guy who is mad at Nolan’s Odyssey because it depicts the sea as blue instead of wine-dark

One more signature for the petition to save Humanities at Hertfordshire to hit 2,500! Please take a minute to sign and share. #UCU www.change.org/p/save-the-h...

Cuts have already devastated arts, humanities & social sciences in universities The fire is spreading & “blue skies” science is next This isn’t a tired “humanities vs sciences” battle We must all stand together or the flames will consume us all www.timeshighereducation.com/news/physics...

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If anyone in government has a few minutes to run the country in between plotting leadership challenges, could they please cast their eye over the devastation of Higher Education in the UK. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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...

We currently invite applications to our 2026-27 Master's Scholarships programme: bit.ly/4dTHmXe Scholarships of £5000 are for students from groups currently underrepresented in academic history to study for an MA in history or a related subject. Closing date: Friday 5 June #Skystorians

Looking forward to wandering around the Curtain playhouse with Chrisopher Marlowe and co later today!

Steel industry: £1.1bn in GDP and 20,000 employees University sector: £265bn in GDP and 400,000 employees What the fuck am I missing here.

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

BBC bigging up Reform UK and saying congrats to them and stuff! With not even a third of the councils in and a lot of debate still on where we're to land! Quality of coverage very poor and runs on rails: 'Reform triumph' was decided on weeks ago. Pitiful.

I love maps - historic and modern - so Callan Davies’s latest article is a particular delight. shakespearestage.substack.com/p/navigating...

On Shakespeare and surveys and maps. Ingredients for a theatrical history… open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...

Hertfordshire runs wonderful history programs & are especially strong on heritage, public and local history, which is exactly what this country needs more of. What's being allowed to happen to humanities in the UK HE sector is going to have dire consequences for generations to come.

There are only six ways to jumpstart growth: *More immigration *Rejoin EU Single Market *Return to high speed rail *Intensify green revolution *Spend more, change budget rules *Face down NIMBYs Reform will set us back on every single front. They can be beat. You just have to try.

Welcome to the Leverhulme Library, where we showcase recently published books from researchers the Trust has funded. This month we have Tanja Bastia, Kristen Bluemel, @lauriestras.bsky.social @awickenden.bsky.social and @mjewitt.bsky.social.

Hey #earlymodern peeps and #skystorians! @hannah-historian.bsky.social and I are putting together an edited collection on "Letters as Paratexts in the Early Modern World," and we'd love to see wonderful and brilliant article ideas! Check out the CFP here, and let me know if you have any questions!

This is absolutely shocking. What’s happening to the UK’s arts and humanities sector is just criminal. Thinking of all our colleagues there. It feels unimaginable, but it really could be any of us.

One aim of the Society on BlueSky is to highlight organisations and opportunities that support historians and the humanities. One to promote is @britishacademy.bsky.social's UK-wide Early Career Researcher Network bit.ly/4f2H3tF which offers training, funding, peer support and events #Skystorians

Sorry to hear about this. Cuts like this diminish student choice, scholarship, opportunities and diversity, and remove funding for more expensive (i.e. STEM) subjects at the same university. It's a familiar downward spiral but the government is actively ignoring this HE crisis.

#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

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

Shakespeare in the Kitchen is officially published today @routledgebooks.bsky.social !!!! Thank you to everyone how has supported my work / my Cooking in the Archives project & made this book possible. 📸 of the Pear Pie recipe from my chapter on The Winter's Tale by @gaypanek.bsky.social

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 brilliant, barnstorming inaugural lecture by the incomparable Prof. Tara Hamling 🔥🎨🖌️👀

Monday 11 May @ 6.30pm online BEFORE THE ROSE: MARLOWE AT THE CURTAIN Dr Callan Davies takes you back to the years around 1587, when The Rose is being built on Bankside and Christopher Marlowe is living up in Shoreditch, close by to The Curtain Playhouse. £8 / £5 www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on

Attempting some outdoor editing but our neighbour’s cat has other ideas/strong theatre history critiques

your reminder on shakespeare’s (birth/)death day that a young john milton hand wrote the missing R&J prologue in his copy of the first folio, titling it “The prologue to Juliet and Romeo” ✨ to explore milton’s copy of the book: libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/feat...

En garde! A quick read on Shakespeare the fencer, a day earlier than usual in honour of his “birthday” today (or thereabouts)—happy 462nd! open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...

Enter, a full draft. [Anxious music plays.] #CurtainBook

📖✨material texts!✨📖 the three most recent titles in the @universitypress.cambridge.org ELEMENTS IN SHAKESPEARE & TEXT series. if you have an idea for an element (25K-30K words) on shakespeare & text (broadly conceived) contact me & @loughnrv.bsky.social! ℹ️: www.cambridge.org/core/publica...

En garde! A quick read on Shakespeare the fencer, a day earlier than usual in honour of his “birthday” today (or thereabouts)—happy 462nd! open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...

A brilliant reconstruction of the life of Rebecca Edwards, a working woman imbricated in London’s theatre world.

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

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ... yes, but ... if we were market stall holders.. you said we could only sell apples for 50p. and it didn't matter how much inflation was, 50p was the price. but you also said we could sell peaches for as much as we like, because the price of apples was.. 1.

The correct way to deal with this particular negative externaility is to tax SUV ownership so that the cost of fixing the damage is born by those who cause it, rather than everyone else.

Today’s new post is a quick read on Tudor “stand up” routines, celebrity clowning, and husband and wife duos: open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...

A quick glance back that never disappoints

Today we've launched our digitised Probate Registers and Bishops' Transcripts collections onto Ancestry. Together that's 16 million records covering 1389-1858 - these can be accessed via a subscription to Ancestry or for free here at the Borthwick! www.ancestry.co.uk/search/colle...

🥁🎉BOOK LAUNCH AT KALAMAZOO🎉🥁

Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

This travelogue post shares some of my new playhouse research, on the back of a very insightful trip to see some 400-year-old Spanish playhouses. It’s helped me understand the Shakespearen theatre scene more keenly. open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...

Very excited to be going to @britishlibrary.bsky.social next week to check out some Wenceslas Hollar engravings, which are just stunning. Like this one of St. Paul's Nave which gives you some sense of the grandness of the promenading taking place in the Cathedral during the 16/17th centuries.

I don't know what you are talking about, this is completely legible...

None of these even hold a candle to the indecipherability of modern Cyrillic cursive.

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So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread: