A beautiful day to be on a train northwards and finalising my paper for the inaugural York #Wayzgoose. I’ll be talking about my experiences of “Printing Wrong” in student letterpress workshops during this three day printing bonanza!

A beautiful day to be on a train northwards and finalising my paper for the inaugural York #Wayzgoose. I’ll be talking about my experiences of “Printing Wrong” in student letterpress workshops during this three day printing bonanza!

Today I discovered that a letter attributed to a man was actually written by Ann Bathurst, the 17th-century visionary woman I’m researching. 🤩 Archival work might be slow and painstaking but it’s totally thrilling to be going in search of lost voices from the past and finding them! 📚

Hey can anyone with U Chicago P access send me a PDF of this pleasseeee? www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

New addition to my Shakespeare summer school — Shakespeare and Marlowe’s World. Visited the brill London Museum Docklands and Queen’s House Greenwich, reading passages from Dr Faustus, Tempest, Richard III, Othello, and Midsummer along the way

New addition to my Shakespeare summer school — Shakespeare and Marlowe’s World. Visited the brill London Museum Docklands and Queen’s House Greenwich, reading passages from Dr Faustus, Tempest, Richard III, Othello, and Midsummer along the way

One of my fave teaching roles is running the King’s Shakespeare in London summer school. Students are soooo engaged this year! Here they are handling some early modern books in the Foyles Special Collections

One of my fave teaching roles is running the King’s Shakespeare in London summer school. Students are soooo engaged this year! Here they are handling some early modern books in the Foyles Special Collections

Obsessed with these early modern memento mori woodcuts specifically for printers. Leave setting thy page, spent is thine age! 💀

Big day of printing ahead of next week’s Shakespeare in London summer school at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. Always one of my favourite courses!

***job klaxon!*** Postdoctoral Research Associate on ERC-funded project TextDiveGlobal at QMUL 12 month post from 1 September 2026 Apply by 28 July: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSG130/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate - 'TextDiveGlobal' at Queen Mary University of London

Apply now for the Postdoctoral Research Associate - 'TextDiveGlobal' role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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Anyone working at the National Archives UK this week able to take a photo of a single page for me?!?! One of those things the significance of which wasn't clear at the time.

Upcoming Emergency Summit: 16 July 2026 jointly organised by @ies-sas.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social "Emergency Action On...the Situation for English" Details here: mailchi.mp/1b1ef2d5a8a3...

Why is my stretching app talking to me like the King James Bible?

Why is my stretching app talking to me like the King James Bible?

Life recently, enjoying escapism wherever possible

Life recently, enjoying escapism wherever possible

This petition needs as many signatories as the Exeter one. Please sign and share — don’t let Hertfordshire managers get away with this just because a Russell Group one took the spotlight. #UKHE

Joanna Bourke@joannabourke.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Shocking news about redundancies in the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire, despite their exceptional research activities. I have signed the petition against these actions: it would be great if you would as well: c.org/kDQynZV7J4 @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @bisa-bkk.bsky.social

GAME STUDIES STUDY BUDDIES takes a strange detour through academic history, methodological fights in early modern literary criticism, and ponders what play is conceptually good for anyway with Anna K. Nardo's THE LUDIC SELF IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE: rangedtouch.com/2026/06/30/9...

A career and project highlight to see our @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social special issue 'Medicine, Race, and Slavery' appear - the result of workshops, conversation and many, many emails over the past four years. So grateful to the inspiring contributors and the editorial team. #EarlyModern #HistSTM 🗃️

Past and Present@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · last mo.

Our 2026 Supplement (#18) "Medicine, Race, and Slavery in the Transatlantic World, 1600–1850" Edited by @hsmurphy.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social @cemskcl.bsky.social) Has now been published by @academic.oup.com academic.oup.com/past/issue/2...

Evening walk in the fens 🌾

Congratulations to Emily and all the contributors! If anyone wants to review the entire volume for sonancejournal.com please let me know! #earlymodern 🗃️

Emily Rowe@emilyrowe1.bsky.social · last mo.

It’s publication day for THWICK-A-THWACK! If you wanna know how early modern London writers imagined metalworking as musical (and music as metalwork), you can read it here — www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Fabulous conversation between @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social & @willtosh.bsky.social earlier. Fascinating to hear how an interest in strengthening paleography skills led to thinking differently about Shakespeare. crowdcast.io/clips/509d01...

"Shakespeare in the Kitchen's" origin story — By Rachel Willie (for SRS) — Crowdcast

Watch this clip from Book Launch: "Shakespeare in the Kitchen" by Society for Renaissance Studies.

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Society for Renaissance Studies@srsrensoc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Book Launch: join @nicosiamarissa.bsky.social, in conversation with @willtosh.bsky.social, in the Kitchen with Shakespeare at Brunch, Lunch, Tea & Suppertime!* 22 June 2026, 9:00PDT/12:00EDT/17:00BST *other [meal]time zones available rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #SRSlyGood #EarlyModernEvents

New episode of the Royal Studies Network podcast - Host Susannah Lyon-Whaley interviews @laurenworking.bsky.social on her newly published book, A Golden World, which illuminates how the Americas became a visible and material presence in English culture. www.buzzsprout.com/1934722/epis...

#CfP: Sponsored Sessions on “Environment and Ecologies” at @rsaorg.bsky.social Annual Meeting, 11-13 March 2027, Philadelphia. Abstracts by 18 July 2027. #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents rensoc.org.uk/announcement...

It’s publication day for THWICK-A-THWACK! If you wanna know how early modern London writers imagined metalworking as musical (and music as metalwork), you can read it here — www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Saturday brunch pretending I’m a Scandi breakfast plate influencer

not unrelated to my last post, I am very excited (especially now I've written my paper - a record-breaking WEEK before I am due to give it) for 'Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750' next week, in Oxford 18-19 June - free to attend! #earlymodern 🗃️ clioreframed.hcommons.org/conference-p...

Academic job market / rejection season hitting hard this year BUT how nice to get my author copy of the Routledge Companion to Early Modern Music and Literature. ‘Thwick-a-Thwack’ and the other great essays will be available later this month — www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...

Just a month to go until the SHoW conference deadline. Looking forward to seeing your abstracts and to catching up in Limerick #skystorians

The Society for the History of War @sochistorywar.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢 CfP: Society for the History of War Conference 2026 📍 University of Limerick 🗓 26–27 Nov 2026 Papers & panels invited on all aspects of war & violence incl. gender, memory, civil wars, cultures of conflict, and lived experience. 🗓 Deadline: 3 July 2026 📩 SHOWconferences@gmail.com