My Beatles train is pulling into London on Jun 11.With the ace @danielrachel.bsky.social on board. Tickets (to ride) please!🎸🎥🎬🎶📚 www.tickettailor.com/events/insti...

Anyone interested in playhouses and their legacies, please do consider registering for this @saaupdates.bsky.social semina!

Change can and does happen. Good change. 'Hungary will rejoin the Erasmus student exchange programme “as early as the next academic year” and “phase out” state-linked foundations that have taken control of universities, the European Commission president has announced.' 1/3

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

My book, "The Middle Ages in Computer Games" is out in paperback tomorrow (2 Jun). If you've been waiting to get hold of it, now could be a good time! boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-mid...

Ok so at my Greek class this weekend I had to read out loud the word 'geographia' (γεωγραφία) and basically I think something went wrong with that first vowel because my teacher fell about laughing for a bit and then said 'That would be the study of gay people'

#earlymodern delighted that this is now out it has been a privilege to work with such fine scholars and a tribute to Betty Hageman who commissioned the volume

Happy publication day to @rentravailer.bsky.social's new book, This Little World: A New History of Tudor and Stuart England. See below for a little thread on the book, including - if you can believe it - surprising English food.

On 1st June I'll be presenting a talk titled 'Echoes of the Past: exploring sound heritage' at @school-of-act.bsky.social as part of the @yorkfestofideas.bsky.social. A talk based on my book 'Sonic Pasts'. Free tickets available for in person/online attendance: tftv.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

This is a brilliant and really friendly regular pub night - I've met so many great people over the years (and discovered so many great historic pubs). Do message Anna if you're interested in dropping in, now or in the future 👇

Note: relatively stable institution; HAPP's a supportive (even harmonious) School; there's another Ancient History colleague; and pay at Queen's is now relatively high (starting salary is junior; post confirmation-in-post, lecturer starts c. £52k, SL starts c. £66k). www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRP030/l...

80 now revealed, with final 20 to come. Disappointed to discover The Portrait of a Lady only makes it to no 21. Of those listed to date, I have read 33. Lots of great recommendations. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

It’s time for Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences and STEMM staff to talk and stand together. We are actually all on the same ship. Stronger and better together.

Great to spend morning w Ralph Treswell's 1600s surveys. Amazing to map tiny details of an inn & its yard (like the Crown in Aldgate) & pick up the quirks of London's properties: a shop vs a "fair shop"; "a little Closset hanging into the streete"; "drinking rooms" open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...

I've just seen that this book is published; looks terrific! Through Arab Eyes Protestantism and Tridentine Catholicism in the Islamic Mediterranean, 1517-1798 by Nabil Matar Series: New Transculturalisms, 1400-1800 link.springer.com/book/9783031...

🌻🌟🎉EA Conference (13 June 2026, 10:00 – 18:15)🎉🌟🌻 Come together with colleagues from #primary, #secondary, #further, #higher #education to explore innovations & hot topics in teaching across English #language, #literature, and #creative #writing.Sign up ! englishassociation.ac.uk/ea-conferenc...

This looks amazing

The Cultures of Philosophy project team has announced the programme for the conference ‘The Figure of the Female Philosopher in Early Modern Europe’, June 4-5, Knightley Building, University of Exeter. culturesofphilosophy.exeter.ac.uk/2026/04/28/7...

Today! Still not too late to sign up! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Oh god yes please

This is a big one - one of my favourite journals publishing one of the first major outputs of my walking research. In the article 'Walking and Performances of Elite Masculinity' I establish a model for how the collective walking of men negotiates early modern gender politics. A big day! Link below

Delighted to retrieve my copy of this today! @rorynaismith.bsky.social @yalebooks.bsky.social

Canterbury! I am coming to you to talk about how medieval history gets written - tickets are free and I’d love to see you there. #Skystorians #MedievalSky

I can't wait to get stuck into this: How Queer Bookshops Changed the World by @ajwestauthor.bsky.social. Bookshops are magical spaces. Queer bookshops even moreso. They help us form community and share ideas, this is such a vital history to tell! And it's just in time to be an early bday 🎁

Morning campers! We have a #SRSlyGood book launch coming up on 2nd June at 17.30BST. Join @drwillgreen.bsky.social in conversation with @tracelarkhall.bsky.social as they discuss their man Tommy Middleton's Theatre of War #EarlyModernEvents #Skystorians rensoc.org.uk/announcement...

'A court ruling, handed down on 29 April, said the regulator had misunderstood the meaning of “freedom of speech within the law” by treating any potential restriction of lawful speech as a breach of its regulatory requirements.' A bit damning, that.

One of the things I love about history is that all of these things can be true - wonderful, informative, astonishing, exciting, bustling - and yet at the same time illustrated by, like, a bit of what once was a wall

In the UK (and not just the UK) university sector, we're living, working, thinking and being made redundant (sic) with and by emergencies. Join Wendy Brown, Margot Finn, Eva von Redecker and Sasha Roseneil, convened by Paul Gilroy and John Sabapathy, for 'Learning in Emergency States'. 5 June. 1/2

The new children’s book by @drfernriddell.bsky.social is VERY PRETTY!! A lovely compendium of women from global history who ruled, rebelled, and rampaged

Just a few more days to apply to this year’s Take Your Research Public course - an introduction to public writing, social media, podcasting and more for academics new to this work. Guests include @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social and @estelleprnq.bsky.social. Free, online, over four Tuesdays in June.

William Shakespeare has been laying low for over 400 years, but at long last, @lucycmunro.bsky.social has sniffed him out

I am happy that this book is now published (in the series Connected Histories in the Early Modern World)! Performing India in Early Modern England 1575-1642 Commerce, Spectacle, and the Formation of the East India Company By Amrita Sen www.routledge.com/Performing-I...

I reviewed Hillary Taylor's "Language and Social Relations in early modern England" for the AHR. An excellent book and one where the thesis is one that all us early modern UK historians should sit with.

💫Booking is open for our Conference! 📅Sat 13 June 2026, 10:00 - 18:15 🏢Senate House, central London 🎁£70 members; £90 non-members (free for trustees/committee members) ➡️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ea-confere... With thanks to our headline sponsor @aqaeducation.bsky.social & our sponsor Pearson

✨I could not be more excited to see what arrived in the post today. Not only because it is good to see 2 chapters reach the light of day, but because of the immense scholarship that has gone into this enterprise, with 69 scholars &2 vols my hat goes off to @ilikeoldbooks.bsky.social & other editors✨

Author copies are here and the book is officially out!! Please order a copy for your university libraries 🙏 Also online here: doi.org/10.1093/9780...

Easy to miss in this glimpse of @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social's TV viewing is - at long last - the best way to bag a hunk. Very many thanks to those who established the soup traditions.

✨ Happy publication day to Queer in a Wee Place: Small Nations, Sexuality & Scotland! In my chapter, I use hate crime as a starting point for a broader discussion of the cracks in Scotland’s liberal and inclusive imaginary as a queer, wee place. www.bloomsburycollections.com/monograph-de...

Tbh, seems a bit sacrilegious not to do this on a Monday, but otherwise this looks excellent.

It's out! 🎉🎉🎉 "Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography" Open access (just click "save pdf" for a formatted version) It was a joy working with Heidi Craig, Kris May, and Dorothy Todd on this Element www.cambridge.org/core/element... ++

This by @magicnotwitches.bsky.social looks fab - one for the things-I-wish-I-had-an-excuse-to-read-now pile, not least because it includes a map of the location of historical & ficitonal magicians in late medieval & early modern London.

After a decade's run of the news being 'The opposite of a good thing has been decided', I am really enjoying the past few days swerve into they-may-have-got-away-with-it-for-65-years-but-let's-not-let-them-get-away-with-it-for-a-66th

Writing memoir comes at a cost. It also does something magic that fiction cannot. There are so many barriers to writing and rewriting your own story. Here I am talking writing, class, sexuality, shame and the work we have to do just to get to the page. monocle.com/radio/shows/...

Very pleasing to talk early modern news, information, and communication (and two excellent books by Rachel Midura & Joad Raymond Wren) with @moonjets.bsky.social on this week's LRB podcast. @lrb.co.uk

Meet Thomas the carter… New post follows Tudors moving around London, on the back of some recent research.  What did Shakespeare’s commute look like and who invented the one-way street? open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...

This looks absolute pants

Excited to share the CfP for @amendproject.bsky.social ‘s Early Modern European Neurodivergence conference happening in Swansea this August! Info here: drive.google.com/file/d/1TQpB...

Delighted to announce our seminar - 'Race and the Early Modern' - now has a full schedule of events. We'll be convening monthly to discuss research on race, racemaking, and racialisation across #earlymodern studies. @kingsartshums.bsky.social @folger.edu kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

I'll be talking queerness, art, class, love and Scottishness and all things Two Roberts at Charleston next week. You're very welcome. #booksky www.charleston.org.uk/event/an-eve...

📢 New peer-reviewed academic response to the Sullivan Review into sex and gender in research and data. @jaytoddgla.bsky.social and @felicitycallard.bsky.social have published a critical response to the Sullivan Review. doi.org/10.1111/tran...