Rachel Monsey
@rmonsey.bsky.social
History PhD candidate at Boston University
🪦Mourning 👑 Monarchy 🧠 Memory
1680s-1820s | Britain
🪦Mourning 👑 Monarchy 🧠 Memory
1680s-1820s | Britain
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Once upon a time in a university near you, in-person teaching was a thing, as you can see in this image of 1612. Young people with hats came together, regularly and voluntarily, prepared for classes, and enjoying a lively learning situation of *checks notes*, a 90 minutes monolog of someone else ...
November 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Once upon a time in a university near you, in-person teaching was a thing, as you can see in this image of 1612. Young people with hats came together, regularly and voluntarily, prepared for classes, and enjoying a lively learning situation of *checks notes*, a 90 minutes monolog of someone else ...
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preparing a class on animal histories
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 PM
preparing a class on animal histories
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The central chapter, 'Inky cloak', considers cloaks, mourning dress & funerals, prologues & paratexts, black pages, black wrappers, & the inky traffic between page & stage. Mostly Hamlet, but framed with Middleton's Black Book, with cameo appearances by the Field brothers (Nathan & Theophilus) 6/10
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
The central chapter, 'Inky cloak', considers cloaks, mourning dress & funerals, prologues & paratexts, black pages, black wrappers, & the inky traffic between page & stage. Mostly Hamlet, but framed with Middleton's Black Book, with cameo appearances by the Field brothers (Nathan & Theophilus) 6/10
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Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
November 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
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9/ "So, there we were. A group of Black Americans confronted with all these dead white Americans… When they were alive, we couldn’t sit in the same room."
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
9/ "So, there we were. A group of Black Americans confronted with all these dead white Americans… When they were alive, we couldn’t sit in the same room."
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
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Wonder why this scene looks so familiar...
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Wonder why this scene looks so familiar...
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕
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Omg Ben Jonson told William Drummond that Donne should be hanged for this poem and Drummond wrote that shit down and published it???? 💀💀💀💀💀
Thank god Ben and Bill did not have social media??
Thank god Ben and Bill did not have social media??
November 4, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Omg Ben Jonson told William Drummond that Donne should be hanged for this poem and Drummond wrote that shit down and published it???? 💀💀💀💀💀
Thank god Ben and Bill did not have social media??
Thank god Ben and Bill did not have social media??
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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
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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
www.cambridge.org
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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I’ve seen enough: this is the best and most hopeful night of 2025, by far. The bar—which is admittedly on the floor—has been mercifully cleared.
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
I’ve seen enough: this is the best and most hopeful night of 2025, by far. The bar—which is admittedly on the floor—has been mercifully cleared.
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Meet our newest patient here at the Alaska Raptor Center, a Northern Pygmy Owl named King Owlbert by his rescuers. Owlbert arrived with a drooping wing, making flight difficult. We’ve given him a supportive wing wrap, plenty of tasty mice, and time to heal. #small #owls #adorable
November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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New episode coming tomorrow! Catch up with the first episode of UPRISING: THE CIVIL WARS now… play.megaphone.fm/quvuyhkqs66t...
November 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
New episode coming tomorrow! Catch up with the first episode of UPRISING: THE CIVIL WARS now… play.megaphone.fm/quvuyhkqs66t...
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Exciting Halloween news for scholars of things that go bump in the night:
Our new interdisciplinary series is here from @manchesterup.bsky.social! The series seeks proposals that examine the supernatural (broadly conceived) in innovative ways. Please get in touch if you have ideas or questions!
Our new interdisciplinary series is here from @manchesterup.bsky.social! The series seeks proposals that examine the supernatural (broadly conceived) in innovative ways. Please get in touch if you have ideas or questions!
Announcing a brand new series launching this #Halloween 👻
Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place.
Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen
Manchester Studies in the Supernatural explores how the #supernatural shapes human experience across time and place.
Bridging disciplines and challenging boundaries, it welcomes bold new research on the #occult and the #unseen
October 31, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Exciting Halloween news for scholars of things that go bump in the night:
Our new interdisciplinary series is here from @manchesterup.bsky.social! The series seeks proposals that examine the supernatural (broadly conceived) in innovative ways. Please get in touch if you have ideas or questions!
Our new interdisciplinary series is here from @manchesterup.bsky.social! The series seeks proposals that examine the supernatural (broadly conceived) in innovative ways. Please get in touch if you have ideas or questions!
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The whole thread is hilarious, but this is the one that got me 😂
October 30, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The whole thread is hilarious, but this is the one that got me 😂
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
Today’s the day! So excited to talk about two great and vastly different manuscript poems 📜
We're only a day away from our next JST #JacobiteStudies workshop, which will feature @rmonsey.bsky.social sharing insights from her work on Jacobite manuscript poetry created between the Revolution and the Hanoverian Succession. Coming up Tues, 28 Oct, 5pm UKT.
jdb1745.net/events/jstwo...
jdb1745.net/events/jstwo...
October 28, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Today’s the day! So excited to talk about two great and vastly different manuscript poems 📜
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I can't decide whose head in early modern England would explode the most watching this video.
King Charles III prayed with Pope Leo XIV in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, marking the first time in modern history that the leaders of the Anglican and Catholic churches prayed together. Read more: nyti.ms/4o5fFwI
October 23, 2025 at 2:32 PM
I can't decide whose head in early modern England would explode the most watching this video.
Do the Jacobites get points for this or…?
I can't decide whose head in early modern England would explode the most watching this video.
King Charles III prayed with Pope Leo XIV in the Sistine Chapel on Thursday, marking the first time in modern history that the leaders of the Anglican and Catholic churches prayed together. Read more: nyti.ms/4o5fFwI
October 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Do the Jacobites get points for this or…?
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Flemish painter Catarina Ykens II, mostly known for still her lifes, puts the EEK in Ykens in this memento mori. Signed and dated: "Catharina ykens. filia Devota f. 1688" (Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp).
October 23, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Flemish painter Catarina Ykens II, mostly known for still her lifes, puts the EEK in Ykens in this memento mori. Signed and dated: "Catharina ykens. filia Devota f. 1688" (Phoebus Foundation, Antwerp).
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Bartolomé Bermejo, Saint Michael triumphant over the Devil (detail), 1468, Oil and gold on wood, 179.7 × 81.9 cm (National Gallery, London)
October 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Bartolomé Bermejo, Saint Michael triumphant over the Devil (detail), 1468, Oil and gold on wood, 179.7 × 81.9 cm (National Gallery, London)
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Dragon seems surprised that lunch is being interrupted by Saint George. Princess has decided not to stay for the denouement. All in a lovely landscape by Domenichino, 1610, whose day is today.
October 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Dragon seems surprised that lunch is being interrupted by Saint George. Princess has decided not to stay for the denouement. All in a lovely landscape by Domenichino, 1610, whose day is today.