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i'm excited to share new work on milton's books at RSA & doubly excited to do so alongside @mgyarn.bsky.social & amrita dhar on a panel sponsored by @bibsocamer.bsky.social! thanks to @aarontpratt.bsky.social for facilitating & @chrisvvarren.bsky.social for chairing. please join if you're free! 👇

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If I ever complain about secretary hand again, please remind me of the horror of the terrible, tiny handwriting of nineteenth-century historians.

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WEAR YOUR FAVORITE SHINY THING.

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Tamburlaine!! You heard right: this year’s Play In A Day — a partnership with Bell Shakespeare and The University of Melbourne — is Marlowe! Science Gallery Theatre in Melbourne on Thursday 8 May. Tickets are now on sale. Book here: bit.ly/4btoPOo

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Tiny vellum-bound books in the Egerton Traveling Library (1615), likely gifted to Thomas Egerton by William Hakewill.

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Dido - Aeneid, Book IV.

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Hello Blueksy! I expect this first post will be my most exciting post 🤣 My article about a new manuscript copy of Sonnet 116 I have identified has been published online open access academic.oup.com/res/advance-... @oupacademic.bsky.social

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Farewell beautiful man

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Big beer. Small beer. Orientear. Leyton Engineer. @leytonorientear.com #leytonorient #lofc

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On 26 June 2025, I'm running a document workshop at The National Archives on researching with common law records (including assize records). More details and registration information can be found via the link. #TNAPAST www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-early...

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🚨🥳New Podcast Episode!🥳🚨 Dr Wendy Lennon on The Global Resurgence of Authoritarianism. The first special guest episode will be released later today... open.spotify.com/episode/7AFb...

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🚨🥳 Welcome to the Shakespeare, Race & Pedagogy Podcast!🥳🚨 open.spotify.com/episode/64Om...

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A query for people who know about the early modern Court of Star Chamber - @thegozfather.bsky.social? @kjkesselring.bsky.social? What would happen if somebody entered a bill of complaint just before a general pardon went through Parliament... (1/2)

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Today, we celebrate the life, words, and work of Linda Smith, our President who died on this day 2006. Linda was an incredible comedian, satirist, and broadcaster, whose passion for politics and humanism was palpable. She was our president in 2004, and is sorely missed.

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Congratulations to Tony T and his colleagues in the Communities of Liberation project at London’s Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archive. They are doing great work, and I am delighted to have been able to help. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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According to the Mail, "five photos of former Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell" have been taken off the walls in parliament.

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Pleased to see that the @srsrensoc.bsky.social Postdoctoral Fellowships 25/26 have been announced www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz... Very happy to share my experience/knowledge with anyone thinking of applying! Drop me a message :)

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One day in 1987, @clarewadd.bsky.social and I hitched up to Birmingham to sit in on the mixing of SARAH 1. We got a lift off a man who told us he’d driven all the way from Plymouth and hadn’t slept. He dropped us in Redditch. We found a bus, ate sandwiches on the platform of Selly Oak station, [1/7]

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Sick and tired of trying to make people understand that UK universities have never had less money to teach students with, in real terms, than they do now.

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📢NEW MANY-HEADED MONSTER SERIES📢 Today I introduce 'Visual Culture in #EarlyModern England', a series that celebrates the relaunch of the brilliant 'British Printed Images to 1700' database and showcases historians' use of printed images. 🗃️ #Skystorians manyheadedmonster.com/2025/02/24/a...

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Members: check your email inboxes for exciting news of the Malone Society's spring booksale, and newly available volumes from our back catalogue. Non-members: to receive such exciting missives, join the Malone Society today! malonesociety.com/become-a-mem...

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This is today - do please join us!

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🥳Shakespeare, Race & Pedagogy 2!!! 🥳 Recording is underway! Fascinating conversations with these incredible people. Links to listen and watch will be available soon... www.shakeracepedagogy.com/shakespeare-...

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The British Shakespeare Association's 'Shakespeare, Race & Pedagogy' Special Edition of 'Teaching Shakespeare 26' edited by Dr Wendy Lennon. www.shakeracepedagogy.com/published-work

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The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.

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Wooo-ho!

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East End Wyvern Slays Hollywood Dragon. #LOFC #OneOrient #OiOi

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UK folks, sign this petition: Tighten the rules on political donations petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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🎉We’re delighted that our first major #BoxOfficeBears paper is published Open Access today in @antiquityj.bsky.social What do we know about the 🐻 and 🐶 that lived on Bankside? How big were they? What did they eat? How long did they live?🧵 of key findings below! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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#earlymodern Job opportunity at the Warburg warburg.sas.ac.uk/news/job-opp...

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Signs of spring on the Draper Estate at the Elephant & Castle

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Because I received a grant from the NEH in the past, I have been asked to serve as a panelist in reviewing applications this year. Here is the email I sent in response to the invitation.

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Howard University is now a R1 university, the first HBCU with a research one designation. H-U definitely knows!

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This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

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Happy UK publication day to the first of many amazing New Oxford Shakespeare plays! Here’s Julius Caesar (with my intro) pictured @shakespearesglobe.bsky.social! Thanks to @oldfortunatus.bsky.social for her brilliant work as general editor and to Sarah Neville for her precise editing of the text.

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It’s the UK publication day for the New Oxford Shakespeare Titus Andronicus, featuring my critical introduction on theatrical innovation, rape, race, politics, and how the play has always forced audiences to confront their relationship with Shakespeare. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Sorted. 😉😎

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Well that was a night and a half! Huge thanks to @petepaphides.bsky.social @skepwax.bsky.social & everyone who sang played & came to the @needlemythology.bsky.social Sensitive compilation album launch. Here’s Jamie Sea Urchin singing Pristine Christine, something I thought I’d never see again!

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What an amazing night. I got to be a member of some of my favourite bands. Including (here) the Sea Urchins!

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Discover how a young, recently orphaned John Fletcher may have crossed paths with a rising Shakespeare in 1596 (long before they collaborated) in my latest article: 'Giles, John, and Will: The Fletchers and Shakespeare in Bishopsgate Street, London, 1596' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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NEW BOOK! I am so excited to introduce The Winter’s Tale: A Critical Reader to the world. Feat. new essays on the play’s implications for border politics, critical race studies, ecocriticism, pedagogy and childhood studies, as well as surveys of the play’s critical and theatrical history.

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Cuts to the Arts and Humanities have been going on for years in the UK. Several great departments were closed down. But in most places, the erosion was more gradual. /1

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#earlymodern Friends, I'm pleased to share the recording of my students' production of _Mucedorus_, now on YouTube. youtu.be/bqa139I5HxM Enjoy!

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The New Cross Venue 1991, key London indie venue with Levellers, Chumbawamba, Lush @mikiberenyi.bsky.social , Blur, Melvins, Billy Bragg and many more. Lots more here: transpont.blogspot.com/2025/02/chum...

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Manchester City get taste of Leyton Orient but De Bruyne seals Cup recovery

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