Dr Elena (Ellie) Woodacre

New podcast episode! @ewoodacre.bsky.social interviews Professor Nwando Achebe and Lydia Amoah, discussing the distinctive features of African queenship, including :

royal women from across African history from ancient Egypt and Kush to the recent death of the Asantehemaa in Ghana.

Natasha Hodgson @nrhodgson-hist.bsky.social also talked more about the findings of the @endsexisminschools.bsky.social report in the following Tes article.

Naga Munchetty - 01/10/2025 - BBC Sounds Naga Munchetty speaks to Richard Osman, Kate Mosse and Care Minister Stephen Kinnock.

Yesterday TMW's own Natasha Hodgson @nrhodgson-hist.bsky.social spoke with Naga Munchetty and Shalina Patel on @bbc5live.bsky.social about the recent @endsexisminschools.bsky.social report on the limited representation of women in the History curriculum. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... (starts at 2:19:35)

photo of two book covers, one called "Princely Power in Late Medieval France: Jeanne de Penthièvre and the War for Brittany", and one called "Gendered Reputations and Aristocratic Partnership: Re-Presenting the Breton Civil War from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Centuries", both by Erika Graham-Goering. Princely Power has a green cover with a picture of a medieval document and green wax seal, while Gendered Reputations has a grey cover with a medieval drawing of a crowd of people raising their hands to a man and woman couple.

It's Michaelmas, so it's also the anniversary of the battle of Auray (1364), which marked the beginning of the end of the Breton War of Succession begun 23 years earlier. And you know what? Let's mark it with a 🚨BOOK GIVEAWAY🚨 this time! (Charles de Blois has never had a stranger memorial...)

Want to know more about the sorts of benefits that working with @vch-home.bsky.social could have, particularly for Early Career Researchers? Take a look at this blog. #Skystorians

Join @ewoodacre.bsky.social for her interview with three of the organizing team for the Kings & Queens 15 (to be held Sept 2-4 2026) in Prague, hosted by the Czech Academy of Sciences @historickyustav.bsky.social.

The discussion delves into the theme of "KINGS, QUEENS AND DYNASTIES IN PERIL"

Immensely proud to be part of the incredible team who authored this report! The 'Great History Heist' presents results from a national survey of the teaching of women in History at KS3, and suggests pathways for improving the systemic barriers affecting representation in the classroom.

ANU Fellowship Opportunities: 'Why Monarchy Endures: Answers from the Ancient Mediterranean World'

Get your abstracts in by the end of the month!

Thank you to everyone that attended our last session! Our next Digital Seminar Series seminar is on October 20 (date changed from the 21st) at 6pm UK time. Join Julia Hamilton’s talk on ‘All that’s Rich’: The Intended Meanings of Luxury Goods in Stuart Interiors.

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CALL FOR CLUSTER PROPOSALS

A few years ago @ewoodacre.bsky.social and I decided to have a go at developing a new cluster feature at Royal Studies Journal - a collection of shortform pieces on a @royalstudies.bsky.social theme published as a single large item in the journal's December issue...

It is a much needed book, we definitely need to see more work on global queenship—this book is a great way to inspire readers to find out more about queens and queenship around the world, in every era!

Thank you to @ewoodacre.bsky.social for her endorsement of Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy. Elena Woodacre is a leading queenship studies expert, so it was absolute honour that she liked the book.

‘A much-needed book’
@wearefootnote.bsky.social #womenwhoruledtheworld

If you missed @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social ‘s book launch today, don’t despair—for a limited time her excellent edition of Margaret Tudor’s holograph letters is free to download, such a fantastic resource for queenship/Tudor/Scottish history scholars! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

So looking forward to the book launch for this fantastic edition of Margaret Tudor’s letters tomorrow— @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social and I will be ‘in conversation about the book, the fascinating features of Margaret’s correspondence and what it reveals about the practice of queenship 👸

Don't forget to get your Leeds IMC 2026 royal studies proposals in before the 15th of September #IMC2026

What a wonderful book launch for a fabulous book, great to see this new work on global female rulers out in the world, hurray @enortonhistory.bsky.social !!

Honours and HDR Opportunities for Ancient Monarchy Projects at the Australian National University! Deadlines at the end of September

Full info here: study.anu.edu.au/scholarships...

Nouvel épisode disponible ! Notre hôte @vic-de-valois.bsky.social reçoit Fanny Giraudier pour revenir sur le colloque "Violence à la cour française".

Écoutez dès maintenant sur votre plateforme de podcast préférée !
www.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...

New podcast episode available in French! Join our host @vic-de-valois.bsky.social and guest speaker Fanny Giraudier as they discuss the "Violence à la cour française" conference.

Listen here or on your favourite podcast platform : www.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...

Wonderful to get such great feedback for Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy @wearefootnote.bsky.social
@ewoodacre.bsky.social @lizfremantle.bsky.social

#womenwhoruledtheworld

Join @ewoodacre.bsky.social and Dr. Peter Stiffell to discuss his research on the imagery and iconography of Mary I, Mary's reputation as "Bloody Mary", and an exciting new discovery

Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...

Join @ewoodacre.bsky.social for her conversation with Emma Cahill Marrón about the pop up exhibition at the @britishmuseum.bsky.social 'Faces of Eternity', running until mid October.

Links and info in the comments!

#royalstudies #podcast #exhibition

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