www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I think people would be interested to visit a house in the Circus more than 1 day a year, especially re recent research. The garden has been a lovely free space, full of flowers. Just off Catherine Morland's Jubilee Walk! @bathnes.bsky.social @bathprestrust.bsky.social

"Most moderns contend that everything emerged out of nothing (out of which nothing, I reckon their own opinion originates!)" #SassyMilton

Recently digitised - March 1945; at Maymyo in Burma, following the recapture of the town from the occupying Japanese, off-duty British troops dance together, and go swimming in an ornamental lake. #filmcataloguing #history #ww2 Full film: IWM JIN 33 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

Looking for that perfect News Years Gift for the Nashe Lover in your life? From January, “Thomas Nashe and Literary Performance” will be available in paperback! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526195524/

“Many hands make light work” – and many papers make a great conference. CFP now open for Proverbs & Popular Wisdom in Early Modern Literature and Culture, University of Hull, 1–3 July 2026. Abstracts due 30 Jan → [email protected] More info: earlymodernproverbs.co.uk/events/confe...

Thinking of the wonderful Milton scholar Neil Forsyth today after news of his passing. An essay of his that stays in my mind is "Of Man's First Dis" (1991). I'll always remember what I learned was characteristic Miltonist commitment, when Neil came to the Exeter symposium... 1/

Gift link: www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...

Hundreds, perhaps thousands of the fallen of WWI were buried with epitaphs drawn from Shakespearean. A selection can be found here: www.epitaphsofthegreatwar.com/tag/shakespe... None more haunting than the inscription for Alfred Dunne (aged 17) O MONSTROUS WORLD TO BE DIRECT AND HONEST IS NOT SAFE

Today is the OFFICIAL publication day for TEXTILE SHAKESPEARE! Please indulge me: I want to say a little (perhaps rather a lot) about it and share my acknowledgements - and a discount code! Appropriately,🧵1/10

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Always be recruiting. Always be looking out for the talented, the original thinkers, the ones who do more than talk. Take note of those who create impact regardless of their position, the big successes, the small achievements that signal real ability. Keep an eye on those who develop others 1/

Had an inspiring evening @no1royalcrescent.bsky.social listening to Prof. Kathryn Sutherland on Jane Austen's The Watsons and her creative process. Great discussions, lovely staff, & upstairs, the amazing exhibition, including 2 letters by JA to Frank re their father's death, & The Watsons MS pages!

I’m a blind Mum and this afternoon I got held hostage in the book corner at nursery stay and play by 5 pre schoolers demanding I read many many books. Had to do a lot of styling it out saying “oooh what’s happening?” Or “wow who’s on this page!” I think it only made me more fun 😆

Pony kisses #Shetland

It’s telling how some male columnists and commentators have reacted to Riot Women as ‘man-hating’ when it’s simply depicting average everyday experiences women have with men all the time. If seeing the world through a woman’s eyes makes you hate men too the I guess you see our problem.

Latest lovely volume by Patrick Cheney is now out in the Early Modern Literary Geographies series with Oxford University Press that I am very proud to co edit with Garrett A Sullivan Jr …

Young Syrian refugees paint murals at Zataari camp Jordan, to overcome trauma and memories of violence #womensart

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So far we've found Shakespearean epitaphs from 30 plays, 16 sonnets, and 3 of the longer poems. The only plays not on our list? Taming of the Shrew Henry VI 1 & 3 Two Gentlemen Love’s Labours Merry Wives Coriolanus Pericles Cemetery strollers, let us know if you spot a quote from one of these!

A perfect evening; dinner and The Sixteen's "Angel of Peace" concert at Exeter Cathedral, with one of my angels.

I love The Merchant's House, Marlborough. It's the opposite of the drab 17th-century stereotype! They don't get many visitors, please support them if you can 🙂

Long way off but hey. Come to @brlsi.bsky.social in November! www.brlsi.org/whatson/cele...

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Blog up on the major take aways from today's results day from @danihpayne.bsky.social and me - www.smf.co.uk/commentary_p...

🚨 #ALevelResultsDay : Breaking @smfthinktank.bsky.social analysis reveals stark regional uni inequalities - and these are widening over time 🚨 Students in London and the South East are far more likely to be receiving acceptances today, whilst lowest rates are seen in the NE and SW

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Lawrence of Arabia in morning sun 💓 #RoseWednesday #BloomScrolling #Roses

These incompetents. It should always have been a top tier risk! I've been telling you that for years! UK 'governance' simply not up to the challenge: C- at best.

York conference, cfp, Poetry and Science, From the Renaissance to Enlightenment University of York, 25th-26th June 2026 scientificpoetry.org/events/poetr... Any queries to Kevin Killeen at: [email protected]

I have queried a recent note and over 300 years of critical consensus, in "Maimonides and Milton's Monistic 'Mental Sight'." #OpenAccess #EarlyModern #AcademicSky academic.oup.com/nq/advance-a...

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I have queried a recent note and over 300 years of critical consensus, in "Maimonides and Milton's Monistic 'Mental Sight'." #OpenAccess #EarlyModern #AcademicSky academic.oup.com/nq/advance-a...

1 July 1623, Napier is having One Of Those Days: 'I opened a gallypott of Cordiall & it burst out & did bedaube coat & Dublet & bookes'. #earlymodern #otd

If there's a heaven, its pavement smiles, as Milton says, empurpled with celestial roses. #RoseWednesday #Bloomscrolling #Roses

Thurs. 19 June 1700, late antique luminary Prof Tim Whitmarsh's lecture! 5:00 pm, 'Translation as imperialism: Late Greek Poetics and the Hebrew Bible'. Durham Classics Ritson Room and online, for which register events.teams.microsoft.com/event/238c09...

To add to @jessemlocker.bsky.social's post, here's a lovely video about the restoration of the rediscovered "Susanna & the Elders" by Artemisia Gentileschi. Conservation videos are my go-to when I'm looking for a soothing watch youtu.be/luipgtA3u90?...

Born OTD in 1494, Jacopo Pontormo. I love this man's drawings. Here he reveals himself to be a briefs kind of guy.

JISC appears to be surveying academic and professional services staff on the use of AI in REF2029 for, among other things, assessing research outputs, impact case studies, PCE statements.... Check it out if you have views or expertise: bristolexppsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

11 May 1582: Richard Milton, a forest under-ranger from Stanton St John, Oxfordshire, is excommunicated as a recusant today, a victim perhaps of the anti-Catholic panic we've seen recently. His son John Milton will soon move to London and in due course become father to the poet. 1/ #earlymodern

ONLINE LIVESTREAM!!! We don't need to curse the Edinburghers! #EarlyModern #SkyStorians #MovingHistory #Reformazing #GiffordLectures

A magnificent double-act by @helmer.bsky.social and Kerrewin van Blanken revealing who, why, and how had recruited Salmacius to produce the 'Defensio'!

Just 2 more weeks to go until May's digital seminar with Michael Partington, on Illustrating Sacred Majesty: ‘Ogilby’s Bible’ and the Political and Religious Culture in Restoration Britain! 👑📖📄 🧵/3

'A hard rain is going to fall on universities...'

The 'Goodbye Legs' charity bike ride We feel enormously honoured to be one of the charities that @tomstaniford.bsky.social is supporting. Read his inspirational story on our website: devonandexeterinstitution.org/the-goodbye-... Donations welcome at: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding... GOOD LUCK TOM!

👀 The sort of Frankenstein’s Monster version of a paper on Milton I gave at the British Milton Seminar & another on Marlowe I gave at @marlowemightyln.bsky.social last year (& other iterations along the way) has just been published in this fine volume: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/early-mod...

We are delighted to announce the program for our summer conference: Women Writing Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges, to be held in Exeter 2-4 June

"...curst be he that moves my bones." 🦴👀 An opportunity for a PhD student to hit the ground running here with publications, a fascinating project, and a truly brilliant teacher supervising. (My mum still talks about Philip's open day lecture from... a long time ago. It *was* great).

Delighted that the Guardian has publicised the prison education in Aristotle's ethics that I've been doing with @profarlenehh.bsky.social and others; we need more funding! theguardian.com/society/2025...

I have to watch that my research assistant doesn’t eat my power cord. 😆 #houserabbit