Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3 📷 D. v. Recklinghausen 🏺

Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

‘If the violent, sexually transgressive, atheistical and generally self-destructive Marlowe had had a motto, then “What nourishes me destroys me” would have been more than appropriate.’ M.W. Rowe evaluates new evidence concerning the playwright’s only known portrait. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

It's always a treat to find a gift book owned or given by a woman, and doubly so when the giver is none other than poet Katherine Phillips. #HerBook

*shakes fist at Shakespeare* ‘Many people will know of shrews only courtesy of Shakespeare. … [T]he offensive term has stuck through the ages, draining sympathy for and interest in the animal.’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Very significant’ Jack Kerouac story discovered after mafia boss auction

GOOD NEWS ! "A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions." #baroque #music www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

#earlymodern out December at last such a privilege to work with three distinguished scholars of early modern women’s writing

With the usual prudent caveats about first examples in the OED; I love that Jonson is the first to be cited for "I told you so"

A massive thanks to everyone involved in #Globe4Globe 2025! We were thrilled to see 300 attendees join us for 24 hours devoted to Shakespeare & environmental justice. If you missed out, most of the presentations are now available online now: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Hello 👋 We're the official #UniMelb account! Follow us for news, updates and information about UniMelb. For now, enjoy the blue skies over our Parkville campus 💙

Six internationally recognised marine scientists who are researching South Australia's toxic algal bloom are set to lose their jobs at Flinders University, the ABC understands. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

1/At Macquarie Uni we are losing 50% of our units in my faculty. This is on top of cuts in 2020. We estimate by next year my faculty will be teaching 80% fewer subjects than pre Covid. Disciplines being cut do not have declining enrolments. @jennaprice.bsky.social @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social

Statement of support for the Save Meanjin campaign, from colleagues in the Screen and Cultural Studies program at the University of Melbourne savemeanjin.org

We’re doing a staged reading of *Volpone* next year! 🦊 Put it in your diary, Melbourne folk! Wednesday 18 November, 6:30pm www.bellshakespeare.com.au/events

Re #MeanjinJournal, a letter from myself and some of my colleagues to The University of Melbourne. #Meanjin is such an important part of Australia's literary ecosystem and losing it would be culturally and industrially devastating. #AusLit #AustralianWriters #Publishing #Unimelb

Listening in to this now -- such inspiring papers...!

The University of Melbourne English and Theatre Studies Statement on the closure of Meanjin. 12 September 2025

@quaritch1847.bsky.social's new catalogue of annotated books might just be the greatest bookseller's catalogue of all time. Just sayin'. Take a moment to appreciate the fun they clearly had: www.quaritch.com/wp-content/u...

What conversations are we having or should we be having, in Shakespeare studies? Authors are invited to submit articles for publication in the first issue of the SQ under the new editorial leadership, with a focus on the Twenty-First century and Shakespeare. 3 Oct 25 academic.oup.com/sq/pages/cal...

“Two things could and should be done to restore Marlowe to his rightful place. The first, obviously and simply, is to study and produce his plays more.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm moving over from the X box. Meanwhile my edition of #Marlowe's Edward II @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social is available for pre-order. With ample critical, performance, & textual intro, annotations, plus 22 illus of C20-21 performance, early texts & readers. www.bloomsbury.com/us/edward-ii...

Shakespeare in the ‘Post’Colonies… in the ‘post’colonies! So grateful to Amrita Dhar & Amrita Sen for the chance to write about Australian Indigenous Shakespeare with my wonderful new colleague Margaret Harvey 🙂

If Shakespeare had named other plays the way he named The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Two Noble Kinsmen: The Two Teenagers of Verona The Two Sisters of Padua The Two Guys in a Pie The Two Twins (...and Another Two) The Two Henrys The Two Friends and Three Witches

It’s getting real…!

It’s Melbourne Rare Books Fair time! 🙂 A book Walter Raleigh had with him in the Tower, anyone…? (Maggs brought it out; I didn’t ask the price.) rarebookfair.com

Job-Ready Graduates attacks the arts and humanities and presents an often insurmountable obstacle for those looking to undertake further study study. Follow the link for an Open Letter to @albomp.bsky.social calling for the repeal of JRG, and sign our petition. linktr.ee/aushistorica...

Top Australian writers urge Albanese to abolish Job-Ready Graduates, calling their humanities degrees life changing theconversation.com/top-australi...

More than 100 high-profile and distinguished Australians -and BA graduates- have signed the @austhistassoc.bsky.social open letter calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates: a policy that punishes humanities students with life-changing debts: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Today’s attempt to avoid work whilst on leave thwarted by Sovereign Hill

Australia can’t withstand further humanities cuts. Civil society depends on it. While universities have the right to determine their education & research priorities, no one in Australia has a handle on the effects of cuts & their impact on our national skills & knowledge capabilities. bit.ly/3TqI4jn

'[T]he proposed closure of long-standing national infrastructure and capabilities—including the Humanities Research Centre, the European Studies Centre, and the Australian National Dictionary Centre...represents the loss of irreplaceable national assets.' humanities.org.au/news/alarm-o...

Happy to share the flyer for my book 'The Will in English Renaissance Drama', which is out this August with @universitypress.cambridge.org. Maybe your library would like a copy?! The 20% discount may be of interest to those heading to @srsrensoc.bsky.social! #earlymodern #drama #renaissance

Striking while the iron is hot, we wrote a piece for The Conversation #earlymodern theconversation.com/who-called-s...

📣 CFP: Shakespeare Quarterly special issue Shakespeare’s Twenty-First Century / The Twenty-First Century’s Shakespeare This will be Vanessa I. Corredera, Arthur L. Little, Jr. and my first issue as Editors! Please submit your finest! More info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

📣 CFP: Shakespeare Quarterly special issue Shakespeare’s Twenty-First Century / The Twenty-First Century’s Shakespeare This will be Vanessa I. Corredera, Arthur L. Little, Jr. and my first issue as Editors! Please submit your finest! More info: networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Great to see @notwithoutmustard.bsky.social (& Shakespeare Quarterly!) getting media coverage for this ‘upstart crow’ re-attribution! archive.md/2025.06.18-2...

Currently crowdfunding for a new solo interactive Shakespeare, Timonopoly, as we lost promised funding. Astonishingly we're already 45% there! Please help if you can or share- thank you! More here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/timonopoly

We’re almost at half a million! Every bit counts, folks…

It’s Bell Shakespeare’s Giving Day! I’m proud to serve on the Board. Our lead supporters will match every donation made today between 8am-8pm. Help us continue sharing Shakespeare’s timeless stories across Australia, reaching further than ever before. To donate: charidy.com/bellshakespe...

Registration (free) for the 2025 Ian Donaldson Memorial Lecture is now live: events.humanitix.com/representing... 'Representing Peace in Samuel Johnson's Irene (1749)' Dr Brandon Chua (Hong Kong) Mon 30 June, 6pm - 7pm Macmahon Ball Theatre, Unimelb (and on Zoom — register for link)

1733. Lewis Theobald advises fellow Shakespeare editors to go naked as they work. (The practice was not, to my knowledge, adopted.)

Upping this one final time - applications close this Sunday (25th May).

Great to see the wonderful Dr Anna Welch in the news, showing off SLV’s acquisition of a 1250-year-old printed scroll! (the Hyakumantō Darani, a Buddhist prayer text from Japan) www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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

Bell Shakespeare’s Play In A Day Reading of Marlowe’s *Tamburlaine* gets underway in about an hour…! www.bellshakespeare.com.au/play-in-a-da...

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....

So I've got this article which should be coming out in the journal _Shakespeare_ any moment now, but in the meantime - Briefly, it's about a C17 letter preserved in the binding waste of a book now in Hereford Cathedral.

Really good news for us, to end the week—Jason O’Leary appointed as Creative Director of our Melbourne Public Humanities Initiative! arts.unimelb.edu.au/news/jason-o...