What’s the best performance you’ve ever seen live?

AN #EARLYMODERN POST!! They still exist! And a lovely one at that, for five years and with the brilliant people at KCL who have turned that place in quite the hub of exciting early modern research. Run, don’t walk.

Last day to pre-register for the Shakespeare and Dance seminar at #wsc2026 organised by @winerock.bsky.social and myself. No need to supply an abstract at this stage so it’s easy-peasy. And we’re a lovely bunch. Look for Seminar No.34! www.wsc2026.org/seminars-wor...

Seems really unfair that when one week ends another one starts and we have to decide what to have for dinner all over again.

The brilliant James Findlay has a new book "Caught on Screen" from @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social about representations of convicts & #Australian history on film. I've read it & you should too & Ask your library to order a copy! @thenacbs.bsky.social @austhistassoc.bsky.social

I need an author for a chapter on the role of production design in the film adaptations of Roald Dahl's 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'. Edinburgh UP has shown an interest in the proposal. Find how to contact me here: webs.uab.cat/saramartinal... @adaptstudies.bsky.social #AcademicSky

🌟Publication Day!🌟 The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship, ed. Rory Loughnane and Will Sharpe For more details about the book's contents and contributors, see here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Finally got around to watching "Grand Theft Hamlet" and it was an amazing, lovely throwback to that discombobulating time of pandemic performance -- when we grabbed everything we had to build communities and virtual gathering places so we could keep creating something together

There needs to be a word for the thing you feel when you hear a ringtone you used to use

This is a momentous Friday - it's up and running! 😄 The fruits of my 2024-5 Nottingham postdoc, transforming an underused space at Shakespeare's Schoolroom & Guildhall. (The only permanent exhibition on early modern drama beyond Shakespeare, within an authentic early modern performance space.)

I'm currently seeking peer reviewers for a journal special issue I am currently guest editing on the theme of Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton. If you would be interested, please do get in touch 🙂 My DMs are open, or I can be emailed at [email protected].

TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE has a COVER👀 (this is a late C16 embroidered coif - never in fact assembled - in the V&A. All the crazy scale with added big cats, like an acid trip As You Like It. I love that it is a bit stained and messy.) global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Our newest edition is out now! ✏️ (4/4) Building on our earlier conversation, this concluding thread reveals what more you can find in our latest issue (28.1)! #StayInformed #ExcitingNews

The World Shakespeare Congress is heading to Verona in July 2026, and @gemmaallred.bsky.social @edelsemple.bsky.social and I are organising a seminar on Shakespeare's Tragedies and their Twenty-First-Century Reverberations - and we'd love to have you join us! #WSC2026

In 1632 an unnamed woman is given 12d for cleaning 'Mr Dows picture in the Church at Algate'. It's still there

Very exciting: the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography published a cluster of new entries on women stationers. See the intro by Valerie Wayne: www.oxforddnb.com/newsitem/906... ODNB entries are so helpful in identifying women from traces on printed material. So happy to see this work ❤️

we welcome papers about public libraries, public records offices, or any other public institution that stewards or interacts with shakespeare and early modern texts. what can we be doing—as early modernists, book historians, & shakespeareans—to defend our public libraries? think capaciously!

Job!! Assistant prof. in English Lit 1500-1800, UMass Boston. www.higheredjobs.com/state/detail...

October is coming up and we would very much love to find an online speaker who works in premodern #death or the #supernatural. #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory

Job Opportunity! Pomona College - Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European history) networks.h-net.org/jobs/68930/p...

Introducing: Shakespeare & Early Modern Proverbial Culture. We explore how proverbs of EM England shaped social values, media, & playwriting—including Shakespeare’s works. Our team is building new frameworks, tools, & resources to better understand how proverbs functioned then & endure still today

Medieval History Job Alert! University of Tennessee, where I used to work. Unbelievably strong medieval studies. Unbelievable that they are hiring in this climate! Please share this post. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37862790...

Looking for #earlymodern English descriptions of #fairy clothing. Can anyone help? #earlymodernsky I have the 1635 'description of the king and queene of fayries, their habit', and its expansion in Musarum Deliciae, 1655, but would be interested in other sources.

😈Our Wyrd Revels are coming in October! Live recordings of... The Witch of Edmonton by Dekker, Ford & Rowley The Wise-woman of Hogston by Thomas Heywood Thyestes by Seneca Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe & Friends Discount season tickets are now on sale! (See following post for links...)

I’m directing Faustus for this. (“Live recordings”= rehearsed readings, done radio-play style. Good fun) Relatedly, #TheatreSky actors with Shakespearean skills, link me your Spotlights & reels!

Setting up for our #earlymodernwills #transcribathon today. 📜 Tea, coffee, and biscuits in place, zoom meeting loading - bring on the wills! It all kicks off at 1pm, see you there! You can follow us on our @zooniverse.bsky.social talkboards, or on this thread for updates all afternoon 🧵⬇️

Assistant Professor, Medieval Europe or Early Modern Europe (Texas A&M University, San Antonio) #medieval #earlymodern #medievalsky memorients.com/news/assista...

60% off sale @ NYU Press! Save on Disability Works and other award-winning titles in the Performance and American Cultures Series (and still more amazing books)! Use code NYU60 at checkout to get Disability Works for a mere $12.80—free shipping for orders over $40! nyupress.org/978147982487...

Excited to have a new article out in Renaissance Drama! This one traces how early modern clowns relied on disability imitation. So much familiar clowning activity appropriates disabled performance, behavior, or positionality that the distinction between "artificial" and "natural" fools is tricky.

it's proofs day 😍 Introducing Catherine Sanger. This is another woman publisher that I found after an editor assumed traces of her labor in the English Short Title Catalogue were a typo. A [sic] was put next to her initial, and I spent weeks combing through Ancestry to figure out who she is.

We are delighted to announce the publication this month of the ninth digital edition in the REED series, the collection of the Newington Butts Playhouse records, edited by Sally-Beth MacLean. Check it out here: ereed.org/collections/...

(If you're a UK based historian, or just History-curious, and don't know about the IHR, you are missing a treat). Over 50 fortnightly seminars (most also available online) during the academic year, and much more. Visit the Institute and its library if you're in London. And it's free. 2/2

There's still time to sign up for our hybrid Historic Wills Transcribathon - it's happening 1 week from today! 📜✍️ 📅 Thurs 24 July 🕐 1-4pm BST Join us online or in person in Exeter: transcribe on Zooniverse & help transcribe as many wills as possible! Sign up: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com

And the STAC 5 data enhancements are complete. You can now search the whole of STAC 5, nearly 40,000 items for Elizabethan Star Chamber proceedings, by short title, plaintiff, defendant, case code, and more. Enjoy! discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C1...

#CFP for ##IMCLEEDS 2026. Looking for scholars who are interested in the relationship between bodies and time. #MedievalSky #MedievalHistory #Medieval #Skystorians #AcademicSky #HistorySky #EarlyModernSky #EarlyModernHistory #EarlyModern #MaterialCulture #Bodies #WhatsHistory #IMC2026 #IMC2025

Researchers! Short-term fellowships for working with Beinecke Library (and all Yale special collections) are open for applications. Deadline is July 31. beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs/fel...

The Tudor Tailor have created a kit to make your very own Greensleeves fashion doll... shop.tudortailor.com/products/kit... @ninyamikhaila.bsky.social #tudor #tudortailor #tudors #tudorfashion #historicalclothing #earlymodern #greensleeves #greensleevesproject

Reading this brought my mind back to the literal years we spent re-rehearsing and reimagining BST's Histories rep into recorded audio dramas ...

@historyworkshop.org.uk is looking for new editorial fellows! For early career historians with an interest in radical, public and digital histories: paid, part-time work commissioning and editing on our digital history magazine. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/article/hist...

DAY TWO - Coin Workshop Cameron Maclean leads a wonderful session on James’s coinage in Scotland and England at the Hunterian - Kelvin Hall. A fantastic workshop showing the range of ways that coins were used to represent the king 👑

Dear chums, if you have a minute, could you take a look at my livery company website and send me your thoughts on how easy it is to navigate and whether it makes you want to know more about the Founders? Or indeed anything else. Thanks in advance :) www.foundersco.org.uk

“Metal, as a culture that loves ritual, narrative and the mythic, is uniquely well-placed to fold death, aging and the limitations of the body into the heart of music and scene-making.” Superb piece. Essential reading.

Sat 2 Aug @ 1pm & 3pm onsite DISCOVERY DAY: COSTUME Discover how a fashionable middle-class lady dressed in mid-1590s London. You'll be shown a replica of the clothing that Joan Alleyn, step-daughter of The Rose's owner Philip Henslowe, wears in her famous portrait. £7 / £5 - Book: bit.ly/407BAJS

A long shot, but can anyone make anything out in this bit of binding waste found in a book printed in England in 1608? I can’t even tell what language it’s in.

Exciting news, Bluesky! I’m editing a new book series for Bloomsbury with Tom Mole and Lisa Gitelman: Book History for the Future! Do you focus on material textual artifacts and innovative methodologies? We’re actively soliciting proposals, so give us a shout! www.bloomsbury.com/media/cecjzl...

Wow - so many people already signed up for our Wills Project Transcribathon later this month! 🙏 If you drop by you can transcribe some lines & help make 25,000 English wills more accessible for all. In person & online, join us here: willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com #EarlyModern 🗃️ #Palaeography

We’re open for submissions! Can your essay contribute to our understanding of literature/ history/culture in the Anglophone world, 1660-1700, or the adjacent periods? We’re open to any subject and any convincing method! Find more information on our website: blog.umd.edu/restorations...

Sat 20 Sept 2025 The 8th ROSE READATHON 12 noon - 8.30pm Our popular fundraiser returns, with plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe & Ben Jonson Watch or take part. Scripts provided & roles drawn from a hat Each play lasts 1 hour. Join us for one or all six! Tickets per play: £10/£5 Book: bit.ly/4eCBhge

Our Greensleeves conference is underway, but it's not too late to join in online! www.youtube.com/live/Wfhs3UQ...