Marlou van Gendt
@marlouvg.bsky.social
#Tudor #Historian and #medievalist specialising in #AnneBoleyn
Serving up that piping hot Anne Boleyn ☕️ tea ☕️
#Medieval #Manuscripts and #palaeography but mostly #cats
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Serving up that piping hot Anne Boleyn ☕️ tea ☕️
#Medieval #Manuscripts and #palaeography but mostly #cats
https://linktr.ee/marlouvangendt
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Marlou van Gendt
@marlouvg.bsky.social
· Aug 17
Passed my PhD viva with minor corrections! My book on Anne Boleyn’s life in Burgundy will be the next step. A huge thank you to my mentor Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social, Thomas Betteridge, David Salter, and the staff at the Uni of Edinburgh for their support. #anneboleyn #henryviii #tudors
Passed my PhD viva with minor corrections! My book on Anne Boleyn’s life in Burgundy will be the next step. A huge thank you to my mentor Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social, Thomas Betteridge, David Salter, and the staff at the Uni of Edinburgh for their support. #anneboleyn #henryviii #tudors
August 17, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Passed my PhD viva with minor corrections! My book on Anne Boleyn’s life in Burgundy will be the next step. A huge thank you to my mentor Greg Walker @gregmw4.bsky.social, Thomas Betteridge, David Salter, and the staff at the Uni of Edinburgh for their support. #anneboleyn #henryviii #tudors
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To the inevitable cries of “just digitize everything, then;” not an answer.
Making digital facsimiles accessible requires huge investment: staff, metadata, preservation. Orgs are currently not funded to meet these needs. While digital objects are great, they’ll never replace looking at originals.
Making digital facsimiles accessible requires huge investment: staff, metadata, preservation. Orgs are currently not funded to meet these needs. While digital objects are great, they’ll never replace looking at originals.
📢 Once more for the people in the back:
- Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized.
- Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs.
- Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.
- Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized.
- Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs.
- Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.
Giving myself a headache in the archives
July 14, 2026 at 10:44 AM
To the inevitable cries of “just digitize everything, then;” not an answer.
Making digital facsimiles accessible requires huge investment: staff, metadata, preservation. Orgs are currently not funded to meet these needs. While digital objects are great, they’ll never replace looking at originals.
Making digital facsimiles accessible requires huge investment: staff, metadata, preservation. Orgs are currently not funded to meet these needs. While digital objects are great, they’ll never replace looking at originals.
Sometimes holidays are for paint. Progress on my self-portrait “Saudade”. #portrait #paint #oilpainting #artist #portraiture
July 9, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Sometimes holidays are for paint. Progress on my self-portrait “Saudade”. #portrait #paint #oilpainting #artist #portraiture
July 3, 2026 at 5:49 PM
One of my Nonna’s favourite poems, her husband passed away when he was 84. A respectable age, but my Nonna lived to be 100 years. She missed him every single day. We often read poetry together or simply sat in silence. #poetry #poet #poem #literature
July 1, 2026 at 6:01 PM
One of my Nonna’s favourite poems, her husband passed away when he was 84. A respectable age, but my Nonna lived to be 100 years. She missed him every single day. We often read poetry together or simply sat in silence. #poetry #poet #poem #literature
Do y’all ever think of how good of a deal Anne of Cleves got out of the whole annulment situation? #tudor #historian #history #HenryVIII
June 17, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Do y’all ever think of how good of a deal Anne of Cleves got out of the whole annulment situation? #tudor #historian #history #HenryVIII
Sometimes history is finding the 1879 edition because the 1886 edition is incomplete but the 1879 edition has gone on an unauthorised lunch break. #history #medieval #historian #anneboleyn #tudors #sources
June 12, 2026 at 10:23 AM
Sometimes history is finding the 1879 edition because the 1886 edition is incomplete but the 1879 edition has gone on an unauthorised lunch break. #history #medieval #historian #anneboleyn #tudors #sources
I bet you didn’t know Anne Boleyn was mixed. That might surprise you to hear, since we only know Anne as Queen of England. But in truth, by the time she returned to England, she had been on the Continent for nearly a decade. Culturally, she was mixed. #anneboleyn #historia #history #medieval #tudors
June 10, 2026 at 7:33 AM
I bet you didn’t know Anne Boleyn was mixed. That might surprise you to hear, since we only know Anne as Queen of England. But in truth, by the time she returned to England, she had been on the Continent for nearly a decade. Culturally, she was mixed. #anneboleyn #historia #history #medieval #tudors
151.269 words, 1.405 footnotes, 57 artworks, 2.443 manuscripts examined, 71 primary sources, 149 secondary, and 1 tired historian; thesis sent to @gregmw4.bsky.social. Soon it’ll be time to defend. And after? Let’s discover how Anne Boleyn got to Burgundy. #PhD #Tudor #medieval #historian #history
June 5, 2026 at 7:23 PM
151.269 words, 1.405 footnotes, 57 artworks, 2.443 manuscripts examined, 71 primary sources, 149 secondary, and 1 tired historian; thesis sent to @gregmw4.bsky.social. Soon it’ll be time to defend. And after? Let’s discover how Anne Boleyn got to Burgundy. #PhD #Tudor #medieval #historian #history
June 4, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Waking up from a post-PhD editing nap only to realise you now look like a whole wookie. Send help. #hair #research #historytime #oops #ohno
May 25, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Waking up from a post-PhD editing nap only to realise you now look like a whole wookie. Send help. #hair #research #historytime #oops #ohno
Just thinking about waking up on 19 May 1536 and knowing your husband ordered you the best swordsman all the way from France just to behead you. #AnneBoleyn #OnThisDay #History #Tudors #PhD #Research #Anne
May 19, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Just thinking about waking up on 19 May 1536 and knowing your husband ordered you the best swordsman all the way from France just to behead you. #AnneBoleyn #OnThisDay #History #Tudors #PhD #Research #Anne
“These bloody days have broke my heart” #AnneBoleyn #History #Tudor #Medieval #Boleyn #Research #ThomasWyatt
May 18, 2026 at 5:27 PM
“These bloody days have broke my heart” #AnneBoleyn #History #Tudor #Medieval #Boleyn #Research #ThomasWyatt
A very tired s[h]elfie to say: finished draft one of the thesis and am officially retreating to my bed for the weekend. Almost time to submit, after that, time to share my research with you all.
#medieval #tudor #history #phd #anneboleyn
#medieval #tudor #history #phd #anneboleyn
May 16, 2026 at 7:20 AM
A very tired s[h]elfie to say: finished draft one of the thesis and am officially retreating to my bed for the weekend. Almost time to submit, after that, time to share my research with you all.
#medieval #tudor #history #phd #anneboleyn
#medieval #tudor #history #phd #anneboleyn
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Here's three minutes of us talking about human skin.
August 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Here's three minutes of us talking about human skin.
When you’re on holiday but the archives send you that one letter you’ve been searching for since December 2024 … bonjour, Signeur Claude Bouton. #archives #manuscript #history #document #palaeography #tudor #tudors #anneboleyn #burgundy #book #books #booktok
June 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
When you’re on holiday but the archives send you that one letter you’ve been searching for since December 2024 … bonjour, Signeur Claude Bouton. #archives #manuscript #history #document #palaeography #tudor #tudors #anneboleyn #burgundy #book #books #booktok
June 17, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Interested in the rest of my video on Queen #AnneBoleyn? Come have a look on Instagram I’m @MarlouvanGendt. #Boleyn #Tudor #Tudors #History #HenryVIII
May 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Interested in the rest of my video on Queen #AnneBoleyn? Come have a look on Instagram I’m @MarlouvanGendt. #Boleyn #Tudor #Tudors #History #HenryVIII
You know that moment when you look at a cat and think, “my word, what a graceful creature, what perfection.” And then you look over and see the other one and it’s just full derp, no holds barred, mid-licky? This was that moment today. #MaineCoon and #cat #cats
May 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
You know that moment when you look at a cat and think, “my word, what a graceful creature, what perfection.” And then you look over and see the other one and it’s just full derp, no holds barred, mid-licky? This was that moment today. #MaineCoon and #cat #cats
Want to know about the #MayDay traditions of #AnneBoleyn at the Hof van #Savoy in #Mechelen? I gotchu boo!
Catch me @marlouvangendt on Instagram for the full story ☕️🫖👀
#Tudor #Tudors #history #Boleyn #May #Burgundy #Burgundian #Habsburg
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Catch me @marlouvangendt on Instagram for the full story ☕️🫖👀
#Tudor #Tudors #history #Boleyn #May #Burgundy #Burgundian #Habsburg
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May 1, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Want to know about the #MayDay traditions of #AnneBoleyn at the Hof van #Savoy in #Mechelen? I gotchu boo!
Catch me @marlouvangendt on Instagram for the full story ☕️🫖👀
#Tudor #Tudors #history #Boleyn #May #Burgundy #Burgundian #Habsburg
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Catch me @marlouvangendt on Instagram for the full story ☕️🫖👀
#Tudor #Tudors #history #Boleyn #May #Burgundy #Burgundian #Habsburg
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One of my favourite aspects of writing a biography of Elizabeth Boleyn was gathering evidence for her time in Katherine of Aragon's household. Elizabeth's long and fascinating court service during Henry VIII's early reign was one of the inspirations for me to write this book in the first place (a 🧵)
April 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
One of my favourite aspects of writing a biography of Elizabeth Boleyn was gathering evidence for her time in Katherine of Aragon's household. Elizabeth's long and fascinating court service during Henry VIII's early reign was one of the inspirations for me to write this book in the first place (a 🧵)
Happy #Friday! Mr Miu the #MaineCoon has decided that today his War on Flies starts in earnest and has proclaimed himself the Lord of the Flies after catching three of them in a single hour. #cats #cat
April 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Happy #Friday! Mr Miu the #MaineCoon has decided that today his War on Flies starts in earnest and has proclaimed himself the Lord of the Flies after catching three of them in a single hour. #cats #cat
#ThrowbackThursday to when I held the poor Chief Yeoman Warden of the Tower of London prisoner in Anne Boleyn’s prison cell to tell him all about what Anne got up to in her spare time. Poor man. #Boleyn #Tudor #Tudors #history #London #TowerOfLondon #yeoman #historian
April 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
#ThrowbackThursday to when I held the poor Chief Yeoman Warden of the Tower of London prisoner in Anne Boleyn’s prison cell to tell him all about what Anne got up to in her spare time. Poor man. #Boleyn #Tudor #Tudors #history #London #TowerOfLondon #yeoman #historian