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
Pity my mother, with offspring such as me…
It’s all a bit Scilly, really…
August 26, 2025 at 8:24 AM
It’s all a bit Scilly, really…
My darling nephew sent me a thank you card 🙄
![On right hand side in messy 5 year old handwriting: “To Auntie Rachel. Thenks! Love”
On left hand side, an abstract person [most likely a portrait of me], with “poop” written above.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t2o2t5rihdhyswmy7pq4hxhh/bafkreie4eo4tvhuoa4qzkczwgstefijlk4ygdte6vnhpasg5or6zxwfrx4@jpeg)
August 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
My darling nephew sent me a thank you card 🙄
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
Went on a little wander and took with me Mariana’s brilliant book — perfect reading, whatever your acoustical backdrop
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
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 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
We’ve reached that point in the semester where it’s time to whip out the sparkly shoes
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
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! 🤗
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
Francis Godwin, “A catalogue of the Bishops of England” (London; Printed for Thomas Adams, 1615). John Ryland’s Library, Manchester. R1809
![Front pages with handwritten note:
The gift of the Rev’d Jos[shu]a Brookes
March 1821
The manuscript Additions are all in the handwriting of the Rev’d Joshua Brookes of famous and eccentric memory. This volume is an interesting memorial of him
Ja: Crossley. [?]
Bought at Canon May’s Sale](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t2o2t5rihdhyswmy7pq4hxhh/bafkreice5uvosdvv37ge5binr2l7n2yyu76hhtggwiiiyifaj4l6bctryi@jpeg)
March 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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
Francis Godwin, “A catalogue of the Bishops of England” (London; Printed for Thomas Adams, 1615). John Ryland’s Library, Manchester. R1809
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus pawb!
March 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus pawb!
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…
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
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…
You mean, you’re *not* missing the northern hemisphere’s performances of the bleak midwinter?
January 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
You mean, you’re *not* missing the northern hemisphere’s performances of the bleak midwinter?
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
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!
Look what arrived in the post today — just in time for Christmas! 😻😻😻🔊🔉🔇🔈📢📣🔕🔔 @marianajlopez.bsky.social
December 24, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Look what arrived in the post today — just in time for Christmas! 😻😻😻🔊🔉🔇🔈📢📣🔕🔔 @marianajlopez.bsky.social
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
I would like to thank my assistant for helping me to reduce the owed drafts down to one.
She’s determined I’ll finish this today!
December 21, 2024 at 1:59 PM
She’s determined I’ll finish this today!
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
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..
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
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.
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
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.