Art Historian | Working on the Duchess of Buckingham and Cultural Patronage at the Stuart Court | 2022 Junior Fellow, Paul Mellon Centre | Instagram: @yorkhousearchivehttps://bsky.app/profile/meganshaw.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/meganshaw.bsky.social/post/3luk6opua2s27Completely delighted to finally share that I've been awarded a David Walker Memorial Fellowship in Early Modern History at the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social which I’ll be taking up in Trinity Term 2026. In very good company 💙 https://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowships/awarded-fellowships/2025-2622 Jul 2025 09:24 +0000at://did:plc:hbfqyl2mitty4rck336spch3/app.bsky.feed.post/3luk6opua2s27https://bsky.app/profile/meganshaw.bsky.social/post/3ltomoadkbs2zThank you @kingjamesconf.bsky.social for hosting our panel on influential relationships - there is much more exploration to be done on James' relationships with his favourites, his adopted/surrogate families and teaching and reading James as a queer king. [contains quote post or other embedded content]11 Jul 2025 10:20 +0000at://did:plc:hbfqyl2mitty4rck336spch3/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltomoadkbs2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/meganshaw.bsky.social/post/3lkicabw6uk26Happy to share that I passed my viva with no corrections in Feb - my #phddone 🎉 My thanks to examiner Malcolm Smuts for an exhilarating defence & @misswalsingham.bsky.social for a supportive & thoughtful report. Thank you to my supervisors Erin Griffey & Jonathan Scott for everything along the way 🥂16 Mar 2025 09:10 +0000at://did:plc:hbfqyl2mitty4rck336spch3/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkicabw6uk26https://bsky.app/profile/meganshaw.bsky.social/post/3kpjtiecsd52cAmerican friends, Mary & George is now out on Starz in the US! If you're interested in learning about the real Villiers women who bolstered the Duke of Buckingham, have a read of this article that @sarahabendall.bsky.social and I wrote recently https://theconversation.com/intimacy-secret-service-and-social-climbing-meet-the-real-villiers-women-behind-mary-and-george-22535607 Apr 2024 09:32 +0000at://did:plc:hbfqyl2mitty4rck336spch3/app.bsky.feed.post/3kpjtiecsd52chttps://bsky.app/profile/meganshaw.bsky.social/post/3keg72bttzu23Link for those who haven't yet seen the teaser trailer for 'Mary & George' - the upcoming period drama on the rise of the Duke of Buckingham and his ambitious, stereotyped mother, Mary, Countess of Buckingham https://youtu.be/jC3ZOEvNsv4?si=oEpqxHM1i2aghcqA - MUCH commentary to follow17 Nov 2023 23:11 +0000at://did:plc:hbfqyl2mitty4rck336spch3/app.bsky.feed.post/3keg72bttzu23https://bsky.app/profile/meganshaw.bsky.social/post/3kd2qwmjvpo2jHappy to be here! For my first post (on Halloween) I want to introduce two 17th century tombs 🪦 The first was erected for the 6th Earl of Rutland in Bottesford. It offers the unusual proclamation that his sons, who are sculpted holding skulls, were killed by "wicked practise and sorcerye" [witches].31 Oct 2023 16:34 +0000at://did:plc:hbfqyl2mitty4rck336spch3/app.bsky.feed.post/3kd2qwmjvpo2j