Dr Michelle Beer

My book has been released in paperback, quite exciting! Hopefully this will make it more accessible for folks: boydellandbrewer.com/9780861933556/… #catherineofaragon #margarettudor #HenryVIII #jamesIV

I’m so pleased with this series, featuring a range of scholars and a wonderful soundscape. Do have a listen. On Katherine: @TheresaEarenfi1 @EmmaLCahill @mlbeer2 @SeanC1509 @DrOwenEmmerson @NPGLondon

The paperback edition of my book is being featured at the Boydell & Brewer booth at the RSA this year, with a special discount! So proud of all the hard work that went into this over the years #catherineofaragon #tudors

@misswalsingham @DrHelenNewsome @NikkiClark86 @TraceLarkhall @_MelEvans @odnb In September she implies she is trying to write in cipher but struggling, #541.

@mlbeer2 @DrHelenNewsome @NikkiClark86 @TraceLarkhall @_MelEvans @odnb Her letters imply she is deciphering, but not confident enough to encipher herself. I'd hoped that there was tangible evidence that she was sent a key, as the @odnb suggests, otherwise we're left with the weirdness that she is an able decoder but not capable of enciphering

Are there still some Catherine of Aragon experts in the room? #twitterstorians I have a very specific question about her use of cipher in 1507 …

@misswalsingham @DrHelenNewsome @NikkiClark86 @TraceLarkhall @_MelEvans @odnb Her letters imply she is the one actively using the cipher, and struggling with it, so we have to assume she has a key?

@DrHelenNewsome @NikkiClark86 @TraceLarkhall @_MelEvans They are definitely my girls 😊 but the question is quite niche: was she sent a cipher key in 1507, when she was appointed ambassador (as the @odnb claims)?

@misswalsingham @DrHelenNewsome @NikkiClark86 @TraceLarkhall @_MelEvans @odnb Yes, she mentions writing in cipher in a letter to Ferdinand in April 1507 and again in July

@DrHelenNewsome @a_v_hayes @Lucy_HS_Dean @josephinthepast @DrLindaPorter1 All of the above!

June is Queenship month on Not Just the Tudors. To kick things off, Suzannah Lipscomb talks to Michelle Beer about the Queens Consort - the wives of Kings so well known to us - who were more powerful than we might think: podfollow.com/not-just-the-t… @sixteenthCgirl @mlbeer2

All July content has now been published. What a month! Huge thank you to the brilliant contributors! @DrEstellePrnq @TudorFaces @ENortonHistory @DrOwenEmmerson @mlbeer2 @kathrynholeman @janegreyinfo @lucystonecarver @tudorfoodrecipe @wendyjdunn @msChristineMo

It’s time for another instalment of #AllThingsTudorQueensandConsorts! I had such a great time talking all things Katherine of Aragon and queenship with Dr Michelle Beer, @mlbeer2. Pour yourself a cuppa and tune in! talkingtudors.podbean.com

Excited that #AllthingsTudorQueensandConsorts kicks off tomorrow! What to expect? 10 podcast episodes, 10 video lectures, 2 drawing tutorials, a guest post and YouTube/IG Lives! Subscribe to #TalkingTudors and join me on YouTube & Insta, so you don't miss a thing!

@mackieteacher congrats! time to change your title EVERYWHERE 😉

@a_v_hayes I have a chapter in my book that goes into this for Catherine of Aragon and Margaret Tudor. :)

Does anyone know of academic works on the childbirth practices for Yorkist/Tudor queens or elite women? Trying to work out how long it was standard to be lying in after childbirth #twitterstorians #queenship

@DrHelenNewsome If you're looking for captions for a recording of the event, YouTube will generate them for you after uploading a video

@sixteenthCgirl Thanks! It seemed especially relevant when discussing the ongoing familial connections these women maintained. Not to mention how confusing the repeat names can be!

@mlbeer2 Quietly impressed by your decision to refer to married women of the Tudor court with both maiden and married names, e.g. Lady Anne Stafford Hastings or Katherine Stafford Neville, countess of Westmorland. I've been wondering how to resolve this myself, and this inspires.

@DrHelenNewsome @SylviaBSo I do cover some of this in my book, but her later pregnancies are not well documented

Researching Margaret Tudor's childbearing history. I'm surprised that so little space is usually dedicated to M's confinements and wondering if this bit in particular 👇 is based on a primary source? Perhaps @DrHelenNewsome knows?

@DrHelenNewsome @SylviaBSo Margaret does disappear from Court for longer than expected after her first childbirth, and James's pilgrimage indicates there was some complications

@DrHelenNewsome Congrats!! Can't wait to read it

@NikkiClark86 She had good female role models, her mother and godmother both defied a king!

Lolz I am reading about Katherine Willoughby/Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk (who is awesome btw). She seems to have had a temper: in a sermon to her, Hugh Latimer said that outspoken women should 'keep their tongues in better order'. Nah I'm good.