Kate Loveman
@kateloveman.bsky.social
Mostly posting about Samuel Pepys’s diary, and other strange 17th-century stuff
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Kate Loveman
@kateloveman.bsky.social
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The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary
Cambridge Core - British History after 1450 - The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary
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The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary is officially published today! Available for £22 or less in all good bookshops, and some evil ones.
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Second row, top right ☺️
As the year draws to a close, we're celebrating all of our biggest and best selling books of 2025 with our 20 Books Of The Year! 📚🙌
And they are now buy one get one half price instore and online, so why not get started on your gift shopping for your bookish loved ones. 😍
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And they are now buy one get one half price instore and online, so why not get started on your gift shopping for your bookish loved ones. 😍
🔗: https://bit.ly/487YLb
November 12, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Second row, top right ☺️
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Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
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PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
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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 5, 2025 at 12:54 PM
PhD position, project: LangPro Women in the Early Modern Language Sector
careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-posi...
careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/PhD-posi...
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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I am thrilled to share my new open-access article on John Evelyn, his wife Mary, eldest daughter Mall and their complex, multifaceted relationship with clothing has been published in @historicaljnl.bsky.social
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The Evelyn Family, the Mundus muliebris, and Conceptualizations of Fashionable Female Dress in Late Seventeenth-Century England | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
The Evelyn Family, the Mundus muliebris, and Conceptualizations of Fashionable Female Dress in Late Seventeenth-Century England
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November 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I am thrilled to share my new open-access article on John Evelyn, his wife Mary, eldest daughter Mall and their complex, multifaceted relationship with clothing has been published in @historicaljnl.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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This is my talk from earlier in the year at Bletchley Park on reading early modern shorthand with a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model with a few extra bells and whistles. Combining my hobby with work! youtu.be/O79kcyAfBcM?... #pepys #earlymodern #ai #aibom #cybersecurity #machinelearning
TechWorks AI 2025: AI Data Provenance - Historical Shorthand
YouTube video by TechWorks AI
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November 2, 2025 at 12:05 AM
This is my talk from earlier in the year at Bletchley Park on reading early modern shorthand with a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model with a few extra bells and whistles. Combining my hobby with work! youtu.be/O79kcyAfBcM?... #pepys #earlymodern #ai #aibom #cybersecurity #machinelearning
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Another review for Inside Story. On Kate Loveman, The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Dairy @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org @kateloveman.bsky.social katefullagar.com/2025/10/31/g...
Gateways to History and Samuel Pepys
Another review for Inside Story, on a topic that I didn’t think I would know enough to write upon. But it turns out this great book by Kate Loveman on Pepys’s famous 17th-century diary …
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October 31, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Another review for Inside Story. On Kate Loveman, The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Dairy @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org @kateloveman.bsky.social katefullagar.com/2025/10/31/g...
Angels and Demons is just like when I went to CERN with dry ice and everything.
October 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Angels and Demons is just like when I went to CERN with dry ice and everything.
Spotted in Leicester 🦇🎃
October 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Spotted in Leicester 🦇🎃
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How was Robert Knox, son of an EIC Captain and captive in Sri Lanka for nineteen years, immediately identified as an outsider aboard ship when it was inspected on his arrival in England in September 1680?
His beard was long and old-fashioned. #earlymodern #skystorians
His beard was long and old-fashioned. #earlymodern #skystorians
October 16, 2025 at 12:09 PM
How was Robert Knox, son of an EIC Captain and captive in Sri Lanka for nineteen years, immediately identified as an outsider aboard ship when it was inspected on his arrival in England in September 1680?
His beard was long and old-fashioned. #earlymodern #skystorians
His beard was long and old-fashioned. #earlymodern #skystorians
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a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).
the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.
the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.
![A close-up image of a handwritten note in a sixteenth-century book. The note reads: 'Spenser repor / teth otherwise / [o]f this Knight / [D]ialogue of Ire- / [la]nd / [p]. 76.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:glqdunvigi5zxowf6heik65g/bafkreigi4rz7omz3cell5pa7hlyceoxd4fxsjy2ynmcd37fozanjejhsry@jpeg)
October 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
a tiny bit of good news is that we have secured funding to digitize john milton's copy of holinshed's CHRONICLES (1587).
the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.
the images will form part of MILTON'S LIBRARY, an open-access site featuring the 10 books positively identified as milton's w/ transcriptions/translations of his marginal notes.
1066 And All That (1930):
“Among the famous characters in the Restoration were Samuel Pepys, who is memorable for keeping a Dairy, and going to bed a great deal, and his wife Evelyn who kept another memorable Dairy but did not go to bed in it.”
“Among the famous characters in the Restoration were Samuel Pepys, who is memorable for keeping a Dairy, and going to bed a great deal, and his wife Evelyn who kept another memorable Dairy but did not go to bed in it.”
October 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
1066 And All That (1930):
“Among the famous characters in the Restoration were Samuel Pepys, who is memorable for keeping a Dairy, and going to bed a great deal, and his wife Evelyn who kept another memorable Dairy but did not go to bed in it.”
“Among the famous characters in the Restoration were Samuel Pepys, who is memorable for keeping a Dairy, and going to bed a great deal, and his wife Evelyn who kept another memorable Dairy but did not go to bed in it.”
Someday I will learn to competently use “quote post” but today is clearly not that day.
October 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Someday I will learn to competently use “quote post” but today is clearly not that day.
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Congratulations to Kate Loveman on winning the 2025 Samuel Pepys Award for her book 'The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary'. 📘 🏆
Find out more about the book 🔗 https://cup.org/47hzdrI
Find out more about the book 🔗 https://cup.org/47hzdrI
October 10, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Congratulations to Kate Loveman on winning the 2025 Samuel Pepys Award for her book 'The Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary'. 📘 🏆
Find out more about the book 🔗 https://cup.org/47hzdrI
Find out more about the book 🔗 https://cup.org/47hzdrI
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On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
October 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read
200th anniversary of the first passenger railway this weekend. Also 200th anniversary of the publication of Pepys’s diary. Not actual footage
September 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
200th anniversary of the first passenger railway this weekend. Also 200th anniversary of the publication of Pepys’s diary. Not actual footage
The John Lewis Christmas theme this year seems to be alcoholic mice.
September 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
The John Lewis Christmas theme this year seems to be alcoholic mice.
Enjoyed writing “Prep for Romantics, Murderbot” on my teaching calendar for this term.
Not in the same session, unfortunately.
Not in the same session, unfortunately.
September 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Enjoyed writing “Prep for Romantics, Murderbot” on my teaching calendar for this term.
Not in the same session, unfortunately.
Not in the same session, unfortunately.
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Episode 732 starts with @jackewilson.bsky.social taking a look at the different ways that 10 writers have viewed the Bible. Then Jacke talks with Kate Loveman about her new book on Samuel Pepys. #books @universitypress.cambridge.org @kateloveman.bsky.social #booksky
732 The Bible (#18 GBOAT) | The Diaries of Samuel Pepys (with Kate Loveman) | Health Advice
Jacke starts the episode by looking at the different ways that ten writers have viewed the Bible, #18 on the list of the Greatest Books of All Time. Then he's joine…
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September 11, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Episode 732 starts with @jackewilson.bsky.social taking a look at the different ways that 10 writers have viewed the Bible. Then Jacke talks with Kate Loveman about her new book on Samuel Pepys. #books @universitypress.cambridge.org @kateloveman.bsky.social #booksky
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Celebrating 200 years since the publication of Samuel Pepys’s Diary! 📜
Author @kateloveman.bsky.social shares what inspired her to write ‘Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary’. 📖
Read more 🔗 https://cup.org/4paZtex
Author @kateloveman.bsky.social shares what inspired her to write ‘Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary’. 📖
Read more 🔗 https://cup.org/4paZtex
September 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Celebrating 200 years since the publication of Samuel Pepys’s Diary! 📜
Author @kateloveman.bsky.social shares what inspired her to write ‘Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary’. 📖
Read more 🔗 https://cup.org/4paZtex
Author @kateloveman.bsky.social shares what inspired her to write ‘Strange History of Samuel Pepys's Diary’. 📖
Read more 🔗 https://cup.org/4paZtex
Happy Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone Day to all who celebrate 🎶
September 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Happy Papa Was A Rollin’ Stone Day to all who celebrate 🎶
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Lovely to see this write up of our project in the Smithsonian Magazine. #EarlyModern 📜 🗃️ @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
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Read the Dramatic 17th-Century Memoirs of Alice Thornton, Who Wrote Four Versions of Her Life Story
Researchers have digitized all four volumes, which are now available online. The autobiographies offer a compelling window into a tumultuous period in English history
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August 21, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Lovely to see this write up of our project in the Smithsonian Magazine. #EarlyModern 📜 🗃️ @hcaatedinburgh.bsky.social
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...
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Fantastic post on the blog today by Joe Black, who discusses Lady Bindloss's booklist--evidence of what books she bought, how she ordered them from London, and even how she shelved them by color earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/l... #EarlyModern #HerBook
Lady Bindloss Buys Some Books (1676)
Of the various kinds of documents that provide evidence of book ownership in the early modern period, purchase records are among the scarcest survivals: most booklists take the form of wills, inven…
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August 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Fantastic post on the blog today by Joe Black, who discusses Lady Bindloss's booklist--evidence of what books she bought, how she ordered them from London, and even how she shelved them by color earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/08/20/l... #EarlyModern #HerBook
I’m excited to be speaking at this year’s #CheltLitFest (10-19 October 2025) 📚🍂
View the full line-up here: www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/whats-on
Tickets go on sale 4 September
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View the full line-up here: www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/whats-on
Tickets go on sale 4 September
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Unlocking Samuel Pepys' Diary | Cheltenham Festivals
During the 1660s, Samuel Pepys kept a coded diary full of intimate details and political scandal. Had the contents been revealed, they could have destroyed
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August 18, 2025 at 11:57 AM
I’m excited to be speaking at this year’s #CheltLitFest (10-19 October 2025) 📚🍂
View the full line-up here: www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/whats-on
Tickets go on sale 4 September
www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/unloc...
View the full line-up here: www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/whats-on
Tickets go on sale 4 September
www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/unloc...
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Chipping away at the 2nd earl of Oxford. Son of Robert Harley, Queen Anne's great minister:
"his consuming passions [were] bibliomania, literary patronage and, towards the end of his life, drink..."
#HistParl
"his consuming passions [were] bibliomania, literary patronage and, towards the end of his life, drink..."
#HistParl
August 18, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Chipping away at the 2nd earl of Oxford. Son of Robert Harley, Queen Anne's great minister:
"his consuming passions [were] bibliomania, literary patronage and, towards the end of his life, drink..."
#HistParl
"his consuming passions [were] bibliomania, literary patronage and, towards the end of his life, drink..."
#HistParl