Mary Baldwin University is embarking on drastic cuts of its liberal arts programme and of humanities subjects more generally. A bad case of mishandled management, and colleagues and students will suffer as a result (including #AmericanShakespeareCenter!) Sign the petition here: c.org/VmXd75Pf7h

“Around six months after the cyber incident I talked to the then chair of the science select committee, who was not aware of this incident” w o w

15 November 1582: In Mortlake, Dr John Dee is conversing with angels again, along with his scryer Edward Kelley, with whom he has recently reconciled. Dee starts a new record book today, his Quartus Liber Mysteriorum, and they use a 'showstone', or crystal ball. They speak ... 1/ #earlymodern

Issue 300 is SOLD OUT! As is yesterday’s programme, so #LOFC shouldn’t mind us sharing this extract: a tribute to everyone who helped us along the way, whether they wrote, read, bought, sold, subscribed, sang, drew, designed, made flexidiscs, carried, collected, donated, or supported us in any way

It's 5pm and the wyverns are dancing. Orient 4 Doncaster Rovers 0. #leytonorient #lofc

Anyone else see a screaming face, or just me? 😱 TNA C 147/1138

Today marks 400 years since John Fletcher’s death: the Jacobean playwright died of the plague and was buried at St. Saviour’s (now Southwark Cathedral) on 29 August 1625. I’m guest-editing a special Ben Jonson Journal issue celebrating this anniversary: coming soon!

Lovely big Jacobean portraits by William Larkin of lovely big Jacobean clothes.

Not sure there’s much I can add to what Clare says, but… if you’ll forgive a little self-indulgence, here are the ads we took out in NME and Melody Maker at the time. The paper’s yellowed a bit over the years, but… the words still seem to say what we meant them to say.

Loudly tooting this CFP, please retweet: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

IT’S HERE!!!!!! My new book, *Sweet Taste of Empire* spotted in the wild!

me on @cmatbaby.bsky.social’s EURO-COUNTRY and why it gives voice to a distressingly normalised post-recession malaise. i hope you read!

Please help. Please sign. I work on a part-time degree for mature students to study for a BA in English Literature & Community Engagement. Its direct access and designed for those who didn't or couldn't go to Uni at 18. Bristol plan to close it. We want to save it. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I found a cool Shakespeare thing. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Pls sign and share this open letter to the Bristol VC, against the School of Humanities's decision to withdraw the BA in English Literature and Community Engagement (ELCE): the only part-time, flexible undergraduate degree programme available at the University forms.gle/SbyhXPSJgQTc...

Ever since it was unveiled, there’s been something naggingly familiar about Orient’s retina-bothering 25/26 season third strip, and… I’ve just twigged what it is: bizarrely, the inspiration seems to be the Field Mice’s dandelion-tastic 91/92 For Keeps tour T-shirt. #SarahRecords #TheFieldMice #lofc

new essay just out in ELR, "How to Know the Witch: Trivial Domestication, Tragicomedy, and Race in The Witch of Edmonton"🤩 Go check it out if you dig weird EM plays www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Hope this petition isn't getting tedious with you all 👇 83 more signatures and it will have reached 3000 Please keep circulating Thank you so much

The new issue of The Journal of Marlowe Studies is now available. Over 200 pages of original Marlovian research, book reviews and performance reviews, all open access. journals.shu.ac.uk/index.php/Ma...

- 400 jobs to go at Lancaster University - 1 in 4 people will be made redundant But where's the financial evidence for this extreme action? Please read 👇 Sign the petition 👇 chng.it/7F52bThYqn

We are delighted to announce the publication this month of the ninth digital edition in the REED series, the collection of the Newington Butts Playhouse records, edited by Sally-Beth MacLean. Check it out here: ereed.org/collections/...

Wine Street, Bristol, featuring the possible location of a Jacobean playhouse and @uncharteredstreets.bsky.social’s old PO Box.

Our first university cutting jobs this Tuesday is Keele, where colleagues have been made to feel insecure and anxious for a long time now. Welcome to another miserable day in British Higher Education. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/staff-d...

Congratulations to Prof. Erika T. Lin and alumni Zoltán Glück and China Sajadian, who were awarded prestigious American Council of Learned Societies Fellowships for their book projects! www.gc.cuny.edu/news/three-c... @acls1919.bsky.social @saaupdates.bsky.social

OMG!! The ESTC is back!!!! datb.cerl.org/estc/

A rather wonderful PhD opportunity with a fantastic supervisor: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... 🔥🔥🔥

I am very much here for the canine readers of @malonesociety.bsky.social publications.

I’m mid cleaning this up again after a small technical glitch and close to 2000 signatures from just UK academics! Would be great to get over that line before it’s published…

Argh. #lofc

That’s a hell of an introductory paragraph.

Close to TWO THOUSAND academics and educators say TRANS RIGHTS NOW. (Sorry if you've seen this (and the historians' letter!) too many times. The lack of an algorithm means we have to keep reposting it to catch people, and this really matters.)

📝 Please register so we order enough wine! 🍷 Rope-Dancing and Female Performance 14 May 2025, 5-7pm With Prof Clare McManus (Northumbria) and Prof Thibaut Maus de Rolley (UCL) www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Congratulations to Prof. Miles Grier, whose book Inkface: Othello and White Authority in the Era of Atlantic Slavery won the Early American Literature @early-am-lit.bsky.social 2024 Book Prize and the Shakespeare Association of America @saaupdates.bsky.social 2025 First Book Award!

Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29

STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia' Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29 Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...

So thrilled that my piece on Barbary Newton, a seventeenth-century enslaving woman is out in the world - part of a WMQ article forum, “Absentee Women Enslavers: Two Case Studies” - paired with Jared Ross Hardesty’s research on the Mackintosh sisters w/ reflections from Zacek, Maskiell & Amussen ✨

Striking today to protest compulsory redundancies in my faculty. We ARE the University! ✊

📢A new study from @uniofbath.bsky.social shows London's low emissions zones have had major benefits for human health and the economy, with a 10.2% decrease in respiratory issues following LEZ implementation, an **18.5%** reduction in sick leave, and annual public health savings of over £37 million.

We know today may feel especially heavy for our trans and non-binary siblings. If you’re feeling overwhelmed or affected by the UK Supreme Court’s decision, please know you’re not alone. We’re here for you every day from 10am to 10pm. #TransRights #Trans #NonBinary #SupremeCourt #Gender

The law determines what is legal. It does not determine what is true; what is just; what is morally and ethically sound and defensible. The history of law is the history of the legal system being wrong on these grounds. Trans women are women.

We’ve extended the deadline to submit an abstract for our colloquium on early modern war narratives! Please share widely and send us your abstracts! #earlymodern #history

'Keele University bosses have planned to combine the school of humanities with the school of social sciences, with 24 jobs potentially being axed as a result according to the University and Colleges Union (UCU).'

Again: Britain (not just this government but all of the recent ones) has a problem with knowledge work. Fishing, steel are manly proper jobs with a Victorian sense of place and history. Creative industries & HE are treated as secondary; derided or ignored.

#London and London environs folks: I'll be talking about HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY AT @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social on Monday April 28! Register to attend. 💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH

To this doleful list we must now add Derby and Lincoln, so that's ten universities making redundancies. In a week. Ridiculous and pitiful.

University of Derby faces mass job cuts as management plans to make half of senior academics redundant. Please spread the word. www.ucu.org.uk/article/1398...

Delighted to have written this piece on REF2029 portability, and the risks of decoupling outputs from the researchers, with co-authors @mmdelgado.bsky.social and @milespadgett.bsky.social. wonkhe.com/blogs/portab...

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Lecture series!👩‍🏫 'Performing (in) the Early Modern City': join myself, Dr Lydia Valentine, and Prof. Clare McManus Thursdays 29th May-12th June to hear about secret performance, sky-high performance, and the influence of civic performance on race-making in early modern London. 🧵more info below!