Sarah Betts

Now in Issue 593 - still available Open Access academic.oup.com/ehr/article/13…

The latest Royal Studies Podcast episode is out! Join Amy-Jane Humphries for her conversation with @nemgarrett , @WromanticHistry and @RosalindFr31730 about (fictional) representations of regency royalty.

Today's the day! Kings and Queens 14 starts today in Lisbon (and online!) 🎉 Below, you can find today's programme, including timings for the conference workshop and Ana Maria Rodrigues' keynote📄Please note that these are subject to change. 🧵/2

Looking forward to the keynote address this afternoon at the Kings and Queens Conference 2025 at the Faculdade de Letras at the University of Lisbon. Ana Maria Rodrigues will be presenting on Leonor de Lencastre (1458-1525): a paradigmatic queen @royalstudies #kingsandqueens2025 #kingsandqueens

Today is the ✨ FINAL ✨ day to register for Kings and Queens 14! ⏰ All information - including the registration link, updated programme, and details of the student/ECR bursary - is available via the RSN website here: royalstudiesnetwork.org/current-confer…

Doing your first Dickens is a big moment in a narrator’s life. I’m delighted that mine was the massive masque of love and redemption OUR MUTUAL FRIEND, for the good people at #SNRAudio. On @Audible_com now. Hope you like it audible.co.uk/pd/B0F3XSXPL4?…

There's just over a week left to register for this year's Kings and Queens on "Beyond the King: Diplomacy, Social Roles, and Family Dynamics in Monarchies". Be sure to register before the May 20 deadline! ⏰ 🧵

(Continued) Submissions are welcomed from post-graduate & early career researchers who have completed their PhD within the last six years. Deadline for the next essay submission 31 May 2025. Submissions to be sent to Jonathan Spangler, at thecourthistorian@courtstudies.org

We are thrilled to extend the deadline for our Easter Term Call for Papers by ONE WHOLE WEEK! You now have until Friday, 25 April to submit your abstracts - We look foward to reading them!

The latest Royal Studies Podcast episode is out! Join @susannah_lw for her conversation with @MeganRShaw about Katherine Villiers, Duchess of Buckingham 👑   🧵/3

The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender seeks nominations for awards for scholarly work in English on women and gender in the early modern period (ca. 1450-1750) published/completed between June 2022 and May 2025.

Cromwell was here? Free online public talk on the City of Lincoln during the English Civil Wars - Thursday 10 April as part of ‘Medieval and Early Modern Week’ at the University of Lincoln @unilincoln - full programme and booking link here: sway.cloud.microsoft/Rf9hLLQCzM1Pml…

Now that we're into April, we want to remind you of the upcoming deadline for the next RSN newsletter! Be sure to email your submissions before April 30 to be included in May's mailing.

Nominations for the Royal Studies Journal 2025 Biennial Early Career/Postgraduate Article Prize close THIS WEEKEND on 15 March 2025⏳@royalstudies

I am being inaugurated at UCL in 28th May be great to see fellow early modernists so do sign up: eventbrite.co.uk/e/time-frames-…

This is a classic trope repeated by the right wing press and think tanks. I’m as yet to meet the mythical disabled person who was awarded PIP with no medical evidence. Perhaps Policy Exchange is getting confused by the fact the DWP often doesn’t bother *looking* at the evidence.

The latest Royal Studies Podcast episode is out! Join @jo_strong_ for her conversation with @DrAlexCourtney about James VI/I and Alex's latest book: James VI, Britannic Prince: King of Scots and Elizabeth’s Heir, 1566–1603 👑 📖
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Many MPs said they were only supporting bill at second reading on the provision that it'd be strengthened I really hope they're paying attention to all the ways Leadbeater and the committee refused to do that You have to vote on the actual bill, not the one you wish existed

The United Nations just called out the UK’s disability benefits system. PIP & ESA don’t cover basic costs. Disabled people are being pushed into poverty by welfare cuts. The government must fix this and stop treating disabled people as morally suspicious: tinyurl.com/2fxmr3cn

@oldenoughtosay I don't think that you can go wrong with an aquarium and the one at port doree is cheaper than the main one in centre.