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Rachel Willie
@racheljwillie.bsky.social
Professional bookworm, amateur hill wanderer, cake, music, and #EarlyModern enthusiast. If lost, likely to be found in the dustier corners of the seventeenth century. Researches early modern English literary history and culture https://shorturl.at/uXujC
Pity my mother, with offspring such as me…
October 9, 2025 at 12:01 PM
It’s all a bit Scilly, really…
August 26, 2025 at 8:24 AM
YAY!!!!!!
August 21, 2025 at 1:50 PM
My darling nephew sent me a thank you card 🙄
August 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🤔 🤨
July 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Went on a little wander and took with me Mariana’s brilliant book — perfect reading, whatever your acoustical backdrop
June 6, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Feel for @oskarjensen.bsky.social, who came along to a scholarly day to talk about his excellent special issue plans & suffered the indignity of being forced to sign a copy of his second detective fiction book to Mummy Willie (a fan)
May 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
May 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
May 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM
April 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
We’ve reached that point in the semester where it’s time to whip out the sparkly shoes
March 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
TFW you come home from a really long day in work to find one of your fabulous friends has sent you flowers. Thank you @tracelarkhall.bsky.social! 🤗
March 10, 2025 at 9:02 PM
I aspire to have “of famous and eccentric memory” as my epitaph. #AfterlifeGoals

Francis Godwin, “A catalogue of the Bishops of England” (London; Printed for Thomas Adams, 1615). John Ryland’s Library, Manchester. R1809
March 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus pawb!
March 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I know I should dismiss this reminder, but it would seem it appeals to my warped sense of humour to have it as a daily reminder…
February 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
I know I should dismiss this reminder, but it would seem it appeals to my warped sense of humour to have it as a daily reminder…
February 4, 2025 at 10:37 AM
You mean, you’re *not* missing the northern hemisphere’s performances of the bleak midwinter?
January 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM

Currently drinking Sherry in the kitchen while cooking Christmas dinner and emptying the dishwasher with _Carry On_ [assuming _Die Hard_ lite rather than a homage to Kenneth Williams] on my iPad in the background and realising I have reached peak middle-age…

Nadolig Llawen i bawb!
December 25, 2024 at 4:13 PM
Look what arrived in the post today — just in time for Christmas! 😻😻😻🔊🔉🔇🔈📢📣🔕🔔 @marianajlopez.bsky.social
December 24, 2024 at 3:00 PM
I would like to thank my assistant for helping me to reduce the owed drafts down to one.
December 21, 2024 at 5:16 PM
She’s determined I’ll finish this today!
December 21, 2024 at 1:59 PM
Called in to friends this weekend but am trying to finish an essay that was due…er…yesterday. Luckily, I have an assistant who is (literally) sitting on me until the work is done..
December 21, 2024 at 1:56 PM
This squished Christmas card is 31 years’ old. My younger sister made it in her reception class at school and gave it to me, complete with big, messy 4yo handwriting. For some inexplicable reason, I kept hold of it & put it on my mantelpiece each year.
December 19, 2024 at 7:52 PM
👀
November 23, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Great to see so many people on here now, though sorry for not being able to keep up with y’all! Here’s a picture of blue skies from the battlements of Caernarfon Castle.
November 21, 2024 at 3:15 PM