Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖
Tudor History Nerd. I love good music, books, and history. Owner of Adventures of a Tudor Nerd.
www.adventuresofatudornerd.com
- This opening ceremony of the Milan Olympics 2026 is quite lovely.
- Me and history books
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖I’m excited to announce the tour for my new book, The House of Boleyn 🎉🎉🎉Full details and ticket info are on my website (click the link in my bio). Summer dates TBA…and more exciting news to come next week! @hodderbooks.bsky.social #thehouseofboleyn #anneboleyn #tudor
- Oh. I am intrigued
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖it's this book fordhampress.com/bad-medieval...
- Happy Friday everyone! What are you reading this weekend?
- Christina of Denmark when she heard about Henry VIII's marriage proposal.
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖As an historian I often wonder how people learned nothing from the twentieth century and how we have fallen into the mess and rise of fascism yet again and here we are. People simply *don't care* that they are in a military alliance with and dependant on a fascist state when capitalism requires it.
- So Polanski wants to leave NATO,cut Defence spend & distance ourselves from USA who we rely on for essential defence apparatus& intelligence. Then the tariffs will rise our steel industry will collapse(even more essential for defence),car ìndustry collapse 1000's jobs lost,no £££ for public services
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖It's been heartbreaking seeing so many people I know use ChatGPT to generate "caricatures" when I am married to a living, breathing caricaturist. This technology was built off theft. It's soulless & bland. Here's caricatures by @tealcartoons.bsky.social to remind people what human art looks like.
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖A friend who runs a blog had the nerve to tell me that he uses ChatGPT art because he respects artists so much and can't afford to pay them what they deserve. I told him to pretend it's 2010. There was a time recently when we didn't have this technology. Do the work yourself or don't do it at all!
- It's been heartbreaking seeing so many people I know use ChatGPT to generate "caricatures" when I am married to a living, breathing caricaturist. This technology was built off theft. It's soulless & bland. Here's caricatures by @tealcartoons.bsky.social to remind people what human art looks like.
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖If you're going to steal historical artefacts at least handle with care!! 😡 www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Even more troubling is how much explanation is offered in the article about the Mona Lisa itself, as if it’s not one of the most famous paintings in the world. We really are getting collectively dumber.
- Put it in the Louvre. Oh, wait... www.404media.co/the-doj-reda...
- Oh good grief
- cool. glad we protected her identity at least www.404media.co/the-doj-reda...
- My next nonfiction book explores the legacies of some of the most important families in English history. Dynasties: The Noble Families of England by Patrick Coleman. I would like to thank Amberley Publishing for sending me a copy of this book.
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖This monologue and his delivery are almost overpowering.
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖#Coverreveal of my next book, due out in June. Set during the Wars of the Roses, it features a Lancastrian heroine and Yorkist hero and a passionate, centuries-old battle over a beloved manorhouse. More details at: www.lissamorgan.com #historicalromance #warsoftheroses #harlequinhistorical
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- This is amazing
- Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
- Guest Post: “Excerpt from ‘The Witch of Godstow Abbey’ by Lady Harriet & Dr. Peter Stephenson” adventuresofatudornerd.com/2026/02/05/g...
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Guest Post: “Excerpt from ‘The Witch of Godstow Abbey’ by Lady Harriet & Dr. Peter Stephenson” adventuresofatudornerd.com/2026/02/05/g... @hmalagisi.bsky.social @cathiedunn #CoffeePotBookClub #HistoricalFiction
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖I know next to nothing about this subject so can't say much about it, but female samurai sounds damn cool to me and I'm not just saying that because I liked to fight when I was younger, even though samurai didn't always mean warrior ;) www.independent.co.uk/asia/japan/b...
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- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Adventures of a Tudor Nerd Book Review: “The Secret Courtesan” by Kerry Chaput - " I had to make sure that the Renaissance figures were, in fact, fictional because they were written so well." adventuresofatudornerd.com/2026/02/03/b... @hmalagisi.bsky.social #BookReview
- Book Review: “The Secret Courtesan” by Kerry Chaput adventuresofatudornerd.com/2026/02/03/b...
- Me realizing that it is award show season, the Olympics start on Friday, and the Superbowl Halftime show is Sunday, which means that it is an opportune time to make history memes.

- Warwick when he finds out that Edward IV married Elizabeth Woodville.
- Why yes I am rewatching opening ceremonies of previous Olympics and past Superbowl halftime shows this instead of watching the news.
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Neil Gaiman sure picked a questionable time to come back. Not like the world is seeing powerful predators show us how full of shit they are on a monumental level…and putting a book teaser in that, I guess apology, that’s a wild move right there.
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖okay first off, Helen was not from Troy, she was from Sparta, and *taken* to Troy Second off, I cant believe we are once again doing discourse about skin colours in Ancient Greece and Italy. that is, generously, 300 miles. they quite famously had boats
- My next novel is a modern take on the Tudor with a mystery twist. A Defiant Woman by Karen E. Olson. I would like to thank Pegasus Crime and Edelweiss for sending me a copy of this novel.
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖New Medieval Books: Medieval Love Letters www.medievalists.net/2025/02/new-... #loveletters
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Entire open air museum for sale. I've been there, it's lovely. So, everyone, give me all the money you've got, I'll buy this place and we'll turn it into a time traveller's commune. We'll go live like the past in a non-scary non-culty sort of way: www.fundainbusiness.nl/toerisme-dag...
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Yes I know, I post this one too often, but it could be worse, I'm managing to keep myself from posting it every day.
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Need a distraction from the 24-hour news cycle? Check out "Balloon Dog Anatomy" by the great Jason Freeny.
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖10/10 ICE protest sign
- Another incredible discovery from the team at Hever Castle. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year: “As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Bad Bunny at the Grammys: "Before I say thanks to God, I want to say ICE out. We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens, we are humans, and we are Americans."
- Oh the Halftime show is going to be very interesting
- Bad Bunny condemns ICE during his #GRAMMYs speech for Best Música Urbana Album: “Before I say thanks to god, I’m going to say, ICE out. We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we are humans and we are Americans.”
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖A reminder that Bad Bunny performs in front of the biggest audience on earth in seven days
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Ice out
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖I love making other people as annoying, I mean obsessed as I am ;)
- There were other planes he could have put an offer on
- My family: Can you please read the books on your TBR mountain before buying new ones? Me:
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Tune in tonight for more secrets 🤫👑
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖My first remarks since being arrested last night.
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Did I already mention we're doomed? This is TIME, yes, that TIME, sharing Al generated videos. Who wants to go point out all the errors? I have a sudden headache. youtu.be/sV52AUVGc6I?...
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖"No Doreen, I'm not interested in Dave, there's nothing about him that I like." "Look there he is." "Yeah, no, let's sneak away, he's not my type." "That's his dog." "He has a dog?! Why didn't you start with that! Hellooooo there Dave!!"
- Happy Friday everyone! What are you reading this weekend?
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Congrats on wasting time, talent and resources on something that looks completely awful
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Historical "programming" is underfunded because of systemic attacks on the humanities and arts. But also the attitude expressed right here, that tech/STEM can do it better. Additionally, gAI is devastating higher ed/the humanities, including history, so no, its not the answer to historical films.
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Do you come here often? 😙
- Cue the Nintendo lawyers
- Google’s new world AI model tool let me generate a bunch of Nintendo-inspired games. Including one featuring Link with a paraglider! Gift link: www.theverge.com/news/869726/...
- Hard pass
- Bridgerton is my new Downton Abbey. I love all the characters and the stories. I am more of a casual fan since I have not read the books, but I think that's why I enjoy it because I am not nit picking it like other historical dramas I watch. It's just fun.
- Happy Bridgerton day to all who celebrate.
- Did I just buy a book because it had a gorgeous cover and then realized that it is a historical fantasy set in 15th century Italy? Yes, yes I did.
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖I’ve just finished reading an early proof copy of The House of Boleyn by @tracyborman.bsky.social and loved it! My comments are below… @hodderbooks.bsky.social #houseofboleyn #thehouseofboleyn
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖I’m ok. I’m a survivor so this small agitator isn’t going to intimidate me from doing my work. I don’t let bullies win. Grateful to my incredible constituents who rallied behind me. Minnesota strong.
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Adventures of a Tudor Nerd Book Review: “Templar Silks” by Elizabeth Chadwick adventuresofatudornerd.com/2026/01/27/b... @hmalagisi.bsky.social #HistoricalFiction #BookReview
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖I AM VINDICATED AND JOYFUL (also this gives fuel to @rabbimarkasherg.bsky.social and my longstanding conversation about whether or not dinosaurs would have been kosher for shabbos dinner but) (tweet TWEEET)
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖While independent bookstores are giving out free whistles, hosting protest sign making events, and donating proceeds to mutual aid, Amazon is *checks notes* providing technology that assists ICE in their terrorizing of communities. Independent bookstores deserve your support. Amazon does not.
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Introducing the new Cleveland Browns head coach: a random guy who was wearing a Tim Couch jersey at Meijer
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Happy 270th birthday to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Now let’s take a look at the meal that possibly killed him. youtu.be/R9Kw_3c88bQ?...
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Packing lists are hard! "Nicolas le Floch" (2008-18) #18thCentury #allegedly #HistoricalCrimeDrama #NicolasLeFloch #France #WhySoMuchJewelry #SnarkWeek FrockFlicks.com
- Book Review: “Templar Silks” by Elizabeth Chadwick adventuresofatudornerd.com/2026/01/27/b...
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Sir Anthony Browne, Master of the Horse to Henry VIII. Stood in for Henry at his proxy marriage to Anne of Cleves in 1540. Guardian to Prince Edward & to Princess Elizabeth. He broke news of Henry VIII's death to Edward & rode beside the new king as he entered London (NPG).
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- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Portrait of a Girl, Aged One, with a Basket of Strawberries Dutch [Friesland] School, 1622. (The Burrell Collection, Glasgow Museums)
- My next novel is a medieval murder mystery involving the death of Rosamund Clifford, mistress of King Henry II. The Serpent's Tale by Ariana Franklin.
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Haven't even started reading this book yet, but it's already making me happy. What a gorgeous cover!
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Tile, Safavid dynasty, Persia, 17thC (British Museum)
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖When I say we'll be back, I mean it. We can always be better but to pull off a season like that with the dead weight of the Wilson contract...whew
- Heartbreaking way to end our season but I am proud of the Broncos
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Magical season. Young core. We'll be back.
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands…. Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those
- Let's go Broncos
- Reposted by Heidi Malagisi💙📚📜📖Stiddy up