Emily Rowe

It’s #worldbookday and so here’s a book I wrote! It introduces a dozen radical 17th women who have been ignored by history books for far too long ✍️📚#voicesofthunder #newbook

Are you a PG student or ECR interested in presenting at our conference ‘Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750’ in June?

Bursaries to help with expenses are generously funded by @srsrensoc.bsky.social, so please send us your abstract by 14 March!

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oh! Come to Mile End! And here from these brilliant women!!! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

In person early modern metals event in London next month with me, @laurenworking.bsky.social, and Lubaaba Al-Azami. Please repost and share widely! And register here -- forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Finally (inevitably?) I have succumbed to How X Read His Y! Grateful for the chance to revisit Joseph Banks’ copy (actually copies) of Thomas Tusser’s husbandry manual in verse, among other plant marginalia. And looking forward to what promises to be a great 2 days! Registration ⬇️

Here’s the full event description !

important for metal fans

Thank you - will do!!

In person early modern metals event in London next month with me, @laurenworking.bsky.social, and Lubaaba Al-Azami. Please repost and share widely! And register here -- forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

More weekend bliss

Enjoying some muddy walks and big trees in Sussex

More weekend bliss

Some imitations

Enjoying some muddy walks and big trees in Sussex

Had a fun time making some wool felt animation films yesterday although all I could think of was…

Shop windows tell the story of London’s revolutionary illustrated newspapers A corner shop in central London has recently been turned into an exhibition space, and is currently exploring the history of 19th-century printers who worked in the area.

Really chuffed to get our exhibition reviewed by the legendary Ian Visits! We’ve been following his lead on all things London for years www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/sho...

fantastic as always @oldfortunatus.bsky.social, talking at @ihr.bsky.social on slavery and the ’invention of rare books’, who I paraphrase here: “We think that people who care about books are fundamentally good people, separate from other forms of accumulation… but I want to suggest otherwise”

Posters are up! 🎉

The Huguenot Bursary for Historical Research 2026 The purpose of the award is to facilitate the research of the recipient, for example to cover research trips etc.

The Huguenot Bursary is now live ! A bursary of £4,000 is available to scholars at any career stage. It is intended to support a period of archival research leading to a publication or completion of a doctoral thesis. More info: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...

Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England Who wrote in early modern England? What did they write and why did they write it? How did their writing fit into the wider worlds that they inhabited? In this talk, Sue Wiseman, Brodie Waddell and Michael Powell Davies – all from Birkbeck University of London – will address these questions by introducing their ongoing Leverhulme-funded collaborative project on non-elite writers in England from c.1570 to 1730. Our research explores the writing practices of people below the level of the gentry and clergy, considering their biographical contexts, their motivations and their contributions to written culture. In addition to giving a bird’s eye view of the sorts of writers and texts we are studying, each of the three speakers will discuss a couple of specific examples of particular writers, including the notebooks of a midland villager, the spiritual diary a London wigmaker, and the confessions of a condemned widow.

'Written Worlds: Non-Elite Writers in Early Modern England'

Sue Wiseman, Michael Powell-Davies and I will be introducing our five-year collaborative project at the @ihr.bsky.social on Thursday, March 5th. Hope to see you there!

Register here: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Photo of Emily Rowe speating at Thomas Nashe and Voice conference.

The brilliant @emilyrowe1.bsky.social opening the first session at today's Thomas Nashe and Voice conference, St John's College, Cambridge, talking about the writing, mining and colonisation.

fantastic as always @oldfortunatus.bsky.social, talking at @ihr.bsky.social on slavery and the ’invention of rare books’, who I paraphrase here: “We think that people who care about books are fundamentally good people, separate from other forms of accumulation… but I want to suggest otherwise”

I’d recommend asking in the letterpress Facebook group. A very generous bunch who will probably inundate you with opinions!
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Compline contemplation at St Paul’s 😌

As someone who has published books with 100+ images, here are my tips for finding free #earlymodern images (and tips for discounts when you have to pay for them!) 🗃️

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Very excited for our return in 2026! Please help us spread the word, and consider submitting an abstract to our #earlymodern conference below ⬇️

Eeee can’t wait!

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Nice thank you!