Professor Nadine Akkerman @misswalsingham Twitter profile

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

3 years

Thrilled to see the cover of my next book revealed today! The biography of 'Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts' is available to pre-order A true bargain at £20, c. 600 pages of the most exciting bits of the 17th century. Out Oct 2021

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

2 years

Academia is broken. I signed my 1st, full-time, permanent contract, after 15 years at @LeidenHum . Yesterday. I’m 44. This contract was the one that made me professor.

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

3 years

Thrilling discovery: I may have found the FINGERPRINTS of Margaret Cavendish (1623-73), Duchess of Newcastle in the ⁦ @ubleiden ⁩ ! They are in a presentation copy of her works in the ⁦ @UniLeiden ⁩ Library in the same colour ink as her own handwritten corrections

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

6 years

Happy to see the cover of my book revealed today! The first study of early modern women spies, “Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain”, is available to preorder and at £20 for a hardback a true bargain. Out early July

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

2 years

Newsflash - THE CAT IS OUT OF THE BAG: I have been appointed Professor of Early Modern Literature and Culture at @UniLeiden @LeidenHum @LUCAS_Leiden #BringOutTheChampagne

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

1 year

On the day of her execution, a computer scientist, a musician, and a patent lawyer reveal that they stumbled on 57 fully ciphered letters online (!) & decoded them, using frequency analysis and algorithms. They turned out to be by Mary, Queen of Scots.

Decoders break Mary, Queen of Scots’ secret code in letters she sent while imprisoned

Symbols discovered in messages written by Mary uncover her attempts to regain the Scottish throne and intervene in politics

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

6 years

Thrilled to discover that the book I worked on for years is no longer a fiction. The very first study to analyse the role of early modern women spies, "Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain" is now available to pre-order!

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

3 years

On 6 April students, administrators & staff of all Dutch universities will call on the new government to invest 1.1 billion euros p.a. in teaching & research. I love this photo of serious @UniLeiden profs wearing snorkel gear because they can ‘barely keep their heads above water’

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@misswalsingham

2 years

New office view …

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

4 years

Very proud & honoured to be one of those researchers! I have been awarded an @ERC_Research Consolidator grant!!

European Research Council (ERC)

@ERC_Research

4 years

📢 Consolidator Grant results! 301 excellent researchers received #ERCCoG worth in total €600 million - to address frontier research questions, build up their teams and have far-reaching impact. 🇪🇺 #EUfunded @EUScienceInnov @EU_Commission @GabrielMariya

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

4 years

People say ‘never meet your heroes’, but when I interviewed the force-of-nature that is historian Natalie Zemon Davis for the Dutch tv programme #GroteVragen , she could not have been more inspirational! Tune in on October 8th, NPO 2, at 22.15.

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

5 years

Honoured that #InvisibleAgents : Women & Espionage in 17th-c Britain @OUPAcademic @OUPHistory @OxUniPress has been awarded the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender @SSEMWomenGender prize for the best book published on women and gender in 2018! @UniLeidenNews

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

2 years

OMG -it exists! Unboxing Elizabeth #ElizabethStuart #QueenofHearts @OUPHistory @OUPAcademic

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

5 months

Psst – can you keep a secret? We can't - we've got a new book on the way, and here’s proof! @YaleBooks Pre-order now: £20 guarantees you an exciting summer of #spycraft ...

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

2 years

Tomorrow I pick up the keys of my new home for the Academic Year 2022-2023, where I will find myself in the esteemed company of @SueDora26898513 @PKewes et al. I am honoured to have been elected as the Visiting Senior Research Fellow of @JesusOxford !

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

3 years

Hidden stairwell discovered, behind a box-bed, plastered with 17-century tiles 😍

Walther Schoonenberg🎗️

@WSchoonenberg

3 years

Geweldige hoeveelheid tegels aangetroffen in de voormalige sacristie van de Oude Kerk aan het Oudekerksplein, achter een deur in een bedstedewand, een voor mij onbekend trappenhuisje naar de kelder.

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

3 years

Honoured and humbled to be awarded the @_knaw Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 2021!

De KNAW

@_knaw

3 years

Nadine Akkerman wint de Dr. Hendrik Muller Prijs 2021! Van harte gefeliciteerd! Lees meer: #hendrikmullerprijs #wetenschapsfondsen

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

5 years

Important announcement RT: in honour of the late Prof. Lisa Jardine, there is a fellowship available for an early career female scholar! If you are UK based, work on Anglo-Dutch exchange, and would love to spend time in A'dam this summer, then please apply

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

6 years

This might be a good time to announce that next academic year I'll be a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, University of Oxford, writing the biography of #ElizabethStuart , #QueenofBohemia !

Kate Maltby

@KateMaltby

6 years

If you do want to familiarise yourself with the life and family of Elizabeth of Bohemia, the academic expert is @misswalsingham . Her forthcoming biography, researched at All Souls, will be a treat.

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

1 year

Just to let you know I won’t be answering e-mails any time soon, as this long-awaited gem by ⁦⁦ @johnalan57 ⁩ hit my desk this morning! It’s a must-read for anyone interested in early modern intelligence studies #espionage ⁦

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

4 years

Claxon! Bubbling with excitement to announce several (!) fully-funded 4-year PhD positions in my ERC Consolidator project #FEATHERS at @LeidenHum ! ... Here it goes ...

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

1 year

Quite the view from the office today

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

4 years

A white stag, absolutely beautiful! #ElizabethStuart , sometime Queen of Bohemia was given one when she arrived in Heidelberg in 1613

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

5 years

Opening up Macculloch's Thomas Cromwell: A Life. Acknowledgements: 'It was a very kind thought of the late Jill, Duchess of Hamilton, to give me a portrait of Cromwell to preside over my writing in my study'. To all duchesses out there: I'm writing Elizabeth Stuart: A Life. DM me

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

3 years

Honoured to have received the @UniLeiden @LeidenHum @LUCAS_Leiden public impact prize - with massive thanks to @drkmurch & @lottefikkers for nominating me & @thijsporck for presenting me with the cup 🏆, which I look forward to eventually handing on to next year’s winner 🥂🎉🙏

Leiden University - Faculty of Humanities

@LeidenHum

3 years

Congrats @misswalsingham Nadine Akkerman! 🥳🥂for winning the #LUCAS public impact prize!

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

6 years

Over the moon about @childs_jessie 's 5 star review of my book 'Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain', today's lead in @TelegraphBooks ! #WomenSpies #PowerWomen #InvisibleAgents

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

5 years

Menus folded as 17th-c locked letters for the dinner preceding my Visiting Fellow talk on the Queen of Bohemia at All Souls College, Oxford #Winterqueenery

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

5 years

About to board my flight to Paris. My journey to meet trailblazing historian Natalie Zemon Davis has begun! So #twitterstorians ... if you were to interview her, what would you ask her about archives, women’s history, and/or the writing of women’s lives? #FictionintheArchives

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

11 months

Claxon! Calling all early modern manuscript aficionados: I am expanding my team, adding a second Postdoc position to my @ERC_Research Consolidator project 🪶 #FEATHERS 🪶at @LUCAS_Leiden @LeidenHum @UniLeiden ! Full-time for 1.5 years

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

3 years

A study in treason. If the Crown fits ...

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

3 years

Guess who has finally submitted her massive book manuscript to @OUPHistory @LeidenHum @LUCAS_Leiden @DeJongeAkademie @bookingaround #ElizabethStuart

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

3 years

Humbled by these endorsements from Natalie Zemon Davies & @katemosse 💗 The back cover of the biography 'Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts' @OUPHistory looks as stunning as the front!

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

4 years

Proud that the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts & Sciences @_knaw appointed me to their Humanities Council (Dutch: ‘lid Raad van Geesteswetenschappen’). As @helmers_h said, it’s an honour as well as a huge responsibility-particularly in today’s climate. @UniLeiden @LeidenHum

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

4 years

I took a copy of Fiction in the Archives to Nantes with me - not just any copy, but the one Natalie signed for her close friend, my late mentor, the much-missed Professor Lisa Jardine. She signed it again, now for me. I’ll cherish this copy forever

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

1 year

A room with a view … good morning, Cambridge

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

6 years

Staring at a clipping of yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph: a five-star review of my book Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain - a ‘brilliant new book’, according to Sir Noel Malcolm!

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

5 years

Honoured to receive the 2019 #Ammodo Science Award for fundamental research in the Humanities!

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

3 years

This endorsement lifts me up & makes it all worthwhile: '“In Queen of Hearts, Nadine Akkerman combines matchless archival expertise with a story-teller’s instinct to give new life to one of the seventeenth century’s most misunderstood women. A gripping tale.”– Natalie Zemon Davis

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

7 years

Born #OTD The woman who was mocked as The Winter Queen & whose biography I'm writing for OUP: Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662), Queen of Bohemia

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

2 years

Beaming at a clipping of The Daily Telegraph: a five-star review of my book #ElizabethStuart , Queen of Hearts - a 'masterful, transformative biography', according to Sir Noel Malcolm! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

3 years

The story of my friend and conservatrix extraordinaire, Jana Dambrogio @mitlibraries , who coined the term @letterlocking & turned my scholarly life upside down:

Unfolding history

Before envelopes existed, cleverly folding up a letter was a crucial privacy tactic. Only now are we learning what those techniques were, and what they reveal about cultures around the world.

www.technologyreview.com

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

6 years

'Invisible Agents is a work of deep scholarship that suggests Akkerman would have made an excellent spy catcher.' Thrilled by @LeandadeLisle 's review of #InvisibleAgents @OxUniPress @OUPHistory @OUPAcademic in @thetimes today: #womenspies #powerwomen

Review: Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain by Nadine Akkerman —...

There is something in Van Dyck’s portraits of Charles I that resembles Dame Edith Sitwell, and historians have condemned the king as haughty and effete. It comes as a shock, therefore, to read the...

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

3 years

My biographer or avenger, Nadine, says that my biography will be out in the autumn with @OUPHistory I, #ElizabethStuart , am watching her carefully, and hope that she hasn't deciphered those letters I wrote in code. But I've read her #InvisibleAgents and fear for the worst ...

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

10 months

Secretly chuffed to see my book on 17th-c women in the dangerous trade #InvisibleAgents ⁦ @OUPHistory ⁩ in the midst of the illustrious company of ⁦ @malcolmgaskill ⁩ ⁦ @childs_jessie ⁩ ⁦ @_paullay ⁩ ⁦ @SocialHistoryOx ⁩ et al. at ⁦⁦ @MuseumCromwell ⁩ !

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

1 year

Happy #HistoryWritersDay22 ! Volume III in the making and current work in progress closely guarded secret🕵️ 😉 but these were the fruits of 2011-2021, a decade of hard work and discoveries.

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

9 years

Excited! My new volume of The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart is now out and can be previewed on Google Books at http://t.co/ys50wfjFQo

The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia: 1603-1631

books.google.nl

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

3 years

It is 1 Feb 2021, my team is complete! As PI of the ERC Consolidator Grant #FEATHERS , I now get to torment student assistant @vallieisenbart , PhD students @Holly_Riach @aModernDandy & @clodaghmurph_y & postdoc @lottefikkers @ERC_Research #EuropeanResearchCouncil #EUfunded

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

4 years

This is utterly fantastic: in 1666 Cornelis Hanecop wrote a letter of application to Johan de Witt, presumably hoping for a secretarial job. He encloses a sheet on which he demonstrates his many different styles of handwriting

Johan de Witt

@johandewittNL

4 years

Cornelis Hanecop beveelt zichzelf bij Johan de Witt aan voor een betrekking. Hij laat hem zien hoe mooi en verschillend hij kan schrijven.

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@misswalsingham

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Amazon has made my book all 3D ... and it looks so real, almost as if it's a book that's going to be published soon ... loving it 😊

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

3 years

Missing Oxford, & the @bodleianlibs but killing the blues by watching #ADiscoveryofWitchesS1 @DebHarkness

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@misswalsingham

3 years

Two weeks to go before I hand in a massive biography to @OUPHistory - the writing & editing just continues in my dreams. Please make it stop

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

1 year

#ElizabethStuart , sister of the late Charles I, detested Oliver Cromwell, writing to her friend Sir Edward Nicholas in 1655 that ‘Cromwell is the beast in the Revelations that all kings and nations doe worship: I wish him the like end and speedilie, and you a hapie new yeare’.

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

8 months

Daar is ze dan … #ElizabethStuart , de 💕koningin, nu ook in het Nederlands ! ⁦⁦ @Querido_Facto ⁩

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

8 years

Images of 3,543 letters of 6 leading women of the Dutch Republic now accessible via (W)EMLO!

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

3 years

Beautiful, relatively unknown portrait of Elizabeth Stuart. Her collar emphasizes her British royal status, w/ coat of arms, lions, and unicorns in the lace. We can just see the glimpse of the black armband that she is wearing, indicating she is in mourning for her brother Henry.

John McCafferty

@jdmccafferty

3 years

Elizabeth, 1596–1662, Queen of Bohemia Unknown artist. Queens' College, University of Cambridge

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

6 years

‘This is an important work for the emergent field of gendered court politics’ – Nothing but praise by Dr Elizabeth Reid for The Politics of Female Households! See her review in Parergon 35.1 (2018): pp. 141-2. #LadiesinWaiting #PowerWomen

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

4 years

For the final chapter, in order to submit my book this month, I only need to describe a bit of civil war, 1 execution, 1 marriage, 1 assault, 2 conversions, 1 murder, the Restoration, & my subject’s death. Totally doable, right? What have I gotten myself into? #QueenofBohemia

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

2 years

Conundrum of the day, please help #twitterstorians : Why do so many trompe l'œils of letter racks nearly always hold a comb alongside writing materials? Thoughts @letterlocking @GCoatalen @JamesDaybell ?

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

4 years

In 2014, I wrote a chapter entitled ‘The Goddess of the Household: The Masquing Politics of Lucy Harington-Russell, Countess of Bedford’. The style guide tells me that I should abbreviate that in footnotes to Akkerman, 'The Goddess'. I have no objection.

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

3 years

Dammit! I wrote an entire book about early modern espionage, and not once did I use the word ‘hugger-muggery’ ... missed opportunity

Susie Dent

@susie_dent

3 years

Word of the day is 'hugger-muggery' (16th century): secretive, clandestine behaviour for the purposes of deception.

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@misswalsingham

4 years

Printed for Valentine’s Day as a love token for all those women rescued from oblivion: the paperback of #InvisibleAgents !

OUP History

@OUPHistory

4 years

New in Paperback: Invisible Agents: Women and Espionage in Seventeenth-Century Britain

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@misswalsingham

6 months

In the @ehcantwerp

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

6 years

Found a present in the post this morning: TY @OUPHistory - I love these promotional business cards! I can slip them undetected into people’s pockets and handbags, as well as give them out. #InvisibleAgents #Spymistress

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

4 years

Margaret Cavendish (1623-73) has the best stage directions. Act II, Scene I: 'Enter Monsieur Take-Pleasure, and his Man Dick'. #ConventofPleasure #amreading

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

3 years

One week left. Please send good vibes (and preferably wine and dark chocolate) #ElizabethStuart

Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

3 years

Two weeks to go before I hand in a massive biography to @OUPHistory - the writing & editing just continues in my dreams. Please make it stop

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@misswalsingham

3 years

For those of us #twitterstorians who have worked so hard that not a minute was spent on Twitter last week .... THIS happened👇 ... I’m about to open my 3rd bottle of champagne

Letterlocking

@letterlocking

3 years

The article showcases animations of the virtual unfolding alongside images of the results, and downloadable foldable models so you can lock at home. All our resources are screen-reader friendly.

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@misswalsingham

3 years

Of course, as a woman I realise I should show some humility but I'm hugely proud that I was the first to find Royalist spy Susan Hyde (1607-56) in the vaults of the @bodleianlibs : I rescued her from oblivion & now she is noticed by @katemosse 's campaign

#WomanInHistory: Kate Mosse presents the extraordinary women in whose footsteps we walk

Kate Mosse shares just some of the women nominated in #womaninhistory, a global campaign celebrating the women of the past in whose footsteps we walk.

www.panmacmillan.com

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

5 years

One of the most exciting manuscript finds of the century! #JohnDonne

Letterlocking

@letterlocking

5 years

MAJOR new John Donne manuscript discovered by Gabriel Heaton and being sold by Sotheby's next month! @kingsenglishdpt @mitlibraries @DonneProse @gkneidel

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@misswalsingham

2 years

Typical Saturday afternoon: transcribing a 17th-c confession, taken in @TowerOfLondon , in bed, with some bubbly and strawberries to sustain me

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

3 years

Gearing up for a lot of exciting news, publications, research, &, most of all, determined to stay positive ... so, I finally thought it was time for a website:

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

6 years

Omg - today was its official release @OxUniPress @OUPHistory @bookingaround @silvareader @kimabehrens @LeidenHum @UniLeiden @NIAS_KNAW @NWO_SSH @NWONieuws

Laura Gowing @lauragowing.bsky.social

@LauraGowing

6 years

@misswalsingham 's exciting book already sold out and backordered at @oupacademic ! Reduced to reading kindle sample

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@misswalsingham

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Getting ready for the official book launch of ⁦ @Querido_Facto ⁩ De Hartenkoningin, the Dutch translation of #ElizabethStuart Queen of 💕 Elizabeth would have approved of the date, Oct 3rd, the date that Leiden celebrates the Spanish abandoning their siege of the city in 1574

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@misswalsingham

6 years

Honoured to find my name on the #VIVA400 , a list of women's magazine @VIVA_nl (nothing to do w/ PhD defences) of the 400 most inspiring women in the Netherlands, in the category 'Knappe Knoppen', as the only humanities scholar! If you think the humanities matter too, vote for me

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@NIAS_KNAW

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Alumna Nadine Akkerman nominated for the #viva400 list, which highlights achievements of women in science. If you like spies, rewriting (male) history, secrets and the scholar who reveals them, vote for @misswalsingham at

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Reading in the Fellows’ garden of All Souls College, Oxford

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@misswalsingham

2 years

Off to Oxford soon or, as some Dutch politicians call it, ‘spy school’!

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@misswalsingham

1 year

For #WomensHistoryMonth : I proudly present the fearless, king-defying, boar-spearing ancestor of Elizabeth II, #ElizabethStuart , Queen of 💕, Bohemia & almost of England!

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@misswalsingham

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I'm sending off the 30k-word Index of 'Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Hearts', to the publisher ... The siege is finally lifted, indeed Leiden, also in my house.

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@misswalsingham

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Honoured and humbled in equal measure to be giving the 2023 Lisa Jardine Memorial Lecture. More than a mentor, Lisa profoundly influenced my career, practice, and taste in shoes. And bags. @JesusCollegeCam @IntellForum 9 Feb

Lisa Jardine Memorial Lecture 2023

Archival pursuits: unediting lives and letters

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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@misswalsingham

4 years

Indexing ... best entry so far (but I have only just started): 'Boye (d. 1644), Prince Rupert's white hunting poodle'.

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@misswalsingham

2 years

Still bubbling with delight. Thanks to the @weissgallery @silvareader @bookingaround & all of you who made it into such a wonderful evening! #ElizabethStuart

Janet Dickinson

@Tudornobility

2 years

Delighted to see @misswalsingham ’s new book launched in style this evening, with some distinguished guests in attendance. Congratulations Nadine!

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@misswalsingham

3 years

The house of philosopher René Descartes has been sold into private hands again, but here’s a unique chance to have a peek inside. He lived at 21 the Rapenburg; his correspondent Elisabeth, Princess Palatine at nos. 4-10 (the now demolished Prinsenhof) @LeidenHum

Thomas Heij

@ThomasHeij

3 years

Woonhuis van “René Descartes (‘ik denk, dus ik ben’)” in Leiden is net verkocht. Gauw nog even gluren op Funda

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@misswalsingham

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Since I'll be leading the @ERC_Research Consolidator grant #FEATHERS soon, my teaching at @UniLeiden will be replaced. For those English lit early modernists out there looking for an amazing job, apply for this 3-year lectureship at @LeidenHum

University Lecturer in Early Modern English Language and Literature

The Faculty of Humanities, the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, is looking for an University Lecturer in Early Modern English Language and Literature

www.academictransfer.com

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@misswalsingham

4 years

Staring at a book manuscript that is currently 23,000 words too long and lacking its final chapter. Planning an attack for January: time to kill a lot of darlings #amwriting #ElizabethStuart #QueenofBohemia @silvareader @bookingaround

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@misswalsingham

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Lifted up by supportive colleagues: lovely bouquet of flowers from @LUCAS_Leiden to congratulate me on the @_knaw Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 2021!

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

5 years

A unique event: Dr Jennifer Rampling unrolls 5 (!) Ripley scrolls at @bodleiancsb #alchemy

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

4 years

After having spent a month in a beach house writing & having enjoyed a last Florida sunset, I flew back to A’dam w/ a nearly finished book manuscript of the biography of #ElizabethStuart in my suitcase. Back to my ‘normal’ life today: on my way to the @DeJongeAkademie

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

2 years

Historici maken 17de-eeuws parfum van Huygens na: zo krijgt het verleden een nieuwe dimensie via @volkskrant #scentedmemories Wat een voorrecht om te mogen samenwerken met @HuygensFamilie @HannekeHulst @MarjolijnBol @DeJongeAkademie et al @LUCAS_Leiden 🎉!

Historici maken 17de-eeuws parfum van Huygens na: zo krijgt het verleden een nieuwe dimensie

Historici maakten in een lab in Utrecht een parfum van Constantijn Huygens uit de 17de eeuw na. Dat past in een trend om de geschiedenis met meer zintuigen te laten beleven.

www.volkskrant.nl

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

5 months

Cover reveal for the weekend crowd! Thrilled with this gif @YaleBooks made for our book #Spycraft , an exploration of the methods #spies actually used in the 16th - & 17th-c, including ciphers, invisible inks, disguises, poisonous toads & daggers. #ElizabethI #MaryQofScots

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

8 months

Arriving at Kasteel van Duivenvoorde to give a lecture on #ElizabethStuart

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

3 years

Guys, I'm in @VanityFair ! 😍

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

3 years

Word of the day: BIBLIOSMIA - enjoyment from smelling an old book (or the smell I miss most now that the rare books of @britishlibrary is again closed)

Miscellany

@gradmiscellany

3 years

We don't know how we missed this given it's one of our actual favourite things *in the world*, but we were today years old when we learned there is a word for the smell of a good book 😍 Bibliosmia 😍

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

5 years

Handed back the keys to the magical kingdom yesterday. Sad to have left #AllSoulsCollege , Oxford, but I feel fortunate that I was there long enough to see the seasons change. Loved the view from my office, the Fellows' Garden, almost as much as the @CodringtonLib

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

2 years

Today is publication day of #WarriorQueens by Kate Mosse. Let's flood Twitter with remarkable women. My pick is ancestor of the late Elizabeth II, the fearless, boar-spearing and king-defying #ElizabethStuart (1596-1662) Queen of Hearts, Bohemia, and almost of England!

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

2 years

I stumbled upon this, & I thought you should too

Dur8an Poison

@Dur8anPoison

3 years

Having a rough day? Stop... Here watch our tenrec hedgehog have a sand bath. Smile. Carry on as you were... 😀 🦔

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

6 years

My new home for the year ...

Carel Stolker

@CarelStolker

6 years

@misswalsingham @florinutrecht @Dolfjansen @SpijkersBNNVARA @kovacs_music @UniLeiden @LeidenHum Best wishes for Oxford, Nadine! All Souls College - lucky you!

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

2 years

Have I got news for you! 👇

Letterlocking

@letterlocking

2 years

The letterlocking habits of Mary Queen of Scots made it to Have I Got News For You! @alisonwiggins @jenn1cakes @haveigotnews @britishlibrary @natlibscot

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

5 years

Today a catalogue of 7,000 (!!) Johan de Witt (1625-1672) letters will become available online. Many congrats to the fabulous @johandewittNL team!

Johan de Witt

@johandewittNL

5 years

Diplomatieke correspondentie (7.000 brieven) van Johan de Witt vanaf 14 maart 2019 online: @NLNatArchief @HuygensING @cofktweets

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

3 years

Super excited not be talking about the Tudors with Prof Suzannah Lipscomb @sixteenthCgirl 💃Subscribe to the Podcast Series 'Not Just the Tudors' from @HistoryHit

Welcome to Not Just the Tudors

Please subscribe to Not Just the Tudors from History Hit at:https://podfollow.com/not-just-the-tudors

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

4 years

Spent hours chasing up a shelfmark. The author referred to one of Nethersole's letters, late 1624. Having read all of his 1624 letters, using SPO, I turned to GoogleBooks. Turns out that this Akkerman person already identified the source in her wonderful Bohemia edition in 2015.

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Professor Nadine Akkerman

@misswalsingham

4 years

A 17th-c Dutch diary describes Amalia von Solms’s daughter as ‘small, crooked, a hunchback really, with resting bitch face’. That’s an appropriate translation for an academic biography, right? #askingforafriend

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