#CfP: Annual @cemskcl.bsky.social "Periodizing the Early/Modern", KCL, 11 June 2026. Abstracts by 7 April 2026 This year’s colloquium is on ‘Periodizing the Early/Modern' & organised by Hannah Crawforth, Sarah Lewis, Lucy Munro, & @hsmurphy.bsky.social rensoc.org.uk/announcement... #Skystorians

Early modern literature job in my department! Permanent which is the UK equivalent to tenure track #earlymodern #acjobs www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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...

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...

📣 Just over a week left to register for 'Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature'! 📣 @fairbanc.bsky.social We have a HUGE range of papers and panels, plus a careers roundtable AND two brilliant keynote speakers! Plus online attendance is free. Registration HERE: bit.ly/4rb7CiX

Our March meeting on the 30th will be a Bring A Problem session🌟 Come and chat about anything that’s bothering you about your research/thesis/PhD lifestyle - no problem is too big or too small! If you’re a PGR/ECR and you’d like to join the Revels Office, get in touch at [email protected]

Are you a masters or doctoral students with an interest in heritage (inc. heritage science)? Check out The National Archives 6 new student placements @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @uniofexetercvs.bsky.social @cemsexeter.bsky.social @uoearchhist.bsky.social @doctoralexeter.bsky.social

You may only just have recovered from #BSECS2026, but our hardworking reps are already planning our #PGR #ECR conference, University of Montpellier Paul-Valery, 3-4 September 2026 on 'Improvement, Degeneration, Stagnation' Deadline for submissions: 13 March 2026 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

This is sure to be a fantastic event! A deep dive into ‘Sir Thomas More’ - get your tickets 🎟️🌟

Check out all of the beautiful books published by members of @saaupdates.bsky.social since our 2024 meeting! If you will be in Denver for #Shax2026, I hope you'll join us for a celebration on Friday, April 3rd, from 10:30-11:00am in the Centennial Foyer! sites.google.com/trinity.edu/...

Really interesting opportunity - take a look!

🔊Latest early access release for our patrons, it's a chat with @ellierycroft.bsky.social and @gregmw4.bsky.social about their new book Predramatic Theatre - championing the dynamism of early English theatre forms. Coming to the pod further down the line. #discussing www.patreon.com/posts/discus...

Our new Queer and Trans Histories series is seeking proposals for works that expand the field, uncover overlooked topics, and reimagines how these histories are told. Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/series/queer... #LGBTQHistoryMonth

Are you a PG student or ECR interested in presenting at our conference ‘Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750’ in June? Bursaries to help with expenses are generously funded by @srsrensoc.bsky.social, so please send us your abstract by 14 March! clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

📣Meeting TONIGHT at 4pm! See you there 🥳📣

🌟Our February meeting will be the first in our Thesis Lab series, where we'll de-mystify the thesis-writing process together bit by bit🌟 🥁First up: Introduction to Introductions🥁 🤝Bring your expertise, advice, experience, questions, suggestions, or worries - let's help each other 🤝

💘Latest early access release, and it's a chat about Tancred and Gismunda (and its variants!) with Isobel Strevens and @robertcrighton.bsky.social It's a play we've been weirdly obsessed about for a while, so join us for a dive into a house with some issues. #drama www.patreon.com/posts/discus...

Delighted to announce our seminar - 'Race and the Early Modern' - now has a full schedule of events. We'll be convening monthly to discuss research on race, racemaking, and racialisation across #earlymodern studies. @kingsartshums.bsky.social @folger.edu kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

The #CfP for our Summer Conference 2026 on the theme 'The Church and Race' is open now. You can find more information on the theme, how to apply, and bursaries here: ecclesiasticalhistorysociety.com/26summer/ #historians Deadline: 15 April 2026

Issue 43.4 features work from Revels Office member Laurie Higgins! 👏👏👏

📢Call For Session Leaders📢 If you're an early modernist with an idea for a session you'd like to run, we'd love to hear from you! The Revels Office is a supportive and enthusiastic group, so we're the perfect testing ground for new ideas 🌟 Get in touch with us at [email protected]!

Just a reminder that our January 'Bring A Problem' session will take place at 4pm tonight! Hope to see you there :)

🌈📚 Announcing our winter and spring reading group dates and readings! 📚🌈 📚 sign-up to the reading group: docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/... 🥬 enter Vin's raffle: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Our January meeting will take place on Monday 26th and will be a 'Bring A Problem' session! Come and have a chat about anything that's bothering you - a tricky critical framework, an issue with a supervisor, a dead end research path, a worry about workload - we're here to support you🫶

Grants! We are offering small grants (maximum £500 each) to support projects in book history & bibliography. We particularly encourage early-career applicants and projects that use Oxford collections. Application is brief; deadline is 27th February 2026. Details at oxbibsoc.org.uk/grants/

🎺 We have some more big news: our 20th ANNUAL CONFERENCE THEME! We are proud to present Connection, Conversation, Contention: Encounters in the Medieval and Early Modern World, coming on 13 and 14 July, 2026!🎺 Keep an eye out for more information on how to get involved in the coming days....👀

We are thrilled to share our Lent CFP! Please share widely and get in touch if you have any questions!

🎄☃️Merry Christmas from the Revels Office!☃️🎄 We hope you’re having a lovely day whatever you’re up to🌟🤍

Reminder that we have our December meeting at ❗4pm❗ today! Meeting link has been sent out by email - looking forward to seeing you there 🎄☃️🎁

Who's entering our Biennial Book Prize 2026, to celebrate the best monographs in Renaissance studies published in 2024 and 2025? Send your scintillating scholarship to the Chair of the Book Prize Committee, @racheljwillie.bsky.social, by 31st January 2026. www.rensoc.org.uk/funding-priz...

Our 🎊festive🎊 meeting of the Revels Office will take place on the 22nd December and will be a 'Bring A Thing' session! This is an opportunity to share any object/text/picture/anecdote that you've come across in your research and think is cool 🖤 Are you an early modern PGR or ECR? Get in touch!

It was so lovely to see so many people at our November meeting yesterday! Thanks for coming, everyone 🌟 If you’re a PGR or ECR working on anything Early Modern and you’d like to be a part of our community, drop us an email at [email protected] 🤍

Yesterday we had our November meeting, which was a brilliant talk on the article editing process led by our very own Miriam Haas! Mirjaam’s session was so informative, filled with insight into the process and plenty of examples from her own experience, which we’re so grateful for. Thanks Mirjaam!

Hope everyone is doing ok despite the cold!🥶 Our meeting this week (in fact, tomorrow! Mon 24th) will be a workshop on publications and the editing process with the wonderful Miriam Haas! Sure to be interesting and valuable to everyone, no matter how far into their PhD journey. See you there!

Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10

Monday 10 November @ 7.30pm online PUB CRAWLING WITH PLAYHOUSES Join Professor Laurie Johnson @lostplayhouse.bsky.social for a ramble around the inns, taverns & ale-houses of Elizabethan London, to discover their role in the emergence of playhouse culture. Book: www.roseplayhouse.org.uk/whats-on

Here's some of the insights shared at our 'What I Wish I Knew': PhD Advice session on Monday🧑‍💻 Let's start a conversation – if you've got any advice/tips/wisdom, drop them in the comments below! 💞

Revels OG Rachel Hare has co-curated the fantastic exhibition SWOON! taking place on the 8th November at Bristol Museum's M Shed, exploring the history of fainting 😵 For more info on the interactive exhibit, visit Rachel's Instagram page: @rachelhare285 🤍

Such a great session! 16 members in attendance – so lovely to see so many new faces🫶 Huge thanks to Juliana, Bet, Liesl, Patrick, Yuqi and Maria for offering your wisdom to our new starters! It's so valuable to have such a supportive space. Want to get involved? Email us at [email protected]!

🚨Our October Meeting is happening at 4pm TONIGHT!!! 🚨 So looking forward to seeing everyone for our 'What I Wish I'd Known': PhD Advice session 🎓🖤

The MEMRN’s Winter Conference 2025 is still available for online attendance! 14-16th Nov - guaranteed to be great 🤍

We are awarding our President's Medal to 'In Our Time' as it has done so much to showcase humanities & social sciences. We'd decided this before the news of Melvyn Bragg stepping down, but glad we got our timing right & had a chance to celebrate with him! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/renowne...

It's nearly time for our October meeting! This month, we're running a 'What I Wish I Knew' advice session for our new PhD students to ask any questions they've got after their first few weeks 🙋 Are you an early modern PhD student/ECR? Drop us an email at [email protected] for more info🖤

🎭 Dr Murat Öğütcü presents 'Jonson’s Masque of Blackness: Materializing Environmental Injustice' and Dr Andrea Stevens explores 'Racial Masquerade and the ‘Retconning’ of The Spanish Match in Walter Montagu’s The Sheperd’s Paradise' at the London Shakespeare Seminar on 21 October ⬇️

Tickets for The Witch of Edmonton are moving fairly fast - season tickets for the whole season are still available as well. Catch one, catch them all - a week of pre-modern drama at The White Bear in Kennington from 21st October. Book now, or we summon the Dog! www.ticketsource.co.uk/beyondshakes...

Here's a roundup of our first monthly meeting from last week🤩 If you're a PGR/ECR and these events sounds like your kind of thing, check out our website (revelsoffice.com) and drop us an email at [email protected] for more info! We'd love to see you 🫶

♟️The second half of our live performance of A Game at Chess by Thomas Middleton has dropped! It's part of a much longer series of recordings from our live event Middleton's Endgame from August last year - and there's still more to come! #ThomasMiddleton #AudioDrama audioboom.com/posts/878525...

CFP for a two-day symposium on Reading the Practical in Early Modern Literature. Submission deadline is the 24th Nov, so there's still lots of time! Click the link for more info👇 sites.google.com/sheffield.ac...

This #InternationalPodcastDay tune into ‘Confessions of an Early Career Researcher’ – a new guide to the world of academia post-PhD. The first three episodes of the podcast are available now. Subscribe for our next episodes, live on 15 October: https://bit.ly/4pNaTp1

Hey Bluesky!👋 We're the Revels Office, an academic network for PGRs and ECRS researching all things early modern📚 Our community is a friendly space to share ideas and resources, ask questions, support each other, and meet fellow early modernists. Check out our website for more! revelsoffice.com