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Dr. Erica Canela

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Historian. Early Modern Social History | British Civil Wars and Trauma | Early Quakers in England | 📖 Zealous: A Darker Side of The Early Quakers (Autumn 2025) https://linktr.ee/ericanela

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Dr. Erica Canela @ericanela.bsky.social · Nov 22

Hi! I’m Erica, early modern social historian. I love early #Quaker history but someday I’d love to have a side gig writing about the #NBA in the 80s and 90s. Also a big fan of Danish gløgg, as pictured. 😊

The author, smiling with a cup of gløgg in Denmark.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 9d

14 Oct 1644: b. Willian Penn, future founder of #Pennsylvania #otd in #London. When arrested at a #Quaker meeting in #Cork city in 1667, he was heir to an estate of 7,500 #Irish acres in Co. Cork

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Dr. Erica Canela @ericanela.bsky.social · 9d

This is so surreal and lovely! Thank you!! 😊

Quake It Up @quakeitup.bsky.social · 10d

I, quite literally, could not wait!
@ericanela.bsky.social

#quakers #quakerism #history

Me holding new book by Erica Canela called Zealous

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 18d

🚨 NEW BOOK🚨
💪👩‍🦳 Fierce. Powerful. Preaching. In the 1600s, Quaker women were ministers from day one! @ericanela.bsky.social tells this empowering story.. 🎙️📜

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📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10...

#Mythbusting #17thCentury #History #Podcast #Booklaunch

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 19d

🚨 BOOK LAUNCH🚨
🤯⚖️ In a world built on hierarchy, early Quakers demanded equality for all – shocking 17th-century society. @ericanela.bsky.social unpacks this radical belief! 🎙️💡

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📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10...

#17thCentury #History #Podcast #Booklaunch

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 22d

🚨 NEW BOOK🚨
🕊️😮 Think Quakers were always calm & quiet? Think again! @ericanela.bsky.social joins us to reveal the forgotten, dramatic origins of the movement. 🎙️📜

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📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10...

#17thCentury #History #Podcast #Booklaunch @penswordbooks

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 BOOK LAUNCH🚨
📢💥 Early Quakers didn’t just preach – they stormed into churches, challenged ministers & shook up the status quo. @ericanela.bsky.social brings this explosive chapter of history to life!🎙️🔥

🎧 pod.fo/e/333c3b
📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10...

#History #Podcast

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 20d

🚨 NEW BOOK🚨
🚔📚 Arrests, fines, filthy prisons… @ericanela.bsky.social reveals how early Quakers faced prosecution and used their suffering as powerful propaganda.

🎧 pod.fo/e/333c3b
📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10...

#Mythbusting #17thCentury #History #Podcast #Booklaunch

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 23d

🚨 BOOK LAUNCH🚨
Think Quakers = porridge & pacifism? 🥣✋ Think again. @ericanela.bsky.social takes us through the dramatic, law-breaking, miracle-attempting origins of Quakerism.

🎧 pod.fo/e/333c3b
📖 Buy the book: uk.bookshop.org/a/10...

#17thCentury #History #Podcast #Booklaunch

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Dr. Erica Canela @ericanela.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you, Mark!!! ♥️

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Mark D Russ @markdruss.bsky.social · 23d

I'm so excited about @ericanela.bsky.social's book! #quaker #history

History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · 23d

🚨 BOOK LAUNCH 🚨

🕊️💥 Quakers weren’t always calm! In this #HistoryRage from Gloucester History Festival, @ericanela.bsky.social & Paul Bavill bust myths on pacifism, 17th-century antics & how a radical sect became today’s peaceful movement.

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Carol Ann Lloyd @shakeuphistory.bsky.social · 29d

One of the most misunderstood English Queen Consorts is Mary of Modena, second wife of James II.

Breeze Barrington joins us on Royals, Rebels, and Romantics to discuss what an extraordinary influence Mary was on English society, apart from her role as queen.

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Melita Thomas @melitat.bsky.social · Sep 16

A taster - Sunday's History Festival at Hever Castle.

Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy – Dr Elizabeth Norton

Thomas More: Man, Myth and Mystery – Dr Joanne Paul with Dr Owen Emmerson

Anne Boleyn and the French: – Dr Estelle Paranque

1000 Tudor People: – Melita Thomas

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Joe Saunders @joesaunders1.bsky.social · Sep 4

Learn how to read early modern Secretary Hand, with me in this online short course this month. 🗃️

Pharos Tutors @pharostutors.bsky.social · Sep 4

Old Handwriting for Family Historians. Starting next week! This course takes a practical approach to reading and transcribing old handwriting, starting with the records of the 19th century and moving backwards in time. www.pharostutors.com/old-handwrit...

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Dr. Erica Canela @ericanela.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Rhiannon Grant @rhiannonbookgeek.bsky.social · Sep 1

New issue of Quaker Studies! (it's still summer, right?) Featuring peer reviewed articles on Quaker schools, religious authority, allegations of Roman Catholicism, emotions in minutes, and Virginia Quakers moving towards antislavery. quakerstudies.openlibhums.org/issue/1330/i...

Quaker Studies | Issue: Issue: 1(30) Summer 25 (2025)

quakerstudies.openlibhums.org

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · Aug 29

Coming to Gloucester History Festival
HISTORY RAGE LIVE!!!

Yes I'll be doing a live show in the Scriptorium Buttery featuring @ericanela.bsky.social raging about Quakers

Friday 19th September at 5:00pm and it's FREE

More details on the rest of the festival at : www.gloucesterhistor...

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Dr. Erica Canela @ericanela.bsky.social · Aug 7

It’ll be out in the UK next month! What a journey this has been. . . I’m looking forward to seeing this out in the world!

Dr. Erica Canela @ericanela.bsky.social · Jul 18

An absolute pleasure to attend the launch of Breeze Barrington’s The Graces earlier this week. Tremendous fun to spend time with this crew of historians😎 The 17th century is really the place to be at the moment! Long may it last!

Dr. Erica Canela @ericanela.bsky.social · Jul 17

That’s so kind! Thank you!

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Dr. Erica Canela @ericanela.bsky.social · Jul 16

It’s a very humbling exercise when you send your book out into the wild world! I’ve been so overwhelmed with the lovely early reviews. Quaker history is cool! 😎

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The Wisdom Pedlars, Antiquarian Book Auctions @wisdompedlars.bsky.social · Jul 2

EARL STRAFFORD TRIAL 1641 DEPOSITIONS CHARGES Civil War ANSWERS 1647 PAMPHLETS 2x

#books #antiquarian #17thcentury #trial #court #charges #defence #pamphlets #law #execution #Ireland #KingCharles #war #politics #Parliament #bookauction
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Dr. Erica Canela @ericanela.bsky.social · Jul 2

🎉 Join us this weekend for the @stuarthistoryfest.bsky.social in glorious Worcester!

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Dr. Erica Canela @ericanela.bsky.social · Jun 26

Well-deserved!!! 🙌🏼

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The Cromwell Museum @cromwellmuseum.bsky.social · Jun 20

In the week of the 380th aniversary of the Battle of Naseby, this month's YouTube video is a redux of our animation of the battle, using an original plan of the battle produced in 1647. You can watch this dramatic story brought to life at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA4L...

Battle of Naseby Animation

YouTube video by Cromwell Museum

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Dr. Erica Canela @ericanela.bsky.social · Jun 16

We (@1642author.bsky.social @17thcenturylady.bsky.social)spoke to the lovely Philippa @britishhistory.bsky.social (British History Tours) about @stuarthistoryfest.bsky.social, the talks and historians included, and our location at Worcester's Old Palace.
📽️ youtu.be/YAw_GKgpntM

🗓️5 and 6 July 2025

Sex, Scandal, Politics and War - the 17th Century has it all! | The Stuart History Festival

YouTube video by British History

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