The first-ever #sciencefiction story written by a woman? 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 by Margaret Cavendish, 1666, a satirical utopian fiction set in a parallel world with fantastical tech, hybrid animal-people, and different natural laws. Cavendish died #OTD in 1673. #scifi #booksky #literature #litsky

And that's why you can't have ink in the reading room! Historic damage to a 1647 pamphlet on infant baptism by John Cotton #readers

Vient de sortir! Disponible en ligne dès maintenant !

Isaac Oliver, c. 1565-1617. Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia (1596-1662) when Princess Elizabeth in 1613 (Royal Collection, HM CIII)

These details? Stunning!

Au revoir chère Agnès www.mfo.ac.uk/article/homm...

#otd St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre

Born on this day in 1552, Lavinia Fontana of Bologna. Here, self-portrait in her studiolo in 1579, an intellectual young artist.

Private chamber of abbess Giovanna Piacenza at the convent of San Paolo, Parma: a glorious fictive arbor painted for a v. lucky nun by Antonio da Correggio, whose day is today.

News from the Free World ‘1984’ Hasn’t Changed, but America Has www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...

Also, as a tangent, I'd love to see more of this kind of thing on #academicsky. More sharing of tools, ideas, and resources for teaching, not just endless doom amd gloom. We should share our hard-won knowledge about pedagogy as eagerly and as often as we share our research!

it's always a good day to talk about HUMANITIES WORKS humanitiesworks.org

Some brilliant ideas about reading here!

CFP for next year's congress! #SFS2026

5 June 1610: The chamberlain of the City of #London orders #otd Richard Burbage be reimbursed & allowed keep ‘taffety silke & other necessaries’ from the water pageant in honour of Prince Henry’s creation as Prince of #Wales on 31 May (Dulwich Art Gallery) #WillPerformForCloth

L’atelier @shakespearefrance.bsky.social SFS de la SAES commence demain!

📍 Demain, c’est le grand jour ! Le Congrès SAES 2025 démarre à Toulouse 🎓✨ 📅 Du 5 au 7 juin, conférences, ateliers et rencontres vous attendent ! 🎉 Toute l’équipe est impatiente de vous retrouver pour faire vivre ensemble cette nouvelle édition du SAES. #SAES2025 #Toulouse #VilleRose #CongrèsSAES

A huge thanks to all our amazing guests and speakers, we've had fabulous fiftieth! If you've missed anything you can catch up on our Youtube channel!➡️https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkg9jFvvT2U&list=PLLgheICnZPXeMX5MBeEAZUw9fwi_qPlob&index=4

It's here, it's out, you want it! The official programme! We'll be looking to see you there for the 50th anniversary of the @shakespearefrance.bsky.social #sfs2025

Demandez le programme! Here’s the full lineup for the upcoming SFS Conference 🎉

Delighted to say that my article, "The Shakspaires of Trinity Lane: A Possible Shakespeare Life-Record" is now fully published and open-access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

2/2 Scarlet ibis. Extraordinarily designed nature study by Maria Sibylla Merian.

🧠 Discover more about the life of Andreas Vesalius In this Renaissance Lives talk, Sachiko Kusukawa revisits Vesalius’s legacy, revealing how his work emerged from the cultural and technological revolution of the Renaissance. Watch now: warburg.sas.ac.uk/podcasts/ren... #Renaissance

Happy 50th birthday!

NEW: @engfac.bsky.social's Dr Leah Veronese has unearthed a rare manuscript copy of Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 tucked away in a 17th-century poetry collection. This is only the second known manuscript copy of the sonnet ever discovered. More info ⬇️

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

Ukraine is Europe! We stand by Ukraine. We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor. Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

I Stand With Ukraine against this despicable bully

Two assholes both alike: indignity. #amerika

Like Lady Happy in The Convent of Pleasure!?

I'm organising a series of flash talks on 26th March for Print Exchanges: a global research network for anyone working on early(ish) print culture, broadly conceived. If you'd like to join the network, come to the event, or share your work do get in touch at [email protected]

Teaser: I'm in the middle of editing a great little mini-series, coming soon to the many-headed monster blog! If you are interested in all things printed images and visual culture, keep your eyes peeled!

Pascale Drouet reviews Edward’s Boys 2024 production of The Maid’s Metamorphosis, dir. Perry Mills. 🎭: edwardsboys.org.uk/productions/... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... 📷: David Troughton

🎓 C'est la rentrée des Ecoles doctorales @universitereims.bsky.social 📅 mar. 11/02, 8h30 à 17h30 📍 Campus Croix-Rouge, Amphi. bât. 13 La @bureims.bsky.social présentera son programme de formation aux #doctorants : recherche documentaire, Zotero, #scienceouverte, #PGD … + d'infos 👉 bit.ly/419xsde

*Out now* 'Atrocity and Early Modern Drama' edited by Sarah E. Johnson & Georgina Lucas is the first sustained and wide-ranging account of late 16th- and early 17th-century conceptualizations of atrocity in English drama. Find out more: bit.ly/4gGzcA0

Discover how a young, recently orphaned John Fletcher may have crossed paths with a rising Shakespeare in 1596 (long before they collaborated) in my latest article: 'Giles, John, and Will: The Fletchers and Shakespeare in Bishopsgate Street, London, 1596' www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Louise Moillon was about 20 when she painted this.

Well…done!

George Clifford, 3d Earl of Cumberland, became Queen Elizabeth's Champion at the Tiltyard in 1590. Wears her bejeweled glove pinned to hat, ready to do battle in her honor, in fab miniature by Nicholas Hilliard.

When you’ve lost the gift receipt.

So true

Elizabeth Cary, playwright, with truly wild hair styling. As painted c 1620 by Paul van Somer, whose day is today.

New double issue of Etudes Epistémè! La Saint-Barthélémy and Mariamne et Hérode en Europe.

Goo goo g'joob

I have this night digg’d up a mandrake.

Mandrake, c. 1650, by #GiovannaGarzoni (Italian, 1600-1670). From Piante varie, f. 11., (seq. 32), held at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, www.doaks.org/resources/ra... #womenartists #artherstory #hernaturalhistory

"Tout homme au Goulag, avait son dernier recours ; ce qui l'aidait à vivre, à s'accrocher à la vie qu'on s'efforçait de nous ôter avec tant de persévérance et d'opiniâtreté. Moi, mon ultime recours, c'était la poésie." Varlam Chalamov a passé 17 ans dans "l'enfer blanc". ➡️ l.franceculture.fr/Az0