Dr Elena (Ellie) Woodacre

My book is alive (online)!

CfP related to Royal Studies for @imc-leeds.bsky.social 2026. Get your proposals in before the 25th September!

Join @ewoodacre.bsky.social for her Interview with the Royal Studies Journal Article Prize Winner 2025, Patrik Pastrnak, on the latest episode of our podcast! Links to the podcast and Pastrnak's work in the comments

So looking forward to this! ❤️

Banner: Book Launch: "The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots (1489-1541), Author Helen Newsome-Chandler in Conversation with Elena Woodacre, 10 September 2025, 12.00EDT, 17.00BST, 18.00CEST https://www.crowdcast.io/c/holograph-letters Burnt red background, white text. Book cover to the left of the text, phoenix logo below.

📖I'm having an online book launch with @ewoodacre.bsky.social and @srsrensoc.bsky.social
for my @royalhistsoc.org Camden Edition of 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots' (out 8 Aug).

🗓️10 Sept 2025
⏰17.00BST/12.00EDT/18.00CEST

Register here: shorturl.at/Z6zfN

Please join us!

YouTube video by Teaching Medieval Women Teaching Medieval Women: Corporate Monarchy

In our latest animated short for KS3 History students (and History peeps in general), @nrhodgson-hist.bsky.social and @ewoodacre.bsky.social explain 'Corporate Monarchy' (or how monarchs relied on those closest to them to help them rule), using the examples of Töregene Khatun and Eleni of Ethiopia.

A rather hot but otherwise excellent afternoon visiting the #Faces4Eternity exhibition @britishmuseum.bsky.social with @emmacahillmarron.bsky.social yesterday! Definitely recommend a visit if you are in London between now and mid October and are interested in #queenship 👸

Using BBIH online: a help pack for students and lecturers For the academic year, we've a help pack offering guides to BBIH in undergraduate and graduate teaching and research. With embeddable content for VLEs.

Studying, researching or teaching in the histories of Britain or Ireland? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), it contains 650,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH

An intense 24 hours at #imc2025 — only time I’ve gone the 1 day route. Lovely to see the folks @archumanities.bsky.social & Laura @routledgehistory.bsky.social + enjoyed the craft fair, sessions from Noblewomen Network & Educating Elite Women, chatting @teachmedwomen.bsky.social at the roundtable

At a time of crisis for the History departments across the UK @ihr.bsky.social has made available a unique archive of interviews with leading post-war British historians. They point to the importance of history & the urgent need to defend the profession. historyandpolicy.org/opinion-arti...

The latest Royal Studies Podcast episode is out! Join @amyjanieh.bsky.social for her conversation with @nemgarrett.bsky.social, @wromantichistry.bsky.social and @rosalindfreeborn.bsky.social about (fictional) representations of regency royalty.

👑 A podcast fit for a Queen! 👑 We talked with historians Dr. Ellie Woodacre @ewoodacre.bsky.social & Susan Abernethy @susanabernethy2.bsky.social about the astounding lives of medieval queens & princesses in Iberia & broader Europe. Stay tuned for this episode in October! rediscoveringlatinidad.com

📢 The new RSJ special issue 12.1 is out now!

"Material Culture & Built Heritage: Scotland’s Royal Past, Present & Future" guest edited by Drs Lucinda Dean & Amy Hayes.

Read here ➡️ rsj.winchester.ac.uk/30/volume/12/i…

#RoyalStudies #ScottishHistory #MaterialCulture

This last week has been a busy queenly one! Started in Nottingham with @teachmedwomen.bsky.social Then a conference in Paris celebrating Kathleen Wilson-Chevalier + Worth exhibition at the Petit Palais. Ended by examining at a virtual viva in Lisbon, congratulations to Dr @inesolaia.bsky.social!

Highly enjoyed the Age of Elegance exhibition at the King’s Gallery from @royalcollectiontrust —beautifully curated with a wonderful selection of artworks and artifacts with a particular focus on Queen Alexandra #royalstudies #queenship👑

The latest Royal Studies Podcast episode is out! Join @vic-de-valois.bsky.social for her conversation with @susannah-lw.bsky.social about "A Queen's Book of Flowers", an exhibition running in York until the end of June 💐

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Home from #KQ14 to find these new arrivals for my queenship library, looking forward to reading these!👸📚

Hi Cassidy, we appreciate that having virtual options helps more people enjoy K&Q—in the past the level of ‘hybridity’ has really depended on the tech support that each host institution has had to make this possible. We will be factoring this into plans for the Prague conference next year!

CURRENT CONFERENCE DETAILS | royal-studies-net

And that’s a wrap for #KQ14 —see you in Prague next September for #KQ15 Kings, Queens and Dynasties in Peril! www.royalstudiesnetwork.org/current-conf...

Finally in #KQ14 Session 3.11. The Politics of Queenship we had a late addition due to travel snafus Jaime Selwood How Shinto creates a controversial legacy in contemporary Japanese emperorship which sparked a lively discussion in the Q&A

Then in #KQ14 Session 3.11. The Politics of Queenship we had Lisa Castro - The Political Role of a Queen Consort Josephine of Sweden and Norway During the Last Years of Oscar I's Reign in the late 1850's Diaries of Queen Josephine, a fascinating insight into a little known queen

Next speaker at #KQ14 in Session 3.7 Catherine of Braganza: Image, Agency, Faith is Eilish Gregory ‘Political Pawn or Political Player? Queen Catherine of Braganza and her Agency in Restoration Britain, 1662-1692’ countering traditional views of Catherine, demonstrating political agency & capital

In our last #KQ14 Session 3.11. The Politics of Queenship we began with Lily Feinstein - "Had there been no Queen, there would be no revolution": Gender, Marie Antoinette, and the Politics of Early Modern Queenship, with an interesting perspective from Thomas Jefferson

Last in #KQ14 Session 3.7 Catherine of Braganza: Image, Agency, Faith-excellent paper from Maria da Conceiçao Emiliano Castel-Branco ‘A Queen coming from Far: Catherine of Braganza in English Restoration Poetry at the crossroads of Anglo-Portuguese & Queenship Studies’ w/poems of praise & critique

Next speaker at #KQ14 in Session 3.7 Catherine of Braganza: Image, Agency, Faith is Eilish Gregory ‘Political Pawn or Political Player? Queen Catherine of Braganza & her Agency in Restoration Britain, 1662-1692’ countering traditional views of Catherine, demonstrating her political agency & capital

Back from lunch at #KQ14 in Session 3.7 Catherine of Braganza: Image, Agency, Faith w/our 1st speaker Chelsea Reutcke ‘The Catholic Patroness of Protestant Britain: Catherine of Braganza’s Support for Popish Printing’ excellent examples of Catherine’s subversive role as patroness of Catholic print

Our last paper at #KQ14 w/Session 3.5 Courtiers as Employees? Working Conditions in Early Modern Courts II: Fabian Persson “Rewarding staying power: Usefulness, uselessness & service at the Swedish court”, noting the increasing number of long serving, aged servants w/impressive job security & perks

Next paper at #KQ14 w/Session 3.5 Courtiers as Employees? Working Conditions in Early Modern Courts II: Cordula Bauer “How to run a court with empty pockets? Outstanding salaries of court servants & evolution of a debt market in 18th c Bavaria” turning promissory notes for unpaid salary into credit

Back from coffee at #KQ14 w/Session 3.5 Courtiers as Employees? Working Conditions in Early Modern Courts II: First up was Marc Jaffré “Strikes, Protests & Petitions: Working Conditions & Redress at Louis XIII’s court” complaints could be perilous for courtiers but king had duty of care to employees

Our last speaker at #KQ14 in Session 3.2 Courtiers as Employees? Working condition in early modern courts I was Nikki Clark, “Continuity & Change: Ladies-in-waiting at the Tudor Court, c. 1509-1547”, discussing employment conditions, pay, perks & perils for female courtiers w/high queenly turnover