With all this fuss about #TheOdyssey I think it's worth letting you know about a great three-part audio version currently available on #BBCSounds Fab cast, dramatisation by Simon Armitage. Do have a listen 🎧 Link to part one below 👇 #BBCRadio4 #AudioDrama #RadioDrama www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

We hope that lots of you will consider submitting a piece for our upcoming forum on early modern women and generations #EarlyModern

“Why, this is very midsummer madness.” - Twelfth Night, 3.4 #SummerSolstice https://bit.ly/4vIf8UW

Two great conferences this week. Theatrical Voice Research Centre conference at the Guilford School of Acting: I talked about the relationship between radio and the stage. Women's Broadcasting Histories Conference at UEA: to highlight the work of women radio producers on Shakespeare's plays.

Join @amandajsummers.bsky.social and I at RSA in Philly next year! Send us your abstracts by July 31st 🥳

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Disapproval...

Nap time 😴

Thank you for my copy, @postmedieval.bsky.social 🔥 what an excellent volume!

Just landed 😍

Extremely helpful cat... 🙄

Proofs!

I'm particularly proud of this section of my Introduction to Oxford World’s Classics edition of *Arden*. Race issues shouldn't be restricted to those plays traditionally put in a box labelled 'the race plays'. *Every* play written and performed at a time of huge colonial expansion is a race play.

I miss Damascus jasmines so much I took a risk on planting them in England. I never expected this to happen, but look at them in our garden!! 😍 One happy girl here 🥺

I'm so pleased to announce this new book series with @dgb-mem.bsky.social - Genders & Sexualities in the Early Modern World Series Editors: Elizabeth Rhodes, James Daybell & Merry Wiesner-Hanks brill.com/page/forthco... Image: The Concert, 1623, by Gerrit van Honthorst; National Gallery of Art

Hugging the wall to feel cooler 🥺 (fan's on, water bowl has ice in it, cooling mat out, 'shower' planned for the evening).

*Arden* is such a rich play often reduced to the authorship question and unfairly dismissed. Join me and @oldfortunatus.bsky.social as we explore not only its resonances with Shakespeare's work, but also questions of domesticity, true crime narratives (then and now), gender, race-making, and more.

A way into Shakespeare through the weather forecast? A little look at almanacs, biography, and climate… open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...

So looking forward to discussing *Arden* with Professor Emma Smith @oldfortunatus.bsky.social. There might be mention of murder and mayhem 😉 👀 Come join us! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/english-fa...

🌟On Monday we have a very special event - @drshirleybell.bsky.social will be talking to us about her new book ‘Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage’! 🌟 Join us to celebrate Shirley’s wonderful achievement🤩She’ll also be talking to us about the process of talking her thesis into a book🤍

And here it is! Come to Liverpool in July next year. We have a fantastic [insert appropriate collective noun here] of keynotes: @bkadams.bsky.social, @dnmcinnis.bsky.social, @lucycmunro.bsky.social, Perry Mills & Deborah Payne!

My research assistant... ☺️

It's time for #Caturday and a timeline cleanse! A terracotta figurine of a #cat playing the harp. From #Egypt, #Roman period, late 1st century AD. On display at Museum August Kestner, Hannover. Have a lovely #weekend! 📷 me

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Cover Reveal! Coming soon, open access, with Taylor & Francis. Edited by @cordeliabeattie.bsky.social, Suzanne Trill and @hagenilda.bsky.social.

Hey #earlymodern peeps and #skystorians! @hannah-historian.bsky.social and I are putting together an edited collection on "Letters as Paratexts in the Early Modern World," and we'd love to see wonderful and brilliant article ideas! Check out the CFP here, and let me know if you have any questions!

📢TOMORROW!📢 I'm speaking at the @ihrscb.bsky.social seminar on people's changing relationship with their possessions in the 150 years before the Industrial Revolution. Join us in person @ihr.bsky.social or on Zoom, register: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #EarlyModern 🗃️@uoearchhist.bsky.social

So excited! 🔥

I’m just floored by the contempt than many in tech have for the humanities. They don’t even try to understand or appreciate what it is we do before arrogantly assuming they can do it better with a non-human machine.

An enormous amount of research and verification goes into identifying a portrait which takes into account provenance, stylistic attributes of an artist and historical documentation about the sitter. It’s not running a face through an algorithm & saying ‘step aside, we can do this more efficiently’.

There’s a contempt for the study of art history in this, that somehow it’s all just surface level guess work and only science can offer an absolute answer. Portraits are difficult to read and identify - I say this as a former National Portrait Gallery curator.

This is a big one - one of my favourite journals publishing one of the first major outputs of my walking research. In the article 'Walking and Performances of Elite Masculinity' I establish a model for how the collective walking of men negotiates early modern gender politics. A big day! Link below

Spotted on campus 👀

Found a Shakespeare thing; wrote about it in @thetls.bsky.social: www.the-tls.com/regular-feat....

Absorbing knowledge ❤️

Today’s new post is a quick read on Tudor “stand up” routines, celebrity clowning, and husband and wife duos: open.substack.com/pub/shakespe...

She doesn't look impressed...

My author copies are here! I first came across Arden in 2008 when I wrote my MA dissertation on its performance history. I fell in love immediately. 18 years later, I feel emotional holding the Oxford World’s Classics edition of this remarkable play in my hands, with an Introduction by myself.

Three exciting new books in the 'Shakespeare and Text' Cambridge Elements series: 🎆 Editing an Early Modern Play 🎆 Collaboration, Technologies, and the History of Shakespearean Bibliography 🎆 Anne Shakespeare's Epitaph More details: www.cambridge.org/core/publica... @roaringgirle.bsky.social

We're delighted to report we've recently signed a contract with @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social for the edited collection of essays that is the centrepiece of the project publications: 'Wills and Material Culture in #EarlyModern England', eds Laura Sangha & Emily Vine [@emilymayvine.bsky.social].

Witches were not young lovely herbalist midwives worshipping a goddess in the woods.

Most women in Shakespeare's time did not marry as young as Juliet.

Deadline next week! We're looking for abstracts from PGRs/ECRs for our upcoming colloquium. This year's theme is 'Periodising the Early/Modern'. Deadline: 7th April kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/cfp-p...

We're back! Building on the success of our inaugural conference last year, we are delighted to announce its return with the new theme: Beyond the Battlefield🗡️ The conference will take place at the University of Exeter on 2-3 September. Deadline for abstracts is 22 May. Please circulate widely!

I never thought I’d see an early modern woodcut of women prophets on a ‘girls’ night out’ card.

Prof. Lena Orlin, Chair of the NVS Board, is part of the line-up at this year’s Shakespeare’s Birthday Lecture in Stratford-upon-Avon. www.shakespeare.org.uk/visit/whats-...

Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender welcomes award nominations for the 2026 Book Awards, Editions Award(s) & Collaborative Project Award For more info &/or to nominate a work, see docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Deadline: May 25, 2026

A family outing at Brunel University of London today 🦆

What a generous, thoughtful, and kind review by the excellent Dr Emma Whipday of my book! So honoured! ❤️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....

Beyond excited to be reviewing this beauty 🔥