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Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · Aug 22

On this day in 1642 Charles I raised his standard at Nottingham. John and Lucy Hutchinson were not there to see him, John having fled for fear of capture, and the couple were separated in traumatic circumstances that affected, she believed, the health of the daughter she was about to bear.

Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · Jul 9

Nudging from the margins: Thomas Poulton, Governor of Nottingham Castle, records his capture of a royalist in 1648 with the help of Joseph Widmerpoole. Hutchinson has Poulton insert a note saying he was involved too. When Lucy Hutchinson writes the episode up, Poulton disappears.

Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · Jun 12

The radical clericalism of the chapel makes it the more striking that John 'never mist the Chappell', and that Lucy Hutchinson doesn't retrospectively present him as an overt opponent.

Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · Jun 12

In an Oxford paper David Scott offered a fresh view of Laudianism through the building of Peterhouse chapel, Cambridge.

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The Cromwell Museum @cromwellmuseum.bsky.social · May 9

Only a couple of weeks now until the first of our spring online lecture series. Four top historians over successive weeks on aspects of the 1600s, this time covering subjects from radical republicans, religious groups and the outbreak of the civil war... cromwellmuseum.org/events/cromw...

Poster for the Cromwell Museum Spring Lecture Series

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@rhammersley99.bsky.social @rhammersley99.bsky.social · May 1

In this month's blogpost I travel from Oxford to Switzerland in the company of the eighteenth-century eccentric Thomas Hollis. www.rachelhammersley.com/new-blog/2025/4/29/thomas-hollis

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Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · Apr 22

The US Naval Academy has been purged of several books about gender in early modern writing. This is at least proof that criticism has efficacy. (Hutchinson survives.)

Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · Apr 8

Historians of Protestantism are versatile people

Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · Apr 3

The Memoirs is on the list, unclear whether it is the incomplete pre-1973 text which is available out of copyright anyway.

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Apr 3

#DoTheWriteThing

Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Apr 3

Today UK authors are protesting against Meta for stealing our work to train their AI model. Authors earn an average of £7000 per year, we are not rich, and yet a trillion dollar company decided it didn’t want to license our work fairly as it was “too expensive”

Theft is not a valid alternative.

META BOOK THIEVES - They Must Do The Write Thing

The Society of Authors are protesting Meta’s HQ today

This image shows illustrations of authors holding placards saying “make it fair” and “do the write thing”

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Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · Apr 3

Please sign the petition on Change.org to protect authors from predatory AI and see the scope of Meta’s raids which will affect all who write for a living and extends to articles on Lucy Hutchinson.

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Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · Mar 24

In a session on Hutchinson and Pulter, David Norbrook compared discourses of patriarchy in their writings, LaJoie J. Lex demonstrated the importance of the Book of Job for Pulter’s religious poetry, and Wesley Garey explored Protestant sublimity in Order and Disorder.

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Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · Mar 24

Peter Beal co-edited English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, in whose special 2000 issue on early modern women’s writing appeared David Norbrook's article on the authorship of Order and Disorder. The 25th anniversary was marked by a session at the Renaissance Society of America in Boston.

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Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · Mar 24

Peter Beal built the essential infrastructure for early modern manuscript studies, which was so important for the study of women's writing.

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · Mar 8

The amazing Esther Inglis [Kello], 1570/71-1624, calligrapher, daughter of Huguenot refugees, depicts herself writing in a New Year's gift book for Henry Prince of Wales in 1607. (Royal Collection Trust, HM CIII) #InternationalWomensDay

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John Rees @johnwrees.bsky.social · Mar 8

Will be on BBC R4’s Start the Week on Monday, 9am. ‘historian John Rees focuses on the group of firebrand parliamentarians at the heart of the English Civil Wars. The Fiery Spirits describes how the radicals influenced other MPs & led to the defeat, and execution, of Charles I.’

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Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · Mar 7

Julius Hutchinson did cut many passages he thought readers would dislike and only in 1973 did James Sutherland issue an edition from the original MS. N. H. Keeble followed with a modernized edition. The new edition will for the first time include in full an earlier version written during the war.

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Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · Mar 7

The vehemently republican MS was held close by the family and not published till 1806. Julius Hutchinson issued special large-paper copies and boosted subscriptions; it became a best-seller.

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Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · Mar 7

Lucy Hutchinson’s life of her husband, written after his death in prison in 1664, is on display in Nottingham Castle Museum’s brilliant ‘Rebellion Gallery’.

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Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · Mar 7

The Oxford edition will print both of Lucy Hutchinson's accounts of the siege, where she has Sir John - one of the few Parliamentarian commanders she wholeheartedly praised - lament his side's disunity.

The Cromwell Museum @cromwellmuseum.bsky.social · Mar 6

#OnThisDay 6 March 1644 Parliamentarian forces of 2,000 horse, 5,000 foot & 13 siege guns commanded by Sir John Meldrum commenced the 2nd siege of #Newark. They stormed Muskham bridge & seized control of the fortified island in the River Trent. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD

17th century engraving of Sir John Meldrum, depicted in full armour.

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Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · Mar 6

International Women's day lecture on the Hutchinsons, Newark, Friday 7 March

Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · Feb 14

In a reflexive moment, after mourning her husband's mother, Margaret Biron, she recalls that she had served Arbella Stuart, with Jane Owen part of a group of Jacobean women intellectuals, and ‘euen after her marriage, she would steale many melancholly howers, to sitt & weepe in remembrance of her’.

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Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · Feb 14

Hutchinson was not the first woman poet to take an interest in Lucretius: apart from her contemporary Margaret Cavendish, in 1610 Jane Owen presented to the Bodleian Library this beatuiful 15th-century MS, the only one then in Britain. Bodleian MS Auct. F. 1. 13.

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Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · Feb 13

These are the editions of Lucretius, by Denys Lambin and Daniel Pareus, which Lucy Hutchinson would have consulted 'in a roome where my children practizd the severall quallities they were taught, with their Tutors, & I numbred the sillables of my translation by the threds of the canvas I wrought in'

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Lucy Hutchinson Edition @hutchinsonedition.bsky.social · Feb 13

On the subject of Lucretius, here is how students at Baylor University have responded.

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