Scar Stevens
@scarlettstevens.bsky.social
Uni of York (WRoCAH) PhD candidate: ‘C17th Reading Pleasures: Experiencing the Early Modern Erotic.’ Interested in reading, queer, gender & sex(y) histories. She/Her 🏳️🌈
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Today on the blog: a female owner of Charles I's popular Eikon Basilike, a book cherished by women readers, who used their ownership marks to express their political affiliations during and after the Civil Wars earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/c... #HerBook #EarlyModern
Charles I, Eikon Basilike (1648)
It has long been known that the famous Eikon Basilike, attributed to Charles I and published shortly after his execution, was popular with seventeenth-century women readers. So far, our blog has fe…
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October 13, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Today on the blog: a female owner of Charles I's popular Eikon Basilike, a book cherished by women readers, who used their ownership marks to express their political affiliations during and after the Civil Wars earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/c... #HerBook #EarlyModern
Over the summer, I had a great time working on a project with the National Trust’s Moseley Old Hall.
The research project explored the material, historic, and religious significance of Father John Huddleston’s (1608- 1698) missal.
Thank you to everyone at Moseley!
The research project explored the material, historic, and religious significance of Father John Huddleston’s (1608- 1698) missal.
Thank you to everyone at Moseley!
Over the summer, I had the opportunity to work with the National Trust’s Moseley Old Hall as part of my Research Employability Project (WRoCAH). I worked on a project researching a recently acquired… ...
Over the summer, I had the opportunity to work with the National Trust’s Moseley Old Hall as part of my Research Employability Project (WRoCAH). I worked on a project researching a recently acquired 1...
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October 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Over the summer, I had a great time working on a project with the National Trust’s Moseley Old Hall.
The research project explored the material, historic, and religious significance of Father John Huddleston’s (1608- 1698) missal.
Thank you to everyone at Moseley!
The research project explored the material, historic, and religious significance of Father John Huddleston’s (1608- 1698) missal.
Thank you to everyone at Moseley!
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Look what Historic Royal Palaces posted today JUST FOR ME!!! (and you!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcSk...
#17thC #C17th #historicalFashion #historicalClothing #1660s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcSk...
#17thC #C17th #historicalFashion #historicalClothing #1660s
Wigs, Frills & High Heels: 17th Century Menswear
YouTube video by Historic Royal Palaces
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May 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Look what Historic Royal Palaces posted today JUST FOR ME!!! (and you!)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcSk...
#17thC #C17th #historicalFashion #historicalClothing #1660s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcSk...
#17thC #C17th #historicalFashion #historicalClothing #1660s
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LGBT+ politicians angry at the pride ban should look at how happy the rest of the community is that you’re not allowed to flog stickers this year and do some deep self reflection on whether your party still represents you, not whether pride does.
May 13, 2025 at 7:13 AM
LGBT+ politicians angry at the pride ban should look at how happy the rest of the community is that you’re not allowed to flog stickers this year and do some deep self reflection on whether your party still represents you, not whether pride does.
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I’ve known since Brexit that the East Midlands is the most socially conservative part of the country but it is literally off the chart. What’s going on over there?
May 13, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I’ve known since Brexit that the East Midlands is the most socially conservative part of the country but it is literally off the chart. What’s going on over there?
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📣Out now on #firstview!
Linda A. Pollock (@tulaneu.bsky.social) on 'Emotion and Ethics: The Conjoined Twins of Early Modern English Culture'
#Morality #Affect #Government #EarlyModern 16thc 17thc 18thc👑💕🏛️🗃️
👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Linda A. Pollock (@tulaneu.bsky.social) on 'Emotion and Ethics: The Conjoined Twins of Early Modern English Culture'
#Morality #Affect #Government #EarlyModern 16thc 17thc 18thc👑💕🏛️🗃️
👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
February 25, 2025 at 10:19 AM
📣Out now on #firstview!
Linda A. Pollock (@tulaneu.bsky.social) on 'Emotion and Ethics: The Conjoined Twins of Early Modern English Culture'
#Morality #Affect #Government #EarlyModern 16thc 17thc 18thc👑💕🏛️🗃️
👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Linda A. Pollock (@tulaneu.bsky.social) on 'Emotion and Ethics: The Conjoined Twins of Early Modern English Culture'
#Morality #Affect #Government #EarlyModern 16thc 17thc 18thc👑💕🏛️🗃️
👉Read open access here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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since I don't think I've shared it here yet, a reminder of one of my all-time favorite #earlymodern archive finds 🐾 🗃️ #catsofacademia
January 6, 2025 at 3:55 PM
since I don't think I've shared it here yet, a reminder of one of my all-time favorite #earlymodern archive finds 🐾 🗃️ #catsofacademia
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During my PhD I experienced severe anxiety and depression, along with suicide ideation. Thankfully I got help and I'm still here. As a student I went to find a book mental illness and how to cope during a PhD and didn't find one. That's how "Managing Your Mental Health During Your PhD" came to be.
December 19, 2024 at 7:36 AM
During my PhD I experienced severe anxiety and depression, along with suicide ideation. Thankfully I got help and I'm still here. As a student I went to find a book mental illness and how to cope during a PhD and didn't find one. That's how "Managing Your Mental Health During Your PhD" came to be.
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For reasons unknown someone cut out the #devil of this title page of 1603.
As #skystorians with an expertise in #earlymodern #bookhistory know: there were collector communities for all sorts of printed images. And maybe someone collected printed devils...
As #skystorians with an expertise in #earlymodern #bookhistory know: there were collector communities for all sorts of printed images. And maybe someone collected printed devils...
December 20, 2024 at 10:11 AM
For reasons unknown someone cut out the #devil of this title page of 1603.
As #skystorians with an expertise in #earlymodern #bookhistory know: there were collector communities for all sorts of printed images. And maybe someone collected printed devils...
As #skystorians with an expertise in #earlymodern #bookhistory know: there were collector communities for all sorts of printed images. And maybe someone collected printed devils...
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Next year, we're opening an exhibition all about menopause. We're currently fundraising to support this exhibition and associated programme to dive deeply into menopause in history, culture and science. Please give what you can to support this work www.gofundme.com/f/r9tszw
Donate to Menopause on display: A Vagina Museum exhibition, organized by Vagina Museum
Crowd the Cause to Fund the Pause!
Help us Pause the Stigma on Menopau… Vagina Museum needs your support for Menopause on display: A Vagina Museum exhibition
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December 6, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Next year, we're opening an exhibition all about menopause. We're currently fundraising to support this exhibition and associated programme to dive deeply into menopause in history, culture and science. Please give what you can to support this work www.gofundme.com/f/r9tszw
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Letters can help reconstruct female book ownership. Our Network Leader @huntingrebels.bsky.social includes a curious letter between Annas Keith and Alexander Clark of Balbirnie, provost of Edinburgh 1587, 1579-84, discussing the availability of various editions of the Geneva Bible in Edinburgh 🪶📖📜
Today on the blog: @huntingrebels.bsky.social takes a fascinating dive into the household accounts of Annas Keith, an early modern Scottish woman, to find out what books she owned https://buff.ly/3Z9Vum9 #HerBook #EarlyModern
Annas Keith’s Books: Reconstructing Book Ownership
By Jade Scott As demonstrated by the contributions to this blog, the most compelling evidence for women’s book ownership is a signature or inscription. Yet often we are left with frustratingly few …
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November 27, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Letters can help reconstruct female book ownership. Our Network Leader @huntingrebels.bsky.social includes a curious letter between Annas Keith and Alexander Clark of Balbirnie, provost of Edinburgh 1587, 1579-84, discussing the availability of various editions of the Geneva Bible in Edinburgh 🪶📖📜
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November 27, 2024 at 9:41 PM
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It's happening: my ERC Consolidator project 🪶#FEATHERS🪶is organising a 3-day international conference on early modern scribal culture & manuscript production at @unileiden.bsky.social on 7-9 May 2025. See Call for Papers (deadline for abstracts 20 Dec): student.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
Scribes and Inky Fingerprints: Collaborative and Mediated Authorship in Early Modern English Manuscripts - Leiden University
This three-day international conference hosted at Leiden University by the ERC Consolidator-funded FEATHERS project aims to bring together researchers working on early modern scribal culture and manus...
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November 23, 2024 at 9:26 AM
It's happening: my ERC Consolidator project 🪶#FEATHERS🪶is organising a 3-day international conference on early modern scribal culture & manuscript production at @unileiden.bsky.social on 7-9 May 2025. See Call for Papers (deadline for abstracts 20 Dec): student.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
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Lady Elizabeth Hastings’ library catalogue, books given to her nephew, George. It’s too late for my project on 17th c. women’s libraries but still fun to browse. (Huntington Library, Hastings Inventories, Box 2). #herbook #bookhistory #bibliography
November 23, 2024 at 5:46 PM
Lady Elizabeth Hastings’ library catalogue, books given to her nephew, George. It’s too late for my project on 17th c. women’s libraries but still fun to browse. (Huntington Library, Hastings Inventories, Box 2). #herbook #bookhistory #bibliography
I hate crosscountry trains with every fibre of my being. They’ve genuinely surpassed Northern now. After three days in the archive I just want to go home 🥲
November 21, 2024 at 6:44 PM
I hate crosscountry trains with every fibre of my being. They’ve genuinely surpassed Northern now. After three days in the archive I just want to go home 🥲
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My @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat with Jeremy Chow and Shelby Johnson over Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century. #18th #earlymodern #queertheory #skyhistorians 💙📚
Jeremy Chow and Shelby Johnson, "Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century" (U Delaware Press, 2024) - New Books Network
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November 20, 2024 at 1:11 PM
My @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social chat with Jeremy Chow and Shelby Johnson over Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century. #18th #earlymodern #queertheory #skyhistorians 💙📚
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The term 'trans' (in relation to sex and gender) is over 350 years old...
Thomas Blount's 'Glossographia' from 1656, the first full-length English Language Dictionary, had two different words for changing sex. These were "Tranſection" and "Transfeminate".
Thomas Blount's 'Glossographia' from 1656, the first full-length English Language Dictionary, had two different words for changing sex. These were "Tranſection" and "Transfeminate".
November 17, 2024 at 7:26 PM
The term 'trans' (in relation to sex and gender) is over 350 years old...
Thomas Blount's 'Glossographia' from 1656, the first full-length English Language Dictionary, had two different words for changing sex. These were "Tranſection" and "Transfeminate".
Thomas Blount's 'Glossographia' from 1656, the first full-length English Language Dictionary, had two different words for changing sex. These were "Tranſection" and "Transfeminate".
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Appreciation post for this gorgeous little 1650 history of Justinian at the Winterthur Library 🤩
November 18, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Appreciation post for this gorgeous little 1650 history of Justinian at the Winterthur Library 🤩
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The testimony of Eleanor Rykener - the earliest surviving record of a trans person in the English language. She began living as a woman in the 1390s, working as a seamstress & sex worker, until her arrest and imprisonment by the Mayor of London. She may have later escaped prison in 1399.
November 18, 2024 at 4:58 PM
The testimony of Eleanor Rykener - the earliest surviving record of a trans person in the English language. She began living as a woman in the 1390s, working as a seamstress & sex worker, until her arrest and imprisonment by the Mayor of London. She may have later escaped prison in 1399.
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Our book is here! In it, we demonstrate how premodern Bibles constantly acquired new meanings and functions as they moved through time and space, and were touched by the hands of makers, readers, and users. brill.com/edcollbook/t...
(Image: Arjan van Dijk)
(Image: Arjan van Dijk)
November 15, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Our book is here! In it, we demonstrate how premodern Bibles constantly acquired new meanings and functions as they moved through time and space, and were touched by the hands of makers, readers, and users. brill.com/edcollbook/t...
(Image: Arjan van Dijk)
(Image: Arjan van Dijk)
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🎩 Interesting essay by Andrew Hui on private studies via @publicdomainrev.bsky.social
"For four hours at a time I feel no boredom, I forget all my troubles, I do not dread poverty, and I am not terrified by death."
🗃️ #AcademicSky #literature #earlymodern
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"For four hours at a time I feel no boredom, I forget all my troubles, I do not dread poverty, and I am not terrified by death."
🗃️ #AcademicSky #literature #earlymodern
publicdomainreview.org/essay/machia...
“Here I Gather All the Friends”: Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study
Reading is a form of necromancy, a way to summon and commune once again with the dead, but in what ersatz temple should such a ritual take place? Andrew Hui tracks the rise of the private study by rev...
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November 16, 2024 at 10:05 AM
🎩 Interesting essay by Andrew Hui on private studies via @publicdomainrev.bsky.social
"For four hours at a time I feel no boredom, I forget all my troubles, I do not dread poverty, and I am not terrified by death."
🗃️ #AcademicSky #literature #earlymodern
publicdomainreview.org/essay/machia...
"For four hours at a time I feel no boredom, I forget all my troubles, I do not dread poverty, and I am not terrified by death."
🗃️ #AcademicSky #literature #earlymodern
publicdomainreview.org/essay/machia...
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Today on our blog on early female book ownership: a post by @tarallyons.bsky.social on a lovely bible with names of early modern women, a gift inscription, and a recipe https://buff.ly/3YPkiQ7 #EarlyModern #HerBook
The Holy Bible (London: 1630)
Image by Dr. Tara Lyons with permission of Reader’s Books, Petworth, UK. This 1630 English Bible has an array of evidence of women’s book ownership. At the top of the front cover’…
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November 15, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Today on our blog on early female book ownership: a post by @tarallyons.bsky.social on a lovely bible with names of early modern women, a gift inscription, and a recipe https://buff.ly/3YPkiQ7 #EarlyModern #HerBook
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Well it's nearly the weekend so please enjoy some skeletons fencing.
November 15, 2024 at 1:00 PM
Well it's nearly the weekend so please enjoy some skeletons fencing.
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The fabulous feathery team in @unileiden.bsky.social is organising a conference on Scribes and Inky Fingerprints: Collaborative and Mediated Authorship in #EarlyModern English Manuscripts.
Conference: 7-9 May, Leiden
Deadline abstracts: 20 December
All info: rensoc.org.uk/event/scribe...
Conference: 7-9 May, Leiden
Deadline abstracts: 20 December
All info: rensoc.org.uk/event/scribe...
November 15, 2024 at 10:56 AM
The fabulous feathery team in @unileiden.bsky.social is organising a conference on Scribes and Inky Fingerprints: Collaborative and Mediated Authorship in #EarlyModern English Manuscripts.
Conference: 7-9 May, Leiden
Deadline abstracts: 20 December
All info: rensoc.org.uk/event/scribe...
Conference: 7-9 May, Leiden
Deadline abstracts: 20 December
All info: rensoc.org.uk/event/scribe...
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I really love the vibe right now of nerds arriving at a social event and awkwardly dancing their way thru the crowd, trying to blend in, like they're having a great time, when really they're just trying to spot if anyone they already know is there, so they can actually relax and start having fun.
is Orkney Library here yet
November 14, 2024 at 5:28 PM
I really love the vibe right now of nerds arriving at a social event and awkwardly dancing their way thru the crowd, trying to blend in, like they're having a great time, when really they're just trying to spot if anyone they already know is there, so they can actually relax and start having fun.