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This hand, which for thy love did kill thy love, Shall for thy love kill a far truer love. #RichardIII 1.2.175-6 #ShakespeareSunday

77 Years of Genocide: Nov 9th Newsletter #freepalestine

Today in #Gippsland #FreePalestine

The website for the Shakespearean Graves project is now live -- check it out! shaxepitaphs.exeter.ac.uk #ShaxEpitaphs

More on my research on #RichardIII #Shakespeare etc. here: www.historicalreputation.au/publications/

Reading an actual book about Queen Victoria for the first time, Lucy Worsley's 'Daughter, Wife, Mother, Widow'. Had to look up John Conroy when she described him as 'theatrical looking', and he looks suspiciously like Adrian Lukas's Wickham from the 95 Pride & Prejudice...

Extra small supervisor today #cats

Double crossed! #cats

Nami’s office chair has arrived. Will she use it? #cats

Major in Africana Studies or any humanities course like English Literature! You could be mayor of New York City. You could do anything.

Jackie Coogan (1914-1984) was an American actor best known for his role as Uncle Fester in the 1960's US television series The Addams Family. At a young age, Coogan became personally involved with the collection of vital supplies for humanitarian relief for the survivors of the Ottoman-era genocides

Please turn on an adblocker when using Wikipedia and do not donate. I only make a tiny donation during their yearly drives but they're not getting my $5 this year.

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. #RichardIII 1.3.356-8. A day late #ShakespeareSunday

Baba’s got his book bag and he’s ready to go to work #writing

In Gunaikurnai country today #gippsland #freepalestine

77 Years of Genocide: Nov 2nd Newsletter #freepalestine

Just saw Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715) described as an egomaniac, and it tracks.

Nami was unimpressed I was using her as a bookrest (2023) #cats

Nobody’s Girl is Virginia Giuffre’s inside account of the two years she spent as a ‘sex slave’ working for Jeffrey Epstein and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.

My morning view

Lost my chair #cats

Id has tempted me away from what I should be working on to what I want to work on #writing

Nami has accepted the new work location, hopping up in the dining table and demanding her pillow #cats #writing

You don't need to be a Ricardian to understand the sort of reflexive mocking of both #RichardIII and #Ricardian research that goes on.

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Jakub Stejskal's "'Stranded on the Shores of History'? Monuments and (Art-)Historical Awareness" examines "historical awareness [that] attends to artifacts’ appearances in search of visual manifestations of relevance that can survive the loss of context."

Time to resurrect John Brown

Read it #OpenAccess here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...

Toad ran to Frog’s house. “Frog, Frog!” he cried. “All those big thoughts have made my head much larger. Now I can wear your present!”

28 Oct 1546: d. James Butler 9th Earl #Ormond at Holborn #London after a banquet #otd 17 of hid followers also died of poisoning, no-one has ever worked out who was the culprit (Royal Collection, HM CIII)

Governor of Western Australia Chris Dawson makes a formal apology for the Pinjarra Massacre of October 28, 1834 govhouse.wa.gov.au/2025/10/an-a...

Australian colleagues have been exploring the redirection of British slave-owners capital from the Caribbean into the colonisation of Australia. As Britons ended slavery they intensified the destruction of Indigenous societies. Latest addition from Zoe Laidlaw: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

What do we say to γενοκτονία? Όχι!

I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash Is added to her wounds. #Macbeth 4.3.49-51 #ShakespeareSunday

77 Years of Genocide: October 26th Newsletter #freepalestine

Today in Gunaikurnai country #gippsland #freepalestine

Here I am, answering your call, my university of truth. Here I am, standing tall with your flag held high. Here I am, a pioneer on the path of our pride. Here I am, shining like the full moon in the dark. Here I am, my university... #freepalestine

Desk buddies

"I have tried hard to maintain my long-held affection for the BM but this display of arrogance, carelessness and disrespect shown by those who run it makes it very hard. These are objects to be revered and treasured, not a backdrop for eating lentils in ballgown." Victoria Hislop

Celebrating the release of George and the Ignorasaurus in The Forest of Lost Socks – Kindle version available now! Paperback will be available from November 1st! #booksky #childrensbooks www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B...

Richard, thy wife, that wretched Anne thy wife, That never slept a quiet hour with thee, Now fills thy sleep with perturbations. Tomorrow, in the battle, think on me, And fall thy edgeless sword. Despair and die! #RichardIII 5.3.169-73 #ShakespeareSunday Richard III and the ghosts, William Blake

Today in Gunaikurnai country #gippsland #freepalestine

77 Years of Genocide: October 19th Newsletter #freepalestine

The usual suspects #cats

Coming soon. Meet the OBB in “George and the Ignorasaurus in The Forest of Lost Socks.” #booksky #childrensbooks

NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 43.1 is now published! Now fully open access, this issue features a cluster of essays edited by Louise Geddes and Nora J. Williams reflecting on casting, race, community, and tragedy in productions performed on and off Broadway. 📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55715