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Dr Megan Shaw

@meganshaw.bsky.social

Art Historian | Working on the Duchess of Buckingham and Cultural Patronage at the Stuart Court | 2022 Junior Fellow, Paul Mellon Centre | Instagram: @yorkhousearchive

1,065 Followers | 101 Following | 19 Posts | Joined: 31.10.2023 | 1.8077

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How wonderful! Thank you for sharing

29.08.2025 11:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This is quite a good version of the engraving @michaelpearce.bsky.social ! I own one too as you know. Is this your collection or public? Would love to see.

29.08.2025 10:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you ☺️

23.07.2025 08:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you Lisa!

23.07.2025 08:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

2025–26 Awarded Visiting Fellowships Awarded Visiting Fellowships for the Bodleian Libraries, 2025-26

Completely delighted to finally share that I've been awarded a David Walker Memorial Fellowship in Early Modern History at the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social which I’ll be taking up in Trinity Term 2026. In very good company 💙 www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

22.07.2025 09:24 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1

Will keep you posted! I’m either side of the 19th.

14.07.2025 08:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can’t wait to see the At Home show in October too!

13.07.2025 00:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you @kingjamesconf.bsky.social for hosting our panel on influential relationships - there is much more exploration to be done on James' relationships with his favourites, his adopted/surrogate families and teaching and reading James as a queer king.

11.07.2025 10:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The latest Royal Studies Podcast episode is out! Join @susannah-lw.bsky.social for her conversation with @meganshaw.bsky.social about Katherine Villiers, Duchess of Buckingham 👑

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18.04.2025 18:00 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Thanks for all your support, Karin!

18.03.2025 08:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you so much Nadine!

17.03.2025 07:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The best part!

17.03.2025 07:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you!

17.03.2025 07:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thank you, Dr Shaw!

17.03.2025 07:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Happy to share that I passed my viva with no corrections in Feb - my #phddone 🎉 My thanks to examiner Malcolm Smuts for an exhilarating defence & @misswalsingham.bsky.social for a supportive & thoughtful report. Thank you to my supervisors Erin Griffey & Jonathan Scott for everything along the way 🥂

16.03.2025 09:10 — 👍 32 🔁 1 💬 6 📌 1

Yes please!

26.11.2024 19:44 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Intimacy, ‘secret service’ and social climbing: meet the real Villiers women behind Mary & George Mary & George depicts the real-life story of Mary Villiers and her son George, and their social climbing at the early 17th century English royal court.

American friends, Mary & George is now out on Starz in the US! If you're interested in learning about the real Villiers women who bolstered the Duke of Buckingham, have a read of this article that @sarahabendall.bsky.social and I wrote recently theconversation.com/intimacy-sec...

07.04.2024 09:32 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

"If I looked like you. I'd rule the f**king planet.” Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine star in Mary & George, an audacious historical psychodrama coming ... Mary & George | Official Teaser | STARZ

Link for those who haven't yet seen the teaser trailer for 'Mary & George' - the upcoming period drama on the rise of the Duke of Buckingham and his ambitious, stereotyped mother, Mary, Countess of Buckingham youtu.be/jC3ZOEvNsv4?... - MUCH commentary to follow

17.11.2023 23:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Katherine Manners, daughter and heir of the 6th Earl, was also a proponent of memento mori, using skulls to support columns on the tomb that she commissioned in Westminster Abbey for her husband, George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham in 1634, completed six years after his assassination.

31.10.2023 16:36 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Two sculpted figures of young boys [deceased] holding skulls. Located on the tomb of Francis Manners, 6th Earl of Rutland, in the Bottesford church.

Happy to be here! For my first post (on Halloween) I want to introduce two 17th century tombs 🪦 The first was erected for the 6th Earl of Rutland in Bottesford. It offers the unusual proclamation that his sons, who are sculpted holding skulls, were killed by "wicked practise and sorcerye" [witches].

31.10.2023 16:34 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

@meganshaw is following 20 prominent accounts

Cécile Fromont
@cecilefromont

Historian of Art @ Harvard • Kongo • Angola • Brazil • Visual, Material, Spiritual Culture • Vast Early Modern Atlantic • from #Martinique • www.cecilefromont.com

Casey Schmitt
@csschmitt

Historian @ Cornell. Author of THE PREDATORY SEA: HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND CAPTIVITY IN THE 17TH-C CARIBBEAN (Penn Press, 2025) https://www.pennpress.org/9781512828146/the-predatory-sea/

Parergon Journal
@parergon

Peer-reviewed antipodean medieval and early modern studies journal, always open for submissions. Owned by ANZAMEMS.bsky.social, tweeted by mattfirth.bsky.social.

ANZAMEMS
@anzamems

Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (anzamems.org). Posts by Matt Firth, BlueSky novice extraordinaire.

Early Modern Circle
@earlymoderncircle

Account for the Early Modern Circle at the University of Melbourne ✨ https://arts.unimelb.edu.au/ancient-medieval-and-early-modern-studies/seminars-reading-groups/early-modern-circle (acct run by@paigedonaghy.bsky.social)

Lauren Kassell
@laurenkassell

Historian of science and medicine @EUI_History @CambridgeHPS @Pembroke1347 #histsci #histmed #earlymodern #astrology

Casebooks Project
@hpscasebooks

A digital edition of Simon Forman's and Richard Napier's medical records, 1596-1634 Directed by @laurenkassell.bsky.social Funded by the Wellcome Trust www.casebooks.lib.cam.ac.uk #histmed #histsci #earlymodern #astrology

Ariane Fichtl
@threadofariane

Postdoc @ucph.bsky.social, working on the intersection of religion and politics in the history of ideas with a special focus on republican & liberal theory. She/her.

Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
@hagenilda

Dr Emma Marshall
@earlymodernemma

Arts & Humanities Impact Administrator @hrcyork.bsky.social • PhD on health, care, family & letters 1630-1750 @york.ac.uk • Formerly public engagement @socialbodiesuob.bsky.social • Committee member @socialhistsoc.bsky.social

Society for Court Studies
@courtstudies

Founded in September 1995, the Society for Court Studies is the leading international academic society for the examination of royal and princely courts and households from antiquity to the present. https://courtstudies.org/ https://linktr.ee/courtstudies

Dr Miranda Kaufmann
@drmirandakaufmann

#Historian. Author #BlackTudors #Heiresses (out September 2025) Collaborative educator #TeachingBlackTudors www.mirandakaufmann.com www.linktr.ee/drmirandakaufmann

Chloe Wigston Smith
@chloewigstonsmith

Prof of eighteenth-century studies in York | material culture studies, women’s work and the Atlantic world | print culture & dress history | trying at social media 📚Novels, Needleworks & Empire https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300270785/novels-needleworks-a

Jonathan Healey
@jonathanhealey

Historian and Occasional Book-writer (https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blazing-world-9781526621696/) Works at Oxford University. New book, The Blood in Winter, out now! https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/blood-in-winter-9781526672292/

Prof Tracey Hill
@tracelarkhall

Sweary prof, iconoclast, and non-league football nut (Larkhall Athletic FC 💙). Lives in early modern London; citizen & Founder. Bossed by cats. I mean it about the swearing 🤬

Alice Hunt
@alicehunt

Professor at the University of Southampton. Author of Republic: Britain's Revolutionary Decade, 1649-1660 (Faber, 2024). Co-investigator on 'The Visible Crown: Elizabeth II and the Caribbean'. Represented by Felicity Bryan Associates.

Allison MacDuffee
@studiousgal

Art Historian, working on exh. proposal re: Pissarro-Millet-Courbet for 2030. Sometimes teaching at Univ of Toronto Mississauga. Ph.D., U of Michigan. Live in Toronto. Canadian. Gardening, travel, philately. I block probable bot accts.

Durham MEMSA
@durhammemsa

MEMSA is made up of postgraduate students from all disciplines working on the Medieval or Early Modern period at Durham University. ALL welcome at our events.

Jess Ayres
@drjessayres

📚Historian of early modern London 📜 Apprentice Archivist at The London Archives 🖋️Research interests in women, the City of London, and record keeping in C17th 🎓 PhD on women in the Court of Orphans 👩‍💻 https://jessica-ayres.co.uk

Gaby Mahlberg
@thehistorywoman

Historian, journalist, utopian. Based in London & Berlin. Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at Newcastle University, UK.