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Nadine Akkerman
@misswalsingham.bsky.social
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Archival detective, author, biographer, cryptographer, editor, spymistress. Prof in early modern lit & culture at @unileiden.bsky.social
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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · Dec 8
What a line-up @anneapplebaum.bsky.social Yuval Noah Harari, @elegantfowl.bsky.social @soniapurnell.bsky.social @questingvole.bsky.social 🥂 Excited that my book #Spycraft @yalebooks.bsky.social , co-written with Pete Langman, is included in SUCH good company by @economist.com !
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Maartje Janse @maartjejanse.bsky.social · 14h
Collega @judithpollmann.bsky.social kreeg vanmiddag de Spinozapremie uitgereikt in een feestelijke bijeenkomst. Meer dan verdiend: Judith is een fantastische onderzoeker die anderen meeneemt in haar enthousiasme. Ook een enorme opsteker voor de geesteswetenschappen, geschiedenis en ons Instituut!
Judith Pollmann krijgt op een podium een beeldje van Spinoza overhandigd
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Scottish History Society @scothistorysociety.bsky.social · 6d
Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History

Join us for a series of free, online lectures to explore sources of women's lived experience, intellectual and religious networks, and socio-political power in medieval and early modern Scotland.

scottishhistorysociety.com/shs-winter-l...
SHS Winter Lecture Series: Finding Women in Scottish History
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Dr. Peter Paul Rubens @peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 12d
Lady costumed for the masque, as a rather racy Flora. Painted in miniature by Isaac Oliver. Today is his day.
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 13d
Purse made of a walnut shell covered with embroidered silk, England, 1600-1650. (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 13d
Cup & case, probably made in West Yorkshire, 1692-94 By Francis Place The 'capuchine' [so-called from its resemblance to a cloaked Capuchin friar] was developed in the late 17th century specifically for drinking the new coffee and chocolate. (V&ALondon) #InternationalCoffeeDay
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 13d
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf
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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 14d
An example of a cut-paper artwork by #JoannaKoerten, held by the @britishmuseum.bsky.social -
Pendant of cut-paper work between two sheets of glass with St Anthony of Padua among trees, birds, animals and putti with an inscription. In a gold frame with a pendant loop.
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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · 14d
This 17th-Century Female Artist Was Once a Bigger Star Than Rembrandt. Why Did History Forget About Johanna Koerten and Her Peers? -
by Meilan Solly for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social
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This 17th-Century Female Artist Was Once a Bigger Star Than Rembrandt. Why Did History Forget About Johanna Koerten and Her Peers?
A new exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts spotlights 40 women who found fame in the Low Countries between 1600 and 1750, including Koerten, Judith Leyster and Clara Peeters
www.smithsonianmag.com
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Paul Thomas @paulthomasuk.bsky.social · 21d
You can get it from Westwood Books and there are even a couple of 1st Edition signed hardbacks that I had put aside but forgot if you search it on the site
Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration, Nadine Akkerman & Pete Langman
New Paperback A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies—from ciphers to counterfeiting, invisible inks to assassination   Early modern Europe was a...
www.westwoodbooks.co.uk
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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 21d
Wanted: Spycraft from @YaleBooks has escaped from the Tower disguised as a paperback ... track it down at a bookseller near you today!
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Pete Langman @elegantfowl.bsky.social · 21d
On the day the paperback edition of Spycraft @YaleBooks is released from close confinement in the Tower, here's an extract to whet the appetite ... www.the-emigre.com/column/the-c...
The Counterfeiting of Robert Gray — The Emigre
An extract from Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to the Restoration, out this week in paperback.
www.the-emigre.com
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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 26d
Old Woman Reading Mid-17th century
Dominicus van Tol, active Leiden, c. 1635–1676. (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · 27d
Just arrived in Gloucester! Are you in tonight’s audience? #Spycraft www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk/events/spycr...
Spycraft: From Elizabeth I to the Restoration - Gloucester History Festival
£12 / £7 Livestreamed Forget 007, England’s wildest spies were the Elizabethans. Unmask the hidden world of espionage with Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman’s thrilling journey through codes, ciphers a...
www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk
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Daniel F Gosling @thegozfather.bsky.social · Sep 14
Interested in London trades in the 16th Century? Court of Requests proceedings in REQ 2 have you covered. One way to find a bunch of cases (over 500) is to search REQ 2 for "citizen and". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_a...
Search results: "citizen and" | The National Archives
The official archive of the UK government. Our vision is to lead and transform information management, guarantee the survival of today's information for tomorrow and bring history to life for everyone...
discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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John Carter Brown Library @jcblibrary.bsky.social · Sep 11
We created a reading group in 2024 focused on key classic and new texts from a variety of perspectives on the making, unmaking, challenges and potential in "archives."

We will meet next on Friday, September 19 at 2 p.m.

Interested? Complete the Google form: jcblibrary.org/events/criti...
The images shows a black and white photo of an archive with lights and worn boxes with numbers on them.
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Art Herstory @artherstory.bsky.social · Sep 11
Coming up for auction, Sept 13,
Hargesheimer auction at Drouot.com -

Ginevra Cantofoli, Self-portrait of the artist at the easel with a brush / Allegory of painting

drouot.com/en/l/3025356...
A painting in a dark frame with gold colored trim of a white woman in a gold-colored gown with a blue bow at the left shoulder. She wears dangly earrings and a choker of beads (pearls?) from which hangs a gold-colored cross. Her body is slightly turned toward the left side of the painting; she turns her head over her left shoulder to gaze at the viewer. Her right hand holds a paintbrush; it is lifted up to a barely visible painting in front of her. Her left arm is bent at the elbow; visible in her left hand is a palette with her thumb sticking through, and 4 more paintbrushes.
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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · Sep 10
🚨 FESTIVAL SPECIAL🚨
Think you know how Mary Queen of Scots was undone? 👑📜 Think again. The Babington Plot is not the story you’ve been told.

🎧 Hear @misswalsingham.bsky.social & @elegantfowl.bsky.social
🎧 Listen now! pod.fo/e/3251ad
🎟️ www.gloucesterhistor...
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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · Sep 6
🚨 FESTIVAL SPECIAL🚨
Forget lemon juice tricks 🍋 — early spies were far more cunning. Some even forged invisible ink letters to keep the game alive!

Hear @misswalsingham.bsky.social & @elegantfowl.bsky.social
🎧 Listen now! pod.fo/e/3251ad
🎟️ www.gloucesterhistor...
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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · Sep 8
🚨 FESTIVAL SPECIAL🚨
In the 17th century, carrying a coded message could cost your life ⚔️📜.

🎙️ @misswalsingham.bsky.social & @elegantfowl.bsky.social uncover the dangers of early spy networks on History Rage
🎧 Listen now! pod.fo/e/3251ad
🎟️ www.gloucesterhistor...
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Professor Claire Jowitt @clairejowitt.bsky.social · Sep 7
🏴‍☠️Practices and Narratives of Early Modern Piracy:
Connecting the Seas, 1550–1800, edited by @susannegruss.bsky.social & Marcus Hartner,
the newest book in @amsterdamupress.bsky.social Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800 book series is out *22 Sept 2025* Available to preorder: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · Sep 5
🚨 FESTIVAL SPECIAL🚨
Early espionage wasn't all Walsingham & Cecil 👨‍💼. Women ran networks, spread misinformation, carried secrets — often overlooked. 🕵️‍♀️
🔥 @misswalsingham.bsky.social & @elegantfowl.bsky.social
🎧 pod.fo/e/3251ad
Live 🎟️ www.gloucesterhistor...
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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · Sep 5
Forget gadgets and tuxedos 🎩🍸 — Tudor spies used invisible ink, folded letters and even swallowed secrets in wax balls 😱.
🎙️ Hear @misswalsingham.bsky.social & @elegantfowl.bsky.social

🎧 Listen! pod.fo/e/3251ad
—and live at @GlosHistFest 🎟️ www.gloucesterhistor...
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Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham.bsky.social · Sep 4
I’ve never had access myself 🤷‍♀️
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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · Sep 4
🚨 COMING TOMORROW🚨
From MQOS’ downfall 👑 to the Gunpowder Plot 💥, espionage shaped Tudor and Stuart politics in ways we rarely hear about.

🎧 Join @misswalsingham.bsky.social & @elegantfowl.bsky.social — live at Gloucester History Festival 🎟️ www.gloucesterhistor...
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Leonard Lloyd @leonardlloyd.bsky.social · Sep 3
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