Annalisa Nicholson
@apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social
Early modernist and Research Fellow in French at KCL
Working on women, exile, gender, Huguenots, Francophonie, queer libertines ~ she/her
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/annalisa-nicholson
Working on women, exile, gender, Huguenots, Francophonie, queer libertines ~ she/her
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/annalisa-nicholson
Pinned
✨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 🙏
I've had an article under review at a journal for over 7 months, which feels like AGES but...is this normal now?! I keep hearing about the difficulties in finding peer reviewers. I don't want to be dramatic and withdraw the manuscript, but also as an fixed-term ECR, I can't help feeling restless
November 18, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I've had an article under review at a journal for over 7 months, which feels like AGES but...is this normal now?! I keep hearing about the difficulties in finding peer reviewers. I don't want to be dramatic and withdraw the manuscript, but also as an fixed-term ECR, I can't help feeling restless
Unboxing my author copies to finally hold the finished book in my hands. What a feeling! I started this research during my MA in 2016, and 1 PhD and 2 research fellowships later it’s finally here. Coming soon to a research library near you! ✨
November 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Unboxing my author copies to finally hold the finished book in my hands. What a feeling! I started this research during my MA in 2016, and 1 PhD and 2 research fellowships later it’s finally here. Coming soon to a research library near you! ✨
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The Worshipful Company of Curriers essay prize on London for early career scholars, in association with The London Journal Trust and the Institute of Historical Research.
The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal.
The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal.
Curriers' Essay Prize | The London Journal
The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal. Other promising entries may also be considered for publication.
www.thelondonjournal.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
The Worshipful Company of Curriers essay prize on London for early career scholars, in association with The London Journal Trust and the Institute of Historical Research.
The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal.
The author of the winning submission will receive £1,000, and publication, subject to peer review, in The London Journal.
Early modernists! I'm reading abt the 1662 Russian embassy to London where Pepys records gifts of 'furs, hawks, carpets, cloths of tissue, and sea-horse teeth'. I'm intrigued by the seahorse teeth bc...seahorse don't have teeth, right? Are these other parts of the seahorse's body or something else?🪸
November 3, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Early modernists! I'm reading abt the 1662 Russian embassy to London where Pepys records gifts of 'furs, hawks, carpets, cloths of tissue, and sea-horse teeth'. I'm intrigued by the seahorse teeth bc...seahorse don't have teeth, right? Are these other parts of the seahorse's body or something else?🪸
Did anyone else feel their heart leap with the news that the British Library are aiming to relaunch their archives and manuscript catalogue in early December? Can't wait to see you old friend 😭
October 31, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Did anyone else feel their heart leap with the news that the British Library are aiming to relaunch their archives and manuscript catalogue in early December? Can't wait to see you old friend 😭
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We are thrilled to share the CFP for our Symposium, Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714. We hope to bring together a range of interdisciplinary research on this complex and understudied period! #EarlyModern #CfP
October 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
We are thrilled to share the CFP for our Symposium, Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714. We hope to bring together a range of interdisciplinary research on this complex and understudied period! #EarlyModern #CfP
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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...
Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms – punctum books
punctumbooks.com
October 7, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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...
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
September 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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
September 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Starting some new writing today on a favourite topic - libertine women - with some motivational libertine treats
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Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians
September 9, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians
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..
✨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 🙏
September 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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..
✨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 🙏
September 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
✨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
September 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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
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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
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
September 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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
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
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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
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
September 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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
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
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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...
"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...
« 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...
www.lemonde.fr
September 4, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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...
"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 🍂 🍃
September 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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 🍂 🍃
This week I gave a paper in the TUNNEL SHAFT of the Brunel Museum, which was very cool in every sense
August 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This week I gave a paper in the TUNNEL SHAFT of the Brunel Museum, which was very cool in every sense
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Will we accidentally lose our capability in geopolitically key languages as universities close provision?
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August 13, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Will we accidentally lose our capability in geopolitically key languages as universities close provision?
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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...
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
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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...
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The Graces: The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the #Restoration Court by Breeze Barrington looks beyond the warming pan to the real Mary of Modena.
✍️ Annalisa Nicholson reviews the recent #history book
www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...
✍️ Annalisa Nicholson reviews the recent #history book
www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...
‘The Graces’ by Breeze Barrington review
www.historytoday.com
August 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The Graces: The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the #Restoration Court by Breeze Barrington looks beyond the warming pan to the real Mary of Modena.
✍️ Annalisa Nicholson reviews the recent #history book
www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...
✍️ Annalisa Nicholson reviews the recent #history book
www.historytoday.com/archive/revi...
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Delighted that the print copies of my first book 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London', just published with @universitypress.cambridge.org, have arrived! 📚📚📚
August 7, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Delighted that the print copies of my first book 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London', just published with @universitypress.cambridge.org, have arrived! 📚📚📚
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Have you listened to this episode of BBC Radio 4's 'In Our Time' on Molière yet? Featuring Melvyn Bragg alongside three SEMFS members: Professors Jan Clarke, Joe Harris, and Noel Peacock. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Molière
The great French playwright and comic actor who flourished at the court of Louis XIV.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 1, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Have you listened to this episode of BBC Radio 4's 'In Our Time' on Molière yet? Featuring Melvyn Bragg alongside three SEMFS members: Professors Jan Clarke, Joe Harris, and Noel Peacock. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
My review of The Graces: The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration Court is out now in the August issue of @historytoday.com. Stans of the Stuarts, the Roaring Restoration, and early modern women - this book is for you 💘
August 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
My review of The Graces: The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration Court is out now in the August issue of @historytoday.com. Stans of the Stuarts, the Roaring Restoration, and early modern women - this book is for you 💘
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The situation in many UK universities is awful, but the news coming out of Lancaster is especially bad: 1/4 jobs to go, with senior management either leaving or not taking a pay cut. Please sign and share this petition to support colleagues there: chng.it/X6g46TjMSC
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
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August 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The situation in many UK universities is awful, but the news coming out of Lancaster is especially bad: 1/4 jobs to go, with senior management either leaving or not taking a pay cut. Please sign and share this petition to support colleagues there: chng.it/X6g46TjMSC