A lovely bright Oxford afternoon…

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...

The most amazing building! And next door to where I work. My first peek today - can’t wait for the theatre and concert hall to open in the New Year. I’ll miss the old English Faculty - but this is a whole new direction for the Humanities to collaborate. Academically and creatively. #SchwarzmanCentre

🚨Call for Papers: The 18th St Andrews/USTC Book History Conference on 'Print and Education' will take place 18–20 June 2026. 👉 Further details here: www.ustc.ac.uk/conference 📅 Application deadline: 12 December 2025 📖 We look forward to receiving your proposals! #CfP #bookhistory #skystorians

And here's the link to the OA version (not that I'd want to dissuade anyone from purchasing a physical copy): www.uwp.co.uk/app/uploads/...

Andreea and Christian will be presenting at EMC CPD Face-to Face: Language Change, Digital Communication & Social Media – an EMC Teacher Conference-with-CPD (30.9.25) Get signed up here and come and join us! Book by 8am on 26th Sept buff.ly/xQmMHMg

Our collection, Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court: Writing Communities, is being launched! Come and join us (in person at Middle Temple Library or online) at 6.15pm on Tuesday 9 Sept. Email [email protected] for more details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Our collection, Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court: Writing Communities, is being launched! Come and join us (in person at Middle Temple Library or online) at 6.15pm on Tuesday 9 Sept. Email [email protected] for more details. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Join us online on 1 September at 6pm to explore #Shakespeare's 'The Comedy of Errors' with Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social and Ian Burrows @irburrows.bsky.social. This webinar is free and open to all. Prepare to learn more about one of Shakespeare's most farcical plays! #TheComedyofErrors

A #17thCentury #broadsideballad, describing the sights & sounds of #BartholomewFair, which was held #otd at #Smithfield from the 12th to the 19th Centuries. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pC_2... #earlymusic #earlymodern #historyoflondon #onthisday #onthidayinhistory #ballad

Still time to apply!

2 more days of our crowdfunder to go, and today's MiniMotet-based-on-a-well-known-tune is one for all the #Monteverdi fans. To paraphrase, sure he was great, but nuns did it all in wimples and chronically sleep-deprived. #nuntastic #earlymodern #GirlsGotPolyphony 1/ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf-r...

Here are @parergon.bsky.social we are seeking proposals for our 2027 special issue: see www.anzamems.org?page_id=741

A glorious day off! 🥰 A spot of gardening, then a local stroll…

Lovely to be back in Oxford talking about “A Trick of the Mind” ! Thanks to @somervillecollege.bsky.social for hosting me, and for the lively and (predictably) thoughtful questions - about drugs, psychics, child development, neurodiversity, mystics, madness and more! tinyurl.com/ATrickOfTheM...

If you’re in Oxford on 8 June, join us in person as we welcome @annabeerauthor.bsky.social - and otherwise join us online. This will be fun! www.some.ox.ac.uk/news-events/...

Join us on Thursday 29 May as Lucy Clarke (University of Sheffield) talks on “To give some colour as if they meant the peace”: a practice-based approach to ‘legality’ in early modern England. Email [email protected] for the Zoom link. mappinginns.wordpress.com

Emily and I have much more to say about this and are concocting other related projects. In the meantime, our #MiddleTempleToManoa exhibition catalogue @middletemple.bsky.social can be downloaded for free here: www.tideproject.uk/wp-content/u...

It's in print! My & @emilylsteve.bsky.social's chapter on how the Middle Temple's chambers, libraries, hall, and chapel became spaces of global exchange. Part of a wonderful new volume on Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court, ed. @jackiewatson05.bsky.social & @emmakrhatigan.bsky.social.

New from @englishassociation.bsky.social! English opens doors: fliers with info on skills and careers for English students, teachers, parents now available to download. englishassociation.ac.uk/english-open...

All welcome! This hybrid event is free to join online.

This is the first of four models we are releasing in the lead up to our 150th celebration. If you'd like to receive future mailings but haven't updated your address recently, please email [email protected]. You can also donate to the Somerville fund here: buff.ly/PnSCOq0

Barbara’s funeral yesterday was a very moving event. Superb music led by Will Dawes and beautiful readings, alongside a eulogy commemorating one of the most incisive minds in literary criticism. She will be missed.

Next month on 11th May acclaimed Social Historian Jane Robinson, our Senior Assoicate, will join us for a Sundays at Somerville discussion of her most recent book Trailblazer, about the pioneering and criminally overlooked Victorian social reformer Barbara Bodichon.

Beautiful garden colour at Somerville College, Oxford, today @somervillecollege.bsky.social

Excited to be going ‘back home’ to Somerville College, Oxford to talk about my upcoming book “A Trick of The Mind” You can join in Oxford (or online) on Sunday 25th May. Book at the link below 👇 @somervillecollege.bsky.social #psychology #neuroscience #books

We're very much looking forward to this event next month - please do join us!

It's spring and the gardens are looking gorgeous! Take a look at our latest gardener's blog to find out what seasonal changes are happening around the college.

Look who came through the door this morning. It’s good to see you, Humphrey!

Deadline Extension! CEMS Colloquium on Early Modern War Narratives. Send us your abstracts by this Friday (18th)! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen... @emilyrowe1.bsky.social @hsmurphy.bsky.social @kingsartshums.bsky.social

Will be Open Access when it publishes in a couple of weeks www.uwp.co.uk/book/invento...

With chapters by Huw Pryce, @profhelenfulton.bsky.social, @profkdlilley.bsky.social, @catsporter.bsky.social, Rebecca Milligan, Alexandra Walsham, Roger Mason…

Spring in Oxford(shire) this weekend… 😎

I’m never sure which Old Master my cats are staging... Something by Vermeer? Arnolfini Wedding? They’re very talented, anyway… 😸😸

Lovely day in Paradise… 😎

A glorious day in Edinburgh… 😎

Sorry - knew she was here somewhere - @lucycmunro.bsky.social ☺️

Hugely enjoyable discussion of Middleton by @oldfortunatus.bsky.social Lucy Munro and Michelle O’Callaghan on In Our Time. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

It’s already been snapped up!

Well, at least my book made it to Boston, even if I couldn’t! Thanks @edinburghup.bsky.social… (Oh, and everyone please buy Epistolary Courtiership, obviously… ☺️)

The latest Desert Island Discs featured our alumna Nemone Lethbridge (1951, Jurisprudence), one of the first female barristers. Nemone has led a fascinating life and continues to do pro bono work at 92 years old. This is worth a listen! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I’m working currently on Shakespeare’s King John and would love to hear about books and articles people would recommend. Any aspect of the play. Please tell me about yours if you’ve written on it!

Morning, all!

A glorious day in this little corner of the world…

Just finished George Goodwin’s lively account of the Battle of Flodden - The Fatal Rivalry - and found myself dearly hoping James would win… 😳🙄

Amazing speakers: Deborah Cameron, Rob Drummond, Julia Snell, Debra Myhill, Yamina Bibi, Lauren Cowan & Lucy Strike, (Alexandra Park School), Clare Feeney, @englangblog.bsky.social (& me).