Amy Turner | The Bookish Historian
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Wisconsinite now in PA | IT Professional | MA Public History, MLIS | Historian & Bibliophile | Blogger | Anglophile | Wanderluster | Servant to a grey tabby
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In case you missed it on Instagram, I'm doing a History Book Holidays Challenge where I've been posting a new prompt each day throughout December! Come join in on the fun, find some new books to read, and engage with the community! 📚❤️✨ #History #Books #BookChallenge #HistoryBookHolidays
December 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
In case you missed it on Instagram, I'm doing a History Book Holidays Challenge where I've been posting a new prompt each day throughout December! Come join in on the fun, find some new books to read, and engage with the community! 📚❤️✨ #History #Books #BookChallenge #HistoryBookHolidays
After two months (it's been a long few weeks), I finally finished Gareth Russell's The Six Loves of James I (published as Queen James in the UK). Such an excellent book! Have you read it? #History #Books #HistoryBooks
December 2, 2025 at 3:27 AM
After two months (it's been a long few weeks), I finally finished Gareth Russell's The Six Loves of James I (published as Queen James in the UK). Such an excellent book! Have you read it? #History #Books #HistoryBooks
Hello, friends! How've you been doing lately? Are you reading anything good? I'm currently reading The Six Loves of James I by Gareth Russell (published in the U.K. as Queen James). #History #Books #BooksOnBluesky
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Hello, friends! How've you been doing lately? Are you reading anything good? I'm currently reading The Six Loves of James I by Gareth Russell (published in the U.K. as Queen James). #History #Books #BooksOnBluesky
Small change is still change. I'm feeling a little optimistic for the first time this year given how many elections turned out tonight, and I'm grateful I made the time to vote. Voting is powerful, and it's important we exercise it. 💙
November 5, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Small change is still change. I'm feeling a little optimistic for the first time this year given how many elections turned out tonight, and I'm grateful I made the time to vote. Voting is powerful, and it's important we exercise it. 💙
It's Halloween week! 🎃
Image: Lo Stregozzo: a female witch riding on an animal skeleton, preceded by two men and a boy on a goat blowing on a horn, another naked man behind carrying two bones, Agostino Veneziano, engraving, c. 1515-1525. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 49.97.146
#Halloween #Art
Image: Lo Stregozzo: a female witch riding on an animal skeleton, preceded by two men and a boy on a goat blowing on a horn, another naked man behind carrying two bones, Agostino Veneziano, engraving, c. 1515-1525. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 49.97.146
#Halloween #Art
October 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
It's Halloween week! 🎃
Image: Lo Stregozzo: a female witch riding on an animal skeleton, preceded by two men and a boy on a goat blowing on a horn, another naked man behind carrying two bones, Agostino Veneziano, engraving, c. 1515-1525. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 49.97.146
#Halloween #Art
Image: Lo Stregozzo: a female witch riding on an animal skeleton, preceded by two men and a boy on a goat blowing on a horn, another naked man behind carrying two bones, Agostino Veneziano, engraving, c. 1515-1525. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 49.97.146
#Halloween #Art
From a fall walk today. 🍁🍂❤️
October 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
From a fall walk today. 🍁🍂❤️
#OTD King Alfred the Great died on October 26, 899, in Winchester, United Kingdom, around the age of 50.
Images:
1) and 2): The Alfred Jewel, c. 9th century. Ashmolean Museum, AN1836 p.135.371.
3) Alfred the Great's will.
4) Alfred the Great, Samuel Woodforde. National Trust, Stourhead, 732296.
Images:
1) and 2): The Alfred Jewel, c. 9th century. Ashmolean Museum, AN1836 p.135.371.
3) Alfred the Great's will.
4) Alfred the Great, Samuel Woodforde. National Trust, Stourhead, 732296.
October 26, 2025 at 11:16 PM
#OTD King Alfred the Great died on October 26, 899, in Winchester, United Kingdom, around the age of 50.
Images:
1) and 2): The Alfred Jewel, c. 9th century. Ashmolean Museum, AN1836 p.135.371.
3) Alfred the Great's will.
4) Alfred the Great, Samuel Woodforde. National Trust, Stourhead, 732296.
Images:
1) and 2): The Alfred Jewel, c. 9th century. Ashmolean Museum, AN1836 p.135.371.
3) Alfred the Great's will.
4) Alfred the Great, Samuel Woodforde. National Trust, Stourhead, 732296.
"The Raven" was one of Edgar Allan Poe's quintessential poems. According to @jstor_org, this transfer lithograph was "created for Stéphane Mallarmé's French translation of the poem". #History #Books #Poetry
🎨: Open Here I Flung the Shutter, from "The Raven," Edouard Manet. The Met, 24.30.27(4).
🎨: Open Here I Flung the Shutter, from "The Raven," Edouard Manet. The Met, 24.30.27(4).
October 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Today's image: A couple of boatsmen paddle their crafts on a lake overlooked by a tree laden with fire-red leaves and a shelter. #History #Art #ArtHistort
🎨: Landscape with Autumn Foliage, attributed to Shen Zhou (1427-1509). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 69.131.9.
🎨: Landscape with Autumn Foliage, attributed to Shen Zhou (1427-1509). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 69.131.9.
October 7, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Today's image: A couple of boatsmen paddle their crafts on a lake overlooked by a tree laden with fire-red leaves and a shelter. #History #Art #ArtHistort
🎨: Landscape with Autumn Foliage, attributed to Shen Zhou (1427-1509). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 69.131.9.
🎨: Landscape with Autumn Foliage, attributed to Shen Zhou (1427-1509). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 69.131.9.
During the month of October, I'm going to share artwork and objects depicting fall or spooky themes!
Today's work: Autumn oaks by American landscape painter George Inness (1825-1894).
🎨: Autumn oaks, George Inness, oil on canvas, ca. 1878. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 87.8.8. #History #Art
Today's work: Autumn oaks by American landscape painter George Inness (1825-1894).
🎨: Autumn oaks, George Inness, oil on canvas, ca. 1878. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 87.8.8. #History #Art
October 7, 2025 at 12:20 AM
My new book review is live on Substack! I reviewed Catherine Hanley's latest work "Nemesis: Medieval England's Greatest Threat" about King Philip II Augustus of France. I highly, highly recommend it! #History #Books #BooksOnBluesky
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September 13, 2025 at 1:24 AM
My new book review is live on Substack! I reviewed Catherine Hanley's latest work "Nemesis: Medieval England's Greatest Threat" about King Philip II Augustus of France. I highly, highly recommend it! #History #Books #BooksOnBluesky
🔗: thebookishhistorian.substack.com/p/review-nem...
🔗: thebookishhistorian.substack.com/p/review-nem...
#OTD American president Woodrow Wilson signed into law The Organic Act on August 25, 1916. The Act established the National Parks Service, which oversees more than 400 cultural, historical, and natural sites across the 50 states. #History #HistoryOnBluesky #NationalParkService
August 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
#OTD American president Woodrow Wilson signed into law The Organic Act on August 25, 1916. The Act established the National Parks Service, which oversees more than 400 cultural, historical, and natural sites across the 50 states. #History #HistoryOnBluesky #NationalParkService
On July 15, 1445, Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots, died around the age of 40 in Scotland. Joan was buried next to her first husband, James I, at the Carthusian Priory at Perth.
📷: Detail from a 16th-century manuscript illustration, from the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. #OTD #History
📷: Detail from a 16th-century manuscript illustration, from the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. #OTD #History
July 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
I've been reading more lately, including ARCs! One is The Last Empress of France by Petie Kladstrup and Evelyne Resnick. It's about Eugénie de Montijo, wife of Emperor Napoleon III.
Thank you to Harper Collins for a copy of this book via NetGalley! #History #Books #Nonfiction
Thank you to Harper Collins for a copy of this book via NetGalley! #History #Books #Nonfiction
July 8, 2025 at 4:06 AM
I've been reading more lately, including ARCs! One is The Last Empress of France by Petie Kladstrup and Evelyne Resnick. It's about Eugénie de Montijo, wife of Emperor Napoleon III.
Thank you to Harper Collins for a copy of this book via NetGalley! #History #Books #Nonfiction
Thank you to Harper Collins for a copy of this book via NetGalley! #History #Books #Nonfiction
On June 28, 1491, Henry VIII, was born at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich. Old King Hal is primarily known for his proclivity for wives and a cantankerous personality in his middle age. #OTD
🎨: Line engraving of Henry VIII, Cornelius Metsys, paper, 1548. National Portrait Gallery, NPG D24929.
🎨: Line engraving of Henry VIII, Cornelius Metsys, paper, 1548. National Portrait Gallery, NPG D24929.
June 28, 2025 at 10:19 PM
On June 28, 1491, Henry VIII, was born at the Palace of Placentia in Greenwich. Old King Hal is primarily known for his proclivity for wives and a cantankerous personality in his middle age. #OTD
🎨: Line engraving of Henry VIII, Cornelius Metsys, paper, 1548. National Portrait Gallery, NPG D24929.
🎨: Line engraving of Henry VIII, Cornelius Metsys, paper, 1548. National Portrait Gallery, NPG D24929.
#OTD Henrietta of England was born on June 16, 1644, at Bedford House in Exeter. She was the youngest child of Charles I of England and Queen Henrietta Maria of France.
🎨: Portrait of Henrietta of England, Peter Lely, oil on canvas, 17th century. Goodwood House Collection. #History #England
🎨: Portrait of Henrietta of England, Peter Lely, oil on canvas, 17th century. Goodwood House Collection. #History #England
June 17, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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“States’ rights” apparently don’t apply when Trump wants control.
June 8, 2025 at 5:13 AM
“States’ rights” apparently don’t apply when Trump wants control.
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ICE terrorizes our communities. People protest, and now Trump is sending 2,000 National Guard troops into Los Angeles. This is how martial law begins in the so-called land of the free.
June 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
ICE terrorizes our communities. People protest, and now Trump is sending 2,000 National Guard troops into Los Angeles. This is how martial law begins in the so-called land of the free.
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They are starting this. Your safety comes first. That doesn’t mean don’t stand up, just make sure the truth is documented before you do.
June 8, 2025 at 4:02 AM
They are starting this. Your safety comes first. That doesn’t mean don’t stand up, just make sure the truth is documented before you do.
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Please help us. We have people who’ve been hurt just trying to help others. More are out now. Please, record everything. We will hold those accountable who are breaking the law and attacking our communities. Do not provoke.
June 8, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Please help us. We have people who’ve been hurt just trying to help others. More are out now. Please, record everything. We will hold those accountable who are breaking the law and attacking our communities. Do not provoke.
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The world is watching. And we have friends everywhere. Upload everything, every moment. Don’t give them the chance to twist the truth. We have people on the way to help. You’re not alone. ✊🌙💚
June 8, 2025 at 4:12 AM
The world is watching. And we have friends everywhere. Upload everything, every moment. Don’t give them the chance to twist the truth. We have people on the way to help. You’re not alone. ✊🌙💚