Very happy to see this volume finally out. Anyone opening it will immediately appreciate the enormous amount of work involved -- should be the definitive edition of these difficult but fascinating poems for many years to come.

Job klaxon: for a medievalist working across English and history cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...

Management at @northumbriauni.bsky.social say they want to 'do different things' to fund their strategy. Whodathunk that mean freezing staff pay? @ucu.org.uk @strathclydeucu.bsky.social @sheffielducu.bsky.social @danhollandnews.bsky.social

A shout-out for this excellent collection edited by @johannawinant.bsky.social and @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social including essays by Robert Stagg of @nvshakespeare.bsky.social and @noreenmasud.bsky.social #CloseReading

Barnabe Rich explaining that "bookes are like cheese"

Excellent and empoweringe educacioun will nevir be "efficient" yn the waye that a businesse doth stryve to be "efficient." It ys the heighte of knavery to use one standarde to measure everye human activitye. Businesses are ther to make profits. Educacioun ys ther to make the future.

Pretty big news to kick off the year... Predramatic Theatre now available as an e-publication! Happy 2026 everyone!

If you're looking for some new year reading....

🎭 To chat, or not to chat? #Shakespeare 📚

Eight Palestine Action activists are being left to die in prison – all without even facing trial. We must force the government to act, before it’s too late ⬇️ https://goodlaw.social/3e3320

The lure of ChatGPT ys conversaciouns wythout any actual dialogue or accountabilitye. A mirrour that doth flatter by offeringe no reflectioun whatsoevir. A google searche that doth kysse up to you.

The results of the 2025 Staff Survey at Northumbria University are damning and shameful: www.ucu-unn.org.uk/news/316-202...

The end of this term saw several colleagues in my School leave under the voluntary redundancy scheme More colleagues from English Literature are slated to leave at the end of the academic year It feels so very sad

Can be early modern, Dekker and Webster fans!

Call for papers for our new special issue on 'Nocturnal London', edited by Maurizio Cinquegrani, Yihong Zhu, and @mcmccluskey.bsky.social. Abstracts due in by 31 March 2026. All submissions and reposts much appreciated.

Caught up with Hilary Hinds this morning Wonderful to learn her co-edited collection with Bronwen Price - inspired by Simon Barker's research - is now published Excellent cast of contributors 👏 Manchester University Press - Early modern drama and the theatre of war share.google/K8hr4frMaYs9...

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...

Tech wythout heart ys harmful. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

Want to teache young people creativitye, problem-solvinge, teamworke, awarenesse of the power and influence of language, and wayes of workinge thrugh the beautiful and terrifyinge and complex contradictiouns and ambiguities of thys worlde? Teache poetrye. Teache a lot of poetrye.

Waited until today to say this, to ensure we got in as many ballots as we could, but DUCU can confirm we passed the Tory anti-trade union 50% voting threshold for the current national ballot. Our team did a huge amount of amazing GTVO work, benefitting not just Durham but other branches. Respect.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...

Please sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...

Cambridge people! Do you like Shakespeare? Do you like material culture? You can hear me talking about BOTH in the Henn Lecture @stcatharines.bsky.social, 1 December, 5.30pm. There will be a reception after the lecture to launch Textile Shakespeare; info here www.caths.cam.ac.uk/about-us/new...

Majoring yn Englisshe ys prettye goddamn Punke Rocke

Out now! The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Constance Crompton, @raysiemens.bsky.social , Richard J. Lane, and myself And better yet? It's #openaccess! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi... Order hard copies here: www.routledge.com/The-Companio... Thanks to all contributors! 🎉

Have official confirmation it will be December. Ask your library to buy the most exciting Christmas present going!

One for Halloween, on a myth that really never seems to die. lucyallengoss.substack.com/p/we-are-not...

Somewhat astonishingly, here it is, a book, a thing in the world... More, including acknowledgements, soon❤️

when will my book return from war (be published)... how am I meant to promote it when nobody can tell me and three different months are listed online... anyway, please ask your library to pre-order my book! it is good! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Tech wythout heart ys a horror. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

Fascinating! This has given me something to think about on my commute along the A66 😀

Read. Read widely, randomly, for fun. Be led by your curiosity. Read fiction. Recommend your favourite books to your loved ones. Re-read the books from your childhood. Books are a uniquely portable kind of magic. Carry a book or three with you wherever you go. Never. Stop. Reading.

Tech wythout heart ys hollow. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

Delighted to see our new book - The Experience of Work in Early Modern England - out now, and open access (free!) doi-org.bris.idm.oclc.org/10.1017/9781...

Just two weeks until Voices of Thunder is published! If you’re interested in hearing the stories of a dozen radical seventeenth-century women, it can be pre-ordered now ⚡️#earlymodern #womenshistory

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

“Without the ideas+perspective of ECRs… there will be no new generation of scholars to take up ideas and push them in new directions” @wadehistory.bsky.social on “What can be done?” for the French History Network’s ECR in 2025 series frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6746/ 🗃️#FRHistory

I was very excited to come home to find the author copies of my book had arrived! Though one young reviewer is disappointed that there are no tractors in it, if you are interested in early modern poetry and the occult, you can order below 👇 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

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Lovely to get a copy of @renaissancerach.bsky.social new book Elizabethan Occult Poetics in the post! Latest book in @englishassociation.bsky.social series now published by @livunipress.bsky.social 👏👏👏 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

"Coventry University bosses criticised by union on flight expenses" - BBC News share.google/odtvMljzNB5J...

Do not go quietly into the redundancy pool

I haven't posted an update on the petition for a while 👇 Over 3600 signatories to date Folk are still signing Thank you

Today a follow up to yesterday’s post on being an ECR in French History, by @wadehistory.bsky.social frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6744/ 🗃️ #FRHistory

Warwick English came 5th in The Guardian today, which is great for us. But also notice that Lancaster came 3rd for Creative Writing & 7th for English - but the university is decimating programmes & firing 1/3 of academic staff over the next six months 🤔🤔🤔 @lancasterucu.bsky.social #saveartsandhums

Major yn Englisshe: • focused readinge & writinge prepare you for anythinge • research, communicacioun, creativitye, and interpretacioun will be needed for careers not even invented yet • meaningful engagement wyth big ideas and textes that will staye wyth you forevir • it ys awesome • books!

#WordsMatter Carol Ann Duffy writes ‘bombsite’ poem about Trump’s UK state visit | Carol Ann Duffy | The Guardian share.google/ZvDAQmOk9nhK...

This is genuinely (academically) dystopian — Kings featuring a lecturer who has to mark 100 scripts in a fortnight (!) and presenting AI as the approved workaround to that problem. This is why we can’t let this stuff into our working practice…