Quakers are hardcore, they’re just hardcore pacifists who know what the hell they stand for, and they mean it.
Coming across the wise of words of Marvell today I’m struck by their relevance, now, as ever:
‘Truth for the most part lyes in the middle, but men ordinarily seek it in the extremities.’
#earlymodern
‘Truth for the most part lyes in the middle, but men ordinarily seek it in the extremities.’
#earlymodern
July 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Coming across the wise of words of Marvell today I’m struck by their relevance, now, as ever:
‘Truth for the most part lyes in the middle, but men ordinarily seek it in the extremities.’
#earlymodern
‘Truth for the most part lyes in the middle, but men ordinarily seek it in the extremities.’
#earlymodern
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It's✨publication day✨! You can order a copy, or get the open access ebook, at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d.... And I've got 5 spare hardback copies to give away to anyone who runs a book-sharing scheme or would struggle to access the ebook - hmu if that's you 🏳️⚧️📚
July 10, 2025 at 8:18 AM
It's✨publication day✨! You can order a copy, or get the open access ebook, at www.bloomsbury.com/uk/new-and-d.... And I've got 5 spare hardback copies to give away to anyone who runs a book-sharing scheme or would struggle to access the ebook - hmu if that's you 🏳️⚧️📚
Writing about the storming and destruction of Quaker meeting houses in the 1660s and seeing similar events occurring in the news today really does make me feel that, in some ways, little has changed since our dear early modern period 😐 Perhaps something to nod to in my thesis’ conclusion…
July 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Writing about the storming and destruction of Quaker meeting houses in the 1660s and seeing similar events occurring in the news today really does make me feel that, in some ways, little has changed since our dear early modern period 😐 Perhaps something to nod to in my thesis’ conclusion…
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Sneak preview of the contents page for #VoicesofThunder - a roll call of the incredible 17th century women whose amazing stories I am lucky enough to tell in this book
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social #earlymodern
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social #earlymodern
July 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Sneak preview of the contents page for #VoicesofThunder - a roll call of the incredible 17th century women whose amazing stories I am lucky enough to tell in this book
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social #earlymodern
@reaktionbooks.bsky.social #earlymodern
I wholeheartedly agree! What a fun, fruitful, and restorative few days!
Had such a brilliant time at #RenSoc25. At a time when everything seems TERRIBLE, it’s fantastic to spend time hearing about the fabulous research and work that’s being done in our field. SRS is a special society & I find their conferences restorative. Thank you Bristol for making us so welcome!
July 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I wholeheartedly agree! What a fun, fruitful, and restorative few days!
It was a real joy to give my paper at @srsrensoc.bsky.social on the Baptist prophet Anna Trapnel! Thanks to those who came along and asked such thoughtful questions.
July 6, 2025 at 4:09 PM
It was a real joy to give my paper at @srsrensoc.bsky.social on the Baptist prophet Anna Trapnel! Thanks to those who came along and asked such thoughtful questions.
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Had a fab time talking about Nashe, Chettle, and their printerly pals at the @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference. Thanks everyone for a gorgeous few days.
July 5, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Had a fab time talking about Nashe, Chettle, and their printerly pals at the @srsrensoc.bsky.social conference. Thanks everyone for a gorgeous few days.
I’m glad that my paper got this point across! 😂 Thanks for coming along!
Note to self while in #RenSoc25 panel 8.6: do not get into enclosed vehicles with Anna Trapnel unless you want to become a captive audience to prophecy.
July 6, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I’m glad that my paper got this point across! 😂 Thanks for coming along!