Naomi Baker
@DrNaomiBaker
Author and academic. 📚 VOICES OF THUNDER: RADICAL RELIGIOUS WOMEN OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, coming Oct 2025
“the most accessible, detailed and well-informed study to date of the 17th-century women preachers and prophets … many will find it an eye-opening revelation” Am thrilled with this wonderful endorsement of VOICES OF THUNDER by Prof. Nigel Smith @reaktionbooks
Visiting @thejohnrylands today to look at a manuscript which contains two very early English conversion narratives - both dating to the 1630s and both written by women! VOICES OF THUNDER begins with the remarkable story of Rose Thurgood, one of these women #earlymodern
Did you know that over half of all publications by women between around 1650 and 1690 were prophecies? We need a new approach to women’s literary history 📚 #womenswriting #womenshistory
So excited to see VOICES OF THUNDER in the top 10 “Hot New Releases” in women’s history on Amazon! ⭐️
Open access link below to my article in “Philosophy and Literature” on truth, beauty, Nietzsche and Ford’s “The Broken Heart” 💔
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”, wrote Keats, following Plato - but was he right? Nietzsche didn’t think so! I wrote something a while ago about beauty, truth, and Nietzsche’s argument with Plato - and the way one Renaissance play tackles these issues research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publication…
Was Shakespeare racist? or anti-racist? Was he an antisemite? Or did he criticize antisemitism? Early Modern Others answers those questions, and shows how early modern authors challenged the biases and prejudices of their age. amazon.com/Early-Modern-O…
Delighted that my @BloomsburyBooks monograph is live on their website for pre-order, & the stunning front cover has also been revealed, featuring two of my fave images from the archives! URL: bloomsbury.com/uk/radical-pov… #twitterstorians #history #catholicism #catholic #capuchin
Fantastic news!!! Grief education has been included in the Relationships & Sex Education (#RSE) statutory guidance! For more on Grief Education, see our article. This research was supported by @BristolUni @HelloBrigstow & @SWWDTP bereavementjournal.org/index.php/bcj/…
This image of a woman fighting the Beast in the 13th-century Trinity Apocalypse is sensational. The manuscript was possibly created for a woman and a 17th-century woman was its first identifiable owner - women are unusually prominent in its stunning illustrations Image: Trinity…
“The Wail of the World’s Weary Womanhood” - yes, that just about sums it up 👀 Image from rylandscollections.com/2025/07/04/mis…
Sneak preview of the contents page for “Voices of Thunder” - a roll call of the incredible 17th century women whose amazing stories I am lucky enough to tell in this book 📚 @reaktionbooks #womenshistory
A student used the word “maidenhead” for virginity in their essay and now I’m wondering if they think I am actually from the 17th century
Thank you so much @sarahceross for this wonderful endorsement of “Voices of Thunder”! I’m thrilled with how the book is connecting with its first readers - the women I discuss in the book have been kept in the shadows of history for far too long @reaktionbooks
