Climate change is already here

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

France orders evacuation of Cap Ferret peninsula as wildfire spreads – Europe live

What a brilliant time at the Global Renaissance workshop hosted by @cesrtours.bsky.social and organised by the inimitable @endeeekay.bsky.social and @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social. So many rich and thought-provoking discussions!

A bounteous early modern book spring! Looking forward to delving into @laurenworking.bsky.social's latest soon.

The best way to start the weekend is with the arrival of @rentravailer.bsky.social's latest in the post 🎉

This is an absolute delight & I recommend you all go read it now as a pre-Bank Holiday treat.

Callan Davies@callanjd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A way into Shakespeare through the weather forecast? A little look at almanacs, biography, and climate… open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...

Tag yourself, 1615 edition. I quite fancy the look of 'A craftie Scriuener'

RIP Stephen, you would have loved the snooze button.

Delighted to announce that Volume 15 of the Journal of Early Modern Studies is now available online! oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...

New address just dropped

Featuring book reviews by myself and the inimitable @cazzert.bsky.social! Really enjoyed reviewing Scott Oldenburg and @pangallo.bsky.social's timely collection None a Stranger There: England and/in Europe on the Early Modern Stage.

Shakespeare Bulletin@shaxbull.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.4 is now published via Project Muse! Find the final issue of Shakespeare Bulletin's 2025 volume, now fully open access. 📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56610

📣 Just over a week left to register for 'Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature'! 📣 @fairbanc.bsky.social We have a HUGE range of papers and panels, plus a careers roundtable AND two brilliant keynote speakers! Plus online attendance is free. Registration HERE: bit.ly/4rb7CiX

One month to go till registration closes for #ReadingthePractical @sheffieldcems.bsky.social @themhra.bsky.social @emjlynajsh.bsky.social! Online attendance is free, in person is free for self-funded/unwaged PGRs and ECRs, and you can register HERE: bit.ly/4rb7CiX

Citing myself today, like an asshole, but the cat is keeping me humble.

Job! A 21-month postdoc at Birmingham on French-language print publications in England to 1685 led by the marvellous team of Peter Auger and Suzanne Jones. International applicants are welcome and Birmingham can support a visa application where required. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQN896/r...

Research Fellow (French-Language Print Publications in England to 1685) at University of Birmingham

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Marking my calendar now!!

Faber Books@faberbooks.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Proofs just in for A Golden World, featuring our glorious cover artwork ✨ A glittering new history of how the Americas transformed early modern England from award-winning historian @laurenworking.bsky.social, A Golden World is out 18 June and available to pre-order now. linktr.ee/agoldenworld

This was fabulous - very thought-provoking!

John Gallagher@earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 6mo ago

For anyone in Oxford, I'll be speaking at Lincoln at 5pm today. The paper is called 'Last words: migration, death, and language in early modern London' and I'd love to see you there!

Important to gently judge your EM playwrights in your note taking

I'm not an eighteenth-centuryist, but this sounds brilliant for those of you who are!

Dr Rachel Bynoth@rachelbynoth.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Come join us in Marseille this September for our @bsecs.bsky.social PGR ECR conference - details below ⬇️ Such a brilliant theme of Improvement, Degeneration, Stagnation - looking forward to reading the submissions 👏

Working from the online edition because the physical copy is on the other side of the room & I cannot move her

📢 Excited to announce this Call for Papers for ‘Clio Reframed’, a conference at Oxford on 18-19 June 2026 exploring early modern women as writers of history. @engfac.bsky.social @oxfordcems.bsky.social Abstracts due by 28 Feb! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

#CFP plug for this exciting annual symposium on gender and/or otherness in creative writing or pre-modern drama. Having attended last year I can confirm firsthand what a lovely bunch of people the GOTH team are! fass.open.ac.uk/research/cen...

The Open University

The 6th Annual GOTH Symposium welcomes scholars from within and outside The Open University for productive interdisciplinary discussion and debate. The Program Committee invites proposals for presenta...

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Only Ben Jonson 😂

FINAL DAY to submit your abstracts to the MHRA-funded conference on EM practical texts @emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are organising @sheffieldcems.bsky.social! sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

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Now only **FIVE DAYS** until the deadline for @fairbanc.bsky.social and @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's conference on EM practical texts that will take place in Sheffield next April! sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

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Chloe Fairbanks@fairbanc.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Just TEN DAYS LEFT to submit your abstracts for @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on EM practical texts @sheffieldcems.bsky.social. The conference has hybrid capability, and we have six self-funded student/non-waged ECR travel bursaries of £75 each. sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Just TEN DAYS LEFT to submit your abstracts for @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on EM practical texts @sheffieldcems.bsky.social. The conference has hybrid capability, and we have six self-funded student/non-waged ECR travel bursaries of £75 each. sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

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C16th dietary writer William Vaughan asking the important questions here.

Favourite line I've read this week has to be 'a poorly constructed Shakespearean castoff with a bear problem' (Matt Carter, ‘English Imperialism and Staff Fighting in Mucedorous’) 🐻

Call for Papers! @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social x @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar special edition - we want papers on all types of migration and mobility history from ECRs and PGRs. Abstracts to kabcommons [@] gmail.com by 15th November. Pls spread the word & DM with any questions

One month left to apply to @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on early modern practical texts, featuring keynotes by the brilliant @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover! #CFP sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

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The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**! 📅 Abstracts due 24/11. Full details can be found here: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies - CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

CFP: Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature

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