My book is out!! 🎉📕🎶🥂🎭

TENURE-TRACK DRAMA POST AT TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRR746/a... Come and work with us! Please share far and wide.

Who-hooo! This is going to be a brilliant work from editors Richard Stacey and @profastreete.bsky.social !

Proofs!

The book is dead! Long live the book! yalereview.org/article/shei...

James Kelman at 80: a conference to mark the 80th birthday of the great Glaswegian writer. Spring 2027, University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk

Spot on - will the somnolent fools responsible for HE in Westminster listen?

More brilliant work on The King's Women site, here unpacking the networks around the Globe and its associated enterprises on Bankside. And how excellent that Alice Tapps's house was a taphouse...

Georgie Lucas isn't on Bluesky so it falls to me to advertise her first book, Massacres in Early Modern Drama, published by Manchester University Press in the Revels Companion Library series. You can read more (and buy it!) here: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526147301/

All I wanted to do was change the bedsheets; his highness had other plans.

And here it is! Come to Liverpool in July next year. We have a fantastic [insert appropriate collective noun here] of keynotes: @bkadams.bsky.social, @dnmcinnis.bsky.social, @lucycmunro.bsky.social, Perry Mills & Deborah Payne!

We're looking for a Lecturer in Global Medieval History (ongoing) to join us in the vibrant School of History @universityofleeds.bsky.social ! Deadline 1 June. Full details jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #jobfairy #medievalsky #history

Brilliant!

GET EXCITED! Our biennial conference is happening in THAT LONDON in 2027! It's our 💎 Diamond 💎 Jubilee, so get ready for a party. The #Renaissance Beyond Borders Warburg, 30 June-3 July 2027 Deadline for proposals: 25 September 2026 all info: rensoc.org.uk/cfp/12th-bie... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Payment-in-books day will never get old.

No one expected Keir Starmer to solve our pressing problems overnight. But what we did expect – and had every right to expect – was that he would lay out a clear vision and roadmap for doing so. Instead, we’ve had drift, appeasement and a startling absence of ideas, values and ambition. 🧵1/6

Reform is a protest party. A protest against decency, integrity, kindness, expertise, and progress. It's a party of pettiness and hate, and it is made up of petty and hateful people from the grassroots to the very top. What it doesn't have is competence. So good luck with the bins and potholes.

#AGoldenWorld is out in exactly one month! Please consider pre-ordering for a friend or library. The book is the culmination of my decade-long obsession with researching traces of the Americas in Renaissance London: www.faber.co.uk/product/9780... #earlymodern #Tudors

so. My monograph IRISH SHAKESPEARES is finally coming out this autumn 💚 not available to preorder yet but get your libraries to order!!

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

Taps aff weather at the University today.

Lost copy of seventh-century poem in Old English discovered at Rome library

In Edinburgh today for work - looking grand in the sun.

Pretending to sniff. Actually after a bite.

I'm in @theobserveruk.bsky.social today looking at why so many unis are in financial trouble and what the government needs to do to save HE. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Ducklings and blossom!

And now with a gorgeous cover!

Found a Shakespeare thing; wrote about it in @thetls.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat....

A great opportunity for someone. www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

Say "weak on crime" again. I dare you.

Just a reminder of the lectureship that we’re currently advertising at Glasgow - closing date is the 14th April. Link below 👇

Good morning! I'm getting texts letting me know that people who signed up for alerts are able to preorder today!! Preorders officially open tomorrow. www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-...

✨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✨

Job opportunity: Curator (European Art) at Glasgow Life in Glasgow, UK myjobscotland.gov.uk/councils/gla...

Three exciting new books in the 'Shakespeare and Text' Cambridge Elements series: 🎆 Editing an Early Modern Play 🎆 Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography 🎆 Anne Shakespeare's Epitaph More details: www.cambridge.org/core/publica... @roaringgirle.bsky.social

It's lovely to see this book finally making its way into the world. Co-edited with my brilliant colleague Richard Stacey, it examines Shakespeare's imaginative shaping of individual words, and parts of words. Thanks to our excellent contributors, and reviewers. www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

Claxon 📣 for English lit. graduates: here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden led by the fabulous Dr Lotte Fikkers, and co-supervised by yours truly, on literary representations of wardship in early modern English drama. bit.ly/4bEeH7a Apply by 31 May 2026; starting date 1 Jan. 2027

Great opportunity with a terrific team.

MA Scholarship Award for scholars of colour. In 2026, we plan to offer two scholarships of £4,000 each, to contribute to the costs of postgraduate study. This scholarship is open to candidates studying on either a full time or a part time basis. Apply by 15 July 2026 rensoc.org.uk/apply/schola...

The SRS invites applications for its Postdoctoral Fellowships, ŵ a stipend worth £15,000. SRS Fellows can hold jobs alongside their fellowship provided they do not take up more than the equivalent of 3 days a week over the course of the academic year. Apply by 30 April rensoc.org.uk/apply/postdo...

Gorgeous performance of ‘Pelléas et Mélisande’ tonight by the BBCSSO at City Halls. And what an incredible cast!

On Friday evening I'll be leading a Curator's Roundtable about my exhibition Tudor Contemporary @heong-gallery.bsky.social at Downing College, Cambridge. Tickets and more information here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tudor-cont...

Pop Leo asked if he should put on gloves to turn pages in the gorgeous Renaissance Bible and the librarian explained why it’s better to do so with bare hands. Glorious reaction. Every rare books librarian & archivist feeling very seen, I gather. www.instagram.com/reel/DUcpEBY... #BookHistory

Great job opportunity working with my better half @sebastianahnert.bsky.social on an exciting new #digitalhumanities project in Cambridge, funded by @schmidtsciences.bsky.social and working with fantastic people at CESTA Stanford and DensityDesign Lab Italy. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Saturday evening listening. Davidsen and Spyres sounding lyrical and verbally incisive - no Wagnerian barking here. I’m less convinced by Nézet-Séguin’s conducting, but an engrossing performance so far. #TristanundIsolde www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

On the trail of Zachary Boyd this morning in Glasgow Cathedral.

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... ++

I’m pleased to say that we’re advertising for a permanent lectureship in early modern English Literature (grade 7). I’m happy to answer any questions via email. Please circulate. www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...