Stuarts Online

See our free online learning resources on the history & literature of the Stuart era: Funded by @ahrcpress; managed by @McRaeAndrew

[Stuarts Online @stuartsonline]

🤔 Your seventeenth-century history exam starts now. Discuss.

[@zoesqwilliams.bsky.social @zoesqwilliams]

Hard agree. It's time to start having actionable standards on social media, the way we have on _all other media_ and figured this out in the _1640s_

[Andrew McRae @McRaeAndrew]

One guy who knew how to do St George’s Day: Charles II delayed his coronation by eleven months in order to stage it on April 23. Looks up for a big night here.

[Esther Inglis 2024 @EstherInglis24]

We are delighted to announce the call for papers for "Esther Inglis in Contexts and Culture", a colloquium @CRC_EdUni, 12th-13th October 2024. Papers invited on any aspect of Esther Inglis' life, work, and surrounding contexts. Please share widely! https://t.co/yXT5gReegO

[Witney Antiques @Witney_Antiques]

This 17th-century embroidered picture depicts scenes from the Book of Esther. At the centre is King Ahasuerus receiving Esther. On the right side is Mordecai riding the king's horse and to the left is Haman being hanged. The underdrawing is visible throughout the unfinished piece

[Stuarts Online @stuartsonline]

@TheEmigre_ @elegantfowl Thank you for saying what everyone was thinking: Villiers had much better legs.

[The Emigre @TheEmigre_]

“Those who know their history will find it makes no sense; and those who don’t will not be able to make any sense of it.”

Historian @elegantfowl raises an eyebrow at Sky's #MaryandGeorge

https://t.co/EEv1PSsBgB

[@MappingInns @MappingInns]

We’re looking forward to welcoming Prof Paul Raffield on Thursday to talk about Troilus and Cressida and Middle Temple. All welcome! Email [email protected] for the link…

https://t.co/ID7WTGu9Oe

[Stuarts Online @stuartsonline]

@wartsandbrawls Not hugely opposed to this tbh. But I think we should be talking more about how generative AI is killing the uni essay, because the broad, generic essay questions that served us well for many years are so easy to game. And then we could ask: is that a bad thing?

[Stuarts Online @stuartsonline]

‘How much of this is true?’ feels like a simple-minded question. This is an opportunity to reflect on all sorts of important questions: e.g. changing practices & attitudes towards sexuality, the role of rumour & scandal in forming historical narratives, etc. 3/3 #MaryandGeorge

[Stuarts Online @stuartsonline]

Is the concept of the court favourite, with all its complicated eroticism, really too difficult to communicate, even to Guardian readers? #MaryandGeorge 1/2 https://t.co/j6Mv38lLz4

[Stuarts Online @stuartsonline]

I’m loving #MaryandGeorge, but a little more recognition that this is history-as-scandal - like the libels of the time, or the ‘secret histories’ of later decades, or even the tabloids of today - would be helpful. 2/3

[Andrew McRae @McRaeAndrew]

If anyone wants some #MaryandGeorge pre-reading, we collected all the scandalous poems (‘libels’) from the period here. And nobody - I mean, nobody - attracted more attention from libellers than George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham. https://t.co/JNBk5harWg

[Anna Pravdica (AnnaJPravdica.bsky.social) @AnnaJPravdica]

I wrote about my favourite troublemaking 17th-century cobbler Ralph Wallis - the perfect excuse to put my favourite little 17th-century woodcut shoemaker to use 🥰

[Stuarts Online @stuartsonline]

Huge thread below: the first detailed analysis of the remarkable county maps William Hole produced for Drayton's 'Poly-Olbion' (1612-22). And some questions remaining as the editors finalize their new edition. @greg_jenner @earlymodernjohn @jdmccafferty @SLevelt @SRSRenSoc

[Poly-Olbion Project @Poly_Olbion]

Ok, we’re at the stage of annotating the maps - yes, the maps. Last(ish) task. So stand by for a thread that will last a few weeks…

[CourtStudies @CourtStudies]

Our latest blog post on 'The Court Observer' is by Joe Ellis @HistoryJoey on James VI of Scotland, poetry and sexuality.
Read it here:
https://t.co/DZmRVtXA1P

Please share widely!

[John McCafferty @jdmccafferty]

29 May 1660: Charles II enters #London in triumph on his 30th birthday #otd #restoration

[Stuarts Online @stuartsonline]

Torn about this: on the one hand, it’s a clever effort to democratise the coronation ceremony; otoh it swerves, perhaps a little too cleverly, the tradition of coronation panegyric. Thoughts?

[The Poetry Society @PoetrySociety]

Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, has released this new poem for the coronation of King Charles III.

Read the full poem on The Poetry Society website: https://t.co/GZUHCfzj0L

[Alice Hunt @amm_hunt]

And the core of that ceremony yesterday was really, really old - an early medieval ritual which itself reaches back to Biblical kings. It dramatised the history of an idea: of what kings used to be, and yet still sort of are in this country. Strange and discombobulating.