I submitted the manuscript for my book “Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage” this week! 🎉🎶📕

the legitimacy of the police in the Anglophone world has been the subject of a lot of debate in recent years. I think early modern England has a lot to tell us about our relationship with the police. blog here: drlucyjsclarke.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/1...

Looking forward to presenting my paper on expressions of grief in Ben Jonson’s The Sad Shepherd tomorrow!

I had an amazing time at the Moving Music Conference in Cambridge last week!

I’m in Cambridge for the Moving Music conference which starts today at Emmanuel College. I will be speaking about the saraband in Ben Jonson’s Staple of News this afternoon.

Productive library day! 📚 Finished writing another chapter of my book and made a start to my paper for the Moving Music conference which I will be presenting at in Cambridge later this month.

Join us on Thursday 29 May as Lucy Clarke (University of Sheffield) talks on “To give some colour as if they meant the peace”: a practice-based approach to ‘legality’ in early modern England. Email [email protected] for the Zoom link. mappinginns.wordpress.com

En route to Sheffield for tomorrow's workshop. Made a spur of the moment pit stop in Rothwell, the site of the alleged 16th-century assault that I'll be chatting about.

a massive shout out to my wonderful PAR actors who gamely came out onto a university thoroughfare to try enacting proclamations of peace on Monday! #history #PAR #practiceasresearch #skystorians

Do we look threatening to you? 😂⚔️ Come and see us acting out some #earlymodern legal incidents: 23 May, Firth Court, Sheffield University www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legal-docu...

Look at these *amazing* facsimiles @saracharles.bsky.social has made for #eatingtearingthrowing on Friday! Join us in person or online, tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv

just six days out from #eatingtearingthrowing some early modern legal documents! join us in person or online for a wonderful day of practice as research and legal history. tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv

Do we look threatening to you? 😂⚔️ Come and see us acting out some #earlymodern legal incidents: 23 May, Firth Court, Sheffield University www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legal-docu...

Beyond excited for this event, which highlights all the ways you could Have a Strop about being served a warrant in early modern England. Stamping on, throwing, ripping, crumpling, and eating documents all feature. Come join us if you're in the city!

Little snippet from rehearsals 🎭

Looking forward to taking part in this workshop as one of the actors! 🎭 I’m thoroughly enjoying being involved with this fantastic project. I’m working with some great people and learning so much! Thank you @lucyjsclarke.bsky.social for giving me this brilliant opportunity 🤩 #earlymodern

fancy a bit of legal history, law and literature, and practice-as-research? come to my @leverhulme.ac.uk-funded workshop at @sheffieldcems.bsky.social on the 23rd May. featuring libels, process-serving, facsimile documents, lewd remarks and document eating! tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv please share widely!

Registration for our 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World' conference 9th-10th June, John Rylands Institute, Manchester is now open. Registration is free! Tickets and more info: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bodies-and...

Really looking forward to this #conference in July @antiquaries.bsky.social Greensleeves: Text and #Textiles in #EarlyModern English Culture www.sal.org.uk/event/greens... #earlymodernsky #materialculture #earlymusic #greensleevesproject #historicaldress #tudor #tudorsky @ninyamikhaila.bsky.social

Great to see this article in issue. Did Elizabethans really that the soul was a musical harmony? How and why was idea used in English post-Reformation musical debates? (Open acccess) #earlymodern #musicology

Let's enjoy a look into book shops of the past. This is a 🧵 especially for #skystorians of #earlymodern Europe, and for #bookhistory, #booksky and #paperhistory nerds 🗃️ Expect, among other bookish stuff, lots of #backwardsbooks, and boxes with paper sheets, and a few sleeping dogs. 1/

Attending the Early Modern London: New Work and Approaches workshop at @sheffieldcems.bsky.social #earlymodern

"Helios is a stunning celebration of the sun’s life-giving power and its significance across cultures and faiths" #LiverpoolCathedral has announced a special programme of events for #Helios - including Easter Sunday sunrise service www.englishcathedrals.co.uk/latest-news/...

Medieval and Early Modern Week in Lincoln Programme, 2025 sway.cloud.microsoft/Rf9hLLQCzM1P...

A #17thCentury #song for #ShroveTuesday: The prologue to William Hawkins' play "Apollo's Shroving", which was first performed by schoolchildren in Hadleigh in Suffolk in 1627, as they looked forward to the #Shrovetide holiday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR6C... #earlymusic #earlymodern #earlymodernsky

Two exciting bits of Sheffield Castle news to share this morning! Archaeologists have made the ‘exceptional’ discovery of civil war stakes at the Sheffield Castle site. This is the first time wooden stakes like these – used to defend the castle in the 17th century – have ever been found.

Think some starter packs are doing the rounds again, if you're a historian of the body (broadly defined) and you'd like to be added to this one let me know! bsky.app/starter-pack...

Printing out chapter drafts is so helpful in keeping the motivation going to keep writing. Nearly halfway through the book now!

Looking forward to reading and reviewing this for the Year’s Work in English Studies ✨

At Kentwell we don’t just play #earlymusic, sometimes we make the #instruments too. Last year during our #re-creation a small group of our #Tudors made a #trumpet. In the woods. Using #earlymodern style materials, tools and techniques as far as possible. And it sounded great! #musicalMonday

Abstracts! Calling all abstracts!

fans of early modern church music, stained glass, and debates over the presence of crucifixes in royal churches, look no further - my new article, in the Journal of Ecclesiastical History, below! Thanks to reviewers, draft-readers, and seminar audiences! doi.org/10.1017/S002...

Conference: The Future of Sound Studies: Remembering Bruce R. Smith 24 May in Cambridge deadline for registration 17 May -- attendance is free all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/the-fu...

CFP: ‘Illuminating Nature: Explorations of Science, Religion, and Magic', @durhammemsa.bsky.social 21-22 July *In Durham Castle* (!!) Deadline for submissions: 30 April all info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/mediev... #EarlyModern #SkyStorians

Our choristers are excited to sing at their first choral evensong this Sunday 🕯️🎶

I’ve made a set of free worksheets for anyone who is working through the steps in THE BOOK PROPOSAL BOOK. Get them here (scroll down the page a bit to get to the downloads): manuscriptworks.com/book

CONFERENCE: Worship in transition: liturgical change, continuity & adaptation in 16th century Europe | MEMOs #twitterstorians #earlymoderntwitter #earlymodernevents #medievaltwitter #medievalevents memorients.com/events/cfp-w...

Time to circulate this starter pack again. For all scholars working on the long sixteenth century. If you're not already included and should be, let me know! 😊 #skystorians #EarlyModern #16thC

The @churchofengland.org Sunday Service was live from Rotherham Minster today. It was a pleasure to sing for this! 🎶✨ The service is available to watch here: www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-w...

Looking forward to seeing this! ☀️

Our CFP doesn't close until 1 February - please share widely and consider submitting a proposal! ✨

CfP Medieval and Renaissance Music Conf 2025, 30 June- 4 July at Northumbria, Newcastle & Durham. All topics welcome, but themes incl. borders, migration, ideas of north, Gibbons, Palestrina, materiality, editing, popular trads. Deadline 31 Jan. www.medren2025.co.uk/cfp #earlymodern #musicology

A #Tudor song for Holy Innocents' Day from the Pageant of the Tailors and Shearmen of Coventry, c1534. Sung by the Women of Jerusalem during Herod's massacre of the Innocents. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgly... #earlymusic #earlylmodern #tudors #coventrycarol #mysteryplay #christmascarol

An anonymous #17thcentury #ballad #Carol for #StJohnsDay (27th December) From New Carrolls for this Merry Time of #Christmas, 1661 Lots of mince pies! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ALx... #otd #onthisday #earlymusic #earlymodern #12daysofchristmas #mincedpies #sellengersround #christmasfood

Golden hour in Stratford ☀️

Pre-Christmas research trip to the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford upon Avon 📚

Don't forget this starter pack for scholars of the long #16thC. There is still space if you know someone who I should add or if you would like to be added yourself ☺️ #skystorians #StarterPacks #EarlyModern

Welcome to the VOICES project Bluesky account. VOICES is a 5 year ERC Advanced Grant Project based at Trinity College Dublin led by Jane Ohlmeyer. We harness #digital technologies to tell the hidden stories of women in #earlymodern Ireland For more check out our website: voicesproject.ie

Please share the CFP for our Work, Authenticity, and Social Identity in Early Modern Britain Conference, to take place 10-11 June 2025 at the University of Warwick, with keynote addresses from Steve Hindle, @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social & @brodiewaddell.bsky.social!