Dr Megan Shaw | meganshaw.bsky.social

Early Modern Art Historian | Arts Manager & Archivist @chartwell_trust | Prev. Junior Fellow @paulmelloncentr | Instagram: yorkhousearchive

[WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK @JANUSZCZAK]

From me to the government of New Zealand - bring back art history. Please retweet if you agree. Especially if you’re in New Zealand!

[Dr Megan Shaw | meganshaw.bsky.social @MeganRShaw]

@SarahABendall So exciting!

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@RuthMLarsen @gowerst_books @YaleBooks Can’t wait to get my hands on a copy, congratulations!

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@karins42 Thank you, Karin! 💗

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Completely delighted to finally share that I've been awarded a David Walker Memorial Fellowship in Early Modern History at the @bodleianlibs which I’ll be taking up in Trinity Term 2026. In very good company 💙 https://t.co/3uescGE4il

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@ShoniBLD @bodleianlibs Thank you so much!

[Understanding King James VI & I Conference @KingJamesConf]

Megan Shaw joins us online from New Zealand to discuss the adoption of the Villiers kin into the royal family. Crucially, this was reinforced when Villiers - duke of Buckingham - married Katherine Manners and James became a ‘gossip’ or godfather to the couple and their children…

[Understanding King James VI & I Conference @KingJamesConf]

DAY THREE, PANEL ONE - Influential Relationships

Laura Leslie dissects James’s childhood relationship with his ‘Deddy’ and ‘Minny’, the earl and countess of Mar. His time with the Mars’ was a formative and underappreciated aspect of James’ reign…

[Royal Studies Network @royalstudies]

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

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[Dr Megan Shaw | meganshaw.bsky.social @MeganRShaw]

@JSpanUK Thank you so much!

[Dr Megan Shaw | meganshaw.bsky.social @MeganRShaw]

I passed my viva with no corrections in Feb - that’s my #phddone 🎉 My thanks to examiner Malcolm Smuts for an exhilarating defence & @misswalsingham for a supportive & thoughtful report. Thanks also to my supervisors @eringriffey & Jonathan Scott for everything along the way 🥂

[Dr Megan Shaw | meganshaw.bsky.social @MeganRShaw]

@EilishGregory Thank you so much Eilish! Your work is such an inspiration too.

[Dr. Sarah Joan Moran @LC_Beguines]

Kunstkast, painted with an allegory of Peace and mythological scenes, c. 1645. Anonymous cabinetmaker and Victor Wolfvoet (painter), who probably worked in Rubens's studio. Several of the small paintings exist in larger versions by Rubens. @rijksmuseum, on loan @NoordbrabantsM .

[Fitzwilliam Museum @FitzMuseum_UK]

🎨✨Mini but mighty!

Our new online resource 'Unlocking the English Portrait Miniature' allows you to get up close and personal with over 80 of these miniatures portraits from the 1500s and 1600s.

🔗 Go ahead, tap the link in our bio and see what details you can uncover.

[The Frame Blog @TheFrameBlogX]

Here's Part 2 of a series of articles on paintings which show framed pictures in interiors. They reveal a lot about fashions in frames; how they were hung on the wall; whether they were merely decorative or perhaps symbolic. Part 2 covers the 17th century:
https://t.co/OCj2haipmd

[Dr Isabella Rosner @IsabellaRosner]

I’ve been in 17th-century heaven, lucky enough to visit some amazing collections with experts I deeply admire. We visited Boughton House & saw beautiful things (shared with permission). I almost cried when I saw the portrait of Elizabeth Vernon at her toilet, a longtime favourite

[Dr Megan Shaw | meganshaw.bsky.social @MeganRShaw]

@A_M_Forsyth Congrats Alex!!! 🥰🥳

[Dr Megan Shaw | meganshaw.bsky.social @MeganRShaw]

@m_s_giraud So happy! ❤️❤️ Adore you and thank you for being there

[Dr Megan Shaw | meganshaw.bsky.social @MeganRShaw]

@SarahABendall So cramped??! But neat!

[Georgianna Ziegler @EMHerstory]

And here is Esther Inglis's version of this rose in NLS Acc. 11624 presented to Lucy, Countess of Bedford in 1606. @nlsarchives @NoteArtHerstory #CountessofBedford