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Dr Martin Roberts @robertsmartino.bsky.social · Jun 10

Hi @cathfletcher.bsky.social & @estelleprnq.bsky.social ! Thanks for all your efforts today. Looking forward to next week's session already!!!

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History Rage Podcast @historyrage.bsky.social · Jun 11

📅 On this day, 11 June 1509, Katherine of Aragon becomes Queen 👑 But why do we keep pitting her against Anne Boleyn? 🤷‍♀️ @estelleprnq.bsky.social argues they had more in common than you think… ⚔️

Listen now 🎧 pod.fo/e/2a41cf
<span class="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#onthisday #otd #onthisdate #history #podcast #Tudor #HenryVIII

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Maureen Wright @drmaureenwright.bsky.social · Jun 14

Not long now, folks. Just 8 days! @chalkefestival.bsky.social @almurray.bsky.social @estelleprnq.bsky.social @historyrage.bsky.social @historywithjackson.bsky.social

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Catherine Fletcher @cathfletcher.bsky.social · Jun 6

My publisher made such a lovely cover for the paperback of The Roads to Rome that I asked if they could also do a poster! Out next week - order here: www.penguin.co.uk/books/443108...

Paperback book with cover showing a long straight road between pine trees leading to a distant city beneath blue sky. Title of book is The Roads To Rome: A Journey into Europe's Past by Catherine Fletcher. Quotes on cover describe it as 'epic and witty - Fletcher is a thoroughly enjoyable narrator' (Tobias Jones, Observer), 'A delightful and authoritative history from the ground up' (Judith Herrin) and 'an exemplar of history as travelogue' (Miles Pattenden, Literary Review).

Poster version of book cover in previous photo - looks the same but in a black picture frame and without the quotes.

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Estelle Paranque @estelleprnq.bsky.social · Jun 6

Kavita, coming from you it is a true honour. You’re an amazing scholar that I highly admire so thank you so much for this! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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Dr. Kavita Mudan Finn @kvmfinn.bsky.social · May 23

This book is fantastic. I finally read it last week and it gave me so much food for thought. I swear there's been a sudden wonderful resurgence of work on #AnneBoleyn, and that delights me.

Estelle Paranque @estelleprnq.bsky.social · May 15

Thorns Lust and Glory in paperback is out today (for less than £12!)

www.amazon.co.uk/Thorns-Lust-...

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Dr Elizabeth Norton @enortonhistory.bsky.social · May 30

Lovely launch of @drjoannepaul.bsky.social Thomas More. Great to see so many historians there, inc Sarah Gristwood Luke Pepera @nicolatallis.bsky.social @drowenemmerson.bsky.social Kate McCaffrey @nathenamin.bsky.social @estelleprnq.bsky.social @historywithjackson.bsky.social Alfred Hawkins

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Estelle Paranque @estelleprnq.bsky.social · May 22

🙌🏻😊 can only agree!!!

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Estelle Paranque @estelleprnq.bsky.social · May 21

What an excellent book!

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Estelle Paranque @estelleprnq.bsky.social · May 21

On French TV with the incomparable @katewilliamsme.bsky.social

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Estelle Paranque @estelleprnq.bsky.social · May 16

I’ve had it for almost 10 years and it has never let me down! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 thank you!

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Estelle Paranque @estelleprnq.bsky.social · May 16

It will be and I’ll be posting the link.
Thank you, Ian!

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Estelle Paranque @estelleprnq.bsky.social · May 16

(yes I’m afraid it does include social media)

If you have more questions, ask me. I’m an open book.

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Estelle Paranque @estelleprnq.bsky.social · May 16

Don’t miss out on this Secrets d’Histoire episode!

And as many of you asked me: “how did you get on TV in the first place?”

I published and got contacted.

Get your work and expertise out there and then work on a public profile to help out

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Estelle Paranque @estelleprnq.bsky.social · May 15

Thorns Lust and Glory in paperback is out today (for less than £12!)

www.amazon.co.uk/Thorns-Lust-...

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Dr Surekha Davies (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · May 7

"an enchanting journey". Thank you, @janmachielsen.bsky.social, for your review of HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, from @ucpress.bsky.social, in @thetls.bsky.social! 1/n

💙📚 🧪 🗃 #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thC #HAMH

www.the-tls.co.uk/politics-soc...

Primeval fears still fire the human imagination

The monsters at the heart of this stimulating new book do not hide under beds or coil around the edges of maps. They do not harass passers-by with

www.the-tls.co.uk

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Estelle Paranque @estelleprnq.bsky.social · May 2

Thank you!

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Dr Joanne Paul @drjoannepaul.bsky.social · May 2

What a wonderful feeling to receive the copies of Utopia I edited for @oxfordunipress.bsky.social.
Please do order for your libraries and reading lists (and your own bookshelves, of course, should you fancy it!).

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Centre for Place Writing @centreplacewriting.bsky.social · Apr 25

Upcoming deadline (30th April) - @cathfletcher.bsky.social & @estelleprnq.bsky.social - new project launching.

#Skystorians

mcphh.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/t...

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Dr Joanne Paul @drjoannepaul.bsky.social · Apr 17

I am so thrilled to announce my new book, Thomas More: A Life, out next month in the UK with @michaeljbooks.bsky.social @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social and North America in July with Pegasus Books
Pre-order now!
uk.bookshop.org/a/12264/9781...
www.simonandschuster.com/.../Joanne.....

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Sophie Waring @atinybitwaring.bsky.social · Apr 8

10 years after the project finished we have finally found our longitude!

All the c.18th seafaring and boardroom drama you could wish for in one expertly written volume!

Only £32 from @cambridgeup.bsky.social

A book cover showing a man on a bizarrely styled float in the sea trying to take a measurement with a sextant. Another sailor sits waiting next to him in a small rowing boat. The title of the book is The Board of Longitude: science, innovation and empire, written by a group of authors.

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Estelle Paranque @estelleprnq.bsky.social · Apr 4

I had the best time tonight at the Labyrinth show with the one and only @katemossewriter.bsky.social

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Estelle Paranque @estelleprnq.bsky.social · Apr 2

Thank you! 🙏🏻😊

Estelle Paranque @estelleprnq.bsky.social · Apr 2

I am so proud of the Chinese cover for Blood Fire and Gold. Published by Shanghai Publishing.

As my children are 16th Chinese that makes me so happy!

What a beautiful cover! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

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Dr Jane Draycott @handle.invalid · Apr 1

Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome is the @hatchards.bsky.social Non-fiction Book of the Month (this is not an April Fool)! This is the first time one of my books has been supported like this, thank you Hatchard's ❤️https://www.hatchards.co.uk/highlights/books-of-the-month

www.hatchards.co.uk

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