C16th dietary writer William Vaughan asking the important questions here.

Favourite line I've read this week has to be 'a poorly constructed Shakespearean castoff with a bear problem' (Matt Carter, ‘English Imperialism and Staff Fighting in Mucedorous’) 🐻

Call for Papers! @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social x @ihr.bsky.social Migration and Mobility Seminar special edition - we want papers on all types of migration and mobility history from ECRs and PGRs. Abstracts to kabcommons [@] gmail.com by 15th November. Pls spread the word & DM with any questions

One month left to apply to @emjlynajsh.bsky.social's and my conference on early modern practical texts, featuring keynotes by the brilliant @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover! #CFP sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

The deadline is still over a month away, but reminder about this @themhra.bsky.social funded conference @fairbanc.bsky.social and I are organising on the exciting subject of **early modern practical texts**! 📅 Abstracts due 24/11. Full details can be found here: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

Wonderful surprise to see that Shakespeare Survey 78 is now out in the world, including a piece by yours truly on inter-English conflict in The Merry Wives of Windsor that I am actually quite proud of! www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...

Proofs looking goooood

@emjlynajsh.bsky.social and I are delighted to be running this conference on EM practical texts, generously supported by @themhra.bsky.social, and with fabulous keynotes by @endeeekay.bsky.social and Laurence Publicover. Abstracts due by 24th November!

Hakluyt Society Essay Prize 2026 - submissions now welcome, closing date 31 March 2026 www.hakluyt.com/hakluyt-soci...

It's on the website now, so I guess it's real?? Absolutely over the moon (and still a little stupefied tbh) to announce that I'll be starting a @leverhulme.ac.uk Early Career Fellowship at Coventry University this autumn, working on transcultural encounters in early modern English writing.

Tickled to learn that there was a sixteenth century publisher named Reynard Wolfe 🦊🐺

Another day, another

Always a good day when you get article proofs! Coming soon to a journal near you (otherwise known as Shakespeare Survey 78)

My review of Hailey Bachrach's Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare’s History Plays is now out in Shakespeare Quarterly. Highly recommend this intelligent and accessible book to Shakespeare scholars and theatre practitioners alike. academic.oup.com/sq/advance-a...

Short but (in my opinion) fun note on plague, kissing, and Aelius Aristides by me in here - enjoyable merely for the question of ancient 'social distancing' if nothing else!

We are delighted to announce our #CfP for 'Plants and People: the cultivation and propagation of botanical knowledge among non-professional communities, c.1600–1800'! Please email your abstracts (300 words) and bios to @zarakesterton.bsky.social @lucyjhavard.bsky.social, by 14 March 🪴

Tfw you start your class on Restoration literature with the Horrible Histories Charles II song and the students start singing and dancing along

Great to start the term off with a wonderfully rich and thought-provoking paper by @harrymccarthy.bsky.social at the Oxford Early Modern Literature Seminar last night.

I dream of a day when EEBO's systems don't think I'm a robot

Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...