*Out now* Siobhan Keenan's 'Richard Burbage and the Shakespearean Stage' is the first in-depth study of the ‘star’ actor and theatrical impresario's career & his contribution to the development of professional theatre in Shakespearean London. bit.ly/3H0viFr

🚨🚨So excited that the Barnard Center for Research on Women is hosting the virtual launch for *Sweet Taste of Empire,* published by ‪@pennpress.bsky.social‬. We have an incredible lineup!!!!!! #RaceB4Race #ShakeRace 10.30.2025 | 6:30pm EST| register here! bcrw.barnard.edu/event/the-sw...

This week's episode features @lostplayhouse.bsky.social discussing his research into Leicester's Men and the other playing troupes of the Elizabethan period. Out now #theatre #theatrehistory #podcast #earlymodern #shakespeare #leicestersmen

Time for another 🧵 on #monsters in British history and culture! And if you’re anywhere near #Edinburgh, come over to the #EdBookFest on Friday 15 Aug, 1:30-2:30pm, to chat with me and @nicolakellywrites.bsky.social! 1/🧵 Today: an eg of #Shakespeare’s #monsters #earlymodern #politics #HAMH 💙📚 🗃

📕 How important was Mesoamerica's iconic blue pigment 'Maya Blue'? Unique in the ancient world, it symbolises the rain god Chaak and was able to withstand extreme weather 🏺#Archaeology Find out more in our #NewBookChronicle on the 'Scientific search for a colourful past' 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

‘Seas are repetitive creatures, working in cycles of tides, migration and climate change, which is normally to say the waxing and waning of the Ice Age. It is the coast that creates the past. The ancients knew this.’ @josephinequinn.bsky.social on the ancient coast: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

How did a seventeenth-century South American trading post become the blueprint for the prison system in the present-day United States? Read "The Color of Commerce: Racial Identity and Corporate Logic in Behn’s Oroonoko" by Brandon Taylor on The Sundial medium.com/the-sundial-...

Delighted that the print copies of my first book 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London', just published with @universitypress.cambridge.org, have arrived! 📚📚📚

This is actually happening! 😊 The Predatory Sea featured alongside some great titles, like Jordan Smith's The Invention of Rum. Thank you, @pennpress.bsky.social! 🗃️

I really needed this today. Ayanna Thompson sent me a link to this jaw-dropping thing they built with a Mellon grant at @acmrs.bsky.social You can get lost in it. A spectacular reminder that digital resources don't have to be about surveillance, coercion, & disciplining the labor force.

You can also use this ressource as teaching material and play with your students! A funny way to introduce them to morality plays. Great job @beyondshakes.bsky.social and thank you for sharing freely.

You can play along at home with our Tudor Interlude Bingo card for this and most moral plays of the period. A free downloadable black and white version is available on our website. #Morality #Interlude #Tudor beyondshakespeare.org/morality-pla...

Studying, researching or teaching in the histories of the British Empire or Commonwealth ? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH), it contains 650,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH

We've replaced the rope-lights outlining The Rose's archaeological remains, currently preserved underwater. The red lights mark the inner & outer walls of the seating galleries. The blue lights show the front of the stage in 1587, and then pushed back in 1592/3. Looking south-north, & east-west.

In case you haven't seen it, here's our call for the upcoming Forum in Early Modern Women. Consider submitting a short piece on the theme of migrancy! #EarlyModern

Download free copies of BSA’s Teaching Shakespeare magazine. #drama #literature #pedagogy #school #Shakespeare www.britishshakespeare.ws/education/te...

Delightful new Chaucerian discovery by the nicest man in medieval history, @sebfalk.com! (and James Wade who I believe is very nice too) share.google/TIyActPEZIvl...

What an awesome idea! We have the family version of 4. very often at home before going to sleep. 2. is a rule. We do 5. and 10. alternately. We LOVE 3. Will definitely try 11. and 12. Thank you so much for sharing, @aktange.bsky.social

There's a discount code for pre-orders! If you've always wanted to read about sixteenth- and seventeenth-century smuggling, piracy, and human trafficking in the Caribbean AND you love a good deal, use: PENN-CSCHMITT30 for 30% off. 🗃️ www.pennpress.org/978151282814...

I absolutely loved discussing my recent research with Cassidy. It was my pleasure to contribute to her fabulous podcast!

Ok, Shakespeare and general #earlymodern scholars ... if I see 'Shakespear's Plays' listed in a 1729 library catalogue in Fort St George, what's the likely edition? There's no description otherwise in (e.g. in octavo, quarto, etc.)

Food history friends - does anyone have any recommendations of recent(ish) papers on atole and its culinary and social uses in early modern New Spain? Thanks!

Couldn’t make it but will definitely watch the recording!!! Congrats, Alex dearest!

For anyone interested who couldn’t make it to my inaugural ‘Time Frames: Marking the Early Modern’ here’s a recording: mediacentral.ucl.ac.uk/Play/124439

Excited to share a draft of the cover for the paperback version of SHAKESPEARE'S BORROWED FEATHERS. I have been delighted at the public and scholarly engagement with this book and look forward to reaching new readers in paperback form! share.google/LnS2iT9Bf348...

There's a section called 'Snail: Finding Our Place' in *Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface* (2024) [currently on sale for £21.59 in @routledgelit.bsky.social Summer Sale) 🐌🐌🐌 www.routledge.com/Shakespeare-...

Happy pub day to Shakespeare in Tongues! www.routledge.com/9781032274492 #ShakeRace #RaceB4Race #Shakespeare

*Out now in paperback* 'Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen' edited by @edelsemple.bsky.social &‬ Ronan Hatfull is the first edited collection to explore Shakespeare's life as depicted on the modern stage and screen. bit.ly/3ZcDet2

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

1 decade of Open Access, now 300 titles 🔓 Introducing 'Renaissance skin' by @evelynwelch.bsky.social - freely available to all students and institutions. A magnificent feat for research in Renaissance art & #histmed Read it here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781... #Renaissance #OpenAccess

Ever wished someone would sit down and explain how to collate an early printed book? The marvellous ‪‬@sianwitherden.bsky.social has done exactly that in a brand new series for Teachable Features: teachingthecodex.com/how-to-colla... #bookhistory #incunabula #teachingcodex

Publicising this game developed by my wonderful colleague Dr Maisha Wester: 'A narrative-driven social justice game exploring the suppressed histories of anti-Blackness in the US and UK.' codedblack.info It's getting a lot of attention at festivals etc.; reposts appreciated!

On today's new episode @audioandrea.bsky.social discusses the history of Shakespeare on BBC radio, how productions were presented and adapted over a century and how Shakespeare plays became an integral part of BBC history. #theatre #radio #BBC #shakespeare #theatrehistory

We're looking forward to showing off our #Shakespeare titles at the @bsashakespeare.bsky.social conference today! #BSA2025 If you’re not attending, explore our #ShakespeareStudies #books, enjoy FREE chapter access, and grab discounted books here 👇 manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2025/06...

Very pleased to be attending #bsa2025 conference at York. @bsashakespeare.bsky.social and showing off some of our most recent @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social publications. We’ve Kyd, Marlowe, a French touring troupe, eminent tragedians, and stage controversy!

#BSA2025 attendees are brilliant! So game for creating sound effects for #Macbeth using some of the items pictured here. Still time to sign up for one of this afternoon's workshops. @bsashakespeare.bsky.social #ShakespeareOnTheRadio 💀🎧 #Shakespeare #RadioDrama #AudioDrama

A stimulating reading before going to sleep: an excellent state-of-the-art intro to familiarise curious students and learners of all ages with pageantry + a great critical bibliographic starting point and a legitimate Defense for Pageantry Studies. Thank you @tracelarkhall.bsky.social for sharing 🙏

Excited to welcome @justjenerally.bsky.social and all of you to @york.ac.uk later this week for #BSA2025! And for this 'Shakespeare in Theory, Theory in Practice' seminar chaired by @alex-thom.bsky.social Let us know where you're travelling from and what you're looking forward to... 👀

Thank you @jamie-gemmell.bsky.social & Claire Titley for organising this really interesting and insightful webinar! It was very helpful to find out more about what The London Archives do on a day-to-day basis aside from collections etc. 😊

Not one, but two keynote lectures! Join CEMS and MMoR next week. 25.06, 17:00 - @profjennyshaw.bsky.social on "The Women of Rendezvous" 26.06, 17:00 - @sdamussen.bsky.social on "Seeing Racial Patriarchy" Full details below. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/carib...

Was there live and it was absolutely amazing, as all of @lostplayhouse.bsky.social ´s ground-breaking work always is!!! Do watch this video, in particular if you’re into “early” EM theatre and the evolution of performance spaces! Thanks to @antiquaries.bsky.social for making this video available 🙏

#UnboxingVideo (Okay, strictly speaking, unzipping) #ShakespeareOnTheRadio 💀🎧 has arrived! Available from @edinburghup.bsky.social: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-shakesp... #Shakespeare #RadioDrama #AudioDrama

This is going to be very entertaining and enjoyable (and maybe a little slimy 🐌) while mediating cutting-edge research with the amazing @earlymodlancs.bsky.social

@gvb1554.bsky.social, here’s a recording of @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social’s presentation of her new book I told you I saw in London at KCL. It’s not the KCL one but is close enough 😁. Enjoy!

C'est dans 4h et il y aura Sara Soncini aussi! Don't miss! @saesfrance.org

Le dernier book club de l'année de RADAC c'est dans 4h et ça va être bien! Rejoignez-vous! @saesfrance.org

Poste de maitr·esse de langue à l'Université de Lorraine (Nancy), 2025-2026 https://saesfrance.org/poste-de-maitr%c2%b7esse-de-langue-a-luniversite-de-lorraine-nancy-2025-2026/

🔍 Atelier RADAC au congrès SAES 2025 🎭 Dans le cadre du thème "Transitions", l’atelier RADAC s’intéressera aux mutations du théâtre anglophone contemporain. 📍À découvrir à Toulouse du 5 au 7 juin 2025 ! #SAES2025 #RADAC #Transitions #ThéâtreAnglophone #PerformanceStudies #ÉtudesAnglophones