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Check out our latest output, a special issue curated by Cathleen Sarti, Katia Wright and Charlotte Backerra in Essays in Economic and Business History. The issue includes 5 full length articles on the adminstrative, entreprenurial and financial activities of royal women from late medieval and early modern Europe from Lledó Ruiz Domingo, Manuela Santos Silva, Susan Broomhall, Elizabeth Norton and Rubén González Cuerva plus an introduction from the special editors.

Members of the Queen's Resources Network presented at the Beyond Exceptionalism III conference at Universitat Jaume I in Castelló in June 2026. The session was entitled 'Lordship: An unexceptional activity for royal women' and featured three papers on the economic activity of medieval queens: Elena (Ellie) Woodacre* (University of Winchester) and Katia Wright* (Independent Scholar/Assistant Curator, AGC Museums Winchester)Wessex: The Landed Power Base of Medieval English Quee

Our newest output from our 2025 workshops is a Themed Section in Chronica Mundi 19.1 (2025), titled "Royal Women, Natural Resources, and Revenues in the Transition from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period". This output was edited by Ana Maria Rodrigues and features three articles from Inês Olaia, Andrea Silen-McMillin and Elizabeth Norton.