I’ve been trying to find out who this bloke is for about a year, and it really doesn’t matter now, but it’s still keeping me up at night. Westmoreland is an Earldom. Dukes of Westminster are all Grosvenors. Who is he?!?!?!
Jemma Forster
@jemlf.bsky.social
AHRC English PhD student at Trinity Hall, Uni of Cambridge. Researching queer Dianas (not the princess) in EM England, Spain and Italy 🌈 she/her https://www.oocdtp.ac.uk/people/jemma-louise-forster
Friday!!
Jemma Forster@jemlf.bsky.social · 4mo agoThree more weeks to submit an abstract for the OOC International Conference on ‘Power and Possession’ (open to graduate students at @oocdtp.bsky.social, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, @stockholm-uni.bsky.social, @mit.edu, Australian National University, and a.r.t.e.s Grad School at Cologne University)
We are delighted to announce that the Keynote Speakers for the AHRC International Conference will be Ture Laiti and Professor Arkotong Longkumer. www.oocdtp.ac.uk/article/keyn... OOC DTP students you still have time to submit your abstracts, deadline 8th May: forms.office.com/pages/respon...
Keynote speakers for AHRC International Conference 2026 announced
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Three more weeks to submit an abstract for the OOC International Conference on ‘Power and Possession’ (open to graduate students at @oocdtp.bsky.social, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, @stockholm-uni.bsky.social, @mit.edu, Australian National University, and a.r.t.e.s Grad School at Cologne University)
Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership@oocdtp.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe 11th AHRC International Conference will take place 14-16 September 2026 at The Queen's College, Oxford, with the theme Power and Possession. We are calling for submissions from OOC DTP students, as well as our international partner universities, by 8 May 2026. www.oocdtp.ac.uk/borders-and-...
Quick trip up into the mountains (with elks!!) before my flight home
Had lots of fun talking about Diana and queer time at the Comparative Sexualities seminar yesterday at #shax2026. And having a natter about perimenopausal queens with @prof-burzynska.bsky.social ! ❤️
I’m on a hunt for 16thC Habsburg women wearing eagle jewellery. Everything now looks like an eagle. Is that an eagle at the very top of Maria of Austria’s head? Or just some sort of flourish that looks a little like an eagle? Am I an eagle?
Submissions are open for our OOC International Conference!! 💚
Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership@oocdtp.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe 11th AHRC International Conference will take place 14-16 September 2026 at The Queen's College, Oxford, with the theme Power and Possession. We are calling for submissions from OOC DTP students, as well as our international partner universities, by 8 May 2026. www.oocdtp.ac.uk/borders-and-...
Discover the hidden stories of the women who shaped Trinity Hall’s historic law collections with our latest blog post: “Women Behind the Law Books in Trinity Hall’s Old Library.” 👉 oldlibrarytrinityhall.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/w... #WomenInHistory #TrinityHall #OldLibrary #WomenInLaw
Women Behind the Law Books in Trinity Hall’s Old Library
To celebrate International Women’s Day this post explores some of the women printers whose imprint can be found inside books in the Old Library. They are present – sometimes only as initials…
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I'm currently playing a game of psychological warfare with a man on Goodreads who immediately reads every book I finish and then disagrees with my ratings. Don Quixote is next, mate. Good luck...
Submissions are open for our OOC International Conference!! 💚
Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership@oocdtp.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe 11th AHRC International Conference will take place 14-16 September 2026 at The Queen's College, Oxford, with the theme Power and Possession. We are calling for submissions from OOC DTP students, as well as our international partner universities, by 8 May 2026. www.oocdtp.ac.uk/borders-and-...
The 11th AHRC International Conference will take place 14-16 September 2026 at The Queen's College, Oxford, with the theme Power and Possession. We are calling for submissions from OOC DTP students, as well as our international partner universities, by 8 May 2026. www.oocdtp.ac.uk/borders-and-...
Power and Possession – 2026 AHRC International Conference
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every time someone hears my expertise is in queer Shakespeare they’re like, “oh so he was gay?” first of all, Shakespeare doesn’t need to be queer for his plays to be queer—or for us to read & interpret his plays queerly. second of all, yes. yes he was.
Thoroughly enjoying this
University of Michigan Press@uofmpress.bsky.social · 2y agoNow Available: The Arcadia of Jacopo Sannazaro by Nicholas R. Jones, Translating the foundational text of pastoral fiction and poetry into English for the modern scholar and reader. Learn more here: doi.org/10.3998/mpub...
Our precious #Shakespeare first folio of 1623 recently underwent some conservation treatment. Read all about it in our latest blog: specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=31272
Took my embryonic Spanish speaking skills out for a test drive at the Oxford Golden Age Symposium. ¡Qué delicia!
Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10
Today on the blog: a magnificent find by @franceswolfreston.bsky.social of a book that the poet Katherine Philips gave to Mary Jeffreys; a discussion with important scholarly implications for the study of Philips earlymodernfemalebookownership.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/h... #EarlyModern #HerBook
Made a metric tonne of soup today with King Lear on in the background #cordeliasmith
European Shakespeare Research Association Conference in beautiful Porto
