Dr Megan Shaw
@meganshaw.bsky.social
Art Historian | Working on the Duchess of Buckingham and Cultural Patronage at the Stuart Court | 2022 Junior Fellow, Paul Mellon Centre | Instagram: @yorkhousearchive
Completely delighted to finally share that I've been awarded a David Walker Memorial Fellowship in Early Modern History at the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social which I’ll be taking up in Trinity Term 2026. In very good company 💙 www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
2025–26 Awarded Visiting Fellowships
Awarded Visiting Fellowships for the Bodleian Libraries, 2025-26
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July 22, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Completely delighted to finally share that I've been awarded a David Walker Memorial Fellowship in Early Modern History at the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social which I’ll be taking up in Trinity Term 2026. In very good company 💙 www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
Thank you @kingjamesconf.bsky.social for hosting our panel on influential relationships - there is much more exploration to be done on James' relationships with his favourites, his adopted/surrogate families and teaching and reading James as a queer king.
Megan Shaw joins us online from New Zealand to discuss the adoption of the Villiers kin into the royal family. Crucially, this was reinforced when Villiers - duke of Buckingham - married Katherine Manners and James became a ‘gossip’ or godfather to the couple and their children…
July 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Thank you @kingjamesconf.bsky.social for hosting our panel on influential relationships - there is much more exploration to be done on James' relationships with his favourites, his adopted/surrogate families and teaching and reading James as a queer king.
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The latest Royal Studies Podcast episode is out! Join @susannah-lw.bsky.social for her conversation with @meganshaw.bsky.social about Katherine Villiers, Duchess of Buckingham 👑
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April 18, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The latest Royal Studies Podcast episode is out! Join @susannah-lw.bsky.social for her conversation with @meganshaw.bsky.social about Katherine Villiers, Duchess of Buckingham 👑
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Happy to share that I passed my viva with no corrections in Feb - my #phddone 🎉 My thanks to examiner Malcolm Smuts for an exhilarating defence & @misswalsingham.bsky.social for a supportive & thoughtful report. Thank you to my supervisors Erin Griffey & Jonathan Scott for everything along the way 🥂
March 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Happy to share that I passed my viva with no corrections in Feb - my #phddone 🎉 My thanks to examiner Malcolm Smuts for an exhilarating defence & @misswalsingham.bsky.social for a supportive & thoughtful report. Thank you to my supervisors Erin Griffey & Jonathan Scott for everything along the way 🥂
American friends, Mary & George is now out on Starz in the US! If you're interested in learning about the real Villiers women who bolstered the Duke of Buckingham, have a read of this article that @sarahabendall.bsky.social and I wrote recently theconversation.com/intimacy-sec...
Intimacy, ‘secret service’ and social climbing: meet the real Villiers women behind Mary & George
Mary & George depicts the real-life story of Mary Villiers and her son George, and their social climbing at the early 17th century English royal court.
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April 7, 2024 at 9:32 AM
American friends, Mary & George is now out on Starz in the US! If you're interested in learning about the real Villiers women who bolstered the Duke of Buckingham, have a read of this article that @sarahabendall.bsky.social and I wrote recently theconversation.com/intimacy-sec...
Link for those who haven't yet seen the teaser trailer for 'Mary & George' - the upcoming period drama on the rise of the Duke of Buckingham and his ambitious, stereotyped mother, Mary, Countess of Buckingham youtu.be/jC3ZOEvNsv4?... - MUCH commentary to follow
Mary & George | Official Teaser | STARZ
"If I looked like you. I'd rule the f**king planet.” Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine star in Mary & George, an audacious historical psychodrama coming ...
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November 17, 2023 at 11:11 PM
Link for those who haven't yet seen the teaser trailer for 'Mary & George' - the upcoming period drama on the rise of the Duke of Buckingham and his ambitious, stereotyped mother, Mary, Countess of Buckingham youtu.be/jC3ZOEvNsv4?... - MUCH commentary to follow
Happy to be here! For my first post (on Halloween) I want to introduce two 17th century tombs 🪦 The first was erected for the 6th Earl of Rutland in Bottesford. It offers the unusual proclamation that his sons, who are sculpted holding skulls, were killed by "wicked practise and sorcerye" [witches].
![Two sculpted figures of young boys [deceased] holding skulls. Located on the tomb of Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland, in the Bottesford church.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbfqyl2mitty4rck336spch3/bafkreicjoxyqu4j7ifhkjbe5rt5gu3picow64qnq5xhfjkf2wkjmpx235i@jpeg)
October 31, 2023 at 4:34 PM
Happy to be here! For my first post (on Halloween) I want to introduce two 17th century tombs 🪦 The first was erected for the 6th Earl of Rutland in Bottesford. It offers the unusual proclamation that his sons, who are sculpted holding skulls, were killed by "wicked practise and sorcerye" [witches].