@ewoodacre
Royal Studies scholar, interested in monarchy (particularly queens!) in all periods and places. Always spinning a few too many plates for my own good, and admit to having a soft spot for a good G&T
Hot off the press! Newly released OA book on monarchy in medieval Sri Lanka by Bruno M. Shirley in @archumanities.bsky.social Gender and Power in the Premodern World Series. This is such an exciting new work in global royal studies, highly recommended!
www.arc-humanities.org/978180270309...
Editorial Opportunity at Royal Studies Journal for Layout Editor responsible for creating page proofs—plenty of time to shadow current editor before taking over next cycle. Voluntary role but great for CV, deadline for EoI is 15 March, DM questions or email editor.rsj@winchester.ac.uk
New podcast episode out!
Join @susannah-lw.bsky.social and Dr. Miranda Johnson for their discussion of female sovereignty and chiefly women in Aotearoa New Zealand via the story of Meri Te Tai Mangakahia and Queen Victoria.
listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...
Wonderful to see the justly popular #marieantoinette exhibition @vamuseum.bsky.social yesterday with @johannastrong.bsky.social @amysaunders.bsky.social and @ajohnson1.bsky.social an epic #queenship outing! The mix of MA’s own items, contemporary examples and modern inspiration was excellent 👸
New Postdoc position at the Uni of Copenhagen!
“Women in the Nordic Enlightenment (WHENCE). Changing the narratives of early modern philosophy and uncovering women’s contribution to Scandinavian gender equality”
Deadline 15 Feb!
Info here: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
New Podcast episode out now!
Part 3/3 on Monarchy and Money (monarchy-money.org), our hosts, Charlotte Backerra & Cathleen Sarti, interview Fabian Persson to discuss 'Court Economy'
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...
Latest issue of Potestas available via the link:
e-revistes.uji.es/index.php/po...
This monograph offers a rich, coherent, and stimulating exploration of the female networks of power
Delighted to see this new issue of Potestas out, featuring a series of articles on #queenship from the REGINET project led by Lledó Ruiz Domingo, www.e-revistes.uji.es/index.php/po...
New Podcast episode out now!
Part 2/3 on Monarchy and Money (monarchy-money.org), our hosts, Charlotte Backerra & Cathleen Sarti, interview Veronika Hyden-Hanscho to discuss Revenues of Habsburg Nobility in the long 18th century
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...
10am, BBC Radio 4! We dive into the extraordinary life of Philippe, Duc d’Orléans with our guests Tom Allen and @jspan.bsky.social
Or listen to the full length podcast on BBC SOUNDS
The happiest days are when new books arrive… #queenship
International Conference: Women and Music in the Iberian Courts (1600-1900)
7th and 8th May, 2026
Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026
Royal Studies Journal 12.2 is now published, featuring the RSJ Article Prize Winner 2025, a global diplomacy cluster, five research articles and seven book reviews.
📖 Read the issue here: rsj.winchester.ac.uk/31/volume/12...
🎧Listen to the prize winner podcast here: bit.ly/4s5g7xI
International Conference: Women and Music in the Iberian Courts (1600-1900)
7th and 8th May, 2026
Deadline for submissions: 15th January 2026
Delighted to announce that RSJ 12.2 is out now—a packed issue w/article prize report, a cluster feature, 5 articles ranging from early modern England to Asian monarchy today + 7 book reviews, a holiday present for you all, thanks to our amazing staff & authors! rsj.winchester.ac.uk/31/volume/12...
Following the Trust receiving 21 applications asking for £170,000, will you help us fund major new castle research projects in 2026? Since 2013, we have made a major contribution to boosting the understanding & preservation of castles. To help please donate here: donate.kindlink.com/castle-studi...
Society Biennial Book Prize The Society awards a biennial book prize of £500 to encourage original research on any aspect in the field of Renaissance studies and to recognise significant accomplishments by members of the SRS. The SRS Book Prize for the year 2026 will be awarded to the author of the best monograph in Renaissance Studies published (digital/hard copy) between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2025. To be eligible the monograph must be written in English by a current member of the SRS. The prize will be awarded for a book with a topic where the majority of material is within the chronological period 1300-1700. Books about Renaissance history, art, architecture, philosophy, science, technology, medicine, religion, music, the literatures and languages of Europe, and of the countries in contact with Europe during the Renaissance, are eligible. Books will be judged on the following criteria: contribution to Renaissance Studies; quality and originality of research; clarity and eloquence; thoroughness and accuracy in documentation; methodological skill and/or innovation.
Who's entering our Biennial Book Prize 2026, to celebrate the best monographs in Renaissance studies published in 2024 and 2025? Send your scintillating scholarship to the Chair of the Book Prize Committee, @racheljwillie.bsky.social, by 31st January 2026.
www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...
New podcast episode available! Join @ewoodacre.bsky.social and Dr Kristen Vitale Engel who discuss the Dec RSJ Feature: Cluster on ‘Diplomacy as Performative Politics in the Early Modern Courts’
Royal Studies Journal: rsj.winchester.ac.uk
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...
Applications are now invited for the Society's 2026-27 Centenary PhD Fellowships for early career historians completing a doctorate bit.ly/48pWB72
Fellowships provide support of £8500 per award for 6 months and are held jointly with @ihr.bsky.social. Closing date: 31 January 2026 #Skystorians
Are you a scholar of the fifteenth century and have an interest in the British Isles and its wider connections? If so, then you will want to know that @memsunikent.bsky.social will be hosting the 2026 Fifteenth Century Conference in Canterbury and the CfP is now open: www.kent.ac.uk/medieval-ear...
New book series, “Court Cultures, 1000-1900”, launched
by @historyboy30.bsky.social & @patrikpastrnak.bsky.social w/ @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
Series feat. books that explore any & all
aspects of global courts.
More info & CfP at: www.degruyterbrill.com/serial/cocu-...
Lecture on Marie Antoinette at the V&A on November 6th (1-2pm).
More info here: www.vam.ac.uk/event/YgezRP...
Join @ewoodacre.bsky.social and Paula Akpan for the 2nd episode in our African Queenship series.
The discussion draws on Akpan's new book, 'When We Ruled' and the various case studies she examined in her research.
Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...
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.
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.
