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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 1d

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

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 15d

Also why are the tasks always so tedious!? “Please provide a summary of the article, its merits and its impact.” Shouldn’t that be for the REF assessors to do?

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 15d

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

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 26d

Starting some new writing today on a favourite topic - libertine women - with some motivational libertine treats

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 28d

Thanks so much John - means a lot! 🥹🫶

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 28d

Ooo thank u 🙏

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Brett Rushforth @brettrushforth.bsky.social · 29d

Not available until June 2026, but we have a cover! #earlymodern #skystorians

Image of the cover of a book titled Beyond the Ocean: France and the Atlantic World from the Crusades to the Age of Revolutions, by Christopher Hodson and Brett Rushforth. The background image is an eighteenth-century ink and watercolor rendition of the harbor of Le Cap in modern Haiti, with three ships and one small boat foregrounded in the bay and a handful of buildings scattered on the shore in the background.

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 29d

Gorgeous cover!

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 29d

Thank you!! 🙏

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 29d

Intriguing - I would love to know that too, especially given the underhand Anglo-French manoeuvrings going on

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 29d

A fabulous topic! Both her sisters were implicated in the Affair... and stay with her for a bit in London while they negotiated their banishments.

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 29d

Thank you!!

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 29d

Oo thank you for saying that! 🥰

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 29d

Very wise words! I initially reached out to a couple of US publishers - neither of whom ever got back to me - before going with Bloomsbury History. It can feel bumpy when it's your first time around.

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 29d

Thank you!!

Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks so much Carlotta!

Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 29d

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..

Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 29d

✨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 🙏

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 29d

Blurb and link here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/saloninex.... I wish I had the power to make academic books reasonably priced, and I am fighting that battle, but for now my tip for getting £££ books is to offer to review them for a journal.

A Salon-in-Exile

This open access book re-evaluates the influence of the ancien régime salons, which were the foremost cultural centres in early modern France. Presided over by…

www.bloomsbury.com

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · 29d

✨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 🙏

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · Sep 7

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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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · Sep 5

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

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · Sep 5

Looking forward to this! 😍

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Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · Sep 4

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...

« 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

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · Sep 1

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 🍂 🍃

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