Estelle Paranque

Hi @cathfletcher.bsky.social & @estelleprnq.bsky.social ! Thanks for all your efforts today. Looking forward to next week's session already!!!

📅 On this day, 11 June 1509, Katherine of Aragon becomes Queen 👑 But why do we keep pitting her against Anne Boleyn? 🤷‍♀️ @estelleprnq.bsky.social argues they had more in common than you think… ⚔️

Listen now 🎧 pod.fo/e/2a41cf
#onthisday #otd #onthisdate #history #podcast #Tudor #HenryVIII

Not long now, folks. Just 8 days! @chalkefestival.bsky.social @almurray.bsky.social @estelleprnq.bsky.social @historyrage.bsky.social @historywithjackson.bsky.social

Paperback book with cover showing a long straight road between pine trees leading to a distant city beneath blue sky. Title of book is The Roads To Rome: A Journey into Europe's Past by Catherine Fletcher. Quotes on cover describe it as 'epic and witty - Fletcher is a thoroughly enjoyable narrator' (Tobias Jones, Observer), 'A delightful and authoritative history from the ground up' (Judith Herrin) and 'an exemplar of history as travelogue' (Miles Pattenden, Literary Review).

Poster version of book cover in previous photo - looks the same but in a black picture frame and without the quotes.

My publisher made such a lovely cover for the paperback of The Roads to Rome that I asked if they could also do a poster! Out next week - order here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/443108...

Kavita, coming from you it is a true honour. You’re an amazing scholar that I highly admire so thank you so much for this! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

This book is fantastic. I finally read it last week and it gave me so much food for thought. I swear there's been a sudden wonderful resurgence of work on #AnneBoleyn, and that delights me.

Lovely launch of @drjoannepaul.bsky.social Thomas More. Great to see so many historians there, inc Sarah Gristwood Luke Pepera @nicolatallis.bsky.social @drowenemmerson.bsky.social Kate McCaffrey @nathenamin.bsky.social @estelleprnq.bsky.social @historywithjackson.bsky.social Alfred Hawkins

🙌🏻😊 can only agree!!!

What an excellent book!

On French TV with the incomparable @katewilliamsme.bsky.social

I’ve had it for almost 10 years and it has never let me down! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 thank you!

It will be and I’ll be posting the link.
Thank you, Ian!

(yes I’m afraid it does include social media)

If you have more questions, ask me. I’m an open book.

Don’t miss out on this Secrets d’Histoire episode!

And as many of you asked me: “how did you get on TV in the first place?”

I published and got contacted.

Get your work and expertise out there and then work on a public profile to help out

Thorns Lust and Glory in paperback is out today (for less than £12!)

www.amazon.co.uk/Thorns-Lust-...

Primeval fears still fire the human imagination The monsters at the heart of this stimulating new book do not hide under beds or coil around the edges of maps. They do not harass passers-by with

"an enchanting journey". Thank you, @janmachielsen.bsky.social, for your review of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, from @ucpress.bsky.social, in @thetls.bsky.social! 1/n

💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH

www.the-tls.co.uk/politics-soc...

Thank you!

What a wonderful feeling to receive the copies of Utopia I edited for @oxfordunipress.bsky.social.
Please do order for your libraries and reading lists (and your own bookshelves, of course, should you fancy it!).

Upcoming deadline (30th April) - @cathfletcher.bsky.social & @estelleprnq.bsky.social - new project launching.

#Skystorians

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I am so thrilled to announce my new book, Thomas More: A Life, out next month in the UK with @michaeljbooks.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social and North America in July with Pegasus Books
Pre-order now!
uk.bookshop.org/a/12264/9781...
www.simonandschuster.com/.../Joanne.....

A book cover showing a man on a bizarrely styled float in the sea trying to take a measurement with a sextant. Another sailor sits waiting next to him in a small rowing boat. The title of the book is The Board of Longitude: science, innovation and empire, written by a group of authors.

10 years after the project finished we have finally found our longitude!

All the c.18th seafaring and boardroom drama you could wish for in one expertly written volume!

Only £32 from @cambridgeup.bsky.social

I had the best time tonight at the Labyrinth show with the one and only @katemossewriter.bsky.social

Thank you! 🙏🏻😊

I am so proud of the Chinese cover for Blood Fire and Gold. Published by Shanghai Publishing.

As my children are 16th Chinese that makes me so happy!

What a beautiful cover! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome is the @hatchards.bsky.social Non-fiction Book of the Month (this is not an April Fool)! This is the first time one of my books has been supported like this, thank you Hatchard's ❤️https://www.hatchards.co.uk/highlights/books-of-the-month

Happy Mother’s Day.

The past year has tested my resources and resilience.

All I do is for them.

For those who find today hard for whatever reason, I’m sending you so much love.

Pale blue event poster with “Histfest 2025” in white lettering on a bright pink background at the top left. Below it in pink,“26-27 March, British Library & Online” On the right are three portrait-shaped images. The first is a photo of a brown woman with dark hair, smiling, wearing a dark suit and a pastel brightly patterned collared shirt. The second image is a bright red book cover with an oval, silver-coloured mirror with a black frame comprised of sci-fi and fantasy monsters, with yellow lettering for the title, “HUMANS”, around the top of the mirror, in a stylized font with details that resemble whale-tails and bats’ wings. Subtitle just inside the mirror: A Monstrous History. Inside the bottom curve of the mirror: Surekha Davies. The third image is a photo of a white woman with short white hair looking quizzical, wearing a blue sweater and a white collared shirt. The small pink HistFest logo with black writing is at the top right-hand corner of the photo.

I’ll be speaking with author & presenter Kate Lister about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, from @ucpress.bsky.social, at @histfest.bsky.social at @britishlibrary.bsky.social and online, on April 27! 1/n

💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH #histfest2025

Absolutely…

I really wonder myself…

Thank you, my friend!