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...

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

Thanks @alanstewart50.bsky.social for his paper this evening on “The Maxims” of Francis Bacon. As Bacon’s editor, Alan’s survey of the manuscript and printed versions of this work, and the potential dedications to monarchs, made for a fascinating discussion.

This #LGBTHistoryMonth you can explore related research and resources at the English Faculty on our website. www.english.ox.ac.uk/lgbt-history...

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This is tomorrow (Wednesday). All welcome!

We are delighted to welcome @alanstewart50.bsky.social to our next seminar, with a paper entitled 'Francis Bacon’s Maxims of the Law: A Reappraisal'. All welcome to join us at 17.30 (GMT) on Wednesday 19 February! Please email [email protected] for the Zoom link. mappinginns.wordpress.com

Editing Archipelagic Shakespeare is now officially launched! Huge thanks to @roaringgirle.bsky.social, Lorna Hutson, and John Kerrigan for the lively discussion about archipelagic and editorial futures. @cambridgeup.bsky.social For more details, see: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Thanks to @fabiociambella.bsky.social for a fabulous talk this evening about the Old Measures at the Inns of Court, and links between dance and early modern drama. Many people working in dance history might find his work on OMIC useful (clare.dlls.univr.it/omic/).

We have a few tickets remaining for our next English Faculty / OWC #Shakespeare webinar on 3 Feb. This month, Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social welcomes special guest Sir Gregory Doran to discuss #Macbeth. #teamenglish #CPD #EduSky shakespeare-webinar-macbeth.eventbrite.co.uk

Fantastic conference with a superb keynote!

Our first seminar of 2025 is coming up at 17.30 (GMT) this Thursday (23 Jan). We're happy to welcome Fabio Ciambella, Sapienza University of Rome, on ‘Dancing with the lawyers: Old Measures and annual revels at the Inns of Court’. Email [email protected] for the link. All welcome!

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

Our first seminar of 2025 is coming up at 17.30 (GMT) this Thursday (23 Jan). We're happy to welcome Fabio Ciambella, Sapienza University of Rome, on ‘Dancing with the lawyers: Old Measures and annual revels at the Inns of Court’. Email [email protected] for the link. All welcome!

Congratulations to Professor Lorna Hutson whose book 'England’s Insular Imagining' has won Research Book of the Year at the Saltire Society National Book Awards 2024. The judges pronounced it, "a landmark text across multiple disciplines." #SaltireBookAwards

Our first seminar of 2025 is coming up at 17.30 (GMT) on 23 January. We're happy to welcome Fabio Ciambella of Sapienza University of Rome, on ‘Dancing with the lawyers: Old Measures and annual revels at the Inns of Court’. Email [email protected] for the link. All welcome!

I was honoured to contribute to Henry Woudhuysen’s festschrift, brilliantly edited by Daniel Smith and Hazel Wilkinson. My chapter, on the elusive Love’s Labour’s Won, is free to access until 13 February - check it out and the rest of the book too 👇 fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...

A fascinating programme on Mary Somerville, our polymath scientist namesake, is on Radio 4 this Wednesday, but available online already. It even features our alumna Dr Brigitte Stenhouse, Lecturer in the History of Mathematics at The Open University! Let us know if you give it a listen.

Our first seminar of 2025 is coming up at 17.30 (GMT) on 23 January. We're happy to welcome Fabio Ciambella of Sapienza University of Rome, on ‘Dancing with the lawyers: Old Measures and annual revels at the Inns of Court’. Email [email protected] for the link. All welcome!

Hello to Bluesky! If you work on early modern law and literature, or any aspect of early modern studies that involves the Inns of Court, follow us, look at our website and come to our online seminars. See mappinginns.wordpress.com