Let my CFP go forth into the world! Naturally, if you know me, you'll know my own research has focused on guildhalls for a couple of years now - but I've long wanted a book that considers other "theatres" of the Renaissance. So please, come and join me in proposing chapters 🙏

Dr. Will Green@drwillgreen.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ahead of launching the actual CFP, thought I'd give a little preview of a thing I'm doing 🫢

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Dr. Will Green@drwillgreen.bsky.social · 2d ago

Ahead of launching the actual CFP, thought I'd give a little preview of a thing I'm doing 🫢

There’s a useful 3/4 view (and a brilliant exposition) of van Hoogstraten‘s perspective box at jhna.org/articles/see...

Dr. Peter Paul Rubens@peterpaulrubens.bsky.social · 3d ago

4/4 How perspective box would look if you unfolded it. But it all comes together when you look through the peep holes. Because Samuel van Hoogstraten was very clever, and today was his day.

Whitechapel, 1861: “…blue demons, red demons, and vanishing Satans that disappear in a cloud of smoke through an invisible hole in the floor.“ Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor (this edition is the 1985 Penguin classics one p2708 but you can find better ones for free online).

This is a single stem of a single rose.

The nationalism of Puy du Fou is problematic as is their tendency to pseudohistory but this is an interestingly faithful updating of nautical effects described in Georges Moynet’s 1893 ‘La machinerie théâtrale: trucs et décors‘ (Librairie Illustrée, Paris) Via: www.instagram.com/reels/DaFdDI...

Puy du Fou on Instagram: "Arrivée sur le port de Brest ! ⚓⛵   🔍👀 Où se trouve Charette ? Donnez la réponse en commentaires ! #puydufou #puydufou2026 #LeDernierPanache"

23K likes, 146 comments - puydufou on June 26, 2026: "Arrivée sur le port de Brest ! ⚓⛵   🔍👀 Où se trouve Charette ? Donnez la réponse en commentaires ! #puydufou #puydufou2026 #LeDernierPanache".

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What was done in Manchester - for better or in large part for worse - was in fact done by Howard Bernstein, Richard Leese and Helen Palmer, before Burnham parachuted in late to claim credit.

Zack Polanski@zackpolanski.bsky.social · 2w ago

Burnham wants to do what he did in Greater Manchester for the whole of the UK? But what does that mean for the people - not the property developers? Its time to end Rip off Britain. Join.greenparty.org.uk

“Archaeologists at the site said that the discovery set an example of how private homes were used as a “spectacle” to gain favour with others.” Hold this idea. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

Pompeii archaeologists unveil stunning fresco ceiling in ancient banquet hall

The vault depicts Dionysus and Ariadne, whose union is one of the best-known Greek myths

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Juno & Neptune from the ‘Nonsuch panels’ (later of Loseley Park) attributed to Antonio Toto, a regular hire of Cawarden and the Office of Tents & Revels so plausibly the best surviving visual reference for Henrician festival decor. Source: Philip Mould Ltd via www.arthistorynews.com/articles/114...

. @ron-athey.bsky.social but make it Medici Florence: For the gigantic allegorical parade Maschera della geneologia degli dei de‘ gentili (1566) Georgio Vasari costumed the personification of Thought in garlands of thorns… pointing inwards because ‘thoughts torture the mind as thorns do the flesh’

Reconstruction model of the mansion stage (ie with spatially distinct, sequential, locations - the scenic equivalent of graphic novel panels) for Broelmann‘s Laurentius-Spiel (Köln, 1581). www.bildindex.de/document/obj...

Belter of a paper which has apparently - and wildly unjustifiably - slipped off the radar of recent scholarship: McDowell, John H. “Some Pictorial Aspects of Early Mountebank Stages.” PMLA 61, no. 1 (1946): 84–96. doi-org.eux.idm.oclc.org/10.2307/459220. www.jstor.org/stable/459220

'Before the move, the library was surveyed shelf by shelf in Milan, with the position of every volume, thematic groupings and connections between authors and disciplines carefully documented, so that the new premises in Bologna could reproduce Eco's original arrangement exactly'. Echoing Eco.

Wanted in Rome@wantedinrome.bsky.social · 4w ago

Bologna opens a new library containing more than 32,000 books from Umberto Eco's private study - arranged exactly as he left them - a decade after his death.

Another day another thing idiot here can’t read. #skystorians #palaeoography types, try as I might I can’t turn this into a plausible c19th English surname. Reaney & Wilson (as usual) no help. Any ideas? Skyniry? I mean… really?

Advice for stage managers from backstage at the Medici intermezzi. Anon, “Il corago o vero alcune osservazioni per metter bene in scena le composizioni drammatiche” (ca1630) trans. Roger Savage & Matteo Sansone. "Il Corago" and the Staging of Early Opera: Early Music, Nov., 1989, Vol. 17, No. 4

#skystorians 🗃️& #palaeography fans any help on this (1805) would be much appreciated 🙏 Saturday night we had a very large flood of the river Lune which over flowed its banks and did considerable damage to the farmers by taking away large quantities of ? Corn…something? Stalks?

Exeter defies belief. e.g. the Material Culture of Wills project: Their engagement work is by any standard state of the art - wildly creative, intriguing, accessible, rigorous all at the same time. It’s genius, an inspiration, an enviable model of true excellence sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

Replica nineteenth century travelling peepshow: Sergeant Bell's royal raree show. (Bill Douglas and Peter Jewell Collection, 69261) www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/explore/item...

Since earliest times, the frailest line between itinerant show people & vagrants. To mark to day’s repeal of the Vagrancy Act 1824, characters from John Thomas Smith’s “Vagabondiana“ (1817). Full set at the never less than astonishing Spitalfields Life blog: spitalfieldslife.com/2010/10/06/v...

"Advertisements & Notices." Era, December 31, 1892. Gale Primary Sources. link-gale-com.eux.idm.oclc.org/apps/doc/BB3....

"'Ridiculous' Stage Scenery." Times, November 30, 1921, 8. The Times Digital Archive. link-gale-com.eux.idm.oclc.org/apps/doc/CS1....

Goodnight from Whitby.

An amber portrait of Elizabeth I, for sale. www.sothebys.com/en/buy/aucti...

Attributed to Hans Klingenberg (active Königsberg, circa 1593-after

<p>Attributed to Hans Klingenberg (active Königsberg, circa 1593-after 1626) or Georg Schreiber (active Königsberg, circa 1600-1648)</p><p>German, Königsberg, circa 1600</p><p><em>Amber pendant with a...

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Last night I watched a performance of Macbeth in the courtyard of a 10th century castle, against scenery that would obsolete any stage designer (unless they had a budget that could literally move mountains). #shakespeare

Today in nominative determinism: when the heavy-tail distribution of your data are defeating classification you need to… doi.org/10.1080/0033...

Historische sensatie! In 2023 stuitte ik op een volstrekt onbekend schilderij. Het bleek te gaan om een voorstelling van de Staten-Generaal en een verbeelding van het ontstaan van Nederland als soevereine staat. Lees nu het volledige verhaal in Early Modern Low Countries. doi.org/10.51750/eml...

Don't be deterred by the naff title of this too-neglected #materialculture goldmine. 1536 pp. £10 inc p&p on Abebooks. Edwards. Ralph & Ramsey. L.G.G, The Connoisseur's Complete Period Guides to the Houses, Decoration, Furnishing and Chattels of the Classic Periods. (The Connoisseur, London, 1968)

Oh yes, ra-ther. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9788772...

Celebrations at Court

A rich and immersive insight into the spectacular courtly festival culture of 16th and 17th century EuropeCourt celebrations constituted elaborate and flambo...

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Writing work non-negotiably NEEDS sympathetic music. This track, it had my back through the wretched, tortured, hard-fought enpapering of that bastard train of thought that made us fight for every word: we are brothers in arms bonded in fire. This too will be lost forever when GenAI breaks thought

Has there ever been a title/author one-two punch to beat English Field Names: a Dictionary, by… John Field? Also: it should 100% be shelved under ‘folk horror’.