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Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social · 3h

Hypochondria is currently 25% off in the Waterstones 2026 Pre-Order Promotion! #WPreorder

Use the code OCTOBER25 on their website or app, now until midnight, 17 October.

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Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social · 4h

What is English Christianity?

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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 8h

Challenging the widespread assumption of colonial theft and plunder, our book of the week argues that Western museums acquired objects through complex exchanges of purchase, diplomacy, and scientific excavation.

By Justin M. Jacobs on @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

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Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social · 10h

'Perhaps no other writer, with the exception of Benjamin and McLuhan, has managed to carve out as idiosyncratic a territory as Bachelard, who has few peers and practically no competitors.'

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Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social · 1d

At the Chinese Table

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 1d

I had the great pleasure of editing Naomi Baker’s Voices of Thunder, her groundbreaking book on radical religious women in the 17th century, which arrives with these emphatic endorsements. Out today from @reaktionbooks.bsky.social. #earlymodern

In Voices of Thunder Naomi Baker gives us the most accessible, detailed and well-informed study to date of the women preachers and prophets of the seventeenth-century, a time when nearly all women were meant to stay home and be quiet. Baker shows us how very many women were involved and influential in the early Baptist and Quaker movements and beyond, and how sharply they saw gender and class oppression, while often enduring harsh persecution, usually by men, at home and abroad. With notable biographical skill and sympathy, the author shows us how the women prophets saw and experienced their world. All can benefit from this book, and many will find it an eye-opening revelation.'
Nigel Smith, Princeton University, author of Andrew Marvell: The Chameleon
Voices of Thunder offers a ground-breaking account of the radical women who, during the political, social and religious turmoil of seventeenth-century Britain and Ireland, found voice and vocation. Naomi Baker is an outstanding guide to this complex, challenging and extraordinary culture.
Crawford Gribben, Professor of History at Queen's University Belfast and author of J. N. Darby and the Roots of Dispensationalism
This book crackles and fizzes with the energy and bravado of the many overlooked women who metaphorically hitched up their skirts to challenge forms of authority that sought to marginalise them. Naomi Baker brings deft erudition to her narrative and stylishly synthesises the complex histories of religious radicalism in the seventeenth century. This elegantly written and lively book has much to teach us about belief, politics and activism in both the seventeenth century and the contemporary moment.
Danielle Clarke, Professor of English Renaissance Language and Literature, University College Dublin
Her timely book reminds us of the urgent need to listen to the voices of those who disrupt our social and moral commonplaces.'
Adrian Streete, Professor of Early Modern Literature and Religion, U of Glasgow

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The Gothic Revival @thegothicrevival.bsky.social · 1d

@tomasstanger.bsky.social review of Voices of Thunder: Radical Religious Women of the Seventeenth Century by @drnaomibaker.bsky.social published by @reaktionbooks.bsky.social is on our website now:

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Voices of Thunder by Naomi Baker

I find the subject of women in religion an absolutely fascinating subject, to the extent that I dedicated a large part of my own research

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London Fortean Society @forteanlondon.bsky.social · 1d

The Haunted Landscape 2025: Ghosts, Magic and Lore
22 November 2025 10 am - 5 pm
@conwayhall.bsky.social and online

Jeremy Harte: The Devil in Church
'a dragon, a fiend, a black pig or dog'

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Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social · 1d

Listen now: Cosima Clara Gillhammer explores how liturgical practices shaped medieval life, art, and literature

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 1d

It’s PUBLICATION DAY!! 🌟⭐️💫 I’m very happy to see Voices of Thunder going out into the world 📚

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Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Caught in the vortex

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Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social · 2d

Slaughter for Hire

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Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social · 3d

‘Transatlantic Drift’ Review: When the Beat Drops

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Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social · 3d

Marine muses

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Inside Story @insidestory.bsky.social · 3d

“Ravel, the younger man, was always happy to admit Satie’s influence — especially harmonic — on his music and Satie was mostly pleased to hear it.” @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

The dandy and the eccentric • Andrew Ford

Two very different books mark the anniversaries of two very different composers

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Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Listen now: John Scanlan is on the Fascinating Nouns podcast talking about The Idea of Waste

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Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social · 4d

Peter Ackroyd: ‘London has always been in decline’

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Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social · 5d

Stranger than Fiction

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The History of Literature Podcast @holpod.bsky.social · 5d

@jackewilson.bsky.social talks to scholar Eric Marshall White about his new book, Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books, which explores Gutenberg's life and works.

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739 Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (#14 GBOAT) | Johannes Gutenberg (with Eric Marshall White)

Thanks to his invention of Europe's first typographic printing method, and his pioneering work on the first printed Bible, the fifteenth-century German inventor Joh…

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Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social · 5d

'Voices of Thunder enriches our understanding that this event was not a case of simple reactionism, but one of inevitability to ensure that the voices of all are heard within the church.'

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David Hayden @seventydys.bsky.social · 6d

Books on Auden, Mao, Qaddafi, Edwin Morgan's concrete poetry, Stooges' Raw Power, fascism & the global far right, 'The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments', Katherine Harvey's superb 'Medieval Guide to Healthy Living' & more coming @reaktionbooks.bsky.social reaktionbooks.co.uk/wp-content/u...

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Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social · 9d

Andreas Beyer’s Benvenuto Cellini and the Embodiment of the Modern Artist: This biography situates Cellini more appropriately in the transition that lies between the Renaissance and the modern era.

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Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social · 10d

Listen now: Murder in the Cathedral

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Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social · 11d

Listen now: Gerri Kimber talks about Katherine Mansfield and Virginia Woolf

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Reaktion Books @reaktionbooks.bsky.social · 11d

Listen now: Carol Atack is on the New Books Network talking about Plato

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