Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant

A women's history podcast that showcases 18th and early 19th century women's letters. Host @kig7w | Produced by @R2PodStudios 🎙️

[Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant @humservt]

I'm sorry but "threatened pudding" is absolutely sending me

[Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant @humservt]

!!!

[Revolutionary Spaces @RevSpaces]

How is my voice heard?

Explore disenfranchised citizens of 17th & 18th century Massachusetts—propertyless workers, women, Native tribes, and enslaved people—through petitions. See how the struggle for rights continues by visiting The Humble Petitioner. https://t.co/yWp3OsUFGS

[Madison's Montpelier @JMMontpelier]

(1/3) It’s #NationalPickleDay! #Pickling was an important food preservation method in the 19th century. Montpelier’s #enslaved gardeners could produce fresh cucumbers and other vegetables and fruits for only a few weeks in the year,

[Alexis Coe @AlexisCoe]

“I do not wish women to have power over men, but over themselves." --Mary Wollstonecraft

[Women's Studies Group 1558-1837 @WSGUK]

Inspired by the @SSEMWomenGender we've resumed publishing digests of our members' publications. First up:

Peter Radford

They Run with Surprising Swiftness: The Women Athletes of Early Modern Britain
University of Virginia Press (2023)

https://t.co/zi1ryHGfxT

[Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant @humservt]

@TheHistoryOfTh2 I have been SAYING

[Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant @humservt]

A solid example of someone abbreviating the absolute heck out of "Your mo. obt. hb. Servt."

[The Raab Collection @RaabCollection]

As Benedict Arnold raided Richmond, in a letter to “Genl. Washington’s Head-Quarters”, Governor Thomas Jefferson rushes to supply the Continental Army in his state in the face of the invasion https://t.co/bXMnLgfuVV

[Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant @humservt]

The Season of Revolution has begun! In this episode, @MaeveKane joins @kig7w to discuss Konwatsi'tsiaienni Molly Brant’s pivotal diplomatic efforts to maintain the Mohawk’s alliance with the British and the turmoil Indigenous women like her experienced. https://t.co/3SNxGVfYm5

[Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant @humservt]

A Season of Revolution begins next week! Are you ready? https://t.co/tlexWk4UFC

[Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant @humservt]

While you're waiting for our new season why not listen to the latest episode of Worlds Turned Upside Down?

[Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant @humservt]

MISS BRAZEN just BREECHT 😂
https://t.co/pIlYuIslaS

[OTD Wolfe Tone Diary @OTDWolfeTone]

October 21 1792 - Mrs Atkinson there. Mr Hutton [Tone] a puppy! Mrs McCarty xxxx eyes xxxx teeth xxxx not handsome but interesting xxxx. Mr Hutton an egregious coxcomb! Stays late.

[maryannmccracken @MAMcCFoundation]

MaryAnn's influence extended within her own family, particularly with her niece Maria who was Henry Joy's illegitimate daughter. Mary Ann took over her care after her brother's execution-despite some of her families' apprehensions. Maria proved to be a great support for her aunt

[Elizabeth Montagu's Correspondence Online (EMCO) @Montagu_Letters]

#OTD in 1781, Elizabeth wrote to Hester Thrale Piozzi, in which she sings high praise for her carriage, recommending Hester ‘taking the air every morning in ye one horse chair, it is the best Carriage in the world’. https://t.co/bSjHrUba5S

[Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant @humservt]

I did a double take at the use of the word "crib" here

[OTD Wolfe Tone Diary @OTDWolfeTone]

October 8 1792 - Dinner very bad. Retire early to my crib and read Chesterfield's Letters, which has been my great resource against ennui. His lordship a damned scoundrel; he advises his son to attack Madame de Blot because she has been married a year and loves her husband.

[Museum of the American Revolution @AmRevMuseum]

Join us Oct. 12-14 to explore Native American history, culture and their role in the Revolutionary War with living history interpreters, dance performances, and more as part of our annual Indigenous Peoples Weekend celebration. More from @thephillyvoice: https://t.co/uJ5xqsst12

[Your Most Obedient & Humble Servant @humservt]

Check out the latest episode of @askhistorians Podcast in which Humble host @kig7w had a great conversation with @JennBinis about the podcast and the importance of understanding the content of women's letters.
https://t.co/t4ke4Rhf7I

[Massachusetts Historical Society @MHS1791]

Huzzah! We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 22 of The Papers of John Adams. Learn all about his epic first year as president: https://t.co/wm6FwrZeKX

#MHS1791 #AdamsPapers @NHPRC @NEHgov @editorialnotes