Annalisa Nicholson

Delighted to see the open access publication of Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms -- a superb volume featuring artists, poets, scholars, and a short essay by me on Dutch- and French-speaking women in 16th-century London telling their stories of migration. punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...

Also why are the tasks always so tedious!? “Please provide a summary of the article, its merits and its impact.” Shouldn’t that be for the REF assessors to do?

Another day, another email with a REF task. I’ve been at my institution barely a year and already lost so many hours to this bleak stuff. I know everyone hates it but it’s even more exhausting when you’re fixed-term ECR and doing it for an institution that’ll turf you out as soon as contract ends

Starting some new writing today on a favourite topic - libertine women - with some motivational libertine treats

Thanks so much John - means a lot! 🥹🫶

Ooo thank u 🙏

Image of the cover of a book titled Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions, by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth. The background image is an eighteenth-century ink and watercolor rendition of the harbor of Le Cap in modern Haiti, with three ships and one small boat foregrounded in the bay and a handful of buildings scattered on the shore in the background.

Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians

Gorgeous cover!

Thank you!! 🙏

Intriguing - I would love to know that too, especially given the underhand Anglo-French manoeuvrings going on

A fabulous topic! Both her sisters were implicated in the Affair... and stay with her for a bit in London while they negotiated their banishments.

Thank you!!

Oo thank you for saying that! 🥰

Very wise words! I initially reached out to a couple of US publishers - neither of whom ever got back to me - before going with Bloomsbury History. It can feel bumpy when it's your first time around.

Thank you!!

Thanks so much Carlotta!

For balance - and for anyone struggling on their first monograph - please know that after I submitted my proposal to the publisher, Reviewer 2's report concluded that 'a book on Hortense Mancini's salon would be welcome but this is not that book.' Luckily, Reviewer 2 was overruled..

A Salon-in-Exile This open access book re-evaluates the influence of the ancien régime salons, which were the foremost cultural centres in early modern France. Presided over by…

Blurb and link here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/saloninex.... I wish I had the power to make academic books reasonably priced, and I am fighting that battle, but for now my tip for getting £££ books is to offer to review them for a journal.

✨Excitingly my monograph now has a cover!✨ It’s out in November @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social, which means there will finally be a whole book on Hortense Mancini’s salon, the eager few will be relieved to know. It comes with an academic price tag £££ but will be Open Access. Library orders welcome 🙏

Graveyard exploring today & spent a while gazing at this early eighteenth-century stone with skull and fletched arrow decoration - beside it was the grave of Henry Fawcett, husband of the indomitable Millicent Garrett Fawcett

New on BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME we explore the controversial life and political career of Queen Marie Antoinette of France 🇫🇷

Our guests are Professor @100days1815.bsky.social and comedian Jen Brister

This ep is only available in the UK on BBC SOUNDS for now, but comes to other apps in 1 month

Looking forward to this! 😍

It’s publication day! 🥳 🎈 🍾

Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy published by @wearefootnote and available in all good booksellers.

#womenwhoruledtheworld #reigningqueen #femaleking #mybook #newbook #newhistory

« Nous, étudiants qui apprenons le français à Gaza, lançons un appel à la France » TRIBUNE. Au nom des valeurs de liberté, d’égalité et de solidarité défendues par la France, des étudiants de Gaza demandent, dans une tribune au « Monde », la reprise des évacuations suspendues depuis...

A clarion call to colleagues in French studies and across academia from students of French in Gaza.
"In Gaza, all the students study against death... We come to class despite illness and hunger. We don't give up. To study is to stand tall, to be free"
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

It has been a long summer of proofing and indexing (and battling against outsourcing and possible AI-interventions) but I've just approved the final file of my monograph... Oh sweet relief! Tumbling into autumn free and light as a conker 🍂 🍃

Love this goal! Atmospheric talks add a whole new layer to audience engagement

I was speaking about the history of French exiles in Britain including Revolutionary émigrés of whom Marc Brunel was one - and @brunelmuseum.bsky.social is soon to open its French Revolution season which I would heartily recommend: the-brunel-museum.arttickets.org.uk/the-brunel-m...

This week I gave a paper in the TUNNEL SHAFT of the Brunel Museum, which was very cool in every sense

Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy, the UK's national academy for the humanities and social sciences, said it was "sensible for universities to have more regional conversations about how they provide languages to students". But he believed the bigger and "longer-term question is, what languages do we think we need strategic provision in nationally, and how should that be safeguarded? "It would for example be geopolitically unwise to find ourselves without capable Russian or Chinese speakers. While it's easy to turn off the tap, it's much harder to turn it back on.

Will we accidentally lose our capability in geopolitically key languages as universities close provision?
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The Confessions of Samuel Pepys by Guy de la Bédoyère review – journal of a predator Newly decoded extracts expose the celebrated 17th-century diarist and naval administrator as a rapacious abuser

We’ve long known Samuel Pepys was a sleazebag, but Guy de la Bedoyere’s new edition of his journal reveals it was way worse than that — he was a relentless sexual predator www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...